Yeah, sorry, for now I'm in the mood of "I do anything and put it on the page". But this is for backup purposes, personal use, AND also to leave some little details about how is going development, for the people that take some of their time to pass out (thanks people for your interest!). Still nothing flashy...

Directly from my changelog.txt...

That's the kind of notes I do when testing all stuff. I'm constantly running the game, and taking notes of things to change. Then start to change stuff. It makes life much easier, I think. That way, I can divide much more the time used for those things, since sometimes I'm short in it (20mins before classes! let's try THIS with that thing I saw before in the battle, or "let's test it again, I think I saw something awful somewhere").

Anyway. If you see that changelog (if you can, that fontsize is very small), you'll see that most of the changes refer to something battle related. So, yeah, I'm pimping battles a little. There will be flashy graphical things too! But these will be seen after the technical ones.

So, that's it for now, I thank you again for reading,
Orochii Zouveleki

Let's have cookies for dinner!

A lot of time since the last blog, and still no new images heheheh... So I'm doing this blog, to "explain" a little why is it, and give some small news at least. I think people normally tend to think that no activity means "this is dying". At least I do sometimes ahahaha!

Well, the thing is that I'm kind of busy with college assignments. A lot of them, to be exact. I'm not the kind of guy that uses "hiatus", so it will only mean that development will slow down a little by now. That's a little the reason why I haven't cared to update this page, to use the most spare time I have fixing stuff on the game, and trying to get some new content and shabranigdo-kazam (the word for magic).

So, changes:
Oct 3 -Due to some problems regarding to map looping, now the worldmap uses Mode7. Seems random right? Well, it isn't. It is a solution to some problems. The thing is I needed a tilemap rewrite with scaling support and loop compatibility (let's say, that worked like a plane instead of sprites). Didn't found any, and the solutions I had in mind were too inefficient and complicated. So, a good RM friend told me "why don't you just use the M7?" and I said "Why not?". So it is there.
That means also, riding on the airship includes the "Final Fantasy airship" perspective effect C:. I will give the best use i can to the Mode7. Without making all maps M7ed. I don't like it that much.

Oct 19 -Battle back layers sort-of like RM2k3, something I forgot to do before hahahaha! It supports infinite layers, both back and at front of the actors/enemies, also with movement (that's just some ox/oy change, it's easy as hell).

Since the beginning of time -Bug fixing here and there. As always, nothing gets to unbugginess state easily.

There are some other little details script-wise. And also I'm finishing a cave tileset. After that, I will have all necessary maps ready for action C:!.

So, that's it for now, thanks if you read it all =D,
Orochii Zouveleki

Well, probably the one reading this already knows, I changed to XP. And so with it, comes scripting. That's in what I'm focused for now, at least for the main systemathics. And so, I'll put a changelog for the week. The thing is to fill it with a lot of stuff, since I'm a pro and I'm fast BD. Just kidding. But I'm pretty fast to do stuff when I put my mind on it.

Anyway, here's the list of changes as it goes by now. I'll put a "starting point" this time, just for filling it properly, because there is the code that inspired me to even start with this.

STARTING POINT: Ccoa CBS EX edition Demo. So thanks goes to Ccoa (CBS base), MOG (graphical tweaks), XMS (CP stuff), Risefield (shadowed text), PARA (cursor).

September 8~9
- Started and finished the menu.
- Made some changes at the battle (double attack, etc).
- Incorporated the map wrapping from Dirtie.
September 10~12
- Database trespassing. Some battle testing regarding general formulae. General refinings at weapon's atk get methods.
September 13
- Made the vehicles stuff. Fully functional. Car, ship and aircraft.
September 14
- Group changes menu. Day/time.
September 15
- Target/scope changing. Back/pincer attacks partial support (needs some tweaks here and there).

TODO List:
Database, synthesis menues.
Revise Game_Party for Database.
Do synthesis extra definitions.

Acreditations list.
CCOA - Custom Battle Script
MOG - EX Version and Damage "System"
Midge - Double Sword/Shield Support
Wachunga - Multiple Message Windows
ForeverZero - MMW Optimizations
XMS - CP Stuff I think =D
PARA - Cursor add-on for windows
RiseField - Shadowed texts
Dirtie - Map Wrapping

For taking whole map "screens"
Bitmap to PNG - Cycleby
SephirothSpawn - Tilemap Class rewrite.

I'll be mantaining this log for now with this kind of info, just to have it by here. I already have a personal log inside the scripts hehe >_>, but in case something happens to it, this is here as a backup, and for anyone that wants to see... the changes as they get done hahaha!

Thanks for your time,
Orochii Zouveleki

I think the cheese has been synthesized for the sake of buddha.

Salut,
Orochii Zouveleki

'Ello! Doing uninteresting stuff is fun. This week, I have devoted myself to balancing and re-balancing. I have been lowering numbers on my game, so I have to balance some battles, and also work on them to be less... stupid (attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack attack).



For example, I balanced the "double attack", making it still worth it, but also making viable using the normal weapons. Double attack has low damage input (little less than normal damage, counting both hits), but high critical ratio, in a two-hit action (if you get ONE critical, it could do like... 2 times the normal damage, and if you get 2 criticals... 3 or 4 times?).
I made it so obtaining at least one critical per normal battle were easy. It depends on the equipped weapons, but anyway! (also single weapon attacks, since they are skills, can't do critical, so it makes them to stay way more apart one from the other...).

Also, while balancing, I get to think of better skills. I hate that my game is a little plagued of fire45s. I still try to make them a little different one from the other, and I use "skill upgrading" instead of stacking all same-technique versions. But still, I want some more variety.

One of the new skills makes drain techniques to work inversely. It means, that if monsterX tries to drain life from characterX, and he "activated" the skill, the monster will give its life to its target. It works by using the elemental resistances. It's one of the great things in RM2k3 (dunno if RM2k too)... damage output can be negative x'D!.
Drain techniques are somewhat common in my game (decreases your potential damage while throwing you to the reds), so it will make some sense. Also, because getting to 0MP makes you faint (talking about mana draining).

The other thing is a Autolife-like skill. It's kind of easy how it works. It resembles more to the "Endure" skill from Pokémon, but it does the same at the end. If one character has "whatevericallthestatus" status, when receiving lethal damage, the character will end at 1HP. That will make me to worry less from doing absurd killing machines! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!

And so, I think that leaves some more stuff clear of how the game is going to be. Sorry I don't have anything more graphical to show this week, but planning and overall design work (and college) takes its time!

Salut,
Orochii Zouveleki