GANONFROG'S PROFILE

I make pixels, write, art unimpressively, and make lists if things that I do in relation to game making websites.

I've gotten a couple of requests from people wanting to see my old Final Tear 3 review, so I reuploaded it here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bExj9bGFzJG_7u3PBEf-LLTKerIC4MWw9ncUc99uyUM/edit

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Oh, woah. Thank you so much, everyone. ^^; *Flails in response to compliments*

author=Link_2112
It does look great, one thing that seems off to me is it's belly. It's got a weird angle to it. It's fatter near the back, but maybe swirly skinned monsters are like that? Who knows?

It's got a bump between it's leg and mane, too. I just feel like that thing should be fatter! With more of it in the front. That's just me.


I based its anatomy mostly off of a mountain goat's, since it's meant to be native to the highlands.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/media/mountain-goat-1912.jpg

Though I guess I did give the poor thing a bit of a beer belly. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll get him some exercise and tone him out a little bit.

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Thank you!



Covered in swirls, like real animals are.

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author=sixe
fencermans behind arm could be a little more lax. thought he didnt have 1 at first glance

Alright. I'll loosen it or have it move around a bit when animated.

Man, there hasn't been much love for the pixel thread recently, has there? Oh well. Reviving it with a new sprite from the set.



After I make an enemy for them to fight, I'm going to start animating.

Whatchu Workin' On? Tell us!

author=Mr.Nemo
instead of making actual progress on arbiter (you know, WRITING THE PLOT and such) i've been preoccupied with uh, spriting battleanimations for characters i'm not even sure will make it in

but for comparison, here's how the battlesprites looked in solar tear versus the new ones (they have a bunch of animations, but i'm sucky at making gifs)

i made a few more characters but i consider myself a pretty sloppy spriter; there's a bunch of lazy mistakes present in every frame. then again, i should be focusing on everything but graphics for now but w/e


I have to admit, these are looking a little off, mostly because of their proportions and poses. They both look very stiff, with blue haired girl holding an overly broad, uncomfortable looking stance with a confusing, uneven positioning of her arms. Her left arm also looks rather large compared to the rest off her body. Ponytail girl's pose is a little less awkward looking, but she appears to be leaning forward too far, mostly through the jutting out of her chest. I recommend moving that back by at least one block (You appear to be using 2x2 pixel blocks here, so keep everything consistent to that.). Ponytail also has a rather long face, even compared to Blue, up there. Again, I recommend shortening it by a block.

I do see what you're going for with the style though, making the battlers large versions of the 2003 walking sprites while keeping the blocky style of them. It's interesting, I think has potential to look good. You just need to find a balance between the style and proper proportions.

RMN minecraft server

I tried to enter the server and kept falling into oblivion from the moment I spawned. Is this something that happened to the server, or just my computer?

Reviewing RMN's Visual Novels

Visual novels with no choices are called kinetic novels. Visual novels with choices that don't do much are bad.

Really, though, I'm not claiming that the label is that important. It's not. This is more supposed to be a flimsy premise for playing and reviewing a bunch of largely unplayed games. That said, I do feel like games should be well labelled enough for someone to be able search for a particular genre and at lease get a basic idea of what kind of games they're going to get. That's far from the case with the Visual Novel tag. Some of these are labelled really randomly.

But yes, visual novels in their most basic sense really teeter the line of games to novels. I'd say they just barely cross over it. Really, you could argue it's a sign of the times. I think it's kind of cool.

Anyways, the Choice review is up. http://rpgmaker.net/games/2491/reviews/1654/

Esoterica is up next.

Reviewing RMN's Visual Novels

Plugs are fine! As long as they're plugs that fit the requirements. The list is rather long as it is, but I'll gladly add these to it and get to them when I can.

Gay Characters

I don't have anything insightful to say about this subject that multiple people who have far more of a right to haven't said already.

However, I feel the need to point out that in the posts feed, a long string of responses to this thread were immediately followed by one on something called "allthegay.png".

Reviewing RMN's Visual Novels

Just submitted the review for Choice. It should be up soon. The review for Alex's Scar is still sitting in halfwritten purgatory until it stops making me want to hurt small things.

@rabitZ: Heh, it happens. Since you noticed, I won't bring it up in the review. No worries.

Dumbest Video Game Twists?{Spoilers}

author=Jude
Isn't the ending in Star Ocean 3 famously stupid?


It's not even so much an ending as it is an incredibly stupid twist that comes halfway through the game, and completely changes the tone of it. Not in a the good Trigun Shift kind of way, either.

It was all a MMO.

SO3 definitely had the worst one I've ever had the misfortune to experience first hand, though Tales of the Abyss had some pretty bad ones in the form of the entire final third of game. Several things happen within it, and they're all bullshit. It's made all the worse by the fact that the game could have very well ended at the 2/3s point with absolutely no changes, and have actually been pretty good. Hell, with the last portion of the game cut out, it's my favorite of the Tales games. It's crushing, really.
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