Hey guys! I'm getting into the RPG craze!

Battle Lyrical is a turn-based RPG based off of the anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha <Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha>. The game is basically an abridged recap of the first MSLN.



You play as Takamachi Nanoha, a girl who, due to a series of circumstances, has become a magical girl. Using her magical staff Raising Heart, Nanoha must defeat and seal way several "Jewel Seeds", ancient relics of a past civilization that contain an immense power.

The game is fairly simple and straight-forward. Like a typical RPG, there are random encounters and you level up by beating enemies and gaining experience. Nanoha also gains new types of magic as she levels up and as the game progresses.

Battle is fairly simple. Nanoha has three commands: "Strike", "Magic", and "Run".

"Strike" is physical attack with Raising Heart and does not consume MP. "Magic" brings up a menu of all available magics to cast. Each magic consumes a different amount of MP and has different effects. "Run" obviously has Nanoha run from battle. Unlike typical RPGs, Nanoha will always run away from any battle that isn't a boss battle.

Outside of battle, Nanoha automatically recovers a little HP and MP over time. There are no items in this game, so this system will probably come in handy.

Another slight deviation from typical RPGs is that enemy encounters only happen in areas with Jewel Seeds, so LN:BL will have a larger "no enemy" area than most RPGs. However, even after defeating a Jewel seed, enemies will remain in that area so there's no worry about not being able to grind.

(Also, Jewel Seeds manifest in different forms so you will *not* be fighting the same boss 9001 times)

See attached screenshot since Photobucket is being weird.

Progress
 - I have most of the intro/menu system completed as shown above. The screens transition using contrast effects so I took static shots of each screen because you'd miss out on them either way
 - The battle engine is about 1/3 to 1/2 done. As you can see, the text display is still a little buggy.
 - You can't attack and enemy sprites and data aren't finished so the invisible enemy will pass its turn each time. Attacks aren't rigged into the MP or text system yet either.

What's next
After I get the battle system more or less complete, I'll work on the overworld movement system and tying in random battles, leveling up, and the related.

After that, it's just simply getting the maps, events, and dialogue in place. The game is incredibly short so this *shouldn't* take long


Oh and yes, thanks to Will W for the sprites. Will W is awesome and epic at spriting and I will be abusing his skills for the duration of this game and its sequel.

Ah, yes, thanks for reminding me!

Battle Lyrical is written in BASIC and enhanced with xLIB, therefore it will not work on TI-84+ OS 2.53. It makes extensive use of Real(12 shapes, so I doubt it'd work with Celtic either if the whole "Celtic has issues with Real(12" thing is true.

Thank you!
And D'OH! Why didn't I think of that?
Duly noted and shall be implemented as soon as I finish writing this post and pic up my calc


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I use Real(12 for all the lines and technically it should update all at once except for the text. I might have borked part of it up though.

Don't worry, I back up often. I have a saved group on calc AND on my laptop

also, real(12,7 white squares implemented. Just a matter of tweaking the text system so it doesn't get all weird and then implementing attacking. Also, gotta straighten out the MP values for the magics in the Magic menu.

Oh right, I'll back up the files individually to the computer then. I already had to for porting them to WabbitEmu so I may as well stick with that.

As for leveling up, I don't really have a set method for it yet. Would you mind elaborating on the Dragon Warrior/FF1 and FF6/7 and FF8 things? I'm not familiar with any of those games at all.

Ah, I see.
I think I'll make it so that enemies get stronger as you progress through the game so that grinding higher levels requires advancing and beating tougher enemies.

As for leveling up itself, I think I'm going to go for a fairly static growth. Since in the anime series, Nanoha is Godly powerful, leveling up will be sort of a "short and sweet" thing. You won't have to worry about grinding levels and levels and levels. Leveling up a couple of times between boss battles should keep you on fairly equal ground.

However, this is subject to change as I get more and more done so who knows? Maybe it'll get a bit more complicated

Also, just a question, but do you think I should have some sort of "evasion" stat and make it so Nanoha and enemies can dodge attacks? I don't really want to but if y'all think it's a good idea, I'll try to implement it.

That sounds like a pretty decent way to go about it. I'll probably try to set up the leveling to work similar to that.
And ah, okay. I'll not have evasion/dodging at all. Or at the very least, I'll try it but have it be like a very low chance for both Nanoha and enemies so that while it does happen, it's statistically infrequent enough not to be a bother. We'll see

That sounds like a pretty decent way to go about it. I'll probably try to set up the leveling to work similar to that.
And ah, okay. I'll not have evasion/dodging at all. Or at the very least, I'll try it but have it be like a very low chance for both Nanoha and enemies so that while it does happen, it's statistically infrequent enough not to be a bother. We'll see

In Illusiat games, I think it's only 10% chances of missing. Still a bit high, but out of 10 hits it's not a lot. In ROL2 and 3, mage-based characters misses 1/5 of the time, so it's hard to attack with them. Other characters hit with a 1/20, 1/15 or 1/10 chance of missing. In some rare cases, I still manage to end up missing 3 times in a row, though. I remember my bro being frustrated when he played Illusiat 11. In Illusiat 12, I think the final weapon had a smaller chance to miss, if any at all, but I could be wrong. I know it had 30% chances of killing the enemy instantly, though.