Red Sunset June 2026 Newsletter
hi everyone !! i hope youre all having a good summer
my work this month has been kind of scattered, the rpgmaker forums shutting down kind of forced me to derail from what id been working on since i wanted to get more technical stuff out of the way while the forums were still available ..
while i do still want to focus on the prologue and overall make more progress with the actual gameplay and writing, i do think taking the opportunity to finally get around to some stuff id been putting off was worth doing and im still happy with what id managed to get done this month
regarding that, ill start with the small stuff first:
several minor graphical updates !!
work on the new overworld sprites (seen in the video above) will carry over into next month, ideally i can crank all of them out before the months over but they are somewhat time consuming so i wanna get them out of the way
like the battle sprites, i think shifting away from pixel art is both beneficial to the games art style and just far easier for me to draw, which means they end up looking better overall
i finally made album art for the soundtrack im satisfied with !! this was more of a side project but its something ive wanted to do for a while now and i didnt like having the placeholder art as the music itself deserved something with far more effort
speaking of that, soundtrack posts tend to fly under the radar on twitter, so please check out some of the newer stuff if you havent yet!! my friends are really talented and im really thrilled about their work!!
ive also finally added some difficulty settings, albeit theyre a bit bare bones for now .. ill figure out if theres anything else i wanna add to them but i want to avoid doing something boring like just scaling enemy health/damage or whatever
anyways, that about covers the smaller stuff thats worth mentioning ....
ive started writing the prologue!! like the actual proper prologue!! up until now itd just been minor stuff like the character specific intro scene and getting to explore their house or whatever, but now theres a fully scripted cutscene that im proud of, even if its just a first pass that i may tweak later
again, its not final and theres some parts im iffy about, but its nothing i cant change later so for now im glad to have made real progress
as soon as the spritework udpates are finished ill continue work on the next part of the prologue!! look forward to that.....
new battle ui stuff!!!!!! hopefully for the last time ever
i think id mentioned it before but the older ui was extremely limiting, as the default rpgmaker ui (which it functionally used to be) is hardly customizable at all and only let me display 3/6 active party members at a time, it was very inconvenient
getting this to work right took most of the month, it wasnt necessarily difficult as much as it was Extremely Tedious as i had to manually edit the conditions for each character, for each party slot, which was in total 150 different assets i had to make variations for ..
but it was very much worth it!! i ended up making some other minor changes while i was at it and now im happier with the ui than id ever been before, i think it truly has its own identity now and i really dont see how id change it in the future, which hopefully means i can finally just focus on other stuff
as i said, this did take most of the month, so unfortunately i dont really have a ton to show off .. hopefully you all still enjoyed reading!!
as theres been a handful of new members since last time ill remind you all theres a patron discord where you can ask me about stuff regarding the game and see early previews of stuff as well as provide immediate input on things, so definitely check that out !!
that said, thank you all so much for your support!! i apologize for the slower month, but hopefully as i get back on track ill have more interesting stuff to share .. i hope you all look forward to whatever this month has in store!!