Blade Of Ages Public Demo #1

[ShadowTiger]

It's Here! It's Finally Here! Yay! My shortest, quickest demo yet! :D Heh. I wasn't able to do as much with it as I had planned, but things at least work. :rolleyes: That, believe it or not, was a pretty big accomplishment for me.

And I still wasn't able to fix that armor/rupee secret. I've got someone trying to figure that out. (Thanks. ;) )

OK. Demo time. If you can't access it, you may have to go into my ZC files (In my signature.) to get it. The name and password is right there anyway.

Blade Of Ages Demo 1 (http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/users/7570d87b/bc/BH4+and+DarkSoul%27s+Shared+ZC+Files/BladeOfAgesDemo1.zip?bf3QTQ_AYzXoFm.u)

The demo stops right after... well... you'll see. ;)

Questions? Help? Comments?


And here's the list of Beta Testers.

Blade Of Ages Beta Testers:
KJAZZ

[Petoe]

Ooh. I'll download it right away, and play it immediately when I just find time. I hope it "feels" good because it sure looks good. ;)

[ShadowTiger]

:laughing: Thank you. :) (Assuming no one posted between this post and Petoe's. Face it, it happens.) Just tell me if the download works.

Oh, and I just got my first unnofficial bug report. Only use right and down when speaking to people. (On the overworld, specifically.) Pressing left or up triggers a tile warp (To encampass all directions to escape a conversation.) which doesn't fully lead anyway. :sweat: So only press right or down. Thanks.)

And the ratio of rupees to armor cost is still malfunctioning. The Armor Bug was fixed, thanks to KJAZZ, and will function as intended in the next demo, whenever I get around to working on it.

The cave(s) are functioning well, I hope, specifically the cave connecting the Dark Forest and Dawn Village.

If you want, I can place down the number of secrets here. I'll give you a few hints. never trust your eyes. Never. Even in town. I placed some things that should have been on layer 0, on layer 3. That should be hint enough. hmm.

There are a number of Heart Container Pieces for you to find too. There is one in a cave off of Dawn Village, there's on in Dawn Village, there's one in the Dark Forest, and there's one... well.. you'll have to find it for yourself. ;) :sb:

Good luck with the Demo! It's short though. Just one chapter.

And you won't have any weapons though any of it. :sb:

[Petoe]

It says "Web Site Unreachable" when I try to download. But I downloaded it from the briefcase so that's not a problem.

[ShadowTiger]

Oh. Thank you. :) May have to sign in then, for those of you who can't reach it the way He did.

[*b*]

hm, this is a very interesting quest... I can't seem to find my way through the cave under the tree, there's one key I can see, but can't get, that I need :(. other than that, and a few typos, and how link looks (I HATE the smashed link style...), it's pretty good. I like the story line, but, why does link talk? very un-zelda ish, if you ask me

[ShadowTiger]

:laughing: Well, it's not a Zelda Game. It's Blade of Ages. ;)

I thought it would add a bit of surrealism to it all. I hope it doesn't detract from the gameplay at all.

[*b*]

ah, it's not Zelda. that explaines why the blade was crafted by God instead of The Goddesses. very nice though, and very clever, especially the cave in the tree

[Yoshiman]

Man, I'm lost already. I'm in the Forest Tower and I'm short one key. I found the catwalk and the one on a balcony type platform. I need one extra key to get any farther!

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. Darn trees. Great demo!:thumbsup: I wish it was longer though.

[Arathorn21st]

Excellent demo BH4. I found 1 bug-- the screen 1 east of the stump with torches galore and 4 treasure chests has a tile issue. Walk alongside the building on the south side of the screen and you can see Link's feet through the "half-tree" bordering the building.
For more bug fixes in later demos, hire me as a bug tester! See sig for more details. ;)

[*b*]

There's another 2 bugs I found. one is south of Dawn, where the gaurd stops you from going south. If you go past him, you can keep walking, and edn up in, what looks like a passageway scree, with 4 bats. the text runs, and you can't move, so cheated my way out, and got the cutscene, this time it worked, but I couldn't move anywhere. another is on the bridge, you have to press up and right just before the cutscene triggers or it won't work. btw, I'm using beta 183 for this, so I don't know about 182

[ShadowTiger]

I know about those. Thanks you guys. :) You are truly helpful. :) I wish I had time to iron out some of these bugs though. I kinda ran out of time.

Yoshiman, I'm sorry about the tree-key thing. That was cruel of me. What would you recommend in its stead? I placed a small out of the way place of trees just for that location. I guess not many people look in those places. :shrug: Sorry. Any recommendations as to otherwise?

[Yoshiman]

Naw, It's fine where it is. I'm just to stupid to look there :nerd:

[ShadowTiger]

:laughing: It's OK, Yoshiman. I'll probably end up doing a lot of that. It's not as much to trick the player, as to encourage him/her to look in odd places for things that wouldn't be there. I'll be hiding MANY things, (mostly secrets though.) in places that you wouldn't ordinarily look, no matter how out of the way they may seem.

[KJAZZ]

Originally posted by Britannianhero4
Yoshiman, I'm sorry about the tree-key thing. That was cruel of me. What would you recommend in its stead? I placed a small out of the way place of trees just for that location. I guess not many people look in those places.

I found it easily, myself. IMO it was a rather obviously hidden key. Secrets hidden under layers are easy enough to find. ;P

[ShadowTiger]

Oh, you'de be surprised. ;) Heh. *goes all evil* I've played a few quests where there were more keys than layers, and NONE of them were visible. But.. I won't make it that hard in BoA. I'm not cruel, y'see.

And I probably won't be working on BoA for a while, since school is starting up, and I'm getting freakishly bored, like a spell of some sort. During school, I'll be all over it like stink on dem monkeys.