Redid the graphics for the paradox fight a bit. (inspired by some graphics used in the background footage of this remix of cogdis's version of megalovania hgfjkd)
picking this back up after burning out shortly into the engine swap or whatever and WOW the debug shit I added + the (currently scuffed) run button functionality are VERY HELPFUL I see why games tend to have these lol
Okay so apparently the way cogdis handles moves that realistically should be determined based on if they've set a switch or not (like PK Harmony or 4th-D Slip) but aren't set to set a switch because they have to be used by a character who has PSI as a specific skill category
is by having the game take their PSI when opening the PSI menu and calculating it with their PSI after to determine if they've been used based on if the difference is equal to the move's PSI cost
Well. It's been a hot minute since I worked on this lol
I need to update the engine
not from 2k3 obviously, that'd be too much work, but there's a patched version I got a while back which would allow for adding stuff like a run button more easily
so yeah. expect that in the next update. whenever I get around to that.
Welcome to the new earthbound universe equivalent to Canada: Mapleland (it really wouldn't be called anything else lol)
This is a forest with a road leading between a town and a bridge to thunderton because I'm reworking the geography of the area a bit (I may have mentioned this a few posts ago)
Honestly this should probably be a decent way of smoothing out the difficulty curve issue or whatever; just make the game give you more encounters to give you experience and shit before you're dealing with some bosses that are in their present form a bit more difficult than they maybe should be
Also in case anyone is curious here's the first bit of improvement stuff I'm doing with cloudvale, which is just. attempting to make it look mountany and high up but also not like it's just 2,000,000 feet in the air or something with no way down other than the ropeway which is apparently wearing out
Probably also going to be extending it a bit soon seeing as right now it feels a bit *too* small still, but eh, here's the first draft or whatever lol