#rpgmaker project

Obviously I'm fussy as fuck about colors, and I like a dark purple over the blue shadow shade that rpgmaker lighting plug-ins always seem to favor; it creates a more natural look and doesn't do weird or gross things to most of the colors in my pallette (such as washing them out or "greening" the yellows). This is a preference I've arrived at after eighteen years of experimentation with different overlaid shading colors in my comics.

(also, and I did test this, it looks nicer interacting with the light settings)

so that basically means I'm gonna be pasting in the hexadecimal numbers every time I want a darkness overlay and won't really be able to use the shorthand of the presets.

Mostly it's just annoying, but the Community Lighting plug-in lets you go in and change the preset colors in the parameters, even if you do basically have to keep track of daylight hours there.

I often forget to upgrade character equipment and skill trees so character upgrading is mostly automated or story related

I get bored easily with turn based combat unless it's got a lot of moving parts (for example I'm using some plug-ins to get in a few Octopath mechanics because they're fresh and exciting)

I like wandering around in rpg cities and talking to npcs so the environments are generally focused on that

I fume a little bit about some games I played as a kid having areas that were supposed to be dangerous city areas not integrating that idea in very much so that's reflected in the cities

I like having a choice about how much I do or don't run into fights so that's part of level design

I do still like wandering around nature areas so there are still those parts, but they won't be so excessively mazelike as to be frustrating

I enjoy visual novels and often feel like dialogue choices should be slightly more meaningful in some rpgs

I think it's funny as fuck when the protagonist railroads you with snark because I played a lot of point and click as a brat

And on that note I played a lot of point and click as a brat so I like convoluted but logical puzzle quests and fetch quests

And finally I spend a lot of time in games without a lot of interparty development wondering what my party members are thinking about, like there's a character in Dungeon Siege I joke about being my wife and it's literally just that you find her alone in the first dungeon, you don't even have to rescue her because Dungeon Siege's party functions like a miniature RTS faction. XD I like when a game cares about character relationships as much as I do.

Hello everyone!

I’m Tanoyu aka UHA studio! I want to share with you my little project – RPG horror game “Red Thread”. The plot may seem pretty simple in the beginning: a student of prestigious boarding school is found dead. Who to blame? Who lies and who tells the truth? Will the culprit be found and punished? You’ll find the answers in the end…but only if your thread doesn’t break off too early.

The story will include several chapters, in which different narrators will navigate you through the dark secrets of this world. The prologue is already available to play in two languages – Russian and English!

Name: Tonalité Noir

Known As: Tona

Likes: painting, pastel things, reading, plants, Ashe, adventure, water

Dislikes: her illness, formalities, fire

Tona is a sweet young lady of nobility, and our heroine. Though her body is sickly and fragile, she is very curious and goes on grand ones in the books she reads. She loves her butler and constant companion since childhood, Ashe, but she wishes he would let go of formalities and stop fretting over her so much (even though his worries are probably completely rational). An avid reader and intelligent young lady, Tona loves to paint and immerse herself in the worlds her illness doesn’t allow her to explore in real life.

The Long Road

Release date announced!

9.21.2017 Steam, GameJolt and Itch.io

So, after a lot of playtesting, the biggest issue people had was with the collisions. Since Virgo (and all other NPCs for that matter) stand way too far from each other (the same problem exists for most interactive elements in the world) because of tile size and their proportions to it (tiles are 24x24 with 4x zoom), it may look like interactive stuff isn’t really interactive because you can’t really ‘touch it’.

Something that I couldn’t solve with free movement plugins and trying to change tiles inside the grid because of how NPCs/events can only be placed in the middle of their tiles, and if they didn’t, there would be a lot of invisible collisions throught the world.

It was a huge design oversight and I’ve already spent a lot of time trying to fix it without having to resort in changing Virgo’s (and every other NPC) world sprites, but it is the most sensible thing to do right now to avoid confusion and weird 5 km conversations between NPCs.