THE SCREENSHOT TOPIC RETURNS

Don't worry. He's only talking about her armor.

@Itaju
JosephSeraph took the words out of my mouth.

The shadows being different colors on the player/monster looks a little weird...I think the monster looks better though, it blends better I mean. I also don't get the dunes, they stick out in strange angles. Other than that, it's very beautiful.

The shadows all make sense to me from this pic (Grass below Trees below Temple), and I would think it looks alright from the player's POV as well.

If I was gonna nitpick I'd say that spiral hallway in the center looks a tad bare and you could probably throw in one of those floor-cracks for good measure, but otherwise it all looks really good.

Moooore maaaaps. Slowly picking away at this same dungeon. It's rather dreadfully boring I must add. I was going to add a third bridge for the third floor, but it wouldn't have fit with the room it was going to connect to, so I didn't. Got bottom floor (floor 0), something between floors 1 and 2, the second floor (which is where the player starts at in this room, and the third floor (which the player can only access properly in a later room, but I do plan on having rooms where the player can go to the third floor, but it leads to nowhere in particular). I haven't added anything else yet to the bottom floor as I was busy trying to make the room itself look at least half decent. I think I got the whole "First floor to third floor walls" down a bit, though it's still tricky to deal with methinks...I still also haven't put in the "walking under bridge" mechanic yet, which I'll need to get around to eventually (I already have a duplicate of this tileset in my game...I just have to actually set it up and then figure out how the hell to actually DO it right...


Coming up with different ideas per room is kinda rough too, I must admit. I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with the remaining rooms. I want the dungeon in itself to be as long as my last beta4 dungeon (that one had 20 rooms total, which is probably the most rooms I ever had in any dungeon in the game), if not slightly longer (though not TOO long for the first trip, as it's just a maze in itself. Currently working on doing the correct pathway to the final room before doing deadend rooms and rooms that loop around). The second part of the dungeon I'll have to think about later, but I think that one I want to be as long as the beta4 end dungeon. @_@;;


Also forgot to add that there's no random encounters in the first trip through. There's a % chance of running into other enemies on the overworld who are there for the sole reason of getting to the end as well, but depending on the variable and conditions, the player will either get to (or forced to) fight one of them, two of them, or all three of them...or none at all as they'll either be too busy fighting one another or all knocked out. Second trip through for the other half of the dungeon will have random encounters though, that much I already decided on. Haven't actually coded any of this in either though as priority is getting the stupid dungeon map done >_<


(Also, I tried using Zoom to make all the layers blend together, but it doesn't work in 2K9 I think...)

Basically, here's the lowdown. The player is meant to come here to get one of five Magic Stones (which is not explained immediately, but is explained later in the story, that being to get to the big bad's lair), which is tucked away in the sole room on the third floor. The main gimmick of this dungeon is being a maze dungeon, and there's a few areas that are either meant to loop around to other areas, spit the player out at the start of the dungeon (there's only a couple like that), or just be deadends, while one path leads to the correct path. Along the way, as mentioned in the previous post, there are 3 other people (2 of whom are allies, the third is from a 3rd group who is also an enemy of the player) that will constantly get in the way of the player or not, depending on the variable and situation for each map. Once the player manages to get to the third floor, that's where there will be a boss fight and then afterwards, the player is brought into a dimensional rift due to the reaction of the magic stone.

The dungeon's correct path is going to be done in an ascending figure 8, starting in the main area, then going to the right first and looping around to the main area on the second floor, from where the player will need to loop from the left to the third floor.

So yeah, I already HAVE the reasons for the player to be there, just mapping the darn thing is kinda boring lol...and this is just the FIRST trip through (there is a room that has a door solution puzzle, which is meant to get to the SECOND area which houses a key item to progress through another dungeon. Think FFIII for this one with the Swamp or passing by the statues). Second area is more straightforward and less of a maze, but also has random encounters unlike the first main trip, which the only random encounters are on the overworld with the three other people.


(I never think to put in the black background simply because NONE of my maps use it, except one which is one giant map that I never got around to cutting down into separate maps...this would also mean I'd have to go back into OLDER maps to do this with them too, and not every tileset has a black background either x_x;;).


Does that help any? x_x;;

author=kentona
http://rpgmaker.net/portal/development/:<

I had no idea this existed. I apparently tunnel vision either Forums or Games exclusively

Mockup. I finally found a formula where I don't need to map a thing, just have to focus on battles & cutscenes. It's this one! =_= Too lame, you think?
Purple spots are telepos, green are treasures (but you have to use spectacles to see them and they're pretty expensive -- kind of like Chest Keys) and red is, of course, yourself. ;~;

WIP Devlog 3 for my game named Breakout Hero. Since the last video you saw...I have improved the collision, added animations to the grass, flowers, paddle, hero, and stars, finally I added a cool protective light emitting from the player's wand as well as particles to each brick upon being destroyed. I also added a lives counter, a score counter, a point system similar to an action rpg / platform game, and finally a game over screen.

I still have to center the light a bit better, but it's looking good so far. One more scene for this dungeon, then onto the final town and stuff :D