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Game Info:
DreamTone its an RPG inspired by Earthbound that started development way back in 2016 and started from scratch many times

Synopsis:

In the year 202X, Strange things started to occur, Objects begun coming to life and attacking people and animals started attacking people and it is up to 4 kids to stop this and save the world from a mysterious group called The Moon Odders who been rumored to be behind all of this.

Screenshots:

Meet the crew!:

Neth – A shy 13 year old boy who gets scared easily
Neil – A brave 14 year old boy who doesn’t get scared sometimes
Jake – A genius 10 year old boy and the lowest scum in history
Jenny – A tough 13 year old girl who loves to stay in her school outfit

Note:
The game is still in its pre alpha stage so you gotta wait a while for a demo to be released

It looks pretty good, is it a team project or is it completely solo?

No it isnt Solo, just 2 dudes working on it

Hello heres a small update we’ve done today.
We added some more stuff, added npcs, Characters joining your party and warping into a battle.

Heres a gif:

Also the battle transition is like Earthbound and Mother 3 because we dont have any ideas at the moment so we are using the battle transition from those games for now.

Hello! Been a week and a day since the last update so heres a new update:

To be honest we havent been working alot on
the code for dreamtone due to us focusing more on level design but thats gonna change tomorrow, Expect an update in 5 days.

Also heres new screenshots:

Hello! we promised an update in 5 days but we had to delay it for 2 days for reasons. heres what we have finished this week:

Added a naming menu that is still being worked on

We added a menu that looks like a book and still being worked on

And finally we added it so we can enter the debug room

this looks very well polished and well done, especially for 2 dudes

Hello everyone! I’m here to update you guys on DreamTone’s Development.

Alright so first off the game has been massively updated since the last update, For example the artstyle has changed for the better!

And we would like to show images from the current build of the game

Sadly we don’t have alot to share at the moment so thats about it for now.

See you later!

Just wanted to comment and mention that I’m still watching this game, and it looks great! The pixel-art looks great, and I really like the new character designs. We didn’t really see outside in the previous updates, but I can only assume it’s an improvement based on how good it looks now.

We still don’t know much about the characters besides the brief introductions (poor Jake, what did he do to get cooked alive lol) but I can imagine myself wanting to know more about them; the fact that the main character isn’t confident and instead easily scared, if Jake is disliked due to hubris, why Jenny likes her school outfit (even if it doesn’t have any plot significance and if it’s something as minor as her thinking it’s cool, it would be interesting to know), etc.

The enemy is well-drawn, and the simplistic battle menu w/o text is extremely pleasing. I am also curious at what some of those commands might be. My best would be these:

This seems awfully long-winded and doesn’t really offer criticism, but I personally think that hearing praise and knowing that people are still interested can be some form of motivation. In any case, just wanted to let you know you’re doing great as far as I’m concerned.