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Oops. Thanks. Well, at least it’s an easy fix on my part.

Okay. The weird thing was that it was loading normally (still slow, what with the bad connection here), and then suddenly it started loading up (once up to like 70%), and then stopping, which I haven’t seen before. But I suppose it’s gone now, so...

Good. Thanks for the fixes.

Edit: Hmm... Not sure if the boss is sufficient or no (before life balancing, of course). It feels a bit lacking with just the two moves and the summoning, but I can't think of anything to add. I guess I'll just keep thinking on it for now.

Fair enough. I’ll start the dragon boss fight and see if the gives me any ideas.

The desert section of the dungeon has a fair amount of thought put into it, but the caves ended up as kind of a last minute addition (possibly I should just do full desert?). Actually, considering BOTH of the Trial Guardians, full desert makes more sense (one being too large to fit into a smaller space, and the other being a sentient animating force/spirit of the entire desert). I think I’ll go with that.

Neat. A new video should turn out nicely.

Oh, right. I forgot. Sorry. Thanks for the (opinion? Advice? Not sure how to phrase this again).

Edit: Oops, missed your first post. Responses:

On text variables in items: Got it in one. I want to be able to use an alternate title to use for the player (which will be under a settings tab in the quest core). If I could store a text input, I could just have an on create effect at the beginning of each world that set the player's title to that. (Side note: A max characters number for text entry would be appreciable).

On scrolling layers: Okay. Good to know.

On the rest: Okay. Thanks.

In addition: minor glitch: Type q into a text entry box, and the menu will still pop up. This should probably be prevented as long as the text entry box is open.

Sand slimes were actually supposed to be a standard enemy, albeit one that only appeared a few times. That’s why they have pretty low life. The bosses for this Trial will be a dragon and a different sand boss (Who creates the sand slimes Spids’s Sorcery style), and a very large golem miniboss. I guess transforming isn’t really a standard enemy gimmick. Guess I made another shocker spider miniboss. I guess I’ll make a different 5th enemy for post-caves.

But I’m probably still using some of these for the actual Hiekka boss. Don’t think this one’ll end up a puzzle boss, although I should consider doing one of those.

Okay. Thanks. That should really help.

Edit: Minor text glitch sorta?: If you have text that appears character by character, and you have a word that would go past a line and thus gets moved to the next line, it starts on the first line, and then only goes to the next line when the text gets that far. For an example, the middle left Royal Guard in the second room of Throne Room has the word come start on the first line and then jump down to the second (although it happens fast and is easy to miss). It looks kind of odd.

Edit: Scorpion monster is possibly completed? Not sure if I'll keep their design. They have a standardish stinging damage attack, and a special teleport that also uses the sting attack that activates at a 100 minimum range.
Fun to mix with the blinding dragon though.
I should probably nerf their damage, either way. This set of mobs was sort of supposed to be easier, since they are earlier in the Trial dungeons. ... Again, actually, since I seem to recall that this happened in early Lusuria design (which makes more sense placed where it is, thankfully).
I'll keep thinking about it.

Edit: I can't seem to properly type decimals or negatives in the Set box for status effect modifiers? I typed in 0.05 (you can't start with a negative, just like you can't start with a decimal point), but it just turned into 5. After some more messing around, I managed to get it to work either by typing 0.5 and then adding the 0 and negative sign, or by just copy-pasting it in. I guess it doesn't like to have 0.0 typed in, so it resets when you have that.

Edit: Hmm, I think the dragon enemy needs a second skill. Too flat right now. Maybe something similar to Umbra's dragon flying attack?
Edit: Yeah, that seems to be okay.

Edit: Is there a way to use greater than or equal to (and less than or equal to) in if statements without doing something like Is n > 10 | n = 10?

That should be pretty easy to do for this one. I’ll have to think about it for Lusuria (adding more exits should be easy, just not the couple of sparks on the way part. Might skip that there).

I figured that I didn’t want to have it just be the exact same shape. Plus, a town makes a more interesting rest stop then a single generic rest room.

I’ll have to think about these more as I continue. Hadn’t really considered it before.

Thinking about it, my whole project is a hub dungeon. Although it isn’t the classic “Hero must gather N artifacts to stop bad guys from summoning the (insert ultimate evil enemy here). But inevitably, after all N artifacts are gotten, the (repeat insert ultimate evil) is summoned anyway so that the hero can dramatically defeat them instead of just sealing them away.”

That should work well. I’ll have to look for some art for them, since what we have now isn’t quite right.

Edit: Wish there was any real 4-way scorpion art on OpenGameArt. Unless I am unusually oblivious today, there is none.

Okay. I’ll figure out some other effect for this enemy then. Thanks for the... information I guess? Not entirely sure how to phrase that.

Edit: Seem to have found a workaround for the lag. I switched it to jumping every four frames (using an on create loop). Could look odd if teleported more than like 4 blocks, but will generally be fine.
The debuff will only apply to the player (because it isn't actually any kind of functional effect), but otherwise, should work just fine. It resets the lifetime on hit, but doesn't stack (because multiblind is just not needed).

I’d do that, but I want this to be packagable, and I can’t package a layer, so that doesn’t really work for me. Otherwise, that would work perfectly for me, but I do really like making my stuff easy to move around and package.