WHATCHU WORKIN' ON? TELL US!

author=kentona
If I can do it, people with artistic talent can as well!

Hi ho!

I've seen this so many times, and I just realized that the thing under the cowboy's head is some sort of collar clasp, and not his tiny body and tiny legs.

Still. Doing. Dialogue. Ugh...

And now doing dialogue for a dungeon that I don't even have mapped yet, since I'm still waiting on it (but will have to wait a lot longer since his computer crashed and lost most/all of the data for that dungeon). I would just go to the next dungeon, but might as well get this dialogue down at least. That way I can make sure I keep on track with what's going on eventwise.

Currently on: Event #14/24 for beta5 events.
Remaining events left in main storyline: 34.

Still a ways to go! And that's not assuming that some of these are merged into other events too, which very well may be what happens so there's probably less events here than what I really have to do. But getting there! Though...I still have about that many dungeons left to map yet (ok, maybe not 34, but about 31. Which is still a lot of dungeons left in the game to do). Still looking for anyone willing to help with mapping at the very least to get some of these bad boys done! In fact, 8 of these dungeons are just remixes/upgraded versions of past dungeons so the tilesets should be very similar to the originals heh. Just more elaborate and difficult to get through. Heck, even discussing the story of the game, or discussing anything at all about the game, would help tremendously. Just...need someone to talk about it with. Haven't had anyone in months to talk to about the game. : <

author=Luchino
Started working on some new artwork for my entry.

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I always loved her design.

Old high-res version.

Reminds me of Fire Emblem (though if that was what you were going for then I'll put on dummy hat).

Good job!

Personally I've been bug testing a new l'Cie race for my Final Fantasy MUD for, like, two months now. I feel your pain.

@LouisCyphre: If all the player has to do is cast a single spell to remove the effect, and they have to do so to win, then it doesn't really matter what the effect is. What's more interesting is when the effect interferes in a way that the player can adapt to without removing it, or when removing the effect requires more effort than casting a single spell.

The healing-reduction and instant-cast effects are good examples of buffs that, if the duration were short enough, would make the player have to think and decide whether it were worth removing, instead of just automatically reacting by removing it. Other ones I like using that work well in almost any RPG include an ailment that increases MP costs, a buff/ailment that causes an enemy to get healed any time you heal yourself, and a buff that increases damage but only lasts one round.

The other option I mentioned is making the act of dispelling the effect more interesting. One way of doing this is to make the enemy buff itself gradually with multiple stacks of an effect. Perhaps it's a simple stat buff that gets more effective each time, or perhaps at 10 stacks the enemy unleashes a powerful skill. If the player's dispel ability is costly enough and/or has a long cooldown then they have to think about when to dispel the buffs, especially if multiple enemies are all doing that. This usually works best if a single cast of Dispel removes all the stacks. Another way of making dispelling more interesting is to make the buff only be removable by performing some more complex action, like a boss shield that only vanishes when the boss's MP drops to zero, an ailment that only vanishes when the player's HP or MP is completely filled up or when their MP drops to zero, or a serious ailment that explodes and hurts the rest of your party when dispelled so that you have to carefully plan when to dispel it. Maybe have a boss that summons adds and gains one stack of a buff for each add that's currently on the field, and killing an add removes a stack. Or an ailment that jumps to a different party member each time it's healed, and can't be permanently removed until the battle ends.

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Scrapped my IGMC entry ( as in, I threw it in the Recycle Bin and emptied it ), working on Tristian stuff and working on a test project in VXAce. Nothing noteworthy to show though, since its a fan game where I'm trying to replicate Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn and FE: Awakening's skills in Yanfly Engine Ace.





@zach, Laine's design was inspired by the FE GBA mercenaries.

Ahhhh, knew it. Right as I saw that design I thought of Lyn.

Anyways, inbetween Treasality production, I've been heavily editing IB3 (gameplay, graphics, some new dialogue here and there and slightly redone maps) because I'm planning on releasing a new version of it eventually. Here's a screen showing off the new font.



And the heavily redone stat distribution menu. There was absolutely no point to all of those stats since they didn't really affect the game at all, so I nixed 'em.



I like the new font a lot, since it's more legible and fits the semi-cartoony nature of the game more than the Chrono Trigger-style font in the prior version.

getting diverted from my purpose while trying to event cutscenes and creating COMEDY GOLD ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Somewhere between writing the next story mission for Myriad Cypher and being Suikoscrewed (I'm already about to infiltrate Soniere Prison?), I got to thinking about replacement graphics. There is a half-thought in regards to ripping some models from Privateer 2 - The Darkening. How permanent the rips would be isn't quite known, but, it would be a hell of a lot better than using the RTP battlers I'm currently using.