Author Topic: Touhou fantasy (Read 132796 times)

Kaitani · « **Reply #420 on:** September 17, 2012, 02:29:43 PM »

Nice to hear some news of the game's progress.

I haven't touched the game for a while now, so I could probably get myself interested in starting a new file once there's something new or changed content in the start of the game. Or see how many times I can break the party's movement speed this time around by using Sakuya all the time.

Xenomic · « **Reply #421 on:** September 19, 2012, 05:47:24 AM »

http://xenomic.freehostia.com/Text/TF%20To-Do%20List.txt

I put it in a document and on my site to avoid having a huge clutter of text here and elsewhere, so yeah. I'm not entirely sure if this is all I need to do (obviously not, since there's still things to settle on like Blue Magic, secondary commands for characters, balancing issues, etc.), but this is what I've got thus far. Expect some showcase videos for the game to showcase the playable character's abilities thus far. Though the question remains: Should I do them all at once, in a group (i.e. all Playables, all Optionals, and then all Temporaries?), or one-by-one (i.e. Reimu, then Marisa, then Cirno, etc.)?

Xenomic · « **Reply #422 on:** September 30, 2012, 08:22:27 PM »

So yes, Chamat was kind enough to do this stand sprite for me. Yes, there's a couple little issues, but they're easy to fix (such as her eye being a bit too high up), and I think the sprite was really well done! It's a great start for her in-battle sprites I think~

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #423 on:** September 30, 2012, 09:01:33 PM »

Yeah, I'd do Compilation Vids. Playables, then Optionals, then Temporaries.

....Man I'm late on this.
But yeah, that's a good start for things!

Xenomic · « **Reply #424 on:** September 30, 2012, 09:08:49 PM »

Don't worry too much bout it lol. I've only ever got like a couple replies on the videos bit anyways (it's really hard nowadays to get replies on the game itself....dunno why. Maybe because beta4's been out for so long and beta5 hasn't even been started yet). Still waiting on mapper, as he's got some...medical stuff he has to take care of for the time being. But I promise that once he's done with these maps, beta5 will go into full swing. Just don't expect my maps to be super pretty or anything of the sort! I'm not that great of a mapper, and I'm going to have to figure out how to handle some maps due to having multiple puzzles and such...

Xenomic · « **Reply #425 on:** September 30, 2012, 11:09:31 PM »

1st sprite is the original sprite by Chamat. 2nd sprite is my fix up of that sprite (only the eye was fixed up. I moved it down some, to make it seem more natural. 3rd sprite is my starting attempt of actually DOING animations believe it or not. The only thing I'm working on right now is the skirt, using Reisen's as sort of an example (she's the only one with a short enough skirt I think that works closely enough to help me with this...). It doesn't SEEM bad, but it feels a bit....off methinks. Not because of me not touching most of the inner colors, but because of the overall look of the flowing of the skirt. It doesn't seem....right.

To think I'd actually be spriting yet again after 3-4 years of not spriting. :S

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #426 on:** September 30, 2012, 11:58:06 PM »

Oh wow. That touched-up version looks pretty neat. I like it!
Might need to practice a bit more before really getting back into the swing of making animations though, so it feels right.

Xenomic · « **Reply #427 on:** October 01, 2012, 12:03:36 AM »

Thing is, I've never once made a single animation (unless you count Midnight Blisses, but those aren't that hard to really do animations for....well, if you don't move anything at all which I rarely did...), so this is something new for me to do. Which I'm not sure how well I'm going to handle it. And even if I DO get the stand sprites done, I still have the other sprites to do, and I've no idea how I'm going to handle that seeing as I've never really did any stand sprites myself either....@_@;

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #428 on:** October 01, 2012, 12:11:04 AM »

Aaaah. Well, you can always have Chamat do the animation then if that'n can?
I mean, you touched up the sprite a bit and made it look better, so that'n can probably do a lot with it.

Xenomic · « **Reply #429 on:** October 01, 2012, 12:32:30 AM »

Chamat already said that he can't because he's too busy with his own stuff, so I'm left to myself to try and sprite these (unless someone else comes along and decides to help on it). It'll be a really slow process though since I get easily frustrated at anything art related @_@;

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #430 on:** October 01, 2012, 12:39:12 AM »

Well balls. Maybe put out a request in AAA? I'm sure someone there can do it, to save you from going to all the trouble.

Xenomic · « **Reply #431 on:** October 01, 2012, 12:43:23 AM »

I might if I actually remember to do it. That, and it'd depend if anyone can do the same sprite style that she's in too @_@

Xenomic · « **Reply #432 on:** October 01, 2012, 02:52:24 AM »

In case if it's not obvious, I have no idea what I'm doing! It LOOKS nice so far, but I don't think it's going to loop right. And that doesn't include the shading and obviously the rest of the animation either @_@;;

Xenomic · « **Reply #433 on:** October 01, 2012, 04:00:06 AM »

Credits to CVS Abstract for fixing this and actually animating it for me! I will be using this for the rest of the other animations. However, I am still going to at least finish my animation of this just to see how it WOULD have turned out. If anything, it's practice no?

Hanzo K. · « **Reply #434 on:** October 01, 2012, 04:02:04 AM »

Indeed, this is something to compare it to!

Xenomic · « **Reply #435 on:** October 02, 2012, 01:46:05 AM »

Just to show that I tried at least! I checked the animation in Fighter's Factory (didn't save gif cuz obvious transparency issues, and I don't know how to do gifs otherwise really), and it seemed okayish aside from looping back nicely...if someone wants to make that into a GIF, by all means, go for it. Ignore the very first and very last sprites though (first is obvious, and last is a duplicate of the sprite before it).

Hey, if anything, I tried ya? Still going to use CVS's animation though because it flows a lot better than mine does. ^^;;

Xenomic · « **Reply #436 on:** October 06, 2012, 07:40:31 AM »

http://youtu.be/mTYVHP4jJq4

Yes, that's right...I said I was going to do this like a couple months or so back, and now I've finally got it done! Still no sprites for Hope for obvious reasons.

(Is there no way to make YT vids show up on here?? Hmm....)

Jq1790 · « **Reply #437 on:** October 06, 2012, 12:39:28 PM »

Quote from: Xenomic on October 06, 2012, 07:40:31 AM

(Is there no way to make YT vids show up on here?? Hmm....)

Pretty sure only admin-types can embed video, not us simple users.

Xenomic · « **Reply #438 on:** October 06, 2012, 07:39:35 PM »

Well boooooooo. It'd be easier to just show them here, but I guess I can see why considering this forum and all...there'd be an awful lot of videos flying everywhere.

Xenomic · « **Reply #439 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:42:48 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y26S1jcorCc

And next up, the Optional Characters! Do expect spoilers in this video too!

Xenomic · « **Reply #440 on:** October 09, 2012, 11:04:04 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7hmwXPH-s

Next, the Temporary Characters Exhibition! Only one more exhibition left to go for this~ No annotations this time, because I don't think it's needed here.

Xenomic · « **Reply #441 on:** October 10, 2012, 07:05:59 AM »

So I did a TINY bit of work, though I think I need to do one more animation before I start going backwards with the frames. Hmmmm....oh, and this is the black part of her shirt (so the very bottom, where it overlaps her skirt).

On a sidenote, after looking at her concept art, I just realized that the blue parts of her shirt aren't actually part of the shirt itself, but a part of the shawl it seems. Or maybe I'm seeing it wrong still...I don't know! @_@;;

Xenomic · « **Reply #442 on:** October 12, 2012, 03:29:17 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGeyx_xw-Qc

The final exhibition video for a while! For those who do not know (dunno if it shows here or not), but there are annotations in the first 2 videos (the Playable and Optional Character exhibition videos). And yes, I realize that these animations aren't all pretty, but I'm limited on what I can and cannot use here yo! And spriting them myself is not an option!

Oh, and on a sidenote, Kyouko isn't playable. Sorry!

Xenomic · « **Reply #443 on:** November 02, 2012, 04:39:36 AM »

Current update. Original concept artist is attempting to do Hope's battle sprites in a more Soku-ish style (no offense to Chamat and CVS, as their help in the other sprites was very much welcomed), so there's that. He's only got this much done so far though, and not everything is done yet. Hopefully, he'll animate this for me as well, though that might be asking a lot since there's still a lot to do for animations...

Yes, this game isn't dead yet folks. Just still waiting on mapper and all that. I'm also going to leave Koishi's Blue Magic list alone until much later, when everything is said and done. If it's too much of a problem and too strong for this game, then I'll edit it later.

Xenomic · « **Reply #444 on:** November 23, 2012, 11:01:38 PM »

Don't worry! The game's not dead...just still on hold until maps are done, of which I gave my mapper until the end of the month to finish. Once he's done (or once the end of the month comes around) and I get the maps, the project will be back in full swing. Still need someone to help out with the synthesis shop though...I've no idea how to sort that crazy thing out...and also not sure on the stupid EXP ratio anymore either...;___;

As for the sprite, this is the finalized version just about for Hope's in-battle sprite. It's been updated from the original Chamat sprite to the more Touhou/Soku style, and also borrows the colors of the original for the newer version. However, some changes have been made to the design of Hope even from the concept art, such as the skirt.

Hopefully, soon, I'll be able to post more than just updates for Hope's sprites...I have the story and what I want to do all ready to go in my head. It's just that I have to actually MAP out everything and set everything up. The events and storyboards aren't hard to do (well, I've no idea how hard setting up the puzzles and gimmicks are going to be, especially since I'm more inspired by Valkyrie Profile's and, recently, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time puzzles)...just that the mapping takes me ages to do since I'm terrible at it and dilly-dally like nobody's business!

Again, if anyone is willing to help out on the project, feel free to drop me a line! I can use all the help I can get...not having a new beta out in 1 1/2 years is kinda sad, considering that I've done not that much since then aside from updating from Beta4 2.0 to Beta4 3.0...

iori98 · « **Reply #445 on:** November 24, 2012, 01:56:26 AM »

I like hope's new sprites they're nice and shiny looking

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Kaitani · « **Reply #446 on:** November 24, 2012, 11:10:28 AM »

I wouldn't worry so much about the EXP ratios yet, it felt like money was the bigger issue when facing too tough opposition. Giving even slightly more EXP on the long run means players would likely have even less money to use on stuff due to lack of need to grind EXP. Just my two cents on the matter though.
As for the synthesis shop, how big role would you like it to have in outfitting the party? Similar to GoS where you're more or less dependant on it, or like in FFIX where it just gives you that extra edge? Deciding that should make it clearer on how easy getting materials for synthesizing should be. Also, if you make it so that getting gear this way is an alternative to buying stuff from the shop, players could have more money to spend on items and skills instead.
Somehow my ideas always end up revolving around money.

チソウ タイゼン · « **Reply #447 on:** November 24, 2012, 11:58:56 AM »

Hmmm..

Let's go ahead and forget that I tried anything.

Xenomic · « **Reply #448 on:** December 05, 2012, 09:44:34 PM »

http://www.mediafire.com/?dz1dz2qks1256rt

So yeah...since it appears others were having this issue with Suwako randomly being in the party, I looked through my game to see what the problem was. Tested and everything without changing a thing, and didn't have a problem like that, so either something is wrong in the current parts of the games that people are having issues with, or I outright fixed it in my game, so hopefully this patch fixes that up...

I guess if anything, this is where I start getting back into working on the game some and fixing things up...too bad I can't really use Firefox while working on this. ;___;

And for some reason I don't think I ever got the replies to this thread getting replies...as for the synthesis shop, it's not meant to be heavily dependent on, but it's the only way to get some of the better equipments? Like, once you hit Pandaemonium in beta5, that's the last ACTUAL shop in the game for equipment. Everything else would have to be made...I'm tempted to follow Ring of Fates/Echoes of Time's example of crafting...though not sure if I'd cut out materials or not. I'll probably make a synthesis shop for buying materials at some point...

Xenomic · « **Reply #449 on:** December 11, 2012, 08:09:10 AM »

***NOTE! This is copy/pasted from the RPGMaker forum***

Hello! I am looking for anyone who would be interested in doing a review for my game, Touhou Fantasy, written or LP. The game has been ongoing for nearly 4 years now (it was recently patched up to version 1.095 for beta4), and soon will be ready to be worked on again after a 4 month break (which I honestly needed, but I digress). If anyone is interested, do drop me a line, either here or in PM! All links will be at the bottom of the page.

If I need to add more details or descriptions about the game or the review (I don't think I NEED to for any review?), then feel free to ask away. I hope to have at least someone to review it! I currently have someone doing a LP of it (been ongoing for the past 1 1/4 years now).

Please note that the game IS still a beta, and is only 50% done. And yes, I'm well aware that the starting areas aren't exactly the best (beta1 dungeons in this case), but I promise that after that, it does get much better.

Game Page (Warning: Game is on the heavy side. Everything is on the Mediafire account! Get all parts for Beta4 Full Version, then apply the RECENT update patch only to the main folder. Music is separate as well IIRC?): http://rpgmaker.net/games/3758/

For those interested in seeing a currently ongoing LP of the game: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74BB3C5712CB1984

For those interested in seeing the entire game, done by myself: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A340BD36DA6C2FB