Hah! All hail dpcollier128, the thread necromancer!

I'm finally back on this project. For a while there, I thought I should just submit my comprehensive excel spreads as a guide/resource for the game... but not many places accept that type of file.

I played around some more with an old Adobe Illustrator version... files became a bit too big. Then, I got the idea to just draw the thing on a bitmap! It was such a simple idea; that I didn't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner. I just open up paint, draw the lines as small as possible, and see that it's good. Not really quick but effective.

Almost no problems with file size... though I still feel that some splitting of the chart will need to be done. It's gonna be messier, but more compact than my original idea, but I think it'll work well enough.

Been off to school... and back to summer again. Shame I didn't think to reopen this thing til I started school back up again, but there ain't much to do for games this summer/fall yet... so I hope I'll get some of it done before the next big thing comes out.

Here's a key for the initial design, from a chart that's a work in progress... might need a bit more descriptive key before the end tho:

FF8_RfFlow_Magic01.png

PS: the font (aside from the numbering) isn't hand drawn; it's called .Dialogue 9. Don't know where I got it but it works so well!