Tests of all existing content are 2/3's complete and I have ironed out all the game breaking bugs, including one I had to remove the stealing ability to fix.
My current battle engine and stealing script worked fine together, but when I added the "use weapons and armor as items when not equipped" script, try to use any weapon or armor with a spell/skill effect will cause the engine to freak out, since it makes the same scene call as the stealing skill, and so I figured it would be fruitless to reconcile the two, hence why I removed the stealing skill for this build, though it may be replaced with another one in later builds.
I also had to redraw a few areas, such as parts of Garinheim and the Tantegel Treasure Keep. The former involved me putting down hedges and a few invisible impassible tiles to fix some issues with tile passibility (you could walk off stairs in place where you'd fall and break your ankle IRL but instead you wind up on solid ground minus the fall), this should avoid any weirdness there. The latter had the first floor redrawn slightly because character sprites were disappearing. I use a technique called parallax mapping for that dungeon (the high up in the clouds background is a parallax layer that gives the illusion of depth and altitude),
and parts of the map were drawn before I added parallaxing so I had to redraw those areas to sidestep the bug (not sure why it happened that way, possible clashing of layers or something), but all I did was basically shrink the floorspace a little.
My current battle engine and stealing script worked fine together, but when I added the "use weapons and armor as items when not equipped" script, try to use any weapon or armor with a spell/skill effect will cause the engine to freak out, since it makes the same scene call as the stealing skill, and so I figured it would be fruitless to reconcile the two, hence why I removed the stealing skill for this build, though it may be replaced with another one in later builds.
I also had to redraw a few areas, such as parts of Garinheim and the Tantegel Treasure Keep. The former involved me putting down hedges and a few invisible impassible tiles to fix some issues with tile passibility (you could walk off stairs in place where you'd fall and break your ankle IRL but instead you wind up on solid ground minus the fall), this should avoid any weirdness there. The latter had the first floor redrawn slightly because character sprites were disappearing. I use a technique called parallax mapping for that dungeon (the high up in the clouds background is a parallax layer that gives the illusion of depth and altitude),
and parts of the map were drawn before I added parallaxing so I had to redraw those areas to sidestep the bug (not sure why it happened that way, possible clashing of layers or something), but all I did was basically shrink the floorspace a little.