A step back in time~

Art by K-Hos

So blog focus has shifted once again. This time to the original SEB blog. I'm getting loads done for that. I don't doubt that I could have myself up to speed with the first demo of SEB if I keep going like this. But since fate loves me so much, I kinda doubt it at the same time. orz

So yeah, tl;dr...

SEB2: Hiatus
Project DOAD: Complete, but awaiting music
SEBR: In progress.

Distractions

I fought the good fight, but ultimately, I failed.

The MatrixTouhou has me. I can't escape from it's grasp! D:

C76 was a few days ago, so I've been completely absorbed in Touhou 12(above), Touhou Hisoutensoku, and Scarlet Devil Castle Remilia, which is hard as heck, mostly due to the old school castlevania physics. =_=

I might be looking into seeing if Mystical Chain was released as well. The demo for that was interesting. Edit: It wasn't released, booo.

Anyway, back to gaming I go!

Whoa, a non-SE related entry!

SEB II On Hold

No, there isn't any life shattering situation happening right now. I'm just working on other things. Namely I'm going back and addressing SEB's problems. I said Iwouldn't do it, but SEB has been getting more attention lately, and it's flaws keep getting put on the table, so I'm going to fix it.

By 'fix' it, I mean, fix and alter the battle system, change the field system handling. Alter the story to better fit with SEB2, and to be generally a better experience overall. Also, giving the party custom sprites...Or rather, better custom sprites.

This remake is much less demanding than SEB2 as a whole, so it will be much easier to make.

I've also been working on Project DOAD. I had canceled that game, but my friends convinced me to finish it once and for all. It's done now. I just have to wait for music. orz.

What have I done that's SEB2 related? I went over the story with Jihaus some, and made some more sprites. That's about it.

So yeah, SEB 'Remake' is go.

Later.

Here comes a new challenger!

It seems the powers that be shone their light upon me and bestowed upon me the power to post upon this hallowed ground. Well here I arrive, and post I shall.

For those who haven't met me, I'm some guy named JIHAUS who came wandering in from lands unknown one day. My actual role in the creation of SEB2 is actually rather small, but I'm notorious for bothering Skie by drawing random pictures related to the game. My job on the project is that of a concept artist but this is pretty much limited to environmental drawings and special moves. I do draw my share of character drawings related to SEB2 and you may have seen some on this page. Although my drawing skills are not as advanced as some of the artists who contribute to this project, I do try to keep things interesting. I'll be making some artwork updates here and there for those who want to see more stuff related the game while Skie is busy. I guess to start off, I'll post some of my recent ones:

Bah, may as well update.

So I vowed not to update until I passed 5k visitors for no reason other than sheer laziness.

Anyway, that time is here so now...time to update.

What have I been up to?

Well, I haven't really gotten much done game progress-wise.

I've been making sprites and tilesets, and Jihaus has been creating plenty of concept art for me to work off of. Nessiah has created some new artwork, which is very nice looking. We also went over the entire storyline together. Ocean has assisted me with tilesets as well, so we have a bunch finished already. Di and Troy have provided me with some great sounding music.

I also changed the message system. The previous style used big unchanged portraits, but Nessiah thought that it would be better if the characters expressed emotion. So we moved to skit faces. Portraits are now restricted to the status menu and battle face cutouts. Here's a set of screens of the new style.



You can hear a WIP of the battle theme in my Melodia skill overview video at youtube. Too lazy to upload it here. So have a link.

Melodia Skill Overview(Youtube)

Secondly, have some art that Jihaus made. These are actually skill concepts. I'll be reinterpeting them in sprite form.


And lastly, have some character concepts courtesy of Elagune.

And that's that. See ya, space cowboy.

Progress

A quick update.

1. I can thank my lucky stars, my laptop still works somehow. I have no idea, but I'm not complaining. I made more extensive backups in the wake of that scare and I'm back to work.

2. Added Melodia to the battle system. Screen and sheet below.

I would be more descriptive, but I'd rather work than talk.



Later on.

Oh life, how I love you so

Considering my incredible luck, it's no surprise that right as I'm making great progress and things are speeding up, life decides to put a stop to it.

My laptop died. I had it checked out and apparently the motherboard is dead. I don't know. But it won't turn on anymore, that's for sure.

So needless to say, we're back on hold...again. At least until I can somehow secure a new computer and hopefully get back the data on my laptop. All my SE work is on that thing...

Anyway, that's all from me for now.