Lost Past Update: BATTLES!

The battle system is up and running, attack, cast magic, the monsters fight back, and you can win and lose with no game over.

www.lostpast.com is also coming together well, with fixes to the news system and updates to the editor that none of you should be able to access, feel free to try.

The graphics aren't completely cut in yet, although feel free to comment on how it looks thus far.

www.lostpast.com/map.php walk around, fight some, and tell me if anything is broken. I know you regain your health and mp between battles, it is a side effect of using dummy data loaded when you enter the battles.

Thanks in advance.

I will only make 3 more update topics, 1 for the convo system, 1 for the menu system, and then 1 for beta testing later on. so don't yell at me for making a new topic for this, no one would have looked at the old one

...Isn't the past 'lost' by definition?

well maybe "forgotton" is more accurate.

Perhaps it was stolen?...Aliens!

lost past is a time bridge www.dampes8n.com/timebridge/ game.

it takes place in the past, where someone is lost. Lost Past.

But the name 'lost past' insinuates that the past itself is lost, not some object in the past.

Bad grammar, if that's not what is meant.

there are many ways to look at the title. and lost in past doesn't really sound as good to me as lost past...

there certainly are aspects of the past that are lost in regards to the game. I think, once someone is playing the game, it will make sense.

Maybe the main character has amnesia, then 'Lost Past' would make sense :) Would make for an interesting storyline too..

yeah, cause RPGs with main characters that have amnesia isn't the biggest RPG cliche other than 15 year old main characters who save the world.

This game has old people characters, no fantasy, and you aren't out to save the world. You haven't forgotten who you are, and there is no evil syndicate that uses children to fight. No giant robots, no magic of any kind (spells become skills) and all your traditional storylines are gone. The healer is an ugly old medicine woman, and her husband is a hunter. Those are your main characters.

they meet a guy from the future stranded on earth when his business deal went south, he has a robot companion, tho it isn't anthropamorphised is any way. It is a worker robot, that has been modified to fight.. It mainly lifts cargo and carries the items you find. Thusly, letting you carry a very large amount of them.

You'll meet other characters too, just as unheard of in a final fantasy style RPG. There are no main character hot chicks, there is no girly-man sword swinger, the main characters use a spear and a hand axe (upgraded through time into a bow, then a gun, and for the axe, into a traditional axe and so on).

there will also be some very heavy sci-fi story here. Nothing like traditional game sci-fi which is space ships and laser guns. Although, both those exist. This will be more like reading a sci-fi book from the 60s and 70s than it will be like star wars or other sci-fantasy.

More Arthur C Clarke than Philip K Dick, and deff not L Ron Hubbard or H P Lovecraft.

Arthur C Clarke than Philip K Dick: two of my fav authors. You ought see my book collection, it's vast and I've read 'em all :-)

Dick's books would make awesome games. But not really good RPG's. They are too... fragmented? no... too... strange.

Specially Valis.

Though.. I intend to include lots of little nudges to many books and movies like I do in the Time Bridge stories.

So.. maybe a special skill called The Pink Light or something... hehe.

I've added more graphics to it all so it isn't so ugly... and it is more playable with the extra GFX

http://www.lostpast.com/map.php

what do you all think?