GIVING FEEDBACK: PASS OR FAIL

Dammit, if only your playthrough was slightly longer you would've enjoyed some good old teleporting :'(

A few notes.
The loophole during the skydive was made for testing, however I must of overlooked on patching it up before releashing the demo.

Meanwhile with the battle mecanhics, I really do want to have something different other than turnbased (ideally realtime combat). Would like to know your opinion on what battle system I could potenially use?

Other than that most of the stuff in the tileset is on placeholder status, I'm gradually phasing out the ripped resources with custom work. It is very time comsuming process =/ but it'll be worth it in the end.

Thank you for playing Creation!

WOO. Thanks for the video, I have a pretty good idea of what power the first boss needs to be now, based on watching you fight it.

Do the written tutorials need to be shortened? The laser cannon tutorial did tell you that you could use lasers to activate light-sensitive objects such as crystal orbs, but I assume you skipped it because it felt like a wall of text.

The Cerebral Symphony

Hi Creation. It would be awesome if you could Pass or Fail this. Merci bien.

author=ShortStar
Making a checklist for everyone.
- Don't use RTP.
- Don't use default font (remember to make it readable)
- Use music on the title screen.
- Don't have a long introduction. A minute is too long in my opinion.
- Include shinny things when there is something to get somewhere. Hidden items.
- Tint screen WORKS BEST with the fade out... then tint... then fade in.
- Don't use default battle system.
- Random encounters are bad (and the backbone of RPGs).
- Too many villages defeat the purpose of an RPG.

How the Hell does having too many villages defeat the purpose of an RPG? Villages doesn't define it. The purpose is to play a role... and if that has a lot of places to visit, it doesn't hurt it, if it is done correctly.

author=Thiamor

author=ShortStar
Making a checklist for everyone.
- Don't use RTP.
- Don't use default font (remember to make it readable)
- Use music on the title screen.
- Don't have a long introduction. A minute is too long in my opinion.
- Include shinny things when there is something to get somewhere. Hidden items.
- Tint screen WORKS BEST with the fade out... then tint... then fade in.
- Don't use default battle system.
- Random encounters are bad (and the backbone of RPGs).
- Too many villages defeat the purpose of an RPG.

How the Hell does having too many villages defeat the purpose of an RPG? Villages doesn't define it. The purpose is to play a role... and if that has a lot of places to visit, it doesn't hurt it, if it is done correctly.

This was delivered a little tongue-in-cheek.

(It makes light of the common complaints made about RM games)

author=Creation
@Ephiam: Seeing that your game just recently got LTed by another member, I thought I'd give a chance to someone else. If you still want me to try your game, I'll do so in a little while :).

The Cerebral Symphony by Faenon


*Note that the sound is slighly not in synch with the audio for some reason as it might seem like I had loads of time to read the dialogue at the beginning.

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Hey Creation. Thanks very much for doing this, I really enjoyed watching the video. And thanks for the score as well, very encouraging. Please could you put the game in your list on your first post? Good advertising ;)

It was kinda funny how you lost the first battle as it meant people got to see both different branches from the first choice. But yes, you did also highlight how it needs to be quite a lot easier for the upbeat personality to win.

Other stuff:
-I'll slow down the beginning dialogue. It's funny, I started making TCS when I was 15 (I'm 23 now...had a looooong hiatus) and I was obssessed then with synching the music to the on-screen events, hence auto-closing boxes. I'll fix that now.
-Could you suggest a different shade for the upbeat personality system? It has to be some kind of red really to fit with the aesthetic... Similarly any better suggestion for window borders?
-Yes, the game is very linear for the first mission, and to be honest as a whole. But the NON-linear aspect is meant to come through the personality branches -as you saw!
-The story is meant to just hurl you in with no explanation -other than that it takes place inside a drug trip. It does expand and give you some more info as you go on though. Maybe you might like to play beyond the first 10 minutes in your own time?
-Good call on the voices in music. Maybe I'll switch to MIDI throughout. Would cut down the file size too...

Thanks again!

Backstage II by Max McGee


Forever's End by NicoB


Crystalis by Avee


Eomnium Project by Seangrei

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Oh lord, you did my game. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm already positive that this is going to be a fail. The beginning was the weakest part of the game. I appreciate you playing it though. I'll say more once I've watched it.

Well done! Forever's End was extremely pleasant, no surprise, Crystalis'boss way too hard, and Eomnium was.... Eomnium, totally agree with you!
Edit : I didn't comment on Backstage II because I recently played it, it's good.