LORDBLUEROUGE'S PROFILE

Just posting stuff here so I won't forget:

-Piano's game was a cool standout - featured this month, worth checking out.
-Fflo had a really cool funny french accounting game that orochii really liked.
-Ulevo's game had a neat CRT effect for rpgmaker2003.
-CrazyBabi's game was neat, dialogue, everything, as usual, really great.
-Titenic 2 is great, super unfinished, but from what I saw it was a really neat metroidvania set inside james cameron titanic.
really wish it got finished in time. holy fuck, it was so funny and such a cool idea.

-shuruzy's game was the real highlight for me for this event, they took a bunch of previous events and made a really cool game out of it; the dialogue is great, the characters are great, the art is really great, it's short, it's simple, it's really engaging but also really fun and it's only a demo.

we haven't finished soul's or krimsonkatt yet, cause katt's game had a technical issue and soul's game was quite long, but orochii's probably gonna try and finish it, but I'd like to see the end of that one as well.

This was a really cool event, if you do another one of these, I'm definitely looking forward to it.


EDIT:I was really surprised at how long some of these event games were.

author=Celes_Cole
I think I'll skip on Libra only because it just seems like a lot of work arounds and stuff. I mean, it's a FF thing, but I don't think its completely necessary. I can deal with not having it.

Ah, sorry to hear that. I spent a few hours throwing together what it might look like but with FF5's Scan animation, it's super rough. The first Scan show's Guardians stats while at full health, the second scan, shows how the HP and MP has lowered after a few turns after tracking it's stats through variables.



Go with what you feel is best. the biggest problem with RM2k3 games these days is feature creep and I feel like it's one of the main reasons why we haven't seen more final fantasy fan games hit the finish line. But yeah, go with what you feel is best. Looking forward to more with this.

I like the boss dragoon jump, it's a neat feature. I also like the current battle theme, I didn't realize it had to go through a few inerations before they one we're currently listening to now, it's really well done. looking forward to more.

author=Celes_Cole
Tried making a scan/libra ability but I don't think its possible...

Aten the late creator Final Fantasy Dreams made a scan/steal template on RMTutorials many years ago. it's definitely worth checking out. The only caveat to using this system is that; because rm2k3 is condition based and requires the player to attack in order for target enemies for certain conditions to take place - everytime you use scan/steal on the enemy, it will say "Miss"

But that's okay, because you're going to be using the message window to inform the players anyways if they successfully stealed or scanned; etc. If you're okay with this caveat, it's definitely worth checking out. It's fully functional and you can very easily modify it and copy and paste it into as many battles as you.

When I have some free time, I'll see if I can upload a video of it in action and the file for the system here.

EDIT: Here's a link to thread on the tutorial, download link is included

It's a steal and scan tutorial so you'll want to look at both. I know you already have a steal system, so you'll want to look at the other one. I'll try and upload an example of it in action, later on.

I'm writing this down before I forget: I just finished the demo.

I love the custom title screen, it adds a lot to this. I love the hallway before you fight the first boss. I love how the guards come in droves, but then after you knock them out, you can check their bodies afterwards for more items - I love that, that's so cool, that's so final fantasy! It's a very small detail, but it adds so much to this. I've been waiting for years to see that in a final fantasy fan game, but it hasn't really happened till now XD.

The one minor suggestion I have is, throughout the demo, Xavier states how much he wants to get to the crystal and how much he wants to find and reunite with his brother. (I'm not quite sure what happened in the stasis room, but he tells biggs and wedge to go forward with the mission anyways) - But when the three of them finally get to the crystal, before Xavier attacks the crystal, I feel like you should revise or add a line that explores Xavier's character a bit more?

Like, before the mission, Xavier wanted to find two things:
-to reunite with his brother
-and find the crystal.

We don't know, whether or not Xavier found his brother, but now that Xavier has the crystal in front of him, you want to use that time to have him say a line that explores Xavier's character a bit more and reaffirm his motivation and show us how his character has changed, now that he's accomplished one of these goals -- Like Xavier says he wants to end this. You want to add a bit more to that, a small hint of character revelation, that explores the real reason why Xavier wants to destroy the crystal. etc

...Like, something more about his brother, or maybe the village Xavier came from, just something. Like Xavier just hopped a train, pilfered some guys clothes, just to get to this Crystal. This was all carefully planned, no one does all this stuff unless they're really desperate. There's a bigger story about Xavier here, what was it that drove Xavier to this moment? reveal a tiny bit more to us, before he strikes the crystal, give us something! XD

Other than that, this is a great little demo. I usually have a lot of trouble picking final fantasy fan games, because either the story isn't very good or the battles and character animations aren't very good. So I have trouble picking it up, if it doesn't hook me after the first 15 minutes -- But Final Fantasy Essence, this has a good story, it has good characters and some great battle animations. This has all three, so I had a lot of fun playing through it. It's very simple but there's a lot of attention to detail here. But it's that attention to detail that makes me want to play more and I'm very interested to see where you go with this - this is really great stuff here.

As for the death animation... I just don't want it to be cheap. Like, I know you can do it if the enemy's HP is between a certain percentage (Between X(0) and Y(25)), but if you hit over that percentage, he's going to die normally anyway. Also, not using all of it's HP feels weird to me. I would love to be able to add a boss death animation, but I don't think I can do it effectively.

If you're interested I might be able to help with this; I've recreated, the ff6 boss death animation more than once in rpgmaker2003 -- I could create a template for you, so all you have to do is copy and paste the death battle animation, into the animation database of 2k3.
And then all you have to do is add "Guardian" to a battle animation sheet.

The flashing, the shaking and the sound effects are already all there. it just needs to be repurposed for a different monster/boss etc -- but only if you're interested. I know maniac patch is doing some great stuff now these days, so you might be able to do it another way already.

author=TheRpgmakerAddict
I noticed that ILL natured 1 (this is the page) is unavailable, while the sequel is instead present here.

Does anyone have the first one? I have still to check on my old PC, sadly I'll be able to do that next week...

Yeah, this is one of those things that slipped by me unfortunately. Years ago when I first rehauled the thread someone mentioned they found 1 and 2, I checked it out and it turns out they only had a copy of 2? and upon inspecting the gamepage on RMN, I thought it already had a download my bad

So we're still missing ill Natured 1 unless SegNin still has it from years ago.

EDIT: I want to add krum's google sheet of links to the thread too, I'm just not sure how to phrase it.

EDIT2: Yea my bad, segnin reposted it in the return post, i'll grab a link.
Ill nATURED 1

I have these downloaded, but I think the reason why it didn't show up is because I used mega.nz download-all-at-once zip file, feature, so it was there. But the name didn't show up in the search cause it was in a zip file - my bad.