Embarkment Online

What is Embarkment Online?

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Embarkment Online is an online Side-Scrolling Action / RPG game which was previously named "Embarkment" , which is single player. Take on a role of a character and embark on a series of quests on a platform world of wild fantasy. Explore the endless possibilities , interact and make new friends. Discover a whole new world in Embarkment. Let your imagination run wild. Be another you in another dimension.

UPDATE:
The Service Pack A Screenshots are now available!
This is How Embarkment Online looks:
New! New Menu:
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4274/newmenuyh8.png
New! Latest screenshot!
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/904/screen2bh2.png
New! Stats and Equipment Windows
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/6171/newwindowsbr1.png

Features in 1.0a:

Those mark with astericks (*) means new updates.
Here are a list of what is already completed :

- Working skills and equip tabs. (You can now even up your skill points ! )
- Colour codings of usernames for easy references . ( Red is the host , black is player. )
- New menu background which looks more professional
- Revamped loading background.
*- Attacking works. ( We're now deciding whether to unlock attacking for the moment so it might not appear in version 1.0a )
*- Healthbar above player for easy reading
*- 1 potion shop is done. However , you cannot buy anything yet.
*- Cash system ( However ,its useless for now. There's no monsters yet.)

BONUS STUFFS:
If everything goes well , we MIGHT add in these features as a surprise !
However , these stuffs mentioned below is NOT gurantee to be in version1.0a

- Monsters
- Potions

Incomplete stuffs that is currently being developed and locked in version1.0a that's intended for version 1.1. Due to the superb development speed that we've got achieve in version 1.0a , its pretty unexpected that we've got time to add in these stuffs which prepares for a quicker release of version 1.1 in the future :

- Monsters ( 50% done , with some errors needs to be solved. )
- Cash shop ( 20% done. )
- Speech bubbles ( 10% done. )
- Emotion smileys in chat ( 60% done.)

Download Embarkment Online Alpha Release here!
HERE (http://64digits.com/users/lamer/Embarkment_Online_1.0.zip)

Help us:

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Areas:

To all , we have now come to finalised the final maps and island names that is going to be done by version 1.2.
Those highlighted in red means its done.
Those highlighted in green means its in progress.

ISLANDS :
-Hobo Island ( To be completed by version 1.2 )
-Joha Island ( To be start on version 1.2 )

MAPS :

HOBO ISLAND
-Home
-Shroom Valley
-Shroom Town
-Shroom Valley 2
-Farmland east of Shroom Town
-Farmland Hunting ground
-The farm
-Farmland west of Harbour
-Shroom Town Harbour

JOHA ISLAND
** Will be further split up into 5 major towns. Town names will be decided later. **
Note that maps are not placed according to their positions.

- Joha Harbour
- Joha training ground
- Joha Marketplace
- The garden of flowers ( Featuring flower monsters )
- Town Cemetary ( Featuring tombstone monsters )
- Mountain of youth ( Featuring snow effects )
- Mountain peak ( Featuring stalls )
- Town Amusement park ( Featuring special clown monsters )

TRADER'S VILLAGE ( Featuring an arabian themed area )
-Arabis ( Main town with shops )
-Anaik
-Somset

** More coming soon as Joha Island will be a BIG island with tons of maps. **
Contacts:
Embarkment Online Official Email - All staff:
Embarkment@Singapore.com
Admin/Lamer/Sunny Chua - CEO of Embarkment Online:
burpman666@hotmail.com
Magdreamer/Rory Soh - Creative Director cum IT manager and GM:
Magdreamer@hotmail.com

Wow... you seriously need a good artist

I would volunteer, but I'm too busy

yeah.. tey do need a good artist. and one thats good at cloning maplestory.

yeah.. tey do need a good artist. and one thats good at cloning maplestory.

People who think this way is too narrow minded and unexperienced in gaming, they think that every platformer is a maplestory clone just cos its their first and only MMORPG or atleast addicted to it, well let me tell you something, there were thousands of platformer games before maplestory, so why dont you say its a mario clone?

Wow... you seriously need a good artist

I would volunteer, but I'm too busy

then don't post moron

The game looks good.

Just out of curiosity what engine you using or is it in-house and if so what language is the framework built upon ?

PS: If anyone is good at GameMaker and knows why the Room Sync problem is there, could you please send an answer on the forum?

does that answer you question?


..i refuse to comment this game...and game maker...

gamemaker can do anything with the right skills.

Hmm, I have seen the product of some GM games and in the multiplayer field they are not all that...However good luck all the same sync problem is likely the result of bad networking try TCP instead of UDP if you happen to be sending messages via UDP for speed

Updated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People who think this way is too narrow minded and unexperienced in gaming, they think that every platformer is a maplestory clone just cos its their first and only MMORPG or atleast addicted to it, well let me tell you something, there were thousands of platformer games before maplestory, so why dont you say its a mario clone?
we dont call it a mario clone because mario is small and doesnt have a giant sword.

gamemaker can do anything with the right skills.

no it cant....a coded game can do anything

Do you see a giant sword in any of the screenshots?
Gamemaker does use coding.

i mean coding the WHOLE game how do you think all the MMORPG were made?

i dunno, but im certain it was without you being a loser towards the creators.

i dunno, but im certain it was without you being a loser towards the creators.

lol and it certainly wasnt made by gamemaker it was made in 3-5 years with languages such as C,C++,Java and im not being a looser in being releastic

GameMaker doesn't use coding, it uses scripting. Don't get me wrong, I'm always defending GM, simply because I've gotten it to do a lot of things that people said couldn't be done. But no, it can't create an MMO. Mutiplayer? Yes. Online? Yes. Masive? Not even close.

GM is for creating indie games, that's all.

well, i dont even make the game. I'm the GFX person. Yea, i got the words coding and scripting mixed up, thanks. But anyway, just wait, the game will be better than any GameMaker game ever made. And yes, you can make a massive orpg. If you have enough skill and as for you, i seriously doubt it. The game is aiming high for a reason, even has a cashshop built in, just locked for now.

well, i dont even make the game. I'm the GFX person. Yea, i got the words coding and scripting mixed up, thanks. But anyway, just wait, the game will be better than any GameMaker game ever made. And yes, you can make a massive orpg. If you have enough skill and as for you, i seriously doubt it. The game is aiming high for a reason, even has a cashshop built in, just locked for now.

Actually to be honest, you really can't make a massive orpg. At least, I don't think. You would need very fast, efficient, and stable code to run a server with that many connections going into and coming out of it all the time. Game Maker doesn't offer that. Not to say that Game Maker's bad, you can probably stuff a bunch of people on a server before it crashes, We're just saying that it won't hold that many.

here

http://www.amazon.ca/Networking-Online-Games-Understanding-Engineering/dp/0470018577/ref=sr_1_2/702-5522332-8659252?ie=UTF8&s=books

this is your friend if your making online games

gm is my pray I really hate people who use game maker and thing there gonna make something like WoW or guild wars... gm maker can be good for things like making a demo of a game your going to develop or for a site looking to build up a small community

Unreal Engine FTW...

Okay...It's just a dream of mine T_T

Anyway, GameMaker isn't that good. I made my first RPG in GM though, and at the time I thought it was pretty cool, didn't release it, haven't stuck it in my portfolio, it was just another step on the stairs to greatness.

If you're thinking this is going to get big, I would suggest Electro-therapy.