Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame.

The good news is, I found the power generator.




The bad news is, I practically blinded myself turning on the lights.



So yeah, with this I'm roughly 50% through with the underground base. I told myself I'd finish the layout of the dungeon before working on cutscenes and stuff, but I think this might be a good checkpoint to go back and do that.

Okay so 1, I think I'm a little bit too impatient to start the cutscenes now since I've been in an unusually large mood for mapping. And 2, I somehow forgot a large room on my drawn map of the dungeon and wound up skipping over it entirely. I mean I could have gone on without it, but that would mean skipping out on something very convenient.




Here's the room I've added in. Not a whole lot to it save for some height differences, some nice springs and an item to grab.



However, when you turn the power back on...




While there are still some dark rooms in the lower levels of the base, the elevator starts working again. While you still have to do some backtracking after visiting the power generator to get here (though there's a nifty shortcut hidden along the way back,)




This elevator leads you back to the beginning. This is a very helpful shortcut because the whole way back is somewhat lengthy.




And with that, I am now officially 50% through with this dungeon.

I took the rest of the week off to tend to some other things, but now it's back to work. I've gotten a start on making the scenes as promised.



I'm sure there's more I can do to make this title more interesting, but this is what I've got on it so far. Feedback would be appreciated.









This is becoming increasingly more difficult without a proper completed charset for Tab. I might have to put some things on hold just to get it done.

Progress has been slow, since I've been trying to work up a revised tileset for the second half of the dungeon. I have the tools at hand, but I'm low on ideas on how to put them to work. Though it'd help if I actually had the free time to sit down and experiment, but I keep getting preoccupied.

Progress, I guess?

Trying out some dynamic room designs or whatever.  Basically there are two entrances to this room; the main one being down on the main floor, while this side one is accessed elsewhere to reach something you couldn't before.

At this point I'm just kinda winging it. That's literally all I thought up for this room, so I figured I'd go ahead and see where it gets me. That's basically how I've been working for the past few weeks; I only have a handful of disjointed, disconnected ideas for this part of the dungeon and not a complete sequence. That's pretty much the reason why it's been slow, but I've been getting somewhere at least. Whipped up some new tiles and made a few new rooms. But it'll be a while before I start connecting the dots.

oops. It only just hit me that the way I designed the save points was flawed. I went and tested it and sure enough, if you jump out of a savepoint you will indeed break the system in that you can save anywhere--until you walk back into the events surrounding the savepoint that disable saving.

I've come up with a way to fix this, thankfully. It wasn't very difficult but now I have to comb over the entire game thus far to adjust all the save points to this update, otherwise they won't work at all.


Other than that, I'm making some steady progress on the dungeon, but I'm still not quite close to completion.

Here's another quick update to show what I'm working on. Instead of explaining anything, I'll leave the context to your imagination.














There's still a lot of empty space around and it bothers me but I'm starting to focus more on progressing further and working out the ideas that come to me. I've actually started on two more areas already.

I've pretty much come to the point where all my ideas have come connecting together. At this point I'm now facing the question of whether or not I should prepare to wrap this up or have the dungeon go on a bit longer. Until I come to a decision I'm probably going to go back and spruce up the area aesthetically.

Smash The Echidna wrote:

Small update, I realized I could just go right ahead and make this real quick.



Gizmo's field ability is (mostly) complete, and fairly simple. Pressing the key will activate his Goggle Vision.



While wearing his goggles, Gizmo can find invisible items, see in the dark, and possibly detect other things that may be helpful.



Stuff like this can only be gotten while wearing the goggles, however you can still bump into them regardless.

Yo, that's a tight feature