Holy-Chaos: Prophecies Unleashed!

[Lord Cohliani]

Re: Holy-Chaos: Prophecies Unleashed!

Have any screens?

BTW: Good luck with everything...

[Lausen]

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Have any screens?

BTW: Good luck with everything...

Just the ones that Obright already took for me. If he takes a pic of a certian part of my contest map, then it would be basically the same as one of my maps/castles in Holy-Chaos.

Thanks for the luck.

[Lausen]

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The last two day's I have put a lot of time in. I just finished a complete play through with the slot switch. There was a good amount of debugging along the way, but it's completly playable now. At least storywise. There is nothing out of place between the switch. I have a good page of notes of other things I need to fix, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. Progress is coming much faster then expected. Hopefully I can start working on NPC's tomorrow as well.

Overall things are looking good. Ever since I finished the story events things have been moving much faster, and hopefully I can keep that pace up.

[Lausen]

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Today has been very productive as well. I made roughly 10 classes for each slot, nearly 50 items, and 16 NPC's for both slots. The items are basically placeholders for now. I haven't set the weapons strengths or who equips them yet, but that is to come. Same thing with the classes. I haven't balanced, but it;s nice not worrying about what space it will take up. I have been playing out what the NPC's will say, and where the variables will be added to make them change what they say.

The biggest issue is still what I'll be doing with the monsters. I have 78.2% on slot 1 and 72.8% on slot 2. This makes me want to use RE's, but it still sounds like a strech considering both slots would need the same monsters. Right now I'm leaning toward having a few places with RE's, but most will have nothing other then event based battles and puzzles.

Boring I know, but it's a good way for me to do some thinking and track my own progress. That being said, there's more to come soon.

[Lord Cohliani]

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Keep up the good work Lausen!

[Lausen]

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Well I have a bit of an update. All NPC's I have are nearly done. They all say 2-4 things per slot. I'm sure things will change if I want them to give out sidequests. I also finished up my first two puzzles. The first one is pretty basic, but the second one was a ***** to code. It was my first real puzzle I ever made. It's really not even very hard to complete, but it came out sweet! After the way they came out I really want to add some more.

[Lausen]

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Update

I got a good amount of work done since the last update. The thing I'm realizing is, the more I get done the more there is to do. Still I'm chipping away at it. Slot 1 is at 85.7 and slot 2 is at 78.6 percent.

I made all the monsters, and figured out how I'm going to lay them all out. The 3 main fields that you spend most of your time in won't have any RE's. The other two and most dungeons will. In every party there is a good chance they will drop an "Enemy Barrier" which drops the encounter rate only once, but you can get them often so it's kind of up to you if you want to fight or not.

I made a crap load of skills for people. 4 of the main characters have all 16. I layed out about 20 pieces of Cryolite. Which are stones that teach you skills. I'm sure I will make more.

I made another puzzle that is optinal. It askes 3 questions in a row and if you answer them all correctly you get a weapon, but if you fail twice you cannot get it.

I just started balancing stats. Things are going very well with that luckly.

This will be my last update for about a week. I'm going to Arkansas tomorrow night for spring break, so I won't be able to work on it which really sucks. I'm going to try and cram in as much work as I can before I go though.

[JPS]

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Have fun at Arkansas, and hurry up so I can review your game, Im anxious to play it.

[Lausen]

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Have fun at Arkansas, and hurry up so I can review your game, Im anxious to play it.

Thanks, It will be done when it's ready. I'm working as I type. Arkansas should be okay, except we're driving. It will take near 12 hours. I bought FF 5 & 6 on GBA for the trip.

[Lausen]

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Well it's been a couple weeks since the last update. I just finished all the balancing on the first slot. I knew it was going to be a long process, but I didn't know what I was getting myself into.

Over the next couple days I plan on going through all the mosters and adding a few more skills. Once that's done I have to copy ever monster and class onto either a piece of paper or on the computer, because the same monsters appear on both slots. That includes stats skills drops, it's going to be a *****! I think I might make it into a beastiary as I go. Then submit it with the game. That's the worst part by far, having to copy stuff from slot to slot.

Once that's done then I'll start balancing the second slot. That should go faster. Aslo, for a few of the bosses I've done a new approch. I've given them little attack power for all their skills and stuff, and little HP, but made their speed through the roof. They get a few hits in before you get a turn. That makes each of your actions more crutial to weather you survive or not.

I'm figuring once all the balancing is done I'll have about 12% on each slot for whatever. I plan on using up each little bit of it. I guess I like these update more of a progress log for myself. Thanks for the interest even if it is really boring.

[JPS]

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Wouldnt it be easier to just delete the events/towns/characters/etc... youre not going to use on the second slot? That way you wont have to redo all that stuff?

[Lausen]

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Everything I'm not using is already deleted. It's all the classes and skills that has to be transfered over. Anything I add in slot one has to be moved to slot two for the most part. Such as decrotives, NPC's, new items, etc... Although I was thinking about making the enemies you fight in the begining of the first slot stronger in the second because you end up going back on some of the same fields. Also anytime I change a dungeon a little, add a save spot. Pretty much it's a major headache. One that I'm willing to get through!

[JPS]

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So youve been working on both slots at the same time?

Im not following what youre saying...would it help if I read over the card trick?

[Perversion]

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Geez...this thread is 7 pages long?!?! Where have I been? Good job, Lausen. Reading through all your updates reminded me of myself, circa my first game, Series 1. Oh, how I miss those carefree days. Anyway, keep up the good work. You seem to have a lot of support for this project.

[Lausen]

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@JPS, Yeah I've been having to flip back and forth a lot. The thing is that the second slot has everything the 1st has plus stuff, except for events. It's kind of hard to explain.

@ Perv, thanks, I've been trying not to slow down.

Update, I have finally started balancing the second slot. I've finished 3 boss battles on it, and now plan on making the monsters in the first slot a bit stronger in the second slot. At least in the places you have to revisit. I have made some new weapons and armor. That's pretty much it other then some small tweeks here and there. My goal is to have everything balanced out by the end of the week.