NOVALUX'S PROFILE

author=darkotakusouls

author=Novalux
I'm stuck at the part where the queen tells you to go rescue the husband from the mountains. how to get to mtns

You can leave from the east of the map. Just follow the dirt road.

author=Kylaila
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Well, given how much I already did the GOTTA BE BEST seems in reach, but what am I to say about scripts and such? :/ Oh well, gotta try!

@karins_soulkeeper

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Yay, you did a script! So it displays equipment discriptions based on .. stuff. I honestly can't put two and two together to what such a description would look like. Can you give an example?

@Bad_Luck

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The map is super cute, the names sadly don't really pop up half the time, but they are all readable. The screens all looks gorgeous! Some childhood-friend banter of NO MORE DAMSAL IN DISTRESS, good, cool monsters and that lovely purple heart for HP, check. Great-lucking lvl-up point-distribution, check. Shit going down with other people standing around doing .. something. check. Honestly it doesn't look like they are even watching, that seems a little odd but without any context there is nothing to be done. Skull-filled elven-shrine, check.
All very clean, elaborate and gorgeous to look at. It is that one famous game everyone mentiones every now and then. Gonna be fun!

@Ljink

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Could it be I missed talking about your stuff?
Starlight, seems like solid but a lil dull, there is little building up. Seems like more the background-music type of ost, which is fine, too. The one string coming in later is more disrupting and hurtful than anything else for me.
Enveloped by tenderness gives off that comfy farm feeling. I like it! Lon-Lon ~ oh.. wait. yeah. I really like that one!
Kids return is more a serious tension-buildup? Like pre- or in-bossfight. The chords (the second of the two repeated) 2:35+ sounds a lil disharmonic, so after 3:06 it ends up normal again, phew, thank god. It's okay overall, but that change really disrupts it for me.
Scattering blossoms could be an intro song for sure. I like the changes here, around 1 it seems to shift more to town-life? More like a calm piece. Cutscenes? Caves?
Almond Town also is a neat calm accompanying piece. It will work splendidly.
Anyhow, makes for decent accompanying music :) Good job!

@Aubrey the Bard

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Modifying stuff! Very nice! But where are cat ears? I see tails but no ears, awwww.(

@Novalux

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SLIME APOCALYPSE. Interesting. The start is a little weak due to you GUESSING you are packing for .. SOMETHING, but there is no sense of urgency or danger. Just a few sound-effects of shit going down outside would do to help it.
After enter/leaving any other houses you will again get the tutorial message.
Wow, a treasure chest with 0g.. talk about disappointing^^ At least make it 1 : D

In the inn you need to enter the stairs from below or you won't proceed. You should be able to from the side as well. Missile barrage so strong.
The phantasms are REALLY easy to avoid, and easy to kill, too.
Some spells are completely useless. The standard slash attack deals 2 damage, but the hilt smash does it too but + stun chance. I like the spells altho they are strong, but I would cut down on the number of them.

The orthography is lacking, there are a lot of missing fullstops and questionmarks, some "i" instead of "I", ";" instead of ":" for the voices, and in the inn scene the protagonist says "caught" instead of "taught". The survivor in the menu would look better with capital S due to this being a title.
The fighting scene, too, is again indicated when leaving the house. The events need to be only displayed once and then turned off.. not sure how to do that, sadly, as I am no gam maker.
Punk waiting in a cave full of monster to steal stuff ..? Odd. Entrances and other choke points would make much much more sense to catch passerbys!

After the thief fight .. you guessed it, the event repeats without even moving anywhere. Thankfully you can just quietly leave. And after supposedly getting an enchanted weapon to dmg phantoms with .. you don't get anything. Careful. Well, you get a teammate.

And I reached the end - overall. This game lacks a clear directive - you run and run and run without any point. Where are you going? If you don't know what happened, where might you find out? Could there be a safe place you are heading to?
The combat has a nice base imo, and even if it is easy, it is more a means of progressing. So in that sense you need to then flesh out the backstory a little bit more to give this fundament some more fun. It's okayish, just make sure you do the events properly. It will really really show throughout the whole thing and possibly leave you in a loop (like if you HAD to fight the thief)
Mapping is alright and more practical. The dungeon was a lil long but I guess walking back n forth was the whole idea. I commend you to use the people always go right trick to not find the stairs, but the random dude hinting at greater things without any reason why he could. (but you can work that out, I'm sure)

I know it sounds bad, but an okayish base is a GOOD THING. Cut some abilities/spells out when you would never use them, give the enemies stronger attacks since you have a lot of stun chances, and even if the battles stay on the easy side, it's okay if you keep the pace and flesh out the backstory and atmosphere of the situation. Using different tracks would help that, too. It seems more like an escape by the music - just that it never ends. And without any urgency for it to continue either, as there are fairly safe spots. Some time to regroup, rethink and plan is in order - and a change of pace in the dungeon etc.
The voices also seemed to come from the outside when they were in fact in the dungeon - that event may be better placed after you entered the cave, for one.

You can do this. The maps are solid for starting out, so keep at it. If you don't have any ideas as to where or how flesh out things in your world, ask. There are tons of ways. Scraps to finds, inscriptions, books, dialogue mentioning things in passing (not explaining) .. etc.

Okay - it seems the game.exe is not a second demo. You may want to delete it under management when it is just a scrap.

@Gourd

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Wow, I'm impressed! The dialogue is really really good. A lot of joking around and a lil quick to read while watching, but her facing her fear of blaming others really came across well, natural .. and true. Lots of mixed stuff. The shift back to total goofing is a lil too strong, since, y'know, you're wounded, but so be it.

Some of the animations are really odd, like the .. "crying" flailing animations of the protagonist? The bright red also looks more like blood rather than anything else.
I really really really want to play this game! It sounds like such a solid story-driven game. And I like that!

Okaaaaay. Can someone pleaaase explain to me how I can open Ratty's smbx game? I downloaded the engine, I tried opening it there, and I got a window of blocks, but I couldn't play test anything, or well, do anything.