I really haven't done too much research on it yet... but I will!

And yeah I don't know what happened with avabat. I think I tried so hard to obfuscate the source I started losing track of it myself!

Ah, I see. It sounds good. Although it seems that it will be a bit difficult for an amateur to understand.

The iPod? What type of scripts does it run on? That really sounds interesting. I hope we can get something together and actually complete it in contrast to Avabat Online XD

It's about mimicking the Object-oriented programming model in RM2k3. Really awesome stuff. (I use it for many of my newer minigames as well as my footprint system.)

Yeah! I really would want to make a collaborative project. RM2k3 wouldn't be a bad choice but I'm very interested into moving on to, say, creating games for the iPod Nano.

And I'll be helping in that effort as much as possible. :D

Lol. In a week or so I'll be writing a sort of abstract tutorial that might be a bit helpful. Who knows though... seems we've both got a damn good handle on rm2k3. :]

Thanks! I'm glad. :)

It would be so awesome if I could finish ch7 at the end of summer... lol.

This is a problem with RM2k3 itself. Whenever a map changes and the saved location is within the map, everything gets messed up. This also occurs with the events.

I'll wait until Chapter 7 is released since Andrew told me save files aren't compatible :/

That new no battles mode is an excellent idea.

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Also Exorgath from SU came way before Exorgath in MS. Play DH2k.

Woah, why don't I remember this? D:

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....mysterious Exorgath...

You're bringing your maple story character into the game?! THAT'S NO FAIR; He's lvl 14x! Unless you can make the max level cap to 9999 :D

I thought Vades and Khan were somehow related. Maybe longing brothers or something.
If meh_ch's theory is correct, where does Andoru's sister fit in?

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Well, until my next crazy idea. :]

Starless Umbra Online.

YES, now I can flood your site with giant avatars :D

As for the reviews, more people just keep coming! You're getting tons of fans Andrew.

I designed these sprites yesterday. I'm such an idiot for designing SU sprites and posting them on LunaticGaming but not on SU's site. XD
I just completely forgot. Forgive me, it's summer.

I haven't been spriting much nowadays (besides trying to learn how to design in Mother/Earthbound's style). Last time I remember spriting was when I made Alistar, a character I created. I was debating what I should start out working on. I was thinking about designing custom monsters for LG's resources but that seemed too much. I just wanted to start something simple. So as a result: Starless Umbra characters in a slightly enhanced form. Actually, I'd rather say, larger sprites since I retained some of their colors from the original charsets. Well, let's see what I have made so far...


I actually didn't create this today. I made this a while back when Andrew and I were designing Avabat Online (a browser-based MMORPG). Which reminds me; all of these sprites I made were based off the templates I made for Avabat Online. But now that I look back on this one, it needs work. I was too busy working on the other sprites rather than further enhancing one that I have already made. So...maybe one day I'll fix this one.


This is my personal favorite out of all the other ones. I made Reene special because she deserves it <3
Her pose is just how she looks in combat. She has a slightly different sword but I only did it because the dark colors match her outfit. I had trouble trying to figure out what type of clothing she was wearing. It looked like armor to me, but I wasn't sure. I even went back to look at the concept art for SU and it had a completely different look. I didn't want that since this is probably only 3 times the size of the original sprite so it should look similar to it. My obvious decision: I made it look like armor :P


I also had trouble figuring out how Lynia's outfit looked like. Damn 16x32 pixels. Well, for her I thought it looked like clothing a pleasant would wear. So sure why not? The concept art looked completely different again and I thought it exposed too much skin. Lynia is not a slut... or is she? Either way, I believe it looks as similar to the original. Oh yeah, if you haven't noticed, the axe does not have a black border. That's because it's not being focused on. You may notice it in some of the other sprites as well.


Khan has his own pose in contrast to the template. The problem with the original sprite, however, was the amount of shades used for each color (ex. red, dark red, light red). There was 3 brown, 5 red, 2 grey, and 2 green. So we have here a detailed scarf with plain clothing. I actually remade Khan's hair because it was really messy. Khan is a prisoner so that is the reason why he has ripped clothing and holes. The shackles have a nice visible chain. During my process in designing this one, it was all good in the beginning but it didn't end up the way I wanted it to look. I might fix this one later.


Koren, the one and only. I've been a big Koren fan ever since. I wanted this one to be my favorite one but as I mentioned above, Reene was my favorite. I used different colors for Koren (except the brown) instead of the original. Getting the shading for black was rather difficult. Black is not a good color to manipulate. I managed to get around that by zooming in and out several times. Koren's chest is also popping out so he looks as if he's trying to be manly. I didn't intend on doing that but I just left it since it isn't a big issue; he actually looks better that way. I also made a different version of this sprite with his (drape?) blowing in the wind. I wasn't too satisfied with that so I just kept this one to show.

And that is all I have. It has been long hours making these but it was fun. I didn't get a chance to make Clydan or Kelar which sucks because they're both awesome. I might create them when I'm not too busy. Until next time, enjoy!~


Oh yeah, and these sprites are free to use. Except I believe Andrew designed Koren himself. I'm sure he wouldn't mind though.

After looking at the reference, that anime looks REALLY familiar. I think I may have seen it at the Anime Expo. Your concept art looks very like the original source. Nice job! :D