THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

I haven't been keeping up with your development of Apparatus, Peri, since hbgames.org likes to boot me out and not let me log back in for whatever reason I don't feel like fixing.

Have you made any more strides in developing the engine?

I was using Game Maker, but I've switched to RMXP because Game Maker is a horrible program. RMXP has an editor that doesn't suck and a well written, flexible, extensible script library, so it works for me. I decided to make it more of an RPG than I originally intended anyway. I haven't really done any hard development yet, but the design end is starting to shape up pretty well. Gonna write the script soon. Also, that thread is full of outdated information! The most recent information is in my subforum on .org, but I haven't posted there in a while because I've been doing mainly plot work.

I guess the reason I posted this here is because I was thinking of changing the graphical style to something more sleek and modern to match with the setting more, but that would set me back again, so I'm probably not gonna.

author=Perihelion
I was thinking of changing the graphical style

don't even think about it

Um, several days of more or less constant work, probably. I also got lots of feedback from the wonderful people at Pixelation. It takes a long time to do but is worth it, I think. Spriting everything myself is going to make my game never come out, but as long as I'm having fun, right?

Edit: Looks like it took me the better part of a week, although I don't remember how much of that I spent working on it.

@MaxMcgee: http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/games/872/screenshots/Confrontation.jpg
Way too dark. And I mean waaay too dark. I can barely see anything in there (besides the text, which you should format properly btw) and the player should always have a good visibility of the screen, no matter what.

Everyone's monitors are different, and on my laptop's LCD screen it's not too dark at all. Of course, one might say, everyone's monitors are different so err on the side of light. : /

And I have no idea, and I mean noooo idea, what you mean about the text being 'formatted' properly.

author=Max McGee
And I have no idea, and I mean noooo idea, what you mean about the text being 'formatted' properly.

possibly something to do with the ridiculous wrapping. you're allowed more than one sentence on a line, you know!

i always used http://rpgmaker.net/users/Darken/locker/RMText.exe

I just type everything up in Wordpad in a monospaced font. The only annoying things you have to add all your special tags like font color after-the-fact. When I have my PC again I'll have to try that software.

I'm really not a fan of that title, and I mean the title, not the screen, It's way too long. I would just use "Keepers" in big letters and "of souls" (without restless) in a smaller font.
I'm practicing with some biggher sprites and tilesets for my next project (now that lost king is close to being finished) The sprite is a WiP but still I?m liking how it is going.
Do you like how a game looks with bigger sprites? I'm kinda getting tired of small ones...

maybe his head is too big though...