ClockWorkTower

Ok I think the Warmage might actually be my favorite of my current designs.

I will periodically mention that Streets of Fire is one of my all time favorite movies and this is almost always met with "oh heck yeah" or "what's that?".

There is kind of an issue with Shadowlark that I feel like I wont have time to finish it if I start it now, and also that I am entirely too invested in it in a way to actually MAKE it. So looking for other ways to use the concepts and cosmology seems wiser.

I already kind of did this with its original tabletop incarnation: kind of feeling like the old version is based on some really outdated tabletop RPG ideas and I would rather rebuild the systems from scratch.

So one of the ways I would explain the tabletop game idea is to use my cosmology as the basis for something like a "OCT setting and game" which probably doesn't make a lot of sense unless you come from the days of Deviantart Original Character Tournaments.

So yeah: this is the idea that requires me to invent a bunch of pure Original Character Do Not Steal characters to throw into the plot.

So one of the ways I would explain the tabletop game idea is to use my cosmology as the basis for something like a "OCT setting and game" which probably doesn't make a lot of sense unless you come from the days of Deviantart Original Character Tournaments.

Also if you saw my other posts elsewhere: I'm... well I'm not "fine". I'm in a really bad place mentally and financially. But I have committed to something that has eased some of the internal pressure and just letting go of something that was really hurting me.

I might do a smaller scale Clockwork Tower story before Shadowlark. I was talking to Bug about how Shadowlark and the tabletop game are the big things I always wanted to do but feel like I lost my opportunity for them. And I think I need smaller projects I can finish to get my legs back.

I'm a little silent this week; including this weekend, because I'm kind of distracted. I have some basic ideas for the last classes but I also am thinking about some stuff with how I want to handle the sprites and weapon lists.

In the theme of my game project being simple I went with the plan of "we have final fantasy 1 at home". But I also am making an effort to kind of personalize it into something my own. One of the elements of this (heh, pun) is changing the four fiends into archfae of the four courts from CWT lore.

Winter/water relates to summoning but also formlessness and shapeshifting. It also "shares a wall" with the Dreaming dark; often where the summoning angle comes into play. Autumn/Earth lines up with necromancy and entropy- creating a seedbed from destruction, life from death, and so on.

In the theme of my game project being simple I went with the plan of "we have final fantasy 1 at home". But I also am making an effort to kind of personalize it into something my own. One of the elements of this (heh, pun) is changing the four fiends into archfae of the four courts from CWT lore.

That's the plan anyways. Coming up with monster designs for the four archfae is a fun challenge while still conveying the themes of the four courts themselves - a reoccurring element of my stories (in Shadowlark it's part of the Five Dragon Circle concept of the Cho).

Wortlings! Fucked up little guys that are the result of an alchemical disaster who are the common minion and horde monster of the setting. Don't really have minds of their own and just imprint on strong monsters and villains.

I'm renaming my red mage class to "maverick" because its a fun reference to the word origin and the new idea for the class aesthetic; and also because if I called them "Starwind" or "Outlaw" like five people would get what I am going for.

As much as I love my inside jokes only I find funny, I would have to work five times harder to make the idea of them being gun casters in an interesting way for that joke to be worth it.

I was going to wait and post a whole set when I have more of them; but I really like how these came out. Class designs for my dinky game project.

I was going to wait and post a whole set when I have more of them; but I really like how these came out. Class designs for my dinky game project.

Ok. So my goal at the moment is to set up a Final Fantasy 1 style character / party select option at the start of the game. I have yet to find any really good tutorials or resources for that so at the moment its a lot of combing through tangential posts.

Also: yes I'm aware stuff like this would likely be a lot easier in godot but my goal here is to start a project and finish it, not make a product to sell or even do things in the best way possible.