Dylanrockin

So, a little update as to what's going on. There's some important news, in regards to the manga adaptation of my game that I was going to bring up, around summer, and I may end up making a separate thread for it. But, just to let everyone know - this summer I will be finishing up the first volume of the Symphonic Horizon manga, and for those of you who don't know: yes, there is an actual Manga of my game, made by a professional manga artist. It's costed me several thousand dollars to work out, and has been an expensive project, on top of my game as well, but this Summer, towards August or so, is when we will begin printing copies of the manga for your viewing pleasure. At a cost, however. Unlike my game, the manga will have to be purchased. It's just how things fly in the world of fan-doujins, as opposed to fan-games where if I was to make you pay to play my game I'd probably be crucified by a horde of angry people. However, the manga will only be in limited print, so when the time comes I will announce the arrival of it. For now, there will be a 7 page preview of the first 7 pages of the manga for viewers to read, in about a month or so. Here is a 3 page example of what is to come: Also, the finalized, and fully colored version of Falset Neohart's God Form: As a general side note, because I sometimes get questions about a potential sequel, I do have one in mind, but it will be manga exclusive. I feel that I would want to take that route, because as much as I enjoy making a game about Pokemon, technology and my current knowledge on game development wouldn't be enough for me to create a sequel in my ideal image. That and for as much as I love programming and making games... all the errors, bug checking, and whatnot gets really old after awhile. But, the manga for the 2nd entry in the series won't be for a long time. Not until the first entry in the series is completed. But, as a final word, I also wanted to pursue a career in game development and manga authoring with my manga artist/friend/partner, later down the line and maybe someday create the 2nd game. But, that would have to based on my mood and who would like to participate in helping me design the sprites, tiles, etc.

Also, here is a little update. Since I haven't done much in the way of showing new artwork, as of late, since my artist and I have been on vacation and taking a break and whatnot, here is a new design for an already introduced character. This is Falset Neohart's God Form. In this form his hair changes from black to a silvery-white color, and gains the Arc Stone Halo behind him. His aura also changes from a smooth, black and purple color to a vibrant and multi-colored silver. His clothes become more torn and change based on his transformation. He no longer sees the need to use Pokemon, as he himself now possesses the powers of a Pokemon. With that said, in this form, he is the only non-Pokemon that you fight in the game. Normally he can create Pokemon, by using the dark aura around him. Contrary to what you see in this, Falset does not actually use Pokemon in his God Form. This is the only instance in the game where you fight an actual person, even though he isn't really a "person" in the fundamental sense of the word. He is a dark spirit created by the culmination of mankind's sins over countless eons. His goal is to impart his own sense of "justice" down upon humans, seeing them as nothing more than sinners who taint the world of Pokemon. He sees human nature as sinful, especially in regards to how he sees humans using Pokemon to act out their conflict, war and resolve for their own selfish desires of pride and order. How he attains this "God-like Form" is by absorbing the power of the Arc Stone into his being, granting him the power of Pokemon. He views the usage of Pokemon by humans to be disgraceful, and that the world would be much better if he served as it's God while exterminating all human beings, while watching over the Pokemon live out his ideal "heaven and paradise". He does use Pokemon, but only by creating them out of his dark energy. Seeing as though this is hypocritical, he views it necessary to act out his ambitions. By taking the form of man, and the unbelievable power of Pokemon, he can thus take upon himself mankind's sins, and the purity of untainted creatures. Most of which why he views Pokemon as pure is mostly due to how humans abuse their powers for their own selfish purposes - war, conflict, and selfish desires like pride. Falset even went to the lengths of exterminating all of the people who lived in the City of the Timeless, because Time Manipulation is one of the biggest crimes a human can have. Something that should only be used by a God, like Dialga, not meager humans. Existing, and being born is just that as a sin (in the real world, as mankind as we normally know is born out of sin.). Punishment and divine justice is what he seeks, as well as making a perfect utopia for the perfect, and pure species of Pokemon, untainted and untouched by mankind's filth. More on him will have to wait for when you all play the game. His normal form:

An estimated percentage would be around 60% completed. But, that is not taking into account play-testing or anything of the sort, however.

The whole point is for the animations to be over-the-top and long. That's what makes them so great to use and personal for the Trainers themselves. As for Vivian vs. Greninja, the reason why both of you weren't allowed to be K.O.'d was because of story reasons. Admittedly, the first time you'd see the message is more than enough. However, the whole point of that fight is the emotions between Vivian and Allan at that point in the game. Again, plot reasons why, but it's an artist decision to make it that way. It's not a "traditional fight" as the way you're looking at it. It's quite commonly done in animes and certain J-RPG's to do something like this, where two people are going at it, while barely standing, but still fighting. It conveys emotion and a constant will to keep fighting. And by "nudged" are you referring to the Gen 7 Pokemon not being in the game? If so, then yes. The amount of times I keep being asked that would be enough to drive anyone mad.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!! So, to celebrate the new year, I decided to finally stop procrastinating and upload the new battle mechanics and whatnot. However, I cut out half of the material that I promised to show, mostly because I want some of what I talked about to be more of a surprise for people, the first time they play the game. So, the video is about 15 minutes long. However, this will be the last, ever "Game Mechanics Update" that I will do.

Excellent! I shall add you to the proposed roster! Also, as a general side note for everyone, I added an additional clause to the rules, where the art has to be made by you, specifically. Basically what I mean is that you can't have someone else draw the artwork for you, because that is what we like to refer to as "cheating" and "dishonesty". In short, basically do the work yourself and you should be good ;D

Symphonic Horizon: Draw my OC/Characters Contest! (WIP Banner, sue me) On February 20th, 2017 I will be hosting a "Draw my OC/Characters" contest on my deviantART Group Page, and the Reborn Forums, with PRIZES I mainly wanted to do this out of fun, really, and so that way I can get my readers and fans involved with the game. Also, so that way I can give out some interesting prizes, and whatnot to those who participated. Details on prizes and whatnot are below. During February I will receive a huge amount of money from my family and taxes. As for the contest itself - the contest is simple, basically you just draw the characters that I list, and it's judged based on: originality, completedness anatomy/skills, canonocity (i.e. is it close to their canon designs and descriptions?) and composition. I don't accept designs that do not even closely resemble the characters, or if they are not in clothing that was made for my game. So, you can draw them in their costumes or whatever, but it has to be those ones, specifically. Also, you can draw ANY of the characters from my game, and when the time comes I will show all the available characters for you to choose from. There will be cash prizes or if the person doesn't want cash and they want something obtainable within that range I can do that to. The prizes will be based on the grading criteria above and what the entrants can win are these prizes below: (Colors are Christmas themed, because I'm too lazy to change them back.) $150 for First Place and a cameo placement anywhere in the game, whether it be battle or whatever. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $100 dollars for Second Place and a cameo placement (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $50 dollars for Third Place and a cameo placement. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) Anything below will have a cameo placement somewhere in the game of their choosing. Rules Has to be their designs and nothing that you would attribute to them. So, basically, they have to look like how they normally do. Putting them in costumes is allowed, but it has to be the themed costumes that are currently in the game, i.e. Tales Costumes, Beach Costumes, Halloween, Christmas, and various other costumes that they wear in the game. Only 1 submission is allowed. You can have as many characters in the artwork as you want, so it doesn't have to be just 1 character in the scene. You are free to use any style you wish. You can even do pixel art if you really want to. That'd be... pretty unique and awesome to see actually. You can give them things in their hands like Poke Balls, or whatever. Even swords for shits and giggles XD No gore, blood or anything really profound and disgusting. Don't have another person create the art for you. I want YOU to make the art and not someone make it for you. Have fun with it~! How to enter: Just leave a comment down below and I'll add you to the roster of people entered. After commenting, and when the start date arrives, you can feel free to edit your original post, or comment again with your artwork included. If you don't wish to have other people view your work, you are free to message me, and I, myself, and the other judges will look at it from there. Start date and Deadline: Start date is February 20th, 2017 Deadline is March 10th, so you have plenty of time to do your work. Final Judging time is March 11th A link to the characters available for this particular contest can be found on my deviantART's Group's page, where they are stored as reference. You can view any and all artwork of my characters, to use as reference, in-case you all don't want to sift through my forum post, about my game to find the artwork. http://symphonic-horizon.deviantart.com/ http://symphonic-horizon.deviantart.com/gallery/53418367/Featured Final notes: If this becomes really well regarded the first time around, I may end up doing this again, with bigger prizes available for people who participate in the contest. Current Entries Zumi Arkiel Kalnuza ArryX-Kulon liliebiehlina3siste The-Elusive-Caravan Dazed-Flame RBRN-Nova Tlozyp 00Nowhereman ollieovo

So, as of late I spent 5-6 days working on a new pause menu, with... a lot of bad practices, and it ended up eventually causing the game to lag way too much, because I didn't know it could cause that to happen. So, I had to revert to an older version of it and then thinking that I could've done this better and possibly a bit more if I knew a few extra short-cuts with Ruby. What's sad is that I'm a programming Major and for whatever reason I couldn't get that to work right o.o It's just been really annoying, given that I worked for hours, meticulously to make sure that the menu would work flawlessly, and then it ends up getting botched in the end. Whatever.

Yup, Merry Late Christmas, even though I didn't celebrate for many depressing reasons that I don't want to get into. And I can't promise that my game won't get the Prism treatment or that my posting on YouTube will lead lawyers to this site. I only promise on doing my part in showing people a game and the huge amount of improvements and additions that I've added to it. Side note: I recently watched Shin Godzilla, and it was a great way to spend a day off from development, since I got really pissed off while programming and needed a small breather.

This pause menu isn't even finished yet, as I started programming in new bells and whistles to it, like changing the background's opacity color, to have certain icons on the screen reflect. It's going to be one of the best menu's I've ever made ;D However, it has made me write about 2000+ more lines of code for it, so that's... fun... Also, I wanted to announce, well... Merry Late Christmas and whatnot XD I have nothing really to show, except that on New Year's I will be showing off a Mega Update video. No, it has nothing to do with Mega Evolved Pokemon, but the amount of content that I will be showing will be around... 30-35 minutes worth. Also, it will be the last, ever "game mechanics/content additions" update that I will show. Partly because I want the rest of the game and it's features to be a surprise. However, certain videos like me just showing off whatever, like new abilities and stuff is fine. But, new mechanics will not be shown off after this video is finished. I'm currently just waiting to finish up the new pause screen, which is way more tedious and time consuming than one might think XD Also, I will be taking a small break, from game development, for about a week or so. Mostly because this pause menu has... well... killed me. It's literally killed me. So, after I post the video, it's break time! And, I will be showing off 2 new characters for my game as well, one of which was put into the game, for lols, and the other one is for story reasons.

So, ya'll ready for some cool shiz?! Well, here's the new menu! It's still a work in progress, but I feel that it's coming along quite swimmingly ;D As you can see, the Focus Meter indicates what Focus Level you're currently at, as well as the progress to full. The menu has been stylized to be more Tales-esque. Mostly Tales of Xillia, which is what the background and set-up resembles. The character boxes have been stylized as well. Also, I'm trying to add in functionality for a scroll bar, but that shiz is hard AF! But, I'm hoping that at some point or another I will be able to fully refine this menu.

SO, a little update and whatnot. I'm going to be making a secondary thread for this, but I just wanted to make a small announcement here, before I end up doing this. On February 20th, 2017 I will be hosting a "Draw my OC/Characters" contest on my deviantART Group Page, and the Reborn Forums, with PRIZES I mainly wanted to do this out of fun, really, and so that way I can get my readers and fans involved with the game. Also, so that way I can give out some interesting prizes, and whatnot to those who participated. Details on prizes and whatnot are below. During February I will receive a huge amount of money from my family and taxes. As for the contest itself - the contest is simple, basically you just draw the characters that I list, and it's judged based on: originality, completedness anatomy/skills, canonocity (i.e. is it close to their canon designs and descriptions?) and composition. I don't accept designs that do not even closely resemble the characters, or if they are not in clothing that was made for my game. So, you can draw them in their costumes or whatever, but it has to be those ones, specifically. Also, you can draw ANY of the characters from my game, and when the time comes I will show all the available characters for you to choose from. There will be cash prizes or if the person doesn't want cash and they want something obtainable within that range I can do that to. The prizes will be based on the grading criteria above and what the entrants can win are these prizes below: $150 for First Place and a cameo placement anywhere in the game, whether it be battle or whatever. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $100 dollars for Second Place and a cameo placement (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) $50 dollars for Third Place and a cameo placement. (Or something of equal value, like dA points, etc) Anything below will have a cameo placement somewhere in the game of their choosing. I plan on starting this event in late February, and by then the prizes and methods to how this will work will be more refined. But, I mostly wanted to do this for fun, and to do something different. This is the first time I've ever done something like this, and if people have any ideas for potential prizes, let me know Also, here is the past livestream of progress that I did for my game: Some recent changes that I've now started working on is programming in the new menu and finally finishing the Ability Matrix. Albeit I have to start COMPLETELY over, since it uses old methods and programming techniques that are now outdated. So, this whole Christmas Break will be nothing but progress, on the programming side of things, and I can finally sleep easy, knowing that I finished the damn thing XD And screenshots of the Frost Sanctuary so far involve making use of EVERY characters' ability. Hiro's time reversion, Vivian's Shadow Sneak Teleportation, Krista's Super Sensing, and Marissa's Jumping. So, this Sanctuary will be where the game's puzzles become decently hard, and you'll have to think more. Also, this Sanctuary is stupid long.

Oh, hey, it's been a minute since I last said something, but here are the finished redesigns for the Masked Trainers. They look like power rangers, which... is not what I was going for, but it's no biggie. Basically, instead of wearing robes they now wear armor, mostly because it makes them like knights from another dimension. Which I feel is more appropriate than Organizaiton XIII rip-offs, because... who hasn't done that already, am I right? XD Also, the art style for this definitely makes them look super imposing Also, the halos aren't exactly accurate, based on the specific Masked Trainer, but it doesn't really matter since they're just redesigns. The right halos will go on the right one. Also, as of the past 2 days I managed to event 8 scenes, all incredibly long and annoying to do, which is a considerable amount of progress in only 2 days. Not only that, but I started working on finishing the Frost Sanctuary, and areas beyond. Also, I have started working on redoing the prologue, which now allows for you to play as Mia Vance, Ariana Valeria, and Vaan Cresthart, before the moments at which they pass away. Which sets up the scene for this game! Also, because some people enjoy(?) watching my livestreams, here is the most recent one, showcasing most of my progress. Also... watching Japanese Ed Edd n' Eddy O.o