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Progress Report - 12/30/21 - Story, Sprites, and RPG News

  • Vis_Mage
  • 12/30/2021 06:29 PM
  • 1030 views
Hey everyone, I hope you all had a great holiday week!

To start off this well-overdue update, several more overworld sprites have been completed. At the moment, there are only a small handful of remaining overworld sprites yet to be finished. Let me know how you think they’ve turned out!



The next point I wanted to address has to do with the story. I’ve gone back and forth about how exactly I wanted to handle things, whether to stick with the more traditional Pokemon style, or to go for something far different, or even to meet halfway. Ultimately though, I think I’ve settled on which I wanted to go for, all of them! More specifically, I’m thinking of allowing you to choose one of several campaigns at the start of the game, each one following one of three important characters who cross paths multiple times throughout their journeys.

The first campaign is the most traditional of the three, and will be what the currently existing portion of the game will be reworked into, retaining the usual butting heads with the bad guys, and taking on the gym challenge.

Second is Rosalyn. (As a note, these names here are the names given to these characters when not playing their campaign. When playing as them, you have the option to set their name) Her campaign will follow more of a “Pokemon Ranger” approach, focusing more on events happening in the region, rather than aspiring to take on the league.

And lastly, there’s Zade. His campaign will be from the perspective of the enemy team, at least initially, and will delve into his reasons for joining their cause, and the emotional weight that it has on him.

With all that said, I plan on finishing up the original campaign prior to starting work on the remaining two, so as not to further delay the game.

Lastly, I have some news about the other main project I’ve been working on. I’ve mentioned it a few times before, but in case you hadn’t seen it, it’s a more traditional JRPG that takes place in the same world as Pokemon RMN. It’s been pretty fun actually to think about how many of the ‘mons would function as more traditional RPG enemies as opposed to Pokemon, it opens up a whole new realm of possibilities with specific battle strategies and gimmicks that aren’t feasible in a Pokemon battle. The game takes a lot of inspiration from the Golden Sun series, with a lot of focus on exploration and using magic outside of just battle to solve environmental puzzles. Anyway though, if anyone’s interested in knowing more about it, just let me know. I’ll likely set up a gamepage for the project before too long. It’s still got a while to go before a demo would be ready, but I thought perhaps some of you would be interested in seeing how the Ahremin region and its diverse range of creatures would translate into a more traditional JRPG setting.

As for the next update, it’ll likely revolve around changes to mapping. One of the bigger tasks brought on by moving away from the Pokemon brand has been changing out the project’s tileset with non-Pokemon tiles, and remapping to fit the new tiles. Not the most difficult task, but one that’s taken a long while.

Have a Happy New Year everyone! :)

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Thanks for the update! Splitting the campaign into three different characters sounds hella cool but pretty ambitious, so I hope that goes well ^^;;
Seiromem
I would have more makerscore If I did things.
6375
I will always be watching and supporting whatever happens with this series.

I can totally see some of these RMN mons fit some RPG common enemies, some loosely and some literally being based on them (Siremp=Siren, Dwarkin=Dwarf, Tricalp as a hydra type enemy, etc).

In regards to the exploration focus one, it would be cool for the RMNmons to have some special ability used as a key to unlock progression. Miceberg digging through dirt or ice to find items, Levitomb acting as a key for ancient ruins, Tomamight taking control over some vines to make a bridge, and so on.
iddalai
RPG Maker 2k/2k3 for life, baby!!
1194
Hiya,

Please remove me from the Pokemon RMN Version devs list.

I think you're doing a great job at managing the project and it's disheartening to see how there's almost no new posts on the game page or your blog posts (I'm to blame for that too).

Good luck,

Cheers!

(I tried to send a PM but it failed over and over again)
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