Yay Blogssszz
Yay, I just discovered that RMXPU has blogs! And of course I decided to make one :P
Anyways, I will mostly be posting development on my current main project--Which is currently untitled. I've been playing around with a few ideas for a name, but the story is still somewhat early in development so I will leave it untitled for now. This project is mostly to get help me learn all the ins & outs of RMXP and Ruby. I actually have a few projects that I am kind of working on at the same time, but this will be my main one for now. I guess this blog is kind of late in terms of how far into development I am, so I should probably get it up to speed. Right now, I am mostly working on scripting/graphics, and once I get all the base systems coded I can move on.
I have completed the menu so far; And right now I am working on the battle system. The battle system will mostly be just a reworking of the default system, with animated battlers (probably just the characters, not enemies) and with a few tidbits thrown in.
It's a fairly standard RPG, the main changes that may make it different are:
Trading
Instead of paying for items with money, you collect materials from enemies which are then traded with local traders for items and equipment.
Universal Spirit Action System
Yea I know, I tried to make a cool sounding name, but it ended up being lame lol :P
Anyways, this is the lame name for the skill system, all skills are shared between each character (there are only 3 playable characters in the game) Essentially how it works is that you get a Spirit Board (or grid may make more sense) and at the center are your level 0 actions (attack, guard and focus (which restores FP- focus points(essentially SP or AP or MP)) and these actions increase your parties "Spirit Gauge") Then it works like a graph going out from the center (on x/y axis) level 1, 2, 3. Every other point on the grid represents a certain action, and its level is found by adding its x/y point, so the outside corners would be level 6. Each skill requires FP and the spirit gauge to be at a certain percentage, and it obviously drains the spirit gauge. At the end of each battle you get a little bit of AP which you can spend on skills, and learning a skill unlocks the next level skills from that location. here is a rough diagram:
http://img813.imageshack.us/i/spiritboard.png/
Then after learning skills, you can equip them to any player to use in battle; so you get to set up each character how you want to!
And without further adieu here is the menu(please note: a lot of data, like names,etc is placeholder):
http://img29.imageshack.us/i/maingo.png/
Here is the main menu
http://img41.imageshack.us/f/pouch.png/
Items! LOL totally just saw the terrible spelling/grammar in the info bar
http://img840.imageshack.us/i/skillsm.png/
Skill equip menu
http://img21.imageshack.us/i/spiritboard.png/
Here is the actual spirit board menu
http://img4.imageshack.us/i/statusvg.png/
STATUS MENU
This is pretty much what I have at the moment. I am early in development for the battle system, and really only have the windows setup and the result screen(which isn't even the barebones yet lol) right now I am working on getting the animated battlers set up, and then will have some screenshots :)
If anyone reads this, please feel free to comment/criticize! I know I don't have much to work with just yet, but any feedback would be nice :)
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