There's another Humble Bundle available now for RPG developer assets, this time focused somewhat more towards pixel art style games.
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I successfully performed some testing of Irina's visual novel bust plugin for MV. It works, and the motion control on the busts has given me some ideas for visual storytelling I wouldn't have thought of with only static placement...
I just successfully tested having an event check to see how many members are in the party then add a member to the party if an open spot is available. This is going to be useful for quests that add temporary party members.
The greatest victory for RPG development is probably having most of the players actually want to finish all the way to the story's end without leaving for a different game before then.
Something I learned in theatre sound design that is applied to my game:
When picking out BGM, it's important to consider whether the player will be listening to it on a repeated loop, especially if it's for a location. Some tracks might not sound too annoying at first listen, but when used for looped replay can downgrade your project's quality in the mind of the listener.
I just picked up a current Humble Bundle for music with a broad commercial license. It's an extra good deal for me since I'm planning to start a YouTube channel this year aside from making a game, and I can use the music for both according to the legal text (found on support.humble.com).
For my world map, I may go with having the basic landmasses and ocean parallax with a photoshopped natural, non-blocky look, and dot it with a mix of RTP tiles, edited RTP tiles, and custom tiles for the mountains, trees, towns, etc.
Somebody made a horror movie style trailer of Animal Crossing and it's freaky.
I've just successfully conducted a common event test to simulate the Tent item in Final Fantasy IV. Seeing it run on my test world map really got me feeling nostalgic.
A possible way to determine whether a RPG is worth getting on Steam is to see how many hours the oldest reviews have spent playing the game. If none of them were willing to finish the game, there may be something wrong with the game or the reviews might be fake; either way a potential red flag.
I just tested out Arisu's new Forced + Bonus Battle Drops plugin --- it's pretty convenient for adding Quest Drops or bonus rewards into the actual battle drops.
I set up around twenty basic consumables in my test project. My basic healing potion restores X% + Y hp (still adjusting it). I always hated when potions become obsolete in RPGs so I decided to go with a scaling amount.
I thought of a good way to use the large 256x256 icons from indie icon packs - present them as pictures of items in their descriptions rather than using them as list icons, or maybe BOTH. There's loss of quality when shrinking them down to list icon size (32x32) but with this I can make more aesthetic use of their art's greater detail at full size.
This week, I've picked out title screen BGM, character theme BGM, battle themes, victory ME, and BGM for starting location in my (recently decided) first game. I think I'll also test out some sprites this weekend.
Holy crap the original release of Final Fantasy II was a hot mess. Knowing the story behind it makes it even more of a hot mess. Not the FF IV that was sold as FF II in the west, but the actual FF II. The bugs and the unbalanced skill system made mechanics a big fail in the gameplay.
I've been watching Mr. Gentleman's History of RPGs series on YouTube. He blends history with a step-by-step review of each game. Lots of great ideas to mine from classics like Dragon Quest IV.
I did a test of transferring the player between maps with event proximity detection. Works like a charm using only a single event for each side of the map. This could save a lot of time for cutscenes and extending the world map.
An icon bundle arrived on Humble Bundle. I feel like one can never have enough icons. Guhuhuhu.
I've made a rudimentary prototype map for the first game with the MV RTP overworld tiling. I'm probably going to photoshop the crap out of it for parallax, but the prototype has given me new ideas about how I want to place dungeons in the game.
The main character for the first game was originally going to become a member of the party in the third game but I'm probably changing him to an important NPC instead. That brings the third game's total ensemble roster down to nine with one optional secret character. -
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Playtesting for Battle Castle is done, demo time for me was roughly 6 hours and 20 minutes. I'm going to pass it on to a few friends first, and after getting some feedback will be posting an official topic.
There's another Humble Bundle available now for RPG developer assets, this time focused somewhat more towards pixel art style games.
