WHATCHU WORKIN' ON? TELL US!

i am having trouble understanding the difference between this topic and the "what are you thinking about (game development)" topic

Well, I managed to find an equipment menu script I liked the look of, and molested the code for a couple hours until it worked with my weird equipment slots and non-standard stats. It was clearly definitely not designed for a system without equippable weapons, which was a pain in the ass to fix. But that was still way less work than making my own from scratch. (Which I'll probably have to do eventually...)

Also, I've been deleting as many of the Tales of Phantasia and RTP and Suikoden tiles as I can stand to do, and replacing them with original tiles based on photos. Suikoden tiles are lowest priority since they generally look halfway-fine alongside the photos. RTP meanwhile is intolerable, since it has heavy outlines everywhere.

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Work in progress. Still definitely need to replace the furnace (mostly covered by the text box), the windows, maybe the pipes, and probably some other crap. Might need to re-replace the chain since that one looks kind of weird.

i just spent my last x hours of work implementing some mercenaries you can hire. in the game, not just on the game page.

Uh, Craze didn't beg you or even ask you for anything, he just asked if you were going to release it, and made a teasing joke. I mean I'm pretty much 100% sure he would never even use it (because seriously, can you imagine a final fantasy fancrazegame, what the hell?), he just wanted to know if other people could. What's your beef?

God I wrote that post above last night, and woke up with this terrible mental picture of a Final Fantasy fancrazegame in my head, where the 14 members of the FF6 party are ascending Kefka's Tower. Every floor is built from different random junk and debris gathered from around the world, in a half-hearted effort for Craze to come up with an excuse to use different tilesets and have no coherent layout. You have to use all 14 people and switch constantly between them because the dungeon's Light of Judgement inexplicably damages characters more every round they're in battle. And you have skills like
Aurabolt: Costs 12 energy, recovers 3 vigor, 120% holy physical damage that targets mdef + 35-56 piercing unblockable damage, 35% bonus crit chance vs. stunned and cursed targets, increases user's dodge rating vs. magitek-type enemies by 20% on the round used and 10% the following round, 3 round cooldown, reduces cooldown of Pummel and Fire Dance by 1 round, long range, not chainable, aerial mode allowed, +50% holy damage while under aura status, 40% chance to remove regen status from the user and target, transforms into the Suplex skill while in Low Stance, upgradable with 15 Dragon Orbs to have a 30% chance to absorb an amount of the enemy's vigor equal to 6% of the skill's damage

...That was meant to sound like a mocking parody but ended up as something I really want you to make. Fuck me.

Well, I'm now drawing dungeon outlines in MS Paint before mapping them in RPG Maker. I've never had to do this before, but with the zelda-ish complexity of the level design in this game, it saves me a lot of headache to plan out the locations of the puzzles and the keys and the locks before I start making them.

In the first dungeon there was only one path, and in the second dungeon I could keep it in my head because it was so simple, but in the third dungeon (which I'm making now) I'm going to have an elevator and at least four keys. Though actually, I did an outline map for the second dungeon before I started making it, too, but I didn't really need to... but it still helped a little, and was a good trial run.

It would be a lot of extra work if I were to realize after making two rooms of puzzles "Man, these puzzles would be better a little earlier in the dungeon, by themselves instead of dependant on this other switch puzzle, so that the player can do them in either order. And then I should merge this other section with the switch puzzle instead, to make the treasure chest a little more difficult to get." But the extra work rearranging all the maps and moving the puzzles from one room to another was prevented, because I made that decision when the dungeon still looked like this: