Noel and the Tower of Doom

Hello everyone. Previously, the version of Noel and the Tower of Doom on RMN was highly outdated, being the 1.0.1 release rather than the up-to-date v1.2.3 release. The v1.2.3 release fixes a TON of things about the game including numerous game-breaking glitches. Well, those have now been fixed, but the game still is broken in numerous ways. For example, the boat segment near the end of the game is un-completable, making it impossible to climb to the final floor. This is frankly unacceptable and I should be better than that. This is what happens when I don't playtest games, which thankfully has been mitigated with CM as a now have a team of playtesters to help me fix bugs. The only thing left to do to fix the game is play through the entire game myself, fixing the last couple of bugs found on the upper floors and the true ending. I already have a save file very late into the game, so I just need to hanker down and actually play my own game to completion to fix all the bugs. So, as of now, the game is still broken, but is fully playable most of the way through. Please be patient on the 1.3 update as I am in college and am mainly focused on CM at the moment. Thank you.

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Hello everyone! Tonight I would like to update you all on the state of this current project. Good news, I have finished the final boss sequence and ending! I still have to implement the secret bosses, the secret area, and the bad endings+true ending, but otherwise I'm nearly done! I'm pretty much at the finish line for this project overall. This is what I plan to do in the coming days/weeks before the end of this month:

1: Create the secret boss scenarios and fights. 50% done since I have all the skills, states, and AI already done, I just have to implement them.

2: Add in the remaining "bad endings." So far I have programed in two bad endings, the one where you get crushed by the crusher in the NEVI Storehouse and the one you get for killing Zed. The other ones I need to add in are the one you get for ignoring Goliath and entering the tower of doom without him, the one you get by losing to the final boss, and the ones you get for losing to each of the secret bosses.

3: Add in the secret final area along with the bosses there.

4: Create true final boss scenario. I already have the relatively complex boss AI pattern down so now it only really comes down to implementing it and adding dialogue.

5: Create the true ending cutscene.

6: Create the two alternate bad endings linking to the true ending route, one for dying to the true final boss and the other for attempting to fight the true final boss without obtaining all the secret reports.

7: Add in the final secret.

8: Playtest the game completely from beginning to end, fixing any glitches I come across along the way.

9: Transcribe the entire script onto Google Docs and run it through Grammarly to check for errors.

10: Release the finished game

So, what's next after Noel and the Tower of Doom? Well, my main priority afterwards is to do a quick final update for my previous game, Chronicles: The Lost Page, as that game recently got a review and I want to fix some of the issues the review brought up such as the lacking movesets, too many elements, tutorial spam early on, some minor bugs, and some of the dialogue being hard to understand. It's also a good chance to refine the final boss Karakal since I made a new design for him for art class that inspired me to rework his largely lackluster moveset into something a bit more unique.

After that, I'll go back to developing Chronicles Meteorfall, the game that has been in development hell since all the way back in 2019. Remember when that game was called Meteo Chronicles and was supported to release in Summer 2020? Yeah, that didn't happen due to a bunch of repeated errors and now I'm remaking the game from the ground up. Meteo Chronicles was more so a proof of concept than anything else. Chronicles Meteorfall will be the real deal, and will probaly release in late 2024.

This game has been a long journey and a much larger undertaking than I expected. I originally planned for this game to only take about a month or two to finish so I could get it out by the end of pride month, but the project ended up being far more ambitious than planned even after heavily cutting down in content. Did you know that the tower was originally supported to be 255 floors AND have double the bosses? Yeah, that would have been torture to make and probaly not be nearly as good as what I ended up making. After CM it's on to finish the rest of the Crimson Meteor Trilogy in RPG Maker, both the reimagined versions part of the Chronicles of Chronicles continuity and the semi-faithful remakes of the games the reimaginings were based on, Zero Gear Fighters and Dragon Ascension. There's so many more games I have planned in the future, but those will have to wait for another time. Anyways I'm so excided for what the future holds for my games and I hope you are all excided for the full release of both Noel and the Tower of Doom and Chronicles Meteorfall! Until then, see you next time!

Hello everyone. I haven't posted on here for a bit, however, I have made progress on Noel and the Tower of Doom. Currently the game is fully playable up through Floor 20, with the layouts and gimmicks of each floor done up through Floor 46. I am skipping the enemies, bosses, enemy skills, and cutscenes until I finish making the layouts for all 66 floors. Afterwards, I'll make the enemies, enemy skills, and bosses, and then the cutscenes and story stuff. Good news, I'll most likely have this game done by the end of this June, perfect timing for pride month! After that I'll get back to work on Chronicles Meteorfall, and I have a bit surprise in store regarding that game. Stay tuned!