Along the way, she will have to grow into a position of responsibility far beyond what she had ever imagined, meeting and befriending new allies as she goes. In Awful Emblem, you will be guiding Judith, the daughter of relatively wealthy merchants and leader of a small farming town's militia, as she races to inform her province's Lord about a sudden invasion from the country of Nicaea. That said, because of all this, we essentially restarted the whole project in the pursuit of making it better from the very start.

For the first time in three years, we’re doing active development, and the end result is a product that we’re way more excited to be working on. We added a few new team members to the team, throw out the entirety of our old legacy script, changed from hacking Fire Emblem 7 to Sacred Stones for more features and support, and fully brought the project back to life. In our hiatus, new methods and tools for developing FE romhacks had come along and we could throw those bad tools out into the garbage where they always should have been. The answer was always “Yeah, totally,” immediately followed by four more months of radio silence.įinally, I regained my interest in working on the hack again. Combined with burnout and simply having other things to do, the project eventually slowed down to the point where the only progress was us asking each other “Hey, we are still doing this, right?” every few months. Our interest in working on it slowed down. One of those tools eventually messed up our hack so badly that we couldn't get it to recover in any way shape or form, and our last unaffected backup was a long time prior. FE Hacking used to have notoriously bad tools that we were all forced to live with. Feedback from old demo releases was very positive and it looked like we had something good going.Īnd then the project died for a while. And at this point we realized we were on our way to making an actual functional and good project. We started making our own plot, characters, custom maps, everything.

What originally started as kind of a joke hack quickly turned into something more, something actually serious. I led the project since I had 'romhacking experience', meaning I'd used Lunar Magic before nevermind that LM is for an SNES Mario game and Fire Emblem is a GBA game. We'd been enjoying a thread about FE romhacks and decided to just give it a shot. It began back in early 2013 as an attempt by a bunch of users from Something Awful's Let's Play subforum to make our own good Fire Emblem romhack. And yes, I know this is SMWC3 and not a Fire Emblem fansite lol.Īwful Emblem is a romhack of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones for the GBA. Welcome to Awful Emblem! This is the first time I've ever been able to show off this project at a C3 and I'm very happy to be releasing a bit of it for people to play today.

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