Have I mentioned I’m not a fan of the RTP?

Oh? I have. Okay, well I got some new tilesets during the RPGMaker Web Summer Sale:

The famous FSM materials!

They are amazing by the way, beautiful really.

But, if we buy what everyone else uses aren’t we still looking like RTP/everyone else?

We were using RTP from beginning so anything is an improvement. Plus, as always, I do my own edits anywho. Heheh.

One of my edits tends to always be the grass. I was actually really liking the brightness of the grass I was using before, so I did some edits to brighten up the grass in FSM. Side by side it looks like a slight change but in game it really affects the mood:

Left is my brighter grass, Right is the original:

I know it doesn’t look like much side by side, but it really is in game.

VACATION AND TILESET EDITS

So there was a time where my mum in law was staying with us and then we were on vacation for a week so I didn’t really keep up with RF, but what I have been doing is working with the tilesets and doing some mapping.

While FSM is beautiful it still wasn’t bright enough for what I wanted for the game. Really, it still sets a mood that I think is more serious but I don’t want to go editing again what I think I’d have to edit (the grass is too detailed for me I think) but I did brighten up the forest trees and this is what I got:

Am I perhaps making the FSM look worse by editing it so much? Yes, probably, but I’m trying to keep a lighter feel for this game, so the brighter colors is what I’m looking for. And yeah, PandaMaru’s trees don’t fit the best but I want the variety.

Honestly it’s been a while since I actually worked on this so I’d have to take some time to figure out what I actually need to be doing, but I figured I’d get some mapping done and start placing in some monsters for more testing. Get some official enemy troops set up.

I know I still have to work on the quest and crafting system, and figure out the movesets and what armors will add said moves. There’s a lot to do, but sometimes you just need a break from that and tilesets and sprite work gives me that break.

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Short post again because, yes I’m close the the end of the dev log doc, and because the next part rolls into a different topic that I didn’t want to mush together.

Thanks for keeping up and God bless,
Meike Kima

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