Final Fantasy Discovery

Hello folks!

It's the month of October and progress towards our next Final Fantasy Discovery build has been ramping up in intensity. As I've mentioned before, William and I trying to meet a specific goal within the next few months and we've been working extremely hard to try and reasonably make that happen within that time frame.

As some of you may have picked up here and there from comments, William and I have begun to overhaul many of the existing components of the game from its old 2013 RSW iteration. Battlers, maps, sprites, events, quests, fights and even the GUI are all on the chopping block/in the editing room in various degrees. What we're doing essentially is stripping away much of the old game and replacing it from the ground up. This is, and has been, an immense undertaking for two people so I'd like to thank each and every one of our subscribers and supporters for being patient with us. As many people on this site know firsthand, its difficult juggling real life and non-profit video game development at the same time. The difficulty is multiplied considering that I fully expect our finished product to be similar in length to a traditional Final Fantasy game.

Now... onto some more artistic information... Thanks to our decision to move away from the FF4:CC character battlers, we're now afforded the liberty of redesigning some of our main playable character cast! There are currently 3 playable characters who's past designs are now on the chopping block. They are Ashe, Reeve and Lyra. Lyra in particular had some major inconsistencies between her battler sprite and her field sprite (really... they were glaring!). I can now do away with such annoyances and simply redesign her from the ground up. I expect her physical appearance won't deviate too much from what some of you have already seen, but we can definitely say goodbye to her white dress and hideous armor pauldrons. :)

Anyhoo, as promised in my last blog post... here are some portrait spoilers for you all! Kudos to those of you who can pinpoint exactly who the characters on the left and middle are. The one on the right is the new design for our one eyed dragoon, Reeve Highwind. These will probably be the last artwork spoilers I show until after our new build has been released.



So... some small but important tidbits:

-William and I are still on the lookout for mappers and spriters! Don't get us wrong, we're fully capable of doing the jobs (as we have been up to this point). We're simply looking for an extra hand or two in order to lessen our enormous work queue burden. Like William stated in his last blog post, give either of us a PM if you're interested!

-If you haven't already, please click on the RMN Soundtrack Voting link towards the top of our game page and peruse the last few posts for some minor instructions. We're currently holding an open vote to determine the 'World Map' music that we will be using for our new Travel System. Please feel free to share with us your input!

-William has created an official twitter page for Final Fantasy Discovery! If you're on twitter or into social media in general, stop on by. Don't hesitate to follow us if you're interested in getting access to the more minute updates to FFD's development progress. The link is towards the bottom right of our game page on the twitter widget!

-I also want to thank those of you who shared with me your opinions on potential Final Fantasy guest characters from my last blog post. Make no mistake, your voices were heard!

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Until next time!