July Goals and Progress Thread

[Arisa]

I wanna make a silly project and actually FINISH IT! xD

 

[hiddenone]

@Arisa-Chan Good luck with that goal, every time I tell myself I'll make a short game it ends up spiraling into a monstrous mess.

I played a few games this weekend and tried to leave useful feedback, so it's a good way to start the week. I also figured out all the different heights and skin colors for the main sprites.

 

[Rukiri]

Finally got my dialogue choice menu working!
Yea it's pretty debugish but hey... at least it works. The number represents the choice position, so the choices array is 1-3 not 0-2 like it should... now just got to work on the actual menu gui part.

If anyone is wondering what the red gfx are, they're tiles 16x16 and pretty much testing how smooth I could do angled tile collisions and surprisingly works great works pretty much like zelda, could actually bring in polygon/collision shapes into the mix if I implemented box2d or googles liquid fun but honestly it's smooth enough.

 

[mogwai]

Um... In my game, you'll become Patriot Pony, and his imaginary girlfriend Pigtail Pony, and of course there are the regular cast, Rarity, Pink Pony, Purple Pony, Rainbow Pony, Flutter Butt, and Road Apples.

This is the same formula of Cartoon Network Carebears compared to Disney Carebears.

 

[Rukiri]

@mogwai They look like they're sliding vs actually walking. There's no "gallop" in the movement animation.
But nice sprites tho.

 

[mogwai]

@Rukiri Tell me about it. They are on Thorazine. I rode a pony once that wasn't on Thorazine. That was a scary ride! His name was Johnny and he got spooked.

 

[M.I.A.]

RPG Maker Goals for July:

-Plan for August

Taking the month off for vacation!! Farm life is intense, time for a break!!
-MIA

 

[Marquise*]

@mogwai take middle poses, lift them by two to four pixels up and unfold the closest legs and transfer position on the left to right pose.

@M.I.A. Augu.. OOoooooOOOoooo0oooh~! You will be really MIA but for vacations, have a good one!

Aligning myself for more lining/inking

 

[mogwai]

Ok boss. @Marquise*

I use points instead of pixels though so I have to eyeball it at every zoom that I never remember what level I'm in.

 

[Another Ned]

Wait, it's July already? I've been combating depression for a week now, kind of lost track of time. And did the wrong thing like every time I'm combating depression and avoided all social contact.

So, as one or the other might remember, I've had a New Game Idea two or so weeks ago, which I call Gear Up Game. I want to work on it throughout July and see how much I get done. That's my goal.
It'd be nice if I actually keep the scope small for once so it'd be done before August (but who am I kidding). But hey, I already kind of cut and changed stuff around from my initial idea to be more in line with what I can actually do. Though a second sidekick character happened. Oops?

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In any case, lots of motivation and stuff to everyone for this month as well! : D
Oh, and @hiddenone : Eve! <3

 

[Marquise*]

@Chiara (Hey myself missed taking my mails since a month... My anxiety hit paroxysm with IRL papers... fortunately I can busk. But, remember, I still am there if you need to walltext someone. And it is DC's B-month, she might purrs a lot if we share good vibes. *looks at DC stretching*) BTW, we wanna see your game ^^

Annd... Since I just finished the corretion and lining;

 

[mogwai]

@Chiara We are all mimes online. We are reading and writing. Paper pen-pal means state pen, and if there was one social person online, who doesn't understand our LOTR Entish ways, he should be there.

 

[Rukiri]

Ok boss. @Marquise*

I use points instead of pixels though so I have to eyeball it at every zoom that I never remember what level I'm in.

I too eyeball to a point, than say **** it and open pyxel edit for onion skinning.

this is kinda what I meant by the gallop "my own wip walking animation"

I'm using a 6-frame animation adding 2 more frames doesn't make a big difference...
your using a 2 frame animation as it just loops frame 1 and 3 as 2 would be the idle frame "never seen in mv or vx/ace" XP showed the idle frame but it was still a 2 frame animation but at least showed the idle frame so it kinda smoothed it out.

 

[bgillisp]

Looks like some nice progress there, keep it up!

7.3 Update: Finished up the enemies for the rest of Chapter 6 (the new enemies, as the old ones didn't work for this section). However, in the process I figured out my high level battle balance was way off and went ahead and started the task of rebalancing all weapons/armor a little better. About 50% done now. Hate to do it at this point of the game but I think it will help a lot, and fix a few issues that have nagged at me about the current set up.

 

[Rukiri]

@Marsigne Like everything huh? Neat!

@bgillisp Thanks!

Think leg movements done

 

[Another Ned]

@Marquise* : (Thank you, and mentally hug DC from me. : D)
Yay pagonfly! Does that opening thing at the base of the wing only open when it exhales? It's a bit odd that there's this big black bit appearing only in some frames.
@mogwai : Erm, to be honest, I'm not sure I understand what you wrote, sorry. D": I feel like I'm missing context (and/or I'm simply not awake enough yet). Would you mind explaining what you meant?
@Rukiri : I don't understand enough about animation to comment on the movement, but it looks nice so far. : D
@bgillisp : Sounds like rebalancing is a lot of work at this point. D: (wait, I never noticed... Does the orc in your avatar threaten me with a knife or smell a flower?)

Progress, July 03rd:

• sketched the protagonist a bit and worked some more on their personality

I need to look for a replacement for Photobucket now (to me, it's like photo kicked the bucket) and fix the stuff in my resource threads.

 

[Marquise*]

@Chiara She must think it is because it is her B-day since we listening some @Geoff Moore 's music just for the circumstance and I turned to her while she slept around my mouse side elbow and to transmit her the hug... the cyber part I couldn't type to her, but I closed my eyes as she slept and hugged her mentally with all my strength and when I opened my eyes she was eying me like "I am at less than 2 inches from you, you idiot; why can't you hug me physically instead of mentally?" then as I thought it was literally as you written kinda... she shook her tail and got on the floor instead in case I'd had other mental squishing marvelous ideas to wake her up. LOL I got to go apologize to her because she is trying to give me the cat equivalent of literal irony down there! (Well if I wanted still test if she was empath or telepath, she is still getting my mental waves loud and clear! No danger to be deaf while aging if this was the most important sense.)
As for the PFD, that black shadow on the wing arm that you take for an opening? I thought it was just too well placed to re-shadow it later on as the handmade rough was well done there and I could had forgot.

Progress;
50% of my backlog on 400+ messages in one night. I am still frightened by all those malicious mails and all those personal infos that flows freely about me on the internet to marketing companies that I want it or not. Kinda feels like soul/identity robbed (especially when I receive mails from myself addressed to myself). :S

Ah and that snailmail paperwork? Last landed here wasn't even for me. :}

 

[Lantiz]

For now my goal is to create a dice mini game [:

 

[Rukiri]

Finished arm movement, it hops but I like it
it's 6-frame not 8 granted the other 2 wouldn't add any more leg movement but just be padding frames to maybe smooth out the arm animation.

Now to actually shade the pants

 

[bgillisp]

@Rukiri : Seems done to me.

@Chiara : It's just playing with a knife. It's supposed to look like it's bored though, so it's just standing there like it doesn't care.

@Marquise* : That's a lot of messages in one night.

@Lantiz : Dice mini-game? What kind?

7.4 Update: Finished the rebalancing of weapons and armor (except for G costs, as that is coming up anyways for the entire game). Also went and fixed Chapter 4 - 6 drops (1 - 3 should have no reference to these items anyways, as they were mid to late game, but will double check soon) to make sure they say the new names for the items you are finding. Then used the debug mode to give my party what they should have for equips, equipped them, and then deleted the wrong items from my inventory.

Now I think I'm ready to proceed with testing the Chapter 6 boss. But will do that Thursday as I want to take a day or so off now from the game.