Hey guys,
I have a very short window to upload this blog, so its going to be very short sadly - my most humblest apologies.

Due to router and internet issues I am having issues with having access to several websites, this one included every now and then. I am having no issues with word press, so please go there for any updates for now until I can get this problem resolved.

I wanted to add images, but I'm afraid I won't have time for that with this little window I get... I'll try and do all that I can for you over there at Word Press, I think you can post questions and so forth, if not, there is an e-mail address to e-mail me your questions.

Again, I'm so sorry guys, but I have to go over there until this is fixed.

~ Kitten2021

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Everyone, I came home today to find that evil, blasted, little goblin ate my map names thingy I was doing!! So, this is an official cry for H.E.L.P; I need suggestions badly on whether or not we really want those names to show up in the corner and if we do then I need someone’s official help in this – because I know need to re-create all of them. If someone does really want to help with designing ideas for it, drawing it up (I would prefer not to ask someone to do this, but I won’t stop anyone from doing it if they really want to, I wont force it), giving ideas for it, etc. Please let me know what your requirements are (i.e. name on the front of the game page, name added to the title screen of my game, name added to the credits, etc.) and we will discuss it deeply – I always aim to please those that help me out – thus the reason the game has so many nice things in it (everyone’s been awesome with that, btw, and I hope your happy with everything so far). I hate asking for people to help me but this has became something I can no longer control on my own; the blasted goblin won this battle, but I’m hoping to win the war ~ with a little bit of friendly help! ;)

Q: What do I do if I want to help?
A: Nothing special; do you know how to send me a PM? If not, it’s very easy. Just click on my name, you will see a Send Message option on the right-hand side, click that and it will automatically fill in my name for you. Title the message as “Helping the War!” (tee-hee) or something related to this blog so I recognize it. In the message field box, include what it is you’re contacting me for (i.e. to offer help with this problem, help in fighting this war (jk), etc.) :P
If you have a design idea, that’s awesome too, need a lot of those to get the war-juices flowing again. Post those here in this blog page, which makes it easier to come back to and also for anyone that is helping create/design/etc. to be able to access the information any time we want.

Once again, thank you everyone, I honestly don’t know what happened to everything, but I know I’m going to kill that goblin if I can ever catch the blasted thing! >:(

P.S: For those that wish to help: If you prefer to speak things over in mIRC, please let me know as well in the message you send me; I can either join the RMN channel to discuss all of this, or we can create our own. What ever is easier for everyone, that’s all.

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Enlisted:
> myself (obviously)
> ashen_haven

Hey guys!
OK, here’s the thing, I have finally gotten to the point where monsters need to be placed into the game; but, the thing is, I need to know how you guys want them to show up on the maps. I’m not going to have monsters walking around on the map that match the monsters you battle, instead I am going to have some form of figure or object floating around on the maps that will be a ‘Monster Encounter Indicator’ of sort’s.

Picture Visions & Voices (V&V) – and no, this is not a direct rip from that game, I just don’t have the ability to make the monster sprites I need for all of the wild monsters I’m going to have in the game itself, so this is the only other option. Anyway, back to the point… Picture V&V, how the monsters wondered around in that game as a puff of smoke unless they were some form of boss or special event monster, etc.; that’s the general same idea that I’m speaking about.
(Will insert example image from in-game – self-less plug-in for V&V) ^.^

The three options we would have are the following:

1. Smoke floating around in a ball (transparent if ghostly) – Just like V&V
2. Black shadowy form floating around (transparent if ghostly)
3. Cloaked monster wondering around (transparent if ghostly)

Number 1 would almost seem like a direct rip from V&V, so I kind of want to avoid that, but it does make the most logical sense on how to prevent you from knowing the type of monster your going to fight and also would work for any type of monster you encounter; be it a spider, a giant bat, or just your normal every-day goblin or imp. If you have a problem with this, Craze or Karsuman, please make me aware of it as soon as possible and I will make sure to drop this idea right away. (Sorry folks, it was their idea first, so the rights go to them completely, I don't want any issues.) ^.^

Number 2 would be alright… But, again, it really wouldn’t work the best for things such as bats, rats and cats (jk); but, at least it would be something different and out of the ordinary. It would match up better for anything that wonders around with a full body, such as trolls, giants, humans, etc.

Number 3 would really only work for things such as humans, trolls, goblin, etc. It really wouldn’t work for bats, sylphs, birds, etc. This isn’t really the best option, but, I mean, if we can’t get anything else to work, then that would have to be what we used…

Of course any other suggestion is greatly appreciated, as always; I’m posting this at work, so I won’t be able to respond until later tonight or add the example image until later. ^.^

Hope you guys like the options, or at least let me know what you do in-fact want! :)

EDIT:
Oh! I forgot to ask… How do you guys feel about “Safe Zone’s” (SZ)? I think one of the Final Fantasy’s had it in them, and I believe a couple of other games I have played (can’t think of the names off the top of my head right now) had them in them.

Basically how this would work would be you would battle monsters and so forth out in the fields, forests, towns, caves, so-forth and so-on, but then you would have a permanently designated ‘SZ’ you would be able to enter that would always have a save point, the ability for you to rest in them, sometimes – depending on the area – there would be a ‘traveling’ merchant for you to sell or buy things (always random things, never really the same – except the necessary things like HP/SP/MP pots, etc.). Some ‘SZ’ area’s will have secret events or special events that would happen – depending on who was in your party or what has happened in the game so far and if you re-visit some of the older areas.

Anyways, let me know what you guys think about this as well… Thanks

OK, so I finally figured that I should have at least ONE page with my game that gave constant updates and things like that.

We'll start out with some sprites that I made, rather proud of these...


Ken-Cho: One of the first chara's you start out with.
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Saem: One of the one's I am extremely proud of. (Of course, the pixel-by-pixel job I had to do with him I wasn't a fan of at the time)
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Prince: Really happy with how close this one stayed to the portrait.
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Commander: Not sure what to think of this guy yet, I know his role, just can't think of his name. He's a personal body guard to the prince...
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And finally, I must say this one is the most PERFECT looking chara I have seen...


Brunsca: I spent a long, long time trying to get her down.
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So there's what I've been working on just in the past few hours, what do you guys think? I'll update this post on a regular basis just so you guys can see what's going on and so forth. Until then, see ya later! d(0.0)b