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That’s actually completely correct.
Some of the backgrounds are just cool patterns behind interesting shapes.

Others are actually different animation frames that are interlaced together to form actual animations (simple ones at least.)
Since the cutouts are only 1 pixel wide they only show one frame of animation at a time.
It’s like encoding a flipbook onto a single image.

And some are combinations of the two, or similar tricks that hide part of the image and reveal it as it moves.

This is actually pretty similar to how Earthbound does it’s own backgrounds. it just takes two layers and puts them on top of each other and moves and wiggles them in different ways. EB has the advantage of having semi-transparency and the ability to change palettes though.

Though its location (the Hagbard) does make it seem a little out of place, I like that Chill, Cool and Calm is actually used ingame now outside the music player.

(reason for bump: topic is still fairly active)

PSIJimbo:

ThunderMite42:

Though its location (the Hagbard) does make it seem a little out of place, I like that Chill, Cool and Calm is actually used ingame now outside the music player.

(reason for bump: topic is still fairly active)

Where’s it used? I haven’t heard it used outside of the music player yet.

See comments to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQBrjCEwe4

Wait, there’s a CogDis Disc0rd?
EDIT: Nevermind. I found a link to it up on Reddit.

Can An Older Version Of CogDis Run On Easy RPG (RPGMaker 2000-2003 Player) For Android Because I Really Want To Play This On The Go.

It can run, but the Mr. Saturn font won’t work.

This Game Is Freaking Amazing, Great Job!

Really sad news today

I was on chapter 7 and I’ve run into a game breaking bug in which the left arrow key seems to be stuck down. That persists if I restart the game, go into the Unity Star and back out, etc. It’s really frustrating that I’ll have to restart if I want to continue. Any other ideas as to what I can try?

Yup! Odd that restarting the game several times didn’t make a difference. For what its worth, this happened to me while I was transitioning from flying in space to walking around the cabin, and when it happened, no music would play.

Gonna rant a bit….
I finished CogDis for the third time now (can I call myself a devoted fan already?). But some things never change, and they just had to be the annoying things.
By the way, if the creator of CogDis reads this, don’t take this as an offense. Your game is still awesome.

First, although I think it was mechanically impossible due to engine limits, a run button would be nice.
Second, why can’t the characters move diagonally? The ship can do it, why not you? Some areas were even made with diagonal walking in mind.
Third thing is the biggest part.
You have to haul your carcass all over the solar system to kill a squid that keeps running away, expending all your savings for fuel. Then you finally get the last Reboot Orb and board the Mothership, the most annoying area in the game. The atmosphere and music excellently fit the concept of the dungeon, but the enemies and the boss are just too much. I had to grind for a day to crank up my characters to level 50+ so I could have a good chance to beat him. Just to give Niiue the ability to go godmode at the final boss and to get a different (but arguably the best) ending.

(Topic is still active, don’t kill me for bump pls)

As an RPG Maker 2003 gamedev I can guess the lack of run button and diagonal movement is due entirely to the caterpillar system (what allows your party members to follow behind you) so you’re entirely spot on with engine limitations! It’s technically not possible to hard code that system into RPG maker 2003 so it must be done through a series of on-map events (so four NPCs if you will). If handish used kentona’s Cooler Caterpillar System like I did for one RPG Maker 2003 project it’s possible it would just be way more trouble than it’s worth to edit that code to react to both a run button and a diagonal movement code (which tend to be buggy at best in my experience in 2003, the thing’s quite finicky). Though without the caterpillar system a run button is 100% possible, though the standard speed in RM2k3 is generally fast enough to not need one, CogDis simply uses a lower than average movement speed for the engine. I imagine this was done to emulate EarthBound’s standard movement speed. (As a side note, the movement speeds don’t really have nice middle-grounds with each other. Standard is good but a bit fast and one note below it is probably what CogDis runs at and is a bit sluggish at times).

I’ll definitely agree that designing areas around diagonal movement despite the lack thereof is a bit odd but it’s not the first rm2k3 game I’ve seen do that.

The difficulty definitely sounds like a lot though. I remember trying the moon dungeon in the last build of the game (which I’m guessing leads to the best ending in that chain?) and I just gave up after getting brutally wrecked lmao.

Believe me, we tried on the run button and diagonal movement.
Run buttons tend to break in 2k3.
Diagonal movement tends to get stuck in or pass through thin walls. (thus why it was allowed in space)
And both had a tendency to pass through game events and triggers without triggering them, especially if the player times a button press wrong or spams it.
So basically the whole game could break.

Well personally, I’m glad that they chose the design route that doesn’t break the game.

So, for someone who want to play Cogdis with normal Mr.Saturn font on phone or something — be happy, because EasyRPG now partly support custom exfont files. Partly, because now it don’t look for exfonts in exe, only in game folder, so just throw attached file into Cogdis folder and use one of the continuous builds of EasyRPG Player that was build after May, 6 of 2018. You can download the latest build from here

Also, in some next patch, can you add some memory to ship’s sound system? Because I want to keep playing that song I have chosen after I had leave ship and enter back.

Here some screenshots. You can see that fonts are normal now! Battle layout is still different, that is probably that “hacking” thing devs have mentioned.

Also, someone just pointed out in the Discord that ‘Memories Undone’ (Maelstrom theme) is missing from the OST.

I didn’t know ChaosMilesp07 had a starmen account.

I’m pretty sure that, if you have to pay for it despite it saying it’s free, then it’s highly likely the bandcamp’s free downloads (which, when first starting out, is 200) just got maxed out at one point and they, at that time, switched to paid and just forgot to switch back. But, considering it’s been a good while, you should be able to find an unofficial link somewhere (or you could just listen to it on YouTube).

There actually is a mirror on the download page of the CogDis website.

Unfortunately, the commentary is now permanently lost because YouTube removed annotations despite no one asking for that.

It plays just the first couple notes of it it before you enter the final battle. it’s possible Niiue can’t be with you at the time. no idea where the track came from originally.

Guys! Cogdis is fully playable on Android now! I just beat the game twice already and most of the hacks are supported now! Proof it’s real

This is big news because that means we can go through our favorite Cogdis moments on Android! If you guys want a pre-set up version of the game (which I slightly modified to force it to work perfectly!) Just ask and I will get permission to do so also it’s Cogdis 2.0 I played on Android! Which means! Severance ending yay! (Warning: this modified and forced to work file is VERRRY large! If you want it! Be aware you are risking your phone storage! Use easy rpg (latest play store version) to play)!

Can someone please help me? Whenever I press shift in chapter 2 It won’t let me teleport around! ;-;

Get them normally. They are much more useful that way. I mean, visting a POP gives Alin his ability upgrades, cannot miss out on those.

Also:
>Be me
>Play CogDis for +15 hours
>Good loot, good levels, no problems with money, grinding etc
>Reach Chapter 7, pretty late in the game
>Tons of sidequests to get all the endings, fun!
>Save
>Game crashes while saving
>All save data lost

:(