N0VA Dev Blog

N0VA is a personal project I'm working on so this is in no way professional ! I also can't promise that I'll actually ever finish this game since I only work on it whenever I feel like it, but whenever i make something new for it I'll post about it here

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I also think i should mention that I’ve been playing around with game maker studio recently and I find it a lot easier to control that what I’d be able to do in rpgmaker 2003, so i may be moving N0VA onto there instead.

this isn’t for sure though, so i’m only working on the graphics for N0VA for right now because those will stay the same regardless of the engine.

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thought i should post a few wips ive been working on

they’re definitely not finished but i was just testing them out for positioning, colors, actually checking if the game works and stuff like that @w@

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ive decided to let there be diagonal movement in N0VA, and tbh i think the diagonal sprites look cuter than the normal sprites

oops @w@;;

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Id also like to actually write out an official like, description of what N0VA is about hahah , again sometime this week I'll probably put it out

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Hello ! I'm so sorry I havent updated this blog in a super long time ive still been working on N0VA but since progress has been slow and i havent put as much time into it as i'd like i didnt feel like posting anything on here. but right now things have started picking back up again ! Something recently happened to my rm2k3 file to where the rtp wont show up when i begin a new project, but since N0VA uses all original stuff its not too much of a problem

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hi ! omg im not dead ahah;;;

just been busy with other personal project along with trying to figure out if i should stick to rm2k3 or make n0va on vx ace, since i bought it during the sale a while back :o

I guess n0va has gone back to just being something i work on when im bored, and not really something im forcing myself to work on

meh, this post isnt really important but i thought i should mention it on here ?

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I’m trying out parallax mapping, since I think this might make the actual mapping part of it easier. (though tbh drawing out a huge map is probably a lot more work than just using tilesets.)

this perspective will probably give the buildings a bit more depth though !

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I actually started that post about a week ago and have made a few talksprites since then, so I'll probably be posting a few later today.

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update 7/11/2015

sorry for not having posted must recently, i’ve mostly been working on things that I dont really have anythingn to show for ( plot work and also figurihg out how certain events work )

I also realized that I’ve had the idea for this game for about half a year now (and the design for Nova for more than that) and i still hadnt actually said what this game will be about.

So this post is going to be a very basic summary of what i have planned for the game, and hopefully within the next week I’ll make a more official summary and make a page for it on this blog.

N0VA is a game about Nova, a kid who has to find out what her purpose is on this world. Unfortunately, she must do so in her newly-transformed ghost form. Nova must find a way to finish what she was unable to do in life, with the difficulties that come with not being part of the living world.

I plan on making this game a sort of puzzle/adventure game, though this may change as i work more on it. Nova will have the ability of switching between being part of the “ghost world” and “living world”

thats p much it for right now, I’ll post more as i work out more things and figure out how to phrase them.

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lucifurry answered your post: im afraid that ill end up not having e...

I think the colour scheme on the non-N0va chara is good, they just need darker (like black or navy blue) gradient like how N0va has??? I think… N0va sticks out w the white v black, but if you add super dark to other charas (as opposed to white)

sorry I ran out of symbols on that n0va reply +-+ but the way I see it, n0va has the high contrast of WHITE + BLACK(/or navy blue) that the other character doesn't have. you could add black/dark to that second design to tie them in together. I wouldn't rec white because I don't think it would work w that particular colour scheme hm... when colouring, I read somewhere to keep contrast levels in mind (like think of the drawing as greyscale to get right tones before the colour) idk if this helps...

ah thank you !! that actually does help a lot ! yea adding darker colors will probably help make them look more ?? like they go together, thank you !!

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im afraid that ill end up not having enough contrast in the color palette im using for N0VA bc i wanna make it look pretty but idk if the colors are ?? light and dark enough in the right places or ?? idk wait lemme bring up the thing im working on to show

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like ok im not done with them yet but i feel like there isnt enough contrast in the colors for the one on the left ??

but im not sure if having them be kinda similar will actually make it look nice in the game?

or if it’ll make it harder to look at BECAUSE the colors are similar?

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5/27/15 update

I feel like I should mention that Im still working on this game and have pretty much every day for the past couple of weeks ( just so you dont think im not doing anything )

i don’t really have much to SHOW because most of what ive been working on is trying to figure out events and how to get the items to work with me !!

ive almost finished another tileset but i think people would rather see a finished/almost finished map instead of just what could /possibly/ become one ?

also ! i wanna thank everyone whose following this blog ! i know i dont have much on here and ive stated that this is mostly a personal project im doing for fun, but it means a lot to see that people actually see something in it !

thanks !!

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ive redrawn this like 6 times already but i think im sticking with this style for good now !

so this is what Nova’s talksprite will look like im thinking of having her stand in front of the text box instead of behind because i have a few other characters that i think would look better if you can see them from head to toe

EDIT: i forgot tumblr resizes things (and also that the original is really small so.

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ok ive figured out the colors and im starting to figure out the chipset and all that.

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even though n0va isnt a yn fangame, i think itd b really nice to add in something similar to it for when Nova goes to sleep (weird dream worlds and all that) but not have it be a major part in the game. and have it just be an extra thing?

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trying out colors / mapping and all that

dont rly like how the colors look right now… but this is my first actually attempt of making an outdoors map

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wrong blog oops

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so after YEARS of not doing anything to work in n0va....

im back with little sprite updates ! haha .......

not a lot changed but i like them a bit more tbh !