Animated Battlers

Introduction

Holders Animated Battlers is a project which I’ve started to give everyone who’s developing a RPG Maker game a chance of having a consistent and solid collection of battlers.

This was started near the end of 2011 but I’ve been creating content for the RPG Maker series for many years, some of my early battlers are remakes of previous submissions and since I’ve settled on a style I felt I should bring what I have done up to date. The past couple of years I’ve taken what I’ve learned over that time and started a collection anew.

History

I’ve been involved with RPG Maker now for over ten years, I started out after moving on from a program called The Games Factory where I made Megaman clone games and simple maze and puzzle games. I have had a project that I worked on for many years (Since 2005 I believe) it went through various changes, I moved onto different RPG Maker versions, but each time I wanted to make my own graphics as the settings within the game were quite different from the usual RPGs.

Now I focus on creating content for others to use and bring to life.

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2020

Goals for the collection as of 2020 is to create a set of base template job classes for each gender and initial weapon set along with drip feeding monsters.

I have set up a discord https://discord.gg/Jkd4XDC which anyone is free to join, it’s not just for my personal work but to give advice/help and also showcase your own work.

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2021

Going into 2021 and with a new PC I’m now streaming on Twitch over at https://www.twitch.tv/holder_ with this a new final version of battlers have been born. Under the title of Streamline – these final versions will all work together and everything is now futureproof.

Stay safe as always.

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2022

Hitting 2022 and I have gathered everything I need to finish the bases, and this is now my focus for the year. Having a complete set of 30 Bases and 30 Job classes. Making available 75 weapons as the set is complete.
Unfortunately this means no further enemies till that’s complete.

With this I’m also sketching some costume designs to start selling them once complete. This will come with not just various colours but also a unique weapon set, icon, turn order, a full character picture, bust and face set. I’ve decided not to do character sets of each simply because there’s many different styles over the series and people tend to create their own.

Progress on the battlers hence forth may seem slow in release but I’m working on each pose for each class at a time. This means that when it comes to releasing them they’ll come fast! The three available now are enough for you to use as placeholders and for coders/scripters to create content with.

Stay safe ❤

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2023

A short while into 2023 and all bases are 100% completed. I’ve been releasing original characters and ones based off of early Maker engines default assets.

Actor Animation Sheets	36
Actor Single	36
Actor Turn Icon	36
Weapon	708
Weapon Icon	354
Weapon Single	354
Enemy Animation Sheets	133
Enemy Single	133
Enemy Turn Icon	133

Going forward my goals are now to have at lest one original hero for the 30 job classes and also create more enemies as well as drop icons for the enemies.
These drop icons will help people create crafting systems with the loot collected when defeating the enemies I’ve made, to turn them into unique weapons for the actors.

It seems at this point there’s a lot to get through but after finishing the templates I feel confident that, in time, it’ll be done and I’ll be creating more and more.

Enjoy and stay safe all x