Hello my sedately growing cult,

How's it goin', it's ya boi.

I was able to get more work done on the game. Still mostly behind the scenes shit, but I'll share some nuggets of info that won't bore you out of your skulls.

Skills Costs:

As I've been balancing Balloon Boy's skills, I made the decision to make his normal skills all have a flat skill cost, determined by how many time they will be used when he hits level 40 (the max). This help contrast Security, who's costs will be more % based, but also helps mirror how they worked in Final Mix more, where the costs never rose. It helps give that little more personality to him, I think.

I've also made the decision to make all Button skills free, with some other cost

As we can see from the above example, these skills are free to use and give plenty of benefits but cost some max hp and sp while they're alive. I want to experiment with these type of skills in the future, so I hope this example both what I'm planning with the button skills. The main issue I had it that these skills that are meant be addons to your existing kit, but they never felt like that as they're costs always interfered with how much they could reasonably fit into an already existing strategy.

And that's about it. The reason why this devlog is a week late is because, I've been struggling. Those laptop issues I was talking about earlier have finally reached their climax, my laptop is totally, unequivocally, depressingly, fucked. So while there is so much more I can comment on like some unique new mechanics like overheal and shit like that, I just don't have the time to. This devlog will be the last thing I truly of meaning do on this laptop, as a memorioum for all the heavy work it's put in for me. As such, there will be no devlog later this month. I was planning that with my increased motivation due to NNN happening, I would make some significant head way, which is now impossible. I should be able to get a new one by the time the 20th comes around and I can get a new decent one for around the same price as the this one, but as it stands, I'm taking an extended break, not because I want to, but because I literally can't continue. Hope you guys understand.

Thanks for sticking with me, hope to bring better news in December.

Frashaw27