AVEE'S PROFILE

Currently metagaming Final Fantasy VIII: I just beat Ultima Weapon with the 3 male characters on Level 10-11 with overpowerful junctions. A single Renzokuken was all it took for the boss to die ^^
Next I'll be raising the 3 guys' Levels to 100 with the Stat Bonuses equipped.
It's fun to "break" the game... yet it does take away a lot of suspense during fights...

World maps with random battles usually allow the use of some actions that are disabled in dungeons, such as saving the game or changing your party members. These maps can act as "training areas" before you reach your next dungeon, which usually proves to be more challenging than what you've faced on the map.
Some areas of the world map can also offer extra events and sidequests to the player who will take the time to explore it thoroughly (ie recruiting Yuffie in the wooded areas in FF7). I believe these kind of world maps need to be full of options and interactivity in order to be interesting...

...While a world map without random battles' purpose is just to give the player a sense of where to go next and to quickly take him/her there. Therefore these world maps should be small and/or allow fast movement between the different locations. I think these maps' design and graphics usually look nicer to rouse players' interest in them since there's almost no interactivity.

The coding doesn't seem too complicated to me. The real pain is the tediousness of it, and having to draw hundreds of images...

EDIT: added a screenshot of the Judgment Ring.


So far I've coded a battle system base and a lottery event, both working fine using the Judgment Ring. I still have some graphics to add and write a tutorial explaining how to draw your own Ring Areas and code them.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

I've been looking all over google to see if anyone managed to recreate the Judgment Ring system under Rpg Maker 2k to VX, from the Shadow Hearts game series. And I found that it seems a few people attempted to over the years but never ever completed or released anything.
To take a look at this fun and innovative battle system, watch this (skip to 1:15) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OczBEkrHi3A

Now I'm posting this because I might just have succeeded in recreating that system under 2k3.
The event writing is actually quite simple, combining a few variables operations and Show/Move Images while keeping track of key press timing.
If anyone is interested in such a system, let yourself be heard and I'll start working on a demo to show it and share it with you.

EDIT: So far I've coded a battle system base and a lottery event, both working fine using the Judgment Ring. I still have some graphics to add and write a tutorial explaining how to draw your own Ring Areas and code them.
Here a first screenshot of the ring:

Only the story overview is taken from the NES Astyanax game. The game itself doesn't seem to have anything in common with it.