Owl's Arts 'n Junk

So hey it's been a while, and I've unfortunately got some bad news regarding the Digimon project.

I had a pretty big health scare a few months ago and took a break from the project for a while, only to realize that I was really, really, really burned out on the whole thing and just...did not want to start working on it again.

It's mostly my own fault, I scoped it way too big way too early and was too focused on making it look nice and wanting to get everything I wanted in the game as soon as possible (most of that was making other Digimon partners available but each one is a TON of work to get done). I was trying to make a solo project that realistically would take many years just to get the first area done but I was dead set on making it as polished as I could with all the features I wanted. That was a huge mistake and made everything take way, way longer than it needed to, and I kept pushing myself to get everything done as quickly as I could while making it look as polished as I could, thus the burn out.

So yeah lesson learned, I'm too burned out to work on it for the time being, but I'll stick it on the back burner and maybe chip away at it some day when I'm feeling up to it.

It wasn't a total waste though, I did learn a lot about the process of making a game! I'm currently working on a couple original projects that I'm pretty excited for, but for now they're just prototypes and I don't want to show off any ideas or concept art until I'm happy with the prototypes and can begin working on them for real. I'd hate to show off some neat concepts only for the project to fall through again because I burned myself out again.

Anyhoo these were the rest of the sprites I managed to finish before the crazy shit happened. Tapirmon/Bakumon, Kunemon, and Floramon were going to be available in the starter area and could be hatched into playable partners. Pagumon was going to be the first enemy in the game. Pagumon only has idle, run, and attack sprites, while the others have (or were going to have) idle, attack, special attacks, and happy sprites. I never finished Floramon's unfortunately.

I might post all the portrait art I did later since those took a while and I really like how some of them turned out. There's a lot though! Kinda tempted to finish all of them anyway just because making the art was fun.

Oops sorry I keep forgetting to post these.

So after I made Guardromon's idle and run sprites I decided that to save time I would just make NPC sprites without animations and would just add them in later when I have more free time and damn it's sure saved a lot of time for now.

Oops keep forgetting to post these.

Garurumon's second idle sprite and happy sprite. :) Kept it simple this time because I was tired of trying to animate this guy lmao. Now Garurumon's all done yaaaay!

Woopsies forgot to post these when I was done with them

Finished Garurumon's attack sprite and the two special attack sprites. Decided to go with Sub-zero Ice Fang/Freeze Fang for a secondary attack because it was just basic attack but with ~*ice*~ and that made it easy lmao. Not completely happy with them but it's good enough.

Finished Gabumon's sprites and started on Garurumon's. Here's the second idle sprite and happy sprite for Gabu and the idle and running sprite for Garuru

So hey guess who learned the hard way that quadrupeds are really goddamn hard to animate meeeeee

Got some more Gabu sprites done! Basic attack, Blue Blaster, and Horn Attack. Still fiddling with hitboxes and stuff but I'm at least happy with the sprites themselves (for now).

I had a dream that a new dragon breed got released and it was so goofy and silly I had to doodle it. Except my dream couldn't decide what it actually looked like so sometimes it looked like a vaguely dragon-shaped fuzzball thing and other times it was like a teeny poison dart frog dragon?? And it had weird gill things and a tail that could shoot stingers.

Also in the dream as soon as the announcement went up everyone lost their minds it was like immediately hated by everyone and I felt bad for it. :(

Also for some reason it was a Nature ancient??? Okay sure dream we can have another I guess lol

First up: Title screen! I swear I'll make it prettier later it just needs to function right now. Got saving and loading working, and yeah I couldn't think of any better name than "Digimon Quest" so I guess that's what the game's called now

After showing off the Data Bank and Clothing Shop last time I got a couple other important NPCs with jobs.

Cerberumon runs the Item Bank where you can put inventory items into storage. I might add a way to add more storage but right now it's 100 extra slots which seems like a lot but I always hate it when a game is really stingy on item storage so I might have gone a bit overboard lol

Ganemon runs the Bit Bank which is pretty simple. You can store and withdraw your Bits. That's it.

Bulkmon runs the Training Gym and will exchange a Digimon's Training Points (or TP) for a chance to increase their stats. There's three different difficulties for each stat to train (Attack, Defense, Max HP, and Max SP), with higher difficulties giving bigger stat boosts but are harder to succeed at. As mentioned before if you've played Digimon World 3 it's a lot like the Training Gym there, except you can refund your TP to lose any stat bonuses you've gotten but will get all your TP back to try again. Digimon get 1 TP each time they level up and the higher difficulties require more TP per attempt (1, 5, and 10 respectively). Your Digimon gets three attempts to succeed at the training with a bonus fourth attempt if they succeed all three attempts. Even if they fail an attempt, they'll still get a little stat boost, just not nearly as much as succeeding.

I don't need to show every single training type but just to show a couple examples here's the lowest difficulty for Attack.

...And the highest difficulty for Defense. We chose violence today.

HATCHING! This is the best part right getting more Digimon to use. You need to get a DigiEgg, which is a rare drop from enemies or can sometimes be found in the overworld or as quest rewards, plus a shop where you can buy some eggs, though I haven't decided if it uses Bits or maybe data yet. Each egg requires a certain type and amount of data, and once you have enough all you gotta do is put it into the incubator and hatch your new friend. :D

In this example a BlackAgumon DigiEgg needs Dragon, Devil, and Fire data to hatch.

Digimon also now have a bond level that can be increased by doing things like leveling them up or giving them treats they like. I haven't put in any benefits for a high bond level yet but I've got some ideas. Max bond level is 500.

And since I've got Digivolving working, I added a tab to the Digimon menu to view all of their possible evolutions.

If you want to view more info on an evo and their evos you can just click on the information button. You can also set a default Champion, Ultimate, and Mega level Digimon that will be more easily accessible on the sidebar or from a button press so you don't have to navigate through menus every time you wanna Digivolve.

Unfortunately Ultimates (and Megas) probably won't be available right away since I've got enough artwork to get through with just Rookies and Champions to worry about. The framework is in though.

Quests are implemented! I've still got a couple things to mess around with to make sure I can do different types of quests but yeah. Your quest item inventory doesn't run out of room and doesn't take up your main inventory so you can collect as many quests as you want and you'll always be able to get the right items. The quests here are just a bunch of test quests obviously.

Also got a couple things pertaining to enemies/combat. There's now buffs and debuffs that some attacks can have a chance to apply, like Agumon's Pepper Breath has a chance of applying a Burn. I've got a few debuff/buff types right now and I can always put more types in if I feel like it's needed for some type of attack.

The debuffs are: Burn (damage over time), Poison (damage over time plus lowered attack & defense), Leech (steals health from the target), Drain (steals SP from the target), Glitch (prevents use of Special Attacks), Weaken (lowers attack), Enfeeble (lowers defense), Stun (prevents movement), and Paralysis (lowers movement speed).

The buffs are: Heal (heals health), Restore (restores SP), Strengthen (raises attack), Bolster (raises defense), Shield (prevents damage), Counter (attacks enemy when attacked), and Speedup (raises movement speed).

If you don't remember all of those you can see what buff/debuff your partner or your enemies have by hovering over them so a little tooltip pops up. You can also see the duration for each buff/debuff.

I can't tell if we're screwed or not.

I also put in a small feature where you can click on an enemy to focus on them and keep their healthbar at the top of the screen. It won't make attacks automatically aim at them or anything but it's nice to see all the info of whatever enemy you want to focus on.

Aaaand I've got a storage system working for extra Digimon you don't want in your party. You can freely swap between party and storage and organize them however you want. I don't have a hard number on how many pages of storage you would get but I'll decide that soon, right now it's only 4 pages. You can probably unlock more somehow. Clicking on a Digimon will also bring up a little info window that doesn't have as much info as the Digimon Menu but it's info you might want to see at a glance for your Digimon in storage.

Oh and I either totally spaced on this last time or hadn't implemented it yet, but I've put in items that can be equipped to your Digimon. Each Digimon can only hold one of each type of item but there's two slots to use. I've only put in items that can give you a close-range attack (gloves) and a long-range shooting attack (wand) but there'll probably be all sorts of items that won't necessarily give you another type of attack but will do something else when equipped. Both of these items give you a Neutral element attack but other types of gloves and wands can give you elemental attacks.

OKAY I think that's everything whew. The next things I'm going to work on is a framework for achievements and maybe something along the line of Tamer perks that you can use to get upgrades or bonus stuff as you level up. I don't know if I'll be fully implementing them but I at least want to get the framework ready for whenever I do put them in.

Hey guys! Apologies for the lack of updates, like I said before I'm working a lot on mechanical stuff for the game so I don't usually have a sprite or anything to show progress on that sort of thing. I've gotten quite a few mechanics in but the one I'm currently working on is a training gym (if you've ever played DW3 it's basically the same as the training gym there, spend points you get each level for a chance to increase your Digimon's stats), and it's been...VERY tedious to work on. Lots of art and animations and programming, and with the holidays and getting sick on and off and just...wanting to work on other things for a break, it's still not quite finished yet but I'm almost done yaaay!

Thought I would at least share a little preview, Pulsemon's gonna help with the easiest level of HP training! ...Just pretend there's a little Agumon sprite jumping in the center or something I was too lazy to edit one in sdfsdfs

Gabumon's running sprite is done! :> I'm just posting this to let you guys know that I'm back to working on the Digimon game but I'll probably be focusing on mechanical stuff for a while that's not very easy to show progress on. Sprites are nice to have once they're done but OH GOD they an exercise in tedium when I actually have to draw them my adhd can barely handle it.

So if I have to draw anymore rn I'm going to go crazy but I'll get back to sprite art once I get closer to getting all of the mechanics into the game. Might be a while, but it'll be worth it to get all that structure done with.

Wow I've been on the funny pixel dragon website for TEN YEARS and wanted to draw something to celebrate.

Yes I do feel very old thanks for asking.

Anyhoo to celebrate I drew this group pic of a bunch of my oldie dragons that have been more or less with me since I joined Flight Rising back in 2013 and two of my...uh well they're not exactly dragonsonas but idk what to call them. Clan representatives? Ambassadors?? But yeah they're both more recent but they're important members of the clan. <3 Had to take some artistic liberties with a few dragons to keep my sanity and express their personality more but overall I'm pretty happy with the result!

Wanted to get this done back in July when my actual anniversary date happened but I've been just a liiiiittle busy these last few months getting ready for my own wedding.

So yeah, just a little busy. :)

First off, I finally made a proper player menu where you can view your equipment or your collected data. It also has a wardrobe feature where you can save clothing you've come across and then access it and equip it! At the moment it saves clothing in whatever order you put it into the wardrobe, and I haven't figured out a way to swap clothing around unless it's on the same "page" of items, but it's a start.

Yeah, now I get to look like a cool edgy kid

So about the data stuff: I mentioned before that you get certain XP points based on the Field and Element of the enemy Digimon you defeat, but defeating enemies will ALSO give you one "point" in that data field (I think I'm going to make it so that defeating higher stage opponents gives you more points, so defeating a rookie will give you one but a champion will give you two etc). Right now the only thing I'm making the points for is exchanging them at a Data Bank for various Data Chips, which will be used to hatch DigiEggs and get more partners.

Here's what the Data Bank looks like, it's broken down into Field, Element, and Special chips. You just exchange the points you have and get back a physical chip item. Right now the conversion rate is 10 points to make a single chip, so in this example I can make two Dragon Chips. You can also store chips back into points to free up space in your inventory. There's only two Special chips right now, they're made from having points in each Field or points in each Element. I'll probably mess around with the conversion rate as the game progresses, and even though right now the chips are only used to hatch eggs I might have them as currency for other things but I'm not sure yet.

And finally I've got shops working! I've only made a clothing shop right now but the general code for shops is there so it doesn't take much effort to make a different type. But yeah, you can buy and sell stuff. I'm still trying to figure out a way to buy multiples of the same item and how to only sell a portion of a stack of items (right now you can only sell an entire stack).

Lilymon's going to be the clothing shopkeeper for the game so I had to toss in a temporary sprite isn't she beautiful