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PSe Progress Report #2

Tue, 18 May 2010 21:17:55 +0000

"Dragged you down below down to the devil's show,
To be his guest forever,
Peace of mind is less than never,
Hate to twist your mind,
but God ain't on your side,
An old acquaintance severed,
Render of your last endeavor,

Ashes burning, you can smell it in the air,
Cause men like you have such an easy soul to steal,
So stand in line while banging numbers in your head,
You're now a slave until the end of time,
And nothing stops the madness turning,
haunting, yearning, pull the trigger!"

Exert from Avenged Sevenfold's new single, Nightmare, which was released last night.
Official Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Bi1c9LmhU

Anyway, I have a few small updates to PSe to share with you guys. Some of you already know this, but I've been tweaking the graphics a bit.
This includes:

-The grass (Poll)
-Trees
-Animated Ponds (In Progress)
-Animated Ocean Water
-New HUD
-Plot formation

As usual, I'll save screenshots til the end.
All of the graphics I've been editing to are custom made by my mate on dA whom I've mentioned before. I've been helping him out with the creation of a few Custom Pokemon Black and White tiles. (Only one of mine have been put on my dA.)

Michael, my co-developer with the project has been working non-stop on perfecting the turn-based overworld combat system versus both NPCs and PvP and has been slowly piecing together. Some of the major accomplishments so far were completed today, such as the new HUD.

The hud is based off of Pokemon Black and White's hud seen in the screenshots posted on Serebii.net and several other Pokemon fan sites. They've been updated to feature the Level, and made more appealing to the eyes and easier to see the experience bar. (See img2)

My next step is to begin incorporating the beginning for overall plot that the storyline will follow. (Questions, Ask below)

Anyway, That's all for now.

Screenshots:

img1: Route 1- Restyled

img2:

img3:

img4:

PSe - Community Poll

Sat, 15 May 2010 05:39:26 +0000

Alright, I know this is a rather small thing to make a big deal out of, however.

I can't quite decide which grass turf to use, likely due to my obvious perfectionist output on graphics.
Personally, I prefer the new one, seeing as it looks better with the turf and the new graphics I'll be incorporating.

Despite my opinion, I want the community to decide seeing as it's the community that I need to please.

Anyway, here are the screenshots of a small test environment I threw together.

Change it (modded):
+Higher contrast.
-Less detail.

Keep it (original):
+More detail.
-moderately dull.

Also, for those who didn't catch it, PSe's estimated release date is currently January 9th, 2011.

Later,
Kumori
+Kumzii@live.com

PS: I only have 71 days left on my membership, therefore I will likely only make one more blog entry before purchasing my new key.

iBYOND

Sun, 09 May 2010 10:39:43 +0000

Here's the case.

I am absolutely new to designing themes for the iPod. new meaning I learned literally 5 minutes before I started this theme which I only spent 6 hours on.

Being my first theme, I'm rather satisfied.
The only thing that really bugs me would be the dock. If you have any suggestions for the dock or any other, tell me, please.

I plan on expanding on this theme and potentially getting it on Cydia.

Your thoughts?

Which to choose. .

Wed, 05 May 2010 02:33:09 +0000

Alright, I've been having self conflicted issues over resetting my computer, however, I don't have the restore disk for my Windows Vista Home Premium.
Here's where my issue is.

While searching for the restore disk of which I likely lost while moving last summer, I found a Windows XP Professional disk.
I simply wanted to reset my Operating System, however, XP seems like it would be the better choice.

The downside to this is that I'd much rather reset my Vista, rather than go to XP. Therefore, If anybody knows a program, or trick to reset without the disk, please tell me.

Otherwise, tell me if I should just put up with my issues, or Go to XP.

-Kumori
+Kumzii@live.com

PSe Progress Report #1

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:23:59 +0000

Well, imitating what that other guy is doing by posting progress reports, I'll keep the community updated on the progress with PSe.

Anyway, I have a a few features and such I've finished including / debugging, and a few screenshots.

After having Enigmatic review the old PSe, I considered alot of what he had mentioned, and as a result, PSe is no longer a PAU-style game.
PSe, as it's newly being styled as, is RP-Based with a guided plot line incorporated.
This, being only seen in the rather unpopular Pokemon Highlight by Rarescar.

Graphically, The game is stunning, as it's been said, I am very content with and will likely not change to any other style. (Graphics are currently custom HG/SS styled icons with courtesy of one of my mates on deviantArt.
Player icons are HGSS Pokemon(Overworld).

Systems that have been incorporated already:

-Areas;
Imitating the way the official games show area names via the pop up label, PSe has incorporated the system which works rather well, and flows nicely.

img:

-Battle System;
As decided in the previous poll, the battle system is in an overworld style, yet I still added a twist of turn based to it.
NPC's can challenge you, or you can challenge them to an organized battle which is overworld, however you can only attack when it's your turn.
+Current Issues: Occasionally crashes due to a constant loop- Re-writing the AI system.

-Background Music & Sound Effects;
Music for all routes, caves, cities, etc play constantly; flowing and matching the current events, and areas the client is in.
Upon login, it is asked whether you would like to allow music to play, yes or no, and the music can be turned on or off at any point during gameplay.
+Midi format.

The above are the new features from the past few weeks. Screenshots below.

Screenshots:

-Kumori
+MSN/Email: Kumzii@live.com

Record Setting Fail

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:13:09 +0000

This has got to be the shortest time in the "I quit BYOND" history.
Only 55 minutes.

<--(4:00 pm) Haley_52353: Dear Kryptic Envy, BigBoi2010, 789789789, Chloeluv, Christian86, Cvdude86, Moussiffer, Naruto1221221, Nemesis034, Roxas the keybladechaser, Shadow Void, TrixiiBabbeyy, Xavier_3_5_6, T.vizard, Withdemon, Bb157, Pokemon174, Flame48, Charles1995, NEWBLE, Punkamainia, 5600118, Aaron the spartian, Anima2002, BabyDianna15, Bananabob123, BarbWyreAngel, Born in Hell, Br4nd0n2008, Chanman56, Charmed4991, Christina1, Christopher 28563, Cold Miller, Da frogg, Damilola, DarkShinigamiX, DeathMagi, Diannababy15, Emoboy226, Erthe, Firewallz, Foxgurl_48, Gamer4Life08, Gotenks 2323, GothicVampy, Joshaboy, KadamaruTouka, Karnage679, Kezonarue, Lavaeye2, Mandyn10, MegaDarkAngel2010, Moneysam9, Mosica101, MysticFalcon, Nielz, Paigeqwx, Peronian, Phillipk400, Riku22111, Rocket88, Ronald809, Rotario, Shikai-Demos, Silvercookie, Souhyb, The Legendary Savage, Tidulusz, Traceb97, UltraSuperMajinBuu, UZAMAKI FAN, Vzipoe, Zerodragonsa,

I hope you will forgive me, but I must do this, im sorry to every one of yall... except Moussiffer. But here it goes... I quit byond. I must quit byond because of problems that it's caused me and everything else. Im so happy to meet new friends and have a happy time. I say bye to all of you now.

<--(4:01 pm) Haley_52353: I might visit a couple of times, but not a lot.. bye

<--(4:07 pm) Haley_52353: Attention everyone, I haven't thought it through a lot, but I might stay, might not. I hope you don't hate me.

<--(4:55 pm) Haley_52353: Everyone.. i'm back. I've made my choice... I'm staying...! I can't leave behind my friends, and almost family..! So.. sorry for the scare (some of you)

Battle System

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:00:28 +0000

Poll on what kind of battle system PSe should have.

Overworld; Similar to the PMD games. Not turn-based.
Old School; Turn Based like the official games.
Overworld Turn-Based; PMD style with turn base.
Other; Your call.

Personally, I'd say that Overworld Turn-Based would be the best bet for the kind of game that it is.

Abbreviations;

PMD- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (Nintendo game)

PSe- Pokemon Serenity (Fan game in the works.)

Small Demo

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:23:52 +0000

By small demo, I mean a TINY demo quest for PSe.

I will update the demo, but this just includes a small quest that is the basics on how quests will work in PSe.

Release Note(s):

-The character creation is not finalized, nor is the displayed the appropriate system.

-I know Eclipse says 12. Only Zorua at the moment due to my reluctance to work with login.

-Please report any bugs or typos below or via MSN.

-As said, this is a SMALL DEMO that I threw together in two day's time.

http://www.byond.com/developer/ShadowVoid/PSeDemo

Back.

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:24:35 +0000

After a long break from DM due to testing, I'm back and finally being able to get something done with Pokemon Serenity.

Also, I apologize for not saying anything on St. Pat's day so Happy belated St. Patrick's Day, and I hope you all got gold from that dastardly Leprechaun.

As far as personal life goes, not much, I spent the whole weekend at Anna's, visited my Grandmother's, and when I came home, Ended up cleaning the Koi Pond. Fun.

Well that's it for now.

Later,
--Kumori {M.S}
MSN: Kumzii@live.com

God, I'm oblivious. .

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:47:12 +0000

For any of you who caught my post last night before I deleted it. (The one about my comp issues) I fixed it. For those of you who aren;t aware, I was setting up a new theme which required replacing some dll files. Well, I obviously screwed up when I had, seeing as I couldn't run a majority of my programs, couldn't access my registry, etc.

Anyway, I tried system restore, failed.
Tried reloading, failed.

After several days, I managed to go, "Hey, lets try Safe Mode!" Thus I did, ran system restore, and it worked fine. If I thought of this a couple days ago, it would of saved me plenty of trouble.

Also, this is useless, but I revised that snippet I made for an illegal / banned host, if anybody really cares.

Dug through my files and came across it, figured I'd fix it up. Good for newbies, I suppose.

Anyway, That's all other than testing.

Later,
Kumori

Snippet:

var/list/HostBans=list("-Banned client's IP-")
proc
    CheckHost()
        var/WA=world.address
        for(var/T=1,T<=HostBans.len,T++)
            if(findtext(WA,HostBans[T]))
                world.log<<"<b><font color=red>Illegal Host- Killing connection.</font></b>"
                del world
            else return

Just add it to something like:

world/New()
    ..()
    CheckHost()