#reenvision

[vennyaki]

I finally made the feature that this game is named after-

SO. In this game, you have a meter called your “desperation”. It’s the blue bar in the video and that meter is constantly creeping up in almost every battle you get into. Once it hits a certain threshold, the amount of damage you take multiplies. HOWEVER, the amount of damage you dish out ALSO multiplies.

Once the desperation meter maxes out, you take 4x the damage you normally would (so if a slime were to hit you and only deal 10 damage normally, you’ll now take 40 instead). The trade-off is that you also dish out 4x the damage... AND you can “reenvision” things.

When you reenvision, you can change things into something else. In this video, I changed the funny slime lad into a plant monster and back!

The biggest challenge of this game’s battle system is meant to be managing your desperation. The higher your desperation is, the more damage you do and the more special moves you can use (because those are also despair dependent), BUT the more damage you take. Which means you have to be on your A-game with your dodging skills.

Oh yeah... I should probably mention that you only have 100 max HP throughout the entire game, and enemies can hit hard. So be careful out there!

[reenvisiongame]

End of the Year!

The year is coming to a close and ReEnvision’s development is at the 9 month mark!

I first had the concept for this goofy game waaay back in 2019, started writing it in late 2020, and only this year am I finally making the effort to make it a reality. It hasn’t even been a full 365 days since starting this project and yet so much has already changed.

SO, why not take a little trip through memory lane to end off the year?

A then vs now menu comparison!

And here’s what the old item menu inside a battle used to look like, horrid placeholders and all.

Speaking of battles, those looked pretty goofy, too...

The sprites weren’t spared either!

Or the portraits...

Or even the basic scenery.

Looking through everything, I think it’s been a pretty productive year so far! March 1st will mark the day this game’s development officially reaches the 1 year mark. Let’s see how much more I can accomplish by then. >:D

Main goals for next year are to finish up the game’s storyline, start working on the script, finish up implementing the game’s core mechanics, and then start figuring out how to go about things like story progression! As well as polishing what I have so far, and adding some more enemies. If I’m really ahead of the game, maybe I can even start making a few locations that would actually appear in the final game? Who knows!

[swervnirvn]

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[vennyaki]

SO! The past few weeks, I’ve been working on a cutscene system. Just today, I finished up the bulk of it and I managed to make the short little scene above!

(note: this scene won’t be in the final game, it’s purely for testing) 

It’s simple and still has areas of improvement, but I’m so excited with how things are shaping up. A good friend of mine is helping to review the story to make sure things flow correctly, and that’s going well so far. Speaking of which, opening the game’s main design and storyboard document lags my entire computer because it’s at 277 pages and it’ll only continue to grow. I also refuse to make a new document-

Aside from my poor document management skills, my pixel art abilities are improving, the main foundations of the game are all mostly in... Development is going well!

[vennyaki]

AH, another moment where I suddenly remember Tumblr exists. Sucks too, I really should use this site more. It’s the only site I’ve ever used that actually encourages rambling and infodumping, two things I do naturally-

BUT AYOOOO! I finally announced the title of my game on my other two ““main”“ accounts (in quotes because I hardly use them lol). It’s called “ReEnvision”. With this title reveal, I can finally stop calling it just “my game” or “a game” or other things. The poor souls I have rambled to on discord for years on end will finally not be lonely, I can now endlessly ramble about ReEnvision in public too!

ANYWAY, ReEnvision is an action RPG game with much of its inspiration coming from Hollow Knight, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky, The Gray Garden... And a bunch of other games. The feeeeeel of the game will be in the same realm as the many Earthbound-inspired RPGs out there, except the catch here is I’ve never actually played Earthbound. So ReEnvision gets to be the quirky kid that’s part of a genre whose name doesn’t even fit.

The plot is that a 10-year-old girl wakes up in a strange world with no memories of her past. Her only goal is to recover those lost memories and return home. However, this new world is pretty awesome. It may be hard to go home and leave such a nice place behind...

Best way I can describe the plot progression without spoilers is if a cute slice-of-life game decided to almost be a psychological horror game midway through.

[vennyaki]

I only got into composing for this game and even now, I still very much feel like a beginner. BUT, I think I’ve been really improving the past couple years and I’m slooowly beginning to form a music “style”!

Ok I gotta confess: I actually uploaded this yesterday, but got embarrassed within a few hours and deleted the post. BUT it’s back now, because I still feel proud of these short little tunes and THE WORLD MUST KNOW.

ANYWAY, I haven’t really posted anything soundtrack related for ReEnvision yet. Closest thing was waaay back in 2020 on a private Twitter account where I uploaded a few little jingles that sounded like garbage. Within that time, I’ve been continuing to try and better my composing skills and I think I’m really getting places!

The songs in the video are snippets from full pieces that I’m kinda proud of. The first song is meant to be a boss theme (the full version sounds super amazing, too. But there’s no fun in revealing the whole thing too soon :P), meanwhile the second song will likely be a forest theme. They still have some ways to go before they’re “video game ready”, but I like them so far and am proud of how my skills are developing! So, I wanted to show off a little portion of them >:D

[vennyaki]

i wanted to make more monsters for my game but didn’t have many ideas, so i made a couple of monsters based on emojis instead! how fun.

[vennyaki]

Feels good to get back into game dev junkaroo after so long