FOMAR0153'S PROFILE

Realistically is any code ethical?

So a chain game:
I would prepare the base and then make the intro, I would then pass everything over to person 2, who would then add their contribution, then they would hand it over to person 3, etc, so nobody would particularly work together though we could ask for help if needed. This would continue until the last person (Ocean?) who would then end the game.

A stitch together:
I would prepare the base and then I would pass the files to everyone taking part. Everyone would make at least a town, a dungeon, and a class. They would then pass their files back to me and Ocean, and we would then assemble the game from them. If we did this then we would probably map out the game a bit e.g. who does the promotion quest, who has the airship unlock etc.



Still needs a lot of work to neaten it up but I did a good chunk of the party builder today. I'm thinking of displaying a summary sheet of the class on the right.

One thing that did come up during this, I did the two recolours you see for the Warrior, I attempted to do some recolours for other skin tones but I could not get them to look right. I was trying to stick to the NES palette but I think we can get away with adding a small number of colours to the palette in the name of inclusiveness.

Would someone who understands art/colours mind adding some darker skin tones for me please?

author=Red_Nova
In general, I'm in favor of giving players more options to customize their party composition and giving class designers more options to work with, so I vote 2. 3 is an cool idea, but not worth implementing just for magic alone.

Disclaimer: I only played the GBA version of FF1 once a loooooong time ago, so my memory if it is super hazy. Feel free to dismiss anything I say if it deviates from the goal of this game.

The goal is an homage, we can deviate. It is worth bearing in mind that the rpgs of the era that I'm familar with didn't generally offer much in customisation, FF1 on the other hand offered 6 classes and included promotion, more spells that you can learn, etc. One thing to note about individual inventories, it would make it a lot more feasible to implement ammo - I was thinking of choosing Ranger and am going back and forth on whether or not to include ammo.

author=Red_Nova

Unless there is an objection I think 6 levels of magic would probably more than enough. Should be easy enough to bump it up to 8 if we need to.

FF1 had 8 levels of magic, right? If we're going for 6 levels, then are you thinking of dropping all the level 8 spells altogether? Or would you replace some lesser used spells with level 8 ones? Also, I know people can design their own classes, but I assume we're only using black/white magic spells that are listed here?

No, I was thinking we would take inspiration but not just copy, though I imagine significant similiarity.

You could maybe use MV, I'm pretty sure MV imports into MZ.

I will investigate at some point before we do official sign ups.

Ocean and I spoke yesterday about potentially making an homage to Final Fantasy, we're talking pick four classes, lots of dungeon diving, not much talking, spell slots, etc. We did think it might make for a fun chain game or something like Befuddle Quest (Kentona is going to finish any day now I just know it!) where the people who want to join design a dungeon, a town, and a class and it's prestige class/es.

We are just looking to gauge interest at the moment, nothing is confirmed! Probably be at least a month (two?) until we got going.

Let us know if you'd be interested and your thoughts.