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  1. You know, in the RTP icons for VX Ace, there's these set of eight color/hue buttons/badges/whatever (not sure what these actually are to be honest), each of them encircled by a gold ring. When looked at in a certain way, they look a bit like paint/makeup palettes (i.e. eyeshadow or lipcolor).
    Nothing really important, just a thought train.

    1. kurin

      kurin

      well no one ever said makeup CAN'T give you stat boosts 👀👀👀

    2. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      True, very true, lolz

  2. Hey! I just implemented Mode7 and guess what?

    It works. lolz

    1. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      Something actually worked out for you? 😮 I am glad. :3

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

    2. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Yeah; just not sure how well it'll work going forward. For now though, I can move to other things.

  3. Anyone ever play the LoZlike game on Mega Drive called Ragnacenty, or in NA, Crusaders of Centy?

    It's really good, I find.

    1. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      I know of 'Crusaders of Centy', but I don't think I have played it, or at least not that much. I never really got in to many megadrive/genesis games. About the only megadrive/genesis action/adventure/rpg I think ever played that much of was Byond Oasis, but that was ages ago and I can't remember too many details.

    2. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Beyond Oasis was the game that got published en mass whilst Ragnacenty had a relatively large following in Japan at the time. I watched the Gaming Historian's video on the game and remembered seeing the game one time and never getting to play it, though I wanted to.

  4. Yeah; I'm a novice at RGSS.

    I admit it. I've admitted it before.

    But bashing my creativity over it is one really quick and sure way to enrage me.
    Sure, I could just write a gamebook using Quest. Probably would be quicker. Maybe I should of done that first, but I did not.

    I'll never be like one of those top-of-the-line devs, and I truly don't give a damn. I care more about making something worthwhile, something potentially relatable, and thus, from time to time, I ask for aid when I can't wrap my head around something. I'll admit that I ask when I'm at my wits' end maybe far too often, but I can't control when that happens either...


    I always do what I can for others as I am able. I always thought that to be more than enough in any aspect. Maybe it is, for a society not focused on what the government and MSM says...who knows.

    I know one thing for certain.
    My ineptitude probably cost me a lot.......

  5. So, yeah...
    This is an issue...

  6. You know how in Looseleaf, there's height differences between the two sprite types?

    That's really stupid. Makes me wanna shrink the taller one.....lolz

    What were you thinking, Mack?

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      @Kayzee Or to pixel-modify one set to have a certain look (it is not easy to give/take boobs)...

    2. UncannyBoots

      UncannyBoots

      I've had those issue more than a few times. At this point I'm just completely designing my own clothes/body types for my characters (I have some very muscular characters in my game...) while keeping the looseleaf base but it is a lot of work so I wish there were male and female variations of clothing and body types in the default generator.

      Btw, do you two use Game Character Hub or the old online generator? I haven't been able to find the latter since geocities was taken down, is it still up? GCH is better regardless but I still miss the old online looseleaf generator for nostalgia reasons lol

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      The old looseleaf generator is somewhere, likely archived. I've used it before.

      GCH is far more stable.

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  7. Ignore the spoiler. In another project where I had copied several scripts from Ramsey over (mainly to keep from being completely depressed), I found that one of those scripts had odd anomalies in that I had (long ago) tried to implement something, and it didn't work as intended. So, I decided to disable that, and that was it, or so I thought...

    Bubblewand, I love your Rename Anything script, but because renaming elements isn't possible, and it was easy to leave certain parts without defined functions, it completely BORKED SAVING GAME PROGRESS. GRRR... Sorry, @Kayzee, dearest love...

    tl;dfr Saving FIXED.

     

    Spoiler

    So, because Ramsey is no longer able to save game progress, looks like that's yet another failed project...

    I'm past the 'DAMMIT!!' stage already. Looks like this is goodbye, Ramsey. If I have to deal with anymore failures, I'll be saying goodbye to gamedev, and maybe everything else.

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Zipping and reuploading since the previous project version is way dated.

    2. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      Oh! You managed to find the problem yourself? Well I will take a look anyway.

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      By COMPLETE COINCIDENCE... Sweet Mercy...

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  8. I said that I would need new hardware soon just the other day...
     

    Soon is no more; I need new hardware...


    NOW!!!!!!!!



    No, I'm not being dramatic; I am typing all this by using the mouse because I NO LONGER HAVE A WORKING KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
    ENOUGH WITH ALL THE ANTI-KARMA!! QUIT CHEATING ME DAMMIT!!

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    2. roninator2

      roninator2

      yes, I prefer the standard 104 key type keyboard. My most expensive one is $60 CAD. Has issues typing. if you don't press the keys firmly then it missed keys. Another is light so it slides around on my glass desk. So I keep getting new ones to find the best fit. Trouble is that makes it expensive.

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Okay, @roninator2. Let us discuss this elsewhere. 

    4. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      You know something that makes me feel kinda guilty? I just got a new laptop keyboard the other day because my currant one has some problems (some keys are sticky and don't work right half the time, and the down arrow key is entirely missing). Though the jokes on me because I need to take apart my laptop to install it and I forgot that I have no idea where any of my screwdrivers are. >w<

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  9. I know I'm going to need new hardware very soon, and right now, I've no means to procure such unless I go online. I haven't the means to do that either.

    So, this is me asking for assistance in that regard.

    I have to get a debit card I can use as an anonymous payment form, since the requirement of an ID is both immoral and not something I can supply anyway. If I can do that, I can actually do stuff like actually use itch.io as a platform for extra money (Ramsey will still be free but mayhaps I could sell asset packs and/or DLC for a small fee).

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Okay, I speak of reloadable debit cards and yes there are some that don't require any form of identification to use.

      Of course, those come with fees and some even have usage/lack-of-usage fees, but I'm trying to get somewhere with this...

      If I had my own debit card, I could do a lot more...since physical currency is soon to go the way of the dodo...

    2. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      People have been saying cash is going away for untold decades, and yet it never does. Nor will it any time soon I bet. Credit/debit cards can be useful for many things, but they also are part of this a being complicated system that sometimes just doesn't work. The utility of being able to just actually have physical money that you can just physically hand people without all the hassle of dealing with that system is too much for people to just get rid of.

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      We agree on that, though, I can't hand physical currency to Steam, now can I?
      (okay yes, there are Steam Wallet Cards but I can't hand a physical $20 bill through my damn monitor LMAO)

      If I wanna buy something off of BLAMAZON, physical currency is a no-go, same with eBarf, and so on.

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  10. I'm doing my best.
    I have too much on my shoulders.
    I'm probably too kind for my own good.
    I love my dog but he's so needy...
    I deal with unrealistic expectations daily.
    I have no one to talk to.
    I have no allies.
    I am alone here.
    Online, people may care, but once I go offline, yeah, there's not much comfort there at all...
    I know I care, and care too much.
    Is it too much to ask that someone else shoulder some of this crap?

    1. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      *snuggles*

    2. PhoenixSoul
    3. Rikifive

      Rikifive

      Real life tends to suk, yeah. I know something about it...

  11. I don't quite get the hubbub over April 12; Ostara was last month.

    Anyway, I really hope to have v.0.2 out in the nearer future, but I have so much that is stressing me out, that my creative energy is almost non-existent, and that is not helping, at all. It also doesn't help that people are calling me a lot of hateful things, such as 'conspiracy theorist' or 'lazy (add hateful vulgarity here)', or '#CoViDiOt', or what-the-f*ck-ever.

    I know, sticks and stones, right? Yeah, well, whomever coined that phrase, I oughtta slap them.

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      I believe in music, mostly.

    2. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      Music is interesting isn't it? It's like a whole different world of expression and emotion. No matter how bad things get, music is always music. One can hum a little tune and get caught up in it in a way that just makes everything else not matter for a little while.

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Uh, ring around the rosie, hopscotch, Monopoly, red light, green light, GI Joes and Barbies...
      ♫Hide and seek, kick the can, cowboys and indians, wiffle ball, paperpal, hacky sack and hangman!♫

      ♫Do you wanna play...with me?♫

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  12. Cannabis brownie?
    Don't mind if I do...

    (FoUr HoUrS lAtEr)
    ...I took too much; I wasn't told how potent it was! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    tl;dr
    I'm still buzzed from that brownie, and let this be a lesson to everyone wanting to try it. TAKE SMALL BITES. #LessonLearned

    1. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      Well... Yeah. That is what pro bono means. But I donno I have found a lot of free podcast-like content, and honestly if it weren't free I wouldn't bother with it.

    2. Animebryan

      Animebryan

      You do know people upload podcasts on YouTube, right? Which is free.

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Well, yes, of course I know that.
      I was talking about the past, how that was, and it still remains true that if you wanted to put a few hundred songs on your iPod via iTunes, it would cost you a few hundred bucks.

      Anyway....yeah. I'm alright now.

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  13. I'm still having issues with Always, Sometimes Monsters tileset.

    I dunno what to do at this point, and I'm so spread thin that any creative energy I get is wasted the moment I try to do anything with my current project.

    I'm a wreck. I feel the pangs of angst, fear and loathing, and I am sick of the garbage. Just, take me home...I don't wanna be here anymore...

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    2. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Since I had to manually set that data (and for some tiles I actually wasn't sure at first how to set the data because I wasn't even sure what the fuck I was looking at lolz), I knew there would be mistakes made aplenty...

      But yeah; it does not show that graphic everywhere; if it did, that would of actually been quite helpful.

    3. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      It's probobly a good idea to actually start making maps using the tiles first to see how they fit together and setting the tile's data based on that. Even so, remember it's your tileset data used for your game, so it's not really a mistake if your tileset data ends up being very different from the one in the original game or you use tiles in different ways. I don' think you really have to spend a lot of time guessing what a tile is for if you have no clue, just use it as whatever you want to use it as.

    4. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Quote

      ...I don't think you really have to spend a lot of time guessing what a tile is for if you have no clue, just use it as whatever you want to use it as.

      I agree, but one issue I have is that if I can't even guess at what it could possibly be, making up what it is in my mind is not something I find comfortable doing. I mean, I'm not looking at inkblots here, lolz
       

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      It's probably a good idea to actually start making maps using the tiles first to see how they fit together...

      Actually, that's what I usually do. Though, there are times when I'd rather get the underlying data done first, and that is usually the case when I have a lot of data to sort through (i.e. this tileset).
       

      Quote

      ...Even so, remember it's your tileset data used for your game, so it's not really a mistake if your tileset data ends up being very different from the one in the original game or you use tiles in different ways...

      I haven't played the source game, so I don't even know if the tilesets are arranged in remotely the same manner or not. That said, I'd presume they're very likely to not be. I also don't even know if the source game uses VX Ace as the engine base, or if it's some other engine.

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  14. Well, I accomplished a small thing today; I finished off the button icons so now when one chooses to have the button presses represented by their preference, it will actually look the part.

    Yes, some of the button icons are edits/direct grabs from Avery's stash, but I made the PSX face and dpad icons as well as the XBOX dpad icons myself. The dpad press color is the same as Ramsey's preferred lipstick hue.

  15. I'm glad I was able to grab the expanded Icon set as made by Avery and heavily edited by NPC, before this happened to it...

    If anyone was hoping to grab these, sorry...
    (be more than willing to share because said artist's ToU expired the moment they went inactive - Rules of Fair Use, page 117)

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    2. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      *pats your head* There, there... We are all a mess. :3

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

       def discussion_kill_net
      #(Indeed...I inherited a mess when I was imprisoned in mortal flesh...)
       end

       

    4. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      Honestly it sounds to me like you had inherited a mess even before that. In some ways existence it's self is a huge mess. But messes can be fun sometimes too!

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  16. I probably have way too many cameos in my game, but it's an excuse to allow myself to flow more creatively, once the energy returns...

    As for project progress, v.0.2 is going to have all the cutscenes evented instead of being one large wall of text. Of course, there's still much to do as far as art edits are concerned (will likely split ASM into an outdoor and an indoor tile set so I have room for adding decor that I would want for both sets), and of course, still waiting on any progress update of any kind on that one thing...

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Maybe you should run the joke idea by me...

    2. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      I don't really have a joke idea, I just thought "Hey, she said ASM, that's like Assembly Language! I should make a joke about it!" then I was like "Okay me, so how are you going to actually use that to make a funny joke?" and I was like ".... I got nothing!" and then I was like "Too sleepy now anyway, so just write you were too lazy to make the joke. That way people still think you are clever enough to make a joke even if you didn't!" and I agreed!

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Oh. lolz
      (Always, Sometimes Monsters)

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  17. Game Progress:
    None. I'm completely drained as far as creative drive goes, and the reasons why are numerous, but the top three are...
    COVID-19
    Burden of Taskmaster Forced onto me and I cannot adapt fast enough
    Waiting for any update on the game art that was promised
    (Well, there's a fourth that ties with the previous one and coincides with the first)
    Stay-At-Home/Lockdown Orders - I swore a #NonComplianceOath to this sort of crap a while ago (more like long ago in reference to any sort of martial law), but my hopes were that it would never trickle down this far into the sticks...looks like I was wrong; it goes in place this WEDNESDAY and I cannot wait to make it known I have no reason to comply because me being out and about is not harming anyone, PERIOD and no one can change my mind, GOT IT!?!??!!!?

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      (long list-most are offline/nonexistent forums due to how the internet is)

       

      Wishing for everyone rather than oneself, is a selfless wish.

      ...yeah...

      DuckDuckGo is good.

      I speak of the next civil war between the public and the government. It hasn't begun, but some people are already prepared for it.

      I don't have any of those 'home assistant' devices; what a load of crap.
      "Hey, Siri. Hey, Siri! Siri?" ... -_- No thank you.

    2. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      Wishing for everyone is only selfless if you yourself are not included in the wish. :P

       

      The actual public is rarely involved in 'civil wars' ya know. Civil wars are more likely fought between two different parts of the government instead. :3

    3. PhoenixSoul
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  18. I released Ramsey v.0.1.5 today.

  19. Yeah; I just saw this recently, and damn, is it amazing...

     

    1. Rikifive

      Rikifive

      looks cool indeed!

    2. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      I'd lose my shit if they made a 1/1 scale skate map of the entire Denver Metro Area with as much detail and skateable surfaces as they did for Baltimore.

      Imagine skating a combo line from Ward Road all the way to Cherry Creek... 🤣

  20. In most cases, checking against a certain something is as simple as using "!" before the thing you're looking to check.
    !Input.press?(:A)
    !$game_switches[122]
    (one can also use $game_switches[122] == false)
    !$game_player.moving?

  21. Input.press?(:A)&&Input.press?(:Z)


    Use this for multi-button press conditional branches. It works way better than the event command.

    Change .press? to .trigger? or .repeat? as needed.

    1. UncannyBoots

      UncannyBoots

      What's the difference between press and trigger? I'm guessing repeat means 2 or more consecutive presses?

    2. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      .trigger? will only look for a single press of the input. This is more useful for precise input mechanics, i.e. the Konami Code.
      .press? will look for the input being held down, whilst .repeat? is used to have the input command repeat whilst the input is held down, akin to turbo input/turbo-fire (auto-fire is a misnomer as that is actually in reference to the input being repeated without the input actually being pressed down manually).

  22. Being sick sucks. Period.
    What's worse is when Big Pharma exploits your illness and inflates costs just for you, when you don't have that kind of money upfront.

    Yeah, that's me; abused and forced to live under poverty.

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Thank you, both of you. All of you.

    2. Animebryan

      Animebryan

      Its not the Coronavirus is it?

    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      It might be COVID-19. Best I can do is fight it off.

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  23. Here's the skivvy.
    Until the demo comes to a point where I have a strong feature completion ready to be called for a full-release, certain things must be in order. I don't intend to allow changing of equipment as of yet, but if Ramsey can only have one weapon equipped rather than two as intended due to some RGSS thing I know not how to tackle, that is a serious problem! It's also why there's no saving or battles yet, well part of the reason. I actually do not have the standard damage formula quite perfected as of yet, but more on that to come in a blog post.

    tl;dr
    I'm one person. Doing basically everything short of what help I do get. Whose skills are less than ideal. Whose burdened by a lot of crap including being sick. Ya think ya could throw me a bone with some meat on it, eh!?
    (last bit not intended to be taken too seriously but even still I'm doing the best I can) 

    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Yeah, I know, love. Just making sure you knew that it was an RGSS issue, not just because the Dual Wield flag was not set (many characters have this set as is). My skills with Ruby/RGSS are not that great either; I learned quite a bit from dearest love @Kayzee here, as well as a few others, @Rikifive, @Seriel, to name a couple, but I'm still quite the novice.

    2. Kayzee

      Kayzee

      Wow, two hands? Don't wanna by cynical or anything, but that's actually more then I expected. XD

    3. Rikifive

      Rikifive

      I know, right? :D Not to sound mean either, but considering how active this community is and stuff, I also expected less. :P Games often don't receive any attention.


      And here I am, not even being close to demo. 👌

      I'm burdened with my job and it successfully wrecks everything. ;-;

       

      ... speaking of job, gotta go. ;-;

       

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    1. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      It's not going to be a long demo, though I surmise you've already played it so...
      (more to come though)

    2. AutumnAbsinthe
    3. PhoenixSoul

      PhoenixSoul

      Actually, it's good that you might have a look.

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