Incarnation

So, I'd been working on this game on the quiet for a while and had gotten pretty far (at least another hour of play). I'd fixed some of the stuff mentioned in reviews, replayed it a few times to best identify problem points, added some extra stuff so that you couldn't leave town without another character, added a little more of the main story and just touched up things - got rid of the edits of others and added my own instead.

However, when I moved computer a few months ago I lost all my VX games, including this one. I'm not sure how - I was positive that I'd copied them all over to the backup drive but when it came time to move them to the new computer, they just weren't there.

Having lost so much progress (coupled with the fact that MV is coming out soon and that Ace is miles better as an engine) really put a downer on my desire to tinker with the game and I've not even bothered to redownload the game.

Will it stay that way? Maybe. Maybe not. I might redownload it and fix some of the more pertinent issues eventually, though I doubt I'll be actually making it a full game. Sorry guys. For what it's worth, I have learned a lot from making this game, mostly about battle balance and editing. It's given me a lot of experience and though it will probably be remembered as a pretty unbalanced game, it helped me a lot to make something so unbalanced and difficult. Sometimes we learn the most from the things we fuck up. ^.^

Frankly, I'm mostly upset about some of the edits I made, which I hadn't had the time to copy elsewhere.

Currently I've been focussing on mapping out the Meras mountains a bit more. Caves are fun, as are underground lakes. Heights, however, are not, especially when they don't match or when auto tile messes with your 'boundaries'. An important part of using the auto tiles is to make sure that they don't mess up your heights. Even placing a grass tile next to a wall without being careful can result in a wall with no lines.
Thank God for the SHIFT button! <3

Speaking of grass, I find myself annoyed with how the grass tile being placed next to a water tile results in a thin line of dirt. Then if I want a longer grass tile next to a water tile I have to create a mock-up tile of the grass edge I want before shift-placing. It makes the whole mapping process longer than should be necessary. Still, them's the breaks if you want to work with VX.

I'll keep at it, though my progress has hit a bit of a low at the moment. I'm also looking for a type of script that will allow me to make a sort of quest board where you choose a quest to accept, do the quest and when you come back to the 'guild' gain the rewards and delete the quest, adding a new one in its place. Sure, I realise it can be done 'manually', but with as many quests as Incarnation is bound to have a script would make things so much easier. I'll be keeping an eye out for one like it in the meantime, though.