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Your interest and support is always appreciated, even if this is just barebones alpha designs and work I manage on the side as of right now. This will take a long time to get momentum built for it, but I'm confident in taking time and building things well rather than rushing. And again, thank you!

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As I prefaced before - I work in full time in medicine, so between being on call and filling shifts as well as trips and vacations this summer I can't really guarantee a set time or deadline for Wanderlust content. This is why I haven't charged money or run a subscription service for this yet.

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I also began to work on character toolkits and personal chapters on the side, but one such character early on was one of the people I had to remove, so i need to replace this character with one entirely different, and that's a abrupt and jarring change that is going to take time to fix.

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I've been creating a State of The World document, which will outline the history, lore and background of the world of Iaward. That is about halfway done, and hopefully when I finally get a proper weekend in the coming weeks I can post it someplace.

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

Apologies for the abrupt and lengthy silence - recent events in the last month brought some necessary character removals to the roster, along with a chaotic and problematic work schedule. Needless to say, I need to replace some friend cameos with characters of my own making.

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Been busy with writing various details down - but now officially starting with a short story piece involving the first two protagonists. On the topic - is there a good platform for prose or written work that is accessible? I would like not to rely on Google documents so much for this.

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 04/05/2024

I would be posting a lot more of my notes, but I think they require a cipher or two to understand 😅

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

"The Continent of Iaward has proven to be quite a frontier over the last century, as the world still recovers from the cataclysmic events brought by the spirits and elements of the planet..." An alpha design of the world map, made in inkarnate and yours truly.

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Been doing a lot of world building and considering putting a bunch of it up into Google documents for folks to read. I'm sure people would be interested in that, yes? 🤔

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

This probably speaks in great similarities to Final Fantasy X's Ability Board, minus the statistical advancements. Each character has a handful / a category of skills or spells you can unlock, and this AP can be reallocated for no penalty, of course.

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

While I do have stat advancement based on a Party Level for simplicity, I am going to have ability improvement and unlocks in the form of Advancement Points [AP] accrue from combat be gained by individual characters, so there's still something to look Forward to for each character as you play them.

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

I'll keep this mind and hit this demo during the week!

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

A surprise vehicle purchase ate up the entire weekend, so let's try things again during the week here! I'll share the first iteration of the world map soon.

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Had a bit of a hiatus because I got a respiratory infection and picked up night shifts for work this week. I'll get back on things on the upcoming weekend.

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Accuracy and Avoidance are opposed involving the chance to hit. Most systems usually just articulate the need for Accuracy, but same as with movement, I wanted to avoid too much mathmatic deviation mess from a lot of the growth calculations, so adding something that counters it was needed.

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Movement is a pool that refills by half or 3 (A hard number so our less speedy lads don't get shafted). That number may change later, but we'll see how the paper testing goes.

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Movement as a resource? It was a weird idea at first for me, but given I wanted to do less 'have to make a separate formula so this number isn't too high in comparison to other things' , making it a resource made sense. I also didn't want to make mechanical additions like sprinting either.

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A very basic overview on some of those health and resources I've scripted up. Health is pretty straightforward. Focus is the main resource player units accumulate to do their stronger stuff - Physical or Magical. Instead of being a pool you deplete, it's a bar you fill and then expend.

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

Remembering I had a designed this system to initially have a Mana / Stamina separation for resource pools and wondering w h y d i d i d o t h a t. Thankfully worked out another system that's less ridiculous, but it's really easy to get lost in the design sauce because you want things symmetrical.

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youtu.be/ktogjiX3eI4?... Another analysis of the turn based system and the types of things to do to make it feel more streamlined. Lot to consider so the game doesn't feel like a slog. Wonder what types of things I should implement for Wanderlust. 🤔 what are your favorite turn based systems?

youtu.be

How Do You Improve Turn Based Combat?

Get organized with Milanote, for free! https://milanote.com/designdoc0322I love turn-based combat. Most of the time. But there are plenty of pain points that...

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

youtu.be

How Do You Improve Turn Based Combat?

Get organized with Milanote, for free! https://milanote.com/designdoc0322I love turn-based combat. Most of the time. But there are plenty of pain points that...

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Wanderlust @wanderlustrpg.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

My doodles on HUD / UI designs are very 'graphic design is my passion' mspaint, but I'm excited to share some this week with all of you

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How many attributes / stats is too much? How much is too little? Fun little questions I ask as I pick over the build I've made for Wanderlust 😵‍💫

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I can probably drop threads in the future detailing several of the characters, their background, and their tool kits in combat, if people are interested!

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I always lean on game series like Fire Emblem, Disgaea, and the new entries like Triangle Strategy as inspiration for the project, but having the added twist of 'no one in the party is a generic class or expendable unit that is not integral to the story'. Again it's ambitious, but it's unique!

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