MERLANDESE'S PROFILE

author=Housekeeping
@Merlandese: That's definitely a fear of mine, and I know that the sunflower and Flowey are going to be at-a-glance comparisons people are going to make. And, if it was just an aesthetic thing, I would totally give him pink petals, but the fact that it's a sunflower is fundamental to its design. Sunflowers have a cheerful connotation, you encounter it in a sunflower field, the cadence of "happy little sunflower" feels right, etc. Whenever I do a promo video, I might not make the sunflower very prominent so as to downplay any comparisons people might make, but, yeah, I want to keep the current design.

I'm going to make this a big deal for a second and then I'll let it rest. I don't have any stake in the matter, but I feel like we're already against a wall of stigma when using RPGMaker, and you're up against another one simply by being similar in style to Earthbound, so if you can avoid any Undertale comparisons I think it would be super useful in terms of getting people interested. :)

The Happy Little Sunflower works well as a sunflower for all of those happy reasons, but there are LOTS of other happy flowers. It's semi-easy to pick another type of happy flower (daisy, for example), or be as inventive as you are with other things (like the Red-Billed Squawker). And even though making concessions against your original artistic vision is crap, and swapping assets and wording and what-not is hard work, I still think it's a lot less work than trying to defend these decisions. If this were accidentally starting to look like a Flappy Bird clone, for example, I'd suggest that making the main character something other than a bird would save you more effort in the long run than defending against accusations over and over that you cloned Flappy Bird.

Still, you're likely to keep it as a sunflower, which is fair (especially considering you have a "light shine" ability which is pretty dependent on the name "sunflower.") But even so, it could look more like a sunflower and less like Flowey. Sunflowers have pointed petals, and a lot of them, with a much larger face. The Happy Little Sunflower is a great idea but it looks like a dandelion, or whatever dandelion-esque flower Flowey looks like, and that in and of itself is something that could probably be changed a little bit just to try and deviate from the Undertale connections.

In short, make the petals pointed and not round.

So, um... yeah. That's my advice. XD Sorry if it's invasive.

Okay, that's easy to fix.

Just take the file I'm about to link you and place it in the "Fleuret Blanc" folder, wherever you placed it. (Likely Program Files => Fleuret Blanc.)

Download This

Here's a picture from my computer on where to place the file:

Picture of the Appropriate Folder

This should get it going! XD

Sorry for all of the trouble, it's an old game. :)

"The villagers knew not that their ancient egg-hunting tradition would summon the nightmarish hellbeast known as Buntentaceus, The Infertile."

I really like that format, Lib! Thanks a lot! I may have to use it once I finalize how many stamp details there will be (could be less). I like how it makes them seem more connected. Thanks!