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[Glaciermage]

Shiny indeed! I love Madame Paulsen's room now.

I also rly like how the oven/sink look in the above pictures. It is rly gonna look good when it's done, kspr.

[kspr]

i just realized that i need to make the plants on top of the dresser their own tiles, instead of having them be attached to the dresser itself..... i really want to use every tile in the ultimate inner/outer rtp's, but im just going to draw what i've already used so far. it's moving along, just slowly. drawing that makeup table/mirror took a good 20 mins to get right. i'm really anxious about how the caves are going to look. i'm not good at all when it comes to making a repeating pattern.

i can't get the people to look right either. from the side, and from behind it's fine, but when it comes to drawing faces, i just end up with this dead stare and a smile, and i know it's wrong, but i don't know how to fix it. [holy run on sentences batman!]

[kspr]

All that's left are a cabinet, a crate, a chest, the armor rack, the clock, two barrels, a lamp, a countertop, a couch, and a bookshelf.

edit: ok i figured it out. before i exported my .png all over the desktop, i flattened the image, which while cutting down the filesize to almost nothing, gave it a white background instead of a transparent one. i just didnt realize it because when you import an image, it's white by default. /idiot.

[kspr]

Sooo close to being done with this map.





and here it is in action. the charset still needs work because he walks like one of the seven dwarves... Clepty.

[kspr]

so i just got a really cunty review on another board. the guy hated the music, the atmosphere, the maps, the dialogue, and the art. it obviously went over this guy's head because he must have had the totally wrong attitude going into it.

[Glaciermage]

Some ppl write bad reviews for everything. How could he not like anything about the game?

The thing I like the most about the game is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. You're not trying to create the next epic blockbuster RPG, because it's just not possible within the limitations of rpg maker. I love the music, atmosphere and dialogue of the game, and the gfx were good before, and now with the new improvements they are rly gonna look good.

[Stars]

If they have nothing useful or constructive to say, you just have to ignore stuff like that.

[kspr]

right? it sounds like he's frustrated because he can't make the next crono trigger

what do 12 year olds know? nothing i bet

Spoiler

BAD
1 your battleback in the first part looks crappy
2 the mapping after the mansion sucks
3 the sound doesn't match the atmosphere on the second cave
4 the rock contradicts everything i stand for
5 and wait your telling me the rock was human before since he said "I was supposed to use it to get bad apples of my trail. but i was turned into a rock before i had the chance"
6 again your BGM doesn't match the atmosphere of the game
7 the path is too straight
8 That is the wierdest weapon shop i've seen yet and i've seen many, the Bgm of it sounds like a barnyard themed shop
9 The Big House with lots of flowers doesn't look too good

GOOD
1 the tileset you used in the house and mansion is nice

[Monkeydog]

People who can't spell weird shouldn't be allowed to have opinions.

[kspr]

Save crystals! they look pretty neat when you play with them in the program.




finally finished the tiles for the first house.

[Monkeydog]

Did you make those crystals or find them?

[kspr]

made them. just different filters and color levels. top to bottom: noise, poster edges, normal, and plastic wrap.

[Monkeydog]

Those are nice and I am impressed.

[kspr]

i finally have a direction to go in now for the next few chapters- the heroes have a heartbreaking decision to make: which civilization lives, and which one dies. soon to be a major motion picture by Ron Howard.

but yeah the next few chapters came to me really fast, so i'll stop working on the tileset to get more actual content in.

[Glaciermage]

Happy to hear it, kspr. Are there going to be multiple paths to take then? The player decides which civilization is worthy of additional life?

[kspr]

they're all "worthy", but you meet the great clam spirit, who leaves it up to the player to decide. the island can't support three tribes, so one has to die off to save the other two.

[kspr]

i swear im working... i want to make the next area, but i can't find a wetlands looking tileset. ive already used the swamp, and it looks too evil to be in the next area.

[kspr]

i gotta build my wetlands tileset from scratch, or at least cobble it together from other tilesets... in the meantime, i'm trying to perfect this waterfall. the ripples at the bottom look exceptionally cheap, but with the rtp being done with pixels instead of curves, it's kind of difficult to recreate.





ediiiiiiiiit: did some more tiles, and they filled out a lot of empty space on the set:

[Glaciermage]

I love the moose head, and the "bust" on the upper floor. The game now has a rly unique look to it. Great job, Kspr!

[Kamau]

I think the only thing I find strange about the new set is the space on the bottom floor with the curtains. I don't know why, but for some reason seeing the stones next to the curtain, I had to look at it for a while before I got it. Maybe I thought that because the curtains were drawn open, there wouldn't be more wall there.

Other than that, looks awesome!