Chapter XI - The Origin

[Reives]

Chapter XI
The Origin

Download Link: Click Me
(Use the save-file pre-provided in the folder to start.)

Well, after countless delays (and one broken computer), Chapter XI is finally released!
And personally, I think/hope it is one of the better chapters in Quintessence in some regards.



The chapter is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes long.
While it is heavy on cut-scenes and linear story sequences as usual,
there are some new game-play mechanics being introduced: the underwater sequence.


[However, due to time constraint, it is not the final product - The improved version to be released in the near future will have better designs and things like parodies that are not in this one. What's there now should do a decent job of showing the system, though - Feel free to chip in and share your suggestions!]

I have also written 4-5 new pieces of additional music of variant styles for the chapter, which I hope you will enjoy. The chapter is divided into the following sections (noted by auto-save points):

• Origin
• Departure
• Sunset
• Splash
• Just Kidding
• Dreams
• Uprising

However, as I had to rush release this chapter to avoid yet failing another deadline, it is not as polished as I originally planned.
It is also a stand-alone chapter file as of now, but will be made into a Chapter 1 - 11 compilation in around 2 weeks.

Also, I missed crediting a couple of people for their original work in this Chapter (will be fixed later). But for now, a big thanks to Racheal for her event-to-event collision script and Rayen for her lovely shark sprite!

Anyhow, I am in much need of sleep, so I will leave other fancy presentation work to tomorrow. If major bugs/glitches are reported (please do if you run into them), mods can feel free to edit this post with the info if I'm not around. Thanks!

*For discussions related to the story and etc., please use the In-Game Board instead of this thread! Feel free to make new threads there. :reivsmile:


Cheers,
Reives/Kan

P.S. Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!

[Reives]

P.P.S. Hints & Solutions thread for the chapter:
http://freebirdgames.com/forum/index.php?topic=1806.0

P.P.P.S. Feel free to inform the places where Quintessence is already known at of this release! (But please link them to this thread for the most up to date info.) While I did mention to hold off advertising until the Chapter 1-11 combined package is released, you can take that as only applying to places where Quintessence has not been exposed to yet.

[Stardale]

Hurrah! I'm downloading now! I'll go inform AM!

Congrats!

[Reives]

Thanks Heim. c: Okay, I'm heading off to sleep now.
(If any major bugs come up, which they hopefully won't, please post here and a mod can take an appropriate action with this thread.)

I will do the mass member-base-wide email about the new release tomorrow when I wake up.

[Lance Stone]

YEPEEE! *downloading*

[Sayuri Sango]

YEEEEEEEY^_^

[Delphinus]

THIS IS GREAT!! THIS IS AMAZING!! THIS IS WONDERFUL!!! THIS IS PERFECT!!! THIS IS-... okay, this is enough *go downloading*

[Soyasushi (Kirroha)]

WOOTS AWESOME

[Stardale]

Alright, first bug ftw!
I made a separate thread for it, because its not anything major.
http://freebirdgames.com/forum/index.php?topic=1812.0

[Lance Stone]

^I run into these too.

SPOILER:
Reives you don't know that, but When I started playing it was cloudy and when I get into town it was rainig. Even Sky here is sad about Vikon.
SPOILER

[Stardale]

I suddenly got this pop-out:



Edit by Reives:
This bug is fixed in the version in the first post. :reivsmile:

[Moony]

I am downloading now
 

[Chiefie]

Hallelujah! HURRAY!

[Muffin]

Kan~@~~2 
Yay~
Quintessence
Now
I can finally
rest in peace..

[JerrySD]

Awesome! Downloading now.