THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

slashphoenix
IN A WORLD WHERE EVERYONE HAS GONE DEAF
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS YELLING
YELLING ALL OF THE TIME

IN OLDSCHOOL GAMES, THERE WAS ALWAYS VOICE ACTING, IT WAS JUST SO LOW IN VOLUME THAT THE CHARACTERS WERE TRYING TO SCREAM TO COMPENSATE.

slashphoenix
I like the look of the stats screen and especially like that you have an easy-to-read list of what a character can equip, because trying to decipher and remember that in RPGs always irritates me.

Any chance you can spoil some of your plans for the battle system?

Yeah, same here re: irritation. Thankfully the way VXAce handles equips is super-slick so this snippet in def draw_simple_status was all it took. <3 RGSS3.

As for the battle system, this is my quick-and-dirty experiment with traditional RPG gameplay. There's a lot more ailment and buff play, but it's (quick) turn-based battlin' with swords and spells. I'm stealing a bit from Chrono Cross/Xenogears and using the "different basic attacks" idea, though, but that's because attacks charge up your RAGE for use in weapon abilities, like throwing a RANG to hit all foes or focusing your soul with a HEATER to recharge some HP. If you use weaker "normal" attacks you'll charge up your RAGE faster, but heavier "normal" attacks will deal more damage. Long term/short term payoff stuff. (Magic is magic. You just have to portion out your MP for the dungeon run as a whole. Mages don't get many weapon abilities but can still try out different weapons; GRANT with a SWORD in one hand and a STAFF in the other is totally viable.)

GRANT is actually GANDALF.

Also, that image is not loading. Might want to check up on it.

The gyazo.com hosted image in your post above is the one that's not loading.

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maek mah gaem bout lesbians

I have a minor issue. I like the rtp, so that's what I want to use. However, I also like the mack sprites that I made with a generator, because they look so much more like the characters I invisioned and they are more proportional. I don't know that they would fit with the rtp though. The interiors I'm not worried about because I think they fit well enough together. It's exteriors (forests and town settings) that I'm worried about.

What do you guys think? Chibi or mack?

Characters: Barrett (mage) upper left, Hellene (rouge) bottom, Irene (ghost) upper right.

Well, the chibi ones look worse in every way except one, which is that the tileset is designed for them. The trees turn into large bushes when you put the taller people next to them.

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author=Craze
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maek mah gaem bout lesbians

I tried to hit the 'Like' button for this post but I couldn't find it?!

there is more to my statement than you know...

Thanks for the trees Krysty. Will use all proper credits.

Here are two pictures (one indoors with RTP) and one outdoors with big XP type trees and the ones from Soruve. Feedback is, as always, greatly appreciated.

In the area where ghost girl is, I'd think the taller tree would overlap the smaller one, instead of the other way around. Maybe just avoid the whole issue and move the smaller down a tile? Or up a tile. Whichever works best.

Still doing stuff (btw. the Tech Beta is there to download... check it out in my profile. :)