WHAT WE DID HORRIBLY ON OUR FIRST GAMES.

What we did horribly, eh? Well, on my first game, I did absolutely horrible. I used RTP Battle Chars, Chipsets, Bad mapping, bad switches, took charsets without permission, and a very badly cliche storyline.

Gladly, I've improved a lot, but I'm still kind of noob since now I'm using RMXP. Don't worry, legal version. Though, I like RM2k3 since how I was used to it and handled friendly user at least to me. Now, I'm just rabbling so I'm gonna stop...

With my first RPG Maker game, back on Super Dante RPG Maker 2 (or whatever), the biggest problems I had are basically the same ones all newbies seem to do. I worked without an outline, using a hackneyed plot, and was making a fan-sequel of a much more popular game that really had nothing to do with the original game when it comes right down to it. I later altered it a bit and cut out the earlier ties, but it was still pretty obvious amateurism. I also don't think I ever bothered coming up with a Big Bad. Basically, the only reason for the player to keep playing was that it was a game. I had not considered the concept of stopping playing a game you had started at the time, I think. All the while, I was completely convinced that I was an amazing writer, and that I was telling a story everyone would want to hear.

Now my first game IN GENERAL....I can't remember exactly. That was like fourteen years ago. I think it was a text adventure in QBasic that I sort of threw together after hacking around in Legend of the Red Dragon. I know that I made quite a few programming mistakes, like using raw random numbers as "AI" for baddies, instead of any sort of actual preference for one attack or another, and I didn't do any prep work or really have any goal in mind. I do remember my friends being impressed that I had made a game at all when I was only eleven, regardless of lack of graphics or sense or professionalism, though. That little sliver of approval is probably why I still keep coming back to game making.

Ah, nostalgia.

My first game, The Adventures of Two Guys, was... not impressive. It was repetitive, short, and glitched. I was one heckava n00b at any RPG Maker, and I didn't get how you just had a Database and Events. Eventually I figured it out, though I made lots of near-identical map duplicates because I didn't know how to use switches (I thought that "Switch Operations" ment changing what the game was doing at that moment). Everything except for the battle music was from the RTP, yet despite all these faults, I felt a great sense of accomplishment when I was done. I remember slumping back in my computer chair. "I'm done."

Of course, I realized that I wasn't really done. I took a few CD's with my game on them to a class in using GameMaker (it sucked, but more on that another time). I remember at least 5 people trying it out. One guy, after copying it to his flash drive, went online to play flash games. But when he looked over my moniter (he sat in front of me, and I was playing my game), he said something like, "Dude, that's so sweet! I'm playing your RPG game!" My game didn't really have a name at the time -- it was just "my RPG game." Players at the class found a ton of glitches that I fixed later on, but still, I was glad to share my game. That was about half a year ago, during the summer between 7th and 8th grade for me. Ah, good times....

Anyone who's willing can try my game with the above link. Please review it, I want one so bad. I don't care if it sucks, just write one....

Oh yeah, and I should've named it "The Awakening of the Five Dragons." Oh well....

The first game I remember making was an LoTR fan-game for RM95. Not knowing how to use switches made for a lot of useless dummy maps x_x my god it was terrible.

Yeah, especially since i used to always use the crappy old RTP sets.

Ohhh...ho ho ho. My first game...

God...what was it again? I can't even remember WHAT my first game WAS anymore. I had like...10 or so projects floating around back then. Also, I've started and given up more than one can shake a stick at. But...I THINK it was a game where you had to go and kill an evil king. Yeah, that is about all I can remember from it other than it was ALL RTP and, well...stunk.

Wow. Soo...Hero's Realm was your first game? I wouldn't have figured that. It looked better than what my first game looked like. :P

You're story was too complicated? Eee. I can't really say the same :-X I was ust in an eager rush to actually make SOMETHING...so I didn't really plan anything out. Even now, most of my plot's are not complicated.

E-Gads! Self-plagerism! >:(

Oh! Yes...and now remember the name of my first game: King's Quest.

Best. Title. Ever. C'mon, you HAVE to agree with me! 8)

I've been designing video games on paper since before I had a computer, ever since I decided that I could make a better video game than Final Fantasy VI.

I am ambitious.