LOCKEZ'S PROFILE

Yeah, I've never heard of this. As far as I'm aware, battle animations never go behind anything. It's definitely not related to the image file; it's an issue with z-priority.

Are you talking about the animated character (BattleCharSet folder), the "weapon animation" (Battle2 folder), or the attack animation (Battle folder)?

Do you have the enemies in question set as "flying" in the database (there's a checkbox on the upper right corner of the screen, below "transparent")?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have nine entries total. I have zipped them together into one 130 MB download, and am hosting it on my personal webspace since my locker is nowhere near big enough.

http://burger.sandwich.net/temp/Boss%20Battle%20Design%20Contest%20entries.zip

Some of the individual battles had names, like "The End is Near" and "Everything Ends". I decided this was a good idea, and gave names to the ones that didn't have names. Use those names when casting votes.

Keep in mind that some of these do have readme files. I recommend reading 'em.

Judging is done by you. Yes, if you're reading this entry, that means you. (Unless you're reading it way in the future after the contest is long since over.) People who entered the contest and people who didn't enter the contest are both eligible to cast their votes.

You can vote for as many games as you want. Each vote is worth one point. The game with the most points wins. Send your votes to me via rpgmaker.net mail. (Click on my name and then click "Send Message.")

I want to place down some guidelines for judging, though.
1) Read the original post. It says, and I quote, "The criteria for judging will be entirely based on gameplay. Is the boss battle too easy? Too complex? Does it get cheap kills? How much problem-solving is involved? How much sense does it make? How well does it adhere to the theme? Does it create an exciting and difficult but undoubtedly beatable and fair challenge?" Try to keep this stuff in mind when judging!
2) The original post also says, and I quote, "Graphics, animations, sound, music, etc. will not be judged and will not affect your score. Use the RTP or whatever you have lying around." I want to reiterate this for emphasis. You are not to let the battle's visual and audio presentation affect your judging. This is a gameplay contest, and gameplay is what we are judging here.
3) Don't vote if you didn't play all the entries. You don't have to win them all, but you do have to *try* to win them all.
4) Contestants are not allowed to vote for their own submissions. (It all evens out anyway if everyone votes for themselves.)

You have three days from the time of this post to cast your votes.

My decision to add two extra filler dungeons to Vindication, while well-meaning, was not really a good one. It improved the pacing of the game as a whole at the cost of destroying the pacing in those two parts of the game. There was probably a better solution.

This is a really good article. Every suggestion is accompanied by a thorough explanation of why the the thing it's fixing is problematic and why that solution works. You might not think some of these things are important enough to do, or that they cause more problems than they solve, but it's hard to really say anything in the article is just plain wrong.

Indeed you will. You can help judge them if you want, as can anyone.

You guys have until midnight tonight to finish sending in submissions. I have eight submissions so far.

Somber is a good word. Music will really help set the tone here. I think you could easily pass this off as either a depressing memory of a once-great city or as a rugged outpost full of adventure, depending on the music.

Is that one diagonal white line part of a rain effect? Rain would make it a lot more dismal.