Chaos Project

Good luck for the project! You have my support! :)

Just one thing. The map in the second screenshot... Is the shape of the map supposed to be an ellipse or a circle? If the latter, it should be shaped like a circle since a perspective like this doesn't render it to an ellipse unless the sprites get bigger or smaller depending on which side of the map they are. :)

This looks great, Zexion! I really like your idea of having bi-monthly task goals. That's a good way to keep yourself motivated and let people know what to expect from on-going development.

Thanks guys!

Quote from: Ranquil on February 16, 2014, 03:09:34 pm
Is the shape of the map supposed to be an ellipse or a circle? If the latter, it should be shaped like a circle since a perspective like this doesn't render it to an ellipse unless the sprites get bigger or smaller depending on which side of the map they are. :)

Well it's supposed to be a circle, but you're right about the perspective thing. I've thought about it before and I mainly shrank it because it was too much space for the player to run across. The whole idea of the map itself is still pretty much under construction though, so nothing is final :P

Quote from: WhiteRose on February 16, 2014, 03:17:30 pm
That's a good way to keep yourself motivated and let people know what to expect from on-going development.

That's actually exactly why I'm doing it!

It begins...

...and I eagerly await its appearance.

Took several attempts, but I've (almost) finished the ally HUD.


There is a small problem with the third allies HP not updating at the appropriate time, so I removed the third ally from the startup. Other than that the script currently supports two allies. That's all it needs because you will only use three of the four party members in battle.

Hey Zexion it's looking great! You're setting the story after the events of KH3 right?
And hey any chance at a sneak peak on what worlds you're thinking of including?

Okay, so it took me a while to plan the main menu out because the way I was doing it before was very inextensible, it would take a lot more script than needed to accomplish anything in that manor. I spent a few days thinking and I realised even the graphics were kinda limiting me by confining me to be exactly like Kingdom Hearts. I decided to re-write and re-do the graphics in a way that both fits the game and allows for me to be very lazy :P


As you can see, there are a lot more features in the menu now. It may seem like added work, and it is, but the script itself is way easier to manage now and everything can be read and edited easily.

Legal double post! :P










Okay, last thing for reals. Anyone notice that my project already has 400+ views in a pretty short time o.o power of the heart, okay now -end 3am rambling

I think the transition screen looks really cool. Can't wait to see the new battle system!

Hey Zexion, the project is looking really good so far. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the compliments!
I've been working on the design for the castle of guardians, not sure if I like that name for it, but anywho. In the process I wrote out part of the introduction and I think that I might be able to put a pretty decent length demo out by the summer, or near the end of summer. The whole introduction takes place in the castle and has minimal battles. The battles that do occur have small tasks such as using the S button to attack, or learning to scroll through commands, etc. So, even if the battle system is still in progress, a good size demo will probably still be possible. I estimate around 15-30 minutes of gameplay!

For the introduction, the player will be asked to complete their entry exams before they can enter the castle of guardians. They must pass six small tests each held by the masters of the castle, (Terra, Aqua, Ventus, Sora, Riku, Kairi). The exams consist of small puzzles and challenges such as making your way through a maze with flying debris while wearing armour that slows you down to improve strength, to hopping through clouds to improve your speed. Though the players result will always be the same, each character has a different outcome, and this is where the game starts. You will learn about the battle system in the process, but like I said, don't expect any major battles.

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Steady progress still looking good! Looking forward to how you implement your battle system.

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It's looking awesome, Zexion! This is starting to become one of those RMXP games that makes me really impressed with what it's capable of doing. It looks great!

nuuuuuu....my assistance with your bugged save file has blown away in the wind...

I like that style a lot actually. Someone's been too hard at work lately.
How are your grades? :V:

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Awesome fucking job. Can't wait to see it! :3

I did a small test battle, and dang was this hard to event lmao.

hmm I wonder if there's a way to detect the player's facing position so you could force an animation flip while facing right,
(I'm not sure if your system could event this though)

other than the weird direction on the slash animations it's looking good.

Quote from: R.A.V.S.O on March 16, 2014, 07:25:36 pm
hmm I wonder if there's a way to detect the player's facing position so you could force an animation flip while facing right.

What do you mean by that? Right now, I have it set up so that the player always faces the enemy. However, if you are holding the arrow key down while attacking, you maintain your direction. Sometimes it doesn't work though XD

well on the vid and gif you placed, whenever you faced to the right (assuming enemy always appears on the right) and attacked, the slash animation is used
however the animation itself is a slash to the left,

the animation is fitting when you face to the left but looks slightly out of place when attacking when facing right, hence why I was suggesting
inverting the animation's direction when facing right, and keeping it normal when facing left, but yeah I'm not sure how you have the battle system set up
so it's up to you,

Ohhh, when you said slash, I kept thinking you meant the character's actual animation. Yeah I don't really need to change it because the animations will usually be random things like stars and what not, not actual slashes. Thanks for that though because I honestly didn't think of it haha

Quote from: Zexion on March 16, 2014, 07:21:49 pm
I did a small test battle, and dang was this hard to event lmao.

Spoiler: ShowHide

http://www.youtube.com/v/Au9KZoNJo8g?

This looks so awesome! This is really all done with an evented battle system? That's pretty incredible.

@rose, Yep! It's pretty fun, even with all of its glitches. Can't just spam attack and if you pay attention you can learn how to avoid his normal attack, but the special one is un-avoidable haha.
I uploaded a demo for anyone interested in trying it. *Link Removed*
The controls are the default rmxp controls.
Notes:
Demon's bane also doubles as a small heal right now because i was too lazy to event the third command into the hud for cure. I've tried it a few times and have never won though... sooooo yeah............

Since this is an old project that I picked up to event this in, the HUD is really huge and covers most of the screen lol. The actual game is 1024x576 so the hud will seem a lot smaller.

Also, you can't cast spells while your D-Link is recovering. So use them wiselfy XD

I see what you mean by glitchy. There's a lot of potential in this, especially for it being done through eventing.

Did using common events help out at all?

Quote from: KK20 on March 17, 2014, 12:58:17 am
I see what you mean by glitchy. There's a lot of potential in this, especially for it being done through eventing.

Did using common events help out at all?

I haven't actually done that :P I'll try it now
Edit: I just noticed that removing the mode 07 makes it a LOT faster and the glitches are far less

Completely not surprised lol

Lol not really an update (although I did do a few things), but I was changing the enemies AI to fix a few things and then this happened:

I don't know why I'm posting it, I just thought it was kinda funny.

lolwut

Anything screaming obvious to you why its doing that?

Yeah I knew what I had done, but it was just funny lol. I had made it check if it was facing right on both the left and right pages. XD

Alright guys, I made another demo. This one is a lot cleaner in its eventing and so most of the bugs from before are now fixed. There is still an occasional bug that completely sequence breaks all the events, but they all fix themselves relatively quickly. The attack bug is gone though and a proper cure spell was added. It's also worth noting that it is now completely rtp independent. Should work for everyone!

Graphics were also added for the enemies health and the HUD was edited. It should also be possible, although still not easy, to kill the enemy XD

Link: Battle System Test (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59018752/KH%20-%20Evented%20ABS.rar)

This will be the last battle system demo for a long time. The next demo will be a "Full Game" demo with at least one world  to explore and everything in place.
Edit: Forgot to mention, the old link was removed :P

Quote from: Zexion on March 19, 2014, 07:23:02 pm
Lol not really an update (although I did do a few things), but I was changing the enemies AI to fix a few things and then this happened:

Spoiler: ShowHide

(http://i.imgur.com/7G7C4le.gif)

I don't know why I'm posting it, I just thought it was kinda funny.

Lèl I forgot how to ennemy xD

Btw that's a nice game that you presented here, hope to see more :)

Quote from: MetalZelda on March 22, 2014, 08:05:25 am
Lèl I forgot how to ennemy xD
Btw that's a nice game that you presented here, hope to see more :)

XD, that's exactly what I was thinking haha.
Speaking of seeing more, I'm in the process of developing some prototype graphics for the first world. Ignore the crappy-ness as it will all be fixed eventually :P
Can anyone guess what this world will become?

Quote from: Zexion on March 22, 2014, 05:05:15 pmCan anyone guess what this world will become?

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(http://i.imgur.com/yuDw2Ng.png)

A part of the game!?
@w@

In all seriousness though, this is starting to look really great!
I'm just slightly worried about the story because someday KH3 will get released :D

It's not glaringly obvious what it will become, but it is a Disney world and one of the recents.

The story has very little to do with kh3 though so it should be fine. It's more of a continuation after the xehanort saga.

Amazing work Zexion!!! You always supported me, now it is time to i support you xD

Keeping the good work, can't wait to see it finished :D

Regards ;)

Aegis

Thanks for the kind words & support aegis :)

Small update. I have created the first custom npc of the game. Her name is Xana. She is based off of a real life friend of mine, whom I promised a spot in the game to.

Her weapon is still under contstruction, but the design was already drawn and planned years ago lol. I just need to find the sketch of it T.T

So like, last night KK20 and I were learning how to draw an arc and stuff. He found a script that draws nice arcs, and taught me how to use it. The HUD is now 99% scripted. The only picture is the black border around the hud. Later on I will of course use a ton more pictures for the other parts, but it was cool to be able to have a 100% accurate hud. I've been messing with what he taught me for the past hour, and I've come up with this:

Success! :D

8) Damage shown is pretty cool. Also managed to hold off animating it until HP doesn't change for a few frames.

I still don't see how the border can adapt to any size HP bar. You say you only need one picture, but the way how I see it you will need to draw that too.
Unless you're just going to go with a full on HP bar like that and break the game's tradition.

I just made a definition in window_base "phud_border" that draws an outline depending on the current upgrade level. I have the 10 outlines in pics, but only 1 is ever used at a time, so it works out. Plus I just remembered that I didn't draw the center peice, so i can put that on there as well :b
Edit: I fixed it all completely now :D

Okay, so I have been working with my friend Kreiss via skype to create and tweak the KH hud script for our games. Previously, both of us used an older version which relied on pictures and wasn't accurate at all.
Eg. 10 total pictures that hold 5 hp each. If you loose 3 hp it wouldn't change.
Thanks to kk20, I was able to use a script made by whiteflute to draw the hud almost entirely from script.
This isn't final just yet, as i have some things I want to add, but it is very close to being done.

It even has different faces (normal, attacked, lowhp), mp recharge, flow damage, and hp alerts (not really visible in gif).

The HUD looks fantastic, Zexion! Really impressive. Probably one of the best that I've ever seen for an action RMXP game, as far as being fluid, readable, and unique.

Thanks rose :)
I forgot to mention the best part! With this I went from using 180+ pictures to using 2. Which i the best part in my opinion xD

Just about finished the item menu. I finished the hardest part, now all that's left is the final touch.
It has 4 tabs for different types of items, and an "All" tab for all items.


Here's a gif of it in action. I made a "Light" class for the little ball so i can use it on other menus easily :D

I'm speechless.

It looks so cool! ;ooo

Even though I already told you that this is very impressive in Skype, I just wanted to point out that I like how you made the "light" drift to the next highlighted option rather than Instant Transmission Goku.

Quote from: Ranquil on April 28, 2014, 08:53:08 pm
I'm speechless.
It looks so cool! ;ooo

Quote from: KK20 on April 29, 2014, 01:12:18 am
Even though I already told you that this is very impressive in Skype, I just wanted to point out that I like how you made the "light" drift to the next highlighted option rather than Instant Transmission Goku.

Thanks guys :D I worked quite a bit on getting the little light effect looking good.

Quote from: KK20 on April 29, 2014, 01:12:18 am
Instant Transmission Goku.

:rofl:

I agree, your menu effects look pretty freakin sweet.

Dem sprites! They look awesome!
The mugshot is colored really well and I like the ear :D The facial shape and the nose seem a bit off to me though.

Also, sorry about your dog :(

I'm a big kingdom hearts fan. This is looking really well done. Very obvious that you're putting a lot of work into it. Keep it up;

Thanks you two :]

Also, thanks for the critique ranquil.

Just as a heads up, I am done with school after the exam in a couple of hours. That means I can spend some more time working on this and not worrying about homework or other passtimes. I've been working a lot on mirage arena because it will have tons of content. Including ally controlled party memebers from across the worlds and familiar bosses to fight. It will also have a board game that I will make into a Single-Controller-Turn-Based type game. It will be like mario party, collect a certain number of coins to buy crowns at the end, the person with the most crowns wins ... ! There will be bonuses and map games that I will think of eventually :P
I want mirage arena to be fun :]

If you haven't been on the skype chat lately, you definately do not know of my latest mini-project. Since I can now port-forward, I've started a small mini-game project. I want to play it with a couple of friends and have it as a side-game for whoever wants to play it. I figure that i finally made enough progress to show it off on the forums.

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Here are some of the newer small modifications I've done to rmxos.



Edit: Btw, the kk20 in those pictures is an imposter kk20. it is me in disguise! :b

You cannot prove nor deny that.
...but yeah, that's not me :[

Still getting pretty good at editing the system. Can't wait to testplay~

It's been a while since I last updated this game. I haven't actually worked much on the game itself, but I am getting ready to start working on it again soon!
In the mean time, I've decided to start making all the background music that will be used in the game by myself using mixcraft. So I figured I'd post the first song that would be heard in the game.
The titlescreen music!
Dearly Beloved II - Kingdom Hearts: Age of Guardians (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59018752/00%20-%20Dearly%20Beloved%20II.mp3)

Alright, so I'm getting back to this now :]
Just about finished the titlescreen! Don't know why the quality is only 360p. I recorded it the same as always o.o

All music in this is done by me :3

Info:

• The titlescreen/intro is completely scripted. No events at all :D
  
• Background and selection colors change depending on the last character you used to create a save file
  
• Characters in the titlescreen are not final at all. They are placeholders for the real characters of the game.

I think I just had an awesorgasm.

Lol, good to hear :b

The title screen is awesome! :D Great work, Zexion!

Thanks rose :]

 :o Oh my... You, sir, are badass. That is one amazing title screen, totally capturing the Kingdom Hearts feel.

Now you just make me feel more excited for the game! :)

So, I've been reworking the story as to rid it of the excess filler that it had before. Also because I had an epiphany a while back. I've managed to tie all of the latest movies into a storyline, so you can expect completely new worlds, unlike those seen in Kingdom Hearts before. There are some of the same characters, but they've all been reincarnated in their new movie versions. There are a total of 5 new story worlds, with an additional 2 "Kingdom Hearts" worlds.

k Zexion, here's the deal :
If you cancel dem game, i promise i'll cry like a baby and i'm gonna find you and kill u :p ...

This looks as promising as having a date with a lady !

Lol, I'm not canceling it I just haven't done much in a while ._.

Quote from: Zexion on August 27, 2014, 07:45:10 pm
Lol, I'm not canceling it I just haven't done much in a while ._.

No but it looks very promising  :haha:
There's not a lot of Kingdom heart games as far as i can tell, this one is definately one of the game i wanna play.

Quote from: MetalZelda on August 28, 2014, 08:02:54 am
No but it looks very promising  :haha:
There's not a lot of Kingdom heart games as far as i can tell, this one is definately one of the game i wanna play.

That's good to hear! I promised that I wouldn't cancel this one, so I wont. I've already finished the introduction maps it's mainly the sprites for cutscenes and the first battle sequence that prevents me from having something to show >.>
Also, from what I've been learning I think I can finally finish the commands system I have been putting off ._.

;___;

It's a shame this game won't be finished. TT___TT

No suka I sed it will b don

He... Lives!?

Is this a dream?! O.o

Attention whore.

Stay the fuck out.

:V:

u kno i luv u

So liek update, kinda a good one. Finally made a command system. Commands hold tons of information like exp, levels, damage stats, cooldown time, etc. Basically this is the system from birth by sleep. Eventually I will also add data that will allow them to be combined.
Now some pictures to explain what I mean, for those that don't know.

Does this mean you're not leaving? :O

Things have settled down quite a bit. I was just in a bad place, and I guess I just didn't know how to handle it. To be honest, i don't even remember what happened during that week ._.

SO...yes, mostly

<3

good times :)

Can I just love you a bit? :3

Quote from: Zexion on October 13, 2014, 04:56:49 am
Things have settled down quite a bit. I was just in a bad place, and I guess I just didn't know how to handle it. To be honest, i don't even remember what happened during that week ._.

SO...yes, mostly

:D


Also, the updates look great!

Lol, thanks guys :D
Edit: The next update will show/explain the abilities system that I'm working on. Then I'll work on passing all these things to the battle system, and that'll get stuff movin' :d

Glad you're still working on this. :3 Can't wait to see a demo Zexion.

Thanks GG :D

So, kk20 will probably palmface when he sees this post, but i just couldn't even contain. Like I jus can't

Yay for combos and hitboxes :D

Still using Blizz-ABS? Or are you switching to your own system?

I decided to make my own. It's basically the event version cleaned up quite a bit and put into a different scene altogether. It's been...a learning experience, to say the least.

Good! Glad to see you're expanding yourself beyond what you're used to. :3

Yeah, he's recycling the Tower of Paragon system while adding his own features. It'll definitely be one heck of a learning experience for him coding-wise (trying to get him to refer to the Help File more :P). And I'm all the willing to help make this system happen.

It might be good practice to change the player's bodybox (idk what to call it) to a different color.

I was working on the chat system:

God it looks gorgeous.
Waiting for a demo or maybe a trailer

I'll post what i put on rmrk.
Well I'm going to do A LOT this winter break. If I stick to my plans, I will accomplish more during this upcoming break than I've ever done before. I don't want to make any promises that I can't keep, but it is very possible that a short demo (at least 1 world in length) will be ready at the end of the break (january 1st-ish). Which is horrible timing, I know, but it will be the first official demo release.

So, I've been working on the world map for the past few days and I realised that there is a whole part to this game that some people might genuinely enjoy. That would be, the Gummi Ship battles.
I personally never liked the gummi ship battles, so I had no intention of adding them at all. Some people might like them though, so I want to see if it was like...important to anyone.
A video for anyone who is curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lstN_bvS2lU

Yeah, that just seems like a distraction from the actual game--like a mini-game but is forced upon you to play it just to continue with the actual game. It's a concept that I'm not terribly fond of (totally okay if the mini-game doesn't have to be completed in order to progress though).

Just let people play Kid Icarus to get their fix. It wouldn't even look good on RPG Maker anyways :P

New character y'all. Also, battle system was sort of re-done with proper hitboxing. KK20 taught me the ways of the hitcube. I don't have gifs because I'm lazy this time.

That new character tho

Update on graphics y'all. Today I experimented with making a new "tile". The tile basically consists of two textures and is shaped as an isometric cube. I've decided to go with this style for several reasons, the main reason being that it is, visually, more attractive. My experimenting was mainly to find whether this style was actually worth the trouble and time.

Here are the results.
Tile:

Example image (recolored for water lol)


So, the total time it took me to make the tile was around 1:30 hrs. Mainly because I had no idea where I was going with this at first. The results are pretty good if you ask me. One tile is able to make a decent map in a few minutes, so I think that it would be worth the time.

Notes: This tile is just an example. The final product would be perfectly tiled by all angles and of course have variations so that it is not so grid like.
I realize the bloom is way intense in the screenie xD I'll tone it down in the actual game.
New sprite for serenity, final design.