XENOMIC'S PROFILE

I decided for the sake of this dungeon to just cut out the dungeon part and leave it to the 3 rooms for the Council Temple, and revisit the floors later on for the Ministry's Temple (I was going to separate the 30 floors into "Realms". I.E. Portals that you have to go into to open the main door in Council Temple, which would've fit with getting it open without having 30 floors (it'd still be 5 areas per Realm, but only 4 of the Realms would've been visited at all, Space would've been sealed off in the Council Temple).

For Ministry's Temple, I MIGHT revisit the idea of the Realms and/or having the Floors be 5 floors per Concept.

As for the target audience, it's for the Hololive folks (it is a Hololive fangame). The reason I brought it up was I'm relatively new to the thing myself (since August), and just found out a couple days ago that they were the exact same place lol. Hence the topic question...

This is what I had for the Council Temple.



As you can see, by default I have 3 rooms for the entire area. The outside area (which is the hub world btw, so you come through here throughout the entire game), the inside area (which opens up at late game), and then the hallway that's meant to led to the interior that's sealed off because of time distortion stuff happening at the time (and the player is never able to go back into this hallway after finishing Timeless Era afterwards). The idea for Chaos sounds good, my thought was to do something like the Tyranno Lair teleport thing, but I debated if that was even a good idea lol...

IF I were to keep the idea for a dungeon for Council Temple, for Civilization, I had it so that you start in a dirt cave, then as you progress through the door maze (that's the best I could think of without doing full on puzzles or gimmicks), the maps become more progressively futuristic (the 5th floor is completely sci-fi). Nature was going to be similar in that it starts off as a complete barren wasteland, then snow, and at the 5th floor, complete forest. No puzzles or gimmicks in that one either.

IF I were to try to make Council Temple into a dungeon, should I bother with the gimmick/puzzle aspect of it, or should it be axed as a dungeon? I've talked to a couple people about it that's from the fandom, and ultimately, one says that trying to make both areas the exact same is causing too much creativity problems, and the other says that it would slow down the pacing of the story that's happening at the time (to which I agree on).

author=Marrend
For Space, I might recommend something a bit more sci-fi/futuristic in it's design, rather than, well, an open barren location. Time... maybe a puzzle-dungeon based on setting clocks? I dunno. I vaguely recall a few places in World of Xeen where you set clocks to a certain time, and <things happen>.

For the Space segment, that sounds like a good idea. I do need ground and stuff for the player to stand on and whatnot, after all lol. I could probably use that for the Ministry's Temple since it wouldn't be sealed off there at all. I could reuse the idea I had for Council Temple in that there are the 5 realms that you have to go through in order to release the seal to the inner sanctums (there's 5 bosses all based on Super Fans from each of the 5 members the realms are based on, so it'd work there).


EDIT - An idea I just came up with, and this will probably be used either for Timeless Era or Ministry's Temple, is for the Civilization path, there would be traps associated with civilizations (boulders, spikes, etc.). Now the question is, how would it be best to implement these (I never actually implemented traps like these in my previous game, so I never tried this lol). For the Nature path, I can probably do status tiles related to flowers (I did this in one dungeon in Touhou Fantasy, though I don't know if the story or dialogue hinted at that...TF didn't do a lot of things good, I'll admit). So like stepping on a mushroom might give you Confusion, stepping on ivy would probably give Poison, etc., but you could also gain buffs from stepping on the right plants too. There's no Nature part in Timeless Era (that's split up between 4 characters instead), so that'll probably be for the Ministry's Temple. So that'll take care of 2 of the 5 Realms for Ministry's Temple. For the Time Realm, I think using the Clock idea could work, and changing the clock in the main room could change where the exits go in other rooms perhaps?? Or perhaps it changes what's in rooms (i.e. if the clock is at 9 PM, then you set it to 3 PM, then perhaps there will be a switch that's unveiled or a statue that's moved elsewhere in other rooms??). Chaos Realm could be the teleport maze (everyone love those, right??), but that one could probably have more ideas associated with it.

I COULD probably actually use these in the Council Temple too, but...as mentioned earlier, it might be better to just ax it out entirely from there?? For those wondering why 30 floors btw, Ministry's Temple IS the final dungeon of the game too. Don't worry, I learned to NOT make super big maps, though some maps will still seem quite large.

So, I'm nearly done mapping everything for this new game of mine, and so far have managed to avoid reusing anything for the most part in terms of mapping (enemies will be reused, but it's part of a dungeon's gimmick, so to say). However, I found out recently that in-lore for what I'm doing, the final dungeon and the current dungeon I'm working on (4th to last) are technically the exact same location, yet I'm having them in two separate locations.

Now the question is, since they're the exact same thing, that would mean I could just copy/paste the current dungeon I'm working on, to the final dungeon. HOWEVER...would this be considered a lazy workaround for the problem? How do people feel about reusing specific parts of their own game for other parts of the game, even if it's miniscule at best?? I'm curious since even in Touhou Fantasy when I worked on that, there wasn't really anything reused too often in that game, and in this one, this is the first actual time I've hit reusing anything in-game for somewhere else.

I'm assuming I only really need one switch for all of this? Unless I want to avoid having EVERY platform raise/sink (including the one the player is supposed to jump to), then I'd need a few switches perhaps?

(Also, if anyone has a better suggestion for a puzzle here, do let me know too lol. I literally only snagged this from FFVII because no idea on puzzles. Trying to do an ice area to this snowfield section and having a heck of time there too. Bout to do an ice slide puzzle, but we all know how people love those!)

So, this is the first time I've had this happened, and not sure why it is?? So, I've been having music being done by someone, and they've all been done in OGG format. The latest song, however, doesn't seem to work at all in MV. Doesn't play in the player or in-game, despite all the other music does. In addition, testing the song in Audacity, Foobar, Discord (which is where he sends it to me), and in Firefox browser, it works fine?? Any reason why this is a problem in MV? The song is just named Atlantis, so it shouldn't be...having any issues??

EDIT - Nvm, music person figured it out, was some weird thing with the looping points, can delete this topic...

So, I remember a while back, I tried to upload a file for my game, but it got denied. I forget exactly how this all goes, I'm assuming I actually need to upload a page or something for the game first before files, but since it's been years since I last done this (for those who don't remember, that was with Touhou Fantasy, which was finished 5 years ago but took 11 1/2 years to finish). Can anyone help me with doing this? I've been working on a new RPG for those who don't know, one in MV (thank god too, it's so much better to use than 2k3. I'm not being limited in that engine anymore and can do things so much faster. Skills took a couple weeks to do for the playable characters, still got a couple things to do to finish that off, and I'm about 1/4 done with mapping. Don't worry, this game ain't gonna take 11 1/2 more years to do lol).

So yeah! How to do a game page again?? I'd like to post about it here on the site and maybe get some help with things for it, including mapping and spriting (I have someone doing the music for it, bless their soul).