What's up, RMers?

[Remi-chan]

You'll be pleased to know I haven't been entirely unproductive, though my work only recently booted up again recently! I've had a spark of desire lately to work more on the menus in preparation for the upcoming Demo 3 patch, even if at this rate it seems unlikely we'll even be done in time for 3/14.

So, here's some more of the submenus~! Tutorials is presently being worked on, and to do it I had to do some work on brochures, which was also very fun!

Tutorials


It had been requested quite a few times that when you pressed on the tutorial items a whole pamphlet like thing would come up. Well, now we have that, just in my own method. The original item_scene will basically cease to exist once these menus are implemented.

Brochures



I liked Pamphlets and originally intended to use them both for characters and lore stuff, but as time went on it became clear Pamphlets were exclusively for characters, however this simply meant that once Missions has all been placed eloquently in their own interface with items no longer being needed, that i could then make that which would go into the lore of the game and its worlds, ideas and concepts. This is where brochures comes in. Mostly these are acquired simply by doing the main story, but can be found in various side-quests as well.

In other news, I also managed to get this monstrosity I sneaked the vegas preview of last time!

The Starchaser's Season of Discovery

The second of the Starchaser series, with the third already in planning.

OHOHOHO BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE~!

Pjcr managed to get me a couple of the many files he has to get me, so i introduce to you the Bloodletter Anathema! Or two renders of her, anyway. one pose with two phases.

Hopefully he'll have me more files soon. Currently in his region the power is going out a lot due to an upgrade that is being done, however the upside is that power should be a lot more stable once the upgrade is complete! Presently it's only the inconsistency of the power that is stopping him uploading, even with that he's managed some files.

[kyonides]

RMXP FOR FREE ON STEAM!!!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/RPGMaker2024

It makes such an unusual statement at the beginning of the page, but it tells unusual that you have to go to the very bottom of that sale page to grab it for free!!!

WARNING! It won't last forever!

[Melana]

Does anyone know if the tiles from this screenshot were ever posted somewhere?

[DerVVulfman]

Interesting... This is an advertisement screenshot now for RPGMaker XP... yet the brickwork and whitewashed ornate windows are not a part, and the roof tiles appear to be recolors of the Port Tileset roof's...

They prolly have a Download pack for sale, but are kinda... negligent in mentioning it.

NOT saying they're from that pack... but have you checked This archive I made a while ago?

[Melana]

It's a very old picture. I don't think they ever released these tiles. They might just serve as an example for RTP editing.
I looked through that archive but doesn't seem to be part of it.

[Remi-chan]

So even despite me doing next to nothing the past week, my various busy bees have been going at the honeycomb!

Junked
The Junked OST has recieved its fourth track, the character theme of the Heavensent Messenger, Junko- who serves as the titular antagonist of the game.

The Heavensent bells are so perfect a motif and will be used in all of her themes going forward. The composer for this one is Triatic.

Pjcr
While the new net package he got has been immensely underwhelming, he has managed to get me some more of the anathema. Chances are I'll be getting him to do another trip to Quezon, or rather, making another attempt, hopefully with success this time.

For now though, here's pose 2 and two new expressions for the Dancer Who Steals Time

I've mostly been playing Phase 2 of season of discovery and Palworld so I haven't done much myself.

[Remi-chan]

The time of me being unproductive is over.

I decided on a whim that i would be releasing a new demo for Junked for this 3/14, as Fantasia is not going to be possible. But i refuse to let my fair followers go hungry!

As luck has had it, this entire ordeal has been incredibly straightforward.

New Areas: Terminus Islands and Abolished Reef

I have only mapped out Terminus Islands so far. The Abolished Reef has a tileset at the ready.

New Character: Buckets

Behold the barely-sane idiot who has a seagull wife named Sharon who apparently left him, likes Kush and believes that barnacles speak to him!

Junkmake System is operational!

You can now craft all kinds of things from... you guessed it, junk! Most of which is acquired through looting enemies. It will also cost Tazos (the game currency) mostly so they actually have a use.)

New enemies galore!

And if you haven't built your characters much, the fights will be fairly challenging! but not impossible, as the video shows!

As it stands I've only got the final boss for Stage 2 to go along with the scene that goes alongside it. After that, I'm up to the Abolished Reef. The rest is small fairly easy going technical fixes and database updates.

[Remi-chan]

As of now, I have almost finished with Junked Demo 2. Mostly just polish and balancing remains.

The maps, scenes, battles, crafting system and junk is all largely done! I mostly just have to do some flavor text in the third rest area.

There might be some small polishes I do, but time will tell. For now though, I will consider this done while my QA tester runs it through the wood chipper.

With ten days still remaining before 3/14 emerges, I fully intend to make some more content for FLIGHT and release a second demo for it, as well! My hope is to get Layers 2 and 3 done. I might re-adjust the story just a little. The first demo I had to get some stuff set up, but it felt rushed as a result, so now over three stages i can have things proceed more naturally!

No Fantasia Demo this 3/14, sorry! Things have fallen far behind schedule due to complications with my offshore employees and myself.

Hopefully this two in the place of one will serve as a good 11th anniversary gift! I will also be making another spectacular 3/14 video, the likes of which I haven't done for two years due to integrating them into Simian Scandal Devlogs.

Lastly, here's a video of some gameplay!

I am pretty built for this one, so your mileage may vary!

[Melana]

It seems a new RPG Maker will be released on Nintendo Switch
RPG Maker WITH

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/10/rpg-make...creenshots

I am wondering if it will be just RMMZ with a modified interface or if it will include major new features.
It seems they made at least new RTP graphics

[kyonides]

Well, MV Trinity was just a Switch/PS4 port of MV without plugins... so i'd assume it'll end up being more of the same crappy stuff we've got used to so far.

Some people are expecting to get some multiplayer features being included in With, like a shorten version of the brand Switch...