BULMABRIEFS144'S PROFILE

I have a custom item menu, thanks to the conventional one crashing due to one of the DynRPG patches. So now you can set four items to "equip" them for battle.

Ring menu with Item Equip.



Item Equip menu



End result in battle.

I believe I put it through Google Translate. And I think it's an inexact translation, like I didn't literally insert Oracle of Tao in there, but paraphrased. Actually, I think I might have used a romanji translater to cobble it together.

Yogensha means "prophet"

"Tou" "Kyou" for instance isn't just part of the word sounding like tokyo.

http://www.romajidesu.com/dictionary/meaning-of-kyou.html

きょう means "fortune" (esp bad fortune) and also "sutras" (Buddhist scriptures)

http://www.romajidesu.com/dictionary/meaning-of-tou.html

とう "Tou" means "to ask" from which you're loosely getting a connotation of going to a medium. It also means "light (as in, lamp)"

So "prophet of prophecy/prophet of light and bad fortune" (intending to mean "prophet of good and bad fortune") Totally how the language works.

Basically, it's garbage paraphrase translation. But it looks cool so yeah.

By the way, I have figured out why he's having the battle crash. RPS+ does alot of battle features like ignoring reflect and setting a minimum damage. Unfortunately, after you take damage, trying to heal within a round yields the error "event script referenced an item that does not exist." It actually does, but the RPS+ basically scrambles operations directly following damage. It seems like you can't use scroll items or medicine in battle, so since I want to keep I'm developing a bizarre workaround using switches instead, and having no item targeting. It's terrible... any sane person would just remove the plugin.

In regards to the timed event, I have not always gotten it to work (doesn't work minimized for instance). I gave it a random chance of having Ambrosia blow up the screen and some other stuff. But no, it wasn't audible then. It should not have been recognized by the Youtube algorithm, I got it from a creative commons website. I can even show you the website, if you want. Punks. The timer will not probably work on the older version, cuz among other issues, there is an out of place off-switch. Oh it did. Yeah, I think it's random what it does to some extent.

Argh, and you somehow managed to pass the one object that wasn't a snowman like ten times withour talking to it. And you broke sequence so hard in Aiken Monastery. I don't think your fears of it not being a trash game will ever be realized though. Especially since I'm gonna bypass buggy crashes with an even worse coding technique.

I tested it today (largely cuz my game is being streamed). I tried removing everything but RPS+. It seems to only show up once I add it back on. Which is a shame because this is a really good patch.

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I rarely do parallax mapping. The only game I used that technique was the Duelist Master. There's a twist: as I don't really know how to manage the collisions, the characters can go through every tile! (But you don't control anyone so you won't see that)

This is what my parallax mapping chipset looks like (it's 2k3 but anyway).



As you can see, there are a lot of the transparent (on 2k3 pink is often the transparent color) tiles. But they all have their own passibility arrows. That's basically how you do it. First, draw the scene in non-transparent then use the pain bucket to replace.

Wow, that's bizarre. The same night you decided to play Oracle of Tao, I figured out how to stream on Discord and did a Let's Play with my own game for a friend.

Oracle of Tao should slightly less trash game and kinda mock-serious, with some heavy themes and stuff. But there are goofy parts. There's a few Easter Eggs though (including some recent ones from my last update).

"A bit of a weird person" seems accurate.

To answer your question about the maximum HP, it's possible to kinda tweak that using either the David or Goliath patches. So of course I made it well beyond anything sensible.

She mentioned period debuffs. Don't worry, that's in Oracle of Tao. You also have stuff like food rotting and stuff. And birthdays (yeah, I thought of this sorta stuff too). Also, my Discord is bulmabriefs144 # 0371

The people who rated it one star played the previous version. I think the most recent one is the only exception.

As to the trash game culture, I think the US unlike the Germans (and probably esp the French, since they have a sort of self-deprecating humor) tend to see themselves as "serious artists" with all the big blockbuster movies and such. American games and movies tend to not age well, but seem okay at the time. It takes a certain mindset to actually not take yourself seriously in US. And yes, I am English as a first language, I just have ADD or something so my way of speaking is sometimes a little disorganized.

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That's not my voice. I recruited some free voice actors and they actually played it mostly straight. TvTropes (I wrote all their voices down) has two voices for Ambrosia. Dawn Robertson for the main game, Pippa Winslow for the New Game Plus.
Oh yes, there's a Game Plus. You may be playing this for awhile if you decide to keep up with it. The rough play time I've always gotten has been about 40+ hours, but that includes grind. So I dunno when you skipped some of that.

That first thing should read "Added content is now available from (Tales From The Reaper) and vice versa." What this means, is at a certain point of the game, the game makes a .txt file which you can drag over if you've played Oracle of Tao, and it enhances scenes in Tales From The Reaper with added content. Likewise, there's a couple scenes that if you play Tales From The Reaper first, like you can go into a certain house, and one villain character explains they went on a mining sidequest. This is very blink and you miss it, but it's good to know.

That bounty battle, you can Defend. It should unlock Counter mode (it might be semi-random, can't remember) which does alot of damage. A key part of the game is puzzle battles. You can't really just level over everything, cuz some stuff is really designed against it.

And I apologize so bad for battle crashes! One of the patches from DynRPG has side effects of crashes in certain situations (I think just after you get hit sometimes, you can't use items for a short window is one of the reasons). I don't want to get rid of the plugins, unless I know which exact one it is.

Also, you might want to get a newer version. The last time I played, I noticed that I had apparently enabled Jar of Human Tears for like only Ambrosia as a beggar or something, not as an Oracle. And I've updated about four times (or more) since like the last week or two.

The tweaked tent (thingies) is semi on-purpose because one of them has woman who boosts your level (you didn't need to hack that). You have to randomly find her.

The message shows up to let you know which battle mode you're in. It's repetitive now, but when you're in like swamp terrain, it lets you know what to expect.

That uhhhh wasn't supposed to happen. The teleport is somewhat random but I'm never seen this happen.

That guy is a strawman. He's so weak that the weakest attack can knock him over, but he says nonsense strawman arguments.

I know why you got stuck in the house. It's because of map event memorize overuse (making these a common event shared by alot of stuff). I'll make a common event just for boat docks. It'll take awhile though.

The bed is so expensive because it scales with your level to build. Getting priest subscription and bed early helps you ALOT for the game. So does selling junk you won't equip and don't need. Since you can use the tent to heal, a bed is a major expense.

I think the pizza got lost in the shuffle somehow. I'm gonna check the code though. Ah, I see. I didn't want the ring menu to have some apocalyptic timer running in the background so I just decided using the ring menu quits the timers. I switched it to an older style timer, then give you a refund if you've got another timer running.

I think I have an upgrade for most of the major things you mentioned, but you'll probably want to unload the update to somewhere, then move the save files over or something (overwriting whatever I've got).

Bleh. The New Earth, I wasn't quite as neurotic about. Let's just let him play the game, and I'll update any bugs later.