GRETGOR'S PROFILE

author=Punkitt
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Here's a battle screen for my new project, Astral Guard!
(and here's another, actually!)
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Fighting never looked so adorable! <3

author=orange-
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Here's a screenshot from me too:
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Love the isometric style, really cool sprites too!

author=KoopaKush
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Here's a map and some reflections I've been working on. Gonna have fun with mirrors in particular with it being horror after all :D
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This is looking sweet! Can't even tell it's RM2K3.

Frogge, that looks sweet! By the way, I'm using some of your Refmap edits on my jam entry <3

author=Aegix_Drakan

author=Gretgor
I love this! You can't forget the helpful doggo <3

Doggo's mostly going to be a support character with one or two hard hitting attacks, so yeah, VERY helpful Doggo.

I'm torn between wanting to use ATB for some extra granularity in the combat (Differing Turn orders, being able to play with ATB gagues with skills), and going pure turn based (Simpler to manage boss patterns in a puzzle-like manner, easier to handle battle events, etc)

Other than that, I have the basic design skeleton for the combat done, got all my faces and stuff for my trio of humans.

If I were you, I'd go for ATB. It just feels more organic that way, and speed is an actually useful stat.

EDIT: I am terrible at time management. I spent the entire first week of the jam focusing on details instead of big picture stuff. Stupid, silly details that most people might never find because they are associated with optional content. I know making optional content is kind of silly when I have such a short time to work, but I just feel like a lack of optional stuff would make the game feel a bit... thin, given how little in the way of deep mechanics it offers.

I don't know. I can respect it if the event would rather focus on marginalized voices talking about their own experience, because as a straight white upper middle class dude, I do not have first hand experience on what opressed groups go through, and it'd be insensitive of me to pretend that I do. If that is the case, I'll still make my game, but I'll release it outside the jam.

However, if it's still okay to participate, I'll try my best to make something good to support the causes without pretending I know things I couldn't possibly have lived through. Incindentally, that's why the story is told from the perspective of the matchmaker, not the single people.

I guess I should share my idea with you guys, maybe it will help undecided people come up with ideas of their own.

So, my main character is an expert "matchmaker", her specialty is bringing people together and forming romantic couples. She gets called to a beautiful tropical island to help form couples between the island's youth. There are four guys and four girls in the island, and the chief is adamant that you only pair guys with girls and vice-versa.

However, as the matchmaker explores the island and discovers the preferences and feelings of the young singles, she realizes it is impossible to make everyone happy unless the chief allows two gay couples (two guys, and two girls) to be together, and then she has to convince the chief to let go of his preconcieved notions of how love should work so they can all be happy.

At first, I intended to make it sad and sober, but then I realized it would work better if I made it mostly upbeat and funny with a few sad moments here and there.