Spirit Recollection

Yeah, I think I'm done here. Despite the fact that I keep getting rather inspired on how to continue, I'm just simply don't have the time to keep going on a project that I'm sure will get overlooked by a lot of people. I don't think there's much of an audience for an RPG Maker project that doesn't have a dedicated artist and musician.. and I am neither.

If you ARE an artist or musician, and want to help out, lemmie know. Maybe I'll pick this up. But as it stands, between lack of time, lack of 'pop out' visuals, and just the fact that I really don't like designing dungeons (is it obvious from the Mansion?), I likely won't pick this back up.

I considered writing it as an ebook and putting it somewhere for a couple bucks or something, but I've come to the realization that I imagined these standout scenes WITH music, and they feel like they lack the 'punch' without it.

But, anyways, if you were looking forward to this, I'm very sorry. Maybe one day... but no promises.

I'm finally moving forward, felt a painful bit of writer/makers/whatevers block. I'm too busy planning what I see as the 'big' plot points, and find myself not interested in the regular bits. But, I'm determined, I still want this done by Christmas or so. If anyone's still around, thanks for stickin' with me!

Spirit Recollection, in general, is not a new idea from me in the least. A number of years ago, probably.... I'd say seven or so, I had this idea for a world where everyone was born with magic, except for the lead character. She and her friend would go off on a journey to find magic for the main character because of an event that happened early in the game. Sounds a bit like what I have now. Except for a load of major issues.

First of all, I didn't plan out a plot at all. I just dropped these characters in, added new characters when I wanted, had an annoying reoccurring pair of nonthreatening villains (Think Team Rocket from Pokémon), and my dungeons were commonly 3-4 screen boxes with straight paths. So it was pretty much the Final Fantasy XIII of it's time.

I didn't have an audience at that time, as there was no real 'database' of RPG Maker games at that time, either, and really, it's probably for the best. I used RTP graphics for everything, like now, only then I didn't add any detail to anything, and literally EVERYTHING was a box. Now, granted, I'm still not that great at detail and non-box-ness, but I've already WAY improved, thanks in part to being denied here, and spending a good 5 hours or so revamping older areas in my current game. The 'west coast' area and Capird Forest are the two that had the most work.

The music I used in my older game was usually from whatever obscure JRPG or otherwise Japanese game I'd been playing at the time, but in MIDI form, obviously. I can remember one moment where I'd just played Final Fantasy X, and I really wanted "To Zanarkand" to be in my game somehow.. so I made a person in a town's bar play it on the piano... after telling you that it's from Final Fantasy X. I don't know what I was thinking. I did have SOME standards, that was the only Final Fantasy song I used, I didn't want most people to 'recognize' what they were hearing. I used music from unpopular games and whatnot, like the Ys series. In my current game, I don't really plan on having outside music... except for possibly one bit near the end, I have a little-heard song from an older game that just sounds PERFECT for the main villain, when he's introduced, and a battle theme for fighting him. Would RMN be unhappy if I used it? I don't know..

Plot wise, I didn't have anything planned out. I made a world map, and, as I do now, I plan new continents and towns as I go along. However, the different is that now, my world map is potentially huge, and I have a clear 'end' point to my story. Back then, I didn't have a end point, nor did I have a large map for my world map. So, I ran out of areas. So what was my plan? Well, remembering Final Fantasy 8, "Let's send the party into space!". And that was where I ended it, because even I had realized, I'd hit the bottom of the barrel.

Or was it that there was no space tileset? ....probably the latter.