Hey guys, I’m almost done with the skill menus. These were a pain because of the huge amount of information that skills contain, and the skill menu was probably the worst part of the GUI in EBF4.

I think I managed to make things much cleaner this time, with skills neatly sorted by type, and the upgrade window clearly showing you exactly what is changing. Also there’s no penalty for moving extra skills between players this time.

Spent the day optimising menus and making sure all of the players’ equips fit on them correctly. They also make different faces depending on their HP now!

By the end of the month I should be onto making the final maps – almost at the exciting stuff! 

Here’s a huge reference sheet for all 150 player emoticons in Epic Battle Fantasy 5!
They’re all numbered so I can easily use them while writing dialogue.

There’s a bit more going on in there than just faces this time. Which ones are your favourites?

On my DeviantArt you can get a big .zip file of all of them in HD, to use for profile avatars or whatever!

I’ve finished the new forge menu!
A big addition is that captured foes must now be used to upgrade some equips!
(A fan suggested this a few days ago and I of course had to do it)

So not only are foes killed for food and items, they’re also melted down (presumably while still alive) to be used as crafting materials.

Capturing tough monsters more than once would be a chore, so I’m sticking to easy/medium foes for this. Some NPCs will also ask for them in side-quests.

Another notable feature is that equips don’t start with all of their special effects, so it’s like EBF3 again. You’ll have to upgrade stuff at least a little bit to see what it does.

The summon menu is finished!
Here you can choose which summons you want to use in battle, and there’s a bunch of ways of sorting them.