September Goals & Progress Thread

[Sharm]

My real world to do list trumped my game making todo list this week.  Doctors visits and shopping and trying to catch up on all sorts of chores.  I'm going on a trip next week (starting this friday actually) so I'm trying to get ready. Mostly by cleaning a bunch of stuff because I have a sudden irrational fear of coming home to an infestation of bugs and rodents because I didn't wash every single dish I own or something like that.  I don't know why, it's not like I've never been on a trip before.

I'm trying very hard to figure out how to get by without installing photoshop on this machine.  I legally own CS2, but it's acting a bit glitchy on my new systems and I'm just sick of how Adobe does things.  I want to be done with them forever.  I've configured Krita to work with pixels but I'm still not comfortable with the program yet.  I keep wanting it to work like a cross between Photoshop and Pyxel Edit but really it feels more like a cross between Painter and GIMP.  Not in a bad way, it's just something I'll have to get used to.  I love working in Pyxel Edit for creating repeating tiles, but for editing them together in a tileset or making the B-E tiles I usually switch to Photoshop so I don't have to work around the grid.  Plus the selection and recoloring tools are a bit better.  I'm sure Pyxel Edit will get there someday but it's not there yet.

@R4B: Oh, no, Pyxel Edit is fine.  Saying "my favorite art program" was a bit misleading, wasn't it?  I don't do pixel art with a tablet so it occupies a completely different space in my head.  I meant Clip Studio Paint.  It's what I use for all my anti-aliased stuff.

 

[bgillisp]

@Schlangan: No, but I have man eating venus fly traps. I think it will serve the same purpose.

@Ace_of_aces_mod: Ok, I was mainly worried about if the player could end up in a position where they cannot advance as there are no more coins for them to spend to unlock the missions.

@luzi: If I see that right you have been working on the tints and lighting? Nice! I've been putting that off for last as I want the maps to be final before I tint things too much.

@Chiara: No, but I should do something like that in the Dwarfen area, as they are allies with the Minotaurs. Hmmm.....

@TheOriginalFive: We all have those months. Anything you can do on paper while waiting for parts? Design some maps? Write down story ideas? Just throwing out ideas to see if it helps.

@r4b: Nope, for it to be progress you have to share it. So where's my coffee?

@TheDigitalDevil: Good luck with that. What do you need to complete for it to be in a semi-ready state?

@Sharm: That's going to be my life until 9.23, RL getting in the way. I've had issues with Adobe too, but work requires I keep their products, so I'm stuck with them. Best of luck finding a good solution!

9.15 and 9.16 Update: Work killed all progress on 9.15. Today I did a run through of the forest outside the military base, and also drew up on paper a very rough sketch of the base. I saw really rough sketch as I'm going to have to research what should be in a base to make sure I'm not forgetting something, so that's on the agenda next.

However, I'm leaving town for a few days now, so it looks like any progress that isn't done on paper (sketches, etc) will not occur until at least 9.23. At least I already completed my September goal, so anything from here is bonus now. Probably won't have any updates to post until 9.23, so I'll have to play catch up then.

 

[VideoWizard]

@bgillisp That's the worst when RL gets in the way. I suspect it will be fall already when you see this post. At least you made your goal already.

@All May the progress continue (or start/resume).

Sun 9.13.15- Just more work on the level.

Mon 9.14.15- Nothing

Tue 9.15.15- Came up with ideas for my comic. Technically, it is based on the game, or its later incarnations, so it does go here.

Wed 9.16.15- Started the West of Renzola Port map.

Are things returning to normal as summer fades to fall? Only one off day out of four isn't too bad, I think.

 

[Astros]

Hmm, seems I'm a bit late to the party. 

Aspirations

• Evolve characters. Establish their history, name, personality, and sprites. 
• Envisage and record plot ideas in relation to characters. 

Development

 

[Marquise*]

@Chiara


The sh... no the fans hit the sh... XD It really feels there is another culture growing up in your world's creation


@Schlangan


Sorry I didn't realized I dyslexed your name :3


@Sharm


It'll pay off! I'm sure it'll pay off!


I will have to clean up my house 'til Monday... Exterminator visit to give the OK I can unpack my material part of my life up!

 

[TheDigitalDevil]

@TheDigitalDevil: Good luck with that. What do you need to complete for it to be in a semi-ready state?

Well I would really need to narrow down my ideas for it but I think I'm making progess in that regard tho it is not what you would typically see for a first game. I plan to get some work done on it during the weekend since I have nothing to really do for the next couple of weeks

 

[Another Ned]

@TheOriginalFive: Hope the waiting won't take too long for you. D:
@Schlangan: I wonder what happened in the forest for it to have slimy monsters roaming around.
@TheDigitalDevil: Lots of motivation etc. for your goals!
@R4B: It was the first time SAI crashed on me. In... Six years? I think I started using SAI in 2009. Honestly, I remember more Photoshop crashes than SAI ones.
@Sharm: I'm not too happy with Adobe, either, but most of my workflows have become so dependent on Photoshop that I can't really replace it (without losing a lot of time). Hope things without PS work out for you. And have a safe trip!
@bgillisp: I remember that everything I knew about military bases before trying to do a bit of research was from watching Stargate: SG1. But then I learned that "wormhole-establishing ancient artifact" isn't standard issue military base furniture.
@VideoWizard: Productivity may increase once the temperature decreases – maybe that's why things are back to normal? Or is it still warm in your part of the world?
@Astros: Well, there's enough of September left to do stuff, so not exactly late I'd say. Every sentence in your goals begins with an E. On purpose, or did I notice a coincidence? In any case, lots of motivation for working toward your goals!
@Marquise*: Lots of motivation for cleaning up. Fingers crossed that you get the OK and stay bug-free!

Progress, 16th:

• some environments for a change, sketching what the place the game will start at may look like. Took a bunch of silhouette sketches I did without much of a purpose in July, chose four of them and sketched some lines in

Progress, 17th:

• collected some reference materials for inspiration and stuff
• continued with the environment/building sketch. Still only full on front view, but made a cleaner sketch and added colours
• took a lot of notes in regards to that first area so things make a lot more sense now
• started with thumbnail sketches for the next party member, Ashanah. She's quite hard to figure out design-wise since there are so many things to keep in mind: She's from the neighbouring country, lived a pretty sheltered life, was the final boss, and her newly-found freedom is awesome. Should maybe try sketching on paper for a while, so I feel less restricted

 

[Astros]

@Chiara While true I was referring more to being late to post. That is pure coincidence, I didn't even notice it myself haha. I was thinking of a word to use besides imagine, perhaps the previous words influenced my choice. Thanks, I'll be quite motivated to get away from my studies, but encouragement from others is always nice. Keep up your own progress, every bit helps. 

 

[mlogan]

And once again, I've fallen behind on keeping up with this thread.

I have absolutely no progress to post so far this week, as I've not had time to do anything. And the rest of the week will be the same. I've had to make sudden out-of-state travel plans so the rest of this week and the beginning is a wash. I will take a notebook with me on the plane so that I will at least to hopefully do some writing and planning.

 

[Astros]

And once again, I've fallen behind on keeping up with this thread.

I have absolutely no progress to post so far this week, as I've not had time to do anything. And the rest of the week will be the same. I've had to make sudden out-of-state travel plans so the rest of this week and the beginning is a wash. I will take a notebook with me on the plane so that I will at least to hopefully do some writing and planning.

Nothing sparks the imagination like sitting in the sky for hours on end with nothing else to do. 

 

[mlogan]

And people watching in the airport.

 

[Schlangan]

@TheDigitalDevil : Good luck for your goals !


@R4B : Yeah XP FTW ! I really hope that MV will have equivalent mapping abilities to XP, I love to increase my tileset size as much as I want. But again, I shouldn't hope too much.


@bgillisp : Indeed Venus fly traps can serve the same purpose. As for the base, if you use the fact that it is abandoned, some parts might have collapsed, hence you can "forget" some parts.


@VideoWizard : Keep it up. Some break in between is not bad either.


@Astros : There is no late in this party. It goes forever, you cannot divide infinity


@Marquise* : It's okay, i'll survive ^^ And let's hope that you're now free of these bugs.


@Chiara : The slimy things are a result of mutation experiments. Nasty bunch. These things appear in several missions because of the cult that created them. That cult is by the way the main antagonist group of the first part of the story.


@mlogan : In long flights I take out my laptops and still work on RPG Maker mwahahahahaha !


My progress :


As I managed to beat a god level duo in Dragon Ball Xenoverse, I played a bit more, hence I made few progress on my game this time. I only set up the proper escape system for mission 4 and corrected an aberration for the outside of the base. It was snowing heavily, but there was not a speck on snow on the steel ground. Now the snow properly covers the place.


If I'm not overplaying DBXV, I now plan to change the tileset of that base, to make it look less like the main party's military base. I might also rethink the corridors of the base, it's too out of place to be a proper military base. Mmmh....

 

[Astros]

And people watching in the airport.

Indeed, there's a lot you can find and use from everyday life. It could be someone's name, their hairstyle, clothing, manner of speaking or for that manner conversation. As Holmes and indirectly Doyle put it.   "that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination." 

@Astros : There is no late in this party. It goes forever, you cannot divide infinity

Yes you can, it's infinity.

 

[TheGreatEater]

Sorry I didn't respond yesterday. Spent all of yesterday at the VA and the other half sleeping. 

Anywho,

@ Chiara: More like a computer program. What got me thinking of it, is that the universe is full of nested loops, fractals, and little functions and subroutines that could be thought of taking a very large, complex action. And making it simple. With only maintenance, or little alterations to the core programming as needed. I mention in the intro before War of the Gods section:

Yep. All back ground magic, rules of (meta)physics, reality. All programmed as if you would a computer (and easier to maintain than doing every individual thing separately per universe. Basically simplifying a huge process so only small maintenance / interactivity is needed from time to time.)

And the Taint, is like a virus. Rewriting part of the original program, and slowly spreading through all networks tied to the infected system. 

@Marquise: 

Holy frak. Nothing got irretrievably wrecked did it? Still after it's all done and over with. You should definitely at least open a nice bubbly, or celebratory diner to celebrate it getting done and over with.
____________________

Finally got the barrel done. I think. Is it passable to y'all?

 

[R4B]

Some progress! I'm trying different methods of drawing tiled grass that doesn't look tiled!

and yes, I know I post a lot of grass tiles on the progress threads ... I do actually draw other things, I however tend to get stuck on drawing grass.

 . 

Ignore the somewhat ugly transitions, it's work in progress ...

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@Sharm: Cintiq Hype back at 100% then!
@Bgillisp: Suuure. You're paying for the shipping costs, right?

@Chiara: Wierd. Photoshop hasn't crashed on me more than few couple of time in seven years... I've had some minor problems with corrupted files though.

Edit: added another screenshot

 

[AceOfAces_Mod]

Progress Report #5

Game:

-Added new skills to slimes

-Almost finished with the Corsair HQ map.

Launcher:

-UI fixes

-Fixed a mis-configuration on the app.manifest's theme settings. I better not touch this for now.

-Adjusted the rights needed for the launcher. Instead of Invoker, it is set to highest availiable.

Misc:

-Game Installer is now signed with a home-made and just a self-extracting setup file.

-I now have unlimited Internet Connection! Yahoo! I no longer need mobile broadband.

 

[BlackRoseMii]

Okay, another week over, another update:

-worked a bit on other peoples projects

-Continued drawing the backgrounds for my side project

-Made some events for my main project. Though now I'm stuck, because I can't properly event a feature/puzzle. I mean, I could continue with just the plot relevant events, but not being able to figure out how to do this is bugging me. I know there's a script somewhere for this, I just don't know what it's called or what kind of words I could use to google it >.< And making it through events will just increase the amount of events even more, which will probably be a problem...If I really can't find it until the end of the month, I'll probably open up a thread for this request.

 

[Marquise*]

@TheGreatEater


Great work. And true some of my stuff had troubles.


@R4B


Nice textures.


Report on today and yesterday;


Got a supper yesterday and got time to pen something like five or six pages of my PBEM of sort of the rules of my RPG system and... I am still on cleaning.


But I am depressed as it seems the very old mommy cat is depressed too and seems to want to go off the house or hide under my toilet bowl and she just seems to have no energy at all. I at least know she goes to the kitty litter (dunno which number) but she eats very few things and she stopped guarding my sleep (she used to sleep close to my head so when I didn't had my respirator, she could wake me up if I stopped breathing.)

 

[TheGreatEater]

@Marquise*, I hope your mommy cat gets better. Hopefully it's something easily fixable. What's PBEM?

 

[Marquise*]

@TheGreatEater


Play By E-Mail. I was thinking of using the PM here with two folks to play old RPG like old table top style... Except ditching the dice rolls. Hey, I can't concentrate on enough things I come and go cleaning stuff and usually likes building, drawing crafting and in the end learning stuff like RPGMaker or even open a MMO. But, none of us can spread anymore and I even gave out work-out as I increasingly banged on every furniture. So I was to try to soothe my nerves doing some old campaign, but as it goes, it might just take off AFTER Monday. Maybe mommy cat thinks she will be isolated 8 hours on the balcony again. But this time the exterminator just gets in here to give the signal for me to unpack. Still what has been a human year for me must feel 4 to 7 for an elderly 15 years old cat! Hope she lives at least a good 30 years more.