Storyteller-Hero

If I have an alternate battler sheet for each actor, that increases the number of graphics I can choose from when creating action sequences for skills. I'm so glad I learned about this before I started making the more complicated skills that will be in my game.

I'm keeping it in my notes for now. I probably won't put up a thread for it until I'm at least halfway through completing the build.

Makes sense. Well, I wish you luck with the project building

Thanks.

I also learned that an art program that I have has default anti-aliasing, which can blur out sprites if not turned off.

Pfft! Who needs workflow when you have spunk, inspiration, determination and every other ation?

Don't forget the dreaded PROCRASTIN-ation.

Oh indeed. That's the worst of them all!

Spacing between the nodes as well as for chamber areas eats up a lot of the map and I need space for decorations and whatnot as well, so I'll probably still be well under the max events per map.

I think that I'm also going to limit myself to 5 maps per actor on this for the smaller game and maybe raise it for the larger game. Or maybe I'll stick with a single map per actor.

I've tested the mechanics for grid so that's fine. This prototype (131 x 131 test size) will give me an idea of the scale I need, whether to shrink it or enlarge it. I may be making like 9 maps per actor because I want to add some other things like treasure chests and art pieces and puzzle areas to make skill learning into a full-blown mini-game.

General walking movement. Click action button over node while on top of it. I'm thinking of making it like a maze with special bonus nodes in various sections as they get unlocked.

Oh, yeah, maze-like structure makes a lot of sense.

I've done this sort of thing by pure eventing in my current project. It's in Ace, so that plugin is no good to me.

Yanfly' Main Menu Actor Events is also needed to do this from menu. If I can make this work, I think that I'll use it instead of changing classes.

Holy guacamole this might actually work. I've got to test this when I've got time.

Nice. Grids are fun. I thought about eventing a skill tree once.

Far from a new idea, actually, but it works really well for games with larger parties and no reserve-character exp.

I think all rpg games should do that sort of thing anyway. :3

@standardplayer Glad to hear there's a lot more freedom. I may only be an eventer but since I began eventing custom menu's and battle systems I really started to hate how rigid and limiting RM's event system is.

That's how it started for me. Don't get me wrong, I use both. There are times where I like using events, but knowing both helps. It's never a bad time to dig in and learn XD PM me if you ever want help getting started

Thanks I'll definitely take you up on that offer.

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Ai yai yai. And it costs so much to register...

For the second series of games that I'm planning (for a different setting) however, I'll probably go wild with class and subclass due to the nature of the story. I probably won't even get to that for a couple of years though.

I'm debating on this myself, as to whether I want to do all these subclasses or not, with a set primary.

I turned on window masking in Olivia's Octobattle plugin as the new windowskin is rather translucent and words became hard to read when choice windows overlapped.

The order turn display might be better at the bottom since the bar for displaying action names is already at the top, and it looks cluttered having both of them at the top. The order turn bar could also look awkward when overlapped over certain enemy graphics in the future.

Yes, a message log and skip/fast forward option is a must!

I'm hoping that my use of Galv's Choice Pictures and Irina's Visual Novel Busts along with some animation plugins will be well-received by those who play my game when it's ready.

The window frame for messages is going to be a tough choice since I'm probably not sticking with default.

Presentation is very important. I also think that animation is important. Seeing nothing but text might be okay for some people, but others might enjoy seeing characters move around, or other things happening on the screen. I think we forget that games are a visual medium, and that we can convey things through images and actions rather than just plain text.

This opens up a potentially important location for my storytelling - the inside of the airship while in flight. Final Fantasy games have explored this in interesting ways so I'm super happy right now as a writer.

I changed it to CrimsonText-Regular for now - I might change it again later, but I think it's at least more aesthetically pleasing than the default.

Yeah, it's one of those subtle things that can really influence your game in a pretty big way. It's kinda like the use of SFXes. A player might not notice well placed sound effects, but they will notice if they're bad or absent entirely.

When I found out how to change the default font it was like having epiphany of sorts. Now I do for all my projects to match the style of the game.

A small prequel in the same setting, with location mapping, lore, and mechanics that will be expanded upon and featured in the big game. The stories won't be connected directly, but I could have the hidden character in the big game be the main character of the prequel...

That could work depending on how well the image editing software scales stuff down. Gimp and Kirita seem to work well for that.

it definitely works. i've used that technique for expanding world map options (and for getting the world map to actually correspond with the "normal" maps)

I went to the Plugin's help/settings window and deleted the default class ID numbers in the setting entry. I then used the plugin's Actor Notetags to individually unlock classes for my characters, who are using different classes and subclasses in the game.

More is more as long as the more doesn't hurt the less. Sitting with 90 different items in the inventory, of which only 2 are useful, is not too nice.

I'm including a few item sinks in my game to mitigate inventory bloat malaise, and will be drawing upon my memories of Final Fantasy inventory bloat to balance items. Healing potions for example will be % based instead of flat values, to avoid becoming dead weight during late game.