Warcraft Lion

Update: Final Alliance v0.40

2010-01-23T20:45:00.001-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.40
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:
Just made a fan page for this map in Facebook, remember to add as fan and introduce your friends! Good things are meant to be shared, isn't it? :)

As you can see, the world map get a little bigger this time, yeah further quest after the defeat of the Revenants are introduced, at later stage it would require more teamworks, bad news for those who liked to solo in the game, you'll get a pain in the ass xD~

**Click to enlarge the image.

Requests:
Anyone are free and willing to get a wallpaper or something for this map? Hehehe...

Changelog:

New Hero, Angelica the Rogue Priestess.
Starfall - Deals great ammount of damage to units nearby, each falling star have poor accuracy, but can be improved with the passives. A direct hit deals maximum damage.
Blinding Shot - Tpyical hit-and-run for this hero, Angelica can solo single high level creep without much trouble.
Rejuvenation - Regenerates life based on your current life. With more life you have, you regenerates faster.
Bear Companion - A powerful summon with many defensive skills, could lead to immortal tanker with proper item such as spell books.
Forbidden Strength - Greatly boosts the Hero's agility and intelligence, at the cost of reducing damage that you gained from agility (means you gain pure agility with no damage bonus). Great combination with Blinding Shot and certain item that grants bonus damage based on your current agility.
Introduced set items:
The Noble Call - A very low level set item for early game fighting, grants good ammount of early defense.
The Treasure Hunter - A mid-low level set item, getting this set grants you better chance in getting items from creep and also more gold from the coins.
Further quest after the defeat of the Revenants.
New map, Wraithbane - Originally named SunWill Village, but was totally in ruin after the demon invasion, now this ground holds nothing but walking corpses and evil beings.
Removed Town Portal cooldown.
Town Portal now function in 2 ways:
Single left click - Summon a portal and teleports immediately.
Double right click - Summon a portal and required manual right click to teleport.
Life paying (50% of current life) for casting Hell's Call is properly implemented.
Some attempt to fix the creep stucked at circle of power, please do tell me if they still stucks at the entrances.
Readjusted dropping level of items (some items drop on lower level creeps, and some item for higher level creeps).
Buffed Revenant Boss with higher hit points and damage (again).
Increased intervals that base sending creeps to attack the Revenant Boss.
Show damage resized to a smaller font size.
Show damage lasts 0.5 seconds longer.

Update: Final Alliance v0.30

2009-12-27T00:53:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Alpha0.30
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:
Life is getting busy once again, the next release I'll be targeting a new Hero and also a more stronger boss after defeat of the Revenants. Stay tuned :)

Oh ya, I made an world map for this version, just in case you got lost in somewhere. The world map will surely grow larger overtime (until SC2 released, hahaha).

**Click to enlarge the image.

Requests:
Anyone are free and willing to get a wallpaper or something for this map? Hehehe...

Changelog v0.30:

When Hero level up, you now gain bonus stat points based on your FA experience point (lumber). More experience = more stat = more powerful hero.
Lowered overall stat gain from hero (you can't really find the difference since you gain stat point from the FA experience point instead).
New item type - Belts (see below).
There is a limit of how many potions you can carry now, to change this limit you'll
required to equipt different types of belt to change the limit. To view your current
potion carry limit, just check your hero stat in the inventory.
Town portals from UAV is back again.
New map, the Stoneshield Mine where you can find many Golems inside. These fella drops Copper ore, which can used to upgrade your shield.
An old Dwraf in the Stoneshield Mine selling Smithing Hammer that could be useful in ore forging, seek him out :)
Potions now are able to refund for full purchase price.
Slightly increased potion pruchase price.
Large potions now requires a small ammount of FA experience in order to purchase.
Most towers in the game now takes reduced damage from non-hero attacks.
Buffed Revenant tower (faster attack rate, more damage, bounce attack, poison attack, spawn worker that repairs the damaged tower)
More items, start whacking some creeps to get it :)
Fixed several typos.

Update: Final Alliance v0.20

2009-12-18T04:01:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Alpha0.20
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:
This version was behind my schedule... Mainly due to some weird bugs that occurring when making the new hero. Anyway, here is it :) a more stable version compared to v0.10 that was released in a rush.

Requests:
Anyone are free and willing to get a wallpaper or something for this map? Hehehe...

Changelog v0.20:

New hero - Dark Baron [Strength hero, adept in dark magic and his powerful sword to slay anyone in his path].
Runes from UAV are restored [Health Rune - Restore 20% hit points lost; Mana Rune - Restore 20% mana lost].
More items.
A nerf on the Revenant boss [Attack type from Hero to Magic, wave deals lesser damage].
An additional optional quest after the Merloc and Mur'gul battle [Night Elf and Blood Elf battle, both race have some powerful spell resistance creep that could be a good tanker against the Revenant boss].

Final Alliance

2009-12-10T03:54:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Alpha0.10
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:
Yes, I know dropping UAV wasn't a good idea.

Blame that to blizzard, for releasing 1.24 patch that make most of the custom maps unplayable. But I don't wish to make an UAVI either, so I named this map Final Alliance instead. The word Final would actually indicate this is my last project on Warcraft III before moving to Starraft II mapping enviroment.

Enough saying, enjoy the game!

Requests:
Anyone are free and willing to get a wallpaper or something for this map? Hehehe...

Features:

A RPG game combined with a little castle siege feature style gaming.
Save (-save) and load (-load) allows you to save your game experience and bring them into next game, with more game experience, more powerful items will be unlocked at your command!
Each hero have 5 active spells, and 11 passive skills enchanted in a spell book, by learning the active spells you will gain bonus from the passive spells with different combination of spells. (That make up to a total of 16 spells)
Creep system - Totally randomized respawn system, different creep might spawn for the same creep camp, never think that "Oh this is a troll camp, I can easily handle this, and suddenly you shouted - OMG WTF A DEMON!" *sound of flesh flying around* and you get killed.
Random special feature such as stone skin, extra strong, spell resistance, and extra fast might get enchanted to certain creep when spawned.
Multiquest system - You can finish off the game with various way, like helping the evil kill the goods, helping the good kill the evils, or simply just whack up both party, it is all in your hand!
Advanced inventory system - Each hero are allowed to carry up to 4 main page item, 16 backpack items, and also 20 equipment slots, which make up to a total of 40 item slots for each hero.
Advance Potion system - Potions triggered, they will heal based on the hero's stat, e.g: Strength hero may gain more life from using health potion, while high Intelligence hero may gain more mana. All the potions stacks!
Drag and Drop combination system - We are getting bored with recipe system in many games, so something new have to come out, and here's one, you drag and drop one item into another, crafting new items, with some luck you might get some unknown-item that was not listed in the recipe list!

Unholy Alliance in Starcraft II

2009-08-29T05:54:00.000-07:00

Blizzard promise a better generation of map editors in Starcraft II.

What can I say, when Starcraft II released, other than playing the game itself, it would be the editor I'll explore next. I'll just pray that it is no shitty GUI editor like Warcraft III; instead, scripting language please, JASS or C++ alike would be nice!

Expect Unholy Alliance in Starcraft II!

Update: Unholy Alliance V

2009-07-05T07:46:00.000-07:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.32
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:
I consider this as a minor update, to test up the set items and runes. Once they are tested to be stable enough then we shall meet more set items with complex mechanism coming!

Changelog:

New field of items, set items. So far only one set, Tal Rasha's Wrappings, and they are very high level, only available on creeps above level 20.
Added a couple of new items, try your luck in game to get them!
New dungeon, located at the last map, very difficult creeps, very high level, don't dream of solo them! In return, they drop the powerful Tal Rasha's set items.
New dungeon offers a new mini boss inside, dare to take the challange? So far he is one of the strongest boss around.
Slight advancement of the quest, you'll now need to kill the summoner in the middle of last map.
Minor tweaks around the skills of the heroes, balancing purpose.

Update: Unholy Alliance V

2009-05-26T11:32:00.000-07:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.31
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:
This version is mainly focus on bug fixing on the Tower Defense and the new hero, the quest are still the same up to Beta0.30b. Feel free to give suggestion on the coming version :) that I should focus more on optional quest? new item? more new hero?
Anyway, enjoy!

Changelog:

New hero, the Witch Hunter.
Quest items and quest rewards are directly added into the inventory (instead of dropping on ground on previous versions).
The hero now facing quest unit when talking to them (eye candy).
Fixing the tower defense coding for the n-th time.

Update: Unholy Alliance V

2009-05-11T12:04:00.000-07:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.30b
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:

I just realize that it took around half year for this new version update! As I mention before, this project is a one-man-project where I, need to do everything from terrain, quest, custom units, custom spells, hero design, balance, etc. The worst thing is that I only get my free time when I'm in my holiday, which is the summer and winter holidays! *Boo!*

Changelog:
0.30b:

Fixed a terrible quest bug.

0.30:

The prison is open now! (The empty area behind the king's palace)
Added 2 higher level melee-based and ranged-based weapon. (Upgrades from the lower level item)
Added more item combination and new items! (Check out the Shaman Claws that adds bonus damage based on your intelligence, I hope this item is stable after going through so much trouble during beta testing...)
Added 2 new item merchant, can you find them?
Improved Necromancer's Skeleton Orc summons with better armor.
Dreadlord's Carrion Swarm deals more damage, reduced cool down.
Dreadlord's Angry Swarm deals strength-based damage now.
Updated quest path, behold the Scourge base, along with the fierce battle alongside with the Naga or Blood Elves!
Internal code stabilization.
My personal thanks to Saiyuki for helping me out in all the beta testing!

Sneak Peek: Unholy Alliance V

2008-12-09T10:20:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.29b
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

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Sneak Peek:
Alright here's what I'm currently working on, there are still some time until completion on what's in my mind, so I decided to release some sneak peek screenshot here!

Newly added introduction cinematic, this will cut some time on listening the background story over and over again.

Scourge forces unrevealed! Are you ready for the undead abomination that coming in your way?

The Naga and Blood Elves base encampment, will you join force with them against the might of the Scourge?

Guide: Unholy Alliance V

2008-11-29T05:41:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.29b
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

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Beginner's Guide:
If your new to this Map and wanna check out some easy ways to go, here is a quick introduction, favored skill tree of the 4 different heroes and a quick walkthrough.

Question: About 3 Minutes to pick, but what are the stats?
Answer: It's not much, but a little Introduction on the 4 Heroes.

HERO:	TYPE:	MAIN ATTRIBUTE:
- Dreadlord:	Melee Fighter	STR based
- Mistress:	Melee Fighter	AGI based
- Necromancer:	Range Fighter	INT based
- Warlord:	Melee Fighter	STR based

Question: So, now what is the difficulty between them, is there even any? If I'm starting the map the first time, which hero should i pick?
Answer: To make things easy, i put out an order and a quick info why.

HERO:	REASONS:	CLASS:
Warlord (Very Easy)	Most Skills are effectively dealing damage. Moreover a great Hero with lots of hit points and life reg.	Tanker
Mistress (Easy)	Some easy to use Skills with good damage and chance of poisoning (if skilled). One quick for attacking and retreating.	Assasin
Dreadlord (Normal)	Aimed Skills needs a bit of accuracy but still quite easy to use, all-round hero with good speed, hp, mana and reg.	Paladin
Necromancer (Hard)	Range Unit, complicated Skilltree, damage of skills needs some good accuracy and timing.	Supporter/ Mage

Question: What the!? Only 4 slots? Are you crazy?!
Answer: Did you already check the other 2 Slots? It's a great inventory system which includes many equipment slots and 20 inventory slots! Still some help needed? Here a quick Review:

Drag and Drop your equipment items (e.g. Weapon) on the left item.
Drag and Drop your inventory items (e.g. Potion) on the right item.
Drag and Drop items on one another, that's how you try to combine them!
When picking up a potion, which you already have in your inventory, the potion charges will stack automatically!

**Note that quest Items will automatically be removed when completing the quest.
What's more to say? Heck, it's really an easy and comfortable one.

Question: There are way too many Skills on the skill tree and items. Which one should i pick?
Answer: Well, leaving the items out here, take a look on my personal preferred skill tree for each Hero until level 20.

HERO:	SKILLS:
- Warlord:	Blood Ritual + Leap of Faith + War Stomp
- Mistress:	Fan of Knives + Enchant Poison + Death Trap ( twice )
- Dreadlord:	Carrion Swarm + Blind Swipes + Life and Death
- Necromancer:	Dark Blessing + Summon Minion + Cripple

Question: I've got an hang of all the stuff, but still dying when trying to defeat the Bandits on level 3!! What to do?
Answer: Don't be so fast, try relaxing a bit at first. To survive each area easily, I've thought of a little walkthrough.

(1) Graveyard:
# reach level 5, then either one of both
- reach level 7, or
- full backspace ( all 16 slots )

(2) Cave:
# battle trolls to get at least 1 healing wood
# reach level 8 or level 9

(3) Middleland: ( Center )
# level 9 recommend
# reach level 10 or 11

(4) Defeat Party: ( Order or Forsaken )
# Party is taken down by killing all heroes and destroying the main base building
# reach level 11 or more

(5) Cave of Koilos: ( after TD Part )
# reach level 13 or 14

(6) Cave:
# kill Ice Elemental

(7) Cave of Koilos:
# reach level 15 or 16
# kill Dark Fiend

(8) Middle Land: ( North )
# reach level 18 or higher

(9) Dark Champer:
# win up to version 0.29b =)

Guide Credit: Saiyuki

Update: Unholy Alliance V

2008-11-25T08:54:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.29b
Game genre: RPG
Download: Link 1, Link 2

Words:
I'll say this is one of the most stable version compared to the previous versions. Though there are still some rare bugs that happens around, I'm trying my best to fix that up. Enjoy gaming!

Changelog:
0.29b:

Fixed (hopefully) a possible bug that occur during tower defense mode.
Reworked terrain on the Icy Cave, to fix the problem of "floating" AoE circle for Necromancer and Mistress.
Fixed potion sold at goblin shop that unable to stack when inventory full.
Fixed potion reward from James that unable to stack when inventory full.
Fixed a couple of typo in Tauren's skill tree. (Thanks Saiyuki)

0.29:

Reworked Mistress's Death Trap, which makes it more deadly!
Improved potion stacking, you can now stack potions even with full inventory!
Finally, the long awaited Scroll of Town Portal! Teleports the hero back into the town for buying items and such.
2 new high level item at areas after defeating the tower defense.
An extra tower at bandit camp outside Town of Absurtus.
Tauren's ultimate deals less damage to heroes now.
Orb of Fire now gives -5 life regeneration instead of -3.
Internal code stabilization.
Fixed a strange bug with doubling units during tower defense cinematic. (Thanks Saiyuki)
Fixed hell lots of typo. (Thanks Saiyuki)
My personal thanks to Saiyuki for helping me out in all the beta testing!

Update: Unholy Alliance V

2008-11-20T06:12:00.001-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.28
Game genre: RPG
Download: Here

Changelog:

Slightly reworked on Death Traps, each trap now detonates only one trap, so they can get chained up more easily and deals more damage with the damage transfer.
Added a Orb of Fire. (Try it!)
Fixed tower defense bug, should be working fine now.
Fixed typos. (Thanks Anopob)
Auto-select the Hero Spirit when hero died. (Thanks Anopob)

Update: Unholy Alliance V

2008-11-17T05:51:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment
Current version: Beta0.27d
Game genre: RPG
Download: Here

Changelog:

Mistress remake (try her!)
Frost attacks now have a chance to freeze the attacked enemy entirely.
Added some item that prevents hero from being frozen entirely.
Changed revive mechanism, gold loss now depends on hero's level.
Some tweaks in the tower's ability in tower defense to reduce lag.
Fixed a very very terrible bug during the town attacks.
Massive internal coding improvements, Caster System are abandoned and replaced the spell casting with XE Systems.
0.27d to fix the fatal error during loading, it is working now!

Unholy Alliance V

2008-11-09T21:29:00.000-08:00

Project status: In Deployment

Current version: Beta0.25
Game genre: RPG
Download : Here

Description:
It is here again, unlike other project such as DotA or Elimination Tournament, Unholy Alliance V is an one-man-project. So it takes lots of time to move from stage to stage, hope you all can forgive the delay, I'm trying my best to give the best out of my best!

Story:
After Arthas became the Lich King reborn, the world broke up into few distinct power, forming Alliance for survival. Among the most powerful are the Scourge (Lich King), Forsaken (Sylvanas and Dark Elves), Orders (Human and Orc), and other minor races such as Ogre, Satyr, Demon, and Furbolg.

Gameplay:
You begin the story as a mercenary in the Town of Absurtus, choosing your Main Alliance from the 3 above alliance, and gather other races and raze all the other alliance!

Features :

A RPG game combined with a little castle siege feature style gaming.
Each hero have 5 active spells, and 11 passive skills enchanted in a spell book, by learning the active spells you will gain bonus from the passive spells with different combination of spells. (That make up to a total of 16 spells)
Creep system - Totally randomized respawn system, different creep might spawn for the same creep camp, never think that "Oh this is a troll camp, I can easily handle this, and suddenly you shouted - OMG WTF A DEMON!" *sound of flesh flying around* and you get killed. Random special feature such as stone skin, extra strong, spell resistance, and extra fast might get enchanted to certain creep when spawned.
Multiquest system - You can finish off the game with different way you like, like helping the evil kill the goods, helping the good kill the evils, or simply just whack up both party, it is all in your hand!
Advanced inventory system - Each hero are allowed to carry up to 4 main page item, 16 backpack items, and also 20 equipment slots, which make up to a total of 40 item slots for each hero.
Advance Potion system - Potions triggered, they will heal based on the hero's stat, e.g: high strength hero may gain more life from using health potion, while high int hero may gain more mana. All the potions stacks!
Drag and Drop combination system - We are getting bored with recipe system in many games, so something new have to come out, and here's one, you drag and drop one item into another, crafting new items, with some luck you might get some unknown-item that was not listed in the recipe list!

Screenshots:

Loading screen

Ready for some boss-level monster?

Join the fierce battle between the Orders and the Forsakens!

Cool cinematics along the story.

An e-mail

2008-11-09T21:13:00.000-08:00

I just received this e-mail from one of the Warcraft fans that played one of the map I've made, here's how it sounds like:

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Hey, just some comments on the game that u have created. Firstly, its great! There is an awesome, engaging storyline that is my prime motivation in playing this game. i like particularly how u can choose different alliances to side with depending on your choice, so there is really a need to play the game more than once! Secondly, the map layout is beautiful; i see tremendous effort in your part in setting the locations of creep camps, shops and among other. One place i like to note is the palace where u decorated the place that really worthy of royalty. Thirdly, this is the first and perhaps only WC3 custom map that has cut scenes. I appreciate the effort; keep it up!

Just some quick suggestions:?
1) Is it possible to install some sort of saving program? i know the game is in the beta stage, but it would be great if I need not have to play for several hours straight to complete the game( including boss fights) since every time i try to load with the in-built WC3 save, it crashes.
2)?Instead of focusing on adding new heroes and items, perhaps it would be better that u focus on plot development. It is really the story that intrigues me and spices up the gameplay?

Quick notes: Would u like me to include language mistakes in my comments? i hesitated to do so because it is not really the primary concern and it may make me seem bossy. If u like, then I can do it. Also, there screen hangs every time I kill the captain to progress to the?emissary?mission; I have to wait for couple of minutes before i regain control of my character after the cut scene. (Character : The mistress, single player, red)

Thanks, I hope the next version would include more bits of the story( perhaps a way to join the Scourge?) and a new save mechanism if possible. Anyways, go go; this is one of the best RPG maps I have seen! I believe it can go far. Do reply!

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Firstly, thank you so much! Yes since my holiday is around the corner I'm pretty into development of the map once again.

About the savings - Yeah the savings was a headache for myself too because there is too many internal data and systems that required to change if a saving is done. The saving system are on halt until I've finish the plots, sorry to tell but I do prefer the plots to be finished first.

About the spelling errors - Sure thing! Later I'll drop a post about Unholy Alliance V into this blog, you can put all the comments onto that post :)

I'll look forward for getting more feedbacks from you, positive or negative wise, thank you!

Citadel Guardian

2008-11-06T22:47:00.000-08:00

Project status: Completed
Game genre: Tower Defense
Download : Here

Description:
I love tower defense, and had made some tower defense map back in the past. However this one are among the one that I'm satisfy with the overall gameplay. Worth trying!

Gameplay:
As it said, tower defense - you build towers and defend your base. Each towers can be upgraded with various upgrades.

Screenshots:

Start building your defenses!

Summon a hero to aid in your defense.

Combine elemental towers and physical towers to do maximum output damage!

Ready to take the challenge?

Unholy Alliance III

2008-11-06T08:36:00.000-08:00

Project status: Dropped

Game genre: Team AoS
Download: Here

Description:
One of my early project back in 2005-2006. Reason of dropping this project is because I found that the map is sooo Dota-ish. The map is enchanted with some AI on the enemy's heroes. Not to say that this is not worth playing, just that I have better idea on moving into more advanced coding with WarCraft scripts - with the creating of Unholy Alliance IV.

Gameplay:
Pick a hero at the beginning, defend your base and advance into enemy base. Destroy the enemy Stronghold to win. Combine different items to create stronger and more powerful items!

Screenshots:

Picking a hero to join the battle!

Fierce battle between both sides.

Each lane are covered with different types of creeps!

Warcraft Lion

2008-10-29T04:51:00.000-07:00

As the title said, I'm a Warcraft III map developer and this is the place where I'll share all the latest map I've made.