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Dialogue now and forever~ Busting my butt to finish the dialogue still, working on 2nd intermission event. Nearly done with that though, so next will be Frozen Fields, then the rift, and then 3rd intermission event! And then Ruins of Vina which I must wait longer for because files were lost on that one...so I may have to wait quite a while before one dungeon is done. Will have to come up with the dialogue for that in a text document or something. I also don't know what to do for this one puzzle, it's just a switch puzzle but it's...not really well done. Been a rough draft for months because I'm bad at making puzzles, which someone else did the rough draft even:



As you can see, he tried. It's not BAD, but the problem is is that this is involved between two rooms, so doing stuff in one will do stuff in the other and whatnot. I don't know a good way of doing this though and it's arrrrgh! It's the ONLY puzzle in the dungeon (in fact, it's hardly a dungeon. These 2 puzzle rooms, the main room which has a boss, and then the main hub which has a boss and 4 rooms with nothing in it, then the last room with the last boss. It's exceptionally short compared to everything else in beta5, and is in fact THE shortest dungeon in the entire beta, and perhaps the entire game just about.

Meanwhile, I still need to find people who are willing to test the game out and/or map! Would really help to find what bugs are still in the game, what needs balanced, and all that, as well as actually get maps done/remade! Perhaps someone would be interested? Twould help a lot, that's for sure! T-T

The main thing about this particular puzzle is that there is one particular switch in one of the rooms that is meant to lower the spikes in the main room so that you can cross into the main hub. The objective is to raise and lower the switches so that you can get to that one switch. In the screenshot above, you can see there are 3 different colored switches: Yellow, Red, and Blue. Any arrows that are pointing up are blocks of that color that are already up, while arrows that are pointing down are blocks of that color that are down (passable). Touching the switch will reverse these of that color.

So yeah, there's that. The rooms are mirrored too in their design (could probably rework the rooms as need be). Why the villain's hideout has such an elaborate puzzle like this for spikes, who knows! But it's better than just run into their stronghold, beat boss, go one room in, beat that boss again but with backup, then run into the last room and beat final boss of that area (yes, the stronghold is surprisingly small. I couldn't think of how to expand it at all...).

There's a couple other areas in the game that could probably use a much needed facelift on puzzles too, but that's for another time...

The puzzle looks a little easy as you can simply hit every switch you come across once and just move on where you can go.

@CashmereCat: Sent.

@LightningLord2: That's the problem with the original layout too aye. Puzzles aren't my thing (those who have played my game in the past know how terrible some of my puzzles can be, or just ask LockeZ. 90% of them aren't very good...he knows! If it weren't for him, some of them would've been far far worse...^^;

Rebalanced some weapons in P:A to be more and feel more powerful, added some encounters in Esperia's Tower (Stage 1 Act 3) and today I'll be working on the Saxxis boss fight.

I'm getting some major burnout from doing nothing but character busts and sprites for the past week and a half. Problem is, I'm not anywhere close to where I want to be. Since mapping in general is a huge weakness of mine, I decided to push back creation of tilesets until I learn to actually map well. At least A tiles. I still have some B-E tiles I want to do, but that's much easier to make. Silly me, allowing myself to get inspired by Luchino and unity and wanting to do everything myself. Bleh. It's a messy state of affairs.

Well, for now, I'm delving into parts of RM's mapping functions that I haven't really learned yet before making any new maps. Specifically, what the RTP can actually do. Maybe I'm just not inspired because I haven't actually seen what the RTP can really do? From what I've seen, those sample maps don't do RTP justice, which is what I've been drawing from until now. So my question is: Does anyone know of games that use VX Ace's RTP well that I can look at and learn from? I've been prowling around the games list for a while, but I was wondering if you had any recommendations?

Edited and resized a monster still to make a battlecharset. New character, Selqui. She's a mermaid type, so she's immune to water, and weak to thunder. She can't cast in areas that don't have either rain or some other source of water. She is immune to some effects because of her squishy body.

Because of not only party change system, but a number of background events, I'm needing to check through a LOT of common events. Then, I need to come up with a limit break for her.

Remixing some DQ monsters...

I've been customizing the VX Ace battle UI for Bossgame. This has made me realize how much I miss scripting in Unity ;_;

But it's coming along! That said, I should be writing the script, but I think I'm scared to; I've got a mental block about it.