December Goals & Progress Thread

[mlogan]

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Hey guys! Sorry, this month has gotten away from me, so I'm just getting this up!​

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I hope with all the busyness of the holiday season, we can all find some time to eek out a bit of productiveness here! But be sure to take time to enjoy the holiday season as well!​

 

[BlackRoseMii]

Okay, after the (exhausting) work on the nanowrimo, I'm going back to game developement. And these will be my goals:

-Finish the whole dialogue for my side project and start adding it into the game

-Start drawing the busts for said game (and start looking for a composer)

-write some more skits for my main game

-start balancing levels, items, monsters, everything in my main game (I don't wanna >.<)

-and, of course, do requests

Okay, I hope I get these things done^^

 

[Aoi Ninami]

Well, I barely got anything done last month, due to getting drawn away by non-RPGMaker creative projects. So my goal for December is a more modest "at least get back to the game and make some progress".

(By the way: eke out, not eek.)

 

[Pahhur]

Well I got distracted last month by getting the full version of VXAce, which left pretty much all my goals half finished. Which means I still haven't finished the skills, and I couldn't even find a starting point to learn Ruby. So instead I'll focus on something simple; get a visual on every location in the game, so that I have an idea of what everything looks like and what I need to put it all together.

 

[Kes]

And as regulars may have noticed, I wasn't here at all last month.  Real life, modding etc. took up a lot of time.  I converted my project to MV and then - after spending quite some time on it - reversed my decision and went back to Ace.  Lots of work for not a single extra minute of game play.

This month's goals

• My laptop is in its death throes.  My new one is due to be delivered tomorrow.  So a huge amount of time setting it up, transferring vast amounts of files, re-downloading programs.  Nightmare.  I've managed to get one with Windows 8.1, couldn't get one with Windows 7.  But at least I've avoided Windows 10.
• Once that is done, finish the mapping of that village I was doing.
• cut scenes to recruit the next 2 members of the party.
• Do more work on the skills of those characters.
• Surely by the end of the month I'll be able to come up with a working title for this project?  But maybe not.

 

[Bonkers]

Started to refine my script to hand over this weekend for a visual novel.  I'll have to commission a few sound effects, but otherwise all the resources are in order.

Working towards making some more OSM for the restaff submission on Monday.

Finishing up City of Chains and writing my final analysis on the project for my workshop.

Looking at ideas for mushrooms for the winter community submission.

Deciding on what to get done for the Members+ Gypsy Theme

Man December is gonna be a long one for the next 2-3 weeks.

 

[Vox Novus]

December already!? Same goals for me as last month basically. Want to really focus on development this month, so might take a break from battler making and possibly from the forums.

Let's try and make december a productive month despite the preparation for the holiday goings on.

 

[ashikai]

I uhh, actually want to start development this month instead of just messing around playing with scripts.... Then again, it is December which means holidays which means there's a fat chance I'll actually get a huge chunk of work done. *cough*

Tangible goals:

• Finish sprite base with walk/run animations (4dir)
• Customize those bases for two characters
• remake the base for my first boss monster
• Design 3 additional tutorial monsters

I'm gonna be spriting for mooooonths. T^T

 

[Schlangan]

I'm still in Boston for work, but I can somehow give my goals for the month;

FIrst, finishing the demo version of the MV version of my game, which includes :

- Schlangan's battle sprite (80% done for now)

- Finding a way to add Terrax's light effects and Klaus' overlays in battle

- Doing a last debug to make sure everything works as intended

Depending on the comments if people try my demo, I'l be working on porting Mission II and maybe more, since I'll be on vacation starting from the 14th december

 

[bgillisp]

My plan for December is to get my Chapter 2 into it's final form. I'd skipped some scenes and sequences as I wasn't prepared (or knew how to) implement them at the time, so now that I know more about RPGMaker, I'm adding the missing scenes. So far it's already added 40 minutes of playtime to Chapter 2, and might add another 20 - 30 minutes more once done.

If there is any time left, I will start on doing the same for Chapter 3. BTW, I did decide while doing this to cut the current Chapter 3 from the game, as it accomplished nothing but stalling the party for 1 - 2 hours of playtime while they rescued 4 missing party members. Tough decision as that is about 1 - 2 months of work going to be cut, but it will make the game better for it. So the old Chapter 4 is now Chapter 3, the old Chapter 5 is Chapter 4, and so on. Means now the game has 8 Chapters, which is perfect, as the major twist now happens at end of the midway chapter.

 

[Kyonko802]

I'm gonna start replying to these to make it easier to stick to my guns. By the end of the month I want the battle system of my game to be ready for alpha with a few enemies. I'll start filling the hub city with NPCs and tweak the maps to make them look better. My forest map needs a lot of work, and I need to finish the first dungeon as well as the puzzle. After that I'll get to work on the boss battle. Once all this is done I can call this month a success, and maybe get a few more things done before January hits.

 

[astra_not]

I said in last month's thread that I'd have a demo ready by the end of November, but that goal was a bit too ambitious. I did make a lot of progress last month though! Sprites, art, and maps are all going well, but I haven't even started writing dialogue. -_- Writing is the most difficult thing to get myself to do, hopefully I can get over that soon. 

December goals: Write, write, write, and write

 

[TheGamedawg]

I finally got a drawing tablet!  So my goal is to start working on a bunch of official art for the game, as suppose to just pencil sketches.  I would also like to get a lot of writing done.

 

[Marquise*]

AAAAAAH WAIT FOR MEEEEEEEE~!


Woah November fled so fast... Kinda with Whisky too.


Well I don't want applauds but... I couldn't resist some major Steam sale on RPGMaker VX Ace resources ! I know I can always use Photoshop... but why not use time savers? and... Encourage e-local talents?


I will try to do /find one positive things per week this month it would be in my list. That and reconquer my space! Finish the NDA and... find a way to fight my net nervousness and log at two places this month. We'll see if I can once more wrestle wiht that $Evilgod!

 

[DragonVine]

So my goals for December are to simply resume working on my game in some form haha. I need to keep it simple.

My classes have been absolutely insane the last few weeks, and I'm in the midst of writing my final term papers and assignments at the moment, which by the end of it will be nearly 100 pages of writing on them alone, which obviosuly has stopped my ability to work on my game. However, my insane first semester will be over, and I'll have a slightly less insane second semester ahead.

 

[AceOfAces_Mod]

Progress Report #1

-Still writing the story part.

-Almost found a way to automatically backup the player's save files to their desired folder bypassing the launcher. Actually, I did manage to do this without writing a separate program.

-Now I have to re-write the manual with a different toolkit.

Goals carry over.

 

[Pahhur]

Progress Update:

-Completed lore for all areas in the game

-Still looking for a way to learn to use Ruby

-New Goal: Decide the meaning behind each stat, and set up base and growth values for each of my main characters. (First part done)

-New Goal: Get a small demo consisting of the Prologue done.

 

[Kes]

@bgillisp probably a good move to tighten up at this stage rather than later.  But even so, a whole chapter is a lot to jettison.  Kudos for the courage to do it, I don't think everyone would.

@AceOfAces_Mod good that you could do that without having to do another program.  Keeps it cleaner/simpler.

My update

My new laptop arrived exactly on time, and now I've started the mammoth job of re-downloading lots of programs over a dodgy internet connection - that's not being fixed until Friday, but I can't leave it until then to begin.  This is going to be so tedious.

I have half a goal done on the first day! Well, sort of.  An idea for a working title came to me - "Secrets and Lies".  It fits the story well, but I do wonder if it sounds more like the title for a novel than for a game.  Does anyone have any opinion?

 

[bgillisp]

@ksjp17: I've been debating doing it for a few months now, and as I edit parts of the story I've come to realize more and more that the chapter isn't needed. Plus, its always felt like it's lacking a certain something. The good news is it might not be a 100% jettison, I think the quests can still return as a side quest, so all is not lost.

12.2 Update: Finished the cutscene for the party taking the boat, except for a flashback scene that occurs near the end of it. I decided to hold that though as I was blanking on what to say in it, and knew how to start the scene for when the party arrives on the new map. So, I decided to start eventing the new map. About 50% done now, and should be able to finish eventing the beach tomorrow.

Once that is done I'll need to draw up the town that is attached to the beach. Probably will work on that some more tomorrow as well if all goes well.

 

[Marquise*]

@ksjp17


I am at heart with you; computer and internet troubles are the troubles that gets me even more net nervous and paranoid. Big source of stress and anxiety.


Kinda went diving trough old wires today to attempt to find a new VGA cable for my computer screen and see if it is truly the screen that lost its synch or my graphic card that... well is in bad shape. Not done a lot! (The screen can go infinitely black with no signal when I boot up my computer so... Not much to do by then but reboot until it decides to show something but I let it run sometimes and it can show an image after something like between 20 minutes or 1 hour or so?)


But went in here from the November topic to see back the related topics because my message notification didn't showed me my December messages and I wonder if I unsubscribe then resubscribe the not notifying will subsist because I don<t see where for one peculiar topic I can see/change the settings parameters.