So first off I’d like to wish everyone a happy holidays. Now that that’s out of the way…
First of all, the second part of Chapter03 is still delayed. I think the artist might have died. Well either way I’ll get it out EVENTUALLY, just be patient and have your wits because I’m getting a lot of stuff for the future done. I’d also like to note that right now I’m working on a lot of things that won’t be ready for an update until they’re completely done, including…
A) World Map Events as well as replacing the world map so there will be more content for the videos. It’ll give a better understanding of the world around the characters instead of just running around on a nameless continent that has no graspable shape or landscape.
B) Replacing the intro and title screen with something in taste, as well as the opening animation before the game starts.
C) Replacing menus and making them purdy. OK?! JEEZ.
On top of that I’d also like to say that starting now (as in now now) I won’t be updating every Saturday anymore. In fact, I will be updating whenever I please because following a schedule is stressful and often leads to rush jobs like the first part of Chapter03 (which has already been changed dramatically to where I might as well just rerelease Chapter03 Part 1 for Christmas, but I won’t) or Chapter00 was. Anyway, I’m thinking Jesse’s long-awaited portrait reform will be complete (wishful thinking?) by the time Chapter03 Part 2 is out so you’ll be able to enjoy that… perfection takes time, so be patient.
YA HAPPY? Fuck. Merry Christmas. Now let me suck dicks in peace.
So I figure I’d give a bit of a status update on what everyone’s been up to. Right now we’ve got quite a few staff members so I guess you could call this a “Meet the Staff” sort of a post, except not really.
Zoma – I’m done coding Chapter03 and working on Chapter04 as well as the world map right now. The reason I won’t be able to release Chapter03 until next week is because of the art. Don’t whine. NOT MY FAULT OKAY.
Remme – MIA prolly forever idk though, DONT ASK ME ABOUT THIS PLEASE OKAY THANKS I DONT KNOW ANYTHING SO THAT MEANS THAT I CANT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION
Lothian – School because apparently art college is SERIOUS BUSINESS
lynch – having irl problems, probably the only one that I can excuse for not doing mugs. Everyone else is just lazy.
All the rest of the people never do anything so they aren’t worth a mention THAT’S RIGHT I WENT THERE. Anyway, I dunno so bye.
Well, something went extremely wrong. Somehow I managed to break the game almost 2 weeks ago and not even notice, so I’m gonna push Chapter03 back a week so I can figure out wtf I did to break the game. Sorry guys. 8(
I’ll try to update with something interesting this weekend, but it’ll probably just be an update as to what everyone’s up to. SORRY AGAIN. OKAY? GOD.
Hey you guys who still read the blog, I figure that I’d explain the biggest things holding me back from finishing the game right now. There’s a lot of things that still make me feel a little uneasy.
For starters, the biggest thing is the world map and world map events. Currently, the knowledge about changing the FE8 World Map events is limited, and having someone do the actual map will be hard. I can work around this for now, but this is already causing me problems and may cause even bigger, unseen problems sometime in the future. I can’t stress how big of a problem this is. Of course, there’s a way to change it, I just have to figure out how it works since no one has ever done it before. Oh well, right? Yeah.
Next problem is story. Since Remme left I have been sort of trying to delay moving on with the story in case he decided to rejoin the project. Of course, at this point I don’t know what the possibility of that happening is, and I’ve already made a few changes to the story as well as stat changes and map changes that he would probably have a cow over. I think about the story a lot and I’m going to try and take it as slowly as possible so I don’t wreck the story, but it’ll be difficult for me as I’m not a writer. Not as big of a deal as the first thing I mentioned, but still a “sort of” big deal.
There’s also a lot of things I want to customize like the introduction of the game, as well as a couple of challenges (like Tower of Valni and Lagdou Ruins) that I’d like to remake altogether. Of course, I won’t be spoiling those, but it’s something I’ve put a bit of thought into. Apparently Valni/Lagdou are hard to hack, but I figure that I can get it figured out, right? Yeah.
Next week will be interesting for sure. New characters, new battle animations, new enemies, new music. I can feel the excitement. Til then.
Right now I’m working hard on getting my new computer to work with all the tools. I’ve been reluctant to work on FE:AJ because I have to sit on the uncomfortable floor and do hard work. Q_Q;
THIS WEEK THERE ISN’T AN UPDATE. GET OVER IT FKEDLKSUDFKUSDF
I’ve recently switched over to a very reliable desktop computer. It’s a great machine but Sappy (one of my tools) isn’t running on it, so I’m trying my best to find a solution to this problem. Anyhoo, I hope to have Chapter02 released next week, and then after that hopefully release a new chapter every 2 weeks. Til then, have a safe and great Halloween.
Chapter01 has come out quite nicely. It was a bit delayed but it was because I had no idea until Friday night that this would be coming so soon. With that, I’d like to lead into the next subject.
More likely than not you noticed in the video that the portraits have been completely redone for Zoma, Gnomes, and Plinco. I can’t stress enough how badly I wanted this done, and it was all thanks to our newest team member Lynch. He’s a user on the FE:New Dawn forums, a place I went to ask a few questions about ROM hacking when I was getting started, and I ended up meeting him by essentially telling everyone about how I needed artists for my project. Well, either way, he was the only one who actually responded and so far I’m quite satisfied with the results. He’s a very talented artist and he’s proven himself to be a very diligent member of the team. I hope you enjoy the sprites that he’s made. Unfortunately we haven’t quite fine-tuned Jesse’s just yet, so you won’t be seeing that until we release Chapter02 in video form.
Anyhoo, for the time being Lothian and Quozokori won’t be getting portrait updates. I’m already mostly satisfied with those. Other than that, you’ll notice in the video that I fixed a few bugs that I had last time with the music. Other than that there’s not a whole lot new. Enjoy!
