HYPERSPACE⭐REVERIE

This is HYPERSPACE REVERIE. It's an RPG Maker 2003 passion project about a group of evil girls facing magical beasts, space empires and threats to the whole galaxy, mostly for their own benefit. You will be tasked with guiding Jester, a Wizard who is having a really bad day and is going to kill her boss about it, and who will soon meet Captain the Starborne and Fiend the Demon. The three of them will band together, and go on a fun adventure full of killing and looting and bickering with each other.

The game will have a big focus on modernizing the Active Time Battle system used in games like Chrono Trigger and many Final Fantasy games such as FF7, bringing many new features exploring just how deep and engaging the system can be, as well as changing and bringing new features to the classic RPG formula as a whole, such as getting rid of level and experience progression entirely in exchange for more unique progression methods, and the introduction of out of battle actions such as jumping for more engaging ways to interact with the world and enemies, as well as explore and solve puzzles.

The game is currently on very early development and lacks any major visuals, other than a few early sprites, so there isn't much to show just yet, but I hope that I can use this blog to keep you all informed on my thoughts and plans and to keep myself motivated to keep working!

The game is being developed entirely by @r0zeclawz, and if you want to support this project consider subscribing to my Patreon or supporting me on Ko-fi!

Okay that's all for now, here's some jesters for you

Testing out a new feature from the rm2k3 maniacs patch to create dynamic terrain, in order to create secret paths and maps that change over time

Here's some concept art for Mimi. She's a mimic who's very bad at her job, so offers her services to the party after trying and failing to eat them.

She will be providing the player with saving, item storage, transportation, gossip, and potentially more in exchange for having the players expand her business by placing her magic chests all over the world, which she can travel between and eventually take you with her.

Also can you still be the silly hopper in the game

It's going well, though very slowly! Thank you for asking, we probably should be using this blog more often for updates, though there hasn't been too much that's all that exciting to see, we've been focusing on releasing more in-depth devlogs in our Patreon if you're curious.

Currently the game is approaching a sort of playable state as we get close to getting done with the first area, it's possible that once things look more done we might be releasing the first alpha version soon to gauge how people feel about it, probably something really barebones with only the combat encounters in the map, and only for the Patreon members at first, thought there'll certainly be a public release after we get our patron's opinions and tweak things. We've been thinking about working on a little combat only mode as well where you just fight waves of enemies without any exploration and get different items, in order to develop the combat system and adjust difficulty and such based on what people think, that would really help with planning out future areas and such I believe.

WARNING: JESTER CAN NOW FINALLY MOVE IN ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS

Hyperspace's first Killable Things are finally here. Meet Blubun and Klomp!

These two species have a symbiotic relatioship and almost always come paired up with each other. Will you try to defeat Blubun first, despite Klomp's constant barrage of healing and defensive buffs? Or will you try and nuke down Klomp's hard carapace with magic first? Can you even bring yourself to hurt them at all? Tune in to find out once the demo is released...

Oooh thats really cool! I considered a skill tree but it would be very hard to implement in RM2K3, though I still might introduce a similar more simplified mechanic, I want characters to be able to learn any spell and use any equipment so you can build them however you want but I think they should have some special unique abilities that you can unlock through a rank system I'm working on, no details yet but you would rank up through finding special items during exploration and such.

There's a reason why I'm developing this game in RPG Maker 2003 instead of a more modern system! I have a huge love in my heart for old silly RPG Maker games in general, Space Funeral being my favorite, and I'm definitely inspired by the kind of vibe and humor that comes from those types of projects, though I'd say Hyperspace will be more unique in the sense that I'm going to put a huge focus on solid, fun gameplay as opposed to a lot of old RPGM games that mostly focus on making a weird, unique experience and end up having boring combat or just none at all (which is usually preferable, like could you imagine Yume Nikki having random encounters), and the plot itself is going to be more inspired by things like Final Fantasy and very over the top anime like Gurren Lagann, though also trying to be as whimsy and silly as possible.