The Promise

[Nitesh002]

I still have no idea how this new posting things work in the updated forums, so please bear with the messed up formatting as I get used to the new system. The last time I edited this post, I was using bbcodes.

 

Status: In Progress.


(Special thanks to -S-hark21 for the logo)


Love, mystery, revenge, betrayal.



Is it as simple as it looks?

Helena, the wife of Anthony is found dead after she jumps from a raised ground. The people close to her are shocked to find that she is dead. However, when her body mysteriously disappears, it is suspected that the suicide is not as simple as it looks.

Ian Turner, a police officer who is just thinking about leaving the job, gets the call about the suicide and is tied up with Micheal to investigate. However, when he finds out that it's Helena who has committed the suicide, he suddenly changes his mind and says he wants to take the case.

Find out the mystery behind Helena's suicide as you follow the mind boggling story by playing the mission pack.




Helena Patterson

I promised to be faithful to you.
I tried my best, but it was just because of helplessness that I had to do what I did.
But you, you get a wrong idea and start suspecting me.
I can't live with your suspicion. Anthony Patterson

I wanted to give you a surprise that I thought would have made you happier.
Instead it was you who gave me a bigger surprise that broke my heart.
Just one promise you couldn't keep.
I am going to make the one responsible pay, make him suffer before he is punished by the law. Ian Turner

I only joined the Police Department because of you three years ago.
Then you betray me.
When I am about to give up and forget you, you come back in my life.
This time, as a nightmare.
Whoever is responsible for this will surely be behind bars. Micheal Clark

The only thing I care about is law.
I gave you the evidence to prove that you are guilty.
If you are innocent, you have to prove it.
That's all it's about.
Major characters Ian Turner The major playable character. A police officer the Los Santos Police Department who is assigned to the Helena Suicide case. He has a dark past. Anthony Patterson A minor playable character. The husband of Helena. Lost his eye sight in a car accident during a race. Helena Patterson A dead, yet one of the most important characters in the story who develops the plot. The wife of Anthony who has commited suicide. Leaves a mystery behind her. Micheal Clark A police officer working in the Los Santos Police Department. A very strict officer when it comes to his duty. Minor characters -- --
Click on the missions to download them.
Click on the chapters to download a zip file containing all the missions in that chapter.
Missions Chapter 1:The Helena Suicide Case Death of the loved ones Investigations Death Race U turn Further Questioning Chapter 2: A new leaf Let the fun begin It just happens.. Testing my skills Growing relations Hard luck Chapter 3: Start of a profession -- This is too easy! -- Can you be trusted? -- Chapter 4: Where are my cars? -- Set a thief to catch a thief. --

1.PatrickW and Dutchy3010 for DYOM
2. -S-hark21 for the logo and headers.
3. Doublepulse who is always ready to help whenever I ask him for his suggestions (on Skype chat).
4. Everyone who plays the missions or even view this topic.

Edited August 17, 2014 by Nitesh002

[Nitesh002]

Reserved. Edited February 15, 2012 by Nitesh aka AAAAAAA

[Nitesh002]

Reserved. Edited February 15, 2012 by Nitesh aka AAAAAAA

[abishai.kochara]

Good luck sir!

[Kwabs]

Played it,

 

Nice introduction.

I don't get the story yet, but it's just the intro.

I like the multi-protagonist (or however you spell it) thing.

I'm curious how this is going to continue so I 'll play the next missions for sure.

 

Anyway,

 

I wish you good luck

[Nitesh002]

Thanks for the quick feedback ThaBoy.

 

The story is a bit complex and I wanted to add more, but then the objective limit wouldn't have given space. Also it's better not to confuse you with the intro itself by it having a lot of confusing story in it, so decided to keep it simple. Well, at least I tried my best to make it simple because I believe there are some things you MAY be still confused with.

 

EDIT: The story will start to be more clearer in the later missions.

 

 

Edited February 15, 2012 by Nitesh aka AAAAAAA

[Alan Eastwood]

Good luck with this mission pack!

[Kwabs]

 

Well, at least I tried my best to make it simple because I believe there are some things you MAY be still confused with.

 

Yep,

 

I don't know who the dead woman is.

I don't know how the officer 'll be involved in the story.

At least I think he's a part of the story...

And you didn't explain who Andrew (or something like that) is.

 

 

EDIT: The story will start to be more clearer in the later missions

 

You just gave me an extra reason to play the next mission

[Nitesh002]

@TheXProyect

Thanks.

 

@ThaBoy

The dead woman is actually Anthony's (not Andrew) wife. I guess it wasn't clear in the mission.

 

About the officer's role... well, you will find more about that in the future mission.

 

I will update the main post with all the necessary information tomorrow. That will give you all the information about the mission pack that I can give without spoiling the story. That will make some things more clearer.

 

Also I will try to start and finish the next mission tomorrow.

[Kwabs]

Okay,

 

Good luck Nitesh

[Jimmy_Leppard]

Sounds epic, looks epic. Huge potential, man Good luck in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

Clue 2/7: are..

[MadMarshMallow]

Played the 1st mission. Well.. it's very nice beginning. I loved how she fall from the hill. Good job.

 

[Nitesh002]

@ThaBoy

Thanks.

 

@Jimmy

Thanks. There are???

 

@Arejai

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

 

 

 

 

I don't know if anyone has noticed something about Anthony. It's not directly mentioned, but there are some clues given to hint it.

 

 

Also am in the process of updating the main post.

[Nitesh002]

Main post updated with:

Themes

Story overview

Characters

Credits

 

More will be added as the mission pack progresses.

[Nitesh002]

New mission uploaded: Investigation (Edited)

 

Have fun and your feedback, question and thoughts will be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

Main post will be updated with Logos and headers. Special thanks to Shark for those.

 

EDIT: There's no action, very little gameplay because it's still the second mission and I am still developing the story. You will see some action in the next mission.

Edited February 25, 2012 by Nitesh aka AAAAAAA

[AnDReJ98]

Good luck with this! Do you want me to make logo for this? If you want use this:

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/xxzfB.png?4897

 

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/qRVoM.png?3147

 

Edited February 25, 2012 by AnDReJ98

[Nitesh002]

@AnDReJ98

Thanks for the luck, but the logo has already been made.

[AnDReJ98]

Nevermind.If you need PM me.Mabey i'll join in GFX team because now i have photoshop,and i'm learning with that.Anyway goodluck!

[Nitesh002]

New mission uploaded.

 

 

Death Race	Slot 0	Slot 1	Slot 2	Slot 3	Slot 4	Slot 5	Slot 6	Slot 7	Slot 8

Have fun and your feedback, question and thoughts will be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

Main post has been updated with all necessary information.

[MadMarshMallow]

Played the 2nd & 3rd missions.

 

Wow, it was like a detective mission series. Nice job. A very good case and it makes me confused. I didn't see the footsteps at the first 10 seconds.

 

I loved the race and the route. It's very nice. I liked the idea: placed object on the car and hide it. Great idea. The car that John used is really fast, though(it makes more interesting).

 

The part when Anthony is hit by the truck is great! It amazed me. A very good scene you made.

 

There were a twin Anthony in the 3rd mission(when Luke is coming).

 

Anyway, great missions.

[Nitesh002]

@Arejai

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

 

Glad to hear that you liked the 'car hit by a truck' scene. It took a lot of trial and error to get the timing such that they hit each other. Even then, when I was bug testing the mission, out of four times, it missed to hit once.

 

Completely unrelated to your feedback, but that was one of the parts that caused some delay otherwise this mission would have been released last Tuesday. First, I had actually given freedom for the player to choose the car they liked, then I realised that it was impossible to make the car crash scene because the player could have used any possible car, so I had to change the 'freedom of choice' part by adding a car objective. Then I realised that I couldn't hide an objective car, so I had to focus the cutscene such a way that the objective car couldn't be seen. On top of that, I had to have a perfect timing of the car crash scene, so that both the truck and car actually crashes. All these made me not complete the mission on Tuesday and then after that, I had been too busy until yesterday.

 

About the twin Anthony, the problem is that I didn't hide the first Anthony before he goes to the flashback. I thought he would have fallen down to nowhere after I had teleported the player away from that interior. He was not there when I tested it. Thanks for reporting that bug. Going to fix it.

 

And thanks again for your feedback, really appreciate it.

[Nitesh002]

New mission released:

 

U turn	Slot 0	Slot 1	Slot 2	Slot 3	Slot 4	Slot 5	Slot 6	Slot 7	Slot 8

Have fun and your feedback, question and thoughts will be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

IMPORTANT: Read ahead ONLY if you have played all the missions including this one to avoid any spoilers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you saw, this mission took the usual suicide-to-murder path, but there is still more to the story with twists ahead and you will see that it is not a simple murder story.

Edited March 8, 2012 by Nitesh aka AAAAAAA

[Nitesh002]

New mission uploaded: Further Questioning

 

Zip file of chapter 1 The Helena Suicide Case uploaded.

 

Play, enjoy and give feedback.

 

 

I have to admit that this chapter is mainly story oriented with less gameplay as it forms the basis of the whole MP, probably 5 chapters.

 

I am going to update the main post with all the minor characters and make some changes later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will be taking a break of a couple of days from designing and will be playing some of the mission packs. So you can expect the first mission of chapter 2 after Monday. I hope I get enough feedback by then.

 

Thanks.

Edited March 10, 2012 by Nitesh aka AAAAAAA

[Notna]

Oh my godness.

 

This is absolutely one of the best mission series I've played. You have a great story. The missions were a bit difficult because of all that investigating, like in mission 4, but that is just what I like. It took a long time for me to find that bullet. Your dialogues are great, they remind me of some police series from TV. Of course it's hard to say anything more from these 4 missions, but it's just awesome. Great job.

[Shiva.]

I played the first 4 missions. The investigations were awesome. I loved the cutscene in which Helena commited suicide.

In the 3 rd mission, the cutscenes were nice. Try to add the checkpoints far away from the other checkpoints. Try to increase the length of the cutscenes. The story is really awesome and I'm waiting for more missions.

[Nitesh002]

Thanks a lot for the feedback Notna. Really appreciate it.

 

Glad you liked the dialogues, I usually am very bad with them, but good to see that I improved there.

 

Also glad you liked the story.

 

Thanks again.

 

 

EDIT:

@Shiva

Thanks for your feedback too. Really appreciate it.

 

The cutscenes, I used a mixture of 4 seconds and 5 seconds. I will stick to 5 seconds next time.

 

The reason I added the checkpoints closer was that the player can't just cross across the field and is forced to stick to the path.

 

Also glad that you liked the story

 

Thanks again for the feedback

Edited March 10, 2012 by Nitesh aka AAAAAAA

[Lee.]

this is the best mission pack i ever played! I loved the storyline. the mission hard, because you don't use any marker for the objective, but i like it. And i like when the truck hit the car.

 

keep up the good work

[Nitesh002]

@lee_atsugai

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.

Glad you liked the truck part. Took me some time to get it right.

 

Thanks again.

[Stuntzman]

Played 'em, and I'm quite impressed. Great work. How did you have the objective marker on the map, and still you could do a conversation between characters? Is it some sort of bug?

[Nitesh002]

@Stuntzman

Thanks for playing and glad you liked it.

 

The conversation with marker is not a bug. It's a small trick. Here's how it is done:

 

Add a car objective, set it to 'must destroy' and give it a health of 100. That way it will auto destruct itself. Choose the marker and add the conversation dialogue as objective description. Continue adding the car objectives with each of the dialogue. That way the objective car will spawn showing the dialogue, auto destruct thereby completing the objective and a new objective car will spawn showing the next dialogue and it continues like that. If you check the ground near the checkpoint carefully you will actually notice that it has that black spot which is usually left after the car explodes.

 

The advantage of using this method over time out objective is that the player does not have to wait until all the conversation is complete before they can actually know where exactly they have to go.

 

Also another good thing is that the destroyed cars hide themselves so there is no mess left behind and also the time it takes the car to destroy is appropriate for reading the dialogues. Not too long, not too short.

 

One thing that you have to be careful about is that the whole conversation should not be too long such that the player is going to reach the destination before the conversation ends otherwise they will be surprised by the exploding cars haha.

 

Credits also goes to Doublepulse because I was inspired by his 'malfunctioning GPS' trick he used in Cold Year which is a very similar trick to this.

 

I hope it's clear to understand.

 

Thanks again for playing. I appreciate it.