Kayzee

You know me, I always like big Ds.

And V's, lolz

And both at once!

I think Epic Rap Battles would be a better idea

Well the thing you have to remember is, and I admit the video I linked is not a example of this, there is absolutely no reason why they would calmly take turns. Instead it would be more like melodies and counter melodies as they both reacted to each other's song, focusing on directing the over all feeling of the piece as a whole, tripping up each other with complex rhythmic patterns, and so on. Rap is just not anywhere near complex enough. Heck at that level using meaningful words at all is basically impossible. You have to just let the music flow chaotically while doing your best to shape it in a general direction. Doing stuff like that is basically what jazz is all about. I mean music based magic typically isn't used in direct combat exactly because it can be easy to disrupt, counter, or cause to go wild. But it sounds hella fun to watch/listen to a battle like that!

Well, I can think of six non-jazz songs that accomplish this well...

But they're all from one game series so...

They're all Guitar Battles, three from Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, one from GH Aerosmith and the other two from Guitar Hero World Tour (though those are in-game functionally different)

Guitar Battle vs. Tom Morello
Guitar Battle vs. Saul Hudson aka Slash

Guitar Battle vs. Lou (Metal cover of The Devil Went Down To Georgia as performed by Stephen Ouimette)

Guitar Battle vs. Joe Perry

Guitar Duel vs. Zakk Wylde

Guitar Duel vs. Ted Nugent

There was supposed to be a Bass Duel vs. Sting, but that was cut (Guitar Hero World Tour).
(the video this links to is the song you play along with Sting - he's in the vocalist's placement while playing bass and it is the original version of Demolition Man before studio fading and rendering)

Don't know if I ever will though... I would want to at least finish my current project and who knows how long that will take!

Can't do everything alone. Well you can, but it's usually not the most efficient way. Would take me years to complete any of my serious projects. Legacy Frontier suffered the same fate as Overworld. It outgrew my core skill level. I can no longer make that game on my own without ruining it, or taking so long it won't even matter by the time it's done.

It's not easy but I'm looking for a little project to give myself some experience now.

Though teams have their own problems. Probably the best way is having a large community around a project that can help out from time to time, but that's hard to do. Anyway as much as it would be nice if I had someone to help out on my project in some ways, it's probobly not going to happen any time soon. So I will do what I can on my own and not worry so much about what I can't do for now.

Well, progress of any kind is always good.

I'll be getting back to mine soon. Not sure about today but...

I think the best I can do is keeping to plug away at it when I feel like it. Not like I am in a rush, it's not exactly a game in high demand. :3

That's what I am trying to do. I will make it through, but obstacles are everywhere and I keep running into them...

Yes yes! I use a ridiculously heavily modified version of this, and even have a really old version on my widdle blog somewhere... Though it's only for VX Ace so if you were hoping for a MV plugin I can't help you there. Really everything I do is for VX Ace and I don't think I will ever really get into MV. I have been tempted before to sorta ditch RPG Maker altogether and use Java and/or JRuby to make my own engine thingy, but it's rather hard to make a new engine and I already got so much done with VX Ace...

Anyway, the game I am working on is basically a fully fledged Mystery Dungeon style roguelike at this point, though there are still lotsa features I need to work on. There are a few things I definitely want to do differently (like shops for example, I always thought the 'on map shop' thing was more trouble then it's worth and rather just use a good old fashioned menu), but the basic template of my game is based on the Mystery Dungeon games, especially resembling the original SNES Shiren the Wanderer game. A lot of modern Mystery Dungeon games are faaaar too soft sometimes I think! Am I the only one that actually likes having to identify items? It's a fairly important core feature of the genre and so many modern roguelikes just don't seem to want to do it or don't get the point.

I want random dungeon crawls for 2 game concepts.

I want a dungeon in Legacy Frontier that does random floors to keep the player on their toes, and provide an area for grinding akin to the Bio Research Lab, that also produces random chests on a semi-consistent basis as well.

I also want to do random bunker raids for a apocalypse game I have in mind.

I am on Ace as well. MV doesn't have as many resource options or plugins. And the non-commercial tiles can be easily resized for Ace.

Sounds neat! The way dungeons work in my little game can be quite complicated and involves a lot of scripts that can be way too interdependent sometimes, so it might not be that suitable for a lot of people to though.

Ah, I see, lol

Thing is, one could recreate some games that have that kind of mechanic with that kind of coding.

Like, for one example, Casper (PSX/SS).

Hehe, well, the basic idea is that all characters/events have a 'map_passable?' method that can be aliased and stuff. The $game_player object even uses it to change what tiles you can pass through when you are in a vehicle. I just made one that let me choose different conditions and checks.

Neat.

It would be cool to have a game where one could turn invisible and as a result, be able to phase through solid objects...

Better looking fonts/more font control is surprisingly appealing to me. Not that it should be surprising, but it's not something I ever gave much thought to, although I've always thought RM fonts could look a bit cleaner.

Hehe, if you are interested in the subject of fiddling with fonts, I also use this script with one or two of my own added features. It may only seem like just a cool visual effect, but it also overhauls the whole way fonts are rendered so that it uses a cache. That way drawing text is a LOT faster. Actually in normal RPG Maker VX Ace drawing text is really really slow and can create hella lag sometimes. Granted, I think there is a bit of a noticeable pause when a font cache first gets created, as I have noticed in my game there is a bit of a pause opening some menus for the first time, though it may be something else. I think I could get it to precache most of the fonts I use though.

Hell, I downloaded that script some time ago, lolz

(completely forgot about it like I do with so many things)

Anyway...

I wish there was an easy way to create a font...

Hehe, which ones? I use a few different ones depending on the window. :3 I basically made most of them myself, though I think I use some textures/borders from elsewhere. I have a bunch of them! Although I am generally not a good artist, I can do textures and ui stuff fairly well. Like the whole title sequence was basically 100% me too, aside from the fonts anyway. Also did the music myself. :3

Oh my god how can I hire you?

Hehe, I don't need money silly, I like to help!

OBS Studio right now. And OpenShot Video Editor for editing and stuff. I am very new at it all though.

Ooooo let me know when it's done :3

It might be a while since I havn't been working on it too much, but I will be sure to show it somehow when I finish it. :3

Yeah, sometimes the words 'Fae' and 'Fairy' can be far too vague. I have heard 'Fairy' referred to as the type of creature as well as 'Fae' referred to as a particular class of trooping fairy, and often the two words mean the same thing.

...

"...and the black swarm of the fae buzzed about the hateful ************************************** as they screamed out for aid, to no return..."

I've read about the evolution of biology, and how in theory, some of the insects that have wings were once of fae kind.

Based on that entry/blurb, it seems to be true to a fashion. I wouldn't know for sure though.

You know funny thing about that. Actually in the history of fairy-kind, having wings is a pretty recent development. Originally we didn't have wings at all and looked more obviously elvish.  How and why wings became popular fashion (we are able to shapeshift, so what we look like is up to us for the most part, but their are trends) I am not sure, but I have a theory about it...

Oh, I should show my 'Pedia screen actually if anyone is curious:

Hehe, Wizard Mode is a debug mode where everything is unlocked and stuff. :3

I see a reference to a song that stole from David Bowie, lol

Also, what's a 'Gaint Hornet'? lolz

Gaint? EEeep... How embarrassing.... *hides face*

Hehe, the enemy list is subject to change though. I might replace some of the silly references with mythological references. Already did for some. Merrow used to be called 'Freaky Fish Guy' and Draugr was called something else too, but I forget what.

Very much so, this be the truth.

Imagine the nerves though, when it comes down to creating characters that fall under neither 'biological sex'.

Even with an image editor, it sure as beans isn't easy...

I've got some unfinished graphics to take care of once I get the demo released. I have one character who is feminine but doesn't have the same curves as the female characters do. I'm having a tough time with this, and it doesn't help that I got a huge middle finger from real life in the form of the asshole landlords abusing my dog and the rest of us.

I'll get it, I know I will, but not having to deal with stress like that would be so fantastic.

Well A character creator can't be all inclusive, and it's actually rather hard to depict gender neutral characters in general. I actually bring up that point and apologize in my game for that. :3 But the thing is, even if you are only going to have male or female genders available, it still would make more sense for the script's internals to not divide things up based on gender. I mean what if you wanted different races with their own sets of graphics? Or different body types? Or whatever. The point is that you only get two alternative sets to choose from and the code assumes one is male and one is female. Yeah you can label them whatever you want in game, but you still only get the two and they still coded to assume only male or female are options.

Of course, me being lazy and the sprites I have available for male characters not being too good,  at first I sorta wanted to only allow female characters... or maybe I should say feminine characters. And really there isn't all that much difference and if I could get away with just allowing androgynous characters I probobly would. But eh, I kind of decided to include male/masculine characters because it dosn't really make sense to exclude them.

*cuddles*

*snuggles*

I don't know if I'll meet my end of month deadline for a demo, but as is, I am very close to having a ready demo.

Neat! I think I am still a ways away, but maybe I am just picky about it.

Hmmmm, I wonder if I am not signed into friends for some reason?

Well, sometimes things just happen, lol

Like, I don't get email notifications from YouTube anymore, and it makes me wonder if that's Yahoo's doing or what, but at this point, I don't really care all that much...

I don't know how long I barely touched RPG Maker...

Using a HUD for a mouse script.

First Mistake: The HUD was assuming it was up top. So I set it to be the lower part of the screen.

Second Mistake: Oh, I should switch a less then sign to a greater then sign to actually let the damn mouse work

This was always my life, the stupid stuff

Still rather it spit an error at me then just go off and do what it thinks I mean. That always leads to trouble.

I haven't played Super Metroid in a long time, and it's been a bit since my last play of LttP.

But it does bring to curiosity how one would even be able to play the game once stitched together like that...

Well even if it's still really impressive, don't get the wrong idea that it's more involved then it is. It dosn't change the games that much, it more just switches what game you are playing when you go to some locations and saves player data between them. The two games mostly don't effect one another. You don't get to use any Zelda items when playing Metroid or any Metroid items while playing Zelda or anything like that. Not even heart containers/energy tanks. There are only two major ways the games interact:

1. It's a randomizer and the randomizer shuffles item locations around between both games. So while Metroid items are only useful in Metroid and Zelda items are only useful in Zelda, ether game's items can show up in the other game.
2. The paths used to switch between games are fixed in such a way that depending on the items you get sometimes the best way to go to a location is to go through the other game.

I still found it fun to watch a few playthroughs of it. You have to really know both games really well and be able to make that much progress. Super Metroid is far far easier to deal with if you know all the tricks, but if you are missing important Zelda items you still need to look in Super Metroid for them. It's interesting because it tests your knowledge and skill of both games at once.

I do kind of wonder if future versions will offer the option to combing some similar items form both games. Like those energy tanks and heart containers, or maybe the Hockshot and Grapple Beam, Maybe even have Metroid missile upgrades effect the max arrows you have in Zelda, or Metroid power bomb upgrades effecting the max bombs you can carry in Zelda. But I kinda like it as it is now too. :3

Got any links?

Can't wait to hear your next bean drop.

Hehe, 'bean drop' eh? Based on context I am guessing you mean me showing off more music but I never heard that term before.

It's a term used mainly by a niche group of musicians that play bean jam style music.

I know very little other than it's not popular outside the culture.

But yeah, that's what I meant was your music.

Funny, I thought you were doing the doom2 opening level. :3

(I was trying do do this one btw, it was even remade in a later game... with an Egyptian feel!)

I actually don't know DOOM 2 music at all, lolz

Hehe, this is the Doom 2 opening level theme. I guess it's more like:

Da-da da-da da-da-da-da da dun

Da-da da-da da-da-da-da da dun

:3

Sounds like someone has been in the midst of some heavy...

lol

Only mental? :3

That's usually where it begins...lolz

Vis is an element in my game, or in a way, it's kinda all the elements in my game. It's pretty much a pure state of mana, before it has gained an elemental affinity. As such, someone who can control Vis can essentially control all the other elements at the same time, like some sort of Rainbow Mage . A fireball here, some ice spikes there, a typhoon over yonder, all that fun stuff. A jack of all trades, master of none. 

Thanks for asking!  

Oh! The word 'Vis' is kinda the same as the word 'Vim'! I thought there might have been something familiar about it...Though at first all I could think of was the old tool for visual culling for Quake levels. :3

Yup. A friend of mine linked an Inkling avatar maker in a chat I lurk at. Several of my friends, my girlfriend included, got in on the fun.

Hehe... You know, that avatar looks a bit like an inkling version of Isabelle from Animal Crossing. :3

Yeah, I might do that after a break.

It is a great idea though.

It won't necessarily gave you what you want all the time, but you will get something!

I think I will progress a lot more in Pokémon Crystal Clear first.

Why not? Seems to me having a good big meal can only help. Unless you throw it all up I guess.

It relates more to having the feeling of being overburdened by food combining with depression, etcetera.

It's not a good thing, especially when you're under all that and get unnecessary stress on top of it.

You're lucky you live alone. I guess you have that to be thankful for.

Yeah, I'm actually quite bitter about this, especially since a lot of garbage is really just...

Shutting up. I can't even stand to think about it.

Enjoy yourself; forget about me. I'm just a burden.

*cuddles* Nope! Not gonna forget about you. Nu-uh. I won't let you go that easy!