CHILLY-PHEESE-STEAK'S PROFILE

The first two Paper Mario games have simple battle systems that work fairly well. Basic enemies require a little strategy so you can't just mash attack to win. And outside of the level up and badge systems the damage numbers were completely static and very low which allowed for easy balancing.

@pinkitt & Dookie those screens look fantastic. I'm totally jealous.


I've been messing around with the message boxes a bit and came up with this spiral notebook motif. I like it so much may just end up basing the whole menu system around it.


Here's the mostly finished version of that Cheerleader thing from before.


Aaaand here's what happens when you miss. (You can also see I've been messing around with the battle HUD a bit.)

This is how I control the hp bars in my game. As you probably guess this makes the hp meter change numbers instantly, however I'd like the number to tick down 1 hp at a time (even if it was faster than the eye could follow). Is there a way to do this?

I know I could set conditional branches for every possible value of variable 95 and then manually add the appropriate number of subtractions to variable 102 but that seems like it would take forever too do and would probably bog the game speed down.

I'm glad everyone likes my screens I was worried they didn't look all that good.

author=InfectionFiles
And that's amazing Chilly, is there someone in that garbage can? :o

That's an enemy called the Trash Pixie. It lives in the can a throws garbage at people.

author=InfectionFiles
And I just noticed the curtain closing to reveal the selected outfits, that's just brilliant and such a small thing that gives it an OOMPH!

Yeah I'm proud of that. Originally the outfits and appearance window were on separate screens but when I decided to fuse them together I came up curtain idea.

author=Merlandese
FFT does, but I don't think Pokemon does. Realistically your enemy is another Trainer, and every setup the other Trainer has is a setup you can have. FFT bosses are a little less symmetric than Pokemon bosses because even though their movesets and stat formulas are crafted within the same guidelines as your own, you'll never be able to do what they do.

Pokemon does too it's just more subtle, besides Ratty's example with Trainers having under leveled Pokemon, there exist these things called IV's which are more or less genes that the Pokemon are born with. All the end game bosses have pokes with the absolute best IV's and while the player can get those too the amount of time and effort required isn't something most players are willing to deal with.