No matter how dark we think our hearts are, a star shines in all of us.

The Main Story:

Min’hira Kudarouu was a normal human--twenty-five years old and a master cartographer.

Until...

While creating a new map of the mysterious isle of Vanisa Elitra, where it is always night, Min'hira is attacked by a rival from his school years. He is pushed backwards off a cliff, and the last thing he feels before losing consciousness is a sharp pain through his back.

He wakes up in an unfamiliar castle, with an unfamiliar doctor and an unfamiliar bodyguard. The doctor explains that when he fell, and his back was broken, and...that he was bitten by a vampire before they could rescue him.

Min'hira learns that he was rescued by two of the royal vampires--Kamae Asama, a cleric and doctor, and Ke’maru Itona, the queen's own bodyguard. The queen asks him to stay, and in time, he learns the ways of the castle.

But to Min'hira, being a vampire is worse than being dead. Explore the isle on which you now live, battle monsters, protect your queen, and maybe even find a reason to live.


Features:

-A unique, 5-member party script
-An intricate story line
-Hand-drawn battlers, completely unique, drawn and colored by members of your own forum
-60 quests to complete
-Level-scaled monsters, so you'll never be stuck fighting that stupid level one spider at level seventy-two

...and more to come!

Characters' Information:

Here, I tell you the characters names, ages, ages they appear, classes, race, choice weapons, and a song you can listen to that played a hand in shaping the character's personality.

This list is written in the order that the characters join the party.

Min'hira Kudarouu
(Mih-n-he-rah Koo-dah-row)




Age: 25 human years at the beginning of the game.
Apppears: in early twenties.
Race: Human for about the first five minutes, then a Vampire.
Class: Advisor to the Queen, and a skilled martial artist.
Choice Weapon: Whips of any variety.
Identifying song: Heroes of our Time, Dragonforce.

Min'hira is the main character--indeed, this is "StarChaser" himself. The best way to describe him is quiet, remorseful, and even-tempered.

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Kamae Asama
(Kah-may Ah-sah-mah)




Age: 82 human years at the beginning of the game.
Appears: early twenties.
Race: Vampire
Class: Cleric to Kiliara, the Goddess of Death.
Choice Weapon: Staffs.
Identifying Song: Doubt and Trust, Access

Kamae was nicknamed by Kiliara to be "Dream Runner." He saved Min'hira's life, and is best described as friendly, gentle, and kind.

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Ke'maru Itona, "Kay"
(Kay-mah-roo Ee-toh-nah)




Age: 83 human years at the beginning of the game.
Appears: in early or mid twenties.
Race: Vampire
Class: Captain of the Vampire Guard
Choice Weapon: Katana
Identifying Song: The Warrior Inside, Dragonforce

Kay is Kiliara's "Flame Singer." He's by far the most cheerful and is proud of being a "crazy damn redhead," as he puts it. Kay is best described as optomistic, candid, and slightly perverted.

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Heiro'tama Fukaiira, "Heiro"
(Hay-ee-roh-tah-mah Foo-kah-ee-rah, "Hay-ee-ro" )




Age: 23 human years when you first meet him.
Appears: early twenties
Race: Human when you meet him.
Class: Interpreter
Choice Weapon: Shiruken
Identifying Song: Distance, Access

Heiro comes to Neras to translate an unknown dialect, as he was the best interpreter in Krisvyre. His nickname from Kiliara is "Sky Dancer." Heiro is best described as shy, gentle and innocent.

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Masana Iiyami
(Mah-sah-nah Ee-yah-me)




Age: 19 when you meet him.
Appears: late teens or very early twenties.
Race: Human when you meet him.
Class: Necromancer
Choice Weapon: Parry Knives
Identifying Song: Animal I Have Become, 3 Days Grace

Masana "Shadow Weaver" Iiyami is essentially Heiro's polar opposite. Masana is best described as being cold, dark, and rather violent.

More detailed profiles with pictures can be found HERE

This is, of course, only the main characters, and the only other profile on my website (above) is that of Kiliara, the Goddess of Death.

A sampling of the other characters:
-Onyxia Terina, the Vampire Queen
-Andris, the Alpha Werewolf
-Vin Viktrin and Zak Trannyth, the combat and magic teachers, respectively, at the Krisvyre Academy, who cannot have a conversation without getting into a pointless argument
-Chiida Koroma, the only woman who can get Kay to shut his mouth
-Ren Kenoz, who just might melt Masana's icy heart.
-Captain Ed, who just doesn't believe that the Northwest Island is a myth.
-Sashura Kulikova, the Lich Alchemist
-Dr. Rex Punctilious, or "Evil Dr. Rhino" to his potions students at Spectral Hall Magic Academy


ScreenShots:

MENU WITH ALL FIVE CHARACTERS

MAIN MENU

KILIARA'S SHRINE

KILIARA'S CASTLE

NIGHT ELF PALACE

PRINCESS ILYANA'S ROOM

LICHES' CAVES

THE PIRATE BAY

LICH ALCHEMIST'S

ARENWELL

CHANSWOODE

LARGE HOUSE IN SEIRYOU

Places

Vanisa Elitra
An isle where the sun never rises and the moon never sets. Home to Vampires, Liches, Night Elves, Moon Elves, pirates, witches, warlocks, necromancers, and goddesses of death.

Neras
The only city in the world enhabited entirely by Vampires. Civilized Vampires at that. Neras can also refer to the castle in said city, which is where Min'hira & Company live. Late in the game, the city is also home to Necromancy Guild Hall.

Chanswoode
A town of witches and warlocks on the south coast. Home to Shada Darksbane, Ren Kenoz, and Miss Coralynn.

Kylock
Another town of witches and warlocks, but much smaller and in the northeast. Some say that the only other source of water so pure is in the Deepwell Caves. Home to Masana and Noriaa Iiyami, until they grew up.

Arwennell
The town of the Moon Elves, more-or-less smack in the middle of the isle. Home to Prince Scimitras and all other Moon Elves. The Moon Elves are very peaceful, and almost ineveitably avoid combat. Or call for help. But that doesn't mean that the prince can't take care of himself...

Deepwell
A labrynthine series of caves, home to the Liches and the Night Elves, who usually don't get along. Unless, of course, you happen to be watching Prince Alexei of the Liches and Princess Ilyana of the Night Elves. Rumor has it that Deepwell is also home to a vicious Harpy Queen and a pack of Vampire Hunters...and a master alchemist named Sashura.

Spectral Hall
A girls' school of Magic, where Shada Darksbane went after she decided that staying Chanswoode wasn't going to get her anywhere. Home to one of the best alchemists around--Dr. Rex Punctilious. But where has he been for the last few weeks...?

Pirate Bay
As it sounds, home to pirates from every crook and nanny--er, nook and cranny--of the world! A favorite landing place of Pirate Captain Catilain and the crew of Calypso's Revenge, and Captain Ed and his Ship of the Gale.

Krisvyre
Krisvyre is the capital of the Eastern Isle, as well as Heiro's hometown, and the home of a large academy teaching both combat skills and magic. Its two best teachers are Vin Viktrin and Zak Trannyth, who argue constantly. Rumor has it that the werewolves have made their home under the city...

Seiryou
Seiryou is also located on the Eastern Isle, and is Min'hira's hometown. But it has changed since he lived there--at least, he doesn't remember anything about evil sorceresses and kidnapped young sorcerers...

Demo:

I regret that I am unable to present a demo of at this time, but if all goes well, I’ll have a little more time to work on this during the spring. In fact, StarChaser is now my project in art, which I do instead of a sport! So my goal for the end of the spring term is to have a demo finished.

UPDATE ON STATUS OF DEMO: if I could stop being distracted by other sidequests that come later in the game, I'd be done XD However, I am not. Stay with me a while longer, please, your patience is much appriciated--and hopefully you will consider it rewarded.

Credits:

Those on the Forum:

Daeva_Agas: for turning my scribbles into proper battlers and facesets. A huge thanks to you! I'd be stuck with the Facemaker facesets if not for you (Kiliara forfend XD)

FlowerAria: for letting me experiment my plot ideas on you…er, I mean for letting me use your D&D characters! (yeah, that’s what I meant…XD). Also for being my manpower (womanpower?) in recoloring all those sprites while I did more important things XD

Scimitras: Largely for putting up with me XD But also for letting me use you...even though you aren't a drow like you requested...

Kinnison: for that custom party script. This would never have happened if you hadn’t given me that.

Brewmeister: for the journal script.

Amanda: for the tilesets, and Aveyond. Thank you so, so much! Without Aveyond, I never would have discovered RMXP. And without the tilesets...I hesitate to think what my maps would look like.

Ren: for keeping my creative juice flowing. Masana is all yours.

Sources of Inspiration:

Dragonforce: for writing the song “Heroes of Our Time,” without which this game would still be nameless.

Access, Iceman, and Scarecrow: for giving me music to listen to and inspiration for characters. Again, without you, this game would never have happened. EVER. EVER, EVER, EVER.

Hayatebune: Thank you, Captain Ed. Dragonracer24 got his secret island because of you. Don't worry, this is not a thought process that is meant to be followed XD

A more complete list of credits can be found HERE

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There! Now that you have a handle on what I'm doing, please read the following--yes, I have ground rules:

1. Please, PLEASE do not offer to beta-test. I know who my beta-testers are, and I'm a very long way from needing them.

2. I welcome constructive critisism. But please be gentle. I've been working on this game for over a year now--yes, it's been a long time--and I'm very proud of it. (not neccessarily of my level of progress, but...XD)

3. These characters are like my family, and I love them very much. Be nice to them. On the same note, if you have issues with homosexuality, leave this thread. Now. Go. If you can't keep an open mind about these things, don't use my characters as a catalyst for an argument. Express your feelings in a mature manner in the Gay Marriage debate thread in the Village Square, not here.

4. Please DO tell me what you think! But please also refer to #2--be gentle.

5. NO ART THIEVES. please and thank you. I and several other people have worked very hard on the art for this game, and I'd rather not see it elsewhere.

6. StarChaser and all related (C) 2008-2009 Tei Raven.

Thank you for taking the time to read this extremely long post!

Yay Tei! *huggles*

I really loved your story in the Tavern, so I hope that I would also like the game otherwise! ^^

Your characters are like your family? Oh wow. That is good.

Heimdall: heh, the story is just the tip of the iceberg. for some reason, i just couldn't write this one down. i can write parts, but the whole thing is...difficult XD it's crystal in my head though.

updated with screenshots! go me ^^ i don't know why I think Kiliara looks weird here, but *shrug* whatever. she looks better in the game

also added a few more rules, but that's the boring stuff XD

At the first sight of the font, I felt the "spookiness" already. (Actually, the first thing that popped in my mind is the word, vampire. )

And Kiliara's Shrine looked like Rashnu's Shrine in Aveyond. XD

Tei- Cool. It seems really interesting. All through I usaully am not a huge fan of vampire realted stuff, this sounds really neat. I've enjoiyed seeing your character in the acedemey, and it will be nice to see him in this game. Intracite story line? great. One thing MY game is lacking... HAND DRAWN BATTLERS? woah, I just stick to the ones the engine gives you. FIVE PARTY SCRIPT? Sounds awesome. I can't wait for the demo to come out!

Heimdall: it would seem that I chose wisely then ^^ Dragonracer24, who you may or may not have met, made one for me that was purple and red, but StarChaser has a capital C and i'm really picky about that XD so i had to make my own with a capital C. The font the title is written in is Matura MT, and the font the other text is in Maiandra GD. both are two of my favorite fonts.

BONUS: the font file for Maiandra GD is included in the game! So fear not if you do not have the font on your system!

Aveyondgirl: not a huge fan of vampire stuff? that doesn't explain the tei'jal avatar XD either way.

ah, that's right! I RP with you! yes, you've met Min'hira and Masana ^^

Yep. Hand-drawn battlers. I'm rather proud of them, if I may say so myself. A huge thanks to Daeva_Agas for turning them into something presentable ^^ but the default battlers don't have the pieces with which i could build battlers for my characters with. my temporary battlers are simply the facemaker facesets, which are also temporary XD

ALL:

comments on my website are also welcome ^^

I like the story, simple but different.

like the characters, and the systems used for the game. The title looks spooky. The menu looks pretty simple, and the mapping seems good for the Shrine printscreen you've posted.

Seems very good.

Now you make your game!!! XD XD
Wanna play it!!! XD XD

How do you make five party member??!!

Tei used a "special" (special, isn't it?) script that she used on the game.

Night: that's only the shrine, potentially the most boring map i have XD i'm working on deciding on what other screenshots i want.

re: simple story: the overall idea is simple, but the storyline is actually quite intricate.

Delphinius: i'm working! XD no worries, two hours a day is bound to get me somewhere.

Re: 5-member script: yep, special script, courtesy of Kinnison, although he told me to credit someone else whose name i'm too lazy to look up right now.

The game looks very interesting. The shrine looks awesome! I bet your game would be a blast! It's based on your story in HBT, right?

Two hours a day? That's pretty buz, don't worry i can wait
I see your web and Kamae and Heiro profile make me little surprise x_x

P.s: Delphinus NOT Delphinius

destinyluck: actually, the story is based on the game XD i can't seem to write more than a few pages of the story, even though i know exactly what i want to happen.

delphinus: my friend calls my typos like that "sprelling." forgive my sprelling XD

yes, i'm going to end up putting a disclaimer about that in my first post in a moment. but if you don't like it, then don't play the game, because it's very hard to ignore them.

two hours a day is the only time i have. everything else is sleeping, homework, and classes. actually, this is my art class XD

It's kay bout the "sprelling"

Hey its Ren Kenoz....... By the way my friend ..... Im gonna laugh about that one for a while.....!!
love u .... Ur characters....... Masana......... And of corse starchaser..... Yayz I give uuu idears
and his icy heart melted when I hit a FRIKIN TREE!!!!!!
kay: wait.... She's bleeding ...... Masanas LAUGHING.... And she's crying from laughter...... WHAT...... So confissed face(inserted) (o-0)"

EDIT ONE:
I'm the sprelling friend...... I'm the sprelling friend...... Yayz
god uve been around me to much
I- touch..... Kay u beat me to it my friend..... I hate i a little inside now...!XD

EDIT TWO:
O and Ren is on the for now.... So change it I goober fruit..... Thanks to REN for telling me her insane dreams.... Stupid harry potter two game ruining my fun
Yeah I give those creative juices a real shock don't I ... ^^

@sessha612: What are you talking about? Also, please avoid triple-posting. Thats why there is the edit button.

@Tei: How's the game? I have been coming in and out of your webs.com site XD XD

Its just me anxious. ^^

eek! yeesh ren XD that was a pretty grand entrance. but heimdall (stardale) is right--edit button is there for a reason XD

EDIT: all right, there we go. now i just have to ask a mod to delete those and we'll all be good.

yep, that's ren XD

i need to post another screenshot. kiliara's shrine is nice, but it's BORING XD.

it's coming all right. lots of mapping... still... mapping... XD and i'm in desperate need of quests. Ren, this doesn't apply to you, but!

FOR ALL OTHERS:

got an idea for a side quest? let's hear it! I desperately need ideas. so if you've lost an item, or your daughter's been kidnapped, do let us know so we can retrieve it/her!

no art thieves ha ha ha ha ha very funny your kidding right well I'm no artist my self but i can help you improve a little?

all i can say is don't expect to be a master artist though

oh you had Daeva_Agas help he/she is very good at drawing never mind

Ahem. No, I am not kidding, Mila. My work is not up for use elsewhere. That's what the (C) symbol means. And if you aren't an artist yourself, you wouldn't understand how it feels when someone takes your work without asking you.

No, you may not attempt to help me improve. I have several very talented people that I'm learning from, thanks.

Also, I will not take art lessons from someone who does not use proper grammar. Even if you neglect the use of capital letters, you could at least not use such run-on sentences.

I believe that you have not seen the finished graphics for this game, largely because I have not seen them either.

I do not expect to be a master with my first game. I do not expect to be a master with my last, for that matter.

If I needed help, I would have asked for it. Your offer is not appriciated.

awww so your that kind of person i see you think your own personal value is above everyone else
you obsessively believe in class ...............