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WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT? (GAME DEVELOPMENT EDITION)

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Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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This boss can raise its defense so high that any attempts to damage it outside of the Poison and Burning ailments instead turn to healing. Thankfully the player has learned how to remove enemy enchantments at that point in the game, so if they're not riding the brain fart express they should do alright.

(I'm designing every enemy encounter to teach you how to master a specific spell, with the boss encounters being culminations of everything you've learned so far.)

Now, time to sleep so that I can make even more horrible monstrosities tomorrow...
I'm thinking whether I should upload one of my earlier projects that will most probably never get finished, just to showcase my atrocious attempts at writing funny dialogue.
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APATHY IS FOR COWARDS
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@Craze: I've always liked the "enemies as homework and bosses as exams" approach
@Pyramid: MAKERSCORE

I just thought of a funny small concept for an action game called "Anarchist Baseball" where you run anime-hero-style with a baseball bat dragging along on the ground dodging and jumping and finally you beat some rich dude's head in.
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APATHY IS FOR COWARDS
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Yea I was joking that you should upload it just for the Makerscore :P gotta rack up points where you can.

Anyway speaking of unfinished projects, it's super embarrassing that I've uploaded 3 projects and two of them are on hiatus, and I've completely lost the files for one of them.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
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I just accidentally fed my boss that eats your enchantments... the max HP+/regen enchantment. #FML #gamedevproblems
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APATHY IS FOR COWARDS
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That is a genius idea for a boss... it sounds like something out of WoW, but even scarier in a JRPG #yoloswag
Nightowl
Remember when I actually used to make games? Me neither.
1577
I'm thinking about trying to make a battle system similar to Fallout 1/2

Of course it won't ever be done. AHUEUHEHEUHEEU
Isrieri
"My father told me this would happen."
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Should I really be spending all this time agonizing over level design when no one is going to play the damn game, or like it if they do?

I say yes. Because I won't be satisfied otherwise.




I've been thinking about seeing how far I can push the limits in RPG Maker Lite. When I read "20 maps, 10 events, 16 items, no scripts, 4 tilesets" I was like.. "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED"

I was thinking of creation a short side view game (Around 10 minutes long at most) composed of 4-5 stages and a final boss. The gist of the story is you're sent into a global supercomputer in order to eliminate viruses. Maybe it could serve as a prologue for a future project or something, but the main focus of the project is to overcome the limits of Lite creatively.
author=Isrieri
Should I really be spending all this time agonizing over level design when no one is going to play the damn game, or like it if they do?

I say yes. Because I won't be satisfied otherwise.


Well, nobody's going to play your game or like it if you don't invest in level design, that I know.
Thinking about how to expand the gameplay in the first segment of my game. I'm quite happy with the first dungeon, but I'm beginning to think that it needs to be expanded (it can be beaten in 10 or 15 minutes). Otherwise a good portion of the first chapter will be just cutscene and walking about.

So, my options:

I) expand the first dungeon in the game
II) find a way of adding another dungeon or some quests into the college
III) introduce some other form of gameplay in the college (minigames?)
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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IV) move some of the cut scenes into the middle of the dungeon, instead of happening before and after it
V) move some of the cut scenes to later in the game
VI) delete some of the cut scenes
VII) leave it as is?
VIII) scrap the entire thing and start a new game, possibly a romantic comedy set in alaska
InfectionFiles
the world ends in whatever my makerscore currently is
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This is cool, my newest edition of Infection has reached the same download as the my previous two versions.
I'm thinking: Is there a general development questions thread somewhere? I'm thinking about tons of questions that don't warrant a thread on their own but I'm really new to this and I kinda need help. help.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
There's really not. Just start a help thread for each one.

But if you're so new to this that you seriously have like 30 questions that all need to be answered at once before you can do anything, maybe just kinda fool around with RPG Maker and read the help file for a while.
Nightowl
Remember when I actually used to make games? Me neither.
1577
Hey, anyone who knows jack shit about time dilation, could you help me? Some group of people travelled to a faraway planet with an extremely fast spaceship, stayed there for few years and returned to Earth afterwards, only to notice that few decades have passed.

Would it make any sense that few decades have already passed on Earth, yet for the space crew, it seemed like few years?
chana
(Socrates would certainly not contadict me!)
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I'm sure it would, you have to look in einstein's relativity theory.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958


According to this graph, which was the first result on google and is on a website that looks like it was made for Geocities and I am choosing to take at face value, achieving 10x time dilation (i.e., time goes 10x slower for you than for people on Earth) requires going at speeds something a little higher than 99% of the speed of light.
Nightowl
Remember when I actually used to make games? Me neither.
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Over 99% of the speed of light?
Well, I guess the spaceship's engine will be powered with Dr Pepper tanks.
And other surprisingly powerful fuel that lasts quite long.