(I'm also taking notes specifically from these two.There's certain game design decisions that were neat, regardless of how obscure, and I'd like to include them in my own projects.)
(...were it not for technical reasons one of these "design decisions" would be level drain but nevermind me).
FC Megami Tensei 1 & 2 arguably have more unhinged dungeon designs than even the older Wizardry titles. Megami Tensei 1 especially.
But that's also why I love those games so much, actually. They were very ambitious for their era. They're still worth playing if you want to get into DRPGs.
【4月6日のレトロゲーム】今日はファミコン『デジタル・デビル物語 女神転生II』の発売36周年。悪魔合体等の独特の要素でコアなファンを虜にしたシリーズ2作目。武器や防具の細分化やCOMPの強化、3身合体などあらゆる面で正当進化した名作RPG。
I've been working on a side project this week. 2d rogue like action rpg mixed with eventually celtic mythology.
Thanks for hosting Moogle!
I haven't had much time or motivation to work on my #GBStudio game this year, but I'm feeling the creative spark slowly coming back. I'm even trying to come up with a name for it which is rare for me! Here's my progress on the game from last year!
The party battles against Purple Hippo.
The party fights Enri. The textbox says "Pinn moves first! Footstool!"
Happy #screenshotsaturday, thanks for hosting!
Here are a couple purple bosses in Silver Daze! Everyone loves purple!
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#PixelArt #IndieDev #GameDev
Thanks for hosting! Excited to see more of Moonfell!
For my #screenshotsaturday, been working on designing the transforming UI for my Bistrokaiser megazord side game. 🤖🤖🤖
#indiegame #gamedev
6 monster designs: top left, carnivorous plant female presenting humanoid, top middle, sheep man with wolf shadow, top right, demon coming out of skull jar with chains. The ones on the bottom are black figures with white eyes.
Thanks for hosting #screenshotsaturday this weak!
I've gotten a lot of monsters made for Rogue Tamers done this month, as well as many other things. Here is a preview of said monsters.
We've almost reached the fabled 200 monsters mark!
#roguelike #monstertamer #creaturecollection #PixelArt
Thanks for the host!
The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude has been out for nearly two months now to surprising success! Though I began another project, I'm coming back to Prelude for an extra update.
Expect new enemies, art, music, QoL and a new endgame quest soon!
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It's #screenshotsaturday and I'm happy to host this week's thread, coming from the RPG Beta Testers Discord community!
Let's see some game dev progress, folks!
To start us off, here's a quick clip of the updated Summon system from Moonfell: the Tides of Aether.
#indiegame #jrpg #pixelart #retro
Experience published details on the key story characters and jobs for party members in Demon Kill Demon ~Yomi 1984~, the upcoming sequel to Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi:
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¡Construida entrada en #Itchio hablando del videojuego que llevo desde principios de año trabajando. Cada poco tiempo iré actualizando según avance.
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#RPGMaker #GameDev #IndieGame
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oh wait no i mentioned mouryou senki madara so now i've gotta talk about the konami duology and how its soundtracks are some of the best in JRPG history.
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Just listen to this overworld theme!
Love this game!
Special mention goes to the soundtrack. It's the only Famicom game to ever use the VRC7 chip, allowing it to produce FM Synth audio (Akin to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive).
This, Mouryou Senki Madara and Akumajou Densetsu are probably my top 3 Konami soundtracks on Famicom.
Compañeros
Happy #screenshotsaturday ! Back at this week with some minor improvements. Made it possible to change window skins, animations when using items in menus, and updating the option menu a bit.
#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #rpgmaker #retro #pixelart #RPG #LegendoftheSceleris
This is therefore my cue to come back to my NES FF1 playthrough.
I haven't touched it in years though, so I might restart.
As someone who ironically has no clue about Final Fantasy, I feel like binging it like how I did with Wizardry last year.
The only things I do know is that its game design can get very unhinged sometimes (wdym you get an ultimate sword in FF9 by speedrunning the game in 12 hours)
I'm interested...
Joining in on the nine games trend.
Six of these are first person dungeon crawlers. Also the "newest" game in this list is from 2010.
Huh.
Although If I were to ever work on another project, it'd probably be an original one. Maybe Touhou at most. I don't actually like doing fanart much.
On that note, I do see a lot of Danganronpa fan projects here. I wonder why.
And on an *unrelated* note, damn, a lot of projects end today...
Casting Call Club (a site for project creation/hiring) apparently accepts artist/composer work too.
Not even for money (unless...), but it'd be fun to try and submit my art/music for some random project every now and then.
I just need to make a portfolio first... and learn how to make websites--
#rpgmaker #oc #ocart #illustration #digitalart #conceptart #rmmz #drpg #dungeoncrawler #promosky
The two main characters for my next project: An old story set in the same universe as The Nian-Xi Chronicles...
#rpgmaker #rmmz #dungeoncrawler #drpg #indiegame #solodev #indiedev #indierpg #promosky
(Emergency) Version 1.2.1 of The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude is now available on itch io and Gamejolt! Mostly bug fixes this time around.
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Nian-Xi: Prelude is available on Itch io for free! A 10 Hour prelude to a much grander tale!
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The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude in 4 words:
~ Exploration
~ Quests
~ Combat
~ Customization
Show your game in 4 words! Share and spread the drop!
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Currently making up new formulas. It's actually kind of fun imagining the possibilities.
At least until I get to playtesting and realize the whole formula has horrible scaling and I have to redo it from scratch.
Why can't I just be happy with "a.atk * 4 - b.def * 2"
I haven't tested the second one beyond my current project. But depending on how things go, I might actually release it as a standalone plugin for anyone to use in the future. I'm not the only one who wanted this sort of thing in their game.
And hey, MZ in general needs more free plugins...
One just changes the way Ambushes/Preemptive attacks are handled, making it so the chances are influenced by the player's AGI stat too.
The other is a bit more ambitious, as it allows for "Pre-Battle" themes to play before anybody performs any action. Similar to MegaTen's negotiation themes.
I haven't mentioned it, but I've actually been delving into plugin making for a while.
Originally, it was to manually alter the Battle UI. But I got the hang of it rather quickly and even made two small plugins for my next game. It's a lot easier to understand even if you don't know much about JS.
#rpgmaker #nian-xi #dungeoncrawler
The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude reached over 20 combined downloads (Game + Mini-Soundtrack) its first week, as well as one donation!
Thank you so much for your support! A new update will be available somewhere around this week!
