HM-style pixel art Options

[Nurse Fin]

Well, I'm no expert spriter or anything, but it's kind of fun (yet tedious... go figure). I know a lot of people have attempted to make their own HM games with little luck. I'm only really able to program stuff like a cooking system, advanced social system, calendar, mining system... but the actual farming has me stuck. Oh well. :P At least I can make graphics, too. If I ever get around to making a full working test bed I might want to make a fan game with original characters (not ToT/AP chars, I just used them for testing purposes) and stuff like that. :D Maybe... someday.

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I've only made a few floor and wall tiles so far, no furniture or anything, and I've only finished a standard female walking template. But I made all this in about 6 hours, which isn't too bad :D

[Nurse Fin]

Thank you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) ;; Getting feedback helps improve morale.

About the clothing colors; when I made that concept sketch I hadn't finished coloring her outfit so I left it pretty blank. I later decided to go with red bandanna thing, black undershirt/legwarmer things, pink obi, purple shorts, and a red/white checkered haori (jacket). I also finished designing the fall/winter outfit, but I haven't done the sprite for that. I want to keep the fall/winter appearances a secret. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/emot-iiam.gif)


Working with RPG maker to make a Harvest Moon game IS pretty hard. I had already put together an experimental test-bed kinda thing for the social system long before I decided to make this, so I already had some idea of how it can work out (that's why I'm saving all the events and character programming for last). Even then, I have to make a lot of compromises due to my limited knowledge of programming and the game engine's own limitations. I have to think outside the box on how to make things functionable but still fairly streamlined. Making a game like this realizes how many things we take for granted in HM games, there's even a lot that goes into just picking items up and putting them away.

And even after I get core functions all set up (which I'm maybe... 40-50% done with), there are the more interesting details, like holidays/festivals, tv channels... things like that are probably where I'm going to ask for suggestions. There could be a pretty fun variety of things to do if people have creative ideas. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalagrin.gif)

[Leiko]

Thank you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) ;; Getting feedback helps improve morale.

About the clothing colors; when I made that concept sketch I hadn't finished coloring her outfit so I left it pretty blank. I later decided to go with red bandanna thing, black undershirt/legwarmer things, pink obi, purple shorts, and a red/white checkered haori (jacket). I also finished designing the fall/winter outfit, but I haven't done the sprite for that. I want to keep the fall/winter appearances a secret. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/emot-iiam.gif)


Working with RPG maker to make a Harvest Moon game IS pretty hard. I had already put together an experimental test-bed kinda thing for the social system long before I decided to make this, so I already had some idea of how it can work out (that's why I'm saving all the events and character programming for last). Even then, I have to make a lot of compromises due to my limited knowledge of programming and the game engine's own limitations. I have to think outside the box on how to make things functionable but still fairly streamlined. Making a game like this realizes how many things we take for granted in HM games, there's even a lot that goes into just picking items up and putting them away.

And even after I get core functions all set up (which I'm maybe... 40-50% done with), there are the more interesting details, like holidays/festivals, tv channels... things like that are probably where I'm going to ask for suggestions. There could be a pretty fun variety of things to do if people have creative ideas. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalagrin.gif)

Oh! I see, lol. x3 I feel dumb... Well, I guess now she has designed clothing. I wonder what the fall/winter outfit is... I just know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/emot-iia.png) . ^^
Yeah, I started an HM game on RPG maker, but I'm best at imagining characters and things that involve them such as events and stuff. I created all the characters I thought of, and tryed finishing some places with some events. But I stopped doing it, it's a game that was never... Ever finished. I think I have it in a disk somewhere though...

Can't wait to see more of your progress! <333