MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

Hey what do ya know, I was passing through and I saw this.

I know the area he means. Those pit traps are supposed to be ALMOST invisible "fuck you you're dead" on touch events, but depending on his monitor brightness versus that of the computer I used to make this in in 2005 14 years ago, the traps might be actually invisible "fuck you you're dead" on touch events, which yeah...

"why would anyone do this?"

is a very fair response.

Unfortunately, I did not have RM2k3, the RTP, or Backstage itself on this computer when I saw this. Backstage I was able to download from this page obviously and it seems like I was able to get the 2k3 RTP pretty easily from RPG Maker Web GWUH! ANNOYANCE! I guess having the legal RTP installed won't let me boot up Backstage. But why?

But what I don't have and may never have again is the editor. I can't remotely afford to buy the legal version (actually, most or at least a lot of the legal versions of RM engines I own I've won through contests, some of them on this site), and I'd bet since the advent of the legal version that the less-than-legal copies of this 16 year old software are very tough to find verging on impossible.

So all I could really do is play it, as a player, if that, and see if I can screenshot the area in question and point out where the instant death traps are. Only, I can't even do that without the fan-translated 2k3 RTP which as mentioned I don't have. If anyone wants to PM me it, I'd at least be able to PLAY my old games and try to serve up solutions for stuff like this.

I am sorry for that slicervanguard.

I don't post here much any more. The reason why I decided to cancel this particular game is that...I don't even feel like the same person that did the bulk of the work on this game. Most of that work happened eleven or twelve years ago between '06-'07 when I was about twenty. Over that time I lost my easy working familiarity with the engine, as well as my familiarity with the sub-engine I had evented with it. And now a legal version of 2k3 with plugins has changed the entire playing field. And I'm really feeling the years between 20 and here, especially as the victim of a degenerative incurable autoimmune disease, which is by default a one-way trip to not-so-fun town.

Even if all my other priorities and responsibilities magically evaporated over night, I don't think I could finish this if I wanted to. It would be too much like trying to finish someone else's game, not knowing for sure either how to work with the code base/event base they've already built or what it was they ultimately intended. A lot can happen to a person in twelve years, enough that they no longer even recognize themselves in the mirror, even. Also nessy never followed through on the CMS she was going to make for me :P

By the way, I just want to point out that I have earned approximately $0.00 dollars for my work in RPG Maker which means I have performed literally 100s of thousands of hours of unpaid labor to give away high quality free videogames to all y'all.

Not to sound too salty, but having given away, for free, a hundred or so hours of RPG and adventure gameplay in various completed games, demos, and cancelled projects, I don't feel particularly obligated to put in more time doing unpaid labor to finish my games nor do I feel anyone is particularly entitled to my unpaid labor on behalf of gam mak. Or, more accurately, the strongest obligation I feel is to myself; it would have been cool if Backstage II has been finished, but that's not the world we live in. I know it's a disappointment, as life so often is, as I so often am.

Now, I would be happy to take on the challenge of finishing this if I was getting paid a living wage to do so, but I don't see that happening any time soon.

Yes, Max, it's better.

Spoilers: Morigoth the White is the real bad guy all along. I bet no one would ever have seen that coming. To clarify, since I'm typing spoilers anyway: by no means is Lord Thanatos a good guy. However, their pawns, Garinol for Morigoth and Garret for Thanatos, are both relatively reasonable, honorable people that somehow would have managed to find common ground. Morigoth The White and the Necromancer Lord Thanatos are both assholes, just the former is a little bit smarter, not to mention a massive hypocrite, too. The game's second to final boss fight would have been against a dragon that was also a vampire. That would have been cool.

*CANCELLED*

The most recent post on the page is from bicfarmer in June, so it seems fitting to respond to that as I admit to myself this project is cancelled.

Nothing in this game is entirely luck dependent (probabilistic), nor is anything entirely deterministic. The game uses a combination of probabilistic and deterministic features familiar to most cRPG and tabletop gamers: rolling dice and modulating the result based on your character's abilities.

I know it's supposed to convey the sense of surviving in an unforgiving wasteland like in fallout but truth be told, fallout never really conveyed that feeling at all.

It was never anywhere near as inspired by Fallout as you assume. Anyway, Everything Turns Gray has failed to survive in the unforgiving wasteland of RMN. Like so many of you, it has perished out in the wastes.

this does not have a downlaod - bug or feature?