26 Jul 2025

To be honest! I'm at a lost as to what I want this game to be.

I wanted it to be a long project I worked on as I went through uni, but I know for a fact I'm going to lose interest and stop working on it. I also thought I would get an idea of the plot while I worked on some basic systems but it never came to me!

So right now I'm just reassessing the scope and what I actually want the game to be. Anyway, I do have some screenshots at least!

Funnily enough, I've spent more time on this than my first RPGmaker game (which you can find if you dig around the site a little) with much less to show for it!. A lot of time was spent figuring out the systems of RPGmaker and downloading plugins. It felt like the more I dug into wanting specific systems, the more limited the engine by itself was.

I focused on drawing Aely's sprites and implementing a skill set that a Dark Knight would have in a turn-based RPG. The idea of Aely 's playstyle is that she gets stronger at low HP, and has various debuffs she can put on the enemy like Blind. Also figured out how to give her an INSTALL SUPERRRRR GRAAAAAAAH. im quite proud of that.

The rest of my time was spent finangling with the systems and getting text and UI to look good. (A lot of plugins had to be discovered. Thank you RPGmaker community.) A standout to me is SRD's Hudmaker Ultra plugin!!

I have another character in the works, but I'm going to do the whole reassessment thing before continuing with her. That's all for now!! Hopefully this isn't still the newest devlog in 6 months l o l.