Are you able to attack your own party members to gain proficiency in Escheron? Or are you unable to attack them at all?

No. Like FF2, enemies have ranks, and how your stats are increased depends on those ranks. Even if you could attack your characters, it would not influence your stat growth. Stat growth is tied directly to which items you have equipped, and which enemies you fight. FF2 had a system where stats increased as they were used. i.e., you had to sustain damage in order to increase your vitality.

Ah, ok. That's an cool setup. Although, I did enjoyed pummeling the daylights out of my party members. I am really glad that I don't have to get the tar beaten out of me in order to increase vitality though.

In regards to Final Fantasy II, magic was underpowered and it made me sad. I ended up getting lost near the final area of the game, so I did ALOT of grinding. My highest spells were a level 15 cure and a level 16 cure. Each character had 16 and 15 spells total respectively (of my two casters). Average spell levels were 8.06 and 6.3 respectively. I have 37:37 game time logged. I never did end up finishing that game...

I can't edit the original post, since it's a guest account. I would have moved some of the material Iambian posted up there for convenience.

I considered that before. I guess it would be helpful. I'll look into gathering all the images tomorrow, and see if I can set something up.

I think I have some images in the project folder I could use, too. The only problem is that there have been so many changes along the way that I'm not sure if any of my media would really reflect the most recent build.

Marginal progress. Not enough to justify this delay, though. I'll work on it as soon as I get some time. Got a paper due yesterday to do.

Still gotta render them enemy sprites. They won't draw themselves. That's why there's a large blank space above.

I like how the text is rendered so far. Looks great.

I was wondering if anyone would've wanted to see some sort of typewriter effect?

Just... wondering. I was wondering about a varying text display rate, with the fastest being what you see above.

Same as Zera here, because when NPC convos are long I hate having to spend 30 minutes watching text appear

Nothing to say here that hasn't been said already, it all looks awesome!