Battle & World Map Testing

 Two videos to show off today!

The first video is the world map. It is intended to be similar to a tactical RPG's world map in that the player moves about on an illustrated world map and selects a location to enter. Players will unlock new locations on the map as they progress. Blue locations are towns, red are hostile areas where the player can fight generic enemies, yellow are mission locations, and white are optional non-combat areas.

It was pointed out on YouTube by Kaimi Kreissel that the A and R in the location preview images were too similar to one another. I agreed and have since fixed this by adding an additional black pixel to the R, but this change was made after the below video was recorded.

Next video is the very first battle test! There's not much in place yet, but it's a great start I feel. I'm reusing a lot of assets from the cancelled Blackmoon Prophecy III such as the battle transition and many sound effects. I'm also pixelating the RTP battle animation files (shrinking by 33% and then resizing them back to their original sizes via pixel resize) to give them a nice pixelated SNES look.

Field Sprites!

Decided that I'd show off some of the field sprites for this game since I've been making quite a few this week!

Wondering who they are? Well...

1. Adder Legault: General of the Branch Dragoons. In the first Blackmoon Prophecy, he is known as Lord Adder.

2. Ami Peperro: A fledgling blue mage in training from the Lenadian town of Palumpu. 

3. Arvis Beryl: A strategist and tactician assigned to work under Vergil. Arvis is related to Cid Beryl, the Commander of the Augurers in Blackmoon Prophecy II.

4. Bosche Gore: Relic seeker and treasure hunter extraordinaire! Bosche Gore returns in all his chaotic glory. As usual, he won't really speak much sense.

5. Braak Amiro: General of the Ivalician Army. He is one of the four elite generals who make up the "Four Swords of Ivalice".

6. Darius Nobleton: A young Branch dragoon who is eager to impress.

7. Deckar Casca: General of the Ivalician Army. He is one of the four elite generals who make up the "Four Swords of Ivalice".

8. Dragoon: Just a typical dragoon sprite!

9. Gran Goldmore: Regent of Lindblum. He steps in to lead the Kingdom of Lindblum when his brother, King Edward Goldmore, goes missing.

10. Jasmine Amiro: Sister to General Braak Amiro.

11. Jastira Foxglove: Recruiter for the Lindblum Army.

12. Lanse Crescent: An aspiring mercenary with an adventurous heart. He hails from the Kingdom of Branch.

13. Ronan Solaris: A youthful Kindred from the Lenadian town of Daguero. Fun fact, Ronan was one of the two main characters from the defunct Blackmoon Prophecy III.

14. Sabino Ricci: Head of the Mage Academy and Lindblum's senior most magic authority.

15. Salia Fleuret: Best friend of Vergil Augurelt. She is the deuteragonist of the game.

16. Siegfried Sigmundson: A swordsman from the remote Lindblum town of Kaipo.

17. Vera Farabrandt: A Kindred and General of the Ivalician Army. She is one of the four elite generals who make up the "Four Swords of Ivalice".

18. Vergil Augurelt: Main character from the Lindblum town of Port Alraune.

19. Zeul Raithwall: Lord of the Ivalician Military.