Yeah, it's done from scratch in XNA.
why
i mean why is this a thing people do on purpose i don't understand it
Personal preferences I guess. All of us within the team has grown up playing a lot of korean MMO's (mainly Ragnarok Online) and love the grinding aspect. And by grinding I don't mean it in the sense that you are forced to stick around in a area cause you are under leveled or whatever. But if you do, you might end up finding some sweet gear or other cool stuff.
Finding super rare items and shit like that is one of my favorite parts of gaming. Like finding that frickin Golem soul in Dawn of Sorrow after spending days killing golems. I think it's a super rewarding feeling. I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, in this day and age it's probably not many people that are into it. But hopefully we can seduce some old school gamers to give our shit a try at least.
Stuff me and two other dudes (well, one girl) are workin' on. Classic action RPG with heavy focus on grinding, character customization and co-op gameplay!
The bottom one is for the weekly challenge over at pixeljoint
SupremeWarrior: Don't know, my computer is kinda worthless and it works fine for me. Honestly, I don't really care. It's just me and a friend having fun with rpg maker, doing sweet graphics and trying to tell one of our twisted stories. Whether or not people will actually like the game, or even be able to play it, is not really our top priority. We're doing it for ourselves, which tends to be a winning concept in my book ;D
SupremeWarrior: It's just a bunch of pictures looping ;D