RONOVE'S PROFILE

author=demonlord5000
I'll take the (chocolate chip) cookies for testing! I'm glad it's progressing, despite the annoyances of databasing. You can look forward to bug fixing once I get my hands on the next copy (unfortunatly, I am evil enough to bring it up). Don't worry though, from what I've seen of the last demo, odds are there will only be minor bugs here and there (at least we can hope).

Databasing hasn't been that annoying, it's just tedious. And I think it would have helped if I had planned a bit better (haha so many things I'm realizing now makes me go "dammit, wish I had realized that at the beginning!"), but I'm slowly getting it done!

I think I am going to do the full game's beta-testing in phases this time. Meaning there is a group that gets my hot off the presses version to catch most of the bugs I am too stupid to encounter through my own play through. Then I'll have another group take a crack at it after the initial group to make sure the first group didn't miss anything.

And then of course, knowing my luck, that still won't be enough. :P Glad you're stoked to still test it!

I think having people make a Graphics folder and then a System folder in there and putting the iconset in there should work. It worked with RMXP anyway. <_<

I think RMVX encryption has shoddy problems and the "images being too big to encrypt" is one of them. It won't for example, encrypt a project that happens to get pretty big (I had this problem ;_;, but at least there are workarounds!).

Though you should probably go through the agonizing project of going through your icons and figuring out the ones you are using and the ones you aren't so you can cut out the ones you aren't using and thus cut down the size of the file.

Jear77: Haha, I forgot I gave the demo access to that attack. I balanced the bird without having that attack myself and went "welp, let's make Hiante useful" and slapped that on his sword. Glad it helped! :)

author=Volrath
If you have several people in a row telling you that your battle mechanics are unbalanced...it might be time to take a look at them.

That doesn't always happen! If someone is so full of themselves they will think "you're all just ganging up on me!". Peeps who want to improve and are in a place to see something is wrong will see that more than one person mentioning a problem as a way to validate that there is a problem. But some people have the idea that if more and more people talk about said problem as a problem, that those people are ganging up on them!

I think in terms of the topic at large is that people who create need to know what they want to do with what they are creating. And once the person learns that, they should also learn how much they want to sacrifice their growth (might be a wrong term) for what they want to do with a game. They should also be willing to be malleable enough to be able to tweak things so that even if a feature they are using isn't received well, they should be able to look at it from afar to determine how to make it received well (which all depends on the audience that they want--their audience here is different than their audience elsewhere). If it really can't be, then I think it's okay to put your foot down and say "that's too god damn bad". But you also should make sure if the feature is really needed if it's not received well because if you do put your foot down, you do turn away potential players. But if that's a blow you want to take, then that's what the designer chooses and I think that's okay. Just act like an adult about it and all that.

'_') I would like to know the justification for that. How would it stop foreigners from stealing our jobs?