Darn, so amazing o.o

Glad to see new progress! I hope for the battle engine, you'll add some sample enemies or a boss relevant to the game story so I can compile the screenshots and make a Youtube vid like I planned for the past year

The code is sorta starting to come together. I've got a basic outline on how the processing will be done. I can (almost) have it output debug information consisting of who's turn is it at what point and information about their commands. If I can get that right, I can then start doing some real stuff like: A uses technique B on C and inflicts D damage. No, not exaclty, but you get the idea.

I somehow always prefered to work on the in-game menu first, making sure all character stats display right, then put them to use in a battle engine. I tend to prefer working on these two things first, for some reasons. It depends of people , though.

I am glad E:SoR is still progressing. I'll be certain to make a video on Youtube when you post battle screenshots. I would recommend some 27 FPS screenshots

Wow, I never thought the battle engines would be that hard to do...I'm glad that I decided not to write an RPG

Battle engines are the hardest thing I've ever coded.  They may not look hard, but there are so many little details that must be perfect.  It's amazing.

Good luck Iambian!
* ZTrumpet chucks a couple hundred cherries at Iambian

Lol, having issues with the battle engine?

The technical side of this announcement was already done on the Cemetech IRC chan, but I think it's best that you guys get in on what's going on in the world of Escheron.

I've decided to take a small break from the battle engine to work on another aspect of the project: Grayscale routines.

Now, while the current routines are fine and dandy, the code that holds the grayscale steady between tilemap updates is the only run of code that operates at 6MHz instead of 15MHz like the rest of the project. So the idea is to enhance the 6MHz code so it runs fine under 15MHz and does more stuff. What kind of stuff you ask?

In addition to just drawing the screen all grayscaley-like, it does the following:
(1) Apply grayscale layer swapping/shifting/rotating effects without affecting the buffer
(2) Accelerates the tilemapper by preshifting tiles if moving left or right.

While I'm diving into the grayscale routines, I'll spend time looking at the tilemapper routine as well. Maybe I can find some sort of optimization. Or correct some problems. Overall, this is gonna be good. I hope. And if you're worried about the battle engine, please don't. Too much. The screen effects will help cheapen the graphical stuffs that the thing needs to do. Like ... blinky stuff. You get what I mean. I think.