DESERTOPA'S PROFILE

You might be able to turn outputs from that avatar creator into busts or faces for the game, but it seems to me like it wouldn't be a great choice if you're making a lot of characters with it, because there's only one possible facial structure, and the placement of the features doesn't vary, so even though you can generate a huge number of outputs, it wouldn't take the player long to notice that they're all variations on the same face. It's a shame though, because I think the outputs look really good if you're using it for a one-off.

I might be misjudging them, but I don't think those sprites are the standard size for VX ACE? So you might be able to incorporate them, but I think they'd have a hard time meshing with the default tilesets. There are probably ways to make it work, but I'm still a beginner with a lot of this stuff.

I actually specifically looked for the Face Maker before, since I'd seen its outputs in other games, but I couldn't find it. Thanks for the link.

I might get the Game Character Hub for later projects, but I think the Face Maker has everything I need for this one.

I can do sprite recolors, and possibly some frankensteining if necessary, but I don't have the art skills to edit portraits to accompany them, so face generators are higher priority than sprite generators. I've done some searching around already, but my results are mostly leading me to broken links, defunct pages, downloads that don't work on current hardware, etc. Does anyone know where I can find resources of this type that are definitely still usable?

I think Bioware is the company best known for implementing this kind of ideological friction between protagonists, but the games which I thought had the most interesting approach to it were the Devil Survivor games in the Shin Megami Tensei superseries. Not that I'd recommend the approach they used to most designers, but I thought they were good examples of how you can build a plot around a cast of protagonists whose ideologies are not merely in friction, but are so irreconcilable that it ultimately prevents them from agreeing on a way to address a major existential threat.

This would be really, really easy to do badly, and probably completely ruin a game with, but I give them a lot of credit for pulling off a good implementation of a sort of conflict which as far as I can tell nobody else was really trying.

Actually, my preference as a writer tends towards distinctly non-subtle romance, but Ephiam's vision was to keep the signs of their feelings to hints.

Here's another tidbit. When Lifa says in the scene with Baolovar in Old Yurudos that "we've learned a thing or two here anyway," rather than the revelations about Veryl, she's mainly thinking of the discovery that Sando will prioritize her safety over getting an edge on Veryl.

Also, for another note on something that readers would be even less likely to infer from the dialogue. When Lifa says in the Arvandi Woods that the throne "isn't worth having..." that wasn't the complete thought there which she trailed off at. What she was thinking, as I wrote it, was "It's not worth having your family die for." This is an allusion to her rarely mentioned older brother who died before the start of the story, leaving her next in line for the throne. So she's thinking about the contrast between Giruvega, who cursed his brother in order to get at the throne, whereas she loved her brother and as far as she's concerned becoming first in line to the throne has only made her life worse.

Of course, this is completely opaque from the dialogue I wrote, but I like to leave some stuff behind the scenes where it influences the characters' feelings and actions even if the player doesn't know about it.