OFF+

OFF+ Beta Update

Just wanted to let ya’all know that this project is still going.  

One of the obstacles we have encountered is that, sadly, one of the Elsen voice actors is unable to record their lines. As such, we are looking for a replacement.

EDIT: A replacement has been found. Thanks to everyone who auditioned!

The smoke mines of Zone 1.

I might as well show the other big maps in Zone 1. Not as big as Alma, but still neat.

Pentel:

Shachihata:

Hello everyone.

As you might have noticed, not much is happening. I even forgot about OFF’s 10th anniversary. So, here is some more information for ya’all.

For those that don’t know, OFF was made in RPG maker 2003. The original plan was to release OFF+ as a RPG Maker MV project. However, due to various reasons, this plan was scrapped. It’ll now be made in RPG Maker 2003 just as the original OFF was. This does come with many upsides. For one, Rpg Maker 2003 games run smoothly on 60 FPS on any device. There’s also a program that let’s you play RPG Maker 2003 games on mobile. (Except Iphones or Ipads. That’s probably never gonna happen. Sorry about that.)

So that change is where some delays came from. But by far most delays come from real life responsibilities getting in the way. No big surprise there.

And now for another poll. The world of OFF is comprised of many small maps, much like any other classic RPG. Some of these small maps could easily be welded together to make a bigger map. In the picture below the entrance of Zone 1 is merged with the first train station of Zone 1.

Same thing, but for Zone 2:

Now the question is: Would you like small maps to be combined into bigger maps, or should they remain as they are? Edit: Added a Strawpoll too.

So you might know that in OFF+, enemies show up on the map Earthbound-style rather than attacking out of nowhere. That means that once you leave the current area and return, all spectres on that were on the map will respawn. From what I gather, people:  

1) Like feeling like they are actually destroying spectres. 2) Dislike grinding. So what if, once you purify a group of spectres on the map, they’d be gone FOREVER? To compensate for this, all enemies would provide greater XP which means you’d have to spent less time grinding.

The pure zones would be unaffected by this change. As such, players can still grind all the way to level 50 on secretaries if they wish to do so. Check out the poll on the link below:

A small update was applied to OFF+. It contains some minor fixes.  Also a Linux version exists now, although it has not been thoroughly tested yet so BEWARE!

Latest Linux version: http://jmp.sh/1YQwGJn Latest Windows version: http://jmp.sh/5V2mJXl Latest OSX version: http://jmp.sh/9gJOb5U

Changelog: http://pastebin.com/GTx9DWJX

You might have noticed that there hasn’t been a news-post these last two months.

Well, this is simply because everyone on the project was busy. So there was no news. There still isn’t, other than that we might get more news now that we are less busy. So this is really a news-post about the potential of actual future news-posts. Exciting!

The real reason for this post is to let your all know we are still alive and working on the vocal dub. So don’t worry, if you did.

I know I said we wouldn’t touch graphics, but we decided to update some battle sprites after all. Enjoy this preview of HD goodness.