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  • Sep09

    Frontier 1.0 Live

    Flash Launch, Flash News

    front-in

    Hi friends,

    A long, long time ago I started an RPG and recently I finished it.  I call it “Frontier.”  It’s my first RPG.

    I think of it as my “hey I’m a kid with Flash so I want to make an RPG” project.  Every game developer gets that itching to make a massive overly-difficult project and this was mine.  Any visit to a Flash game site can result in at least a handful of “I’m making an RPG!” threads and sadly a lot of these fall apart.  To be honest, this project followed suit.  After working on it for about 2 months I got terribly burnt out on the project so I pursued other projects.  But I was eager to finish it, even if it was nearly 1-2 years late.  So I picked it back up off and on between projects.  And today it’s done.

    Enlisting the help of The-Swain for art and the musical talent of Mohammad Fikree for music, we managed to pump some life back into this thing.  The-Swain did all hand-drawn artwork and managed to bring my imaginary world to life.  Mr. Fikree managed to capture the emotion in the music and score the game quite well.

    It’s fifty cities, trading, two quest lines, battling, and world conquest… and some other stuff.  Either way, it’s baked into a trading game.  Buy low, sell high, travel, and survive.  It should take you nearly 4 hours to complete all four endings (not including your death!).

    I also call it 1.0 because one day I’ll continue working on it again.  The engine is open enough that I can continue working on this when I feel like it needs another go.  I have so many other things I want to do to the game, so many ambitions that can’t be fulfilled in just this release.  Maybe I’ll channel it into another project but for now I’m calling this project as done here and one day, one year, I’ll visit it again as a fun side project.

    I’m sure there are bugs, I couldn’t find them all.  But I’ll revise a file once I get back from the wedding and Australia (which is this weekend!).  I’ll be gone for a bit, so I’m sure many will crop up.

    I’m proud of it, and I’m proud to get a large project done.  And I love making something that is not my typical bread and butter.

    Enjoy.  Go play.  I’ve got many things to prepare for.

    Posted by John @ 11:41 pm

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  • GhostAce

    Its fun but how do I heal?

  • Froggy618157725

    Enjoy the wedding :D

  • Cait

    There’s a glitch where if you encounter another buccaneer party before the main box has reverted to it’s normal position (on the right) after the last battle it won’t give you any options (battle, flee, etc.). The only way to fix it is to close the window and go from the last town. It’s rather annoying when it happens at the very end of a 5 day trek.

  • llamas

    awesome game.

  • discdeath

    I have the same question as GhostAce. How do I heal? I’m now at the point where I auto loose every battle.

  • http://www.google.de gurdas

    great game, but you really need to fix the bugs

    the game crashes, you get party members with +NaN stats, the interface is buggy etc.

  • repairmanman

    i had the biggest vessel and 4 party members, and i pick up a random guy who when on my ship he kept cycling through weapons, i had no battles after picking him up. i stopped in the next town check my party and wham, his name is undefined, he has no stats, and his attack and defense are both NaN. what is this.

  • gleryff

    this is exciting.

  • http://www.todaysfreegame.com Justin

    Good concept, but very buggy. Unusually unpolished for jmtb02! Hope we see a 1.1 soon that fixes up some of the errors.

  • Rydash

    Bit of a bug here: On the defense screen, the defense boost is labeled as “attack”…

  • http://juan.juan juan

    got same bug as repairmanman, with the NaN guy u kill everybody in the first attack. also buttons tend to diasspear if u press them while the box is moving. great game anyway.

  • hiperson134

    I see a lot of unfinished text fields (or whatever, I’m not a coder), and I also got the NaN person (actually two of them). They insta kill any fight they come up to, however I believe having them was the reason my game froze upon a confrontation. Regardless, I applaud you for finishing it and have a long happy marriage. Au Revoir!

  • NitroX72

    It would be wonderful if you’d continue work on this some day. Even for a flash RPG, I feel an RPG that takes 4 hours to get all the endings is too short.

  • kevin

    How Do I Heal?

    otherwise – pretty fun game.

    For the love of god e-mail me.

  • Matthew Bungmeister

    Too late to start tonight, I CANNOT WAIT, to try it tomorrow, it looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ElMikkino

    I am luckily not finding any bugs right now, but I only have the cart, so its ok. But, I would like it if it showed your global reputation bar while traveling, so I know if I should attack a weak mercenary party or not. Thanks!

  • ElMikkino

    Actually, I might have found a bug. I cant get past rank 1 in the Buccaneers guild even though I have definitely killed and looted a mercenary.

    And, there’s a very easy strategy to get rich. Start in Root, by max Grain, go to Yorn, sell, buy max Spices, go to Root, sell, repeat. Gets kinda boring.

  • me

    Whenever, I pick up somebody, a glitch occurs and whatever I attack instantly dies. A wagon with 2 people vs. A buccaneer vanguard. The wagon won. I know how to get the glitch if anyone is interested. It said Nan to attack and Nan to defense.

  • me

    After that, weird things started to occur, like a thief staling an undefined.

  • ElMikkino

    Beat the game on Enforcer, since I couldn’t get past level 1 on Buccaneer. Though, when I faced the final boss, it only had 30 health, allowing me to defeat it very easily. Another bug?

  • Spooty

    This game could really use some cleaning up. There’s broken headers all over the place in menus, and the player’s name turns up unusually large in the textbox during battle.

    It’s a decent game, but it just feels a little rushed, I guess?

  • Spike

    Congrats on the wedding, have fun down under !

    This is a good beta, but it needs more to make a good RPG. Fighting is a little unballanced :
    I now have the juggernaut with a full crew. All have about 6 points in combat stats (except my “player” who doesn’t level up). Battle during travel is not even challenging anymore, but all but the most primitive towns are impossible to capture. (so i get stuck on level 6 in the enforcer campaign)

  • Spooty

    Ok, here’s a full list of glitches I found. I still haven’t done a Buccaneers run, so there may be more there that I’m unaware of:

    - Travelers you pick up off the road, at some point in the game, start only being named “undefined”, have stats of +NaN for everything, have their equipped weapon flashing between every possible weapon, and cause your party to hit for NaN damage, causing in insta-kill. It seems to be triggered after the first mission which causes every encounter during travel to be an automatic battle.

    - Similarly, thieves, at some point in the game, start to sneak in and steal “a undefined armor”.

    - Trying to start a new battle while the windows are still moving back into their places from a previous battle causes the game to hang.

    - Player’s name seems to come up as a bunch of lines of broken code.

    - Final boss for Enforcers seems to start with only 30 hp for no explicable reason, making it an easy 1-hit KO.

    - Cycling through menus sometimes causes weapon and armor icons to appear in random places on the screen, though they don’t do anything other than block your view.

    - Player’s name turns up correctly during the battle dialog, but for some reason it’s HUGE, bold, and centered in the textbox.

  • PM

    Finished all four endings in one run of 267 game days and a total of 12.5M gold, even going from +100 reputation down to -100 after switching guilds. Fun game, though I ran into most of the bugs mentioned here already (and exploited the +NaN bug heavily to make my battles painless). The hang-up when a new encounter occurs during the window-shift after a battle was probably the most annoying.

    A couple of minor nits I didn’t see mentioned here yet:

    After dropping an armor or weapon onto the “Sell” box, if you try to move an armor or weapon around between the unequipped slots, it gets swapped with the last item you dropped in the “Sell” box.

    When a buccaneer party confronts you, you have to Flee if you want to lower your reputation; if you fight them, your reputation will go up. This slowed me down a bit to achieve the first Buccaneer quest that required a -40 reputation. It would be nice if there was a way to just pass by the buccaneer parties if you are in the Buccaneer guild.

  • Janne

    Is there any way to heal in the game?

  • Loves Jmtb02

    Cool game man, i got the hang of it, so far im a buc with a cart, mthyril armor and a long sword or however u spell it.

    And to all those aksing about how to heal.
    You heal by reaching a new city.

  • zrath

    does anyone know if we can heal

  • zrath

    never mind i just read the one over my first comment

  • Flashback

    This game is AWESOME!!!!! GREAT JOB ON YOUR FIRST RPG!!!

  • storycreator

    “And to all those aksing about how to heal.
    You heal by reaching a new city.”

    So it’s another bug, because I’ve reached like 5 new cities and never got healed.

  • discdeath

    @Loves Jmtb02. I thought that would happen, but it didn’t happen for me, and I found myself totally incapable of healing.

  • Defiler

    @PM
    There’s 4 endings?
    Enforcer ending, Buccaneer ending, death, and what else?

  • bitesh

    @Loves Jmtb02: If you healed just by reaching a city, we wouldn’t be asking how, you stupid dork.

    @ game creator: otherwise, great game.

  • Ari

    The four endings are: Enforcer ending, Buccaneer ending, wealth ending (getting at least 1,000,000 gold), and king ending (taking over all of the cities).

    You [i]do[/i] heal by reaching a city.

    I found a bug: if you go to the ‘party’ section, and then to the ‘arms’ or ‘armor’ section, some of the tiles from the ‘party’ section will still show up. If you drag them to the sell box and click ‘sell’, than your amount of gold turns to NAN. After that you can spend as much money as you want. But if an enforcer searches your ‘vehicle’ and finds nothing, than your money gets reset to zero. I used this bug to take over all of the kingdoms.

  • hi

    ok to all those that are asking, there are a few cities that WILL heal, but there are a few that wont, i dont have specific names but just move around (try Vance, i JUST healed there)

  • hi

    and yorn :D

  • Jesse Zhu

    The healing bugs out. I played at my home computer and reaching a city healed you to full. When I played at the school lab my health would never replenish and then I would just eventually run out of hp. No reason I could see as to why that happened, but yeah.

  • Necal

    No, you DON’T heal by reaching a city, or, if you do, then all times i’ve played it i’ve encountered the same bug. If that’s the case, I suggest the game creator fixes it quickly, and re-releases it with just that fix asap. There’s no point in playing the game if you automatically lose every battle.

  • NaN

    how do you capture a city im doing mission 6 for enforcers and the option to capture pia isnt showing up

  • Braakbal

    Hello there!

    For all the people having problems getting healed: get the newest version of java and all your problems shall be solved!
    Worked for me to and makes the game much more fun :P

  • theguyoverthere

    why the hell wont it let me take pia in the enforcers mission? it’s annoying i cant get farther.

  • http://www.myspace.com/ninjaraku Ninjaraku

    my hobby is testing and reviewing online games, lately I’ve been doing browser games instead of games you download or have high graphics, and I’d like to invite everyone to see my review of this game on myspace blog!

    P.S. only part i don’t like about the game, i finaly hit over 1 million gold, then the game ends! total play time was 1 hour 17 minutes. Great game though! except for the not being able to heal in some cities… Luckily im a NINJA!

    Don’t forget to check out my blog postings on Myspace and also see pics i took in games i play on-going!

  • Demut

    For fuck’s sake, John, please fix this game. Or make a sequel. It is so great but with all the bugs (item names, battles, …) almost unplayable. I remember that this wasn’t the case once. Did 1.1 actually broke more than it fixed?

  • Demut

    *break, that is

  • Lordvader723

    How do you heal?!?!?!?!?!?! Love the game, but i can only play it so long till i die.

    • Magero

      i would like to know that too

  • Lordvader723

    How do you heal?!?!?!?!?!?! Love the game, but i can only play it so long till i die.

  • Theotherone911

    When I traveled from Luka to Westland it glitched when I got to Westland.  On the minimap, in the lower left hand corner of the screen, the “you are here” arrow keeps on switching back and forth and is not allowing me to go inside of Westland.  I was doing surprisingly well and was enjoying this game until it happened.  i’m not trying to be rude or anything but it really pissed me off because I was about to purchase MANY high-quality items, such as a diamond a mithryl armor, a claymore, and the highest vehicle in the game.