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All of our first time, older games were bad, bad, bad ideas back then, so don’t get so down about that.

And that MV game that you’re currently working on sounds quite yummy, actually. :P

A couple of couples

I was gonna say, Enelysion’s whole plot structure was just fine to me, so I don’t really think that general writing is your overall big weakness. In fact, everything that you just mentioned above is kind of fine overall, IMO. I just think that your biggest issue is just trying to do too much by yourself and beating yourself up over it when in reality you’re doing just fine as it is in the end. All you have to do is just a find a way to get it done.

author=Luchino
I suppose it would be a huge plus if I could get in an artist but... I can't really pay them. ;_;

You can pay them with just crackers and jellybeans! (Well, at least Ocean would probably settle for that...)

Hey wait a minute – what about Ronove, wasn’t he helping you out originally with some portrait work earlier? What ever happened to that lazy bum? (Kidding.)

Either way, there’s nothing wrong with just sticking to the edited Fire Emblem portraits and original resources that you were using before you decided to go all custom, if that makes it easier on you to do.

And I would be that RM project buddy, seriously, but I’m not as well rounded in VX or VX Ace as much as I am with 2k3, so sorry… Plus, it’s hard enough as it is for me to get anything done these days on my own with everything that I have to do, so whatever free time I have is spent working on as much as I can on my own stuff. I don’t think I could really seriously work alongside somebody else with my strange erratic schedule of late, but I'll still continue to support the project in whatever other ways that I can, if you wish.

A couple of couples

Well, you don’t have to write a brand new blog post every two weeks or so just because you have to. Why not take a little extra time off for yourself to have some personal me-time and just enjoy working on the game whenever you can and save any future progress updates for later on? I mean, it’s great to see that you’ve been working on this so hard and always want to appease us with constant updates to make all of us all happy and see that the game is slowly getting worked on and all, but, honestly, maybe it’s probably for the best that you just save all future blog posts for maybe once a month or so. I mean, you have to admit; a lot of these screenshots and factoids do feel and look a little samey some of the time…so maybe it’s best to tone down the updates for a little while and just go have some fun…whether it be working on this or doing something else completely.

As for the game itself, I think one of the biggest turning points that I feel that's let to this project getting slowly done and being in the developmental hell that it is right now is because you decided to ditch all your pre-existing work in exchange for your own custom created resources and change everything from the ground up when you had so much done already that it didn’t make that much sense to basically start all over again from scratch. The original build was pretty good at the time and was looking pretty promising that I didn’t fully understand why you wanted to suddenly change everything mid-way through and do all the resources done by yourself. I mean, yeah, you wanted this game to have your own artistic feel to it and all, and I get it, but that means that the amount of workload just went up by a thousand and that could be why you’re experiencing such a burnout from doing so much work.

I think you just need to personally sit down with yourself and that big, juicy brain of yours and decide if this project is really such a good idea to continue going forward with or not at its current pace. I’d say yes, because you’ve worked on it for a such a long time now and giving up would really damper the ol’ spirit there and could affect you with future endeavours, but you definitely need to channel what it took to finish Enelysion off and just, as Larry the Cable Guy says, “Get-er done,” even if it that means dropping the whole custom resources act and just making it a bit easier on yourself.

Luchino, you’ve done this shit before; I know that you can muster enough mustard and free Tristian from her box of deliciousness and bring the unsalted taste of Tristian’s Crackers to everyone! As your boss and one of the many shareholders in this, I order you to take a week off and then get back to this with a fresh new attitude, pronto!

"The graveyard of countless other RM games that expired because their creators gave up on them."

Holy shit - is there really such a place? “The RM Graveyard…” Sounds like a place that I don’t wanna really go to but I’m sure that I might find Lysander or YDS hanging around somewhere there, lol.

So. It's been a while.

author=Blindmind
Ara Fell was definitely the Rm2k3 game of the moment, if you will, when the GamingW Forums were in their prime. Like Addit nicely said in one review; it was the "..Ocarina Of Time of the RM world.." kind of thing -- this huge, very beautiful project that inspired hundreds of us, with the stunning visuals and characters.

It’s funny, ‘cause I remember downloading it on a whim one day after hearing so much praise about it originally on Gaming World and thought to myself, “There’s no way that this game is that great, right?”

Oh, how wrong I was, lol...

So. It's been a while.

Wow, what an amazing journey that’s it been for you, it seems. It’s almost like reading someone’s famous autobiography about themselves that you once thought that you knew and admired about that person and then you manage to learn so much more about him or her after reading it all than you once initially thought. And it’s also nice to know what truly happened to Ara Fell: First Light, because what TFT, or one of the other #shump members back then said, I dunno who it was, told me that you almost spent $10 000 of your own money to pay for custom resources and stuff for it and then soon went belly up after that and that’s why you had to not only quit the whole project itself but game making altogether. It seems like that was all just delicious lies and slander.

I always dreamt that one day that you would return to this project and it would have a proper conclusion to it and finally get the proper ending that it rightfully deserves. But after so many years and all the hearsay and rumors going on, I never thought that it would ever come to pass. But thanks to Cherry and company and the official release of RPG Maker 2003 and your renewed spirit into this, you’ve returned like a rising phoenix and are willing to not fix things and add more content to the game but finally finish it off for good. And for that, it’s seems like a dream come true, at long last...

Now if only Flare and / or Lysander can come back and do a Romancing Walker sequel or another A Blurred Line game I’m personally set. :)

All I can say now is go get ‘em tiger and finish this puppy off so I can finally give you my money.

(I'll just politely request that those who remember Starlancer Six pretend they forgot about it...)

Strangeluv would be pretty sad if he ever heard you say that; it was one of his personal favorites of yours.

(Also, any chance of you possibly maybe salvaging Ara Fell: First Light in some way or regard? It’d be a shame to just let that whole thing go, even if you just release it as a beta.)

Can a mod plz delete this website. #trust

author=Ratty524
I legitimately don't understand this blog post.

Well I do.

(…Kinda.)

author=TFT
i am rpgmaker legac y and i have 30mb storage space.

You should be grateful that you get any at all in these hard economic times of ours.

(Says the guy with currently over 200 MB’s of lockerspace.)

Corrected translation and progress

Ah…so it’s like the bad ending / good ending scenario similar to the Breath Of Fire series where you get to choose which one of them you want to view towards the end of the game regardless... I like it.

- Can’t wait to play the full game, though. Hopefully those last couple of areas will be well worth the wait in the end. :)

Two Years on, and only 6% complete.

author=Luchino
I do feel bad about it getting the What's Written spot though.

(But them ten makerscore points, though!)

Ehhh...might have been a slow week.

Two Years on, and only 6% complete.

Lol @ this getting this week’s featured writing spot.

Now everybody knows, Luchino. NOW EVERYBODY KNOWS.

Two Years on, and only 6% complete.

nhubi’s right. If anything, "I’m" the terrible one (‘cause I still haven’t submitted a game page up yet).