#reenvision

SO. In this game, you have a meter called your “desperation”. It’s the blue bar in the video and that meter is constantly creeping up in almost every battle you get into. Once it hits a certain threshold, the amount of damage you take multiplies. HOWEVER, the amount of damage you dish out ALSO multiplies.

Once the desperation meter maxes out, you take 4x the damage you normally would (so if a slime were to hit you and only deal 10 damage normally, you’ll now take 40 instead). The trade-off is that you also dish out 4x the damage... AND you can “reenvision” things.

When you reenvision, you can change things into something else. In this video, I changed the funny slime lad into a plant monster and back!

The biggest challenge of this game’s battle system is meant to be managing your desperation. The higher your desperation is, the more damage you do and the more special moves you can use (because those are also despair dependent), BUT the more damage you take. Which means you have to be on your A-game with your dodging skills.

A then vs now menu comparison!

And here’s what the old item menu inside a battle used to look like, horrid placeholders and all.

Speaking of battles, those looked pretty goofy, too...

The sprites weren’t spared either!

Or the portraits...

Or even the basic scenery.

Looking through everything, I think it’s been a pretty productive year so far! March 1st will mark the day this game’s development officially reaches the 1 year mark. Let’s see how much more I can accomplish by then. >:D

(note: this scene won’t be in the final game, it’s purely for testing) 

It’s simple and still has areas of improvement, but I’m so excited with how things are shaping up. A good friend of mine is helping to review the story to make sure things flow correctly, and that’s going well so far. Speaking of which, opening the game’s main design and storyboard document lags my entire computer because it’s at 277 pages and it’ll only continue to grow. I also refuse to make a new document-

BUT AYOOOO! I finally announced the title of my game on my other two ““main”“ accounts (in quotes because I hardly use them lol). It’s called “ReEnvision”. With this title reveal, I can finally stop calling it just “my game” or “a game” or other things. The poor souls I have rambled to on discord for years on end will finally not be lonely, I can now endlessly ramble about ReEnvision in public too!

ANYWAY, ReEnvision is an action RPG game with much of its inspiration coming from Hollow Knight, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky, The Gray Garden... And a bunch of other games. The feeeeeel of the game will be in the same realm as the many Earthbound-inspired RPGs out there, except the catch here is I’ve never actually played Earthbound. So ReEnvision gets to be the quirky kid that’s part of a genre whose name doesn’t even fit.

The plot is that a 10-year-old girl wakes up in a strange world with no memories of her past. Her only goal is to recover those lost memories and return home. However, this new world is pretty awesome. It may be hard to go home and leave such a nice place behind...

Ok I gotta confess: I actually uploaded this yesterday, but got embarrassed within a few hours and deleted the post. BUT it’s back now, because I still feel proud of these short little tunes and THE WORLD MUST KNOW.

ANYWAY, I haven’t really posted anything soundtrack related for ReEnvision yet. Closest thing was waaay back in 2020 on a private Twitter account where I uploaded a few little jingles that sounded like garbage. Within that time, I’ve been continuing to try and better my composing skills and I think I’m really getting places!