DerxwnaKapsyla

Gotta stay true to my roots

I have no shame in the origin of my name, and I wear it proudly because dangnabbit I like it! So, my early years on the internet, I was addicted to the gamecube Pokemon games. XD001 resonated with me a lot, so for the earliest part of my established internet lifetime, I adopted the moniker XD003 DARK METAL LUGIA, eventually shorthanded to XD003. I used that alias up until High School, where it shifted to Derxwna. Now, as for Derxwna. That's an easy one. I am, and always will be, a Nobody fan of Kingdom Hearts. I was working on my own little fanfiction at the time, involving myself and my friends, turning them into Nobodies and making a "Neo Organization XIII". So I threw my name (Andrew) into a scrambler and added x to the result. Eventually I got Derxwna, though I wish I could find the logs of it - they're lost to time. It wasn't until some dumb incident involving an ex of mine that I eventually made the permanent shift to Derxwna from XD003. Derxwna slowly went into complete use everywhere I went, and as time passed, it surpassed its Kingdom Hearts origins and became an Original Character for a project I'm working on (The character is a support protagonist). Kapsyla is the real enigma of the username. I cannot remember for the life of me where it came from, I probably just threw random letters together until boom, something stuck. I don't think I'll be changing out of DerxwnaKapsyla anytime soon. Unless I start to add "Derxwna 'The Badman' Kapsyla" onto my official profiles somewhere. But until that point~

Name: Andrew "Derxwna 'The Badman' Kapsyla" Schaapveld Age: 22 Birthday: April 15th, 1993 Location: Scenic Hellscape Florida Height: Depending on the day, between 5'9 and 5'11 Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Also brown Live With: Parents and both browsers Pets?: A dog and a rabbit Relationships?: Friends are nice! Crushes lately?: Who needs romance when there's VIDEO GAMES (I'm probably Aromantic or Panromantic, honestly I haven't figured it out.) Dream Job: Anything involving video games Currently Playing: Was playing Persona 3, will be playing Reborn again for a stream Favourite Food: Family-style Chicken Marsala. Mmm, good shit there. Favourite Drink: Water. Man I tell you. If water didn't exist I would probably die. Favourite Color: Red and Purple take the lead, but Blue and Green take a nice second Favourite kind of Music: I have no answer for this, my music taste is too varied Favourite Band: Same goes for this Favourite Album: Aaaaaaaaaaand this Favourite Game: Hard to say really. the Command & Conquer Franchise (Pre-EA normally) is usually here, as is the Pokemon Franchise as a whole. Touhou is also here, but thats more because of the community its spawned. Favourite Genre of Game: I'm bad at them, but I love RTS and Rhythm games Favourite Hobbies: VIDEO GAME Favourite Movies: I don't really have one, movies aren't usually my thing. Favourite Shows: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Steins;Gate, the list probably continues but it's short and I'm too tired to remember the rest Why are you still awake?: Because I was playing video games and talking to a friend of mine. Jeez, you're not my parental units, post. I'll sleep when I want to sleep!

That area between the trees is actually where a few Apricorns are located, as they were in HgSs and GSC! There'll definitely be trainers across the route though, I just haven't gotten around to putting them in yet (I'm still working on mapping out the exteriors I need)

This thread could use some activity! Assuming this is the right thread for this, of course. The map comes from my own game, Touhoumon Faith & Prayer Version. It is my personal rendition of Route 42 from the Johto Region, which in this specific case is a remake of the Gen 4 variant of the map (In Gen 3 tiles). Since Rock Climb isn't in my game, I replaced it with regular stairs. Especially since that's where the player will need to go to advance the plot.

Not gonna lie, I'm kinda displeased with how this photo came out but. Y'know. Better than my phone reflecting its glare onto my glasses. Featuring the IRC bot I maintain on the alternate machine (which is really blurry, ayy) Have a pre-haircut version as well.

that agonizing feel when you're working on a map for a game for several hours, only to find out when it's done that it severely overlaps another map (therefore causing it to do a Fun Glitch!), forcing you to rework on the map and make a placeholder map to account for the black void space, thus not just taking up another map slot, but potentially bloating game size, creating more lag, and all around making you wonder why you work on game's in the first place when everything you do is an outright disaster! Alternatively, that feel when the day could be worse but, hey, at least you were productive today!

I think this calls for a change of taste

I love being the filthiest meme in the shed

That's the thing though! There is a plugin for Essentials that allows mp3 files to be loopable within RPG Maker XP and Essentials-made games now! I use it in my own project, since all the songs I use are in the .ogg format. This is why I bring it up, because the possibility now exists. But I'll understand if the devs don't want to apply it - it'll mean opening each song in a program like audacity and listening to the song repeated times to try and identify the loop points, then add the relevant metatags (LOOPSTART and LOOPLENGTH) to the song, and with how many songs there are, that could take a while.

Not to worry, just as the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, I already abandoned the little bit of sanity I had long before coming here. If that didn't make sense, then my job in that regard is complete! I kinda got a bit carried away when writing the intro post honestly! I looked at my initial draft and said "No. This is boring. I always make these boring. Let's liven it up and give them the REAL Derxwna Experience." So I did! I dropped insight as to who I was, perhaps a bit into my overall personality with how I handled the post, I tried to make it interesting to read. Hopefully it worked!

It loops them in the same way putting an mp3 file in a media player such as winamp loops it - from start to finish. What I mean is looping songs like how they work in Pokemon games, where you have the intro to the song, then the main segment, and then it loops back into the main segment instead of the song ending and playing the intro again.

Out of curiosity, I'm wondering if the music in Reborn will be looped (as in, it doesn't come to a end and then restart, but when it reaches a loop point defined by the song's metatags it loops that entire segment). I know there's methods to loop mp3 files, and now a public script to loop ogg files in Essentials, so just struck me as a question I'd ask. I apologize if this has been discussed before!

I didn't expect this many replies honestly! I actually do feel welcomed here, and I hope to enjoy my stay!

And we're coming to you live from the Abyss! Derxwna Kapsyla, coming at you with the power of a thousand ZYoumus using Gen III Shadow Ball. The Badman's the name, Despair is my game, and I always play for suffering (Others, Myself; There's anguish waiting to be created at my hands). But enough with the theatrics! As I said above, my name's Derxwna Kapsyla (DerxwnaKapsyla is usually the forum/website moniker because spaces in usernames never works). Possible shorthands are Derxwna (Pronounced like Dirks-winna), or just Derx, hell, even Andrew works (real name)! You can call me whatever you want though I ain't here to judge. 22 years old, living in scenic Hellscape Florida (Margate, such a small little area, it's interesting like that), graduated from technical school with a 'degree' in Game Design and Animation (nix the animation part though, we didn't get around to that). I'm the head honcho of my own group called Chaotic Infinity Development, which is to say I'm the only regular person part of it. It's interesting how that works - anyone else associated with it is part of situational projects. One of those projects under CIDs wing is Touhoumon Faith & Prayer Version, a game built off the Pokemon Essentials v14 Engine, incorporating the Touhou Puppet Play series of ROM Hacks to the RPG Maker XP engine. You can learn more about it by hitting the CID Blog, located at scenic ol' Tumblr Dot Com, or you can visit the Pokecommunity thread. Faith & Prayer is currently on Demo 6 with a public release, with Demo 7 in development. When it comes to RPG Maker XP, i do have somewhat of a good handle on how to make a (Pokemon) game within it, as well decent balancing skills. I'd like to believe I have a good eye for quality and what does and doesn't work. Faith & Prayer Version has been in active development for close to 3~4 years now (How has it been so long, oh my god), and I forsee at least another [invalid string number] years of development! I'm not sure if I should post it here, maintaining it on several websites already is a pain in the arms for me, but who knows! If there's an audience, I'll deliver! Aside from that, I'm also working on several other projects with a few other people. Touhou x Command & Conquer: War of the Rice is one of them, but that's currently in a bit slow development for extraneous reasons. Unfortunately, some of those reasons involve me being rather... inept at making graphics. This issue happens in Faith & Prayer Version as well, but it's not as bad (since I usually don't need hardcore custom graphics left and right). Faith & Prayer also suffers from my severe inability to understand RGSS (I can grasp a little, but beyond that... my brain turns into Liquid Tiberium and explodes in a very impossible way). When I'm not working on Faith & Prayer Version or my other projects, I'm usually shitposting memes all over my personal tumblog, located here. Take care though, it's a bit of a disjointed mess of ranting, reblogs, and emotional turbulence, mixed with some updates to stuff I'm working on. Despite calling myself "The Badman", and claiming I live for Despair (Which I do, it's fun to cause [non-harmful] suffering to my friends!), I'm usually a really nice person with an upbeat attitude most of the time. I try my hardest to remain positive, and I generally enjoy being around people (Which is why I'm here! To try and meet more people - I like having large and diverse friend circles). If you ever want to interact with me, go ahead! I promise I don't bite, my teeth are in bad condition already! My bark is worse than my bite I assure you (Though the infamous Nightmare Noise I make is much worse than both, but that's neither here nor there!) Before I go, I just wanna say that Pokemon Reborn is a really good game - if it wasn't I wouldn't be here! I really enjoyed it; the brutal challenging aspects of it, the much richer story than the official games, the maps (oh god the maps, they're so beautiful. i love them so much. whoever does the maps for reborn, you have my absolute envy and adoration). I'm looking forward to seeing what the future of Reborn has to offer, just like I look forward to seeing what the future of me being in this community will lead to! And-- Oh, would you look at that. Looks like the ARKS are finally scrambling their forces. I think it's time for me to skedaddle! This is Derxwna, signing off!