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No RPG would be complete without the ability to rename your characters and we’re happy to report that this capability has been fully integrated into Last Dream II. The screenshot above shows the screen used to rename characters in Last Dream II after you’ve selected your party. There’s still a small amount of work to add some control labels and to allow direct keyboard inputs, but it’s exciting to see the renaming menu in action.

After you’ve finished renaming all of ...

We’ve now completed the White Mage prologue cutscenes for the first half of the prologue. This includes the introductory cutscene as well as the one that plays after you’ve completed the first dungeon and guides the storyline toward the 2nd and final dungeon of the White Mage prologue.

Now that these cutscenes are complete, we’ve reached a major milestone in the White Mage prologue that allows us to start testing. We’re just starting to bug fix all of the interactable elements ...

We’ve now completed the interiors of all of the accessible buildings within Galice (the initial White Mage town). We qualify with “accessible” since there is an inaccessible Synthesis Shop during the prologue that hasn’t yet been completed. This means that we’re now ready to start the development of the White Mage Prologue Cutscenes.

We’re already well underway with the development of the first cutscene where the White Mage (Elizabeth) receives a mysterious letter from Saubarag. We hope to be able to ...

In this post, we’ll present how we develop town maps. In this case, we’re using the initial town of the White Mage prologue, Galice, as an example. It should be noted that outside of the mapping, creating a new town, especially on a new continent which different flora and fauna requires the creation of a substantial amount of new art which somewhat slows the development process compared to if we could simply perform the map development.

As with all maps, we ...

We’re excited to show that all the pieces are in place for the White Mage’s prologue in terms of starting to test the battles. In the image above, you can see the White Mage’s party (Elizabeth, Baaduri, Gaimi, and Gatsi) fighting two Undead Kobolds.

This is the first time in our testing that we’ve had a full party to play with since the Gray Mage’s prologue is a solo endeavor, the Knight’s prologue is a trio, and the Hunter’s prologue is ...