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[Yloh]

I just finished recording myself beating the sequel to "The Liberation of Hyrule". I will be posting a playthrough of "The Liberation of Hyrule: Insanity's Extreme" soon. Do you want me to put commentary in my playthrough? I have plenty to say.

[peteandwally]

yeah, commentary is always great!

 

Here's some weird cave trees.. I'm almost done with the system of caves, then I'll begin to place enemies. Once the over/underworld is playable, I'll move on to dungeons

[KingPridenia]

I just finished recording myself beating the sequel to "The Liberation of Hyrule". I will be posting a playthrough of "The Liberation of Hyrule: Insanity's Extreme" soon. Do you want me to put commentary in my playthrough? I have plenty to say.

 

Yes please do. Seeing the original LoH was how I found you in the first place.

[runa]

Yesterday I finished the second dungeon of the Surface World in Tests of Persona

[Limebeer]

I finally figured out the OBS program (I have been trying to record with too high of a FPS setting, which leaves for a black recording ) and posted my first paythrough video of my quest's demo. I'll be making atleast one or two more videos, though I'm not really showing any main secrets right now until I start to change things around for the final release But I did show where to get the first candle and where the spin attack is I think I'll also start working on Level 4 today, or atleast finally finish the forest area as I've been having it sit there, half finished, taunting me this whole time.   (I'm taking a break from working on Level 5 as I'm having a small burnout from it due to me thinking of a new gimmick to use in it that will be needed to defeat the Boss which I have to now take into account and redo a bunch of things that I already had...mainly in layout. But I think it will be neat to have once done )

[KingPridenia]

Well, since my original AQR potion plan was vulnerable to exploits, I decided to just allow the player to get multiple potions. HOWEVER! The new system is as follows:

 

Spoiler

Blue Potions can be bought at any time, even at the very start of the quest. They are pretty inexpensive and you would be a fool to travel without one. You cannot buy two Blue Potions to make a Red Potion, unfortunately. If I did, I would allow Red Potions to be obtainable too easy and the quest would end up too easy.. Anyway, this nice little drink will recover five hearts of lost life. Use it wisely.

 

Red Potions on the other hand requires the Letter L2 item, which is basically the used letter. Doing it that way, as soon as you get it, the potion shops activate. Now for a bit more than the Blue Potion obviously, you can get the benefit of healing five hearts twice. After one drink, the Red Potion will turn into a Blue Potion, like normal Zelda. Again, use it wisely. Ideally, this wouldn't be available until mid-way through the game.

 

Gold Potions will require both the L2 Letter AND a full Triforce as the shop will be behind a level 9 entrance room type and be flagged as potion shops. The Gold Potion will be expensive, but very useful for the bonus dungeons and level 9. This is essentially a three shot potion, recovering again five hearts. However, it will revert to a Red Potion after drinking, then a Blue Potion, then nothing like usual.

 

I know it seems harsh, but I think it would better balance the game and allow me to get a better sense of that. Let's face it; the original just was enemy and boss spam. It wasn't about skill; it was about tanking out a ton of damage and hoping your life holds out. With bosses being much rarer and enemy balancing being considered much more than before, I'm confident these nerfed potions will still be useful without being as Moosh calls it "having three life bars". Then again, five hearts is still most of your life before the second row of hearts. There is also no waste with more hearts. With only three, you'll waste a potion using it just to recover 2 hearts for instance. But if you have 1 heart out of 8, then you'll have 6 out of 8 hearts and none of your potion got wasted.

[Eddy]

Again, haven't worked on anything on ZQuest, but I have been planning some stuff related to AR3. I also changed the Seed Shooter again to a slightly different version called the "Money Shooter". For every one rupee, you can shoot money at foes and hit objects from far. This would be the equivalent of the Wand, but with different SFX and sprites.

[Theryan]

I've done a lot of work on Hyrule Town in Theryan's Dungeon Romper. The town in the demo was fairly empty and boring and was something I had been meaning to improve upon for a while now.

 

Over the past couple of days, however, I've added a pub-like building, a few open houses, and many NPCs. I'm planning on making it so an NPC's dialogue changes as you progress throughout the game, probably based on how many Triforce pieces you have.  There's a new info shop with info on the next available Ring, Sword, and Goddess Stone. The information updates as you get the equipment, so he will initially tell you about the Blue Ring, for example, but after you've collected the Blue Ring he will instead tell you about the Red Ring. There's also a village elder that will help guide you to the next Triforce piece you're supposed to get.

 

There's still some work to be done, but I feel like Hyrule Town, and the rest of the quest in a less direct way, have become much more lively and entertaining.

[Shane]

I made an Aquamentus a nightmare to kill.

[Alestance]

I stole some ground tiles for a private tileset I'm working on. As far as tiles go, ground tiles are probably the most universal. Also finished up ripping the mountain tiles, and editing them for layering.

[Eddy]

Finally opened up ZQuest and began continuing AR3. I've gotten about half of Level 3 completed and I'm getting close to the first dungeon item.

 

I'm also considering making a quest project page for this quest. I'll probably make one in a bit.

 

Edit: Made a quest project for AR3, finally lol

Edited by Eddy, 21 March 2015 - 10:02 AM.

[Limebeer]

started on my dungeon 4 after finally finishing the path (mostly) to it in the forest part. (I still need to add in some trees and other such things in the forest area, as well as some shading, though that can be added in later once I get the dungeon complete and the final demo out as after the demo is when I am going to do some changes to alot of things, mainly the mountain area. It will be somewhat annoying to do, but as the changes will include a new area I hadn't initially planned on making (it just fit for a transition so well and I had enough extra screens to pull it off) it will be quite interesting to do
Level 4 is going to be alot more maze like (intentionally this time) so will have alot of exploration. I'm changing up how I make dungeons with this one and will instead be making the screens based off of how I imagine it will be while the player is actually playing and the path they should be taking instead of going screen by screen like I usually do. The forest level I'm mainly going to try and stick with only one floor, maybe some connecting caves and such as well (it's a forest, not a temple) so it should feel and play different than what I have done previously. It will feature triggers and such you would expect more from forests, such as burn triggers being more prominent to open pathways, and slash-> next combos with vines to open some rooms (though I'm thinking on having 3 types of vines... one to climb, one to slash away and one to burn away).
As this is also what I'll be having for getting the hookshot it should be easy to sequester areas for the second half of the dungeon. I will bring back triggers that you need to hit which will open up places in other parts of the dungeon (now that I figured them out, I can use them more effectively).

But yeah, in terms of the overworld in what I've accomplished, it is the path to level 4, how I'll make level 4, and setting aside the screens for a new area which will be a swamp area!

[KingPridenia]

Kind of annoyed I wasted an hour today making a screen for Screenshot: Challenge Accepted, only to find out that the tileset I was using is illegal for challenges that say "remake this screen in anything other than Classic". So yeah, rage deleted the file I had the screenshot on and just lost all motivation to work on my 2/5 star at best quality remake of an awful quest. I'm sorry, just in a really sorry mood.

 

Other than that though, at the very least I can stop being lazy and actually try to use layers to make some of AQR's screens better. Not to mention, I think I'll try remaking elevation without spamming stairs. Besides, having them looks kind of odd in some places. It's like trying to write a poem where you try to force an AABBCCDDEE rhyming scheme and have it be subpar where it would be better if you just didn't rhyme at all. I did think of some new secret spots too and I'm considering removing an annoying maze path so you have more room to explore early game. I think a flaw was having too little room to explore and that 95% of the "exploration" was a ZZZ linear run from level to level. Redesigning the entire quest around that could be tricky, though...

[peteandwally]

I think a flaw was having too little room to explore and that 95% of the "exploration" was a ZZZ linear run from level to level. Redesigning the entire quest around that could be tricky, though...

I like to plan out little patches of areas, then only make a few exits. So, a 3x3 cube of screens might only have 3 entrances or exits.
 

 

This is what the over/underworld ended up looking like.

[Shane]

I completed my new title screen for Lost Historia. I might make some adjustments later on, but now its a finished product. Speaking of improvements, I modified some of my new overworld palettes to make them look much nicer. Progress on other palettes is no existent so far. Once they are all made though, I will officially begin the subscreen, then the quest itself.

 

I haven't shown anything of the new Lost Historia besides a few screens to show off some of the new palettes. I have something for SotW. Though it is more of a teaser than an actual competitor within the upcoming contest to show what is to come from the new Lost Historia.