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Pushing Pixels

Hmm.. that actually sounds like a nice name for my tumblr blog. Work is keeping me as busy as ever, but I am trying to crank out an hour of productivity during the evenings when I get 'me' time.

I've started on the interior tiles and while they aren't anywhere near as daunting to do as the autotiles, there are still a great many of them to complete.

So, progress is still slow, but steady.


Wood tiles... more pain than what its worth...



And another exterior scene, this time testing out different textures. I'm not very happy with the way the cliff tiles came out, so I may redo them. Could end up doing a more stone-like texture like I did for the wall autotile.

As for other aspects of the game, I'm busy refining the game script. Even in its unabridged state, it's still sitting at around 6000+ words... all within the first 2 or so hours ( which doesn't seem long, until I realise that its something like over 200 message boxes, assuming I get an average of 30 words per block with no faceset usage so... ). Either way, it could still use some refining but I do enjoy reading through it, so that's a good sign.

As for the origins of Tristian herself...

Since some of you were interested as to where I got my new username when I posted my last status XD.

http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Lucia
Wiki entry for the curious.

Yes, she pretty much is the inspiration for our lovely protagonist in LoTL. =) And the queen she protects (Elincia) is obviously the inspiration for Ianna as well. I figured that when playing through the game, they'd probably make outstanding/interesting leads for an RPG, so I took the idea and ran with it. FE in general doesn't allow same-sex pairings, and because I ship LuciaxElincia, I took the idea over into Tristian. And the game script just wrote itself. There are major differences between the two pairs though.

But I figured I didn't want my Master Knight heroine to be only around 20-21 years of age, so I aged up her Fire Emblem counterpart by about 5 years with a hell of a lot more pain and grieviences added to her personal baggage.


In-game character portrait art from Radiant Dawn of Lucia and Elincia, as opposed to their 'counterparts'. Just looking at the two pairs gives me feeels...


Overkill cuteness factor. I just did those sprites for fun.

And no, I am not insane enough to redo every single sprite in the game to match that style. Even though they look better, the mere thought of it is torture to me and would extend Tristian's release date to 2018 and beyond. I do not want to be in my 30s when this comes out, no thank you. Working on Enelysion for 4 years was bad enough. XD

This game needs an updated review as well. The person who did a second review inexplicably took down his/her reviews and my MS plummeted by 130 points. >:|

MS is life here, after all. Until the next update, cheers!

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Everything looks so beautiful. Every time I look at this game, at voice is the back of my head begins to asking me "so WHEN are you going to get Fire Emblem Awakening again?" I really need to get that game.
unity
You're magical to me.
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I have died from cuteness :DDDDDDDDDD
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
This is lovely work, Yuna Luchino. Nice way to keep us all on tenterhooks until the game finally arrives.

Oh and scopeangel seems to have deleted all of their reviews, there was a weird thing going on with the one of their reviews and perhaps they've just deleted all of them in a fit of pique. It's a shame for you and the others though.
unity
You're magical to me.
12540
author=nhubi
This is lovely work, Yuna Luchino. Nice way to keep us all on tenterhooks until the game finally arrives.

Oh and scopeangel seems to have deleted all of their reviews, there was a weird thing going on with the one of their reviews and perhaps they've just deleted all of them in a fit of pique. It's a shame for you and the others though.


Wow, that's too bad. Did it turn out they were friends of one of the developers they reviewed for after all?
@unity: Could be a possibility. Such happenings aren't uncommon around here, after all.

@macblo: If I am brutally honest with you, FE13/Awakening feels more like a dating sim than anything else. It just doesn't feel like a Fire Emblem game to me. And this is coming from someone who has played 5 FEs ( Sword of Seals, Blazing Sword, Sacred Stones, Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn ). But that's just my two cents. Tbh, LoTL draws more from Genealogy of the Holy War ( FE4, which was only released in Japan on the SNES in 1996 ) more than any other FE game. =) It's also generally regarded as the best one by many fans ( I'm playing through the fan translation version, and it's bril. My fave FE so far ).

Though like I said in my last update, I will release a new demo... eventually. I mean, I want to release a new one, but the little voice in my head is saying I should wait it out, because you are all probably aware by now that I love to share my progress with the rest of you. =)

I like dating sim style games, so its all good. I've only played the two GBA fire emblem games, so I would be going into Awakening with more or less no knowledge of the series, other then the fact that one of the most remembered features is permanent death.
This game needs an updated review as well. The person who did a second review inexplicably took down his/her reviews and my MS plummeted by 130 points. >:|

Aw man, that sucks. I knew that something wasn’t quite right, because I thought I remembered someone else beside me that just recently reviewed it a while ago. Man, that really sucks.

Other than that, your custom tilesets are looking fantastic. They definitely don’t clash as much as they used to before, and it’s shame you’re not using those bigger, more realistic looking Phantasy Star-like sprites below – because they look really good. But, yeah, I can understand that you don’t want this project to go as long as Enelysion did and you just wanna touch up parts here or there whenever you can.

And I’m still trying my best to get over your new username change, Luchino. Although I’ve recently discovered a good trick for myself by breaking it down into two words: Luchi + no. Luchino! :D

(Hey, it’s actually not as hard as I thought.)
I can pull off the 'PS sprite look' if I made a character generator inside my graphics editor. It would save me several hundred hours from spriting everything individually by making individual clothing pieces and armour sets. Since I already have an adult male and female base to work from.

But I need to get the main tileset done first. Don't want to get ahead of myself. XD


That's a map test with the sprites. TriAnna are just too adorable. <3
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
That is gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.
I'm'a hire you for pixel art someday.
When I'm making money out of it, sure. =)
:D
I will someday. Hold me to it.
My tumblr is live now! ^^

http://pixelpusherluchi.tumblr.com/
Yeah, still a bit empty, but hope to update it over time.
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