FREDO'S PROFILE

Wow. I really feel for you man. While I didn't get caught up in a scam, I did go to a school that made promises it couldn't quite keep, especially in the bad economy, for a high tuition rate. Thankfully, my degree still has a high value, but I can TOTALLY relate. If it were not for the fact that I am still unemployed and will need to start paying my student loans soon, I would absolutely help. If my situation turns around, I will make sure to help.

I would suggest that you look into your legal options. Low-income legal clinics offer free consultations with lawyers. Such a lawyer could probably tell you if you have any legal action available to you. Depending on how overt the lies of the admissions people were, I wouldn't be surprised if it would be possible to get your loan discharged because the school attempted to defraud you. You should def. consult with a lawyer familiar with your state law to see if anything can be done.

I am glad to see that these hard times have not destroyed your desire to work on a creative project. I am looking forward to trying the game.

I wish you the best of luck.

Oh, very cool!

I really like the stylistic changes. I was trying to figure out how to make it look more skull like. That's great stuff. I'll have to look at your changes more closely to see how I can adapt the sprites. The sideview is really critical for the battle system, so I'm gonna have to play around and see if I can adapt your changes to the sideview (that was my original problem, and one of the reasons I had kept the head simple)

Why reduce the amount of colors? I realize the shading wasn't perfect (really I suck at it) but it used the same number of different colors as refmap uses on most skin tones, including bald heads. I had thought it was appropriate. I'm always struggling when working with palettes and number of colors in shading, so I'd love your thoughts on it.

Really appreciate the link to the refmap color scheme, btw. I've changed so many things in so many chipsets (and replaced so many useless color while going about it) that I'm not sure I had one with the original palette intact. It did make chipset editing (moreso than charset because of the greater variety in one set) a giant pain. Thanks!

I hit an essence bug too. I somehow have 88 Chipped Orbs. Some of my other essences seem to be multiplying too - I don't remember getting all of the stuff in my inventory (I suddenly have a bunch of stuff and am only on floor 2, and it's all copies of the rewards for beating everything on floor 1)

Edit: Yeah, there's no doubt my essences are multiplying. I have over 20 of everything I had before now, and I've been in two fights and have opened no chests since the last time I checked, and I had 2-3 of everything then.

Wow, this looks really good. I'm gonna download the demo.

Just a thought, but I might consider changing the name. There's something about it that almost made me skip clicking on the gamepage when it showed up under "latest games to play" because it sounded like one of those awful, all-rtp, never-heard-of-a-switch-or-a-variable games. Anyway, the title isn't bad - just a little generic. It was just a thought anyways.

I'll let you know my thoughts once I've played it.

Looks good, but I'll second WIP. It needs to be much, much faster. Random encounters would be painful on a battle system this slow.