Dienyddiwr
New member
Salutations,
I used to do some hex-monkey romhacking back in the day, mostly revolving around JRPGs, Final Fantasy in particular. I even wrote some documents on it, albeit rife with the awkward remarks of a young teen and prominent indications that I didn't really know what I was doing.
I'm a bored and listless middle-aged man now, as many of us are, I imagine. I stumbled on NES maker and, naturally, it punched my right in the nostalgia.
The two main ideas floating in my head are something like Adventures of Lolo crossed with some sort of simplified survival/exploration. Secret rooms, multiple divergent paths. Would be nice to have the occasional room larger than a screen with four way scrolling. A dash of Gauntlet, in those regards. From what I'm gathering on the forum and cursory dives into the software, the four way scrolling is going to be difficult for me, and I may have to scrap it.
And of course a JRPG of some kind, where I think my main questions are going to be handling encounters generation, turns and stat interactions. It's a shame there isn't a JRPG module already, but I guess most people are using RPGMaker for that. Nevertheless, this idea seems more manageable for a first go.
The only thing I know I'm totally good for is the graphics. I did lots of graphical tweaking and pixel art, and still find myself occasionally doing so even without any related projects. Would have killed to have something like Aseprite back in the day.
Anyway, thanks for having me, maybe I'll pop in from time to time, and any leads regarding my ideas above are welcome.
Cheers.
I used to do some hex-monkey romhacking back in the day, mostly revolving around JRPGs, Final Fantasy in particular. I even wrote some documents on it, albeit rife with the awkward remarks of a young teen and prominent indications that I didn't really know what I was doing.
I'm a bored and listless middle-aged man now, as many of us are, I imagine. I stumbled on NES maker and, naturally, it punched my right in the nostalgia.
The two main ideas floating in my head are something like Adventures of Lolo crossed with some sort of simplified survival/exploration. Secret rooms, multiple divergent paths. Would be nice to have the occasional room larger than a screen with four way scrolling. A dash of Gauntlet, in those regards. From what I'm gathering on the forum and cursory dives into the software, the four way scrolling is going to be difficult for me, and I may have to scrap it.
And of course a JRPG of some kind, where I think my main questions are going to be handling encounters generation, turns and stat interactions. It's a shame there isn't a JRPG module already, but I guess most people are using RPGMaker for that. Nevertheless, this idea seems more manageable for a first go.
The only thing I know I'm totally good for is the graphics. I did lots of graphical tweaking and pixel art, and still find myself occasionally doing so even without any related projects. Would have killed to have something like Aseprite back in the day.
Anyway, thanks for having me, maybe I'll pop in from time to time, and any leads regarding my ideas above are welcome.
Cheers.
