Demo available!

The demo for Zilif Web has been uploaded! Yaaaaaaaay!

If there is one thing to look out for, it’s Unites. There was one instance where Richard’s Unites were all grayed out, and either nobody else had acted, or I had pressed the cancel button to roll back to him after inputting commands. I was not able to duplicate the error, so I can’t say for sure if this still exists. If there is another situation where Unites don’t do what they should, or, really, any other weird things are going down, let me know.

I will note that there’s some things in this demo release that are absolutely 108% intended. Such as letting players have a full party after being introduced to Jodelle, stores selling every single item that are associated to them, as well as the F9 debug window being allowed to open in a non-test-play environment. There are certainly variables that are kept track by scripts that one cannot manipulate this way. However, when you consider that one could flag bounties as complete and being able to get rewards at Relto Outpost without actually doing them, that’s plenty enough “cheating” enough in my book.

Speaking of those bounties, though, those are the main activity in this release, as the story is as limited as it is. The game has at least three major factions, with one minor faction that’s attempting to branch off from one of the major factions. It’s certainly feasible to allow players to follow faction quest-lines until a certain point where they must make a choice from them. My main point of reference would be Might and Magic 7 - For Blood and Honor on this point. Though, thinking on it a bit, that game might not be a good example of a game with multiple endings where player choice matters in said ending. There are exactly two endings in that game. Even then, the ending is set the moment players make that “dark” versus “light” choice. There isn’t another choice to make for a completely different ending.

I only have vague memories, at best, when it comes to Fallout 3. As for Elder Scrolls games, I barely scraped the surface of Arena, and probably even less so in Oblivion. Forget Skyrim, I never played the thing. I don’t think those games are for me, frankly. Mass Effect, well, that might be a series to study more in depth in, and at least I’ve had the pleasure of playing through the first three titles all the way through twice. Why not a third time? Maybe I’ll not be as much of a Paragon? Naaaaaah.

Anyway, yeah, there’s a bunch of directions this game can feasibly go in! I just gotta figure out which one is best for this game to take, then, as it is said on Spaceballs, prepare to just go!