The entrance to a lava dungeon thing. I'm thinking I'll need to recolor the cliffs as well to match, but I'm not sure.

The entrance to a lava dungeon thing. I'm thinking I'll need to recolor the cliffs as well to match, but I'm not sure.

Perhaps you should add in a few parts of the cliff coming out around midway down the wall so that it seems more like a mountain and less like a tower of rock.

@Ephiam: Everything seems to flow fairly well and the game definitely gives off a very playable feeling. You had me with the FF9 Boss music.

Yeah, but using all RTP in a short time period was the point of the project. I hope I at least pull off the mapping well enough to not be lumped together with many other RMVX RTP games.

I think it's about time I posted another pic.
Here you see the first boss.  He has a pretty simple pattern, but you'll probably die once or twice unless you're some kind of Touhou master.  He fires off a bunch of shots randomly, then three big blasts, and repeat.  He also shuts his eye, and if you hit him then, he'll recover HP.
Also, I made a triple shot weapon.  It fires three normal bullets forward. One up, one down, and one straight ahead.  And that's the third weapon out of the six I plan to have.


Also, the upgrade shop is almost completely functional.  Cursor movement and item descriptions work perfectly, I just have to add the stats to the right side, and make items buyable.

That looks amazing Weird Guy. What is that made in?

Here's another one. Still workin' on the same chipset; it's almost done. This map is a work in progress. I haven't even done the top layer yet. I just wanna know what you guys think of the chip. It's supposed to be like an outdoors molten terrain. Think volcanic Hawaiin areas 

Finished the Overdrive/Alignment display.

That looks amazing Weird Guy. What is that made in?

Pretty sure I've said it already, but it's made in Game Maker.  I have no idea why I avoided it for so long.  It's clearly superior to RPG Maker for making games that aren't turn based RPGs.  And hey, I can sell my game legally if I want.

Echopax, that's incredibly sexy.

Echopax, that's incredibly sexy.

Thanks. I'm trying to not to pull my hair out getting a lot of the coding done, but it's all going well for the most part. It's just time consuming. 

I know that this is becoming incredibly "same old same old" of me, but here's another area of DoaDV. This is where a flashback of Yilphruk's takes place, the point in his life when he chooses not to accept Maelnutrek's offer as Head Mage of the guild (because he feels that he is only a novice) and is technically thrown out of the guild as Maelnutrek claims that his "...lack of faith is deeply dishonoring."

And as it's been for a while now, I'll display what it looks like nowadays and what it looked like originally back in 2007-08.


I would display these as they were intended, as cutscenes in game, but sadly Fraps would only record 30 seconds (unless I found a cracked version).

While thinking about this, I've given myself a bit more encouragement to complete the game by going back through and re-working all the areas that I have yet to finalize but are technically finished/playable, as I can tell how much improvement has been made and it wouldn't do the game justice to leave all the older areas as-is. Well, that and the player would no doubt lose interest quicker seeing something that's barely sub-par.

EDIT: And the multi-part scene is now completed.

Wow, what a huge improvement! RTP for the win.