Plugins, Pixels & Priorities
A pretty good week progress wise for the first half of the week. The second half not so much. I decided it was time to get my plugins sorted. I bought Yanfly's plugins pack many years ago and had used them in a previous project. So I know how helpful they can be and how much they can improve the overall look and feel of an RPG maker project. I didn't want to get too complicated though as the different systems and variations to gameplay these plugins can offer can be quite overwhelming. So keeping to the scope I have planned for the game I only ended up with... 33 Yanfly plugins. Most of this is just QOL type things like improved menus and displaying turn order and such.
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| My plugins. Just a few... |
On top of that I also did some more sprite edits, but instead of using Affinity Photo which isn't really designed for pixel art I bought Aseprite as it was on sale. What an incredible tool it is! It made reworking the RTP assets so simple and I got through so much more work with greater accuracy than when I was using Affinity (which is still a great program, just not for this). So I'm looking forward to using this program more in the future and feel a little bit more confident in one day creating my own assets.
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| I added horns to Beau (Harold) and Glasses and a haircut to Tor! |
Speaking of the future... I think I will need to step back from working on the game for a little while. I have found myself being too obsessed with this hobby project and it has been affecting my relationship with my wife, among other things. So I want to give those things the attention they deserve. I will still be working on the game but not every night as I have been and really only when other priorities have been taken care of. That's not to say I have been painfully neglectful of other aspects of my life, but more just being self aware and seeing that if things continue the way they are then it could become a problem. EOTW will still be happening each week but unless there is major progress made or something I feel is worth mentioning there won't be weekly dev blogs for now.
Thanks for reading, say hi in the comments and let me know your favourite pixel artist.
Moo moo,
Phil
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