Sunday, June 26, 2011

RP World Development

Since Oden announced it on the forums, I'm gonna go ahead and announce it here. There's an entire RP world under development for the server. I'm not gonna post all the details, as I'd just be repeating what he said, but you can see all the details on the forum post, and you can follow his development log on his blog page here, or under our Staff Blog links to the side of the page.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

New Mob and New Wiki

The Ultima mob has now been finished and added. Still looking for maps to have the new FFTA mobs spawn, but I've heard good things about them from the people I've shown them off to.

I've also been working on a new wiki for the server, one that's hosted on the website. This is mostly because I absolutely hate the skin wikia forces everyone to use. It's ugly, wastes half the screen, and crams a ton of extra crap on the pages, giving the actual information very little room. You can find the new wiki here, or, if you still like the crappy old one, you can still find it here. The old wiki will no longer be updated, but all the old information is still there.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Next Up: Ultima

With the Malboro and Tonberry mobs finished, and clearly a huge success (especially Tonberry), I now turn my eyes to Ultima from FFTA. I've actually already completely finished the animation including sounds. All I have left to do is resize it and test it out. This boss is not to be confused with Altima from FFT.

After this enemy, I'll likely be adding in a Malboro King and Tonberry King, though they may end up with different names. I have two sets of palettes for both from the sprite sheets I used, but I doubt I'll be using the names they have: Big Malboro and Dingleberry. What kind of names are those? Out of all the possible names Square could have picked from their past games, THOSE are the names they went with?

Anyways, that's all I have to say at this time. There will likely be more custom mobs to follow after these, but I can't say for certain what they'll be. I'm gradually working up in difficulty, so probably not something too complicated.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Player Post: Yuuki's Challenge

Here's the first of our player posts: Yuuki's Forum Challenge.
Intro
HELLO KITRO! Yuuki/Rune here. For those who don’t know, I’m a member of the Support guild and one of my jobs as a member of the support guild is to hold events for everyone to enjoy. And for those who couldn’t already tell, I’m the top poster here on the forums. That being said, I’m here to hold an event and issue you a challenge! As a forum whore, I like to post and see a happy healthy forum, sadly, the forum is not quite that… That is why I’m here to issue the challenge!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Coming Soon: Tonberry

With the Malboro mob finished, it's time for me to start working on the next FFTA mob: Tonberry. I know a lot of people have been looking forward to this particular mob, and the Malboro was more of a test for me. It was easier to create than I thought, so I'll be working on the Tonberry mob in the next few days. It's more complicated than the Malboro, so it'll likely take me two or three days off and on.

Monday, June 6, 2011

New Mob Update

I've started working on the act for the new Malboro mob, and it's coming along nicely. I have everything but hurt and death animations finished, then I need to start working on the sounds. Shouldn't be too difficult, but it's kind of time consuming. Well, just thought I'd let everyone know my progress, and also know that the blog isn't quite dead.


I still need to enlarge the sprites, but I'll do that with the magnification function of the program.