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Progress Report

Reboot Continuation

Howdy y'all. Just letting you know that I'm back from the woods and humming and hawing over this still. I have a format I'm pretty happy with now so I hope to have the energy and mental capacity to sit down and start making it playable.

I'm still using almost all of the default VX Ace maps, which is probably a turn-off (especially when I've used a few in event games... repeatedly...). But, hopefully, with all the tileset edits and all the personality I hope to inject into the world, it'll be worth the time saved and still be a fun experience.

I keep going back and marveling at how good my class design is in this. I'm really excited to make some dungeons and monsters that actually put it to the test. A lot of the reformatting I've done is making sure the player gets all the classes in the first half-2/3 (unless you REALLY speed through and purposefully skip stuff) so that I don't need to worry about the player not having options for the lategame. There's some oddities -- you only have one Water class for a very long time, for example -- but I think it'll all work out with how I'm designing the world now.

Also, every town and most dungeon types have all their music sorted. Looking forward to people getting lost in this world ~ I've been playing Octopath 1 and wow, what a disjointed game, but at least the visuals and music make it tolerable. Rough note to end on, so uh... idk praise be to Dagon.

Announcement

Reboot from the Roots Up

So, I really liked this idea. I've decided to rip out the existing game but keep all the hard work I did coding, etc. and go harder on the themes and worldbuilding. It will still be a bizarre, quiet, philistine game but hopefully make a lot more sense.

The biggest thing I've done is make a lot more chipset variations, so instead of a stilted, forced intro sequence, I can do a more non-linear game where any town or region can be in various states of disrepair and decay.

To give an example using the world map:




Now towns do this too. So, hopefully it'll be cool.

I guess here're my goals:
  • Have a psuedo-oldschool rpg feel while poking at the genre's edges
  • Make a world that players love to explore in and return to previous places
  • I should enjoy working toward both of the above goals


lol we'll see
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