Party Member Update:

I realized I should've been testing the Party member/Partner system before I allow anyone to be a party member by the ROLE system. Anyways, I've been having a lot of trouble with formation. If you play the beta to Fates Gamble right now, there should be an option called "Formation" when you press "Esc." But it doesn't work until you have a party member. Anyways, I was having a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to let formation work in battles using the event system. I could just get rid of it easily by deleting some code in RPG Makers script so I don't have to worry about it... But I really like it and I want to use it badly, so it's staying.

To get some info out of the way, my party member system was gonna be just like Buckshot roulettes multiplayer, where it would go around in a circle. However this is not the case anymore. It works like this:

Of course Buckshot wasn't made with a team based party member mechanic, but this is to help show how the party member system will work.

Miscellaneous Update:

To be honest I might let the player ROLE play as their party members as well. Again I said "might", so there's a chance it wont be in the game, but I'll see if I can.

Also I might stop calling this game an RPG, because then people will think "Oh... an RPG? So I'm going to need to tediously grind for XP other than doing something fun, go through this games long story, and never actually roleplay as my character other than the battle system despite it being called an RPG, which is just like every other RPG? Yeah, no thanks." This is how I was with RPG's and why I never liked them.

Another thing is that my game... Doesn't even feel like an RPG. It's so uniquely different, that I feel like anyone who likes RPG's wont like this game because it's not like any other. This game defies expectations of RPG's, so I feel like even they wont like the idea of this game being an RPG. I'll think about it, but I'm really considering getting rid of advertising this game as an RPG.

I'll see what I can update ya on with the Party member system tomorrow.  :3