MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

I have considered adjusting the sorting procedure, actually, I think that's totally doable thanks to the magic of Yanfly.

Likewise, the equipment macros might go away for reasons of added convenience, but I still really like them for some silly reason.

I also hope this little spate of drama (which was, thankfully, little, no 77+ post combustion here) won't stop people from downloading and enjoying the game and please-god putting the graphics folder in the journeyman demo folder, sorry again for the inconvenience. : )

I'm not overreacting to the criticism, just a bit pissed off about the misunderstandings it's based on/the glitches that caused those misunderstandings in the first place.

(I know I did make a lot of consecutive posts, for which I apologize, but this computer I'm on is so awful that it hangs for full minutes if I dare to click edit.

*technological facepalm*)

I'm guessing that having to equip an item before you can mine the proper resource has a lot to do with the memory-intensiveness of making a script that checks your whole inventory for an item rather than just checking your equip slot. However, if I'm wrong, not having to swap around weapons frequently would speed up gameplay.

This is an example of feedback that I HAVE RECEIVED A LOT FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES AND THEREFORE SHOULD PROBABLY LISTEN TO. (Memory intensiveness has fuck-all to do with it, unfortunately. Should you ever open the RPG Maker editor, kumada, I am afraid you may be terribly disappointed at how little the programming of these games resembles real programming, in some ways.)

End tangent.

As I said, a lot of people want me to have the game just check if the axe/pick/pole is in your inventory rather than checking to see if it's equipped. I totally understand and kind of agree with their reason for wanting it that way.

However, I REALLY AND GENUINELY PREFER IT MY WAY. I'm not sure I could articulate why, but having to equip the item just feels better to me, and I really LIKE the auto-equip macros even if they're not strictly necessary. Something about them just seems fun to me.

However (second however) I'm totally unwilling to lose potential players over something that small, so if I can judge that to actually be a factor, at all, I will probably change it, compromising my design decision because the purpose of games is for people to fucking play them and if a game exists in the forest and nobody plays it was it ever really compiled?

Versalia, I appreciate your feedback but it is almost entirely based on misunderstandings and wrong assumptions so I'm not sure what to make of it, really.

1) I am unclear how the difference between "x received" and "1 x received" does not innately and obviously imply that the former indicates a quantity other than one. I thought that could be assumed.
2) You don't need to press z to harvest anything, nor should you. This is just the default graphic of the minigame, I was slightly afraid of breaking it so I did not change it. Certainly another little thing for me to fix, but this is purely graphical, not a gameplay design choice, basic or otherwise. Enter is the button for everything.
3) The equip macros won't change. They're convenient and reminding the player of them is convenient. I make no apologies about things I won't be changing. Sprite me some equip poses and I'll use them, though.
3) You CAN IN FACT leave the town.
4) You CAN IN FACT fight enemies with your wood axe, and it is a fairly solid early game weapon, albeit a little inaccurate.
5) The game's interfaces are NOT IN FACT just a bunch of gray text smooshed together. Since I took an obnoxious amount of time finding the exact right icon for every in-game item and object and event and menu option..yeah. Please put the Graphics folder in the Journeyman Demo folder.
6) You make a good point that pressing escape from the trade skills menu should return you to the menu. It's a minor thing, but it's a good change and easily evented. I'll implement this as soon as I'm able.

I have a lot to say, but only two really important things.

1. PLEASE PUT THE FOLDER CALLED GRAPHICS IN THE FOLDER CALLED JOURNEYMAN DEMO. PLEASE. You know what makes the UI and the game as a whole look a lot better? The icons being WHERE and WHAT they fucking should INSTEAD OF RANDOM OR MISSING. Please put the folder called graphics in the folder called journeyman demo before playing. Please. I really thought that between the download notes on the site and the readme in the download that people would get this.

I know it's inconvenient. It sucks. It is because of a glitch with the way that RMVX compresses files that's entirely beyond my control. I hope to have it ironed out by the final release.

PLEASE.

PLEASE.

But please do not judge the game based on a) your own unwillingness to follow quirky installation instructions and b) what the interface DOES NOT AT ALL FUCKING LOOK LIKE. That is PREPOSTEROUSLY UNFAIR.

2. Unless something truly bizarre has happened, it is entirely possible to leave town from the very beginning of the game onwards. You are just RECOMMENDED not to, which is a completely different story. You can, should, and will be able to leave the town from the very beginning of the game. This is as it always has been and always will be.

Kumada as you tested the game you should REALLY know this.


If you quit the game because the game asked you not to leave town, I don't know what to say. CLEARLY I should adjust the wording/appearance conditions of the message but it does not AT ALL prevent you from actually leaving. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding and easily correctable once I get to a computer that can actually open RPG Maker, but it's really not that big of a deal.

You can leave town, you should, the game does not stop you from doing so...I don't really know what else to say.

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