Sorry for being inactive these few months! Though I think that will remain so for a while... I've been busy, not necessarily on my RPG Maker projects but rather finishing up college. I wish I could post music files here, since that's what I've been doing the most on the side.

The Crane Rider’s Tale is now on Kickstarter! I’m the lead programmer of the game and super proud to be part of this small, talented team. If you like Disco Elysium, Zero Escape, or medieval Chinese paintings, you’ll want to see where this game goes: www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

Just got done doing major rework and adding in boss 3. One more major up date before the demo is completed. valenalvern.itch.io/legend-of-th... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #rpgmaker #retro #pixelart #RPG #LegendoftheSceleris

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!

Happy #screenshotsaturday, thanks for hosting! Here are a couple purple bosses in Silver Daze! Everyone loves purple! store.steampowered.com/app/2912770/... #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

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

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: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19897-demon-kill-demon-yomi-1984-jobs-key-characters-explained-in-detail

¡Construida entrada en #Itchio hablando del videojuego que llevo desde principios de año trabajando. Cada poco tiempo iré actualizando según avance. . . . #RPGMaker #GameDev #IndieGame blossomwatercolors.itch.io/chronicles-o...

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jdn... 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

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.

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. junsoft.itch.io/the-nian-xi-...

The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude in 4 words: ~ Exploration ~ Quests ~ Combat ~ Customization Show your game in 4 words! Share and spread the drop! #indierpg #indiegame #drpg #crpg #dungeoncrawler #rpgmaker #rmmz #solodev #jrpg

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 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!

#rpgmaker #rmmz #promosky #gamedev #drpg #dungeoncrawler #oc #indiegame #solodev #indiedev #crpg #jrpg The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude is now fully available on Itch io and Gamejolt! Enjoy through a 10-Hour First Person Dungeon Crawler prologue, entirely for free! junsoft.itch.io/the-nian-xi-...

I wanna play the Labyrinth of Touhou series. But I will see that it's not actually in first person despite being labeled as a DRPG inspired by EO and my motivation goes down quickly. I'm sure it's good but like, man it's the exploration for me. Well there's at least Artificial Dream in Arcadia.

#nian-xi #rpgmaker #rmmz #dungeoncrawler #drpg #crpg www.rpgmaker.net/games/13225/ The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude is now also available on RPGMaker net!

By curiosity I was checking my youtube channel, and it turns out the first normal battle theme for Nian-Xi Prelude reached 100 views. Nice.

speaking of cheesy

Currently forcing myself to learn Effekseer for the sake of making custom animations, and it's not all bad, actually! If I get skilled enough, I'm 100% replicating Devil Summoner/Soul Hackers animations. The fact animations are in 3D means you can play around with the camera and make variations.

#rpgmaker #rmmz #promosky #gamedev #drpg #dungeoncrawler #oc #indiegame #solodev #indiedev #crpg #jrpg The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude is now fully available on Itch io and Gamejolt! Enjoy through a 10-Hour First Person Dungeon Crawler prologue, entirely for free! junsoft.itch.io/the-nian-xi-...

Golem Armor - Moonlight Concerto this is its design :b I will include these in the files, but their designs won't be seen in game (too much work for me). #art #artist #promosky #indie #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

#rpgmaker #indiegame #indiedev #solodev #rmmz #nian-xi #oc #promosky It's official! One day from now on! The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude is releasing on February 9th!!! Thank you everybody who tried the demo, and those who playtested the full version. This would not have been possible without you.

P5R may be an unbalanced game in general, but one thing you can't deny is how it made a much better job integrating the One More system into boss fights. Because being honest, when bosses have no weaknesses and are also immune to crits/ailments, it's basically as if One More didn't exist at all...

Among the small list of "last minute QoL" for Prelude: -Map sprites for NPCs and Event Cutscenes/Battles -Better Battle Logs, so you know what states/buffs are being applied to and when they disappear -The shop now upgrades via story progression and not just via the "Lost Merchandise" questline

Apparently most possible ideas I have for my next few games tie themselves back to Wizardry IV one way or another "I could do a summoning class--" Wizardry IV "I could do a dungeon where you start at the bottom and try to escape--" Wizardry IV "Spinners + Dark Zones + Warps--" Wizardry goddamn IV

I don't usually comment on directs but like... Man. Hamster announcing they would make ports/localizations for console games and not just arcades was somehow the most exciting part for me, lol. Though I'm happy for Bomberman, too!

#rpgmaker Nian-Xi Prelude is done! Everything is finished, from story to gameplay. It took a year, but it's finally complete. Right now I'm going to do playtesting, which might take a while given the game's length (10 hours or so). But expect the game to arrive early on February! Stay tuned!

So for the longest time I was dealing with a bug that made it so choosing an action, but then cancelling it moved the cursor down for some reason. It could even go out of bounds. ...It was cursor memory, which by default it's turned on. So I had to hide the setting and have it set to off. ...

Improved HUD. Moonlight Concerto. #art #gamedev #indiedev #indie #dev #solodev #pixelart

In preparation for the full release, I also updated the itch io and gamejolt pages for Nian-Xi Prelude. I do need to learn HTML to make prettier pages at some point...

#drpg #dungeoncrawler #nian-xi #rpgmaker #rmmz #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #indierpg #gameupdate Nian-Xi Prelude: Full Game Coming Soon! - The Nian-Xi Chronicles: Prelude (Full Game is coming out early February!) junsoft.itch.io/the-nian-xi-...

EO was a curse for me because ever since I played EO1 I made it my goal to make the healer class/character in every other game a Master of All regardless of how feasible it'd actually be. This strat actually worked in every EO game. And DQ3, and FF1 somewhat. I powerleveled my Wizardry priests too.

On the topic of future ideas, one thing I'd like to try next game is create more enemies based on urban legends, hoaxes and similar stories. Prelude had the Fresno Nightcrawler and Hodag, but I'd like to explore the idea further just because it makes for fun designs. Make weirder enemies, really.

I've been busy these past few days, so I wasn't able to work much on Prelude. That said, The Fourth Floor quests are all complete. And all that's left of the fifth floor is one cutscene. Basically one step away from completion, besides playtesting. Enjoy Sassy Soleil, on the meanwhile.

Prelude is admittedly "safe" in the context of DRPGs. It is my first game, so I'm just testing the basics before trying anything crazy... Next game I'll include dark zones with soundless spinners And you can't see your map. Also there's warps that send you to the start. You can't see 'em either.

RPG Maker devs having their project dead in the water until they discover a free Japanese-only plugin on someone's github that solves all their problems. It's me, I am RPG Maker devs

I may not need it anymore since I draw everything myself, but man I really liked the character generator in RMMV. It had a cool looking artstyle that allowed for various face types. MZ's character generator just doesn't compare to MV's.. (On that note, do we know the artist for MV's RTP assets?).