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Fflo
Be careful ! I'm French
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I've been using RPG Maker for quite a long time... But I've switched to Ren'Py.

I can create scripts, but don't expect me to be as good as Yanfly or Moghunter!
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Florian's Eyes

Thanks for the quick review!

- It's the first time I export something made with RMXP. I thought the RGSS104 file was automatically added.

- I didn't do a lot of research actually but my sources were complete. The French Wikipédia page about wicca, the English one ; and a 16-minute French video about wicca. Using FreeMind (a software for creating mind-maps) should be a must-have for the RM community.

- I'm not surprised to see you've found the game a little underwhelming. It's not easy to make a captivating game with just dialogues and knowledge about wicca. I wish I had done something more complex with a little exploration. (To be honest, I planned to give the player a mission to get some fruit but my map size is 120x120 and there's just a third of it which was completed. Mapping some
woods is long, especially with my tileset.)

- I decided to make my character stay less longer. It would have been rather repetitive and bland to watch the same things over and over. The Sabbats and Esbats happen every 40 days and my character is unable to stay for so long only to attend them.

- I know that the teacher's class is rather boring but it's justified. There are some children in the village (7 / 30) and those don't go to school.

- Some mini-games would have been interesting. Didn't think about them.

Honestly, even if you had mixed feelings about my game ; I think it's the best event game I've made on RMN.

Florian's Eyes

Oh my god.

Relieved to see the game doesn't work for those who don't have RTP!
I'm fixing it now (it's just missing the charset file for the envelope).
Wait for a while before I edit this message to tell the game's working again.

Edit: it should work now.

50 Days of Representation

And it's finished for me. (Wow, I'm only the second to have finished!)

So:
- Size of 32 Mb, RPG Maker XP RTP not required
- Novel is 20 to 30 minutes long ; depending on your reading speed
- No readme file (too lazy to add it) ; but the credits are present at the end
- The game page is here
- Only tested the English story, but it should work for the French one too

Now it's time to prepare an argumentation for the potential critics.

50 Days of Representation

News of the week:
The novel is over! (The French version only, but it's getting good!)
With 29 minutes, I'm glad to announce you I've reached the 20-minute limit required.

Now it's time for me to improve the graphics, and add some music.
I should change some villagers' sprites too. (e.g: the teenagers, they are as tall as adults ; even if they're only 13!)

And after that, go to the English version!

50 Days of Representation

News of the week:
Written a lot of dialogues! Tested and improved the first half. The game's currently 14 minutes long.
And I've posted my gamepage too: Florian's Eyes, but I'll be adding English screenshots when the French version will be finished.

And finally:
I'd like to turn Florian's Eyes into an episodic game ; only if the Wiccans episode gets a fine review.
(I guess the score will be around 2.5-3.5 stars.)

50 Days of Representation

News of the week:
Not so much progress actually. I've just improved the intro map (my home), added a few dialogues and did a sort of tent in parallax mapping!

And a funny monologue at the intro ; where I think on what to take before I leave:
- The last book of Harry Potter? I'm not sure the spells inside will work in real life. If I say "Avada Kedavra" to Sandra: either she'll consider me crazy, either I'll kill her in an awful way.

50 Days of Representation

News of the week:
Well, not too much work on the dialogues... The most important thing I did was using a generator to create every villager's sprite. But I'll be changing a few villagers as some of them really look like to others, and there's no children.
(One of the wiccans was a teacher and he's giving class to the village's children.)


This is the title screen. Some cricket sounds make the music.


Dialogue: "My grand-mother Abigail is the village's chief. She conducts the rituals."
(And don't worry, I'm starting with the French version but I'll make the English one when I'll have finished!)

50 Days of Representation

About the dates, there's something fishy:
author=Rules
Event runs from Saturday the 11th July until Monday the 18th August

For me, from July 11th to August 18th = 37 days, not 50 ; unless you use an alternative method for calculating dates.

And the news of the week:
I've started the main map. As you see on the list of teams, I've chosen RPG Maker XP as the engine. By the way, my team's name is "Fflo's 'Rendez-vous en terre inconnue' with the wiccans". The French title is a TV show where celebrities are sent to an isolated place in the world to meet a tribe and live with them for a few days.
The game's gonna be another kinetic novel (already done that kind of game to Rainbow of Positivity, but that wasn't so amazing), with a few choices in the dialogues. It will be a bilingual French/English game, with the language chosen on the title screen.

50 Days of Representation

Here's what I plan to do (posted on the Discord channel before):

The game would be focused on dialogues. You would play as myself, an essay writer. My next book will be about wiccans, a group of "sorcerers of modern times". I sent a letter to a wicca female member who's living with her group in an isolated forest in Wales. My trip there will make me get some ideas for my essay.

I'm just unsure on the main style:
- A walking simulator with NPCs introducing the wiccan culture to you? (Already did a walking simulator for Valentiny. Satisfying for the visuals, but it was rather bland after all...)
- An horror game with crazy fanatics? (That would be fun, but horror games are not my cup of tea)

RMN Stats from May 2020

Didn't realize I had MS greater than 2000.