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Hello! I discovered EarthBound nearly a month ago, and I beat it and I loved it. Now, I’ve made other games of my own, (SMW hacks) but I’ve always dreamed of creating a RPG about me. After playing EB, I realized that it was an amazing game, and that I could make my own little sidestory of it. So I did. I found an EB engine for GameMaker by Cidoku (thanks man, it’s a great engine!!!) and I started work. There are not any overworld screenshots because I cannot find a 16×16 Onett tileset (if anybody could find one, please tell me!) But, I have a few of the main characters’ sprites (one left to make), tell me your thoughts.

The characters shown are, in order: Rob, Noah, and Jenny. (But of course, you can choose your own names at the start of the game.)

Also, here’s a Discord server.

Thank you for the link. I guess I will have to ‘arrange’ the tiles, or just make the maps have 8×8 grids.
EDIT: Gosh, I forgot to include some music I made.
Here’s a soundcloud link.

Lookin’ good!
Keep it going!
If you need help, send me a PM!
I think that the weird lightblue glow in ther overworld screenshot it’s a savepoint, am i right?

(Also, sorry to ask, but, where did you get the tiles?)

Thanks, i’ll tell you in a PM

The Chosen Four, Rob, Noah, Jenny, and the newly named Artis!
(This is actually ingame btw)

That’s all I had, but oh well, just felt like posting

That is one hecking cool teleport animation

Knowing that Work for Hire will soon be shut down, I’ll just post this here now.
Everything’s been going very smoothly… I can make the graphics, fonts and stuff; but there’s ONE thing I have major trouble doing: composing (good) music.
I would love to have a composer do this for me… Are any of you composers out here and want something to help with? Please speak up, because composing music is killing me and most of the ones I make sound like --. Accepting the job, you would get big-time credit for this task.

If you are an epic composer and want to do this(you don’t even have to do every song, maybe just a few), please speak up and do not hesitate to tell me.
If you want to do it, please visit this Discord server for the game so we can talk about it.

A new video!
https://youtu.be/O0YmPhCemp0

This should’ve been posted a while back, but here is a 3D model of Artis!

also pretty bad quality

I actually used Paint 3D, included with the default Windows 10. I based the models off of Ness and Lucas models, then I just painted new textures on.

There’s a new song on the playlist, check it out!
Play “cOffEE?” to reach new levels of BOING!
By the way, I will soon have some songs on YouTube maybe, if I find a good editing software.

Check out a new music remix I made!
And thank you all for your support! We got a few new Discord users!

Whew, haven’t posted here in a looooong time, but i wanted to say that the game is nearly halfway done! Progress is definitely coming along very well! I’ll probably post a video of some stuff soon, because i really need to keep you guys updated.
And once again, you’re better off on the Discord Server, you’ll get much more updates there anyway.
Well, have a good day everyone! I’ll keep this thread updated soon though so don’t worry.

Sup everybody, I just have a simple announcement to make. I wanted to say that the game will be complete around Summer of 2019. That might seem like a while, but it’ll fly by fast!

Also… I’m starting back school tomorrow.. So progress will be probably be slowed down a lot, because I think I have to stay after school some days… sorry….

Attention everyone! I have completed the game’s first trailer! It shows many things that have not been previously shown, so please give it a looksee!
View it here!

Hey! Just watched the video and hope you don’t mind some feedback on the video.

The towns are looking pretty good so far; some of the sprite styles (especially in the first town) conflict as they’re from different games, so at some point you may wish to edit some of them into matching one style.

I think some of the character sprites look like they’re missing pixels, easy fix. Some of their walk cycles look a bit weird as well; it looks like Artis (and maybe Jenny?) have the Mother 2 walk cycle while Rob has Mother 3’s (i.e. Artis and Jenny having only two sprites for walking in any direction; Rob has three as there’s a neutral one when not moving where he doesn’t have his foot out). It makes it look kind of awkward; I’d recommend editing everyone’s to match Rob’s. (Rob’s walk cycle might also be a bit weird? It looked like when he was walking upwards, his arms didn’t move in the right order (should go one arm up – neutral – other arm up – neutral; looked like neutral – one arm – other arm – neutral)

I’m liking the enemy designs! Particularly the Cool Breeze.

The cave under the mountains kind of loses all depth, visual-wise. The walls seem really short (and don’t exist at times) and it’s really hard to see the enemies in there.

I understand it’s still in working, and this is a good demo! Would love to see more in the future.

P.S. I’ve noticed there doesn’t seem to be a run-down of the actual plot of the game in this thread; I’m interested in hearing more about who these characters are and what they’re fighting for (and against!)

Ah, good good then! Glad to hear it. And yes, I’d love to hear the plot!

Just downloading it, but…
I have a question.
As far as i know, a beta is the complete game, but without bug fixes, modification, more details, etc.
Is it complete?

I didn’t know about that enter bug, it’s never happened to me. Also enter is the pause button.
I also didn’t know beta meant the game should be complete lol!

Thank you for pointing that out!! I will try to fix it.
Also there is a new demo out which fixes glitches and has more content.
Download Here

I ended up finding this softlock in the icy hand boss apparently i defeated the boss with PK Flash Beta but then the two ice crystal exploded and I can’t get pass this textbox (hope this helps)

no problem

Also, one thing i noticed is that when you teleport, before control is given to you, you can reopen the menu and walk around with it open.Also opening the inventory and teleport menus at the same time can let you re choose the flavor text mid game.Just thought i’d tell you

(hope that info helps)

Here is another one