I forget, did Lemon jump in the magical black hole of damnation at the end? Playing through II again at the moment, but not there yet.

Yes. =)

I'd say I'd like to help out with your project, also, while I'm posting, but I don't want to promise anything as I've been known to be a little on the busy side.

I will offer my services in 2D art and hand sketches/drawings if you need help, though.  PM me if you need examples.

BTW, Earnest, Alef, Kazin.  My fav characters =)

I usually just weaken the gargoyles in the Kane battle until they're weak enough for him to kill.  It's not hard to bump him to level 10, but in Bleu's case, it might be easier to level him higher than 10 before promoting if you typically promote at level 10 rather than 20.

Just level him to 15-20 in that battle and promote.  He should be reeling in lots of attack and defense after level 4 or 5 promoted.

Aw, it starts getting good right after that battle =S

Bowie Online is still alive.  It's being worked on quite slowly, but there is progress being made nonetheless.

Having just played demo 3 again, I've decided to draw everything as before. The game had a nice style to it, which I think was part of it's charm. Besides, every time I look at that picture I posted I see something with no soul. Looks nice, but not for me.

Well, if you need an occasional help in the sprite or tile department, let me know .

Same goes for me, though we know how reliable I am...

I just changed it. It goes to the directory listing, so it's up to you to put something nice there. We've sent nearly 1000 hits your way, which I think is pretty good.

I appreciate it.  I've neglected to put up at least the frontpage and link back.  I hadn't realized the links had been changed yet.  I'll get that done asap.

What's everyone else's view? Are graphics a big part of what makes our games stand out? Should we sacrifice graphical originality to speed up the creation of the finished article?

Work with graphics is about all I'm halfway decent at, so I'd have to say I find it important to try and make your own.  I dunno, I mimic a lot of the time, too, which is a lot easier than simply trying to do your own from scratch, and you can usually get them close to shiny, in this case, while still being different.

If it were that easy it've been done already...but so far I've yet to see anything of the sort.  A tactical battle system in RPGmaker requires a lot of time an effort and most likely wouldn't produce the prefered results.  You'd do better to learn yourself some sort of programming and make one from scratch.  At least you know exactly what you're getting that way.

Hi everyone,

TRAP is the acronym for TSS Resource Accumulation Project, and is a collection of free-to-use resources for Shining projects. There are currently three TRAP downloads, and with your help, we'd like to boost that considerably.

We're currently accepting all submissions for sprites and tiles in 24*24 or 48*48 size. Anything will be very gratefully received, but here are some suggestions that are always in demand:

Trees, grass tiles, flowers and assorted outdoor stuff (rocks too);
Houses, wells and other town stuff;
Statues of yourself or things which deserve to be commemorated;
Sprites of any character kind in four directions, two frames per side.

Anything else you can come up with would be most heartily welcomed, of course.

Please save your creations in .bmp format, compress them using WinZip or WinRAR and email them to devlyn@zonnet.nl or ty@shiningsource.org, and we'll put them in the TRAP vault for anyone to use in their own project.

Thanks!

Can some of these be your own works or must they only be SF tiles and the like?

In a rush, so I can't quite read through the topic thoroughly, but, in my opinion, it depends on what you're doing.  I think if you want to satisfy Shining fans, you should include keyboard regardless.  But, that doesn't mean not having mouse is the way to go too.  A bit of both would suffice, maybe even having full control for both, if you want to put that much time into it.  Im not sure how I can get my point across without cofusing people...

Good to see all is well.

OSIWM?

None of those proposed names sound very good. I think I will just give him (*gasp!*) an origional name.

Ok So It Was Me.

Still working on this stuff, btw.  I'm flooded with other stuff.  -_-  But I'll try and get this stuff done as soon as I have time.

Darcsle/Darksle/ Darcsul

Running behind schedule as usual.  I'll have everything posted ASAP.  Sorry for the delay.

Later.

1.) I'm a he, not a she as someone mentioned.

2.) Just call me Noma

3.) I've been busy for the past month or so.

4.) I'll work on some sprites and such as well as a hand drawn sketch for a character for you.  If you don't like him, dump him and just consider it a sample of what I can do.

I should have it done by Friday, until then, adios.