YEASTER'S PROFILE

author=thedarkdreamer
Yeaster
You made a game that is hard and fun
I congratulate your work as rpg maker is a painstaking process.
My hat goes off to you. Though I am not new to the game as I've played some of it before. Then life kicked in and bills and shit happens. Sigh.
The second I found this game instantly, I knew I found a gem. And I was right. It is a gem. Though as you think it's aged the story and the overall world of Onyx is very interesting. It's dark and moody but it's also got a lot to the story. And the uniqueness of skills. Finally getting away from the Fire1 nonsense. Onyx is weird and dark and it leaves me wondering. It's a world nonetheless. I actually took some time to update Onyx, with RPG Maker 2000 Value. Don't worry I have made a copy of the original. Certain things I just found that Onyx needs to keep up to bar - just in terms of aesthetics. Such as the databases of the skills and items...much English was needed and neatness of writing. This is done in my copy. I just found that in order for me to enjoy the game to it's fullest potential certain tweaks are needed. I also went through the glossary and made things made more sense-battle messaging and skill writing - run to the enemy becomes run towards the enemy, and things like this. I even started to add more battle animations because some of the default rpg maker animations are just bad. I also was playing around with the games sound. If this is indeed a darker rpg maker game then it needs dark sound. I pitched certain sounds DOWN to get the game more guttural and bleaker. Rpg maker has this weird nostalgic goofy quality but also can get dark when necessary. This also was done in my copy meaning my edited version. I don't know if you looked over the quality of certain enemy and monster pics, but since I am good at image making and editing I had gone into certain images and removed weird pixels and the alike to make the enemies able to have that clear 16 bit chip right with no weird outlines fuzzy pixelization or even weird white outlines. Like on the absol.png picture. Yeek. That one took a bit of time to fix. But going over some of these things is actually helping the game to be better. I'd have to put up a share file to show you what I was doing in my edit. One problem though I ran into when it went to rpg maker value is that some of the "intro screens" we're lost-XYZ logos or LOGO.XYZ or LOGO.bin I had to replace with resource hacker with the Gates Independent picture used in Onyx 2. That took some time to figure out how to do. So seeing the original three pictures before the title screen was reduced to only one thanks to rpg maker value. Damn you Enerbrain!!!! Some value, as value is about 2.99 or 20.99. 0_0
Trust me though. All this editing is just improving the game so it won't age, or see old animations that make other people repel in fear. "Yee gads!!! A default animation!!! What is life?!" Some would think. The edit though I'm doing is pretty awesome. I haven't changed anything in terms of the gameflow or game events, I have run into something weird though that I can't figure out where the default bgm GameOver3.mid is being played as a game over music instead of an other song that is in the database. I can't figure it out. On a map I had made an event that sets the game over to the music you had set it to and not GameOver3 which is......,...0_0
I'll have to share!!