RPG Maker XP Adventures (Troll Game) Update1

Ok so really exciting first update! Wooo....

I am working on a game about a young Troll who leaves her tribe wanting to explore the wider world. (Nope no plot spoilers here!)

So far I have been mainly working on making sprites for all the Trolls (who have long ears with fluff and tails with a fluffy tuft) and also on the MASSIVE custom tile set needed to make the Tribe's home in the caves.

Also a lot of map making has been the focus so far (because Troll tribes are very communal there are no doors or truly separate hosing so its one HUGE map for just the inside of her home)

I really like the style of RPG Maker XP. Its graphics may be a little retro but they are clean and quite pretty with a slight anime vibe to the stylization. (The above picture includes a fully animated Troll blacksmith - a sprite edited from one landofshadows produced)

I have so far animated all the fires (Trolls are really into fire) so that torches, fire places and fire pits all move as they should, which takes a long time on a massive map with many sources of light. I have made the cave screens a little bit darker than the outside but since Trolls have brilliant night vision it would not make sense if it were pitch black.

I am at a stage now where I can refine the map and add in people to make it an imersive world. So I am now spriting Trolls like mad (which is mainly adding ears and tails to original sprites) and because I want a really deep and believable world it means making a lot of non essential characters.

Note for other users of RPG Maker XP: This game is not going to be used for commercial purposes as it is my first game, as such I am using a lot of other people's source materiel from the web. I am putting together an extensive credits so that I can give people proper thanks for their work. If you do at any point see any of your stuff please let me know what it is and what name you want to be credited as! I have tried to be really thorough in my search for who to attribute work to but sometimes I haven't been able to the find the creator!  On a related note any of my edited sprites are free to use in any non commercial game, if you want to use them please credit it to Nights-Rune. Thanks so much and keep being the awesome community that you are!

I will be posting more updates on the progress of the game when interesting and non spoiler type things happen so please stay tuned and thanks for reading!

Animated Troll...

I posted my old sprite sheet for my Troll character Rune a few days back. The good news is I decided to finally make her into a series of animated GIF's. I am really pleased with how she turned out.

I think she looks really good now she is moving and it was a lot of fun making her.

The program used was Photoshop CS5.

I think the ear of the original forward facing one looked a little odd. It looks as if the ear keeps shrinking so I changed it. I think the new one looks a lot better and works better.

Now it looks like she is just wiggling her ears a bit as she walks. Which is something the character does do.

Old Sprite Work!

Was looking through old things I have made and found my first attempt at spriting. I must admit to using a human female base however it was an extensive re-colour and the ears and tail are all my own work.

The sprite itself is compatible with the old RPG Maker XP software and is fully working and useable.

So anyway... I am very proud of her as for a first attempt at sprite work she came out perfect. I should really turn her into a moving GIF at some point...

Update: I made her into a GIF check the blog post HERE.