Blog 11

So we are working more on the story board aspect at this time trying to find out what choices you are going to make what music will be playing etc. The hard part is we know the endings...but don't quite know how to reach them... we decided to do only one story line because of shrinking time. One of the problems we have with RPG maker 2003 is that it is very limited on graphics everything. If we import a tile set we have to go through and edit what you can walk through or behind or what you cant walk on. As well as having to lower the color scheme. I found a few decent looking tile sets to use they were pretty decent but when I converted it to fit the colors for the program it just looked bad so we are trying to find an alternative to the program by experimenting with what will give us what options. If you know any free program with few limitations let me know :D it would be a great help :3 (above is the uniform inspirations for the main )

Week 8

So these past weeks I have learned how to add a new tile set to the game. A tile set is like how the ground and buildings look. By learning this my partner and I no longer have to use the defaults and improve the quality of the game. I have been working on the head shots of the characters you come in contact with. My partner figured out how to change the sprites. Sprites are like the smaller version of the character. Like the character you control in Pokemon is called a sprite.Changing the style of sprites is very similar to changing the tile set. My partner has found a program that allows you to record what your doing on the computer. (like you see in those editing videos on youtube) she has been playing around with it for about a week now. Its a free program i will get you the name of it as soon as I can :3 .

 sketch of possible uniform

Blog#5

So we have been playing around with the program (RPG MAKER 2003) and we are still trying to figure out how to use our own sprite sheet but there hasn't been much success on that. We have been making maps and events. Events are what I personally have been working on the most. There are many different events you can do like default like, change party, save point, move character, end game, etc. With the transitions to the different rooms like going into buildings etc. I am still having some troubles with having a specific character that I had  set to be in the lead characters way to prevent from entering a certain area until the story line deems fit. So my partner and I will be working on it this week.. I am not working on the ACTUAL game for the project but a test one to see what I can and cannot do on this program. The game graphics are pretty limited so its nothing really fancy but it works.

Week 7

So I know I skipped a week buuuuuuut that was due to me being super busy finishing rough character designs. I had created rough sketches of the mother, the father, the older brother, and Knox in his school uniform and his casual clothes. most of the designs have no face but..its not like that's important rite :D. Just kidding this week I'm going to fill in their faces. I have amazing news!!!! We have found a program that we can create our own sprites!!! Its called RPG Maker 95. Graphics not amazing. BUT its a program!!! the only catch is that it only works on programs like vista...BUT (again) we are lucky to have my amazing partner and her piece of ju- I mean old computer that runs on vista, its a free program and we get to design our own characters (that was our main problem with the other free RPG makers) on top of it all Paulina,my partner, is willing to learn programming if it is needed to design our game. Things are finally starting to fall into place lets just see how long that lasts.. until next week!

RPG process week 6

I am very sorry for skipping a few weeks I have been busily working on character design and UNFORTUNATELY still a program...if any of the readers have any ideas of programs that my partner and i could use please leave a comment!!!! it would be greatly appreciated.. we are looking to spend nothing more than time on this project so free programs would be AMAZING. But for the main character Knox whom is around seven or eight my reference for his hair would be Eren Jaeger from Shingeki no Kyojin. Reasion being is that because he is portrayed to be a young naive character I envision his hair to be short and choppy. His older brother on the other hand Torelle his hair style will be similar to Jean Kirstein from Shingeki no Kyojin. His role is similar to the correctional officers of the city so his hair should be shorter as well as neat so i'm taking the idea of the length of the hair from Jean.

Jean Kirstein (SNK)

Eren Jaeger (SNK)

RPG Process week 3

So my partner and I are still trying to find a DECENT program that requires little to no programming... that seems to be our biggest obstetrical is finding that program. I mean yes there are plenty of programs to us but we wish to make this game cost free. The cheapest programs are around $60. We could use the free programs but they are EXTREMELY limited. We wish to make a game where they players could choose their character and make choices along the way. So we are going to ask my partners sister to see if she has used a program similar to what we need. :D We haven't made any major advances on the plot but we are going to start writing the script/ dialog as soon as we can find a program. We are thinking that the character should see the things in his society and see nothing wrong with it because of him being so naive .

RPG Process Week 2

So my partner and I decided not to do the visual novel...so ignore the name of the blog.. We are now developing an rpg (role playing game)  which is kind of like a visual novel just you can actually control the character and make decisions. We thought that this would be more audience interactive and give them more control in witch direction the story will take them. My partner and I have decided that the story will have multiple endings dependent on the choices the player makes and the items they do or don't collect. We have decided on most of the main characters. The Parents (mom and dad as known to the character) And the elder brother. As depicted before you will be experiencing the world through the eyes of a child and you will truely see whats going on but alas your character will be naive to all that happens. but this week we have been looking at some programs to use. (kinda some luck but my computer wont run the program we are planning on using.. I forgot the name of the program but I will post it as soon as I find it :D )