DO YOU GUYS STILL ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR EARLY PROJECTS?

http://rpgmaker.net/users/Illustrious/locker/Moments.lzh

This is what I did with my cancelled game. I put everything in a scrapbook kind of form to remember it by.

Link only temporarily available.

I actually had a game that I considered ready for a demo release way back when RM2K was just entering the final stages of its translation. (So, an RM95 project, which would put me at about 12 years old. For reference, I'm turning 23 in a little under a week.)

Said demo was four maps long: the hero's house, the hero's hometown (with everything else save one building blocked off), the world map, and a neighboring village.

They were all on the outdoor tileset, and the only forced battle used a terrible .mid of Magus's theme from CT. The "demo" consisted of the following:

- Waking up and talking to your mother, who "asks" you to take your friend to the nearby village. I put "asks" in quotes because if you were a smartass and said no, you got sent back to your room and given an instant Game Over. (12-year-old me: DURR I AM WITTY NOBODY WILL SEE THIS COMING) (23-year-old me: *facepalm*)

- So you do that and go out of your house and to the training hall to pick up your friend. Completely apropros of nothing, examining a bookshelf gives your characters new skills (no this was not a debug thing, it was what 12-year-old me intended). I also intended for there to be a fight, and so it was. I remember writing the readme and saying "you might have to download this file from somewhere else" because the .mid I chose seemed to randomly not work for some arcane reason.

- After winning, you move on to the world map, where absolutely nothing of interest is on the map save your hometown and your destination. Go to your destination and instead of being transported to a town, you're transported to a "room" with six chests and a monster, who gives you a riddle from which you choose a chest. One lets you continue, the other 5 are Game Overs (wtf 12-year-old self). Choose correctly... and the demo ends after a cliche plot twist that I can't even remember apart from the fact that it had been done a million times before.

- Fade to black, credits, and then 12-year-old me plugs THE FIRST SEASON OF SURVIVOR ON CBS. Because I liked watching it. *super facepalm*

Why so much detail? Because, thankfully for my fragile ego, this "game" has been lost to multiple reformats, moves, and other real life events. I have since gone on to do jack shit in RPG Maker, as anybody with half a brain who has followed my history can attest.

I upload it to RMN (if I still have it)!

ie: http://rpgmaker.net/games/946/

I do.

It's pretty important - that acknowledgement, that is, of your beginnings. It provides you with perspective on how far you've come as a developer.

Caveat fucking emptor. (I have a bunch of these ancient unfinished projects lying around. Some are even older and crappier. Maybe I'll share some of the rest if anyone wants to brave this one.)

Warning: contains Linkin Park MP3s. Not ironically. Horrible MS Paint title screen. Etcetera. It's 7-9 years old.

Mr. Y (community age check: do you remember him?) actually played this game and really liked it. He posted a highly positive review of it. Back in the ancient days of 2003. I never wound up reading the review until 2008. Awkward!

While we're talking trivia, The Tower takes place in the same universe as Mage Duel and Between Two Worlds (kind of).

TL;dr lots to be embarrassed of, but lots to be proud of as well. Play it and see how far I've come and/or how talented I was at 16.

NOTE: This link will only be up about 24 hours. I need my locker space.

My first project was called A Legend Best Forgotten, made back in the early 00s with RPGMaker2k. It featured a Ransacker (thief) named Dyhalto who was total badass and doesn't afraid of anything, and every NPC in the game had options in the dialogue that ranged from "Get out of my way" to "F--k off" and anything in between.
Too bad I don't have it anymore. Got lost/deleted on my old comp and I haven't been able to find anybody who downloaded and kept it around.
Maybe I'll get lucky here x)

My first game was started in November 2004 and finished in February of 2005 - all completely screwy four hours' worth. It used various MIDIs from across the video game spectrum downloaded at vgmusic.com, imbalanced battles, and pretty much every default system one could imagine, save for the characters and a couple of renamed items. Heck, even switches were used sparingly. The storyline had little cohesion, and often you could skip major characters and go right for the final boss with just the first three people you faced.

My next project was started in 2006. I had developed one of the most detailed character creation systems I have ever seen in an RPG Maker game, period, even nearly avoiding using the standard stats, but I postponed it when my computer crashed in 2008. I plan on revisiting the concept later in a new version.

About the same time, I started creating a fan-game between Mega Man 6 and Mega Man 7. It featured a custom sprite built by one of my good friends, and intended to be a revisit to the bosses of all six original Mega Man games. It also had the beginnings of a sophisticated teleport system. It was claimed in 2008 with the computer crash, too.

I've also had several titles I never even started on in this mess as well, just titles I thought up for games.

Through this, between 2006 and 2008, I developed three different versions of "MindCage" and was unsatisfied with any of their progress. Each time, I would hit a wall and be unable to progress sufficiently enough. Then my computer crashed and these were lost, too.

All of these lead to the current, and fifth, version of "MindCage", my current work-in-progress.

My earlier projects are gone. I was a RPG Maker 1/2/3 user for eight years, so all of my projects were on memory cards. My PS1 memory card(s) is shot, so my projects are lost for good unless someone can extract 'em. My first completed project for RPG Maker 1 on the PS1 was a generic game about an elf kid who has to save the princess from an evil dragon. Since I never knew RM2K existed, I used RPG Maker 1. Quaint little game of about 1-2 hours. I was 9 or 10 years old at the time, so obviously it was horrible.

I never really completed any projects for RPG Maker 2. The editor was incredibly complicated and the 3D graphics modeling was arduous. As a 12-13 year old kid, I was overwhelmed. RPG Maker 3 may have been mediocre and limiting, but I finished a few games on that, including a remake of my first RPG Maker 1 game. I deleted it, however, because RPG Maker 3 uses up too much space on the PS2 memory card.

I mainly fiddle around in VX and learn the program without releasing anything. I'm working on something at the moment, though.

Usually I mucked around with the mapping, when I first started. And I really had no idea what to do next, I didn't how to use switches. Though, there was a game at Misao, where there no switches in the game. The Variables were hard to figure out. I learnt that you can keep character's levels by using party number and selecting the 0001 for a example on who the heroes keep their levels intact, even when they leave the party for the time being.

Anyway, failure, is a step before success. Long as my writing is good.