DREADED'S PROFILE

For making my own games, I've always used small numbers, part of which may be influenced by some of my favorite games (Baldur's Gate for example) and partially because I've found it a little easier to manipulate the system to do what you want and eliminate so much volatility.

I figured the chains, since this is fantasy, help to make Odoacer look more villainous/tyannical (since I am depicting him as such for purposes of this game).

I could remove the chains. Also, they are chained to the back wall, which is why they reach so far back. This could be easily edited in order to chain to the wall closer.

As far as sprites, yes they're all based on PS4 sprites - they were the most proportional sprites I found that were in the 32 pixel spectrum

I remember the days of RM95 when I was trying to build a Legend of Zelda game followed by an FFVI sequel (tried to pull off side view battles using backgrounds lol). Then I played Crestfallen.

Fact is, it's going to take a couple of tries (maybe 3-5) before you actually start making anything somebody else besides yourself will enjoy.

Not so much a place of despair - this is where the Nibelung dwarves live, underground. This is actually a place of faith - a tree grows in the underground. I'm trying to stick to the true depiction of Germanic pagan faith in which places of worship are near a natural phenomenon. The blood is due to the sacrifices to the Gods.

Well, I have done that to an extent - there's regular cave areas, there's the underground city area, then there's the mines where there's wooden support beams and mine tracks, and then there's the western area which is more like a "countryside" type region (as much as I could do underground) which is still underground but I'm using a different chip for this (rudra caves) because I wanted brown caves because its more earthy there.

The chipset was not made by me though, but by theodore and many of the objects are ripped from various games. (The kiln for example is from Legacy of Kain and the gold piles from Actraiser (I believe)).