HARMONIC'S PROFILE

If the goal was "only" $$$, I'd be leaving RPGs for the birds and instead focusing on the business of making mobile social games. It takes passion to finish an RPG, especially a collaboration between two equal partners in development (me + the main artist) as this was.

Yep, just as no one outside the community cares if the tiles are custom, no one outside the community cares if the music is original. All they care is if it's good.

author=Liberty
I actually kind of agree with TFT - I paid $30 for Skyrim. Your game - and I mean no offense here, really - is not likely to be equal to half of Skyrim. Now, I don't mind the whole 'using RTP and other tiles' thing. Personally more power to you making a project and selling it. But the price should definitely reflect the quality and rarity in some aspect.
I could see myself maybe paying $5-$7 for something like this. From what I've seen there's stuff that looks pretty nice... but stuff that doesn't. Like some of the dialogue.
That's my opinion though. I may be wrong. I can't say until I've actually played the game whether it'd be worth it or not, to me.
All the best for ya, though~

The thing about selling stuff... one cannot possibly price something based on its comparative perceived value. Skyrim sold for 60$ originally anyway ;)

Thanks for the well wishes.

Game website: http://www.dancingdragongames.com/2011/skyborn/
Free trial download: http://www.dancingdragongames.com/skyborn.exe

Hey RMN.

Allow me to share my latest project with you. RMN is where I grew up as an RPGmaker, and thus, here we go.

Summary
Skyborn is a story-driven, steampunk game. Magic meets metal in this world, powered by coal, steam, and technology, with a backdrop of magic and myth. Steampunk is a setting with its roots in 19th century England, in the industrial and Victorian era, all adapted for modern times and used as its own fairly new genre of games, movies, and especially... outfits. Skyborn takes you into a fantastical journey, from gritty, industrial cityscapes, to beautiful ancient ruins, and even into a realm of pure magic.

Life under the rule of the winged Skyborn race isn't so bad for Claret Spencer, the star mechanic of an independent repair shop. She can patch up just about anything...but when a certain cravat-wearing customer turns her life upside-down, she finds herself pulled into an epic, city-wide conflict that's going to take a lot more than elbow grease to fix!

Features
-The focus of the game is a mostly light-hearted adventure. The character interactions, atmosphere, and story serve as the engine for the experience.
-Full-sized busts used in character dialogues. Full array of expressions as well, really brings the exposition to life.
-Mouse and menu bar. Thanks to the masterful work of rpgmakervx.net's Mithran, the mouse is leaps and bounds ahead of any previous iteration. It has easy navigation, easy clicking, and is fully capable of navigating through the menus intuitively and quickly.
-Threat, tanking, and CT systems make for a more tactical, streamlined combat system.
-No random battles. All encounters, other than scripted sequences, are visible on the map, and for the most part, easy to avoid.
-Exploration nodes! You can level up adequately, simply by collecting exploration nodes. They will grant xp/levels and can be found in the nooks and crannies of the world.
-Mining, crafting, and augmenting. Mine ore, take it to a forge. Turn it into a piece of armor. Then, take that armor and further customize and enhance it with a magical augment. Augments can be overridden without losing the piece of equipment, but it destroys the augment item itself.
-Battle retry. No automatic game over upon losing. Hard to lose anyway, without setting it on "hard" difficulty, the setting tailored for veteran RPG players.


Excerpts from the Skyborn Original Soundtrack
Snippets from Skyborn's OST... give it a listen!

A beautiful green vale: http://soundcloud.com/harmonic42/skyborn-ost-pretty
Encroaching Industry: http://soundcloud.com/harmonic42/sky-industrial
Nostalgia: http://soundcloud.com/harmonic42/sky-nostalgia

Screenshots
Airship + user interface

Comic frame-based cutscene

Full-sized expressions in dialogue


Trailer:

I think what Craze meant to say in his own elegant manner, is that a unified design direction is better than "design by committee." Design is something that cannot be approached frivolously if a good product is to be released.

Happy, Newblack, nice song titles. :P