Maps and screenshots thread

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DerVVulfman can sprite :o OMG! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING THIS SECRET FROM US?! Hey, you're pretty good!

Believe it or not, I'm working on two games now. Actually, I always have been.

Project Beast

The Belly of the Beast game I made years ago for that contest, well... it still exists and is still in development. The one on the forum is way old and doesn't represent the current project, not even the slightest from a technical standpoint. The dungeon is still relatively similar, but larger and with more troop formations. There are 3 more chapters and the enemies... let's just say YOU WILL NOT HOLD ATTACK! Players who do nothing but hold Attack will be slaughtered and enemies can smell your fear now. I'll post some menu shots.

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Project Beast : Skill Menu

This menu is separated into skill categories. Skill categories have their own column settings and two different sort settings. Setting A only provides data for skills currently learned. Setting B preserves the indices of all skills that you have or have not learned.



Project Beast : Status Menu

Character animation is provided from the new Minkoff inspired animated battler engine. Since Tifa is HP critical, she is displaying the proper animated pose. Cloud is petrified so his portrait is grey-scale and his sprite is stone. Aeris is KO so her portrait is red tone and her sprite is lying unconscious.

This is pretty basic for now, but it will provide element and status affinity in the near future, just press the X (X-Box) / Square (PlayStation) / A (PC) button to see further data. 

Project Echo

This project is a lot older than Project Beast and has approximately 17 hours of game play. I'm planning on eventually going commercial with it and am allocating an advertising budget. I've always preferred to keep this game secret until that time but I will share some screenshots.

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Project Echo : Skill Menu

Outdated as the Spirit Gems system has changed, but here is an old screenshot of the skill menu.

Spirit Gems are similar to FF7 Materia but not exactly the same as you permanently learn the skills provided and the Spirit Gem itself never "levels up" or "becomes mastered" like Materia does. The newer system is like FF7 materia meets X-Men Legends skill system. That means Yuffie can steal your Spirit Gems but she can never take away what you have learned from them. Ever.

(I wanted to get a different screenshot but many of my magic icons have changed names so, until I update the settings, all it does is crash. This is due to renaming of files, the system itself actually works fine.)



Project Echo : Configuration Screen

Everything is functional except for Control configuration. Animated ATB is 90% implemented and yes the player can set Active/Wait and the speed of battle as well as battle and field message speed. The controller in the bottom right corner is functional; I actually programmed it when I was programming the Input/Keyboard module for ReGaL as a means of visually testing game pads. Prior to that, I was using Aleworks/AWorks by vgvgf but the new modules have been rewritten to work for Mac, Linux and PC. Gamepad works now too. In the picture I'm holding R1, Left/Up, Square, X and Select because that's all I was able to hold while pressing "Print Screen" with my pinky.

Right and Left analog as well as R3 and L3 actually do work but none of that has been implemented in the gamepad test yet, as do R2 and L2. I've never got these buttons/analog sticks to work in RPG Maker and I probably never will as I'm limited to what the F1 menu provides.



The system does read PS3 controller well, but I have trouble with PS4. I've never tested an X-Box controller and I don't have sprites for them. Regular PC game pads should work, I don't know if I need XInput for X-Box, X-Box 360 or X-Box 1 controllers.

Both games now utilize elements from a massive Ruby library, but they're not 100% backwards compatible with each other, I don't know if it ever will be. Game data for Project Echo is edited via command prompt, not sure if I'll ever build a GUI to edit all this nonsense but it sure would be nice to have.

Yikes, there is too much to do ;_; I'll be busy for the rest of my life. Sometimes I feel I'm going nowhere with all this but I've got so much done. Meh.