Parallel Emblem ~ Twist and Étoiles Tale - WIP Part 1 completed

Hello everyone,

right upfront as of now there isn’t a new update I want to announce. However I managed to hit a massive checkpoint in my life. I’m done with school, I found a job and for the first time in years I feel that I can be certain about my future or at least more certain than usual. I’ve dealt with some personal problems and started to be more creative again. Overall I feel much happier than during the time I started working on this project. It might sound cringe but I’d say the difference between me then and now is comparable to Pre- and Post Timeskip Marianne. Quite fitting, considering the game is now 5 years old. Due to the busywork and stress this year, we decided not to participate in FEE3 2024.

Enough about that, more on the project. In theory I now have much more time than before. There is, as always, stuff to do that I’ll prioritize. And a habit of mine to work on multiple different projects at the same time won’t make me put in every single second of free time I have. But I don’t want to think of Parallel Emblem as work, it always has been fun to do it and it will be even better to do so now that I won’t have to hold myself back anymore.

In order to continue working on the game I began to type out the text and I’ve reached the end of Part 2. This means the finale is getting closer. And having all that text done means no more writers block to stop me as well as simple copy and paste.

As for a new release, I do wanna wait until I can present something that provides multiple hours of fun and that I can be proud to present. Much of the things released to public had an ammount of new stuff that cannot be compared to new contents of older versions. I don’t think the people who tested earlier versions still have their save files to progress the games. Those who still do can comment here, I’d be interested and impressed. Netherless while there will be changes and polishes in text here and there thats not comparable to completely new content to explore. Both new and older players should be able to get something out of it.

Retrogamer wanted to add: “Hey, Im also alive. I just turned in my final paper and hopefully I will pass. In the meantime I have free time. So the progress of our hack can once again pick up some pace. Life is always busy and this project is following us for a couple of years by now. Im eager to make a lot of sprites and animations for it”

Slowly but steadily I’ll work myself back into a routine of development. There has never been a time this long that I’ve been disconnected from it so it is a bit difficult ngl. I hope to see you again, once there are presentable results. I feel this post doesn’t give much information, but at the very least its a sign that we’re still alive and more ready than ever to continue the project. I did not want to go silent until a new patch is showing up.

We wish you a great start in the week, a great time during this years FEE3. Until next time.

Sooo, what else did I do while I was gone?

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So, the first month of returning to active development has passed and we already finished almost 2 chapters, inserted some new animations and images and I reached the final three (or four) chapters in terms of writing. One of those uses a gimmick that was interesting to figure out and the next chapter too will feature an unusal thing I have not seen in a hack before but it wouldnt surprise me if someone already did something similar. At the time of writing this I’m unsure if it’ll work without issues but we’ll see.

I am a bit anxious if we will manage to keep the max memory limit of GBA Roms. Not that there wasn’t a “Insert Disc 2” Romhack already. It has a charm. But it’d also be cool to just rip this for a real cardridge which wouldn’t work then.

If you want to guess what the gimmick of our latest finished chapter is, here’s a tip: It uses a total of 42 always active ranged based events. In a way it is similar to the Ghost mansion shown in a previous FEE3.

I don’t know if I’ll do these posts every month but I think it might be fun to keep this thread more active after so many long periods of nothing. I also don’t know if I should provide screenshots, because while they might lure in more players, we want to keep some cool things secret. Dunno, this thread was so silent, we will see if I can keep some momentum.

Edit: It are 47 now.

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We hope you had a great Halloween-night and this character can’t wait to see you soon

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