Hey there, Jaymonius here with some creative criticism required and the like.

So for the last while I've looked at Valerie's idle pose and just went... it looks... ehhhh... making a idle pose for her has proven... fruitless, so I went with the next best thing.

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I'd have to touch it up a little bit, but it'd be the basis for it at least. What's your input mates?

H-Hey there, Jaymonius here and mostly just sayin'... hey, thanks for supporting this game, the demo has now reached 200+ downloads so far. And it's just the beta demo at the least.

I'm thinking of releasing a new demo within' the next month or so, maybe once I finish up the Wind Temple dungeon I'm working on. I am not going to just rush making dungeons like I did in the past games, if these dungeons are going to be made, they're going to be made right!

(And I think that's part of the reason why this game is going to be so long because of this, ha ha ha!)

Well, keep up the support guys, it really helps with the motivation to keep going at this game. :D

Unrelated, but if you wanna check up on some of the stuff I work on that I don't post here, just check my twitter. :P

Well, time to keep working on this next enemy sprite.

Got the idle pose made, now for everything else. XD

Hey there, Jaymonius here with another progression update!

Back in Phantasia 5, when you leveled up with a Magic Craft, you would increase certain stats depending on the Magic Craft you equipped. But unfortunately due to the way the damage formula worked in rm2k3, the defenses were almost pointless, luckily that's remedied in RMVXAce :D

To add though. This time the feature is returning, but instead all equipment will have bonuses that will help increase your stats further. Each weapon will be different from the other in terms what level up bonuses you have, so if you feel you're lacking, equip the sword that'll make up for what you're lacking.

I'm sure by the end of the game, your heroes will be tanked... But so will the enemy, hence the reason for this oh-so-wonderful addition! :D And even if you feel you lack the necessary items to boost said stats, there'll be those stat raising items you can consume to make up for that.

I've been on a roll on this since I went on my vacation, I'm trying to cover as much ground in terms of plot. A couple have asked if my villain has been decided, and yes, there is a villain, but it's definitely someone you wouldn't expect it to be.

As a note though, if I didn't mention it before I'll mention it here, to really get a bigger understanding on where Phantasia 6 is coming from, it is HIGHLY recommended to play Phantasia 2 Redux and Phantasia 5.

While Phantasia 2 Redux is not finished, it has finished up to a very important point which will have some relevance in Phantasia 6. This is going to be the one game that will require you to play the other games, BUT, should you not want to do that, you can always read the History of Gaia page and it'll give you a very quick synopsis of the past 5 games timeline wise.

Anyway, that's all from me. Back to the dungeon with me.

Hey there, Jaymonius here with yet another blog so quickly after the last one, but it's mostly a discussion based topic about the feeling of completion.

Ever have that feeling of wanting to hurry up and rush to your favorite parts in your game? Like the big reveal but hate doing the work needed to make the build up for said parts? (I know I certainly do at some points.) Even when playing games when you're heavily anxious to get to one of your favorite scenes in a game.

I can safely say I got 90% of the story planned out, but executing them is where I start to go, how am I going to execute this particular scene, etc. Will I have to cut this from here? Or will I have to cut that from here? I ended up doing that a LOT with Phantasia 5, as there was planned to be a more darker alternate ending to the game than the original.

But, I'm not having it this time, as I do still intend to do a light path and a dark path at one point. Keep in mind though, these paths will happen during the last portion of the game, and the dark path will be shorter, it is more depicted as a what-if scenario. But it's a scenario I sorta want to do and see some people's opinions on it, because the consequences for doing these actions is severe, and you will be submitted to some of the more harder boss fights in the game as well.

And this is the part where I wanna get to that part sooooo bad, but I still have a bunch of other stuff that needed to be worked on, the elemental dungeons, other stuff in the story, the sidequests (oh god, the sidequests.)

Though one thing that has been in previous Phantasias I may exclude from this is the Arena, I cannot find a place to put an arena in, and I feel it gets repetitive and boring after a while. If I am to add an arena, I'd sooner want to make it something like where you are given 20-30 tasks to do, and once all 20-30 tasks are finished in the arena, you'll fight the champion. A similar arena like that was in Wild Arms 4, and I really like how it was done, just doing something like that will be difficult to try. X_X;

And on a completely different subject change. The monius went to Japan a couple weeks ago, and lemme tell ya, IT WAS AWESOME. :D Makes me wish I was there longer, I'd memorize EVERYTHING about their transit system. :D

Hey ya'll, Jaymonius here with some stuff to discuss.

So, as per the Phantasia tradition, there'll be elemental themed dungeons, but I want to add a little more oomph to these dungeons as these dungeons will be optional to complete, but they will have to be completed eventually in the story. So they can be completed at your own pace until the point in time when said dungeons need to be completed to further the story, the enemies in said dungeon will be based on the strength of the current party up until a certain point, so for the most part, the stronger you are, the stronger they'll be.

Thing is, I want these Elemental Dungeons to be very highly puzzle based, and I recently just implemented Casper Gaming's Dungeon Tools script with a few tweaks here and there to help with my tool per character thing.

As an example, whenever Fran is the party leader she can shoot fireballs, which can be used to hit objects from afar to solve puzzles, among other uses. (I'm thinking what to implement with that.) So, naturally, Fran will be required for a lot of water and fire based puzzles. (As an example.)

Now, to stop beating around the bush. WHO WANTS TO HELP ME MAKE SOME DUNGEONS! :D I require people's expertise in making a Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Dark and Light dungeon. Anyone with some good dungeon design ideas they'd like to share and help out with, that'd be awesome, and it'd help speed up production too. :D

I'm open for input, GIMME INPUT! Well, until next time. :P