I am indeed keeping the same map style. despite promises of more development, some of you may have noticed a lack of activity on my end. This is because I started a new project that I did not announce here. It is a graphical progress tracker for the game Stick Adventures Online, and I decided to make it because I am going to be leaving the ITS community and I wanted to have something to give In return for all the fun times I have had there. I also was on vacation. However, I am back now and the progress tracker is close to being finished! Some of you may have also heard on IRC that I am now sleeping on the Uberman schedule, which is 2 hours of sleep every day, broken into 20 minute naps every 4 hours. This schedule will give me the time I will need to work on full-scale game development, and I will be posting a progress report with screenie or demo every 2 days not counting weekends on here. Sorry for the inactivity

I am leaving the ITS community mainly because I do not play SAO or Volund because neither seem to work well for me in wine and Volund won't even run on my Vista partition. The other main reason is because I have been less active there in general more and more. I will still idle on the ITS irc server though.
The progress tracker will let people input current level/xp and current goal level/xp and then it will show a bar of how far they have to go, the in-game xp bar gets broken at level 48 and it also is inaccurate because people can maybe get like level 30 in one day and then they think it would be just as easy to get to level 60, but it is actually much much harder because the increase in xp needed every level is exponential, also the tracker will be able to log how much xp you made towards your goal in x amount of time to a .txt file, keep track of how long you play, and also generate a text file that shows stats about your character like how long you have played, how many creatures you have killed, etc

update #1 posted

yes, the pic is the current spritesheet for the tracker, the normal background is in a separate image though

also for playing ogg maybe look into http://www.vorbis.com/

Cool thanks for the link. FinallY I discovered it seemed to be because when downloading ogg files, Opera renames the extensions to ogx, which is why the files wouldn't play at all in Winamp. I had to rename them to ogg.

Btw nice music. If it wasn't for the 8 bit touch for the music you got so far, I would have said feel free to use my songs too, but Idk if they would fit very well with the other songs

I think all songs are made by various people. Maybe some are by him, though. I know one of the song is by KED on IRC.

heh, one of the songs is by KED, another by Pifreak, and the rest of them are just midi's ran through gashisoft to sound 8-bit, some of the midi ones I was not sure of the legal status on using so they might not show up in the final game. (user submitted songs might not either, but it is less likely for the midi ones) also DJ: feel free to submit any of your music, however you are right that they might not fit with the rest of the soundtrack, It would really depend on what kind of game settings might come up and how experimental I feel like when it comes to music.
Also about to prepare update 2, but not a lot to report on this time

EDIT: update #2 posted