I changed the blog name to The Blog of Magi! Might be more fitting, and maybe more people know me by that anyway.
Um, I mentioned in my last post that I was making an RPG (role-playing game, not rocket-propelled grenade). Thing is, back then, I could never make RPGs because I was stoopid ;_;
Well, now I can! I will be using this blog to track progress. That is, if I'm making any at all during this time. I've been really clumsy lately, so I possibly won't do much at all. Or maybe I will! Allow me to provide some info on the games!!!
The first I'm developing is made with RPG Maker VX Ace. I will make the rest with RPG Maker VX Ace too. Logic. (maybe I'll make one with a toaster too, who knows)
This one is currently named Border of Whimsicality. I thought about the name once, thought it was silly, decided I was going to think of something else later. Then I thought about it again. I realised it was fitting. Kept it. Suggest better ideas, someone?
First and foremost, this RPG is thoroughly driven by MOTHER/Earthbound-- no, it does not contain any spoilers - it's an original plot, but however! The humour is existent (maybe not as strong as in MOTHER) and the music, sound effects and enemy graphics are the same as in MOTHER 2 (or just 'Earthbound'), with perhaps some variety! Music has some arrangements of MOTHER rather than completely all from the original soundtrack. Nice, maybe? Yes.
All right, so! Images, you ask? Here they are!
Actually, I'll make this a commentary on the images that I've recorded until now. Then you will be able to grasp my RPG! Yay!
This is an old image of the 'personality test' I used in the earliest version of the game, Border of Whimsicality 0.01. The first thing you'll be able to tell is the fancy selection thing! Now, once I mention 'pre-made script', you won't run away, right? Scripts are very difficult to make as a whole - and I credit every script I use. Basically, I work hard on the games I make - I don't use the scripts to spoon feed progress, okay? Now that I've got that out of the way, let's begin.
The font here is very nice. If you're wondering, it's called cirno.ttf - the font used in a game I won't mention that you can go find out yourself. I've been using this font in pretty much all of my major and minor game projects - very flexible for styling up a game like mine.
Okay, let's commentate!
You can faintly see in the background behind the selection choices thingies (visual novel-style choices, they are) an old version of the sprite I used for the main character. He had red hair, now he has black. He looks better now, in my opinion. You might see his new sprite in the later screenshots.
I removed the 'personality test' because I particularly did not want this game to move along slowly. Allow the character to jump into the whimsical world right away - not hindering them at the first opportunity. That might be different for the other games, but I'll not go onto that now.
The personality test, which also used the music from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team's personality test was a series of questions that influenced on what the character would result as. Here are a few pointers - the changes were massively minor and only affected low statistic changes and perhaps less maximum hit points or something. Dull. (although, it did have its own sense of humour, so that's okay... sort of) However, certain choices like you could select a class that influenced what skills and statistics your character would have were included. The classes were assailant, ambiguous and sentinel. That's attacker, both attacker and defender and defender. Pretty unique, but then I realised how it would be advancing through the game as a defender. Sure, it would remain unique, but I supposed it would spoil the game experience. Another time.
An amusing thing about this image, to wrap this subject up - selecting the second choice would give your character the Cold ailment, which the anonymous person asking the question and responding to your answer would give you a Tissue consumable item out of pure, angelic kindness. ^^
Next up are a flurry of images before I started changing more things!
And no, I won't mention how the game starts in the new demo and although it's nothing to write home about, it's probably not good to mention at the moment. Definitely moving on.
You may have noticed the character is named 'Myouren'. Yes, it's a strange name, but it's certainly a name I liked to use to accompany the character's silent personality. Its origin... well, you'll have to find out yourself. Yes, you can choose your own name for every character you obtain.
'Myouren is busy sneezing constantly!' This is the text that appears when your character is inflicted with the Cold ailment and when it is still in existence! How neat.
The last two screenshots are the observance of the command list - the Earthbound games used the 'PSI' command then a window where you could switch to each type of PSI and select a skill. Here, because due to lack of resource, I've had to fit the types into the command list - which I find efficient regardless.
Also, PSI is an abbreviation for psionics. Later, you might see PK. That stands for psychokinesis and punctuates most offensive PSI.
Is that sufficient commentary? Okay! Next screenshots - the newer version!
This is idle tactic in motion. Sometimes, the enemy will perform a useless skill that skips their turn. This is also evident in the Earthbound game(s).
But wait! Sadly, animating the HP/PP (PP is Psychic Points!) caused unreasonable lag to the battles as a whole when using multiple allies. Because of this, I had to remove it. More compensation had followed, so don't fret!
Overall commentary time! So, you noticed the 'grin' skill, which is one of the things I consider to give this game personality. Secondly was the animated HP thing, which I removed. However! I did place this feature in the other project I am making, named Alchemy's Arcana, which I will commentate about later. (yes, I put it there because it didn't lag when using it. yippee)
And thirdly! Earthbound had used a particular system that when encountering an enemy on-map, if you were a high enough level (that is, stronger than the enemy you were encountering), you would instantly win the battle and receive whatever experience points and money you would normally get.
Here, I used a 'seppuku' skill. Points to whoever knows what it does!
... Okay, fine. Your enemies (usually) commit suicide when you are a high enough level, and that is, in battle. In the final screenshot you see there, the enemy failed to kill themselves. Give that a nice, good think through.
Oh, and note that there is a motion camera function that occurs when you select an enemy and/or when you are attacked by an enemy. See the example in the penultimate (second to last) screenshot!
Moving on!
State ailments! You can see the abundance of ailments I plan to be making in this game - they may not all be available, but they're there for now! Pretty nice, ja?
Now for... humorous item infos! Yaaay!
More of those!
And even overly exaggerated ones! Fantastic.
So, now you've seen the extent of my first RPG. Next time, I'll write about the second one I mentioned - Alchemy's Arcana! Thank you for reading and viewing! It has been a pleasure writing this. Toodles!
