Dylanrockin

So, to those of you who've been keeping up with my posts, for the past while, you'll know that I've been essentially my aunts slave and shiz. Well, I no longer have to owe her ANYTHING! That's right, I'm free, I'm back in school now, and I'm not taking anymore crap from her! I no longer have to work 3 jobs, 90 hour weeks, and be dead tired every day! And you want to know what else happened. ... My aunt lied to me. She told me that if I did everything she asked of me, which was: Get a job again (I did her 3 better), get a car (not like I had a choice about that one) and start paying for it so that I could have her co-sign for the last of my college loans... I did EVERYTHING she asked of me, and decided that she did not want to co-sign for me, after I worked my ass off for her, and did everything she asked of me and then some. She lied to me, and did not hold up her end of the bargain, and now I'm figuring out who can co-sign for my college loan, and thankfully I have a solution. On a much more pleasant note, here is the finished map:

Heyo, it's been a few days since I last updated, but, here is a preview of an upcoming map which will lead to the soon to be Frost Sanctuary! Meowth, dat's right, a new Sanctuary to explore, along with the Stone Sanctuary, which takes part in a mine! This map that I'm going to show off is called the Eclipse Mountain Range, and is a really large area that leads into Eclipse Mountain and the next sanctuary of the game.

All of the upcoming maps are all snow related, so you've got that to look forward to, along with one other super awesome thing

SO: Update on the map I just posted earlier. This is now the finished version of the Allison Snowdrift! What you can barely make out at the bottom of the map is a broken bridge. There are quite a few of these throughout the game, but, this one in particular cannot be crossed, unless you have Krista's Surf, or... if you use the Temporal Crystal at the northern part of the map to revert the bridge back to when it wasn't broken, thus creating a shortcut! There are many instances where Hiro's Time Manipulation can be used in the overworld to reveal hidden areas, as well as creating paths for you to navigate; whether it be a shortcut, or if it's to progress the game. Also, there are sliding puzzles, which... aren't that hard, since this is a non-Sanctuary location, so these tend to be quite trivial and easy. But, there are 2 of them, so... take that XD

Well, the difference between my game and Uranium is that Uranium lags even on my PC which is pretty powerful. And the game lags because it wasn't mapped correctly, and every single map is connected and does not use snap edges to help reduce lag. Which, is the main contributor to lag in these kinds of games. So, in short: You should be able to handle my game, no problem. Unless I end up not compressing the game correctly.

Well, I guess it depends on how my mood is, during those streams. Because, I definitely cannot stand the sound of my voice, as well as some of the completely stupid rants that I go off on, sometimes. Anyways, update! New maps, and super cool news! So, yesterday I finished yet another map, and this one is... probably one of my favorites, so far. 1. Because it has you utilizing several of the characters overworld abilities to navigate the terrain to solve some very minor puzzles. 2. I actually like how the map transitions to the snowy parts of the Northern Continent, as well as the general level of exploration that can be had in this map. 3. Lastly, this map dynamically changes it's weather, once you cross a certain point, to indicate that the upcoming area is heavily snow related. It works very similarly to the Desert Route from Ruby and Sapphire, where you cross a certain point and the sandstorm kicks in, and then when you cross another point, it stops. But, here it is: The Renma Hills! Next up is a work in progress, for the area that comes after. This map is called: The Allison Snowdrift, and currently I am still working on it. But, what this map will feature is more of what you saw in the Renma Hills map, except this time with Ice Sliding and use of character overworld abilities. Also, there are new plants that are exclusive to this climate, which are referred to as Snowbelles. They are white flowers that bud in cold regions of Lumia. <---------- This isn't even the entire map...

You watched my stream archives? Wow, and you even managed to tolerate them too; color me impressed. Tbh, I dislike a lot of those stream archives to the point that I was contemplating deleting all 100 or so of them.

As with the update that I made a couple days ago, here is yet another character that will be featured later on in the game. This character's name is Dr. Richter Dezel. A scientist who belongs to the Dark Fangs and was the sole reason why the Monochroma family no longer exists, aside from Hiro and Allan being the last remaining family members. He might look like a normal, average, everyday doctor. But what you don't see is his extremely manic and deranged personality that is revolved around most of his experiments. He is a genius when it comes to genetic manipulation, as well as creating artificial Pokemon. His main line of work is his attempts at trying to create artificial Arc Stone fragments from living Pokemon. More info on this character will not be revealed since what I could say ends up being spoilers anyways, so... here ya have his art!

A good question. But, as you can see there are quite a few spoiler tags being used now SO, new character announced, and she is kawaii A.F.!

Yo shiggy-diggy, what's up my sizzles?! I've got a new update for y'all! It's called new artwork and shiz! To those of you who don't care about spoilers, and clicked the spoiler tag, this is Reynard Maxwell. If you've read the post above, then you already know who this person is, but just in case you didn't read it, and are too lazy to scroll, I'll copy it here for you:

Nope, there be no censorship in my game. That is, in fact, a cigarette that he smokes. And speaking of artwork, I have one piece of artwork that is going to be quite humorous XD

So, quick update: I've updated EVERY scene in the game with the new animations and everything, along with a total revision of all the lines and cleaned up any and all errors that there might've been in the script, thus far. Now that I've completed that little... annoyance. I've begun working again on the character abilities, this one in particular that I've been working on is a bit interesting. It's a "transformation" like ability, for Krista and Allan that they get during the course of the game. More on it when the time comes. But, it is not Verdant Transformation, but exclusive forms that are tailored towards their play-style. Also, work in progress for the Next Dimension Tournament. The tournament arena that you see below is actually based on the type of arena that you would see in anime's like: Dragon Ball or Yu Yu Hakusho; among others that I can't remember off the top of my head. But, right now it is still a work in progress on the tiles and whatnot, as I do have many plans for it's improvements. So far, this is what I have, for the arena. It is... massive.

Update and shiz! New character is going to be unveiled, once again. This time, it's another one of the villains. Well... "villain," I should say. I think that I might've accidentally made a character look too attractive, tbh. But, the character that I will be showcasing, who still has a lineart and will be colored and cel-shaded later, is Reynold Maxwell. If you want to read more information about this character, then click the spoiler below, otherwise view at your own discretion. If this was an officially licensed Game Freak game, you can guarantee that his cigarette would've been edited out XD And yes, that is a cigarette in his mouth.

The reason why the tiles look like they're borderless is because of the screen being as zoomed out as it is, currently in the screenshot. Those tiles were made by the same creator, and I can guarantee you that they do have borders. The only one without a border is the circle, and that can easily be adjusted. I actually don't mind doing progress reports, as I can post everything that I want to say in as much detail as possible. But, there are people who don't like it being detailed and it being too long, or having way too much information in it. Which, again is fine. And as I already made apparent in the past: I don't do episodic games, mostly because: The story telling structure of the game does not hearken itself to an episodic narrative, and having it be episodic would be incredibly jarring, and unnecessary. I'm going for authenticity and not something against it. I'm also the kind of person who wants to have everything in one big game, as opposed to 20 different games. Lastly, and this is just because of something I've noticed on Pokecommunity that really made me question the whole episodic thing: People using the term "Episodic" incorrectly, and using it as a click-baity attention grabber, used by amateur developers who have no understanding of what the term "Episodic" even means. That said, rant about Pokecommunity aside. I understand your liking towards an episodic game, but for me, it would seem unnatural, poorly paced against my game's current plot structure and narrative. It might make things easier on me, but I've already committed myself to making things harder for myself as it stands, already. Lastly: Video.

Update: Where has Dylan been? I've been busy with work, and the fact that I'm going back to school next month, so there's that. Also, I've been doing a lot of monotonous work in regards to some new features with the game, and other stuff. Also, I've been working on the Next Dimension, which is coming up very soon, here: Take note, it's a work in progress, as it's been... quite hard with all the new tiles that have been added in. Also, I've been debating in my head... Should I continue posting content about my game, here? Because I know some people hate the way that I post content to the thread, like artwork and whatever. Which is fine, but... if people really don't want to see the artwork or all the hard work that was put into that stuff, then should I really even have a thread at all? I don't know. I say that mostly because people don't want to see any spoilers, which is understandable. But, artwork was made for public viewing and to criticize.

The game has not been released and won't be released for a good long while. I've taken a 2 week break from working on my game, and now just started working on it, again. Also, I only really have 3 or 4 days a week that I can actually dedicate a good amount of my time to working on my game, because of all the jobs I have to work.