JOSEPHSERAPH'S PROFILE

I made a thread on RMW which is more verbose since the community there is a bit broader and y'all vets here so I'll go straight to the point.
What do you feel about "Rom Hacking" when applied to the RPG Maker community?
Do you remember any time it happened? Do you fancy the idea of indulging in it yourself, or of someone creating derivative work based on your own?

We are all indies, so barring you wanting to mod a 2002 game whose author has last been seen in 2008, we don't have to do anything illegally. PMing and asking permission is fine. Stating in your description that you're mod-friendly is fine, too.

So yeah, hopefully this can be a fun discussion. I feel like if this were more normalized and happened more often we'd have some really interesting projects flying around, but I don't know.

Recently I've been planning to release my previous asset packs on itch.io, starting by a much improved version of my very 1st monster pack.

However, doing only these by my own isn't as fun or engaging as it could be. So I decided to test this out: I want to make a 20-monster pack that's free for everyone to use, and I need your help! Hopefully I can do more stuff like this.



#121 Succubus:

#122 Fluffy: $35DONE! / $75


#123 ????????: $0 / $75




I'm shifting this from being a sold pack, which I have been doing for a while to something you guys can donate to help.
This is inspired by those livestreams I did way back, working on RM2k3 facesets. But this isn't a livestream so I'll have more time to make something better!
I really want to be able to make more free stuff but I'm very financially stressed so I think this might be a good middle ground.
Every $75 in donations will allow me to release one monster, and they take a week to make. (Meaning if a goal is reached on the 23rd, the monster will be released on the 30th.)
I'm accepting suggestions from everyone, prioritizing suggestions of donators, to my discretion.
Additionally, if you donate over 75 USD, you can request a monster as if it were a commission! Of course, it'll be made available to the whole community for free, so it's not exactly a commission. You also get an itch copy of SC: Monster Pack 1.

All SeraphCircle monster packs feature at least 5 different variations of each monster, and are designed to be compatible with both sideview and frontview battle systems, sometimes with edits to make that happen -- so no need to worry about that.


And if you can't, it's ok, I hope you can make something nice with the free monsters at least, and I'll be looking forward to checking it out. :D

So, what sort of monster would you guys like to see next? Hopefully this can be a fun, productive project! :D
I'm really looking forward to getting monster requests and have the roster expand!

Donation Timeline:

Hey there! I'm in the middle of traveling and can't work on my regular digital stuffs, as I don't have access to my equipment. But I'm doing a painting course next week and i've brough all my traditional materials!

So I invite you to comission me and...

(plus optional global shipping that goes for around $5)


MORE EXAMPLES:


I can do work with markers, gouache (starting next week), simple lineart and BY BORROWING CROWNOS MATERIALS watercolor lol

Pls DM me if you`re interested! Im looking forward to be given cool characters and stuffs to draw s2

PS: I only have my horrible phone camera with me now so picture quality is blurry, but once i get home by the 4th i can photograph artworks with my professional camera for those not interested in global shipping!

Heya guys!
I just created a portrait pack with quite a few different modular parts (in the PSDs) plus 12 different premade characters (from 5 different bases) check them out!
They span adults, kids and the elderly, all with 5 different expressions, perfect to flesh out the character of these NPCs that normally only spew one ominous line about the demon lord while smiling eerily.

Formatted for RMMV and RMVXA use. Higher resolution, 256x256 versions available as well. I'm working on converting to 2k/2k3 (which takes a long while) and updates may come in the future, depending on how much it sells, adding new premade variants, new hair parts and expressions and acessories such as hats and earrings etc.



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I'm fairly sure we've done the single character RPGs topics a few times, but this time I want to focus on the duel aspect of a single character RPG.
Specifically on scenarios where you only ever face one enemy at a time.
Such scenarios tend to put emphasis on a constantly-at-risk tide of the battle, where every turn is a potential chance for the enemy to turn the battle upside down in a single action.
I don't, however, know many examples of one-on-one RPGs, and thus I'd like to invite you to discuss these mechanics.

The two that immediately come to my mind are RPG Maker games, perhaps for a sense of scale, as turn based 1 character RPGs are much of a rarity to begin with.

The first is Helen's Mysterious Castle, which uses a really interesting mechanic where Helen herself has no stats, and instead relies on the stats of her equipment -- effectively her actions -- to act in battle.
Each action comes with a set of three stats: Power, Defense and Wait. Upon selecting an action Helen will wait for a number of ticks equal to the Wait stat to perform the action. During this time she is susceptible to attacks launched against her, and her defense is equal to that action which she is preparing. Likewise, as she attacks the enemy's defense is based on the action they're preparing. This creates an ebb-and-flow dynamic where the player is constantly dancing around the enemy's attack patterns, predicting what they'll do as to mitigate damage with more defensive actions then strike when they're the most vulnerable.

The second game is Standstill Girl, which uses a similar Wait based turn mechanic. Alice, however, has three stats herself -- HP, power and speed (but no defense at all)
She can equip actions she learns through the game, up to a maximum of five. Actions cost Emotion Points, HP or both, and she gains 1 Emotion Point per turn (importantly, the enemy uses Emotion Points as well)
This makes it importantly to time the use of Guards and cheap skills in order to unleash the most powerful skills in the right time, once again creating this dance-like rhythm of preparing, defending and attacking.

What are other mechanics that you think would be at home in a game like this?

I for one can think of a "tide meter" that both the player and the enemy can affect with their actions, changing their stats accordingly. So the player can choose to let go of the tide meter to unleash a powerful attack, in exchange of having the enemy become more powerful for the next few turns as the bar is on his favor.
Status effects as well wind up being tremendously more impactful on these games, so there are plenty of interesting things that can be done with them as well.