Riftcaller Games

Recently put a bunch of these placeholder shape tiles together that will assist me in blocking out building shapes and maps to then be drawn properly later.

Blocking out Battle system UI is coming along nicely! Battle Start/Load is done, and now finished most of the beginning logic for calculating positions in the Attack Queue. Birds are fun to draw~

Going for something similar to the Earthbound/Mother series here.

I bought a base license an drew some of the core characters for KOH here. Riftmaw is from the Jungle Tribe, and Gwendul is Taiga Tribe. I might do some others in this same style, since it was a fun little experience.

You can find the base here!

I know I've been really pushing for traffic to our Patreon page. I'm worried that I might be coming off as a little too persistent, and for that I apologize. It's been difficult finding the courage to revive this blog.. so I want to ride that spark of bravery to be as honest and open with our all our followers as I possibly can.

We need your support.

A bit of what I'm working on right now! Using this template as a bit of a basis for generic emotions to be plopped in for the Small Portraits of the battle system, plus elsewhere.

A sketch I did of the first bit of highway from the east gorge that crosses into Driftwood Hollow! It's pretty high up, so I like the idea of being able to see the Lighthouse from this vantage point. I feel like I made the road way to narrow here and/or the sign is too big, so will have to adjust before taking this further.

Some temporary art for banners that link to each game project's page on the new site!

And a reminder that supporting on Patreon would help immensely and enable us to make them both a reality! If 200 people pledged at the $1/month tier, that would cover all of Kåre's bills for the month. They're also severely disabled, so that kind of support would really brighten their day!

Made a very rough mockup for the Argument/Battle system! I think very simple backgrounds or slight scrolling pattern would be a goal. And I appreciate knowing my turn order in RPGs, so also has an unobtrusive queue off to the side there. Excited to start building it in-engine!

Working on the overworld map today while cuddling with Lena. They've been playing Moonglow Bay and it is giving me the serotonin!! Oh and I made my own very simple triangle brush to making painting in the trees no problem at all, so there's that too~

Been having a bit of a fibro flare which is keeping me off the computer, weh..

I had to redo the sidewalks due to some grid misalignment bleeehhh, but they're all done now. There's some minor nicks in the corners between some tiles but honestly will be hardly visible once I size things down.

Tiled Map Editor so far is a joy to use and has support for most major engines, I think? Like a lot of these tiles are bigger than my defined tile size and it has absolutely zero problems loading them in with any other sized tile, as long as it's a factor of 2 and is chopped correctly.

Some warm-up art of Jeff!

Finally settled on a style for map sprites versus character/object sprites. Now time to take notes on what brushes I used hehe~

I did a lot of organizing yesterday, putting together a special Trello to keep track what I do month-by-month and day-to-day. Should help with both keeping up moral and make writing updates easier overall.

Been on bed rest for today and yesterday, which is always annoying to me. I seem to have done something to my knee and I need it to feel better for this weekend, weh.

And a gentle reminder that the Patreon exists and I'd love to get back up to 10 Patrons again.

🐲 Kåre

Worked on the new site for a bit and sketched out art for each of our sections there. Coming along nicely~

Been thinking hard about how to split the map into zones, and slowly making progress on the coloring~ All the dots represent potential positions for the different lots in town, which could be homes, businesses, gas stations, etc..

Finalized my autotile templates! Have one for both Orthographic and Isometric. This should cover all my bases!

Been going through the Trello and updating cards with checklists, priorities, and sorting into their respective milestone. Very cool and neat to know we're 24% done with all the Core Systems! I also have general Art Direction stuff in the Core System milestone too since needs to be done before the actual game stuff.