Pinnacle
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Ahriman's Prophecy is a freeware RPG resembling 16-bit era games.
Quite long (the site says 50+ hours and I don't doubt it) and of very high quality.
There is also a non-free sequel, called Aveyond, with a 10-hour trial.

I'll let the rest speak for itself...
"10 hours" is not a typo, by the way.

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Banjooie
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He's selling a game he made with RPG Maker XP (which is illegal, as I recall, according to their EULA), a program which is practically impossible to get legally, and even then is only in Japanese--and the translation to English is usually done illegally?

That's just plain impressive.

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Banjooie wrote:
He's selling a game he made with RPG Maker XP (which is illegal, as I recall, according to their EULA), a program which is practically impossible to get legally, and even then is only in Japanese--and the translation to English is usually done illegally?

Amanda Fae made the game with RPG Maker, but she isn't distributing RPG Maker. I don't know the details of the EULA, but most software used for creating games allows you to distribute the levels made with them.

Let's not jump to conclusions. I think it's likely that the Amaranth games are distributed legally.

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Pinnacle
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According to the RPG Maker XP site (emphasis added):

◊ Distribute Your Games

Save your completed game as a game disk and you can burn it onto a CD-ROM to give to your friends or distribute it over the Internet for other gamers to enjoy. You can even market your creations as shareware.

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I know you weren't allowed to back in the RM2k days. I was in on that crowd. And I was there when ascii refused to release RMXP to the Americas because of all the pirating of RM2k3.

Must be new with the RPGMXP thing, cause that's when I stopped following it. I was toying with that program since 95.

(In the original Japanese, of course, as ordered perfectly legally and legitimately, of course. No question about that, whatsoever.)

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According to the RPG Maker wikipedia page, there's now a legal English translation at:

http://www.enterbrain.co.jp/tkool/RPG_XP/eng/

Of course, being wikipedia this could be totally false, but it probably isn't.

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Hmm, let's see... How do you say "them blasted munchkins that spoil the balance of my lovely game" in Japanese? What? Of course it *is* basic vocabulary!

For what it's worth, Gametunnel has a page for Aveyond with a review and a Q&A, and they didn't seem to be bothered with the Law side of it.

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Gah. Alright, I stand as a man uninformed. Cause I know people were getting slammed for releasing 2k3 games commercially.

For the record, RPGMXP is an icky, icky program, having used it of course at a friend's place, that friend who obviously had legally purchased the program. The sprite sizes are bizarre, and I won't even go into how distressing the tiles are to work with. (Never mind the complete and mystifying imcompatibility with anything from any previous version: an original sprite from 2k3 will look doll-sized compared to the XP sprites, even though they're not that much smaller.

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Pinnacle wrote:
Ahriman's Prophecy is a freeware RPG resembling 16-bit era games.
Quite long (the site says 50+ hours and I don't doubt it) and of very high quality.
There is also a non-free sequel, called Aveyond, with a 10-hour trial.

I'll let the rest speak for itself...
"10 hours" is not a typo, by the way.

Yeah, I played both of those games. The first one was pretty good, and took quite a long time to complete. The second one wasn't too bad, but was extremely easy, and you can get about half way through the game during your 10-hour trial. I finished the game about a day after registering it.



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