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Woah that looks so cute :D

author=Kaneshon
Hello,
I've been making custom tilesets and sprites for my current project. Since I've never been much for pixelart, I tried to keep the style simple for easy editing, I'm fairly happy with the results since it gives off a light-hearted theme I was aiming for.

Meet the new kid...

I think what I like most about this is the small size haha, it feels very personal.

Still working on skillsets right now. I think I have a solid one for Hope's Pestilence skillset, but may need input on it.



The ** ones are ones that must be picked upon getting the skillset. Not sure what Seven Sins should do, but it should be really good to be picked. The last ???? ability is one of the normal abilities that is always accessible when in that skillset. Keep in mind that these skills cannot be used outside of Pestilence's skillset, so if Hope goes into another mode, she won't have access to these abilities!

I still need one more ability for Death's skillset too. There's an idea for it, which is this:

*Extinction: Costs 100% MP. Kills all enemies (excluding bosses) and ignores resistances, kills all allies, and leaves Hope at 1 HP.

But I'm debating if it's better for Death's skillset to have it or if Chaos should get it. Hmm...

bahleted

Trippy.

author=Aegix_Drakan
Last remaining big map for the next dungeon done, including 6 new puzzle rooms, and an item shop run by a punny undead person.

Now I need to make the enemies and set up some patrols, one or two more permanent shortcuts in the first sector of this dungeon, plop down some loot in some of the puzzle rooms (most are optional and either have loot, or let you bypass tough enemies) and then I can get to the boss and the scenes surrounding it! :D

Sounds good! I am going to pester you with one question, though: From the point of the player's power progression, did you make sure that bypassing those tough enemies is actually incentivised? Specifically, if you factor in the possible EXP gain, gold and other item drops that can be gained from these enemies, is it still even beneficial for the player to solve the puzzles if it means missing out on those rewards?

Whilst still dilly-dallying about with mapping and enemy making, decided to start cutting some music from the game. 14 already got cut out due to the bosses/areas that they were for being cut out of the game, but still got a long ways to go. 198 files, 719 MB left. Yes, that's with both the vanilla and extended music together. Yes, I'm trying to cut it down a bit more, but doing so is pretty hard...I handpicked a lot of these for each part they're used very carefully, after all.

EDIT -

30 character battle themes
1 title theme
33 event themes
72 battle themes
59 stage themes

That's how many are left. Good god...most, if not 95%, of the battle themes are relegated to the Extended Music Pack, and a good chunk of Stage Themes are too. Event and character battle themes, however, are in the vanilla pack. Hmm...


EDIT #2 - I was told earlier in this thread to use the "diamond" formation for character battlers so that sprites don't overlap one another. Can anyone tell me what exactly that is? I never messed much with formations in 2k3, and if it's the custom one where you can move the characters around in the maker, then I'm pretty sure that one won't work well. Unless it's something else I'm missing entirely??? Because if I can keep from having to downsize my character sprites too much, that'd be fantastic. >_<

EDIT #3 - And animation finally done~ Hurray!



EDIT #4 - Image fixed! Darn trying to use Download image.

@Xenomic: There's no built-in "diamond" formation for party members in RM2K3 battles, you just have to set the formation type from "automatic" to "manual." Unfortunately, this won't work very well in any game with more than four total party members, since each character has to be given a specific spot they'll always stand no matter who else is in the party and no matter what party slot they're in. You can get away with it when you have five or six total characters, maybe seven or eight if your sprites are small, but your game has 56 characters so lol fuck that.

I would just leave the character sprites the size they are. Although they're kinda close together, that doesn't look as bad as downscaling them would look.

Finally done working with behavior sprite pose templates and tweaking them with Move Route Commands in the editor.

Now I'm stumped on how to move an event to a coordinate in a specific angle instead of the standard 8 direction. I'm thinking of using Jump instead, but I can't figure out how to modify the jumping speed to slow motion

Still thinking of a gimmick for this dungeon. Yup. Although I'm thinking something akin to Super Mario RPG's Sunken Ship password could work well for this dungeon. Something...magic related in terms of the password or seal or whatever. Which you have to speak in front of the door (or type in. I'm sure you can type in things and the maker will check for it somehow?? I've never actually done that in 2K3 myself, believe it or not!). Now the thing is...how many "hints" should there be, what should the "password" be if there is one, should it be a seal, what minigames or whatnot will give the hints, etc.?

I'm also thinking of making a little "game" which is just one big tutorial on how to do things coding-wise. Like explaining in-game how to do things like Gravity spell, commands like Steal and Scan, etc. I'm sure it's been done before, but how likely would it be for people to use it? And how likely would it be for people to actually want something like that?? It'd be time-consuming, sure, but...I dunno. At the rate I'm going with my current game, debating on that one hard, hue. Plus there's some interesting stuff from my game that I could probably teach to other people that may not know how to do said things (and who knows? Maybe others would contribute to said project!).