gonju

local boy (↑18), digital artist & indie gamedev || working on my first major game release

[gonju @gonjuSP]

@Desertanu i'm still sorting out exact numbers, but i think it's easier to get the balance right if you start big and then adjust down as needed rather than the other way around

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brief bit of inside baseball showing off the dynamic combat analysis spreadsheet i'm building! making tools like this isn't the most glamorous part of gamedev, but i think it's important for ensuring a good degree of balance in the final product, especially for an RPG

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@Desertanu thank you! it's good to be back at it :D

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sincere apologies for my long absence; been having to take care of some IRL stuff that's kept me from gamedev for a while. i'm ramping up production again this month, starting with implementing core status effects!

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@Azalea666__ thank you very much!

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@starhoundstudio thank you! they're part of the bedrock of any RPG, so i want to get them in so i can do a first real pass of the numbers to get a combat experience close to what i'm aiming for

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@Lufaisea thank you so much!

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@SimonBCarroll thank you - it's good to be back!

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@uknonjones woah, that's cool! it's definitely been a while since my last one😅

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@Junnie_J yup! current plan is to have 5 total party members, but i'm sticking with these three for the moment just to try and get the balance correct before adding any more

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screenshot (well, video) saturday! been working on improving the flow of combat and wanted to show off some extended footage, including some of the character mechanics and abilities

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@uknonjones i've had etoile in the roster for a while, but i had to do some updates to her rig so she was out of commission for a few months, lol

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@SmashCasket spot on, actually! i have a mechanic like FF7 Rebirth where you can do both a regular guard and a just guard, though the just guard only reduces damage further rather than being outright damage immunity

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working on implementing the Chirugion enemy! the basic attack actually took a lot more new tech than i thought it would to make the effect work, but ended up turning out pretty nicely

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@JezzaRoddy thank you for your ongoing support! expect even more progress through the rest of the year :D

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@ArcWillow09 awww, tysm!!!

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@rokkettz thank you!

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finished up the model for the 4th party member: Vellum Argentum, the gun-toting priest! i had an earlier version of him that i did almost a full year ago, so i figured it was time to do an update now that i've got a solid texturing method down

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@uknonjones think it's just compression on that video lol, but i've been meaning to mess around with adding in some subtle DoF to see how it looks

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apologies for going quiet! been doing a lot of dull refactoring to get my code ready for the vertical slice. i did spend some time implementing a new mechanic: your Weaves (re: spells) now use a shared party resource called Charge instead of Energy. this makes them easier to use, but requires you to ration your Charge carefully

defeating a foe restores some Charge, and all Charge is regained at the start of an encounter, so you can still use spells freely in combat

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@fittyyen oh, interesting! always like seeing people experimenting with nonstandard resource systems