A Heart of Gold

[Fisherson]

Hi everyone I have an update : )

The undersand is almost finished. Cacti Canyon looks amazing but I haven't actually done it yet, I just need to get around to it, I'm looking forward to it. Rockwell's blue magic is almost all done too so he's kinda cool now. I've fixed a fair few bugs including that life worm one. I'm expecting this to be done by the end of next weekend. I'm loving those special items that improve Hackett's reload etc, nice : )

The only thing I haven't thought of is a reward for the bird quest - if anyone has one in mind just yell or if not I'll put some bird themed weapon in I guess!

Didn't I dismantle the Blue Magic system for Rockwell? o.O I deleted my to-do-list but I seem to remember changing it around somehow. Now you have me curious what you did with what I did! XD As for a reward I thought the birds all being on Annie's Bar was the reward. If you want you could make another spirit that is a high powered attack with a complex animation that uses all the birds in one big swoop. If I were still working on it I would have them all appear in a tornado animation. Would be amusing to get to see it over and over again....but then I always extend projects beyond their time. To this day I still have notes on Juno's Odyssey to revamp a handful of side quests and the end to help foreshadow the sequel, the Wrath of Gaia "Platinum" where I added a scene of Sally and her crew getting paid for their services with oversized chest sprite that was unsused...And we'll not even mention the time I went through the First Chain Game, Lost and Found, and replaced missing assets and Purps got onto me. XD I did not understand why until I though about the edited Star Wars HD copies and how they put scenes back in or spruced things up ruining the cult feel a little. Then I got it. Hard. ^_^;; Thankfully we still don't even have the first Chain Game up on Itach.io eh? Let alone that copy I don't even know if I have.

Ah off track there. A weapon probably would be a fine reward but a quicker release method is simply seeing the birds and maybe a CS. That's my vote.

[Moosetroop11]

Ok, I did indeed finish it last night!

I'll send it to Momeka this evening - I haven't found all the birds, are they all in the world? I added a reward for them.

Cactus Canyon is extremely cool. I love how much content this game has hehe! The canyon really is the perfect 'new world to explore' thing it feels a bit like one of the Pokemon Sword/Shield expansions. I do think it should be signposted more, because the train isn't actually pulled into the world you don't always think to talk to the train conductor.

I put some new bosses and a superboss in the undersand so if you manage to fight it, just tell me what you think of it and if it's hard enough! It seemed fairly tough/fun but I was able to beat it with my party every time so I then doubled its HP and called it a day. I want it to be the sort of thing where you get to use all your various cool items you've accrued and the exploration in places like Cacti Canyon really pays off.

[Moosetroop11]

I've now sent it to Momeka so it's out of my hands!

Apologies for taking so much time on this all added up - I think I felt a lot of ownership on this one and am looking forward to just making a single part next time ; p Everyone's gotta take their turn to pour their heart and soul into one chain game and I think this one was mine.

[Prpl_Mage]

Great work Moose,

I suppose I'm next then, I may be slow as well as it's holiday time but I need to dig out the things I was supposed to fix. I know you mentioned some things Fish?

[Momeka]

Great work Moose,

I suppose I'm next then, I may be slow as well as it's holiday time but I need to dig out the things I was supposed to fix. I know you mentioned some things Fish?

I'm currently adding a cutscene. But I can send it to you when I'm done. Probably this week sometime

[Moosetroop11]

I did some fixes in the zialan ruins so that should hopefully work ok now prpl, though I did notice you can kinda break the door puzzle by activating the same door twice, and that issue is still in the game. Also I'm pretty sure there's an unreachable chest unless I'm dumb and I couldn't work out how to get to it even in the editor : p

[Fisherson]

Great work Moose,

I suppose I'm next then, I may be slow as well as it's holiday time but I need to dig out the things I was supposed to fix. I know you mentioned some things Fish?

Yeah your maze has collision errors. I don't think you actually ran it did you?  It will teleport you to a place that isn't the set reset but instead is a wall or out of bounds zone resulting in a fatal error. I tried to help but honestly there was a lot to cover and I didn't get to run the corrections I did but like once at  most.

[Momeka]

I've sent the game to you now, prpl.

I ended up not doing a cutscene, instead I added a fairly obvious npc outside the bar to tell you about the place. Think it will be hard to miss. Also added some extra items to the shop in Undersand.
Finally I also added a post game Bounty Board outside the police house. It's just a series of escalating battles that gives you some awards.

[Moosetroop11]

Noice sounds great Momeka : ) There really is a lot of content in the game now, it's very cool

[Prpl_Mage]

Awesome, gonna look into it next week or so. Will probably not take too long. Back to Momeka once I finish then?

[Fisherson]

Awesome, gonna look into it next week or so. Will probably not take too long. Back to Momeka once I finish then?

Seems good to me. I have no fixes unless somebody thinks the summons or blue magic systems needed a tweak, even then I think you all could probably modify them easily enough. Honestly ready to start planning a new one.

[Momeka]

Yeah, send it to me when you're done and I'll get it up on the itch

[Prpl_Mage]

Remember when I said it wouldn't take too long? Unfortunately haven't had the time to pick it up yet but definitely before the end of January.

But it is now downloaded and unpacked on my computer and ready to go once I'm in the right mindset for it.

After writing this I felt it better to get started right away.

I think I fixed the last parts of the temple issues.

I realized no one placed Birds 10, 11 or 12 anywhere. So will throw one out in the undersand and the last 2 in the final chapter, if it is possible to return? (will not play through the end until it is all done so we speed things up.

Battles have been balanced for my chapter by making more things weak to stuff and decreasing some speed and lowering hp

Just gonna double check everything and then send it back to Momeka this weekend probably.
Was there anything else?

[Moosetroop11]

Yes you can return to the desert locations and final dungeon in the last chapter : )

[Momeka]

Just gonna double check everything and then send it back to Momeka this weekend probably.
Was there anything else?

Don't think so, sounds solid.

If any of you guys are playing it, feel free to grab some screenshot and send me. Otherwise I'll just play through it when prpl sent it to me.