It's also a bit concerning to think about how I'm still poking at the same area I was starting on a month ago, especially seeing how I made a (short, rough) rpg in a bit over two weeks The difference being that I'm covering what feels like as much ground in this one desert as that entire game

The danger of having to fill in a large map is that the larger a map is, the more liable it is to eventually resemble a stereotypical 90s platformer level

I need to decide whether 'if you choose a scenario third or fourth you'll run into multiple mechanical gimmicks that only exist on one map' is a pattern I want to run with or not and/or if I want to be really obnoxious with the specifics of the bonus dungeon

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I feel I could be half-decent at being a project manager of some description, but that's absolutely not something I'm in a position to prove anytime soon

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Commissioned @yayachan.bsky.social to draw a new reference sheet for my harpy nun character, Marissa Thank you so much again! 🙏

I'm imagining what the game awards would be like it they had kept the same mid-2005s spiketv Vibe but was otherwise the same scale and scope I don't think I could take three hours of the mega64 game awards bit but done completely seriously, I can barely handle the game awards as-is

Zelda movie if it was good would be about Link going around lighting trees on fire with a candle and walking out of scene every time the candle has to be relit

sendag [normal] [not clickbait] #sdm3_art

Moved some wires around and got something I might turn into a dragon quest-style monster arena somewhere The two sides of the fight can have however many enemies I decide on, but for now have this one-on-one

I want to pull the 'field representation of an enemy is nothing like what it's like in battle' bit sometime, but I'm not sure any of my current projects suit that sort of gag door.rpg is one or two notches too serious for that and harpy game doesn't really have a filler place it'd feel appropriate

Extremely fun to find the reason something was broken was because a constant was deciding to be nonfunctional

what do you mean silvagunner did an entire event for indie metroidvania '2'

Imagine if the octopath team was allowed to draw a second grass tile

I wonder what the knock-on effects putting an instant-battle-retry into a traditional dungeon crawler would be It'd certainly encourage riskier/less conservative play, but I dunno if it'd completely ruin the planning aspect of the genre [since seeing what's there then resetting ways an option prior]

Is there a bigger metroidvania faux pas than the places where you use a new item only appearing after you get said item?

That's atelier ayesha finished I didn't get a bunch of the character endings as options [and didn't even seem to unlock a bunch of them, as they seemingly require 100 friendship], but eh, some of those feel like ng+/guide-following territory

I imagine there's interesting mechanics to glean from some gacha rpgs, but that'd require playing gacha rpgs

I want to put in a battle grading system a la smash bros melee or the tales of games, but I don't have a current project where that reasonably fits tonewise Maz is too results driven for grade to get in the way and I have no idea how I'd track all the things I'd want to in the default ohr battles

There's definitely some prior art to both, but I don't like seeing atelier ayesha's final area and thinking about yiik

Thinking about the scale of 'do the enemies in this area have a shared theme' again It's honestly weird to think about how a lot of RPGs don't make design choices that lead to them being able to, or wanting to, have areas filled with enemies that all share the same mechanical idea

Atelier ayesha is good, but having the only other one I played be rorona feels like it didn't set me up well That one's incredibly regimented while ayesha feels a lot more like going at your own pace, and I don't have a good feeling for what that pace should be

It's only slightly bracing to think about how I've drawn up two completely different, reasonably-sized, sets of enemy sprites that have no real place to go and that number could probably rise to 3-6 depending on how broad your definitions of 'reasonably-sized' and 'no real place to go' are

old project stuff: a while back I started on a halloween/castlevania/mobile rpg-inspired thing that ultimately petered out past me releasing a demo for it did make a lot of enemies for it though #pixelart #gamedev

kleine but mummy

two other types of desert cliffs I drew recently, since I'm compelled to put in this much variety into singular areas

Tokiko #touhou for patreon 🐦

FS was a bit lacking in terms of being a proper old-school rpg I don't think I had any random encounters early on that could just mulch you with no recourse, and that's a bit of a failing on my part

Ichigo over on twitter/pixiv drew Marissa, my harpy character, for me 🙏

J(+some other letters, who knows what they are) @sdmax300.bsky.social

Commission for sdmax300

A tara As it turns out the solution to the problem of pencil lines not photographing/scanning well is to use a pen to line things, who'd have guessed

#touhou Mima!

I'm trying to think what the 'default' game would be nowadays, in the sense that platformers were the default game of the 90s and fpses were the default in 7th gen Is that even a coherent question at this point, or is the idea of a video game now too fragmented for that sort of monolith to exist

One of the many reasons I need to play more RPGs is to see how strong the delineation between ones where enemy differentiation is strong and ones where it's weak is Like, I don't think there's a sharp line between the two but maybe the gradient is pretty thin

Trying not to go too far to the far side of the 'single-screen rpg contest map'<>'ys ii special map' spectrum, but sometimes you just need to make a map that's particularly sprawling

anyway I never did put the Box here did I

It's going to feel odd when I finally finish up the first scenario in door.rpg and have to start antagonizing a different set of player characters whenever I test new things out

I'm saved from having to pick licensed junk as I never really finished games as a child, and flash games/amateur stuff feels like punching down Suikoden tierkreis is everything I don't like in an rpg mechanically and legitimately makes me wonder if I'd also find the other games in the series lacking

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beat the new boss in the atlyss update through the power of 'realizing you can bind items to the function keys, and have been able to since it came out on steam' still haven't beaten the hardmode crescent grove boss, but I'm not sure that's happening as a solo player honestly

nagas [for when I need them to pop up outside of battle]

It's unfortunate that I associate making dioramas with static NPCs for scenes as an amateur/fangame tactic, since the current scene I finished up making has a lot of that energy to it