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Trying to push Ondes on a slightly more stable platform since Twitter is yucky.

Anyway, so A Planet Called Ondes is an RPG Maker game my friend @silverfire113 and I have been working on that blends fantasy and science fiction to make something both unique and nostalgic. 

This story is set on the titular world called Ondes (the planet’s appearance from space viewed in the titlecard) thousands of years after a cataclysmic event called “The War of the World Devourers”. This event caused drastic changes in the world and its inhabitants, evolving beyond everything we know about mortality, humanity, and all life as we know it. Please experience this world in all its beauty and ugliness, and the story that takes place in it.

A couple more things;

- Destined heroes? Quests to save the world? Nah, we don’t do that here. - The conclusion to this story is shaped by you the player. - Right or wrong choices do not exist here; good and bad is subjective. You decide how to interpret this story. Not us. - around 20 hours of gameplay (we think(we’re just prioritizing the demo right now)) - Up to 15 recruitable party members! - Also everything is hand-drawn. No tilesets. All parallax. 

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been a while since something was last uploaded here. Still no sound yet, but that will be revealed later!

...After the enemy hp bars are fixed.

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Happy belated new year~!

The battle system and ui have been completely overhauled! We’ve opted for a far more simple ui to let the character and background art stand out more.

No more sideview battle sprites, but this will be good for cutting back on the workload while giving Ondes a more unique aesthetic.

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It’s been quiet the last few weeks, but work has not stopped! As soon as the Holidays are over I intend on showing off more of the progress we’ve been making, including substantial UI changes and more graphics!

Have a happy holiday~

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running out of progress things to show off so here’s some really ancient old old old concept art

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In-game sprites in the making.

We’re using a couple plugins for diagonal movement and more frames, so as to make more expressive animations.

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Progress update on the world map!

Here we have the grand city of Almoor~

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There may be a couple repeats in this post---

But here’s a lineup of official artwork for some of the characters!

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Some concept art of enemy designs by @silverfire113 that will appear in the demo~

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found this old thing from the gbstudio era of this game’s conception

fun fact: during this time period, the working title for Ondes was “One Year Story”. Because I wanted to get it done in one year.

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These passive creature designs were created during a Drawpile meeting.

To the left (and below) is the majestic Arboof, a kinda squiddy type of cattle.

To the right is the small and squishy Swish.

Both these creatures were loosely inspired by iconic creatures found within the Lennus series. The Arboof was loosely inspired by Gubo, and Swish was quite obviously inspired by Swoosh and Sway from Lennus 2.

Arboof was also made to resemble cuttlefish.

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fun fact: Ondes was originally going to be a gbstudio game! A lot of graphical assets were created before I abandoned that version and started brainstorming with Silver to come up with a better engine Our second option was Godot, before we settled for RPGmaker.

I’m telling you all this right now because... I just got off work and I’m too heckin’ tired to show off anything actually substantial.

The bottom 2 images are the only 3d model I made. And I didn’t even complete it. 3d modeling just aint my thing.

I still haven’t made that guy’s library yet...

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Just gonna show off a bit of the menu system today~

There is a lot more than this done with the menus, but some terms and item handling isn’t set-in-stone yet so I didn’t go into a lot of the menu sections.

No sound btw.

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The model and map shown here were both made entirely for mockup testing purposes. These exact design versions might not be in the final product, but it gets across the vibe and aesthetic well enough I’ll definitely be referencing it in future maps.

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some NPC designs for Ondes

Top two images contain various designs  by @bd-bandkanon

Bottom 3 images are of various designs by @silverfire113

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a preview of the battle system as it currently stands.

Originally the battle system was gonna look like this when we were trying to plan for the game to be a 3d PSX-like with pre-rendered backgrounds on the Godot engine:

That clearly fell through as we settled for RPGMaker, but at the very least it’s keeping the spirit of the original concept.

Also the black dummies (which we’ve named Buster) are animated, as will be all(?) the other enemy battlers.

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Ondes has a series of webcomic short-stories currently in the works. It’s moving slow because of the following reasons:

1) there is no reader-base to motivate me, 2) We’re still kinda prioritizing that rpgmaker demo 3) I’m juggling all this with another webcomic and I only have two hands 4) Silver (my co-author) is prioritizing creature & NPC designs and also only has two hands 5) I’m injured.