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rabitZ: If the player has more than five statuses inflicted, and you're comfortable with some slightly more advanced scripting, I recommend making it so it shows the first five effects for 2 seconds, then shows the second five effects for 2 seconds, then goes back to the first five effects and repeats like that. If that makes sense. And if there are more than ten status effects inflicted at once, then you would of course need more than two pages.

This.

I'm currently trying to redo all the mapping in Flower Bubble Game!!! so that I can release it for reals. I haven't really touched this game in seven or more years, and I didn't actually care how it looked when I made it the first time because it was made for a specific person. So it looked unbelievably horrible.

I switched from the RTP tileset to a modified Sword of Mana tileset, which uses nice pastel colors and feels very appropriate for the game. Since the entire game uses just one map, remapping the whole thing is not as bad as it sounds, although it's still hours of work because the map is quite big.

Here's a comparison screenshot! It has gone from impossibly shitty to moderately shitty. I have about a third of the map converted so far.

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@lockez: good suggestion! I guess its either that, or trying to make it scrollable with the down-up directional keys, right? haha just for curiosity, do you expect characters in your game to get inflicted with more than 9 status effects? :)

In Iniquity and Vindication? Yesssssss.

You can get inflicted with 5 status effects at once while fighting the second boss in the first dungeon! And that's a 1 vs. 1 battle where you only have the basic initial skills! Though you'd probably have to try really hard to get the fifth one on purpose.

My game is probably way more status-effect-heavy than yours though. I bet half the skills in my game probably inflict some sort of effect on either the user or the target. My status effects feel more like the effects in WoW than the effects in FF or DW. A lot of them are just Att -15% for one round, or minor effects like that.

I' grinding away on my game and listening to Blind Guardian, my favorite band. I don't often get chance to work on it so when I do, I grind away.

I'm using the DBS and I'm thinking about changing the battle type from Alternative to Guage. Which do you guys prefer?

Thanks for the input. Every one of the battle types has it's pros and cons, it seems... For example, I think it's ridiculous that you can only see the monster names in the 'traditional' battle system, the Final Fantasy style one. However, I think the 'gauge' system is the most aesthetic. (The one that shows faces.)

I'm not sure yet. Every one of the systems has bugs. I might use a patch to permantantly set the game to wait mode to get rid of the problem you addressed.

A logical solution would be to code my own battle system. Although I'm capable of doing so, I simply don't have the time (or patience)

I just released my first game for iOS today :D
It's a little sad actually, since I don't have an iPhone or iPad myself, so I can't actually buy it and play it...



It's called Dzoop. It's a puzzle game, you slide knobs around and you try and figure out how to get them all into their goals at the same time. It's simple and quick to learn, but surprisingly addicting, especially if you like ze challenge.

If you want, you can try and figure out the puzzle above, it's an easy one. The rules are:
1) You can slide all the knobs in any cardinal direction. All the knobs move in unison: if you slide up, all the knobs go up as far as they possibly can.
2) Knobs block other knobs from moving, as do dead ends.
3) Each knob has to end up in its own goal at the same time.

I did a lot of the game design, UI and game art. My friend is a programmer (it's his apple account) and he did all of the code.

So this weekend I'm:

1) whoring myself out on the internet to get buyers for dzoop
2) doing level design for our team project in my Game Design class (essentially I'm creating several tiny pinball machines, it's fun)
3) sweating a lot, because Michigan decided to get hot again

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Ohh! Someone from Michigan!
Right now I am STILL searching for away to capture a whole map in XP, to use as a map for VX. D:

SephirothSpawn's Map Screenshot for XP, as in Nessiah's map lighting tutorial. Never used it myself though.

Me? What am I working on? ... club advertisements. And writing emails.
Oh, and I'm doing some more pixel art for my project-that-doesn't-have-a-name-yet.

I think I might just be a few edits away from getting some images for Arbiters From Another World's gamepage! Not that I have a gamepage ready right now, but that's a minor issue!

Thinking about doing a little doujin gam making.

The game would act as a companion to the Ao No Exorcist anime rather than following the manga a) because I'm unfamiliar with it at present and b) I have more colour references to go off. Each episode would be considered a stage with the characters who fight being the ones you can play as. So in stage 1, the tutorial, you'd only be able to use Rin for the fist fight he gets into, but the Stage 2 fight would have Shiro (awesome exorcist dude) and all the people at the monastery consisting as the party. You'd also get to play as Rin at the very end of the Stage for the Gehenna Gate boss battle.

However, right now I am only making Stage 6, the Esquire Exam. Normally the stage would consist of fighting with the Izumo/Shima/Bon/Koneko party as well as fighting as Rin, but the demo version only has the Rin fight in order to test how efficiently I can do certain things. a) animate Rin b) use a side-view graphics style c) animate enemies d) my speed of completion.
Since Stage 6 only requires the Dormitory and Power Room maps, it's the easiest to create.

If only I had the coding skills to make it for an iOS or PSP or something. I'd much rather it be a small portable game.