I've been busy with this end of semester and "finals" (on my career this is called project evaluations, since we don't have exams but whatever). And what's worse, this Otto hurricane affected my country so my university was on hold for at least 4 days, and evaluations were moved one week. It's a mess, I need to visit my family 'cause they were closer to the vulnerable parts on this and... Iesus Christ.

Good thing is that I can invest all this weekend for nothing else than Solitude. So even if I'm out of schedule, demo is still for this month. First days of december at most.

I also did a quick thing on Unity, let's say I've been considering changing the engine because of reasons. But not for this demo at least.

Hope anyone affected by the hurricane is ok. This came out of the blue, literally.

Hello! It's me again! Quite some weeks have passed already.

I will get straight to the point. I've been very busy and haven't had time for the game, so I know the target completion date for the game, which is set for November 24th of this year, will be unreal to accomplish for the entire game. Also I'm considering making this commercial and overall give it some more polish, so it will take more time to develop.

This game started as a summission for a contest, but I believe I'll be stepping out of it, unless they accept it as a demo.

Because I'm keeping the completion date as the demo release date, there will be something to play November 24th. It will feature one of the sections and its boss. Keep in mind this demo will feature Kevin MacLeod's music. I'm saving money for a soundtrack, I don't want to kickstart it or anything.

After that, I believe there will be at least 6 more months of development, after those 6 months I will then update the target release date as I will know best how close the game is to be complete.

So yeah, that's what has been crossing my mind all these days while I've been with no sleep and no time for anything else other than work work work. My gam mak spirit hurts. I want to gam mak so much...

Thanks for reading!

Hello again! So, I know that installers and all that should be one of the last things you should think about when making a game but, it's one thing that I wanted to solve because of an important change I made this week.

I've been a fan of using the RGSS3 in RPG Maker XP games (through the XPAce project that people in the Chaos Project forum host). But, I don't know if it's something with the RGSS3 itself or just some error in my game scripts or something, I encountered this nasty Protection error 103 that no one knows why exist. Because Archeia is probably the only person I've read had experiences with it. When it crashed, the windows debugger sent me to a piece of XPATilemap.dll but... you know that delving into assembly is not the solution when you're using RPG Maker!

So! I went back to good old RGSS1. No audio features, no automatic screenshots, and sadly no font folder recognition thing. So this makes the installer a necessity. Fortunately I just got Clickteam Install Creator Pro from the ongoing Humble Bundle, so yay! There is an installer now.



Sadly I've seen that changing from RGSS3 to RGSS1 actually makes a change in performance, on this computer at least it went down from 59-60fps to 40-59fps! (Windows 10 64-bit), sometimes even gets to single digits but it happens after the PC has been on for a while. In another PC (Windows XP 32-bit) it makes no difference. And I still have to try it on my other PC (Windows 10 32-bit).

I always check these kind of things because being able to play the game is the most important thing, so if one of these accesibility parts suffer, I feel very dissapointed and on the need of doing something about it. That's my reasoning for delving into installers just at mid of the game development stage.

So I hope you people don't mind!

On the other hand, I've got quite a lot of the first section of the game made in a couple of days. I hope to get more time to work on this, but overall I think things will be on time. :^)



It doesn't really matter what part of the game I develop (in terms of places, I mean) because the game is open ended, so my plan right now is making all the "blue part" first. Including the boss of that section. And I also need to implement some new enemies, and some "trap" enemies too. I also need to focus a little more, because making interactable things is also fun. \( ºAº)/



Thanks for reading!

Hello! This is me, Orochii Zouveleki, starting another blog.

Solitude is a game vaguely inspired by a lot of things but mostly inspired by Metroid because I recently beaten Super Metroid and I'm in love.

At the start I was going to use an old "Resident Evil engine" (script) but after trying it out I didn't liked it. Both XAS and BlizzABS has way too much things I'm not interested in. SO! I made my own thing, the only code I borrowed was an old pixel movement made by derula. It's kind of chunky but that's how I like it! And this way I feel things are made for the game, not the other way around.

So I made a shooting system which works similar to XAS: Spawning events from a "tool" map and all that. I'm ok with how it went, but since they're events bullets have a huge bounding box, so they get stuck everywhere.

Oh yes! This game has a timer! It is my entry for a contest on a Spanish community, so it's set to be made in 3 months. The game has a launch/end time, which corresponds to that. The game will be out in Spanish that day, and then I'll take the time and translate it.

I'm planning on having lowest amounts of text as possible. I'll be doing small illustrations for cutscenes or anything in order to reduce that amount as much as I can.



I'm trying to use all kinds of cutscenes using pictures, things floating around, rotating, etc. Trying to make it stand out somehow, unlike most of my games whose suffer of oversimplification (?). Or that's how I feel.

So yeah! Thanks for reading!