Provolone

It's been 10 years since I've made Provolone!
It's also been 10 years since I've broke up with my then boyfriend. Also 10 years I've been single. Also 10 years since I've last made another game named Provolone.

To celebrate this decade, I'm making a blog post. How celebratory!
That was it, bye.






Kidding, of course. Well, I guess I have two small pieces of news to share:
I've made Ruins of Provolone, a Provolone fangame. Officially, it's an unofficial fangame.



I've also uploaded Provolone to itch.io. On an all-new account I made for myself so i could publish non-commercial fangames with copyrighted MIDI soundtracks w/o worrying about revenue information because there's no revenue. Unlike SeraphCircle, where I sell my assets. Go check out my assets by the way! Please support me! I beg you! Uwaaaa!!!

That's it. In 2033 I'll release "Excavation of Provolone".

Honestly, I was replaying this again and I don't feel ashamed at all. xD
In fact, it's a pretty fun game in its own right, and more importantly, it served it's purpose: To relieve me of my emotional stress. To boot, it serves as a diary and record of my memories. This is great, because I actually have memory problems... xD
Anyway. I wish my life was still this... Memorable. I would love to work on a remake / reimaginaton / sequel to Provolone. Shamefully, however, the circunstances have changed far too much. enough for I not to connect with the game anymore in any meaningful way. It's past. ):
Design-wise, although this "game" is a convoluted mixture of non-delivered half-systems and haphazardly laid dungeons, it still had some nice ideas I really like. For instance, quite a big part of the game features highly explorable scenario, and since the characters are pretty much expies of real life people, the game explores a lot their personalities. For instance, in the two or three instances where you can freeroam with your second party member in a non-dungeon area, they walk close to you, and they always have 2 or 3 things to say, which in most cases describe their character and manage to be funny (to me. I can't really draw the line between internal and external jokes in this game).

Anyway, I am very happy I made this. It's pretty much a horrible game by any standards whatsoever, but it's got enough of its own flavour, and does its job as a foundation of my own future works, my initial experiences with RPG maker and, more importantly, my ability to convert my own personal stresses and emotions in art form. I should do this more, instead of doing completely washed-out and boring dungeon crawlers with no personality whatsoever like I did shortly after with carolyne (and with a few foldered projects in my PC)

:)

Also no one's gonna read this and this "game" is shit lol.

Eww, so this horrible mess of a game now's got a download.
Try to enjoy the small pieces of funny dialogue buried in boring gameplay and awkward locations as I scoff and try to move on to Provolone II or another game

at least

I COMPLETED SOMETHING

EVEN IF IT'S A SHABBY PRE-ALPHA HORRIBLE THING THAT'S DEFINITELY HORRIBLE

I've done a few pretty animations :~
There are a lot more done than what I'm posting here, but no way in hell I'm gonna break my bandwidth! ><

Water / Watera


Potions


Thunder abilities


Will casting Black Magic


Drain / Haste / Osmose magic


After I finish them and put my watermark on all of them, they'll be released for public usage. <3

As one can see, they were largely inspired by FFVI's aesthetics. *u*

I'm happy with them. It takes some skill to animate with those since you have to set up particle by particle (and rm2k / 3 only allows for 8 layers per frame) BUT also adds more freedom! <3 ~