JOSEPHSERAPH'S PROFILE

i wanted to just say same but i really need to express how much i love this

Thank you very muchhhhh~~ I'm hoping you all have a very good time with it in the future! <3 <3

As for the stat system, it is similar to FF2 in a way, but so is the entirety of the SaGa series, in much more balanced and interesting ways. Still, I'm using an ultra simplified stat system -- your only stats are HP, Strength and Magic, HP increases during certain intervals and a little extra by using guard / provoke skills, STR by using weapon abilities and Magic by using... Magic
In fact, there are levels for all of these three, they're just invisible to the player -- every battle you earn "HP Exp", "Strength Exp" etc. and level up in these stats -- the amount of exp to these stats that you get is increased depending on your battle actions, but it's certain that you're getting a certain amount. And I want to make the numbers big so you always gain something after every battle, even though there are only 3 stats.

Defense is handled exclusively by equipment and abilities -- Equipment provides Def% and Mdef% (stacking too much of the same is counterintuitive as these two have diminishing returns -- equip 2 +10 Def% items and you get 19% Def)
Abilities like Guarding, Protect etc. further divide the resulting damage (so say you have 50 Def%, are under Protect (that halves damage) and guarding (that also halves damage), you'll take 12.5% damage only.

I think working with percentages like this and little stats is quite clear :3c
Anyway this is all still pretty much planning only as i'm still coding the menu hahahahah, by testing and iterating i might change the way stuff works completely, who knows what sort of mad realization my brain will have

Holy shit, Roach.

@Toaster that's pretty nice but about the tiles themselves, maybe you could work on refining a few things:

adding some shading to the floor tile so it doesn't look as flat (as in, the creases between tiles show better)
Making barrels diagonal so their texture breaks up and creates interest
Adding a bit of depth to the holes/scratches in the ceiling texture so it looks less like blotches of paint
adding some light to all sharp ~90º angled objects who have an edge facing the camera (as in the column or ceiling)(you already do this with your regular objects, do it with tiles for consistency)

Hehehe thanks! : D
Still a long ways before I get to their battle sprites!

Thank~~~~~
WIP battlescreen up! yay!