Sacred Moon DevLog

Update?!

2009-06-10T15:43:00.000-07:00

I know right? I bet you guys are going, LIES AND DECEIT!!!
Well truth be told, I've been working on the battle system very painfully slow. But after the whole Advent Cirno problem I decided to work on it for a while until things get sorted out and if I feel like animating those awfully huge sprites at least the ones in Sacred Moon are bearable and hopefully won't take me a day or two just to do one pose.

With that said I leave for a while and finish the barebones and update you guys once again when I'm ready :3

Progress Report:

Title Screen -100%
Menu HUD Concept -100%
Battle System Concept -100%
Sideview Navigation System - 98%

Oh what the hell?

2009-03-10T03:38:00.000-07:00

Yes it's still alive I'm just updating Division Heaven blog mostly ._.
I've been talking to Elagune a few days ago and how my scripter mysteriously stopped talking to me (only to find out patapon 2 english is released I believe) and I was like oh well graphics, graphics, graphics!

Then I decided that if I got tired of it I'll work on Sacred Moon at the same time (story wise) so that Elagune could spice it up and do the character designs and that his vacation is incoming. And yeah it was fun.

I also decided to move it in XP unless I can do some miracle in VX. But yeah, XP it is. 2k3 is giving me a lot of problems such as transparency and hard mode on everything (even though I love 2k3, I fell in love with XP/VX's flexibility specially art wise)

Progress Report:

Portraits Done Colored:
Christophomicus

Portraits Done
Ocean
Laika
Eriol
Gutts
Genesis
Ezra

Finished Concept Design:
Neok

Finished Chapter
Path Breaking Chapter (4-5 parts)
Path A Chapter I

And yes we did a lot I guess :)

Short Hiatus

2009-01-13T23:33:00.000-08:00

Sorry everyone for not updating for a long time, but Sacred Moon is in a short hiatus because of a fangame contest Nackster did. I do update this blog mostly for those who are curious :)

I believe I won't be able to work on this game too much, the contest is 2 months.
I'm sorry, but yeah this game will take a while to be developed ^_^;

Sigh...

2008-12-14T17:57:00.000-08:00

Ok 10/40 sprites are done, gogogogogogo
I better post this

I'm getting lazy to post any ingame related stuff all of a sudden, it feels not worth it. Finished Character Sprites so far:

1. Genesis
2. Ezra
3. Iria
4. Gutts
5. Medieve
6. Ocean
7. Amelia
8. J.D.
9. Lucas
10. Girl

I think I can do this, although animating them will take a long time...

Another Update...again

2008-11-30T18:11:00.000-08:00

Wow redundant title is rendundant. I finished Gutt's sprite and portrait...

Updated the Characters Section...Again

2008-11-23T15:59:00.000-08:00

Yeah there's an update there :)

Updated the Characters section

2008-11-12T21:40:00.000-08:00

I updated the character section...yeah...

Update

2008-11-02T21:34:00.000-08:00

Yeah...her..

A new update

2008-10-18T03:21:00.000-07:00

Time to update this thing again, This is Lucas/Colt, Tears123's character :3
Thank you Zioru *bishie sparkles*

Iria Zomg!

2008-10-14T23:09:00.000-07:00

Finally started on blasted Iria!
Now for .. G-genesis

Thank you Ocean's Dream for fixing the sleeves and skirt <3

Ocean is now moving perfectly :3

2008-10-13T22:51:00.000-07:00

Enjoy ^^

A small update...again!

2008-10-08T17:18:00.000-07:00

That's how I feel too Ocean...
That's how I feel too...

I have a new spriter that goes by the alias "Zioru"
S/He makes the standing poses and I animate them <3
I am so happy!! Thank you very much Zioru <3

P.s. Zioru is from Japan so imagine the hard time I have since I have bad English as well @_@

Updated :D

2008-10-02T03:57:00.000-07:00

I decided to move on to pixel portraits. And I updated the character section.
I hope Elagune will like this *__________*

Nothing else to add aside from I decided to change my spriting style to something smaller for easier editing. Heh.

(~^w^)~ A nice news

2008-09-25T14:08:00.000-07:00

So, I got accepted in a mobile game making company and I was offered to be able to work there...
So yey!!

The problem is I'll have less time to work on this game. But it doesn't mean it's cancelled. So yeah possible it'll take years. But I'd like this game to be done so I'll do a time management @_@

I'm learning to make tilesets, so far it's not really pretty but I'll do my best so I can make the things I have in mind for SM to come true :)

I might as well won't use Yggdra Union charsets, hard to edit and stuff, might as well make my own style.

On the bright side, Sacred Earth Bonds is released and it has a part 2! I can't wait to see it, but to be honest, I really want to see Sacred Earth Light. Eldis is hawt *_*

Hiatus for a week!

2008-09-22T04:18:00.000-07:00

I won't be able to work on SM for a week so it has to be on hiatus, I'll pick it up next week though since it's vacation ^_^ Time to get serious...

A Fanart, oh wow O.o

2008-09-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

I got a fanart :o
They're by Jihaus of Rpg2knet/GamingW. I let him read the script for editing and wow I was surprised, I didn't expect Iria can be so lovable haha.

I started on the sprite template, but my first victim was...Aerin of Legend of Vanadia.

Although, I'm not sure if I did a nice job. Ah well...
Me and Elagune had a lot of stuff going on, it was fun, I love how he can do such great design notes and made my characters more interesting XD

Update again

2008-09-10T03:03:00.000-07:00

Well finally finished the character list, got to say I did lack some characters all of a sudden to cut off but it was fixed hehe, if you didn't see your character here, they'll likely appear somewhere else.

So, I updated the media section with 1 character. Why? Slow ass internet, I can't upload properly and it's late at night so yeah x.x

And once again...

2008-09-05T04:13:00.000-07:00

I updated the media section. Hope people won't go running at me telling if this project is dead <_<>_>
<_<>_>

Anyhoo, going slow, I need more time, I need to pass math and physics wish me luck. I need to have more concentration. Thank you Elagune for everything.

Well anyway for those who are interested on how paypal or planning to be in a market or something, Ned and Ardy Roberto releases marketing business solutions book. People asked me this for some reason, so yeah might as well give this thing out haha.

Character Art ZOMG!

2008-09-01T04:06:00.000-07:00

Ok I promise there's over all of 11 character stuff, 3 are drawn with enough emotions while the other 8 are designed and just needed to be polished up by me *_____*

The person responsible is ...
Elagune! He's helping me design the characters and he's pretty good at it, blessed are we for having a dependable guy like him despite our lack of updates and stupendously long game <3

And a few samples over the media section the others are hidden hehe...
At least that's an update :3

Huge Clean Up

2008-08-26T23:17:00.000-07:00

Well I was listing characters for my concept artist (Thank God I found someone to help me design these characters) and then it occurred to me that most of them doesn't have enough info so off they go, don't hate me guys, characters with vague info is borderline excessive and most of them would've forgotten about this anyway :(

Still Active doh XD

2008-08-21T07:05:00.000-07:00

I haven't updated for a while oh gosh, I'm sorry everyone, schedule and school has been really hectic nowadays and most likely I'm working on the template upto now :(

At least I'm working haha, wish I could find a graphics partner though =_=;
Will update soon enough :)

Well..

2008-08-09T22:09:00.000-07:00

Just to let everyone know, this project isn't really cancelled really but I did plan on taking a break.

I guess I might as well say I was furious yesterday because of certain events so I just said it's cancelled and see what might happen, I made a bet with myself, if I got more angry yesterday, I'll stop game making altogether and will quit GW but if things worked out, I'll resume to make this and forget all that happen, it's just things have been bad for me and my friends and Neo_Prime couldn't help me since he's depressed, I'm depressed everyone has issues so I got carried away yesterday. However I did speak the truth about the problems that I had. I'm sorry for the trouble everyone, I'm glad that I managed to calm down yesterday because of the support *bows for thanking*

And so it has come to this....

2008-08-08T22:01:00.000-07:00

I have never been so depressed and tired in my entire life, I spent most of my vacation time looking for a spriter that could help me and I did, but what happened, some people have to chase him away, I can't contact him anymore thank you guys thank you, this is the kind of support that I needed to continue this game, and I can't even talk to people that actually supports me properly, people love to give me a hard time and make me trip over and bleed and look over places once again at ground zero, this is such a rewarding thing to do, I had never been so unmotivated and lashed in my entire life, I spend most of my time making this game but people keep giving me a hard time....

Why are you guys doing this to me *weeps*

Sacred Earth -Revisited!-

2008-08-01T16:58:00.000-07:00

So, I finally finished SEB, I felt that I left a piece of my heart when the game ended since I felt realllllllllyyyyy sad. It's one of those feelings when you enjoyed a game and it ended and yeah, it doesn't have bad ending depending on what you do btw XD, I love it tbh, it's simple yet effective, music really contributes too!

Gunnar
(Will you believe me that this wimpy brother is actually the most useful party member if developed right?)

And I'm probably the only person saying this but, Gunnar is so awesome! Veili is ok I guess, Priel is good on her own and has the best FB, damn you!!! Patchoulli is basically my healer other than that I leave her alone XD

Ok so what sums up SEB?

A game with hard bosses and at some point, unforgiving puzzles that will require you to use your dexterity at best (Hint: It's in a purple stage, you'll know what I mean) and normal enemies CAN kill you if you're not careful.

You've got to be kidding me Skie ...
(You'll win this easily if you have the same stats as me hehe)

The art is...BEAUTIFUL! (cast away the crappy art I made for it, Remocholy's just too good) and we have a fair share amount of GAR guys, Voice actors are smexy, I love the voices, they're original btw and who knows where Skie got her arsenal of good people (aside from what I know that most of them are her friends)

Friends?!
(Poor Melodia)

The characters have pretty nice dialogue too, and I can see they all have personalities, I can't wait for Sacred Earth Light! I want to see what's in there~ I'll leave you guys with a parting screen.

Whhaaaaatttt?!
(We are being wiped on the floor and you guys are just sitting around and betting?!)

Ok, something Sacred Moon related, Aten, fixed my walking sprite, thank you Aten~
And now with my new found coloring skillz I have to redraw every single portrait, oh man...

Sacred Earth ZOMG!!

2008-07-29T01:56:00.000-07:00

It was a normal day, I was quietly looking for references for character designs.
When suddenly, the cold hearted Skie Fortress announced that Sacred Earth Bonds is... 100% Utterly COMPLETE

My heart leaped with joy, the sheer amount of happiness force filled me all at once, and suddenly I blurted, "LET ME BETA TEST IT PLEEAAASSEEE"

Alzilory, my love *fangirlish squeal* The voice, the looks, the personality, is all too perfect <3
Unfortunately, this game has led me into despair due to some certain bugs that thankfully got fixed. Did I mention that this game has godawful hard bosses? (probably since that thing happened and I got my face wipe the floor 15x due to 1 hit KO)

'Tis is a game to wait for! I swear! It's just too good <3

More to come! I will share my thoughts here once I finish all school work :D

P.S. Started on Female Template :3

Yey?

2008-07-26T18:05:00.000-07:00

Pistol Moustache (Ptizzle and L) just send me a track yesterday! It's so awesome *jumps in joy*
Unfortunately, I can't show my progress here (sprite template) as of yet, since I'm greedy, yes, I don't want to show anything hehehehehehehe....*ninjaplot*

I want things to be a secret until I have enough confidence, thank you for the people that keeps looking at this empty(?) blog, I promise to post stuff soon :3

Slow Progress is Slow

2008-07-21T01:47:00.000-07:00

Basically I have no updates for now due to the fact that some stuff just happens. Well I don't think I can work on SM nor have enough free time for this. Why?

Well, to put it simply, since I failed two major subjects last term (Math and Physics) my dad decided a course of action of not letting us use the computer and focus more on studying after dinner, well to put it simply,

School = finishes at 3-3:20 pm
Home = 3-4:40 - (Free Time)
Chores (e.g. cooking <.<) = ?????
Dinner = usually 6 pm
Study = 7-9:30 pm or till we drop dead.

Sorry guys, unless I miraculously activate my right side of the brain at least 30% capacity you won't be seeing me for a while and I mean it, so good day/night~

I'll try my hardest to keep up with school~

Added someone again

2008-07-12T22:55:00.000-07:00

Ok, this is a consecutive update, oh wow. I added another person to the character list! Now to redraw some portraits =_=

It took me a while since I got distracted at RMN once again. Is it me or whenever I do work something or someone will distract me? Ah well! At least SEB is almost done, I can't wait!!

An Update As Promised!

2008-07-12T05:59:00.001-07:00

I updated the character section again, from The Illusionists.

I guess there's nothing much to say. I was hold up by a friend and made me play a map! I have to repeat 2x because I cheated on the first play through by ctrl walking haha, other than that, I still need to color and draw a few more portraits. 37 more portraits to go...ugh!!

I am tired. Then I still have to sprite 40 people, just thinking about it makes me shiver ;-;
and there's the backgrounds, the script, the- the- the-

*goes insane*

I'll survive, hopefully ;-;
I'll save munney so I can make people sprite instead olololo.

And here's Nessiah signing off~

Whoa! It's an update!

2008-07-08T23:02:00.000-07:00

So for the past few days I was thinking on how to update this thing since all I have been doing is helping Skie out for Sacred Earth Bonds and Aten for his Legend of Vanadia game as well.

So I updated The Characters Section with an Arcana 13's Naenia Riviera and The Illusionists Gutts Rosiel profiles, what's worst is that Blogger is giving me some troubles for uploading stuff for a while but it was ok.

I was supposed to post a little bit later until a concerned friend pmed me to tell me about updating this blog, to make up for the lost time here I am updating this thing,

I'm so sorry if it's so overdue, I've been researching a lot and even looked over cars such as Honda Launches the VCM643. And the script is 1/3 done waaa!

The system however is 50% (meaning all that's left is the menu and battle system) ah well, this is hard, we have to modify a lot of stuff, I have to finish sprites too waaa. Well then, I might update again tomorrow.

Yeah...

2008-06-25T19:44:00.001-07:00

Unfortunately, I don't have an update really, just to tell that we added
Night Shift Noble to the links. Reason is that this week is exams so
I'm dying to kill my Physics teacher for giving us
buttloads of subjects to review =_=

So yeah...
I'll update ASAP after next week, since it's Vacation. I hate exams,
this exam doesn't even add up to our final grade this semester that
I don't see the d*mn point of it.

Almost done :D

2008-06-19T01:21:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! The blog is done and now all it needs is contents XD
I didn't expect this took me faster to do though :O

Added a lot of links Devlog list, including Murray Enterprises
(what am I thinking lol).
And there's a visitor counter yey XD

Fixing Blog~

2008-06-18T06:04:00.000-07:00

Yes I'm currently fixing the blog right now so I'm sorry :(
I'll update it with characters and all, hope you guys don't mind :D

And we're still alive ohohoh~

2008-06-05T23:08:00.000-07:00

This is the beginning …
The wheels of fate are finally starting its course…