I've been busy with other things lately but I'm getting back into working on stuff for my game next month. I think I'm going to fiddle with making NPC busts next, mixing and matching stuff from DLC I've purchased.
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I just saw in a manga an interesting mechanic - setting up a stationary teleport beacon that one can go to no matter where one is in a dungeon. I think it'll work with a similar setup to how I did my airship transition.
Ooh what if you could set up multiple beacons and choose from a list of the beacons you set up?
Hmm...
I've been trying out Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, and it has an interesting approach to consumable items - you get a limited inventory that is automatically refreshed to max limits (1 or 2 each, craft to expand + improve effect) at the start of each combat. It's a mechanic that goes against the common urge to hoard consumables.
I've been battling roaches every single day for over three weeks. I'm tempted to make a roach-themed dungeon but that might hit a little too close to home. Blegh.
I played around with making an indicator for special spots to interact with for loot and whatnot. The Chrono Trigger style of something tiny but shiny on screen might be one of the less annoying ways to do it, for both player and developer.
I have just restored the Pelican Town Community Center in Stardew Valley. Somehow I feel like I've completed a rite of passage as a gamer.
Eiyuuden Chronicle's Kickstarter success is a sign that retro-RPGs are still very much in demand - it's just that people need to trust in the quality of the product before they'll consider buying it.
I'm currently organizing together the preview images of tile sets so that I can mix and match more quickly in my head while deciding parts for my maps.
What if all items that give buffs in combat also restore HP or MP instead of having to make a choice of buffing versus healing? Hmm...
So many cool items get unused in RPGs because they remain suboptimal choices in the action economy of battles. It feels like a waste.
I successfully tested out binding a test parallax for parallax mapping (some simple colors on a photoshopped png image plus copy-pasted tiles) for the first time. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my feet and can move forward with much more confidence.
I think I'll make my fourth game my second release after my first game, which my originally planned second and third games share a setting with. This is because of how much fun it's going to be making the originally fourth game's maps.
Since my first game takes place on an island large enough only for a few towns, I'm reconsidering the world map originally planned. Playing Ara Fell gave me some perspective on smaller scale environments. I'm considering a cross between Ara Fell and Battle Chasers for the outdoors.
Geuttykreum's tiles and VexedEnigma's tiles might actually work well together in building a modern style city for my fourth planned game, which I'm tempted to work on at the same time as my first game, set in a medieval fantasy style world.
I resized and filtered some pixel art style 32 x 32 tiles to MV size then superimposed a couple of default MV sprites to see how they look. Unsharp Mask and changing the brightness+contrast made a huge difference in quality.
Humble Bundle just put out another game assets bundle. I'm sorely tempted to get the full deal despite having much of it already in library, but most of the stuff I'm interested in wouldn't be used until the 4th game I have planned and I'm still preparing the 1st one. >.<
Automatic level scaling without an option to turn it off can be a very bad choice for a game. The worst I've ever seen was in Nightmare of Druaga, where if a power outage made your system turn off, the game detects it as an attempted cheat and overwrites your save while taking away your best gear, leaving you unable to progress at the late stages of the game, and unable to recover.
Watching too much anime where people have long legs like in Sailor Moon sometimes makes me feel like everyone I see in real life has abnormally short legs.
I just completed Ara Fell - completing the game unlocks an Epilogue. An interesting thing to possibly consider for my games.
I'm currently playing Ara Fell - I can see why it's had generally good reviews. The exploration aspect is pretty strong and the writing is passable.
The game auto-saves and offers an option to turn back just before each major combat, and immediately brings the player back to the last position saved when there's a TPK. Convenient at the very least.
In Battlechasers: Nightwar, the player can choose difficulty of a dungeon just before entering it, with new difficulty levels available after starting a new game plus.
I think I'm going to set up something similar for my game, changing up loot and perhaps even monsters by difficulty level. -
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Today represents my one year anniversary of throwing out the tile map. 
One year ago my game looked like...
And now for those that don't know, it looks like..
What a year, what a year indeed. RIP Tile Map, nobody misses you.
One year ago my game looked like...
And now for those that don't know, it looks like..
What a year, what a year indeed. RIP Tile Map, nobody misses you.
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