Well, I think I have to ask my swapsie for help.

Thankfully, I figured it out.

I'll check my list. I already missed one person before. Sounds about right for me to miss another. >.<;

Well, aside from the rules saying to do so, not really. XD

@Zephire: checked and sent. sorry about that!

I'm feeling a bit like that myself. This game is a bit confusing. XD

X'D The game I'm working on right now is a piece of art.

i know exactly what i wanna do but i can't work on my game until the 12th

damn obligations

Just because you got a game that uses RTP doesn't mean you have to finish the game using RTP! Really, it just means that "finding and implementing better graphics" is part of the half of the game that the first person didn't do.

author=Superstroke
Sorry whoever I got (I think you'll recognize yourself). I had to go back and change a few things or else people would stop playing the game before the 2nd/3rd combat, I know I would've.

Same with poorly balanced fights. Balancing the battles and making them fun just was left for the second person to do. You don't need to apologize or feel bad for doing things the first person didn't get around to doing. That's the whole point of the event.

author=Liberty
Yeah. Just don't touch existing stuff unless there's bugs.

Please remember that game design is an iterative process. You're supposed to be doing the second half of the game's design. The second half of making a cut scene is rewording and rearranging the cut scene to sound better and fix plot holes. The second half of making a dungeon is making it look better and have better pacing. The second half of creating fights is making them more fun and interesting and satisfying. The first person would be doing that stuff if they were the one still working on the game. I don't know how anyone could actually make a game without doing this stuff! The result would be really disappointing, at least.

Liberty said that the pirate's code 30 minutes was a suggestion, not a rule.

I'm sure the answer depends on what you consider the "second half" of game design, and what the other person considers the "second half" of game design. For me, by the time I'm halfway done a game, the playable content is already as long as it will ever be, and all that's left is refining and improving it. However for some people, they might have only made systems in the first half, and left all of the content to be done by the second person. For other people they might have filled the game with placeholder battles and placeholder graphics and placeholder dialogue, and expected the second person to replace them all with real stuff. Every situation's gonna be different!

You forget, though, LockeZ, that some people are a bit better skilled at balancing/playing than others. For example, the game that Ratty got was hard for him to get far into, but unity apparently got through it just fine. It might be that the challenge is skewered a bit harder but still passable. Ratty's fine making that more manageable by adding skills and events, but part of the second-half challenge is finding ways to do that without touching the initial game parts too much. This means that, unless things are incredibly unbalanced (say, someone leaving stats at 1), you just work around what you have.

However, just to make it official, let's put it like this:
Anyone who created battles in their project who doesn't mind their partner messing with those, say AYE!


Aye.