Chronicles Meteorfall

Hello everyone. As you may know, I took off the entirety of January 2023 to rest from game dev and take a little bit of a break due to burnout. Well, I'm happy to say that I'm burnt out no more and ready to work on my game once again! I thought my burnout would last until summer, but I continue to surprise myself with my fast recovery. Anyways, as you may have noticed I have updated the game page significantly. This is because the old one contained numerous errors and inaccuracies, promising features that were cut and outdated content no longer in the planned build. I didn't really do much game-dev wise in January, but I did make progress in other ways, mainly in my game page! Here are some of the changes I've made:
-Reworked the "features" area to remove features that are no longer planned for the game and add in features that are in the current build of the game that's planned.
-Removed multiple character profiles for side-characters
-Updated character portraits with their current versions
-Added full body art for Koros and Zenith.
-Fixed various spelling and grammar errors.
-Changed the title of the game to remove the ":" symbol.
-Updated the easy link from "meteochroniclesr" to "chroniclesmeteorfall"

Some other updates I'm working on for the game page include full body art for Tayo, Stacy, and Jeht, adding the rest of the new portraits in, and removing a lot more of the unnecessary character profiles. (mainly for side characters not plot important or featured prominently in the EX Quests) Right now I'm mainly focusing in on the skills, which will probably take a while as there's around 400-500 of them to make. After that it's plugin configuration and then I can move on to the actual game, making enemies as I move along. Time time through development I will focus solely on the main story and work on all the side content only after the main story is complete. Last time during R's development I kept getting distracted working on sidequests instead of developing the main story, which won't happen again. Main story will come first and all side content later, I can promise you that. 1.0 will probably be released around August/September (hopefully) and will include solely the main story of the game, no side content. 1.1 will likely release in late 2023/early 2024 and add in most if not all of the EX quests and talent arts (which include summons and their fights), and 1.2 will add in the rest of the side quests + a lot of the superbosses all in two big batches, one for 1.1 and another for 1.2. Further updates are not planned as I'm scrapping most of the planned "Golden Route" (some elements will remain in a NG+ exclusive quest) and the "Alternate Route" will be repurposed into a NG+ bonus route for "Boundless Domain" which is another planned game I'll soon work on that's connected to Chronicles Meteorfall.

So yeah, I'm back on track now and development is going good. Hopefully I'll be able to focus a lot more on gamemak than I was before, though I still have a massive backlog of games I REALLY want to play. Fire Emblem Engage, Sonic Frontiers, Pokemon Violet, Persona 5 Royal, literally ALL of the 3DS megaten games. (SMT4, 4A, SJR, SH1, Des1, Des2, PQ, PQ2, etc) Radiant Historia, Xenoblade X, etc. Plus Bravely Default 2 is coming out in only a few weeks (already preordered) and BotW2 is releasing in only 3 months... That plus school + work + art means I have a lot on my hands, but I think I can manage.

Anyways, that's it for this progress report. I'll get to you back at the beginning of next month. Until then, see you!

I got almost nothing done this month. Another month goes by without any decent progress being made... Basely all I got done was the states, the templates, and a few sprites. That's it. Just that in a whole month. I just have absolutely no motivation to finish this project and actively have to force myself to work on my game, and even if I do I only work for around 30 minutes before stopping. No motivation, no soul, nothing. So yeah here is what I got done:

Full document plan of all equipment

Full document plan of all arts (spoilers)

Full document plan of all enemies and bosses and their lore (WIP)

Weapon Sprites


This game will be in development hell until 2030, won't it? Man... my life sucks...

So, an update since I last posted. I lost all my data, garneted. The last 6 months of work, which was the majority of the progress I've made on this game in ages, completely lost. So, I decided to start fresh. New computer, new everything. Safe to say it will take quite a bit longer to release my game, probably not until 2024 at the earliest since I actually have a job now + school it takes away a lot of the time I would otherwise have to make my game.

However, with this new start brings some new opportunities. Previously, the files for MC were extremely messy and disorganized with a ton of unused dummy data. But now, all that can be fixed. As well as that, moving forward I will change this game to feature a front view battle system rather than a side view one. This is so I can better express my creativity with entirely 100% custom animated enemy sprites for battles.

Along with that, I will be changing the battle system from a Octopath-inspired one to an octopath/persona fusion battle system featuring the "one more system" involving exploiting elements to stun the enemy and get more turns. Upon all enemies being stunned instead of just a generic all out attack you can select a special "talent art" which is unique to each character. But every character has more than one talent art, which are managed through items you collect throughout your journey which can be equipped to change the current talent art. There will still be BP but no shield breaking system.

Instead of each weapon having different elements there are only 5 physical elements being physical, (punching, biting, etc) slash, (slashing with claws or a bladed weapon) smash, (using a blunt weapon like a club or axe) strike, (piercing attacks such as spears) and shot. (projectile attacks such as attacks from bows and guns) Also, in the original Meteo Chronicles there were many, many elements by it's final update even outside of the physical ones, being:
-Fire
-Ice
-Thunder
-Water
-Wind
-Earth
-Light
-Dark
-Poison
-Drain
-Almighty
-Gravity
-Celestial

early versions of this game added even more, including:
-Hunger
-Greed

This time, there are far less elements to simplify the various systems. For one, all poison attacks are now earth elemental and all drain attacks are now dark elemental. Along with that, the petrify status is now much rarer, with basic earth elemental attacks inflicting poison instead. Earth and Wind are now incredibly rare elements, even more rare than light and dark, but they still exist. The ice element has been completely removed and has been replaced with just water which encompasses both ice and water. There is also no longer any sort of rock-paper-seizors mechanic when it comes to the elements. Each enemy has exclusive strengths and weaknesses, not single strategy will work on every enemy.

There are now only 2 enemies per zone, sometimes three. This is to ease up on dev time and make it so I don't have to make so many new sprites. There are now just as many bosses than regular monsters! Crazy! I will be mainly focusing on the story based and basic monsters for now before moving onto the optional ones at a later date once the main story is over and done with.

There are now only 12 weapons per weapon type, not counting exclusive and secret weapons. Before, there were hundreds of weapons and armors (over 500 each!) but now it's a lot more manageable with one new weapon of every type sold per town leading up to tier 9, with tiers 10, 11, and 12 being much more rare only obtained from chests and drops and the like.

Finally, there will no longer be multiple separate maps for each area. Instead, there are three separate "regions" that make up multiple diverse areas. The Nostra, Eternia, and Bernag regions. Dungeons are not counted in these regions and serve as additional maps. The Nostra region is made up of Ari Flatlands, Banna Woodlands, Beasteria Highlands, and Uran Sunlands. The Eternia Region is made out of Zerithia Wetlands, Aetheria Skylands, and Eternia Frostlands. And finally the Bernag region is made out of Ozma Darklands, Baetas Boglands, Alphes Drylands, and Omegas Firelands. Towns are also contained within the regions so expect each to reach or get near the MV map size limit! Also 15-30 second load times between each area lol.

That's basicly it for updates lol. I keep you posted at the end of October to show you everything I did this month. See you later!

Hello everyone. I'm back again with another progress update. For a while, development wasn't doing so hot. I was completely overwhelmed by a massive scope of this project and was heavily considering quitting the whole thing. However, after getting some encouragement from my friends on Discord like Dr.Evil, I decided to continue development but HEAVILY cut down on features. I know this is disappointing that a lot of stuff has to be cut, but it's for the best as it will get this game out significantly sooner and not cause me to go completely insane with the amount of work that has to be done. Here is a simple list of everything that's going to be cut:
-The two bonus post-game routes, Chapter 13: Death and Rebirth and Chapter 14: Perfect Works are both completely cut. This includes all associated weapons, armor, items, skills, and bosses. The archfiends will NOT be cut, though due to the removal of the alternate route the rewards gained from them will be significantly less than before.
-The entire "outrealm isles" optional area has been completely cut. This includes the various optional areas including "Miner's Paradise," "Monster Isle," "Tower of the Lost," "Xong Kong," "Valore Isle," "Isle Serpentario," and the "Eternal Tower." The scion Jormungondr has been moved to a new area, Zerithia Lake, which is located below South Zerithia Wetlands on the map. The Goddess Cabin on Monster Isle along with it's associated boss has also been relocated to Omegas Firelands as well. Everything else including all those area's bosses, weapons, armor, items, enemies, and skills have been removed.
-There is now a hard limit of 50 normal enemies in the game, 5 for each enemy type.
-Each enemy also has only one blue magick skill instead of multiple. Bosses will still have a variety of attacks including multiple blue magicks.
-The weapon count has been significantly lowered to only 12 weapons per type, not counting secret and ultimate weapons. With 6 weapon types, that makes it so that there are only 72 normal weapons in the game, 1 of each type for each of the 9 towns and 3 additional ones to be found via chests, drops, and sidequests.
-The armor count has also been significantly lowered to only 30 pieces of armor, 10 for each group being light, heavy, and magick armors. Along with that, armors are no longer divided into specific types so any class that equip any type of armor. That being said, each armor type has obvious advantages and disadvantages so you don't always go picking the highest number each time. Light armor is balanced but somewhat weak, heavy armor has high DEF but non-existent RES and lowers SPD, while magick armor has very low DEF but very high RES with no speed drawbacks.
-Shields and head gear are no longer a thing. There is just your weapon slots, 1 slot for armor, and 2 ring slots. Due to this, stats on armor are also significantly higher to compensate.
-There are no more divine arts and limit breaks. Instead, talent Arts from the original release have returned, abet in a revamped and streamlined form.
-Achievements are removed. However, there still is a compendium.

Yeah, that's basically it. A lot of cutting down, a lot of removing tons of fluff that only serves to bloat the game. Don't worry, other new features of this version will still be a thing such as the Den of Evil, the extra and expanded story chapters, and the new and expanded sidequests. Now that I've beaten Xenoblade 3 and handed the game off to my brother, hopefully I can get back to grinding my game (Dspite having a job now. Woop!) and hopefully get it done before the world freaking ends. Fun times!

Hello everyone. As you may notice, the name of this game has been changed from Meteo Chronicles R to Chronicles: Meteorfall. You also may have noticed that I have removed all downloads for this game. This is because I am doing a major rebrand. The "Chronicles Series" as you know it has been restructured. As before, Chronicles: Meteorfall/Meteo Chronicles R will be the first game in a trilogy, the second and third parts being remakes of Zero Gear Fighters and Dragon Ascension respectively. (Chronicles II: Zero Gear Saga and Chronicles III: Ascension) After that there will be the "Chronicles Origins" trilogy telling of the origins of the world and then Chronicles IV, my magnum opis and the first commercial game in the series. Then there will be the "Chronicles of Heroes" sub series which will contain two episodic games, the first having 7 episodes and the second having 4. Then there will be the "Chronicles Stellar" trilogy which will be a lot more sci-fi themed than the other games. Then the mainline Chronicles Series will continue all the way through Chronicles VIII before ending with The End of Chronicles.

Along with that, I will be going by a new release structure. No longer will I be releasing new beta versions every month. Instead, I will make the entire game before posting any downloads. Then, I will playtest the entire game from beginning to end fixing any bugs found along the way. Finally, I will release the game. All future games will be fully playtested and complete before even the first download is posted, I assure you that. That way I won't be releasing buggy, unfinished games and won't get burnt out playtesting the same game over and over again.

Due to this, you can expect to see Chronicles: Meteorfall release much later than expected, especially since so many big games are releasing this summer (2022) that I have to complete ASAP to get to the next one. Aka Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, LiveAlive Remake, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Chronicles: Meteorfall will likely not release until mid to late 2023, with Chronicles II releasing in 2024 and Chronicles III releasing in 2025, as Chronicles II and III are much smaller games than Chronicles I. I will also not be participating in any events requiring the development of a new game, as these silly "event games" greatly distract from the development of Chronicles: Meteorfall due to my lethargic development pace. To hold you over, you can always play Lost Chronicles, the only game I've made so far that I'm really proud of. Thank you for following me all these years through all my ups and many downs, and I hope to finally give you a project that I can actually be proud of. Thank you.