#rpg maker maps

I finally made it

My wonderful alchemy lab

Hello everyone! Time for our weekly update on The Ash Black Cat and the Happy Ogre! (Uhm, today I’m pretty professional...?)

I’m still on the third floor, but... it’s coming together nicely. It took waaay more then expected, but... welp. 

Finally I was able to work on my alchemy lab! I was so excited for this map! It’s not gigantic like the library, but I personally LOVE how it turned out. Do you like it? I hope so! I don’t want to spoiler every single map, so here is a sneak peek!

(Maybe I’ll make the lights a little brighter...)

I also wrote new cutscenes, polished the eventing and various things, and made the light layers for some of the maps. Last but not least, I finally drew Gioele and Abele, the other important characters - and also a little cammeo from another person. 

I need to finish two big part of eventing in this floor and I can move on the fourth - I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, I’m almost finished for real! (Here.)

I think I’ll be able to actually publish the game on the deadline I choose, alas the next Halloween. I’m excited and also a little scared, but that’s because I have anxiety, so ignore me.

For now I’m dreaming to see a Let’s play, but no luck yet...

That’s all for now! Thanks, everyone, for reading my posts and generally sticking around. 

Remember, if you still haven’t tried out the demo, it’s here! And if you want to support the game, I have a Ko-fi. I’ll make a sketch as a thank you.

I'm trying to make some basic, small cities and towns and I have no idea how to go about it. It's for my hetagame, Time Overlapse! I'm hoping to get a demo out sometime in the next who knows when, but it would be a lot easier and making this would go a lot faster if I could make maps. It's... what I'm procrastinating on.... hnnng

I’ve been in programming hell for the past few months, but I’m proud to say that the fruits of my labor are pretty heckin sweet. I’m more inspired and optimistic than I’ve ever been for this game, and I’m so excited to do and share more.

I hope you can forgive me for my radio silence, but the task of having to make recurrent and consistent updates is very difficult for me-- and I often find it easier to simply work. So if I “disappear” for a while, I assure you that I’ve probably just curled myself into a ball of variables.

Nonetheless, I’m going to be trying a lot harder to communicate with you guys and keep you posted! I appreciate your endless love and support, and for sticking around through all of this. We’re still working hard! <3

         ★·.·´¯`·.·★ ℙℝ𝕆𝔾ℝ𝔼𝕊𝕊 𝕌ℙ𝔻𝔸𝕋𝔼 ★·.·´¯`·.·★

ヾ( °〇° )ツ  it’s update time!

𝟙. 𝔾𝕆𝕆𝔼𝕐 𝔾𝔸𝕃𝕆ℝ𝔼

That’s right baby! I did a bunch of GUI work. So far, I have the Item and Main menu!

(Please ignore that there are two options........... I made some uh...... errors.... they will be resolved shortly)

𝟚. 𝔼𝕩𝕚𝕥/𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟

With our new settings screen, I figured it would be nice to give it more purpose! It’s a common complaint that I had during testing for the demo... You can’t see where you’re supposed to go!

So rather than sacrificing aesthetic, I figure I could indicate vague access points with indicators! They can be switched off in the settings.

ᶦ ʷᵃˢⁿ'ᵗ ˢᵘʳᵉ ᶦᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵍᶦᶠ ʷᵃˢ ʷᵒʳᵏᶦⁿᵍ ˢᵒ ʰᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ᵃ ᵖᶦᶜ 

Also, I am currently in the process of implementing a hard-of-hearing setting. There are a few instances in the game that have sound cues. A few will be aided with a literary description, others will be aided with images!

𝟛. 𝕀... 𝕀 𝕕𝕚𝕕 𝕚𝕥 𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟

Yup. I’m Garbage and I changed The Cat Man’s art again. Sorry academy.

More interesting hair, improved art, anatomy less Garbage. Also, poofy sleeve-- so it’s got my vote. Either way, I refuse to do it again, so this is final! No more Naël re-designs! I promise!....... ᴍ ᴀ ʏ ʙ ᴇ

Give this post a BIG OL LIKE if you like Naël’s design. SLAM your head into that like button if you like Naël’s design. THROW your first born child at that like button if you like Naël’s design. 

𝟜. 𝔸𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕒 𝕆𝕟𝕖

I DON’T have a problem, ok??? I mean, let’s be real, Your Admirer’s design was never gonna stay anyway. It was only a matter of time!

You’re secretly happy that her Basic sweater & skirt are gone, and it shows.

She’s cuter anyway! And she looks like Dora, so that’s always good. I made sure to accentuate her Witchiness™ this time around. Of course, I’m a pirate-loving goblin so there are the poofy sleeves again.

(pssst... her wand is in her umbrella  ★·.`---o(･ o <)☆)

𝟝. 𝕄𝔸ℙ𝕊!

Ooooh! Aaaah!

We have:

A spooky mountain fit for a gruesome royalty, 

An updated version of Charlotte’s room (fit with lighting for each time of day! Above you can see night and sunset~),

And a cute hallway with doors for two...

𝔸𝕟𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥!

I’m super excited to announce that there will be an update every sunday from this point on! I want to be more in-touch with yall on what happens in development, and I think this is a reasonable schedule to keep, dontch’a think?

Additionally, at the end of the month we will do a “Progress Report” where we will show approximate percentages of progress in specific areas.

I’m really excited for this change, and I’m more excited for the future of this game! I hope you all are too <3 <3

Thank you all for following the development of Cadeau!

New Screens. 22/06/15