WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT? (GAME DEVELOPMENT EDITION)

Also, you realize they can get stunned every single round if the moves are random, right? He can use nothing but the stun attack for the whole battle.

This is not possible because the skill has a one-turn cooldown, and it is also not a main priority attack. Again, there is only 35% the stun effect will work. :-?

Well this has become a little more complicated, as I have another enemy that can freeze the player for one turn. The effect rate is 20-25%. Another problem is, if the effect doesn't last long, then when the players gain more party members, attacks with status ailments won't be threatening enough. :|

Remove the effects or lower the damage... Decision, decision, decision...

Ok Ok... It is not that awful as you make it out to be, Liberty. I nerfed the damage, tested it, and the player still has enough of time to both heal and attack. How about I upload that boss battle for you guys to give it a quick try, it will be easier to judge. :P Also, I guess elemental attacks, such as ice, don't necessarily need to have frozen effects, right ? If that 's so, I 'll remove it, at least at the beginning.

By the way, how man percent is it considered to be high ? I assumed it was more than 40% ? :-?

It depends and changes from game to game. Generally, if it's one-shot I make it about 60-80% but then I add resistances to my characters on start-up (so a mage might be susceptible to Mute but another might be resistant to it, a warrior might be immune to stuns, but a monk would be immune to confusion) so that at least one person in the group has some sort of weakness/resistance to each status. (I make it make sense with their character.)

(I forgot to put that when it's one player, or even two, I'll stick to only the depletion states.)

I also offer lots of healing items.

Now if it were a party-wide attack I make it lower - about 20-40% depending on how devastating I want to to be (and whether it's a restriction or depletion status). Remember that with more party members being hit there's more of a chance of the status actually hitting, so it evens out a bit. 40% usually leads to 3/4 members hit. 20% ranges a bit, leaning towards 0-2 most often.

And I tweak the original states so they aren't as cruel. For instance Paralysis I do use, but I change it so that it gives a Defensive buff to the character and doesn't last as long. This way attacks won't hurt as much and it doesn't last as long. Hell, in one game I made it so that paralysis worked more like pokemon, where it only sometimes stopped you from attacking/doing things.

With Ace you can do a lot to make status effects more fun and interesting.

With Blind, for instance, I make the counter attack rate 0, and lower defence/attack, but raise magic attack. This way, using your magic when blinded is really the best thing to do. I also tried making it so that if you are blinded you can sometimes accidentally use the wrong item. I deemed it a bit too annoying, though, so I cut it out. Self-editing!

How many times have you tried the boss battle? Try it at lower levels, then at higher then a few more times. I tend to do testing in lots of 5. Five at a lower level, five at a higher and five at normal. If it all seems to be okay, I then do another five at normal just to be sure.

DEPLETION: States like poison, Def/Att/Spd/Mag down, blind (depletes you of hit chance) and anything that takes away from the character.
RESTRICTION: States that stop the player from doing stuff. Mute, Stun, Paraly-fucking-sis and death.

Not necessary but if you do use them, change them from the default, especially paralyse.

author=LockeZ
They're freely distributed... with a license that you have to agree to when you install them. You should read the license. Spoiler: it's not creative commons. ;)

Well, of course. But I didn't know how 'encompassing' this license is... And now that I've actually read it, and if I'm understanding it correctly. The only thing that the license gives you permission to, is to install the RTP. Nothing more. Enterbrain expects you to have this sitting in your computer only for the express purpose of playing other people's games.

So even when among our circles it is considered a good practice to include the RTP files that our games use in the download, so other people don't have to go trough the hassle of installing the RTP; That alone is in violation of the license's agreement. And I'm guessing this includes sharing edits and content belonging to others pack as well...

I know Entrerbrain don't really care about this, but... Man! Making 100% legal rm game is hard. x.x

Well, I can't exactly understand legalese so perhaps I missed that part. Or if you mean that little diagram they have in there, I doubt that really counts as permission to include material in your game that anyone can just grab. Or at least they don't count with the little fact that sharing unencrypted games is also considered a good practice in our circles...

But nah, I'm not planning on making a single cent; It's just for practice. Hanging the old eyepatch once and for all, you know. xD

author=Mr_Detective
How would you distinguish a normal status ailment (like poison) and an elemental status ailment (like frozen) ? Do we have different terms for them ? :P

Icons?

Technically they're all 'status' ailments, some are just inflicted by elemental magic or whatnot. In Nachtheulen the main states are Bleed, Blind, Frozen and Burning.

Bleed is a light HP degen which just disables the MC's natural regen for a few turns,
Blind is as-is pretty much.
Frozen is a stun state that is removed if you're attacked, but you take an extra 200% damage. States rarely occur to player characters though (and there are two).
Burning is a higher damage HP degen, but no enemies inflict it, it's restricted to Fire spells which are Leander only.

They're a mix of elemental and normal but the only real difference is what spells inflict 'em so~

1 - That's fine and dandy. You can use other graphics if you like. Frankly no-one is going to care if you use the full RTP, even the creators, as long as you don't go selling it. :/
2 - You can edit them it's just not strictly legal. Again, no-one is going to hunt you down if you aren't selling the game.
3 - Doesn't need to be encrypted. You're sharing the files with the intent of play, but not with the intent to give out free files for people to steal. That's the difference.
Besides, the pack that comes with the Lite version is basically fine to use however, as long as you're not selling the game it's made in or used in another engine.

Of course, if you intend to actually sell the game you may use the default RTP files given in the Lite version, but you probably have to encrypt the game - which most people selling a game would do anyway. :/

I want to have an item that only cures ailments like poison, blind, and stun. And another that only cures elemental ailments as frozen, burning, and paralysis. How should I name these two items ? Is it wise to separate them like that ? :D