ANARYU'S PROFILE

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author=Solitayre

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is me or the maker of this game is kinda gone?

The dynamic duo moved on to Unity a while ago, Anaryu still pops in now and again though.

I hope you enjoyed the game! I look back fondly on this one.

who are the dynamic duo?

i can talk with anaryu

Just too hard to make a game these days. : )
Get the itch every so often.
Sadly most downloads and stuff are dead on this site because my hosting went away long ago, we moved everything to itch.io though.

Pretty sure this crosses a vague line, but I wanted to make the ATB faster and there is a set of static values in the code that set how "fast" the system is:


The ATB is really kind of slow waiting for turns otherwise.

This would probably fall outside the range of what we can change since I'd be editing a core file, is that correct?
(silly these values aren't available in the editor to update, or at least I could not find anything and they're static in the code, but maybe there is another way to do it?)

Was a long month, but fun. Congrats to everyone who finished!

Hm, I like the node idea, I'll have to think about that, I bet I could come up with something there (made me think of the old FFT map.) Thanks for the advice. :)

Honestly we have so many ideas it's hard to decide what to work on next!

@Solitayre: I've got it at 6 playable characters now.

@MLG_Wannabe: You picked apart the two biggest weaknesses of this entry:
1. Some of the Raythe and "weird" stuff was a forced idea to try to match the theme, honestly I made it not match up with the theme very well to see making a quality game alone would win, or if the theme would end up being so important we'd be out of the running.

2. Ephrian's backstory simply came down to time constraints. The actual idea was for Flynn to have made a critical mistake but we had to simplify it since there wasn't time to expand the idea and make it impactful. Why Edan powers up is the major plot point for the second part.

When we do revisit while a lot of the basic plot structure will be there, the details would be rewritten pretty thoroughly.

Ugh, you guys have made me want to revisit this now. Maybe keep the 2D combat system but move it to Unity so I can do VN stuff. Visual Novel Maker would be way too difficult to implement that combat system in right now. Hm.

I bet these guys would look awesome as Live2D models.

Exactly how it works - you could take model files created by someone who has/works in Live2D and put them in your game without ever having to pay Live2D, just pay for the extension for VNM.

I'm really hoping VNM updates their Live2D support soon, it's currently a nasty mess, in particular it's inaccurate and a bit misleading (or they're keeping some secrets!)

The artist I work with picked up and learned Live2D and we've found that while models need to be in 2.1 (which isn't sold anymore but you can export to from 3.0!) the ANIMATIONS (motions) need to be in 2.0 to work! (This is also not sold... so technically making your own model potentially requires a cracked or illegal version of Live2D animation to work, whoops!)

Between me and her it's probably been about 25h+ figuring the 2.0 animations out; and then she had to redo a model because the nicer new features don't export to 2.1 properly, etc.

I feel is has great potential, and I'm glad they included Live2D support initially, but it needs to be updated ASAP since I feel it's a major selling point (the best engine for Live2D is Unity I believe, which is much much more complex to learn and work with.)