WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT? (GAME DEVELOPMENT EDITION)

I'm looking at what skills should go to which character. There is a certain expectation of what skills a character should get when the class is "Water Adept", "Earth Adept", or the like. But what kind of crazy abilities should an "Avatar" get? Might be helpful if I knew what the character was an avatar of!

I'm thinking "oh god can't wait to finish this". That's been my thought for the last couple of months. Hopefully they won't last another couple of months. :D

or you could not make excuses and properly design your battle system

"This stat is useless for this character, so I'll add some useless skills based on that stat so that equipment people will see as useless will have a marginal benefit" is a terrible line of thought.

author=Marrend
I'm looking at what skills should go to which character. There is a certain expectation of what skills a character should get when the class is "Water Adept", "Earth Adept", or the like. But what kind of crazy abilities should an "Avatar" get? Might be helpful if I knew what the character was an avatar of!

This is one thing I did not worry about AT ALL when designing the party for .

Pretty much everyone has a mix of buffs, debuffs, direct damage, etc.

And I love it.

Yanfly, I felt, with its introduction of Rage, Cooldowns, and Limited Use skills, was a GREAT excuse to finally let "physical" characters have 0 MP and 0 Magic-Based skills. There was plenty to do with them anyway.

He wouldn't. That's why I just specifically said I wouldn't do that.

Edit:
Maybe I was unclear. I'm not giving any of the physical characters a plain old magic attack. I might give some of them some sorts of skills that augment their overall strategy and rely on the magic stat in some way - like a mana shield, or a buff that causes all skills to also inflict fire damage over time.

I don't like directly using the DA method, at least not in this game. I don't want my stats in this game having such weird and obscure side-effects. I'm fine with individual skills being unusual, though, for whatever reason. Somehow that feels simpler to me. Something about the game starting simpler and gradually becoming more complex as you unlock new skills.

I'm thinking about Cosplay Crisis's final dungeon. I've added an extra section to it and changed the final boss and I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. Thinking of all the plot points I wouldn't have wrapped up if I didn't do this way gives me chills. Plus this battle feels a whole lot more epic than the other ones did. More final.

I'm also wondering if anyone will be ridiculous enough to reset their game from a savefile in order to see all three scenes in a specific section. You can only see one of these scenes per playthrough because they're similar but not.

author=alterego
how many people would be cynic enough to dismiss this hypothetical game of mine as a mere rip-off

I wouldn't dismiss it on premise alone, but it wouldn't interest me. This stems more from a personal distaste for evil empires, rather than thinking it is too similar to Star Wars. If anything, I'd consider changing the luminescent sword! It sounds like it's not a core detail, and not having glowy sword duels would lessen the LOLSTARWARS associations, I think.

I'm also trying to figure out what's the best way to dispose of a body. Mmmh.

This depends a lot on location. I personally prefer somewhere deserted enough that nature can quietly do the work for you, if you're in any kind of wilderness area. If the tools are available, then cutting up the body makes for easier transportation/handling in general. For more urban areas, if you can avoid leaving evidence then a warehouse/supermarket dumpster might do the trick. Burning the body is really not the best idea, as the smell tends to draw a lot of attention. This is going off the assumption that the body in question is a stranger rather than someone you know, too.

Edit: And I am boss contest entrying. The force action command is truly a mystifying thing. Stop targeting random enemies when I tell you to heal someone specific, stupid healer.

I'm thinking about my battle system and my character grow system, trying to find the sweet spot betwen "complex enough to be interesting", "simple enough that people will care" and "easy enough for me to implement that I won't finish it in the next iteration of the universe".

author=PentagonBuddy
This depends a lot on location. I personally prefer somewhere deserted enough that nature can quietly do the work for you, if you're in any kind of wilderness area. If the tools are available, then cutting up the body makes for easier transportation/handling in general. For more urban areas, if you can avoid leaving evidence then a warehouse/supermarket dumpster might do the trick. Burning the body is really not the best idea, as the smell tends to draw a lot of attention. This is going off the assumption that the body in question is a stranger rather than someone you know, too.

I'll be sure to never give you my address.

I'm thinking about calling the battle demo Karsuman and I are working on Tall Menacing Building. Not sure though; all I know is that we're figuring out a plot for a short game involving lesbians and steampunk toys (maybe toys for for steampunk lesbians, or steampunk lesbian toys, but we'll see).

potential title for actual game: Phylomortis: Heroes Need Multiracial Lesbian Sex: A Game About Social/Game Design Commentary by Karsuman and Craze: Artificer 2