Zenforms: Protectors
About the game
ZENFORMS: Protectors is a 2D RPG for iPhone and iPod Touch (it will also be playable on iPad). You are starting your first day at school to become a Protector, a trainer of ZENFORMS and keeper of the peace. As soon as you begin the game you can create your own look for your hero, or choose the default look for a boy or girl.
Pick your gender, skin colors, hair style/color, and outfit style/color. More hairstyles and outfits will be unlocked via in game shops later in your adventure or in updates. After your character is made you will begin your grand adventure.
When the game is launched, version 1.0 of the game will not have all the maps unlocked and the story will end on a cliff hanger. You can continue to play the game, do side quests and train your ZENFORMS during this time. The game will be updated after release with more content. This includes unlocking more maps and unfolding more of the story, including more outfits for characters to wear, more attacks, more apps in the PCom and more. These updates are free and to receive them, just log into the app store to check and see if there is an update ready. We will notify you through various means such as our facebook page, our twitter, our forums and so on.
The story
Our story takes place on the Planet Gaia, on the country called Altar, in the state called Caladan. The hero's hometown is Cozade Town. Home of the only Protector school in Caladan State. Your journey to become a Protector, a trainer and guardian of the ZENFORMS is about to begin. But first, here is some back story.
Gaia Crystals are rare Crystals that grow from under ground and are named after the planet itself. It is believed that they begin at the core of the planet then sprout up from the ground after hundreds of years. These are the source of the ZENFORMS. The ZENFORMS are born from the crystals and they draw their power from them. The larger the crystal, the more powerful it is. Large corporations claim ownership of Crystals with the larger crystals being owned by large companies. Crystals have what is know as an "outer skin". The companies carve off the outer skin from the Gaia Crystals and cultivate ZenCrystals which are sold to the Protectors for capturing and training ZENFORMS.
Because the Gaia Crystals can be valuable, some people try to claim them for themselves. After an attack on the school early in the game, the real adventure for the player begins!
ZENFORMS
"Life representing the energy of the planet"ZENFORMS are living creatures born from Gaia Crystals, crystals with great power that grow from the planet's core then up through the ground. The Gaia Crystals have great and mysterious powers that have the ability to grant life and have to these creatures.
T. Vicar; Grand Protector/Princple of Protector school in Caladan
ZENFORMS are intelligent creatures. They can understand human speech, they are good at understanding social situations and body language. They cannot speak to humans but communicate to each other based on high pitched sounds and growls.
ZENFORMS have 1 primary color and 2 secondary colors. They can change color before they reach the Adult stage of evolution (see below) just by eating different fruits and berries. Different color variations are seen in the wild and by Protectors.
ZENFORMS are born as 1 of 3 "Newborns". Freno, the red biped ZENFORM, Rinba, the blue quadruped ZENFORM, and Slino, the green amphibian Zenform. All other ZENFORMS "branch evolve"" based on several characteristics of the Newborns. ZENFORMS have 5 stages of evolution. Newborn to Child to Adolescent to Adult to Grand. Each stage requires the ZENFORM to use different statistics to evolve.
ZENFORMS understand that humans are needed to help them evolve into stronger stages. No wild Grand evolution has ever been sighted in the wild by a human. Humans still don’t full understand how to evolve a ZENFORM fully to this Grand stage. Grand Protectors are given that title when they discover how to do it, but even wise Grand Protectors don’t fully understand how it was achieved.
ZENFORMS have 3 primary stats, Attack, Defense, and Speed. They also have 4 element stats, Earth, Fire, Water and Wind. Protectors help the ZENFORMS grow these stats through battling and spending Skill Points (earned after battling and quests).
Skill Points can be spent at any time to increase stats, or evolve a ZENFORM. It costs 100 Skill Points to increase a stat by one point. The 3 primary stats can be grown this way. HP or Health Points is added for increasing the defensive stat. It will increase by a random number between 1 and 3. FP or Focus Points, points used as energy when attacking, is increased when the Attack Stat is grown. It increases at a random number between 1 and 3.
When the speed stat in increased by 1, both HP and FP are grown by 1 point every time.
Evolution costs various skill points, and costs more the higher the stage of evoltion is. ZENFORMS branch out into different forms based on their stats.
A Newborn evolving to a Child branches based on their highest of the 3 primary stats. A Child to Adolescent grows based on the highest stat OTHER then the first one the Child evolution is based on. An Adolescent grows to an Adult based on the highest element stat. This stat is increased on the usage of element based attacks, or eating fruit with an affinity to that element. This stage is often called “The Element” stage because of it.
It is unknown by most how a Grand evolution is obtained from a Adult Zenform.
Battling
Battling is a key mechanic in ZENFORMS: Protectors. It helps you grow your ZENFORMS. If you win a battle, you are rewarded Skill Points based on how the battle went. Show better skills, the higher amount of Skill Points will be rewarded to you.
A Protector can capture a wild ZENFORM after weakening it in battle and using a ZenCrystal. The higher the evolution stage of the ZENFORM (indicated by the color behind the Star Rank) and the Star Rank itself indicate to the Protector how hard it will be to capture. Putting a status condition on the opposing ZENFORM will increase chances of capture.
Different crystals and different crystal sculptures can also help.
The Battle Bar menu can be pressed and slide down to reveal the battle commands. The Bar itself shows the ZENFORMS on the Protector's team (A Protector can carry 4 ZENFORMS at any time) inside their ZenCrystals and can show any additional element damage provided by the battle ground. Simply touching any of the ZenCrystals you can switch your active ZENFORM on the field with one on your team.
Touching the ZENFORM itself will slide up it's status bar to reveal more information. You can view the HP, the FP, and the 3 primary stats of any active ZENFORM on the battle field.
The battle field also features a 3D-style camera. You can pan the camera left and right by simply touching and pulling the battle ground left or right. The camera zooms in and zooms out during the stages of the battle
P-COM
The Protector Computer or P-Com was invented by Kyle Fitz and the ZENFORMS Tech Research Laboratories. It is issued to very Protector when they start their journey. The P-Com allows Protectors to track their stats, view their position on the map, mail people and even play games.
Because of the strong reliance and use of the P-Com among Protectors, Kyle Fitz the owner of ZTR Labs has become a hero to many young Protectors. Kyle is always around to help out the Protectors. The ability to update the firmware of the P-Com allows Kyle to keep innovating the software and allowing him to reach a wide base of users.
