Is there any reason you couldn't do a 2.5D design or would that be even more difficult? Something where the characters appear to be moving into the foreground or background while still being on a 2D plane. You could still use the 8-way sprites as the character is moving toward or away from the background maybe scaling them slightly to appear farther away. Games have been doing that for a long time.
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That's kind of what we're going to be doing. We've also tried quite a few things recently, so what we're doing now is going back to what we know works for sure. We really wanted to try and make the 3D maps work, but it was too divisive. Some people liked it, others didn't.
nicokira
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I find it a pity that there is a lot of things that are blocked and that we can’t do on version 0.8
Who has time to plan scalable code when you could be making new content though? Seriously though, having a good base is important even if it means more initial delays. It avoids so many problems later.
Teleiah
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I actually feel like this new version is a downgrade from the 0.8...
Krystal's model from the deprecated game looks way better.
Launcher is great tho.
Krystal's model from the deprecated game looks way better.
Launcher is great tho.
Sorry if I offended. I was just making a joke and general comment. It wasn't meant to insult you. I was referring more to how people only care about results in the form of content and generally don't care about what's happening under the hood. It probably pushes some developers to forego good practices to get things done faster.
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I bet Goebbels would've loved the internet.
This reminds of that dev of a game I used to follow, who gashed open his head and had a midlife crisis and disappeared - this quickly turned into 'the dev is recovering from brain damage' by people that can't read and parroted into Truth.
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Krystal's beginning scene with dialog where she is in the shower is 100x better and more playable than this tech demo
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Have some previews of development:
And the WiP environment to show off:
Much larger than the old 2D environments that we had before, which gives us more options for gameplay and exploration.
And the WiP environment to show off:
Much larger than the old 2D environments that we had before, which gives us more options for gameplay and exploration.
I like the backgrounds (and a lot) because of the classic touch of LOK, but I still don't understand about the two carrots 
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Will the backgrounds move at different speeds depending on whether they are close or far away?
.Will the backgrounds move at different speeds depending on whether they are close or far away?
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Yeah we're looking at doing some parallaxing, not totally sure yet, but we'll see what we can do with it.I like the backgrounds (and a lot) because of the classic touch of LOK, but I still don't understand about the two carrots
Will the backgrounds move at different speeds depending on whether they are close or far away?
Oh, that background is looking pretty nice. I'm glad you guys reconsidered 2D. Parallax scrolling would probably look great, but maybe just make it a back burner thing depending on the effort it would take.
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90% of the effort comes from character animations. I don't think the backgrounds are particularly challenging for Kuja. However I'm not sure how we'll be able to do parallaxing yet just based on the fact that we haven't tried it before. So we'll need to figure it out.
ONLY? You sure you've been looking in the right places? There are some fantastic artists out there like FR95, fluffkevlar, dafka, mykegreywolf, and hioshiru just to name a few.
god this things look good, but this serpent guy and the new clothes mean theyre gonna scrap the 0.8 story or add new stuff where they left off?
So quick question. Are all of the story events from the old version of the game going to be scrapped? Or are you just going to implement them into the new game? I super wanted to see the conclusion to the Cenvir questline. Sorry I'm sure you have answered these questions already. But I can't find if you did.
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