shirleycrow:

p1cn7-devblog:

I noticed there has not been a list around Tumblr on Chinese Yume Nikki-likes and their compatibilities. To help people with setting their locales correctly, here’s a list of Chinese games I know of and what locale they require:

Simplified Chinese:

• Anamorphosis (v-0.89)

Traditional…

Actually, these three are all in simplified Chinese.

I dont know why English or other language systems determine those two in traditional Chinese.

That is very odd, since the games I mention under Traditional Chinese don’t seem to show their text properly in Simplified Chinese locale settings. This could be an error caused by the Applocale software I use to emulate the right locale, though.

I noticed there has not been a list around Tumblr on Chinese Yume Nikki-likes and their compatibilities. To help people with setting their locales correctly, here’s a list of Chinese games I know of and what locale they require:

Simplified Chinese:

• Anamorphosis (v-0.89)

Traditional Chinese:

• Dream Genie (v0.05)
• Hide&Seek (v0.01)

These can be played on the correct locale by either switching your Windows version completely over to the correct locale or using the software AppLocale to ensure compatibility within other locales. Personally, I run these games using AppLocale (set to the correct Chinese locale) within Japanese locale - think of it as a sandbox that has (limited) language compatibility. For RPG Maker games this works just fine.

As most followers of this blog might have already noticed, there has been a decline in activity on this blog, even though I do not usually talk much on it anyway. See, I have been taking a break in developing since I ran out of creative inspiration for the things I was working on and have had some difficulties with other aspects of it, so I halted production for a while to allow myself some breathing room and wait for new inspiration.

Now I’m back in the development process and I’m hoping to be able to get enough work done on the game to be able to show some more in-game screenshots, though I’m not sure how long this will take as I’m not working on this game from start to finish - instead, I’m working on some late areas too that won’t be included in any early game builds (not even in the distributed project files, for those curious enough to dig around in those). I realize this means that early builds are highly unlikely to happen before 2013, but I like to take my time and ensure quality rather than rushing the project and having to rework things because I’m unhappy with them at a later point in time.

So in short: I took a break, but am working on the game soon and hope to post up something soon that shows more of the game rather than just ambiguous text posts, concept art and teasers. No promises, though!

Please make sure you don’t forget the following things when getting your fangame ready for release:

• Assign all vehicles as either existing sprites (doesn’t matter which ones) or as a transparent sprite.
• Make an empty system2 graphic or import one of the RTP ones and set it as the system2 graphic.

Doing so will prevent two very common error messages and will save the players of your game a lot of headaches!

I think I finally finished spriting the Effects that are going to affect the majority of the exploration worlds. Some affect NPCs, some affect the environment. I won’t go into details about what they look like or what they do (since I personally always find Effects more fun if I have no idea what they are like), but since I have the spriting part down for at least moving around plus their associated menu portraits (save for one Effect), I am glad I reached this milestone.

However, since not all Effects will influence (nearly) every map/NPC, this does NOT mean I have sprited all effects nor did I finish spriting every Effect made thus far completely.

What this does mean is that I can now start programming the functions of these Effects. I have set up the basic Effect equipping and removing codes some time ago already, which means that the Effects that have all their basic sprites are fully functional for merely cosmetic purposes already. You can wear and remove them without any bugging.

First priority after this is finishing the function of world affecting Effects, so I can focus more on working on the actual worlds. I have been working on one exploration world already so far and the music has been made for both this one and another, but I figured it’d be a better idea to work on the Effects that affect lots of things in the game first so I wouldn’t have to adapt a lot of events later on.

Since I haven’t been posting too regularly lately, I figured it would be a good idea to keep you all up to date when it comes to the progress of this game, even if it’s just in text. Please forgive the lack of visuals - it is hard to determine what I want to show for now.