What's up, RMers?

[Kain Nobel]

Okay, slight update. Seems it took an embarrassingly long time to get snake movement down, still not sure what to think of it. Also created a new spider! Might add some kind of cacti monster since these are all desert dwellers, perhaps a big ugly lizard too. A bad ass animated chimera is in the plans, but gotta get at least six months more practice in before I even attempt that! Then again, anything goes, just glad that this much has been made.



Update : Big ugly lizard now added! Thinking for some crazy reason that this will probably be one of the easier sprites to animate, but actual shading and detail will be a pain in the ass.

While Belly of the Beast is going to remain faithful to the use of old RTP graphics for hero battlers, I do have a more ambitious project which requires fuck all new assets, so the human battler 'template' has been drafted. Will keep working at it until it (hopefully) becomes sexier and more diverse than the Kaizer variety.



Came across an old but neat idea from concept notes that could be neat to roll with...

Egg Monsters

Once in awhile, the player will encounter a wild egg, sometimes by itself or accompanied with a guardian or two. Each one varies in size, shape, texture or color, but the player should eventually get to recognize what is what. You can either steal the egg (use the Steal command as if you were stealing an item ;D), destroy it or leave it alone. Different actions for each egg have different consequences too, such as lowering encounter rating or immediately triggering dangerous reinforcements to come at you.

Lastly, while destroying an egg won't net you an item, the stolen ones can be eaten from the item menu for restoring health and boosting certain attributes. Matter of fact, there is one egg that is made of a super hard shell which cannot be eaten, it would be a "Key Item" egg. Finding some way to crack the damn near impenetrable exterior of the shell would probably neat you a new battle companion or something.