Thanks everyone

Ok, a little update before the demo:

I've FINISHED all the maps and tiles that I'm planning to go into the demo. This entails 7 different maps linked together, with 96 different tiles. The demo as of now will enclose the first village shown in the screenshot in the last page as well as the first dungeon/boss (the wastelands). If I have time, I will add a route out of the village (an Eastern Mountain Pass) and possibly the next city over (Maghada) (I have a world map laid out on paper, so I sort of have an idea of the order of events and such)

NPC's have lots of new abilities now, one of the coolest ones I think is one that enables them to write temporarily to the current map. For example, if I wanted to have a guard blocking a door, I could make it so that talking to him "unlocks" the door. Other ones that I've added are the capability to heal, shop, and start battles.

I've also finished the cutscene routine that will be used at the beginning of the game (and in some other places in the final game). Cutscenes are basically slideshows of 3 lvl gray pictures linked together by a nice fade animation, accompanied by text run from the NPC engine. I will be able to promise some reallly nice pixel art here (96x64 is a lot after spending hours drawing 12x12 tiles )

Also, I've optimized a lot. Remember when I said I was going to move the NPC engine out of the main program? The NPC engine took up about 2k then, and at that point I had 1200 bytes left in the app after moving it out. Currently, the NPC engine is BACK in the main app, and I have around 700 bytes left

And I finally added luck to the battle engine. If you're twice as lucky as your opponent, you have a chance of inflicting twice as much damage than usual, etc.

Things left to do:
Move animations for at least the first few moves
Scrolls (a type of item) to teach moves
Allowing NPCs to teach moves
Finalize the opening cutscene (this means work on story a little bit )

Oh...and does anyone remember when my calc was having that weird ERR: LINK thing? When it would throw that error every time I turned on the calc? Well, heh heh, it's happened again Fortunately I could still connect it to the computer so I didn't lose anything but...this makes it, what, twice now that this project has made me do a full mem clear? LOL

Awesome! I'm glad this is coming along nicely, can't wait for the demo!

Oh...and does anyone remember when my calc was having that weird ERR: LINK thing? When it would throw that error every time I turned on the calc? Well, heh heh, it's happened again Fortunately I could still connect it to the computer so I didn't lose anything but...this makes it, what, twice now that this project has made me do a full mem clear? LOL

That's such a weird error.  I had it happen to me once too: http://ourl.ca/4109/75862

I can't wait for the demo!

Ah ok, well try to not let other projects delay this too much, though, authors tend to lose interest on a project if they stay away from it for too long (example, if you started participating in every single cage matches and contests). Good luck whatever you decide, though. I'm really looking forward for a demo.

Ah right, I guess it should be fine if it's just one week, then.

Also I'm glad to hear the animations are done for level 1 moves. About grinding, try to not overdo it, though. It's not good if a game is 10 hours long, but 80% of the entire gameplay is just grinding.

What do you mean about Axe 0.46 and 7? Do you have stuff that only works on 4.6 and others on 4.7? Or are you converting code?

Ouch, I see now. Doesn't seem like something easy to deal with (The line issue).

Good luck!

On a semi-unrelated note, you might want to fix your forum signature, because I can barely read the Ash Phoenix 40% text it it