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State of the Realm Address

  • kentona
  • 01/31/2018 04:27 PM
  • 2108 views
Hello my fellow game developers and game players.

Less than 1 year has passed since I first started work on this remaster. I have come bearing some news on the resource development. I have been unable to get a hold of Bigwig since November 19th, 2017. If you recall, he was my monster spriter and concept artist



I suspect that this lack of communication is due to my work on the project stalling since October (due to real life getting busy), and Bigwig has a couple of other commercial contracts (that indubitably would pay more than my feeble budget) and that those projects were in crunch time. I hope that Bigwig has just been too busy to respond. I hope he isn't avoiding me because he feels guilty! Bigwig, if you happen to read this, please get in touch! I only have your email address and RMN account to get a hold of you. I appreciate what you have done so far.

Archeia_Nessiah approached me on Discord last week, and offered to help out in the interim until I can reestablish contact with Bigwig. We haven't formalized an agreement yet, but we are in discussions! Archeia will start by looking at what she can do to help me with battle backgrounds.


Avee has been hard at work on battle sprites. Avee has easily been the most consistent producer of this entire project so far. Here is a sampler of his latest fantastic work:



Avee has been tasked with character sprites and battle sprites. We have had early talks about tilesets and battle weapons, too.


zDS has drafted up a new battle theme for the remaster. You can give a listen to it here:

https://rpgmaker.net/users/zDS/locker/Heros_Realm_Battle_12022017.ogg

I like it (and admittedly, liked it more than the first attempt. Though it was good, too). I will be taking stock of the music that zDS and pianotm have crafted so far and touching base with them shortly to finish off the score. They made amazing progress at the beginning of this remaster, and it's time to bring it together and try to finish the soundtrack over the next couple months.

Beyond the tilesets, battle backgrounds, battle weapons, and the current question mark regarding enemies, I am still in need to arrange battle animations, sound effects, and a title screen (the one I have on this gameprofile is just a placeholder).

For sound effects, I am under the impression that I can use RM2k3 sound effects in a commercial work (as long as I credit them appropriately). So those, combined with some bfxr creations of my own, will have to suffice. (unless people can suggest some free alternatives that would match a 16 bit retro game?)

For battle animations, I am a bit stuck. My budget is tight. My current plan is to try my hand at them myself, based heavily on Final Fantasy IV, V and VI sprite rips. It depends on how other areas of the budget play out, and how my personal efforts turn out, determines how I proceed in this area. I actually want to try my hand at making battle animations, so don't be too alarmed.

I don't have a good idea in my mind yet for a title screen, which is why I haven't sent out any feelers on having one made. The original titlescreen is patented kentona style: Google image search + photoshop font effects. A sword isn't even central to HR's theme. It just looked cool (imho). I need to brainstorm on this.

Lastly, starting next week, I am going to make a strong push on the development of this game, and kickstarting the project back up from this relative 'idle mode' to 'consistent production mode'.

Thanks for reading and taking an interest in my project. Aremen.

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unity
You're magical to me.
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Best of luck, and hopefully your concept artist returns!

Really digging that new battle theme! Awesome work, zDS! :DDDD

I'd offer to do battle animations for you myself if I wasn't already busy on a couple of projects. I find them fun to work on, and hopefully you'll do well with them ^_^
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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Yay I was mentioned! I promise I will get back onto making stuff for this very soon! I've been nibbling away at the Boss song but I'm not sure I'm happy with it. (I'll send it to the boss man soon enough nonetheless.) I want to touch up some of the songs I got done as well, as I have better pc/headphones now.

Also, thanks unity! Super glad you liked it.
author=Craze
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Thanks! I'm going to need it... T_T)
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