Obscuro Lumen Venenum Aeris [ver 0.0.0a] (Dianke) [currently canned]

Right.
I will just be posting this on behalf of one of my friends, Dianke. (Yes, the same one that helped out with Haunted House Story Reinforced.)
She says that she had asked Noxid and that he said it'd be fine, so... yeah. I'll just be quoting her:

Obscuro Lumen Venenum Aeris ~ Dark Light Poison Air takes place in a world where some kind of apocalypse thing has left the planet with a toxic atmosphere... houses have special devices that supply them with oxygen, however.
I will be using both Booster's Lab and CaveEditor. This mod takes place in Dragon Riders Continuity Psi (Ψ).

DOWNLOADS:
Version 0.0.0a

Please note that this is my very first Cave Story mod. As such, it will contain bugs and glitches, some of which I have no idea how to fix.
Also, be warned that this mod contains gas masks. (After all, if the planet's atmosphere is toxic, how else would one be able to breathe?)

Screenshots:

Spoiler

Yeah... a glitch I don't think I can fix... it is undocumented at the moment.

The only mod I know of where you can battle the first boss with a Spur (or variation thereof) while you have 3 max HP.

The Chaos Fairy... yes, at Level 0. That is because of a glitch mentioned above.
You cannot save in this place at the moment; that is to allow you to reset and thus return to the last save point you saved at.
The teleporter here breaks after entering.
This is Path One.

A facepic that was from the beta Cave Story. Also, several tilesets are from there as well, as is a boss (so far).
This is Path Two.

Lumen Caverns... you can access a small portion of it. Though, there is nothing there other than a few monsters.

And now, a spoiler related to the mod's future.

Spoiler

The Two Paths...
The path you choose depends on what happens in the Teleporter Room.
Where do you end up after you teleport? Agimim Village or the Chaos Fairy?
Only one of those paths is the canon path.

That is correct... I plan for this mod to have two endings that is chosen early - at the point the demo technically ends.

This demo ends at the Lumen Town Teleporter Room, though you can still play on...
If you find bugs, glitches, etc. be sure to report them. I shall keep a bug list in this post.
Please... enjoy the mod, if you wish...

So... yeah. I'll basically just act as a messenger, I guess.

EDIT: as of 2 November, Dianke has cancelled the mod.
She has said that she will no longer be working on the mod itself, but rather on a written story thereof.
She also said that she wouldn't care if anybody took over the mod.
Any questions regarding the mod, I will try to answer.

 

This looks really interesting!
although I don't know why your friend won't get a CSTSF member account, I'm sure it's for a good reason.
now hang tight as I play this and record my thoughts

Spoiler

title screen looks weird
also hello curly recolour

this text sound is kind of annoying

kazuma recolour

It is I, Alan!

I don't think you need the DIANKE: at the top
just make a facepic

shading looks weird

DO TO

you should
make a notepad and put what you need to do in there
and not have it litter the game

cute

ok so like her face

can't read

huhhhh

this is a wild ride and somehow the mayoress knows what I am
k

agimim town
mimiga town
gg

so lost

climbing these is stupid

cutscene too long ples cut

waaaa

done

 

Half these ellipses could be replaced by commas or periods.

 

This is so Shane.

 

does shane even exist

 

I can safely say that Shane does not, in fact, exist, for if he did then these forums would have withered into dust many years ago.

 

Shane exists. There's a theory, mostly shared between Randolf, Dr. Time, and Kanpachi, that Shane and the 3 bajillion+ girls of the Smith/Seymour families are the same person, and considering the recent gigantic inactivity gap had both groups leave and then both groups reappear at the same time, it's honestly a pretty believable theory.

...the whole situation is immensely complicated and silly, in case you couldn't tell, and that's the simplified version.

I choose to kind of ignore that and still laze about their forums, because I like talking to some of the individual people and the non-Shane members like Pteriforever and (of course) Randolf, but I've honestly grown apart from Shane. After all of the stupidity, drama and fakeness that's gone down in the two forums of his I've been a member of, it's difficult to be close anymore.

 

I like the direction of the mod, but throwing so many convulted twists at the start discouraged me from continuing (oh and it seemed like it was ending anyway??).

There were a lot of "TO BE EDITED/ADDED" signs everywhere too. But wouldn't mind trying a further developed release that completes these planned additions. There is potential.

Of course the mapping could use a facelift, but being different isn't a bad thing... and anyway it seems the story is the real shiny thing about this mod...

EDIT: I take back what I said about the mapping after seeing some of the new areas that aren't in the demo really yet. From seeing Randolf's video

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW99mAVrzfQ

 

is it meant to be pure white, randlolf?

 

I fixed it.
I found out that you can't use

 

yeah, the forums automatically post the video in full form without the [yt][/yt] tags

 

The funny thing is, the tags break the video.
Gotta love them.