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THE Captain's Log #50 - Lockpicks and the hideout
Hi peeps! Your captain here!
I think the time is getting close for the next release, which I hope is the definitive demo. Heh... This demo will include the full prologue (first part or something).
So, first things first, the New Parnassus town is finally finished, and retouched! So I moved on and made the next area! Introducing the Monster's hideout. This place is related to some early optional mission you can do after the graduation.
In this place I'll be introducing a new mechanic, yeah, lockpicking. Actually I will probably randomly update some previous chests so they use this too, but if you've opened them already, don't worry! You're safe, or something! :^D
Because making you suffer for no reason is good.
There are some visual cues and stuff so don't worry, it's based on Skyrim's lockpicking but I don't want a lockpicking skill so... just actually learn to open them! And spend money in lockpicks :^D!
Then this other image is about the place we were talking about. That monster's hideout will sport some teleporters. And maybe something more. There is a puzzle, which could (or could not) be quite nasty. I seriously hope it isn't. Need to test it because if it is, I'll make another one.
The teleporters will stay! I think I got something cool in my life ;_;.
Finally, dungeon music! Yay! Keep in mind it's an early preview, but I'm trying to build some hype here so please bear with me. My great friend Aarl made it :^D! Keep in mind it's a preview/early version, but I love it so much already ;v;.
And that's it for now. Thanks for reading, signing out (?).
I'm not signing nothin'! Back in my days people trusted each other words! But today youngsters are a bunch of treacherous punks!
OH! AND I FORGOT! A new character is coming. 7 artworks out of 8 done.
I think the time is getting close for the next release, which I hope is the definitive demo. Heh... This demo will include the full prologue (first part or something).
So, first things first, the New Parnassus town is finally finished, and retouched! So I moved on and made the next area! Introducing the Monster's hideout. This place is related to some early optional mission you can do after the graduation.
In this place I'll be introducing a new mechanic, yeah, lockpicking. Actually I will probably randomly update some previous chests so they use this too, but if you've opened them already, don't worry! You're safe, or something! :^D
Because making you suffer for no reason is good.
There are some visual cues and stuff so don't worry, it's based on Skyrim's lockpicking but I don't want a lockpicking skill so... just actually learn to open them! And spend money in lockpicks :^D!
Then this other image is about the place we were talking about. That monster's hideout will sport some teleporters. And maybe something more. There is a puzzle, which could (or could not) be quite nasty. I seriously hope it isn't. Need to test it because if it is, I'll make another one.
The teleporters will stay! I think I got something cool in my life ;_;.
Finally, dungeon music! Yay! Keep in mind it's an early preview, but I'm trying to build some hype here so please bear with me. My great friend Aarl made it :^D! Keep in mind it's a preview/early version, but I love it so much already ;v;.
Bandit Cave Previa II
And that's it for now. Thanks for reading, signing out (?).
I'm not signing nothin'! Back in my days people trusted each other words! But today youngsters are a bunch of treacherous punks!
OH! AND I FORGOT! A new character is coming. 7 artworks out of 8 done.
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THE Captain's Log #49 - Maglev, bugfixes and New Parnassus
Hello people! Your captain speaking.
This week I have been working quite a lot. Since this is the only free week I'll be having, it's, like, vacation = work on Dreki all day! Because it's my favourite thing to do.
So, yeah. Things I've been working. First is the maglev. Didn't knew how to call it, but it's a small transportation device that works pretty much like real magnetic levitation trains, except it's not a train, it it comprised of only one bug-shaped small cabin-wagon. Thing.
I seriously had no name for it, so let's just call it maglev!
The maglev is used for travelling between Fierro and Aleko. It's available to be used after you get to Aleko. It's for reducing backtracking. And it costs 60£ per passenger. There are some things to be refined, but I'll work on it later, there's WAY too much essential stuff to do.
Let's talk about new places. I've made New Parnassus, the kind-of-capital of the world of Midgard (more like the most populated because all cities have a meaning/importance). It's supposed to be the biggest city, so there are lots of (not accessible only meant to "decorate") houses.
New Parnassus has some story behind it. The old Parnassus was destroyed by monsters. This is something better explained in the game, but the main thing is survivors of old Parnassus now live in New Parnassus. The old city is now just ruins, filled with monsters. And mystery.
The Combat School (that thing at the top is the school) and the Barracks were made here in order to reinforce the defenses available. We don't want another tragedy!
Now, let's talk about bug fixes... Since the past blog update, many things have happened so let's see if I can remember some things.
- Fixed a bug at battle events that repeated each turn. Some stupid unnecesary code that was resetting a flag. MEH!
- Counters now behave properly. They broke because of reasons.
- Thanks to KK20 the game doesn't crash so often in Win7/8/10. It's actually a very funny bug in RGSS3 (wonder how do I find that funny xD). Thanks KK20! You and Blizzard are the real men this world needs!
Also a good friend is now helping me with music. He's awesome, and you can check his work here: https://soundcloud.com/aarl/abyss-battle-four-noble-devils
And that's all for now! Cheers mighty readers, thanks for doing it! (Reading).
Salut!
This week I have been working quite a lot. Since this is the only free week I'll be having, it's, like, vacation = work on Dreki all day! Because it's my favourite thing to do.
So, yeah. Things I've been working. First is the maglev. Didn't knew how to call it, but it's a small transportation device that works pretty much like real magnetic levitation trains, except it's not a train, it it comprised of only one bug-shaped small cabin-wagon. Thing.
I seriously had no name for it, so let's just call it maglev!
The maglev is used for travelling between Fierro and Aleko. It's available to be used after you get to Aleko. It's for reducing backtracking. And it costs 60£ per passenger. There are some things to be refined, but I'll work on it later, there's WAY too much essential stuff to do.
Let's talk about new places. I've made New Parnassus, the kind-of-capital of the world of Midgard (more like the most populated because all cities have a meaning/importance). It's supposed to be the biggest city, so there are lots of (not accessible only meant to "decorate") houses.
New Parnassus has some story behind it. The old Parnassus was destroyed by monsters. This is something better explained in the game, but the main thing is survivors of old Parnassus now live in New Parnassus. The old city is now just ruins, filled with monsters. And mystery.
The Combat School (that thing at the top is the school) and the Barracks were made here in order to reinforce the defenses available. We don't want another tragedy!
Now, let's talk about bug fixes... Since the past blog update, many things have happened so let's see if I can remember some things.
- Fixed a bug at battle events that repeated each turn. Some stupid unnecesary code that was resetting a flag. MEH!
- Counters now behave properly. They broke because of reasons.
- Thanks to KK20 the game doesn't crash so often in Win7/8/10. It's actually a very funny bug in RGSS3 (wonder how do I find that funny xD). Thanks KK20! You and Blizzard are the real men this world needs!
Also a good friend is now helping me with music. He's awesome, and you can check his work here: https://soundcloud.com/aarl/abyss-battle-four-noble-devils
And that's all for now! Cheers mighty readers, thanks for doing it! (Reading).
Salut!
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THE Captain's Log #48 - Text, text and HUDs. And text
Hello! Mighty readers. It's me, your captain, again with a blog entry that concerns TEXT.
HURRAY! MOAR TEXT GIBBERISH!
Now, this is actually not that much about text. It's quite small that part of the entry. You see, I'm always looking at how well/bad the text reads and/or is presented. So, yeah, bear me. This time is the damage text, pop up texts, whatever you want to call it.
Before, I used a nice font called Visitor 2 TTK. It's actually pretty rad! But the thing is, it didn't emulate the 2x pixellated feel I'm looking for (kind of complicated to explain that...). So I went and made another font by using my trusty place FontStruct. Yeah, I use that place a lot to make my own fonts. So now all fonts are mine! Uwahahaha. I like to make my own things anyway.
To make things short, here is the end result.
Showing the looks of a damage text with a recovery skill. Delightful!
Now that part is done. No more throwbacks to damage fonts. And I hope all text is good.
The second important part of this entry is about the battle HUD. I "just" (yesterday I presume) implemented a new HUD style. You can actually see it at the previous image. And with that, I added the option to change between them too. You can switch between them whenever you wish. Here is a comparison of both.
HUD style 0. In-game is referred to as Individual Battle HUD.
HUD style 1. In-game is referred to as Classic RPG Battle HUD.
And that's it for today. Buddha Sidarta Gautama says goodbye. I made it on some free time. I like to read about buddism.
Good bye!
HURRAY! MOAR TEXT GIBBERISH!
Now, this is actually not that much about text. It's quite small that part of the entry. You see, I'm always looking at how well/bad the text reads and/or is presented. So, yeah, bear me. This time is the damage text, pop up texts, whatever you want to call it.
Before, I used a nice font called Visitor 2 TTK. It's actually pretty rad! But the thing is, it didn't emulate the 2x pixellated feel I'm looking for (kind of complicated to explain that...). So I went and made another font by using my trusty place FontStruct. Yeah, I use that place a lot to make my own fonts. So now all fonts are mine! Uwahahaha. I like to make my own things anyway.
To make things short, here is the end result.
Showing the looks of a damage text with a recovery skill. Delightful!
Now that part is done. No more throwbacks to damage fonts. And I hope all text is good.
The second important part of this entry is about the battle HUD. I "just" (yesterday I presume) implemented a new HUD style. You can actually see it at the previous image. And with that, I added the option to change between them too. You can switch between them whenever you wish. Here is a comparison of both.
HUD style 0. In-game is referred to as Individual Battle HUD.
HUD style 1. In-game is referred to as Classic RPG Battle HUD.
And that's it for today. Buddha Sidarta Gautama says goodbye. I made it on some free time. I like to read about buddism.
Good bye!
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THE Captain's Log #47 - More Language Gibberish
Oh Jeebus, sometimes even the simplest things complicate everything. But alas! I think (and hope) this is the last time I'll be writing about this.
So, let me tell you all. Since I moved on to Windows 10, Drekirökr loved to crash very often. I was pretty worried, so I set up to make a change. Now, since I implemented that language script there has been QUITE A LOT of problems.
Now, I'll present the solution. It actually took less time than what I tought to change all the necessary stuff (though I'm still testing just in case). I need to give a BIG, ENORMOUS THANK YOU A LOT to kk20 and his localization script. This one
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,12164.msg168799.html#msg168799
This localization script is actually the best idea I've seen. It uses INI files along with the WinAPI to load them. The nicest part is that it loads each line when it is needed. So I can even translate sentences while playing the game! Loading screens? Gone. Character support? It now supports UTF-8 perfectly! It took me pretty much some adaptations here and there, and voilà.
Now, what I really took the time to make was a parser for my old language files, because I had to change this...
...into this
And of course I would never do such thing manually! But since I parsed things using a small RPG Maker scriptlet I wrote (and took some time to do because of bugs and RGSS stupidness), I had to fix all characters like these áéíóú¡¿ because RPG Maker writes them like this \u{bf}.
In other news, here! A little eye-candy. Still working on his animations, but here he is, Lance Vredevelt, fourth character of the group.
There are actually two more in the works too, but these are the hidden characters so, no spotlight for them. Though their artwork silhouettes are at the images section.
And I think this is it for this log. So thanks a bunch if you've read this far.
Salut!
So, let me tell you all. Since I moved on to Windows 10, Drekirökr loved to crash very often. I was pretty worried, so I set up to make a change. Now, since I implemented that language script there has been QUITE A LOT of problems.
- First of all, I had to implement a loading screen for when it loads the language file. That's kind of... bad, you know? As an example, Final Fantasy GBA games tend to be multilanguage, and they're fast as shit. No loading. So, this was a very profound annoyance.
- Second, crashes. It actually didn't started after installing Win10. While I had Windows 7, it rarely crashed while loading, so every time I ran the game I left the PC alone and untouched for at least 10 seconds. Because that is the time it took to load! Urgh!
- Third. You can probably notice all the blog posts I've made about "I finally fixed some characters!" things. Because RPG Maker loves to screw things when reading UTF-8. Well, yeah, that was another annoyance.
Now, I'll present the solution. It actually took less time than what I tought to change all the necessary stuff (though I'm still testing just in case). I need to give a BIG, ENORMOUS THANK YOU A LOT to kk20 and his localization script. This one
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,12164.msg168799.html#msg168799
This localization script is actually the best idea I've seen. It uses INI files along with the WinAPI to load them. The nicest part is that it loads each line when it is needed. So I can even translate sentences while playing the game! Loading screens? Gone. Character support? It now supports UTF-8 perfectly! It took me pretty much some adaptations here and there, and voilà.
Now, what I really took the time to make was a parser for my old language files, because I had to change this...
...into this
And of course I would never do such thing manually! But since I parsed things using a small RPG Maker scriptlet I wrote (and took some time to do because of bugs and RGSS stupidness), I had to fix all characters like these áéíóú¡¿ because RPG Maker writes them like this \u{bf}.
In other news, here! A little eye-candy. Still working on his animations, but here he is, Lance Vredevelt, fourth character of the group.
There are actually two more in the works too, but these are the hidden characters so, no spotlight for them. Though their artwork silhouettes are at the images section.
And I think this is it for this log. So thanks a bunch if you've read this far.
Salut!
Announcement
THE Captain's Log #46 - I got the spotlight, and I have nothing else to talk about
...So, let's take a cheap and selective screenshot to commemorate it.
This is your capt'n. Here just reporting the day that I saw I was on the main page, not as part of the image spammers as usual. Though just some days ago I got an image spotlighted <3 (love always triumphs). Not as part of blog spam neither. This time. IT'S SPOTLIGHT. Yeah.
So, thanks a lot for that. Not like I was hoping for you attention sempais.
On other news, let's talk about a side project I am working on. It's going to be quite delayed, slowly developing, uh... and that, because it was initially going to be my entry for the No RM Event, but plans changed, now I'm going for a NES-styled collect-a-ton platformer. I think.
There are no screens because all is still in planning stages, but here are some monsters! Because it is some sort of Pokémon-esque thing with Drekirökr monsters. On the most part.
At least the mole and the flying thing at the right are.
There are some more on the making process, and one secret thing there that, honestly, makes this side project unable to be released until I finish Drekirökr. So, expect news on this not so soon.
Again, thanks a lot for the spot. And by the way, we have over 200 downloads. Considering there are at least 100 more in GameJolt. Hurray!
Salut!
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THE Captain's Log #45 - Map fixes, retrocompatibility fixes, etc fixes
Hello! I'm trying to post blogs more often. Because why not. At least when I have more than one small thing to talk about. This time, I'm going to talk about fixes! AS ALWAYS!
So, here is the first one. Since I added a minimap, there have been some issues regarding how the maps were being visualized, that annoyed the hell out of me. So, after a small playing around with tiles, I came to this.
I mean, this is the kind of weird stuff you can do thanks to the mapping superiority in RPG Maker XP. All hail Satan!
You can see a bunch of glitchy tiles, I suppose. Well, that ensures the passability is now 100% correct, both in practice and the minimap. I noticed before on other maps some passable places that were not meant to be. And adding events over them works for preventing the player passing, but not for the minimap displaying it as intended. Ending in a complete mess. And that made the minimap pretty much useless.
A liar is a liar. If a map lies, it is worthless.
But fear not. Everything looks as intended ingame.
And you can also see the minimap is clean. And hopefully useful now <3.
___________________________________
Now, about the retrocompatibility fix. I tried to synthesize this issue in the title because of space, but here it goes what was happening. Since I released a demo (some months ago already, mind you?), I promised it would be possible to use that same saved game in the next versions.
But thing is, it didn't worked. RMXP saves the entire event that was running the last time if you save from an event (and probably it will also save it if you have a parallel event running and you save from the menu). So, I loaded the game, and it did all things just like in the demo, something that ends up with you being thrown back into the title screen.
So, an idea came to my mind.
You can notice that NEWVERSIONSKIP n line. That means that, when loading, if it is a newer version than the version the savefile came from, it will check the saved event AND the actual event that's stored into the map file. It checks if there is a NEWVERSIONSKIP tag (commentary), and if there is one, it does all the mambo jambo for you (reloading the event and skipping up to that tag), ending up in IT WORKS!. Before that, I did changes to the same event, and didn't mattered. Now it matters!
So yeah. I'm happy to announce that I was able to maintain my promise.
That's all for today! Stay tuned, next time I'll... put a preview of two new characters. :^).
¡Hasta la vista, cowboy del espacio!
So, here is the first one. Since I added a minimap, there have been some issues regarding how the maps were being visualized, that annoyed the hell out of me. So, after a small playing around with tiles, I came to this.
I mean, this is the kind of weird stuff you can do thanks to the mapping superiority in RPG Maker XP. All hail Satan!
You can see a bunch of glitchy tiles, I suppose. Well, that ensures the passability is now 100% correct, both in practice and the minimap. I noticed before on other maps some passable places that were not meant to be. And adding events over them works for preventing the player passing, but not for the minimap displaying it as intended. Ending in a complete mess. And that made the minimap pretty much useless.
A liar is a liar. If a map lies, it is worthless.
But fear not. Everything looks as intended ingame.
And you can also see the minimap is clean. And hopefully useful now <3.
___________________________________
Now, about the retrocompatibility fix. I tried to synthesize this issue in the title because of space, but here it goes what was happening. Since I released a demo (some months ago already, mind you?), I promised it would be possible to use that same saved game in the next versions.
But thing is, it didn't worked. RMXP saves the entire event that was running the last time if you save from an event (and probably it will also save it if you have a parallel event running and you save from the menu). So, I loaded the game, and it did all things just like in the demo, something that ends up with you being thrown back into the title screen.
So, an idea came to my mind.
You can notice that NEWVERSIONSKIP n line. That means that, when loading, if it is a newer version than the version the savefile came from, it will check the saved event AND the actual event that's stored into the map file. It checks if there is a NEWVERSIONSKIP tag (commentary), and if there is one, it does all the mambo jambo for you (reloading the event and skipping up to that tag), ending up in IT WORKS!. Before that, I did changes to the same event, and didn't mattered. Now it matters!
So yeah. I'm happy to announce that I was able to maintain my promise.
That's all for today! Stay tuned, next time I'll... put a preview of two new characters. :^).
¡Hasta la vista, cowboy del espacio!
Progress Report
THE Captain's Log #44 - I've fixed text problems! At last!
Hello mighty readers! It's me, your captain again, throwing some tasty news for me-- I mean, I have some news.
First of all, let's talk about text and dialogues. Thing is, I've finally fixed two annoyances I had before regarding text display. First one was, I was unable to use certain characters, like ♥. That was because of RMXP's script editor encoding. I don't know, it just loved converting ♥'s into ?'s. AND THAT MADE ME PRETTY MAD!
But I had this idea of using a small workaround to fix this. I made an extern script in Ruby...
Making it .rb because I like the icon!
...and imported it manually by using the built-in require function. It didn't worked because of some weird issues. I found out it was because of the file path containing a ö, and since this game hopes to be played by anyone and there are a zillion of people using éëê... I made a something that mimics the require.
As I wrote somewhere... the longest script code I've ever written...
That's it! That made my life easier! So I can now put things like this...
No, really. All this mambo jambo was because of that heart. ♥
The other issue I fixed today can be compared with the previous screen. Characters now have ZERO of that ugly antialias. Finally! All is in perfect 2x (except when I screw things up using zoom in animations, but no one will find out!--whoops...).
And so, that's it for texts.
Now, let's have this here!
5 out of 8 character artworks! Yay! This could potentially mean a new release is coming. Or maybe it's just me teasing people to get attention. Who knows? Let's find out next time Jesus celebrates his birthday, maybe!
Time to eat, so, thanks for reading! See you next time damas y caballeros.
First of all, let's talk about text and dialogues. Thing is, I've finally fixed two annoyances I had before regarding text display. First one was, I was unable to use certain characters, like ♥. That was because of RMXP's script editor encoding. I don't know, it just loved converting ♥'s into ?'s. AND THAT MADE ME PRETTY MAD!
But I had this idea of using a small workaround to fix this. I made an extern script in Ruby...
Making it .rb because I like the icon!
...and imported it manually by using the built-in require function. It didn't worked because of some weird issues. I found out it was because of the file path containing a ö, and since this game hopes to be played by anyone and there are a zillion of people using éëê... I made a something that mimics the require.
def require_new(name)
eval(File.open(name).read)
end
As I wrote somewhere... the longest script code I've ever written...
That's it! That made my life easier! So I can now put things like this...
No, really. All this mambo jambo was because of that heart. ♥
The other issue I fixed today can be compared with the previous screen. Characters now have ZERO of that ugly antialias. Finally! All is in perfect 2x (except when I screw things up using zoom in animations, but no one will find out!--whoops...).
And so, that's it for texts.
Now, let's have this here!
5 out of 8 character artworks! Yay! This could potentially mean a new release is coming. Or maybe it's just me teasing people to get attention. Who knows? Let's find out next time Jesus celebrates his birthday, maybe!
Time to eat, so, thanks for reading! See you next time damas y caballeros.
Progress Report
THE Captain's Log #43 - Three member party!
Hello! This is me, your captain again. You know, this is a huge change, and it has several reasons to be. Some will think "meh! the real Final Fantasies used 4-man parties!". But then I say "you sure love Chronno Trigger, don't you?".
Ahem, what am I saying? I DON'T KNOW!
The party size has been reduced from 4 to 3. Why is that? Well, the space. My sprites are kind of big, and one particular party member needs a LOT of space *cough cough*. So, the change was made. I also revised the story, and saw that due to several cuts I made in game content (unuseful characters and things that only made things worse and gave me extra headaches), 50% of the time the most you have in your control are three members.
So, a friend said to me "why don't you..." and I said "Yeah! Why not!". AND THERE! Three member party!
This means huge changes obviously, both in interfaces and gameplay.
Feels like something can be accomodated into that extra space <3.
Position subject to change.
You know some people say: less is more. So I can go with that, polish the characters (7 characters, one optional, and two temporal, to a total of 10). And... yeah!
A little spoiler. If you finished the demo, you've already fought against the big guy I mentioned earlier.
Have a good day! And thanks for reading.
Ahem, what am I saying? I DON'T KNOW!
The party size has been reduced from 4 to 3. Why is that? Well, the space. My sprites are kind of big, and one particular party member needs a LOT of space *cough cough*. So, the change was made. I also revised the story, and saw that due to several cuts I made in game content (unuseful characters and things that only made things worse and gave me extra headaches), 50% of the time the most you have in your control are three members.
So, a friend said to me "why don't you..." and I said "Yeah! Why not!". AND THERE! Three member party!
This means huge changes obviously, both in interfaces and gameplay.
Feels like something can be accomodated into that extra space <3.
Position subject to change.
You know some people say: less is more. So I can go with that, polish the characters (7 characters, one optional, and two temporal, to a total of 10). And... yeah!
A little spoiler. If you finished the demo, you've already fought against the big guy I mentioned earlier.
Have a good day! And thanks for reading.
