In a world of silence where time rules all
many souls begin to fall....
-The Saviour


Genre: Survival Puzzler
Game Progression: We are 85% complete with the game. Due to feedback from a previous review by Amerk, the original demo has been removed. since the original game demo, almost everything has changed.
Game Completion:
= 25%
Graphics: (50%)
Spriting: (75%)
Story: (100%)
Eventing: (75%)
Scripting: (100%)


Story:
Life is peaceful in Sommini Village, there is no crime, or anger, or hate. In fact there is not much of anything.Every resident of Sommini Village finds themselves lulled peacefully into the abyss of death. They simply sit around and whittle away their remaining time.
Akal awakens trapped in this sleepy village, with the curse placed upon him. Can you find his way to freedom. and escape his Spirit Timer?




Character Bios:
Akal

Akal awakens to find himself in a small dark cave. Upon further searching he discovers himself in the silent village of Sommini. Uncertain and frightened at what is about to befall him. He fights to discover the truth about Sommini


The Saviour

A dark character who states that the only way Akal can escape the curse befallen on him is to accept "The Choice". No matter where Akal goes, she is always watching. Is she a demon? Or is she truely a Saviour....time will tell all.


Features:

• Time based challenges and game play
• Professorial Voice Acting
• Dynamic Dungeons
• Psychological Trickery

No Escape Teaser Trailer:



Screenshots:
WARNING: LARGE IMAGES



Credits:
Audio:
SMC Games Incompetech
Voice Acting:
Karen Dellaway
Sprites:
Shaddowval
Level Design:
SMC Games
Scripting:
Galv Modern Algebra Yanfly Tsukihime
Rei Woranta/Necromus regendo
Event Design:
SMC Games Phillip
Graphics/Tilesets:
Cecillia Celliana Lunerea
SMC Games Enterbrain Rgangsta
Jens Of Zannicud
Engine:
Enterbrain
Story:
SMC Games
Special Thanks:
Cecillia for her beautiful CG!
Amerk for the first review on RRR
Jens Of Zanicuud for script advice and the beautiful title screen!
Shaddow for just being awesome and helping improve this game RAPIDLY!
Karen Dellaway for being evil and being amazing at it!
Galv, Tsukihime and Regendo for script translations/Edits without which we couldn't port the project into VX

We've got around 90% of the maps completed, the eventing for the project is about 70% complete for the demo itself, but we've got about 40% of the eventing left for the entire game itself.


and then:

and here is another in game screenshot of one of the final maps in the game, this one isn't quite finished yet




We'll hopefully have a demo by around 20th May (perhaps before...if the Beta Tests go well :D)

I present the first teaser trailer of Spirit Timer. We're now looking at a May 15th Release As long as everything goes to plan. Progress is going at a relatively fast rate we've updates quite a few of the maps, the entire game has the ability to loop on itself. Everywhere leads back to the one place. Sommini Village. Here's some new screenshots:

More updates for you! I've rewritten the intro thread, to give you even more information on the project, I've added credits, more screenshots (the most up to date) and also some information on the characters. Cleaned up the BBCODE as for some reason BBCODE always hates me -_-

Here's a short little pictogram I've designed to show the progress:
Game Completion:
= 25%
Graphics: (50%)
Spriting: (75%)
Story: (100%)
Eventing: (75%)
Scripting: (100%)


We're now aiming for a FULL release as I mentioned before, however we are just waiting on our artist to complete our CG's for the ending. We've got so much work done, so your support and critique helps us alot so thanks for all the kind comments,

I'd like to offer up an opportunity for LP's to receive a private demo to LP the game on their channel. To help get the game out there into the world. if anyone is actually interested enough in LPing the demo then send me a PM! Your video will be featured on the Spirit Timer Project page and shared on our youtube channel.

Our beautiful artist has finished the first ending CG Shots, and also we've now got Akal's and The Saviours character art.
We've also upgraded the engine to VX Ace, with us now working in VX Ace we've been able to do more with the game.

A few updated screenshots for you:


One of the many CGI shots that have been created for Spirit Timer Akal's here...looking VERY pleased for himself, Why? You'll have to play the game to find out.


As you progress through the game you will find objects which are recorded in Akal's diary, at any point in the game you can press D to open up your diary, and read what Akal has found, some are journal entries from a mysterious friend. Some are descriptions of objects that Akal has found in his journey through Sommini Village.


This is one of the latest updates that are exciting us most of all As you progress throughout the game and your timer decreases you life force will slowly decrease. As it decreases cracks begin to appear on the screens. You begin to see less and less. It gets harder to see the puzzles, and harder to work out where to go next.

with almost all of the graphical resources, we'll be speeding through trying to get the game as polished as possible. We'll be making a call for Beta Testers shortly. So if you are interested let me know!

We'll have more updates VERY soon!

We're not dead, yet.
We've had a huge number of updates and a lot of things to update everyone on!
Graphical Update

This first update is a complete revamp of the mapping for Spirit Timer, we felt that although the maps looked amazing as is, we wanted to bring the darker side of our maps out more, make them more "grittier". if that's the word for it. but anywho...we'll just let the maps speak for themselves:


I'll be adding more to the screenshots, shorty, so keep your eyes open for that!
Music Update
I've begun work on the official Soundtrack for Spirit Timer, originally we were using some beautiful Royalty Free music from Kevin MacLeod, however it was decided that although the music that we chose was beautiful, we wanted the feeling of the world of Sommini to be referenced fully in the music. So for the end of this blog update I welcome you to listen to just a small sample of the OST
We've been working on this game for so long now and we've got so many exciting things to come. I'm gonna do my best to keep you all update on this site, as I know we've got a few fans here and I will be contact those interested for a beta demo/promotions soon! We've had a few changes so please accept my apologies if it feels like i'm ignoring you!

More updates to come soon!