The long awaited, refurbished demo finally appears on your shelves. But wait. What's this? Why is it named Duality instead of Borderline, you ask?
The game went through a well deserved title change. Borderline has been the pinnacle of my existence for over 10 years now, and it was about time to retire the name in favor of something else, something new, something fresh. Something... that makes sense to the game's narrative.
And then it hit me, and as of February of this year, Borderline's name retires, and Duality rises.
The world that we once knew ceased to be a long time ago. All life that had previously dominated within this plane disappeared without a trace. The wasteland stretched far and wide, those whom had survived knew nothing of the cause, and they only sought to rebuild the society that once was. With time, the once void wasteland flourished with new life, those who had built the new worlds took control as primary caretakers, dubbed Guardians by the woman whom they crowned as their Queen.
The Queen took lead in developing the new world by introducing new elements the Guardians could use: the 4 primary elements being Metal, Smoke, Plastic, and Meat. All seemed well, but something happened to the Guardians.. They have changed...
Dedan took his guardianship to the extremes, valuing time and resources more than the livelihoods of his workers. Japhet's existence was completely forgotten by his own children, so much that he resorted to hiding within the interior of another living being just to be loved again. And Enoch... Behind a facade created an Eden of his own. Introducing a new element, birthed from addiction and death, to be rewarded to his hard working denizens. As for the Queen, in an instant, she disappears within the walls of her own Room, with the intent of figuring out a permanent solution that will benefit the world they built.
The world was slowly falling to ash; until one day, a man wielding nothing but a baseball bat came along. With the aid of an old, wise cat, the man made his way  with the purpose of purifying the world of filth and corruption. Or so the wise cat thought. Blind faith was put into the man, only for him to eradicate the whole world, the Guardians, the Queen and her son. The wise cat approached the man for the final time, pinning the blame not unto the man, but the being behind the strings.  In the final stand, the man emerged victorious, reached out to the switch... and shut it off.
As time passed and the desolate land remained untouched, the Inhabitants from the time past, discovered the old decaying world and claimed it. New elements were discovered, and the once decaying land began to flourish with new life. But with new life emerging, new threats arise, threatening the very peace and order of the land.
Alas to say that I am the one who caused grief to the world. I led the man into his own demise, fooled into thinking that his intentions were pure. My final wish is redemption, in hopes that I can cure the mistake I have committed upon. I must bend the norm in order to complete my path and choose the puppet  that I know will aid me in this sacred quest.
Yes... you will be the one.
Welcome to the second rebuild of the World, where the Guardians, after receiving a second chance in life; took it upon themselves to rebuild a World that was destroyed by the Batter. Plant life was slowly introduced into the World through the new elements that came from the Queen's flesh. Â People finally knew peace.. or so they thought.. Â
The Puppeteer makes a grand return in search of a Puppet that will aid them in their quest, a Puppet found in Zone 3's cafeteria, in the form of a young boy named Max, the Cook of the designated Zone, whose job is to deliver food to the Guardians. As you tag with the boy, you will learn that things are not the same as it used to be.
This game is created in the 1.12 (steam) version of RPGMaker 2003, which means that there are some... intriguing features that I have added into this game. Which include, but are not limited to:
-new title screen
-new settings menu
-separate tutorial segment which can be found in the settings menu
-10+ window colors to choose from
-some updated assets here and there
-new guardians
-somewhat new characters
-not new areas but more.. Refurbished areas lol lmao even
-window C battle screen WITH animated battler portraits.
-new battle animations
This demo includes the beginning of the game (zone 3's cafeteria) and Zones 0 and 1.
Based on the game OFF by Mortis Ghost
Developer: Two-Crown (Two-Crown Games)
Assets: 6ix3y3s, leoxtheman, cookie-shmookie, wolftheidioticfan, rasairui, baka27, sothomy
Music (with the exception of youtube music): wolftheidioticfan, felixthejudge
Voices: Two-Crown, wolftheidioticfan, Claude Huggins (Seneca)
Testers: cookie-shmookie, leoxtheman.
Cameos:
Melvin by rosebud
Mommy, Clyde, Piper and Pipscrap by wolftheidioticfan
Seneca by Claude Huggins
Star by ectoplasmic-entity (design by me)
Elenoir by elenoirsdesk/monaxella
Callum by fourteen-minus8-residents
Honeydew by trioxofxelsens
Ash by hhhdoc
Nameless/Thomas by shadinathepurplesmallperson
Download the game here. (itch.io version coming next week, likely tomorrow who knows)
The following download includes a zip file with the aforementioned title 'care package'. The care package includes a setup with the RTP installation (for those who do not have RTP installed, the setup will automatically install the RTP files necessary for the game to start) and a separate zip file (if you DO have rtp files installed).
Any inquiries, assistance, bug reports, feel free to message me.
Thank you and good night.
A year ago I made this iceberg (with another account) trying to put as many games as possible and I ended up receiving a lot of comments with suggestions, and I saw that I left a lot of things out, so here they are!
This time I also made a docs file with links to each entry in this iceberg, so if you want to know about a specific one, you can look for it here:Â https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSsIG6uetPY9IHXbZDdsNBDYmrRoe6glAyh5f1afPpRAlyWtU734gvl-ogydpByPoJvtDNY2AZ2cKKT/pub
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