I'm having a hard time picking myself back up on the Mystic Ruins, so I went ahead and made a few things after dealing with Eggman's base. If you go back to Greenflower City, you'll run into a couple friends.
Returning to Greenflower:
Speedy and Violet come to join the party, and they're here to stay!
With a new feature implemented, there's of course going to be a quick tutorial showing how you can play as other characters on the field with their own unique abilities, however I'll get to that later.
You now have 5 party members (not counting Guests). But you can only hold up to four people. Now's a good time to show a way to change the party.
For the time being, Splice's house is the only way to do it. The Leader Flag will show up here, and activating it will show all the available party members just chilling out in his house.
Just hanging out.
Touching the flag again will offer to reset your party and change your guest character (if you have more than one with you.) Of course the Leader Flag will deactivate once you leave the house.
Ah yes, of course, because you now get two new party members, I should introduce a new Field Ability!
Field Ability:
Speedy here now has a working ability. It's a fireball, just like Splice's. The only difference here is that...
It explodes. The explosion has a small radius that will effect things around it, thus giving him a bit more range than Splice. It's another two-in-one ability, in that the fire can light torches while the explosion can break stuff!
As seen here, this rock has been turned to rubble. You can use this to find nice secrets hidden behind damaged walls or blast objects out of your way!
As for Violet...I'm still working on that one.
It might be worth backtracking to find goodies with your new abilities.
Kapus ~Hoarder of Memories~
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:45 am
I actually don't remember exactly why she had decided now to investigate the orphanage. It was either a recent event that had happened or she had been slowly spying on them for a long time now and was only now caught by splice on coincidence.
Smash Corliss Champion Of The Blitz
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Thu Jul 06, 2017 7:27 am
Either way, I don't wanna drop it because of potential back story telling. I'll think up something.
Smash Corliss Champion Of The Blitz
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:12 pm
I've been thinking about this for a bit, and I've decided to post-pone the updates video until further notice. My main accomplishment was completing the first actual dungeon, and that is something I'd rather not spoil by doing a whole walkthrough of it. (I already showed off a good chunk of it in the last video.) I unfortunately don't have a whole lot else to show. I could technically still record some new things and whip one up, but I feel I need to do more before I'm ready to make a video about it.
My second reason is that I'm aiming to get a new computer soon. With a newer, stronger computer I should be able to produce videos in higher quality than what this current one of mine will allow me to. (Actually I'd been using a different computer to record in the past, but it's not very reliable at all. I'm somewhat afraid to use it for anything delicate like recording footage because it might crash in the middle of it and ruin everything.)
I was aiming to get it earlier this month, however things happened and I was delayed. So I'm going to push back the video as far as necessary; until I'm sure that I'm ready.
In other news...
Spoiler:
I'd forgotten to mention this before, but I started working on a small new map a while back. Tulip Road is a little crossroad area that connects Greenflower Zone to Techno Hill to Fox Forest to a farm area. (Greenfarms is a tentative name for it.) I kind of got side-tracked (or rather, got back on track seeing as how I was supposed to be finishing that dungeon at the time,) before I could finish any more than the road that comes out of Fox Forest, as pictured here.
After catching a glimpse of an old(?) map made by Medley using a Tekepon tileset, I found the inspiration I needed to visualize a new dungeon: Lilypad Ruins! This is an area I'd been hoping to add to the game for some time now, and until recently was only going to be optional. As the name would imply, this is going to be a water-themed dungeon. A certain purple hedgehog would be great to have in the party, here.
Lilypad Ruins is kind of positioned near the mid-point of the game's story, however, so I won't be putting too much focus into mapping this place out. But I'm pretty excited to have something to work with as far as this idea goes.
Smash Corliss Champion Of The Blitz
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Some small updates; I'm experimenting with teams in hopes of creating puzzles where the party has to split up into two or three separate groups to solve things. The team leaders for such may be pre-determined sometimes so that you don't get stuck with an ability you can't use. (otherwise you'd have the luxury of arranging them yourself in your own time.)
Before I get started on this experiment however, I went ahead and whipped up Smash's field ability. It's a simple punch, (No sprites made yet) used to knock enemies and objects across the room. It doesn't work on pushable blocks (but that's fine because he pushes blocks faster than others anyway.)
And finally, another look at the new dungeon. Still not too much else to look at, but hey.
Smash Corliss Champion Of The Blitz
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Sat Aug 05, 2017 3:57 pm
Lately my motivation has been weird and I can only seem to get things done when I only have a couple hours at most to do them. :V
Since I'd gotten a start on Lilypad Ruins, I decided that this would be a good opportunity to touch up the swimming sprites and mechanics. Nothing has really changed fundamentally; just some bug sweeping mainly.
EDIT Slight update to the area itself
in that i fixed a tileset issue with the pillar in the water and to show that you can indeed swim under that bridge.
Smash Corliss Champion Of The Blitz
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Fri Aug 11, 2017 4:47 pm
Have some music.
DKTails Newbie
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Fri Aug 11, 2017 11:40 pm
I met your fan game now and I already liked it.
Smash Corliss Champion Of The Blitz
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:35 pm
i'm sure my fan game was happy to meet you too.
At any rate a small update.
I am making an attempt at overhauling Greenflower Zone. With some influence from Neo Green Hill's tileset, I'd say it's already looking much better than it originally did. There's still a long way to go for conversion, and I still feel like the grass is too bright. I've already toned the colors down twice while still mostly using the palette from NGH's grass tiles. Speaking of grass, the green that grows over the walls makes it a lot easier to tell what you can climb on.
DKTails Newbie
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Subject: Re: Splice The Hedgehog: RPG Fangame. Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:53 am