You know what's a game maker's worst enemy? A military deployment. Yeah. Back in the saddle though, and making that slow crawl to getting back to full speed. Expect shit to get rocked. Until thene, here's some thoughts to chew on. Nothing major, just want to get my feet wet.



Romancing SaGa is sort of the bee’s knees. Well, to be fair its a very flawed masterpiece. I posted about it before below so I won’t beat a dead horse. What I want to talk about is some of its ideas I’d like to adapt to my game making.

-Apothecaries. I liked the idea of being able to make your own potions and healing items and otherwise finding them was rare. Its too easy in RPGs to just buy the whole barn of 99 Potions and calling it a day. It makes healing cheap and routine. But making potions not only unbuyable, but you have to find them and make them yourself, will definitely make the player pay attention.

-Clout. Basically, this is a system of ‘the more you shop at a store, the more services you get’. Since my game has regular shops (stores that sell better gear the further you are) in addition to item crafting, I’d leave this feature to the crafting, so that the inventory evolves as you use it.

-Stats more integral to the battles. Stats are often underestimated and used to their barest extent in RPGs. In SaGa, stats determine everything from calculating effectiveness of certain skills to learn rates. I’d like to make stats more important as a whole.

More to come. Just wanted to break the ice.