Yea, I know. If you have a menu screen you could just add spell selection there and have using a spell mapped to a certain button or key. Then you'd just have to update the hud with mp meter or numeric readout, current spell selected(if u wanted to you could just leave this on the menu screen and have the user pull up the menu screen to see what spell is currently selected), and of course add varibles for max/current mp.
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Another thought (if you decide you want to include spells)
Move the hp meter to the top left of the screen and make it horizontial instead of vertical, use the old hp bar for a magic meter. If you shorten the magic meter a bit you could make a small box below it that shows which spell is currentley selected as well.

Actually I had an idea one night, altough I would need to implement it asap so I don't get too much work to do later. I would like to add some kind of delay to enemies so that when they are to hit you, it counts to a certain amount of time until they can hit you, giving you more time to hit them, especially when moving toward them.

Perhaps you could include the delay for some of the weaker enemies but leave out out for the more difficult ones as the game progresses. That way you have enemies with lower "speed" and higher "speed".

As for items, there is one that heals you as you can see in the second video. The others will do damage to all enemies in the entire map. The orange one does 2 damage no matter your attack power and the other one does 9 damage. They might get handy early in the games against bosses or when you are stuck between load of enemies from every sides with few life points remaining. For leveling up purposes it's a big no-no though, because the first one costs 200 gold and the second one 1000 gold and most enemies that has under 5 life points will most likely not give more than 10 gold and there will rarely be more than 10 enemies per screen.

So the items are one time use? I thought they were spells, like in Final Fantasy one and once you bought it, it was there for good. It'd be nice to have a mix of both. Maybe some you buy and some that are unique and must be found in a dungeon/on the overworld somewhere.

As for enemies I was thinking about having some rooms where enemies respawn when you kill one

Sounds good, could make for some nice face-paced action.

Photobucket is pretty decent as far as image and video hosting go, I've been using it for awhile now. Its pretty cool that that thing runs so fast with all the bullets on the screen.

You could have a second difficulty level after you beat the game for the first time where all monsters are X levels higher and the loot gets better.

That's the max bid option...If I put in a max bid of say 200 and the bidding is only at 2 dollars and you bid 2.50 it automatically kicks it up just enough to beat you out say 3 dollars and so on and so forth until that 200 limit is reached.

@Madskillz
I can't belive I forgot about that, although I rarely use ebay.

@DJOmnimaga
I wouldn't worry about it too much though, just be paitent. I find if you wait long enough you will eventually come across the right item with the right price. That's how I got my 83+ SE. =)

Sorry to hear about the workload. Great news about the band though! If you guys come to North Carolina(though I know you guys are pretty far up north ) I'd love to come see ya. How many places are you guys thinking about and how long do you intend on touring?

Hmm... perhaps change the basic attack to a punch punch kick ?(first 2 times you hit the attack button he punches, the third times he kicks) Is that doable? It would give him a bit of reach for a melee attack instead of him attacking with his aura when enemies are right on top of him.

If it is against the rules I suppose you could report it case by case. Can't say I can really think of a work around though unless you use one yourself.