Dylanrockin

So, I've got a bit of a small update. As of last night I finished quite a significant amount of eventing, thanks to people chatting me up in last night's live stream and keeping me sane. If any of you are interested in watching it, you can view it here: Aside from that however, I have new stuff being added into the game, which are location title cards. Basically how they work is very similar to the Tales series, except that instead of just showing some fancy text animation, this shows an anime interpretation of the town/city that you're in and generally looks a lot nicer than the generic signposts that you see coming from the top of the screen to tell you where you are. However, this is limited to only towns and cities and are only viewed upon the first visit of that area. The first, of course, is Symphonic Beach and right now it's still being worked on at the moment, but this is basically what it will look like. Also, it will look very cartoony and stylistic to add a little bit of juxtaposition to the anime style of the game. I believe that having that juxtaposition in it will help make it pop a lot more. Work in progress, but you get the general idea.

I will try to have my spriter get around to this, some time later down the line, but at the moment they're currently working on the final costume sets of the game. All I can say is that my spriter will be getting paid lots of cash-money! Also, for those of you who care, the "Draw my OC/Characters" Contest has finally begun and I've already received one submission so far today. For those of you interested, feel free to hop on over and see what all it entails, there are cash prizes and other cool stuff!

You certainly did do everything right, and for other people who read this post I will be submitting your artwork to the Groups Page. If you don't want me to add your work to my page, that's fine too, but just for the sake of archiving it for later reference and ease of judging I will be doing that. However, I won't be saying anything in regards to anyone's artwork, until the judging date has begun. So, if you show me your deviantART link and don't see me reply to it, it's because I will be saving my responses for when the time has come for it.

If you guys thought the sketch for the Dark Fang's Northern Base was cool, wait till you see this! Yes, the base does look extremely malevolent with the dark spines on the sides, but I feel it gives off the sort of visage that I intended for it to have. This base was originally a mansion that belonged to Hiro and Allan Monochroma, before their entire family of scientists were killed by the Dark Fangs and was then converted into a fortress-base. The base itself is completely innacessible, due to a Psychic and Fairy barrier that prevents any form of teleportation or movement in, unless the field generator on the nearby Volcano Island has been shut down. After eight years of construction the base became a fully functioning prison for captured Trainers and Pokemon for Richter Dezel's experiments for Artificial Arc Stone Fragments. Originally Krista Harper was a prisoner at this same facility, back when it was still partially the Monochroma's Mansion, but eventually escaped thanks to her companion. This base serves as one of the most plot crucial areas in the entire game, as it is the area in the game that answers all the questions the protagonists had thus far on their journey, while wrapping up Krista's character arc as a Planet Herald. It also serves as building character for Allan and Hiro as they seek revenge on Richter Dezel for being the one who killed their family in the first place. Hilariously enough, Reynard Maxwell, a double agent of the Dark Fangs, has a room that is designed to look like the Renma Casino, due in-part to his gambling tendencies and nature.

So, today is the day that people are now able to submit their contest entries, which means the contest has now officially started! Make sure to read the details above clearly, and go to the link provided to my deviantART Groups page for reference material.

At the bottom of the original post there is a link to my deviantART groups page where basically you can draw whoever you want from my game, but it has to meet the criteria above. Submissions begin on the 20th, and the deadline for submissions and when someone wants to start is March 10th. Everyone is free to draw as it is, now, but submissions will not count, until the 20th and on. There are tons of characters to choose from, but they have to be accurate.

Just as a reminder, that there are only 2 days left until the contest starts, so make sure you're all ready to begin!

I'd prefer never talking about Relic Castle ever again, to be honest. That place has made me furious for all the wrong reasons, especially with how toxic it became with a bunch of elitism. Also, I had a few people on there insult my artists including my manga artist, which... you don't do and hope to get away with it. But, I did mention a month or so ago that I do not do beta's and if I do it's selective and I mostly attribute that to people who I know are trustworthy and won't post it anywhere after I give it to them. And no, N is not in the game, because having characters from the Pokemon franchise being in the game would be inconsistent, so I opted into making every character that's in the game be original and from me and not from Game Freak. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Also, as an update here is a sketch of an upcoming area in the game. This is conceptual artwork of the Dark Fang Northern Base, located at the once was Monochroma Mansion, before the Dark Fangs killed the entire Monochroma family and converted it into an enormous facility. The largest Dark Fang base in the game, next to the Dark Fang Castle. I had to make concept artwork of this area, simply because asking my spriter to make tiles and describing how it looks is very hard, so this is why I had to resort to conceptual artwork for this area specifically.

I wanted to make sure so that way people don't misinterpret what I say, because lord knows there are many people like that out there. Especially my stalkers who're most likely reading my stuff now. Also, after I finish my exam on Friday, I will be getting back into working on my game more seriously, as opposed to this off and on nonsense that I've been doing lately. School, this semester, has been brutal.

I mostly wanted to confirm with my readers, just to make sure that no one would lose a gratuitous amount of respect from me, and end up nailing me to the cross for saying such blasphemous things. Mostly because there are people who can take things the wrong way, and that has happened before, so I wanted to make sure to avoid causing anything bad.

Well, the thing is - with Manga and artwork it's a much different story than video games being marketed. There was an article that I read online about why convention goers who sell prints/merch of their artwork or stuff in relation to copyrighted characters aren't given C&D's or sued, is because Nintendo/Game Freak cannot tell people who do that to stop. Because, those people aren't making a living off of 1 time only prints or merchandise and conventions. The article in question is here: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/the-law-of-anime/2013-02-15/2 And I mentioned Patreon for my manga, because I see various Japanese Pixiv artists with Patreon's all the time, especially those who do Nuzlocke comics on dA, and they haven't been warned since. Also, if you search Ebay for Pokemon doujins, you will see many of them being sold on there, especially weird shit like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-YAOI-Doujinshi-Comic-Emmet-x-Ingo-Kudari-x-Nobori-Bound-Angurametoro-/381926278147?hash=item58ec948403:g:jxIAAOSwopRYfSRC <--- is actually a thing. And this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-Black-and-White-Doujinshi-Dojinshi-Comic-N-x-Hilda-Present-for-you-/381645964352?hash=item58dbdf4440:g:nF0AAOSwSWJXQnqt

I'm glad to see a lot of people have taken an interest in this. I cannot wait to see how this all fairs, in 6 days time. Just make sure you all have your dates set!

I haven't posted anything in awhile, but that's mostly because I've been extremely ill. I'm feeling much better, now, except emotionally, given that I've been out of school for 5 whole days, and I have 2 classes that I cannot fail at all, and have no idea what's been going on in it since. Aside from that, I've started up work on my game again, finishing up events and trying out some new things, while including the Christmas and Halloween costumes into the game. Also, I wanted to ask my followers a question, before people freak out on me. Now, how would you guys feel if my Manga Artist set up a Patreon for the Manga of my game? And I say my Manga Artist and not me, because if I ended up setting one up, they'd assume all that money would go towards my game, which is in fact illegal and frowned upon. Which is not the case. The reason why I say that is because it would help with the cost of printing pages and actually binding the pages of the manga, because I don't know if any of you know this or not, but that stuff costs a miniature fortune (at least for a college grad), so we're planning using Patreon money to help cover for the costs of binding so that way I can focus on paying for the pages of the manga. I don't want a Patreon for my game, since I pay for everything myself and I'm too much of a proud bastard to accept money from fans, to help make my game. However, the manga is a different story, given how much it costs to make, and print pages, as well as get bindings for said pages. It helps her out in the long run, and the manga can be printed for a longer running. Not a cent goes to me, and all of it goes towards the manga, which... honestly... I prefer way more over the game, but that's just personal bias. And mostly because I can do whatever I want with the visual gags, and other funny stuff that I couldn't do with the game. What do you guys think, before I get chased out of Reborn by an angry mob with Shotguns?

Just as a reminder for everyone, in exactly 2 weeks from now the contest will begin! So, I'm hoping that those of you who posted your interest in participating are still looking forward to this event

So, as of the past few days I came down with Pneumonia and a high fever, thanks to who knows what, while I was working at my school's musical for the past 2 weeks. I don't know how I caught it, and I'm surprised that I actually got sick, since I haven't gotten sick in over 4-5 years now. What's worse is that I can't even get out of bed to do anything, since my body feels so weak, and fatigued, and I can't even go to school. That's a bad thing in itself, since I can't afford to miss school, given how hard my classes are. By the way, screw that musical, since it went on for way longer than it should've. It should've only gone on for 1 week, from Wed - Sunday, but no, they thought it'd be funny to run the show for 2 weeks, and exhaust everyone, while making it impossible to do homework, or relax after a hard day's work. It didn't help that a lot of people in the show were sick as well, so I probably owe my illness to them. So, in short, I won't be working on my game, much, for the next few days, until I can recover.

Well, it mostly has to do with a lot of the custom aspects of the game, music and graphics that contribute heavily to it. But the animations also play a large roll in it as well.