Huzzah!



I'm porting Illusiat 11 for contest! (with all-mighty Grammer)

I'm about 70% done with the new battle engine (even though it doesn't look like it in the screenshot, since screenshot only contains some sprite tests)

Since Grammer only supports 3 lvl greyscale, I'll have to live with it

Also, blame wabbit about flickeringness.

Actually I have a different idea about how to handle the town and stuff.

also by "shorter", I meant shorter time to program, not play

I have the idea of battle background in my mind. I just have to figure out why RecallPic in Grammer won't work.

for the custom commands, left and right arrow key stuffs are changable. (on the screenshot, left arrow has ITEMS and right arrows has MAGIC)

Wow, pretty nice, I like it that the old games come back

Ah ok. You could maybe keep the current phase that is solely luck-based, but allow the character to go beyond LV 99 (maybe 128 or 150?) while still staying at 9999 HP/999 MP so that part can be easier, then part II could be a boss that changes elemental weakness every few turn like I did in another game (I think it's Illusiat 13 or Mystique), inspiring myself from a Final Fantasy VI boss. So the boss becomes extremely weak against that element (but not to the same extent as Boss 8 ) and almost immune to everything else. The boss could also cast an unique spell at the start of the battle that makes every physical attack (including Coin Toss/Money) innefective, so only the 3 magic, Trimag and 1000 Neddles or whatever it was called will work. That way, people can't use cheap techniques like the coin tossing tech to get around the constantly changing elemental protection change.

In any case, though, the current version of the boss is too brutal lol. You need LV 97 or higher, but even then, it's so luck-based that every turn, there is 2 chances out of 3 that you'll have to heal yourself, unable to attack, so sometimes you end up using like 30 elixirs in a row if you're unlucky. (In two occasions, I had 99 elixirs and it was still not enough to defeat him (he had 80000 HP left once), while another time, I managed to do it with 46). Instead of nerfing it, though, you could definitively increase the LV cap a bit so your defense/attack can continue increasing. And I think I read somewhere that RPG fights that are almost entirely luck-based aren't necessarily a good thing.

As for level and order of attack, if you check prgmLC, every loop iteration, it checks if you or the enemy reached 0 HP or if you ran away. Then it increments both invisible ATB gauges. Once one reaches a certain amount, it's his turn to attack. The higher your LV, the faster it increases (or the higher it resets back at, I forgot). This is why Boss 8 attacks so fast. (he's LV 150, although Scan doesn't display any LV above 99)

Oh ok. The funny thing is how initially this boss had 500000 HP, then I reduced it before releasing the game.

I hope integer sizes won't be too much of an issue for this project, though. >.< (if that's why you are splitting the battle in half)

Grammer already has a 32 bit stuff built into it. Its just not functioning well

Do you mean it's buggy or just not enough for Illusiat's insane damage?