Our Team

The Tonberry Troupe

is a group of dedicated & passionate players. We strive to provide the DFFOO global community with useful and knowledgeable resources to better enjoy the game. Our primary resources are Character Infographics, & the Guides & Beginner sections of this website.

 Each of us handles different parts of the process, ensuring that our finished products are accurate & reliable. We are human, and can make mistakes, so please never hesitate to reach out to us on Discord, Reddit, Patreon, Facebook, or by email (TonberryTroupe at gmail.com)

DFFOO EoS Update:

Hi Everyone, 


By now, most, if not all of you, have heard about Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia announcing their end of service. We're sure many of you out there feel the sting and we do as well. It is unfortunate some things never happened for GL: character upgrades, story ending abruptly, weapons, characters entirely, etc. However, we also want to direct attention to how hard the community managers and devs tried their hardest to provide us the best gacha experience we could ask for. Campaigns with free pulls every few months, a pity system (after SQEX_Josh sold a liver for Kefka 35cp, jk), tremendous influx of resources for active players to get a good amount of characters in a monthly cycle. It also had a huge backlog of resources for newer/returning players to catch up and enjoy the new characters and events.

While the gameplay may have gotten a bit out of hand, those who started in the first couple years can remember resource management of skills (raw BRV attacks, skill conservation, buff management) which also inspired many to begin content creation to assess characters and/or help fellow players tackle challenging content. 

Huge shoutout to Quetz, Rem, Copters, Crux and the many other friends we made along the way to make the community a better place including many Discord/Reddit mods and helpers. Super special thank you to Quetz for giving the Tonberries a home in the MateriaBot discord along with all the functionality MateriaBot had.

Back to the tough stuff; a few, kind patrons have offered to maintain their pledges for a bit as we keep the Patreon open and we intend to use the funds to keep the site up as long as possible. There will only be one more batch of Infographics released and some final updates to the website regarding character details for those who want to try out the JP version before the game is shut down. No matter the size of your contribution, as of writing this we have had over 140 unique Patrons who generously contributed funds out of their own pockets to thank us for the work we’ve done. And to the thousands upon thousands of you who viewed the website, reddit posts, Twitter, Facebook, Discord updates or however you found the infographics/guides - Thank You. 


- The Tonberry Troupe

Hey guys,

This has been a wild ride and sadly, it will come to an end. We have shared the enjoyment of DFFOO throughout the last 5 years and I am very grateful to have been part of a great team working on a great game. I will always remember the fights we lost, the awesome QoL, the GL 1st and the numerous hours of early summon board grind. 

I'd like to thank Ink, Dreamy and Tel for having welcomed me into the Tonberry Troupe. I'd like to thank Cel for being an awesome person and taking up the mantle when we needed it. Shoutout to Quetz and Rem, to the crew over at TCC and Black Nero.

I'd like to give a special thanks to our patrons who stuck with us through this journey. To our numerous fans, we hope to see you having fun in the gamersphere! 


Peace out,

Ano

Hey guys,


Although we've all known that this will come eventually, it still hits hard when the reality finally drops.  I'm going to be honest, it hit me harder than I expected.  

Someone on our discord said it's like saying goodbye to a friend that you've had for 5 years.  Some would think it would be a bit silly to compare a mobile game to a living breathing companion be it human or a pet, but if it invokes a little bit of the same emotions who am I to deny it right?

But for me I think it's something a bit more.  I'm the only one left of the original iteration of this group.  So losing the game that connected me to absolutely amazing people gives that heartache a little more tightness.  As the member who always been in the background of this project, I've always wanted to be the support pillar, and the one to carry the WILLS of those who've been with me in this journey.  So I'm proud of myself of being able to do it up until the very end

As for my future with this game, I keep pumping hopium in the tank so we'll see

Thanks to all the members past and present especially to ink and Cel.  All the fellow content creators who've helped us keep the quality of the IG consistent.  And of course to you who have enjoyed and supported our little project.  The discord will still be there so feel free to connect with us and maybe we can have another game to collectively enjoy again


Teleute of Team of Light of the Goddess  


Origins of Tonberry Troupe: https://i.imgur.com/cQXOI11.png

Hi Everyone,


Cel here. Despite not being here since the beginning, Tonberry Troupe and the OO community I interacted with have made up a huge part of my life for the past few years and I want to give you all my sincerest gratitude for all your kind words over the years. I'm happy I could keep the team and project alive as long as we did to the point where even SQEX reached out to invite us to participate in DFFOO's 5th Anniversary giveaway. I found this game through a FFXIV friend and wanted to pick up Alisaie and Terra. I didn't look up any resources and I almost missed out on Alisaie's 35cp because I didn't realize weapon passives could still be active after fully maxing a weapon. My journey has come quite a long way since then and I'm extremely grateful for the friends I've made and the skills I've honed that I can keep for the future.

Sadly, the game will close it's doors which means so will Tonberry Troupe. Thanks to our generous patrons, the site will stay up so feel free to visit for some nostalgia from time to time.  


Stay Comfy,

Celly Bell

Teleute

Infographic Research & Beginner Guide Creator

CellyBell

Infographic Creation, Design & Website/Social Media Management 

Anomander

Lufenia Research Guides & Infographic Quality Assurance

Inkwelder

Founder & Consultant/Queso Support

Changes to Tonberry Troupe (Dec. 2021):

Our Process

Infographics

Teleute creates a research document for every character update. He then grabs ability data from Dissidia Compendium and other sources, like MateriaBot & DissidiaDb. He uses Famitsu (translated automatically) to figure out buff, debuff, & aura values when needed, and reaches out to knowledgeable JP players when a value can't be determined easily. All of this gets cleanly placed into a document with a specific format. Character board and other additions are commented on to ease the future Quality Assurance process. This document is then shared with the rest of the Troupe, as well as with our King Patrons who have early access. Teleute tends to be about 2 months ahead in research.

CellyBell uses the research document to create the base graphic with Photoshop, using a template that Dreamy made over the course of many months, collaborating with the team and with partners around the community, to determine the best format for displaying character kits for the LD / BT era. Over a hundred layers are filled with information, formatted for logical readability, and the background art is selected. Shading and contrast layers are applied to make the information readable, color-blindness compatibility is checked, and some easter eggs are hidden within the graphic for the community to find (usually a tonberry sticker).

Cel also covers Inkwelder's previous work, using their JP experience and community contacts to write the Notes section of the infographic. 

Anomander is the last piece of the puzzle (of sorts), reviewing the drafted infographic for correctness and appearance, aiming to validate every number and name on the graphic, as well as the sensibility of the analysis. Cel makes the necessary updates & adjustments, now often sharing graphics ahead of time with Tonberry Troupe patrons to give them a sneak peak or get their honest feedback.

Infographic Release Process

As Dreamy & Inkwelder used to handle releases, that now falls all to CellyBell. Reddit, Twitter, and Discord announcement posts need to be created, but first updates to the website must be made. MateriaBot $ig commands are updated for the character, and a Discord message is sent to all Discord servers that follow Quetzalma's server where we hang out!

Most important: At this phase, our team is on standby. Yes, we have a rigorous process, but mistakes happen. If a mistake is noticed or reported, we aim to get the information corrected as soon as possible on the graphic and/or the website, so as to never mislead the community. We always appreciate everyone's patience, and we strive to be correct the first time through!

Lufenia/Shinryu Research Process

Anomander kicks off this process, by sequentially working through upcoming Lufenia. He combs YouTube, Reddit, & Discord for runs of one upcoming Lufenia fight at a time. He records all of the runs in a consistently formatted spreadsheet (which is shared with our patrons) with the party used, the level of their gear, the calls used, friend used, and a link to the run. He then runs macros to analyze who the most used characters were among the collected videos. He watches video after video, analyzing the boss mechanics, while simultaneously studying how the characters in party are tackling those specific mechanics. He works with our collaborators that played JP to ask any questions that came up during research, and get them addressed.

Anomander drafts notes on the critical boss mechanics, the Lufenia orb, and hp thresholds when battle changes occur.

CellyBell uses the patron spreadsheet (which has over 7000+ runs that Anomander has analyzed) to update the website's Lufenia+ Research/Shinryu Studies page with fight notes, and the updates are published alongside the next infographic.

Previous Members

Vayne Novus is retired in the role of QA on both the data collection and drafted infographic. He also led work on all of the Entropy infographics and co-managed our massive Facebook page. Vayne leaves our Troupe in good spirits, focusing on his life & career! Sep 2019 - Feb 2021

Dreamy is retired after 2 years of intensive graphic design for the Troupe. Dreamy is responsible for the incredible professionalism that the Troupe now has, using a template for graphics which took months to prepare and tweak. He created hundreds of graphics, integrating in beautiful art from around the FF community. If you appreciate the Troupe's aesthetics on the website or the graphics, you absolutely must thank Dreamy. A wonderful and talented person, we wish him well on his real life endeavors! Aug 2019ish - October 2021

Inkwelder is retired after 2.5 years of... well keeping things together. Ink started the Troupe back in May 2019, doing a graphic for Quistis EX+, aiming to bypass community opinion, and do objective research on the character. This started a small operation with some other players, namely Blindeye, Teleute, PGChris, & Geoffers. Ink created the graphics in Snappa, and received support from his server members. Ink carried the mantle as the Tonberry King throughout his time, working on around 300 infographics, all of them on time, and constantly tweaked for accuracy. Teleute took on a larger role to help him with data collection, and Dreamy moved the graphics to a professional level with Photoshop. Ink started TonberryTroupe.com, an effort that took months to set up, as a way of providing a one-stop shop for new and veteran players alike to find useful information about the game. The website is still used by over 30,000 players a month. Inkwelder thanks the community for their respect, time, and support that they gave him starting out, of which the Troupe work would not have continued without. May 2019 - December 2021

Collaborators & Content Creators

Sometimes confused with our group, these fantastic community members have their own content streams and collaborate with us to make the overall contribution to the community that much better. Thank YOU!

If you enjoy our work, we have a Patreon below where you can support us and gain access to Discord channels with exclusive early data documents and other goodies!