Please release this as open source when finished. I've been contemplating porting this game to the NDS for a while, and if someone's already rewritten it in cpp or c, its already made that job a lot easier.

Make a YN fangame maker.

>>5372
FFFFFF Seconded.

>>5372
Yeah, put dreaming\flowing/etc on the conveyor :\

Here's the title screen. Planning to make the sprite a bit more serious looking lol. she's supposed to be pretty young.

If you want to make her look serious, give her a black suit and a gold glock. No, but seriously, I think she looks great. I don't know what I'd change.

Yume Nikki AND Chzo Mythos? Brix have already been shat.

Thanks for the feedback so far! I've been remaking the sprites, turns out they were waaayyy too small for VX (she looked like a little spec on the map)
Dunno when I'll have V0.01 up yet, I'm going to work on graphics first before I code.

I guess my fangame will be unlike YN, because I can't find a way to make it repeat. Although I find XP to be a hundred times better than any other...

That's one of things I ran into a while ago...
If you're going with an exploration-type game (which I guess you are), just make large levels with the necessary things (escape door, teleport NPCs, whathaveyou) near the center or the sides with more interesting things in the open areas for the players to discover.
Anyway, good luck. XP is a lot better once you decide what you want to do with it.

Looping, open levels are really annoying and practically impossible to do right anyway. I haven't played a single fangame in which they were enjoyable, and they weren't that great in YN in the first place. And trying to be similar to Yume Nikki shouldn't really be what you're going for in your game. You can have a game centered around exploration without having huge areas just because they were in YN.

It will be different from Yume Nikki, I assure you. I think most levels will have fences around them, although the levels that I WANT to be hard will have a very tricky system... I was thinking of putting teleport events on the walls, thus making it VERY easy to get lost. Only on a VERY small amount of levels, and only when it is used to make a point.

>>4801
My my random Anon, you really get me reconsidering alot of things... For the better I hope. since I only ever get to go on a computer once every two weeks or so I probably wont be able to creat much progress though... Also I have a folder filled with about 50 pictures that I though were pretty, decent, and useable. I can create a few worlds from this...

Update thingy...
Well I decided to make the game from scratch now instead of using .flow and Nisshi as bases. Which means the game will be filled with crappy sprites and such. I also decided to get rid of a bunch of "unoriginal" Ideas and world and was inspired to come up with new ideas and event.
Also working more so I can get a laptop soon, but now I dont really go out to take more pictures as often... They are also not as good as older ones... Might just create some new worlds from these.

Bump for epic Justice
I discovered on the rides back home I can take many pictures...
Also learning how to sprite and what not, but do not expect!
Project is slow but I am trying to get it done. I hope it can compete with all the other gaems on this board...

sobsobsob My thread is so neglected!
Since idk how to sprite, it takes me forever to make one tile of a tileset... Also scraping some ideas like the main character and gonna try to make a new one, and that takes time too...
But anyway, I decided to get rid of the nexus and make it so when you enter the phantasmagoria state, instead of being transported to the nexus, a series of images would flash by and after pressing a key, it would stop on one image and each images would be its own world. Most of it will be random but after you collect all the effects in one world there will be a smaller chance of being randomly taken there. Also new worlds can be unlocked after certain things and events...
Got inspired since I can never choose my dreams and phantasmagoria is a series of flashing images..
Would that be more frustrating than cool...?
Also seriously running out of things to take pictures of D:

I want to download your game, but it appears that the limit has been reached on all of your mirrors . . . again.

You really need to do something about that.

>>5135
FFFF HOW

Oh well, I finally decided to do what I probably should've done forever ago. A Mediafire download! http://www.mediafire.com/?xify31ilu5pw083

Please note this is the original 0.03 release, with the glitches still intact. You'll have to use the solutions stated above. Lazyness OTL

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Have some art. Hope you'll like it.

>>5268
I love them. Thank you so much.

Alright. The very first thing I noticed was that the main character was a recolor of urotsuki's Twintail effect. Not very impressive, but nonetheless she's still cute. I'm assuming she's goth...
The game uses a little TOO many of the "mosaic" hide screens, but again a very little issue.
I liked the balcony, and the room was cool, though small.
The nexus only has 4 doors, but it's only v0.00 so all is forgiven for now. I've only gone into one door. It was the top right one. In there I found a thing with a nail in it's head that I couldn't interact with and a crowbar. I got the crowbar only to get an error message. Missing file error.
Guess I need to open the game and see what's up.
I'll explore the other worlds later. There's only 10 maps so it's not like it's gonna be this huge adventure, but I'm hoping it's at least SOMEWHAT enjoyable.
Pic related, it's the error message.

EDIT: Hm... this it's a battle animation.
Not too good with kanji...
crap.

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It was a battle animation.
But now that I got an effect I tried waking up and this popped up.
NOW what??

What the hell is wrong with this game. It's a lzh file I can't open it or anything. SAME FOR EVERYTHING ELSE ON THIS LODA WTF?

>>5260
i couldn't open it either, it seems the archive is damaged, and i can usually open .lzh files as they're just another archive format.

I dunno if anyone else uses it, but I use an old program called Sound Club for that kind of music. it's pretty easy to use

>>5217
Link want.

I checked out the Sound Club program. Seems pretty good, albeit a little confusing for a guy who knows nothing about music. Thanks, man.

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Pic of Hallucigenia

Alright, for Nisshi, just open it with RPG Maker 2000. Press F8 and go to "System". Where it says "vehicles" select "set" and select any sprite.
As for Hallucigenia, try opening it in RPG maker as well and go to the same "system" screen. If in the bottom-left corner the "initial system graphic" box is empty, fill it. (do the same if the vehicles are missing, too)
Hope this helps.

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Thanks a lot, they both work now. =D

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Well a large part of mos platformers are the enemies and the fast-paced dodging of their attacks/killing of said enemies. It doesn't exactly sound like the best genre for the story you have, but I do have some ideas of how it could work. It's hard to tell just how it's going to play from what you've said so far, though. Could you tell us more about the ideas you have in mind?

>>3000

Maybe it would be better if it was and point 'n click-like adventure then ? Hm..

Well, the main idea is having the ghost girl explore the 2D world, whilst trying to find out who is she and how she died.. this would be the basis. You would get some memories (represented as a wisp or something) and the more you collect, the more you remember.

Maybe it would be better if the game was totally based on the girl, and she had to defeat some dark bizarre stuff to gain her memories back..

I'm sorry if I sound confused, it's just that I have so much ideas about it that I have trouble picking one and going with it..

Well I have played some excellent platformers that had no real enemies. Things like Knytt Stories, Seiklus, and the like. I'm thinking the best way to go about it as a platformer would have it puzzle based or metroid like (as in powerups give you access to more areas). I don't see why you couldn't combine the two either. If you decide to go for metroid style, the powerups would probably come in the form of the whisps you collect. Maybe not cheesy standard powerups like run and high jump, but logical ones, like limited floating (realize you're dead), or access to previously unknown areas (remember where something was, and thus the path opens for you). Actually, that last thing could be the entire game, in which you have levels that have a mystery revolving around the girl's past to solve, and once you solve it, she remembers another place that has another mystery, and thus gains access to a new level.

It just doesn't sound like you should have actual enemies you fight. Maybe game ending traps if you do something really stupid so as to keep a challenge, but not enemies. A game that focuses on it's atmosphere seems to be the way to go here.

Finally, I don't think you should scrap any big ideas at this point, like the guy who the girl saves. Honestly I can't tell too much of where that's going from the limited info you've given us, but that doesn't mean it can't be implemented or is bad. Of course, this is just my opinion, and you're talking to a whole board. I suggest you get more responses before you decide on anything for sure.

ok, after 2 months I finally started doing something (for the third time since I hated the last girl sprites), but now I'm having some trouble with level design.. I love platform games and have played a bunch of them but I have no idea where to begin, when drawing a map..

Any tips?

Here's an basic thing I did so I could test the girl's animation..

THANK YOUUUUU

This is good, but, Antgirl...
Whenever I equip another effect, then go beck to equip the previous effect, I get the unequip animation... how do I make the game think that I'm equipping it anew again?
Thanks anyways though!
This really did help.
EDIT:
Also... still don't know how to make an effect work ON the map...
Like...
How to make my character swing his weapon by pressing a key.

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>>5096
I thought I posted how to do it at the other thread...?

>>5096
Well, the point of it was you unequip the one you have before you put on something else. I cannot figure out a better way, thus it's complete crap. D: