Posted April 07, 2024 by Mediahunter1
#General Update
The top-most image of Aki was the first piece of character art I ever commissioned for the game, roughly seven years ago and before I started getting fully involved in developing the game. The one below was completed recently, as I wanted the character art to better reflect the cover art. This will also be more consistent with the skit portraits, once those are started on. I will be having these done one character at a time, and steadily implementing them into the game. Skits will also undergo testing once Aki has enough base portraits to work with, but that won't be for another month at least.
Lastly, while I wanted to finally try the Equip Battle Skills plugin (since now I would have no issue with Passive Skills showing up when they shouldn't), it seems to still be acting up. Whenever I try to open the arte menu, or even just add in certain characters, the game would crash. I don't know what is causing the issue exactly, I thought it was the passive skills or medal plugins, but testing this in a fresh file does nothing to trigger the crash. With how much VS has been working to fix their recent plugins, I'm hoping that this will be resolved. In all honesty, I can probably go without needing this one plugin for a long time; but it would really be good for gauging reactions. Not that I have that many artes for characters yet, but I would like to try emulating Tales a bit by limiting how many artes a character can take into battle.
In summary, these changes will be helpful in coming up with new titles and passive skills to add more to the experience. I would like to eventually ask for proper testing of various aspects, and maybe help with grammar and spelling, even if it's only voluntary at this time. I am aiming to release an updated demo later this month, most likely the Prologue Demo since I really want to get back to where I am in the story before resuming. And that should give me time to find more resources to properly finish the scene. I can sprite characters at least, but tilesets? Ohhhh noooo...
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