Slew of Oldies

Long overdue announcement. This game is so buggy I don't even know what is going on in it at the point I'm at (in the playthrough). It's like being on some sort of hallucinogen while playing a game. I'm literally warping from map to map without so much as a text message to explain what's happening.

The reason behind this, of course, was that I had gotten completely sick of this game once I reached the halfway point of production, and got really lazy. That also explains why the game doesn't have an ending, or at least, not really. It has one of those cop out ones.

Anyways, I truly hope no one cares. You shouldn't, as it's just more beginner crap at its core. Still, I do hope to fix it up to a playable status some day.

Right now I'm going through my other old games for Slew of Oldies 2. I'm even planning of resurrecting a bunch of their gameplay elements for newer games, as the systems aren't as bad. Obviously I'm too busy with other projects to really delve into them now, but it's nice to have some weird systems in place for later.

I could have updated this a while back, so really this is both log 1 and 2. Anyways, I had hit a huge bug before that stopped me from progressing for a while, and now I'm sorta back on track. The game is pretty broken in some places, so my play through today didn't get me very far... but hopefully I can work m way through it more steadily now.

Anyways, the story is so jumbled that I've kinda stopped paying attention to it. It's a shame I never beta tested this before, as there are a bunch of party switching problems throughout that are really tedious to me at this point. I don't even know how the battle system works anymore, but luckily I've only run into one boss problem thus far.

Anyways, I think I'm about half through it. Expect it soonish.

I've also decided to release Boticade, but it will take me a long time to do so. The game is around 20 hours in all, and though it barely even resembles the Boticade novel I'm writing right now, I've decided to keep everything as is for the release. I'll probably get started on SLEW OF OLDIES 2 before it finally sees a release, but we'll see.

SLEW OF OLDIES 2
This project consists of a bunch of demos from my "middle years" with rpgmaker. They're more or less just cool little experiments that never saw full versions. There's a ninja game which is an action platformer, featuring a bunch of acquired skills like invisibility, teleportation, dash attack... it's a smoother action system than Moon Core has. Expanding on that system is a Dynasty Warriors type action rpg, which is extremely short and features some tactical battles as well. There is also a Sonic platformer game in rpg maker, which I didn't get too far in. It's frustratingly difficult, as it was too hard to do very well. I think I also have a spiderman swinging system, but it may have been deleted. I'll have to see.

I'll be honest. I didn't finish playing through this. I just uploaded it for whoever is interested, but there's a slight chance there may be a problem with the resources, so I may have to fix the download at some point.

Anyways, it'll be there for whoever is interested in the most undeserved, unwarranted, and unneeded sequel on the whole of RMN :)

Next up for my slew of oldies is Megaman RPG.

The download isn't accepted yet, but I'm pretty tired and have nothing to do so I'm gonna go take a nap, so I'll probably miss it anyway.

I missed a couple of quests in my play through, including the introduction of a party member who just randomly started talking in some scenes. It was awkward. I decided that I wouldn't fix these things up though, there's no saving this game anyway. So for those of you interested to see it in its original, complete, shitty form, it hasn't been messed with.

The two changes I did make, however, were enemy balancing and teleportation fixes. There are like 50, 000 towns in this game to visit so I didn't exactly check all the teleports available. My suggestion is to save often, but you'll all probably quit after 5 mins or so anyway so I'm not worried for you lol.

I'm going back to work on Eden Legacy III tonight, and will continue to do so for the next few days before starting my play through of Dragon Creed 2.

That's right, I've realized just why it is i put absolutely 0% effort into the design aspect of these dungeons and towns. This game is 90, probably even more like 95% optional. Of course I've forced myself through all there is so far (I'm 2 hours into my play through and just beat the first quarter of the game), but jeez.

Pretty much, as long as you can keep enemies from kicking your ass (which is now quite easy since I've reworked the balancing), you can skip as much as you want lol. Not that you'll know where to go or anything... I suppose that's the beauty of this awful piece of crap. You may be wandering for 2 mins, or you may wander for a two hours before finding the right island or cave to progress. There are dozens of towns and castles spread out, also very optional, that kinda help guide you too. Somehow I've managed to find my way, despite not remembering anything about this game.

It got me thinking about how this optional type thing could be done right, and I kinda wish Eden Legacy had more of that. Unfortunately, I didn't want to waste my time with all that optional crap. Oh well.

Anyways, I'll keep piecing away at my play through and maybe we'll see it online soon.