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(26 November 2019 - 02:15 PM)How is most people online at 959 for the 8th of October of this year? Is that right? Did I miss something or was there somekind of spambot invasion?
(26 November 2019 - 02:06 PM)I know what you mean, it gets awkard to post something unrelated to the current conversation, and even if somebody picks up on it, it would just become a huge mess in the c hatbox if a multitude of groups talk about different topics.
(10 November 2019 - 11:45 PM)especially better imo if you want to update on a topic but like only occasionally (e.g. a project you're working on or a let's play of a game)
(10 November 2019 - 11:44 PM)it's hard for me to explain precisely why but forums just like work better for meaningful discussion over a longer period of time ig
(10 November 2019 - 11:44 PM)yeah, you can also kind of respond at your own pace on forums. Discord conversations are often like... it's awkward to respond to something that happened a while ago, especially if the server is active, but even just in general. since you sort of need to keep track of multiple conversations at once at times, and it's not like it has a good reply/quote system ala forums, closest thing really is to copy/paste or screenshot the text you're responding to and then type a response below
(09 November 2019 - 11:29 AM)Adding on to what's been said, I just enjoy the order and structure of the forums. You can look through the threads and know exactly what people are talking about. Conversation get lost and buried on discord which is why I'm not a big fan of it.
(06 November 2019 - 05:31 AM)I enjoy that part of forums too. They become niche communities where you can have very specialized conversations as opposed to the cluttered mess in Discord.
(31 October 2019 - 01:17 AM)Yeah, part of me wishes I could go back to the times forums were more prevalent. I really enjoyed how even several different forums based off the same franchise could feel so different. It's not like what we now is bad though, I just feel nostalgic for old times.
(30 October 2019 - 06:39 AM)also forums in general are just not as prevalent, there are so many other ways to interact these days, like Twitter, FB, Tumblr, etc., where you can just throw your thoughts into the void. I think that's the real issue and that the only people rly interested in forums these days are either super dedicated to whatever they're about, have a specific reason/need to (e.g. support forums), or grew up with them and are thus attached to the idea enough to continue to try and use them (this was kinda me for a while lol but things happen, I couldn't keep it up forever)
(30 October 2019 - 06:36 AM)I've posted on SF for various reasons ofc but in terms of like making friends and stuff it's p. much just been smaller groups/forums, yeah. mainly FES
(27 October 2019 - 10:08 PM)Only reason I'm even on Serenes was because I had hacking questions. @Ezra yeah I figured it must be an age thing. I've been called an old man by many a child because I use Facebook.
(26 October 2019 - 05:49 AM)I think it's because a lot of newer FE players didn't frequent forums growing up. And those that do probably end up on Serenes.
(25 October 2019 - 07:30 AM)I would love to revitalize this place I'm just not sure how that would be done. I mean with how main stream FE seems to have become I'm honestly surprised we don't have more members.
(21 October 2019 - 08:04 PM)tfw u not coming here results in not seeing a PM from last month T_T ok gonna try and check at least every couple weeks now even if there's nothing here, lol...
(21 October 2019 - 07:54 PM)I come here almost never because I've fallen out of habit and basically just accepted the forums are dead it's neat you come here every day tho
Mostly copied from my topic on serenes, but with updated pictures. I generally like dabbing in the sprite department, and since I have my own fan game, I've been making a LOT of art to go along with it, so.... HERE THEY ARE!
Random junk:
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Statsheets of various characters:
A character from a story concept I had:
Another character from same story concept:
Maps:
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Prologue:
Triannos Castle Overworld:
(I really wanted to use WALLS for this, but sadly I do not possess a tileset with both a castle AND wall tiles. ...I think.)
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2 Map, made with a custom palette to make it look more FE8-like than FE7's nighttime palette:
Chapter 3 Map, also custom palette:
Chapter 4 Map:
Chapter 5 Map which looks a bit too much like chapter 4:
Chapter 6 Map:
Chapter 7 Map:
WIP:
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An attempt to make my own Archer/Sniper animation using Lyn's Blade Lord sprite. This character is one of my favorites and I really don't think he deserves to use that AWFUL sniper animation.
There's a picture limit so I can't post the rest of the stuff I wanted to. OH WELL.
Is that snowy BG from FE? def looks cool to me haha.
And I'm kind of a sucker for custom battle animations so I kiiind of hope you finish that battle animation.
Sorry about the dumb picture limit, tbh I feel like I've gone through this before and should have fixed it but maybe for some reason it wasn't? Not sure, but anyway just create a reply and go ahead. If you want, create 2 replies so you can edit them later, and I can delete this post/repost it later so that your 1st 3 posts are essentially all your posts to showcase your stuff. (Sorry for the inconvenience, though)
OOPS I NEVER FINISHED THESE POSTS. But Blazer never moved his, either. OH WELL.
Been dabbling with this custom animation for the past hour...although admittedly, I haven't done much other than get the bow frames for what will be his crit animation ready, finishing that last frame, updating the bow to look more like the bow in the drawing I made, fixing a few frames where his arm wasn't lapping OVER his bow and adding a palette in the upper corner.
I might have a separate animation for when he's using a bow other than his normal one, but MEH.
His crit animation will have him throwing his bow up into the air for no real reason except to show off, then catching it and firing. It's not going to be like the hero crit animation, though, cuz he won't be attacking from the air. That's just silly. (For a bow user)
So a friend of mine bought me RPGMaker XP (it was on sale for 5$) and I figured that I might try my hand at a Pokemon game. I still plan to do the FE-based one, but it's kind of hard to make a game when you don't have the tools ahaha.
I've mostly just been dabbling here in there with RPGMaker and Pokemon Essentials, though. Haven't done much except make a few maps, edited colors on a few sprites, and added a new male player. (Which was so much work I dread making a female one)
All sprites are twice the original size because RPGMaker XP is stupid that way.
This sprite was made by Aeo or SuperLuigi, I believe, but I'm posting it so that the other two images I've made have context:
Yes, it is the male cooltrainer from PBR. Spheal with it.
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Back Sprite + Animation
Overworld:
The hat on the backsprite is not at the right angle but considering I customed the whole dang thing, I think it's pretty decent. My attempts to correct the angle have failed, though :/
So a friend of mine bought me RPGMaker XP (it was on sale for 5$) and I figured that I might try my hand at a Pokemon game. I still plan to do the FE-based one, but it's kind of hard to make a game when you don't have the tools ahaha.
Wasn't there a group out there making an FE game out of RPGmaker? Maybe you could reach out to them?
Shameless Self-Plug - Updated May 30 - A Letter to a Younger Me – Anime Edition
Wasn't there a group out there making an FE game out of RPGmaker? Maybe you could reach out to them?
Yeti was supposedly working on such a thing before some kind of drama happened and he moved on to FEXNA, which he's programming himself. The original project's been abandoned, although there might be a group working to "finish" it to an extent?
I vaguely recall that same thing being released for everyone to use as an engine though, because of said drama.
Something something wtf y u reverse enginner our thing something something yeah well if we can't stop you from having it EVERYBODY can have it so on.
Yeah, but it's incomplete and mostly unsupported, it seems. I might pick it up after I get used to doing things with a much fuller game system (Pokemon Essentials) and thus have more knowledge about what I'm doing.