All right, I’m at the point in Project Abyss where everything for the battle system is typed up and ready to go, and I even have someone doing the special animations for the character’s physical skills.
I still need a voice artist for Marybelle though!  I may potentially have TWO people willing to do Ion, but [...]

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Finally figured out how to make my own custom animations in the Tankentai system.  There will be good results from this (Fang Blade is already done woo!)

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Probably not surprising that I changed battle system already. However, it’s a very minor change; it’s the same KIND of battle system, it just has an extra add on to allow for more character poses, instead of only just using the character walking sprite. As such, I’ve been respriting the characters (and I’m [...]

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Obviously isn’t complete.

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Posting this up as I go along, ’cause it’s probably going to take awhile for me to do everything. I’ll have a .rar’d graphic pack of everything when I’m done.

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This is mostly for my reference, and for those that end up doing the voices of Mary and Ion.  Quotes with a * before them have an echo effect for Mystic Artes.

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In many cases, both enemies and allies can use the same skills.  To add a little personality to each skill, I want to have the character’s voices over each one (like they are in Tales of the Abyss).  The only way I can do this is by doing a separate attack for every character that [...]

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Okay, first off, this for the battle system.  Because it is made of awesome (well, actually, because it’s easier to make custom skills).  And yes, I realize, OMG TALES GAME WITH RPG BATTLE SYSTEM yeah yeah suck a cock.
Anyway, outside of battle, these are things that can affect characters’ stats.

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