Trials & Tribulations

Now that my Game Gale sideproject is (finally) finished I can get back to this one....although, the primary purpose of this project was to familiarize myself with VX...which the Game Gale project did for me....so.....what is the point of T&T?

Seriously.

Melody and T&T
Anywho, my experience and expertise with VX is still in the novice stage. that being said, Craze suggested that I take a gander at Yanfly's newfangled Melody Battle Engine. I figured - why not? It's not like I got anywhere with T&T before it went on hiatus. Now, I haven't looked at Melody AT ALL so I have no idea what is in store for me, but it can't be that bad, right? Right?

So, I resolve to take a look at Melody, see what it can do, and adapt my class designs to fit within its mold.


Story REDUX and Episodes
Since my life just seems to get busier and busier, I find myself with less time for makin gams. In an effort to mitigate this, I am strongly considering making T&T an episodic game. Each episode will be a story contained within the larger story arc - whatever that is (I haven't even decided that yet). I don't even have an overall plan yet, or even the number of episodes I plan on having. But I have vague ideas.

Anywho, the first episode will most likely be The Journal of the Crooked King and will revolve around a neighboring kingdom's King consorting with the Bad Guys, and your task will be to show him the light. At least, that's probably what I'll do.

Adopting an episodic format also opens the door to making T&T a chaingame, which was an idea I explored in an earlier blog. However, in that earlier blog it was argued that THIS IS VX TUTORIAL/KENTONA GAME... Maybe I can hybridize that and have someone else write and design an episode and I implement it. I dunno, I'm just shitballin' here. I just know that my free time is shrinking every day and I'm getting on in years.

welp.