Seriously!? A new beginning for chapter 2? That's nice.

@shaz - Are my expectations a little too lofty?

haha - I thought Amanda and I had found a pretty impressive number of bugs before you guys got to the game.

I really like the sound of chapters. With the previous AV games it's always a bit sad to get to the end of the game and say goodbye to the characters. It sounds like with the chapters we will see a continuation of the story and with only a few months wait instead of years - yay

that makes it sound more of a good idea, elm. i like sequels. i would like to have a whole lot of them for a game.

I can't wait too see the site being updated!
I'm really excited about this idea now!
Good Luck guys! 8D

@shaz

Awesome!

Okay it is May 22nd so about when in June will it be ready? Also, when will BFG get it? BFG never did update Aveyond 1 so I can't play the new version. I bought Aveyond 2 from this site and will get Aveyond 3 and chapters from here so can play all updates. BFG said they could not look into it because they have to put out a game every day.

In answer to why am I disappointed. I want the game asap and was eagerly awaiting a date in May and now have to wait for a date in June and now waiting for half of a game rather than a whole game so will buzz through it and have to wait months again. But, having said that, I do love the game. I just don't want it to end.

On the upside, at least you'll have to wait months rather than years for the next instalment. But I can understand what you're feeling.

Well, that's a good thing to expect anyway. I'd prefer that than a year or more of waiting.

After all these years visiting Amaranth Games I finally found the forum.

Having read the details about Aveyond 3 being made into chapters, I am not amused.

I thouroughly enjoyed the previous Aveyond games. Aveyond 1 was my introduction to the RPGmaker games and since then I have played quite a few, maybe as many as 100.

I visited all the RPGmaker forums hunting out games to play and reading the comments. So I can say I'm a rather experienced RPGmaker player.

I have played games divided into chapters and although the games are very good, I would no longer play a game that is one part or a chapter until I had ALL the chapters waiting ready to play. I hate playing a game, spending many hours enjoying the story, only having it end mid stream and having to wait to see how things turn out. A lot of times the game was never finished by its creator, leaving 1000s in the lurch wanting to know what happened (I won't go into the reasons why). Other times the next chapter was months, years, away, by that time you forget what has happened in the earlier chapters and have to play it through again to remind yourself (when you play as many as I do, that happens).

So I, for one, will not be playing Aveyond 3 at least until the whole story is available which means, if you want to see how well the first chapter sells before releasing the second, it will not be accurate.

BTW: Aveyond 1 still rates as my all time favourite RPGmaker game. Aveyond 2 would have been better if I had not ruined it for myself by reading somewhere about the secret bits (which I found very easily once I knew they existed without knowing their positions). I even played Ahriman's Prophecy and enjoyed it (on my mini laptop the low resolution looked quite good).

I guess I can understand how you feel, Anne, but I know that I, for one, will NOT be able to wait with that much patience. This is one game I think I'd stand in line for a few hours to get, much less jump at the first opportunity to download from the comfort of my desk chair.

It makes me think of the Harry Potter series, which I'd have loved to buy, and read, all in one big set, but I had to have each book as it came out there, too. Oh, well. I wish you all the best and hope you enjoy it when you are able to get them all.

@Anne

Amanda has already said the chapters would be only months apart. After Chapter 1 is released, chapter two will be released relatively soon afterwords. And it's extremely doubtful Amanda wouldn't finish the game. She puts a lot of work into these games, why would she just give up?

I wonder how many of those RPGMaker games you've played, that were split into chapters and never finished, were commercial games? I don't know of very many RPGMaker games at all that are available commercially, but I do know of many, many hobby games, and just as many reasons why they're not finished (or a series is not continued).

The difference here is that this is Amanda's income. If she doesn't get the games made, and made faster these days than ever before, she has to go and find herself a boring job so she can keep eating

I don't think you need to worry about a game not being concluded.

However your comment about preferring to wait for the whole thing to be available is perfectly valid. It's likely that you're in a minority (which I don't mean in a bad way), but that's not the kind of numbers she's talking about - it's more the reaction of people who DO buy the games in chapters as they're available. And if the reaction is bad, she'll probably choose a new approach

Aye, I think it's irrelevant to take into account the number of unfinished freeware games that are divided into chapters. In fact, I believe that is the same percentage as the number of unfinished freeware games that aren't divided into chapters: *insert a number in the upwards of 90s here*. As Amanda does already have a steady record of finished games (as expected for one's income source), I don't think there's much of a worry in that regards.

As for the preferring to wait for the whole thing, there is still always the option to choose to wait and buy all the chapters of one complete game when it's all available, which is equivalent of waiting for the whole project to be completed and released at the same time. The difference is that those who do desire playing episode-by-episode as they come out have the option of doing that.

I guess it's all because Ara Fell never passed the first chapter, leaving all of us in the lurch, right? But Ara Fell's a freeware. Amanda won't give up on Aveyond 3, that's for certain.

At first, I wasn't too keen about the idea of chapters, mostly because of other RPGMaker games that have used chapters taking forever to come out, if at all. But like others have said, this is a commercial game rather than a hobby game and Amanda has started and completed several games already. So I'm confident that they will get done in a timely manner. Even if a chapter gets delayed, it's no reason to get bent out of shape. Keep in mind, it's just a game.

Could I ask a question? I don't think it has been mentioned before but, is Aveyond 3 going to become one chapter or several chapters?

From the sounds of it, it'll be a few chapters.

So, Aveyond 3 is already made right? The whole thing. And Amanda is going to release one chapter at a time right? Or is she going to release the chapters of Aveyond 3 all at once?