BACKWARDS_COWBOY'S PROFILE

author=thesacredlobo

Thanks for taking the time to make a Let's Play of the game. I'm glad you did, since watching somebody else play through is a much better way to see the flaws and issues than half a dozen Play Tests. I definitely saw the balance issues after your grinding session, and saw a few NPCs whose dialog I skipped, and a few chests where the contents should be switched, as well as the issue with the skill Penetrator not activating correctly.

I figured a few people would grind for money and accounted for that, but once I saw that you were pushing end-game levels before even entering the cave I knew I was in for some trouble.

author=riderx40
What happend to 3,2,1....?

I was just spoofing the Final Fantasy numbering conflict of the 90's, but if I end up entering more contests in the future I'll probably just run with it and do Star Wars numbering.

I'm attempting to create a game installer for my Golden Game Make contest submission, and because it is made with the new official version of RM 2000, the RTP is not yet available online. As such, I'm attempting to package the RTP with the game. After I choose a path for the installer and check "Include Runtime Package in Game Disk", I click "Create", it shows the progress bar and the archive path, but after it says that it's done, I go to the location where I told it to create the installer and there's nothing there. I've tried multiple times with different locations, but so far I can't get it to work and I'm not sure what it is that I'm doing wrong. So, my questions are:

• Is there something that I'm doing wrong, or is the new version of RM2000 not functional?
• What are the alternatives? I have to include the RTP, and I'd rather not have to dig through the game and import only the resources I used, as then I would have to check and/or change every reference to them in the game.

Edit: I'm running Windows 8.1, and RM2000 through Steam.

Any help would be appreciated.

The issue was that I was using the Steam version of RM2k. I downloaded the stand-alone version and it worked.

author=Nivlacart
What do you guys think about the thought of a portion of the game industry just in it for the lucrative market over the enjoyment of making something exciting?

I'd be willing to say that a majority of the professional game design industry has that kind of attitude. Pretty much every major publisher except for Nintendo, Atlus, NIS, and a few others just pump out whatever they think will sell. Just look at EA, Activision, and Ubisoft. Although Ubisoft isn't actually making functional games anymore.

Smaller companies tend to be a little more creative, although they're all starting to fall into the "confuse-retro-with-a-pixellated-mess" or "make-it-look-like-Minecraft" rut. The gaming industry is as profitable as ever with micro-transactions, premium items, pre-order bonuses, having to pay to be a beta tester, etc. that people are getting into it as a paying job, as opposed to twenty years ago where people thought you were either insane or a huge nerd to take a job in the gaming industry.

I don't think the people you're working with ever "loved" the idea of game design. I think they saw computer programming as a profitable degree, and picked the least soul-crushing thing they could for a job related to it. It's like the joke about dentists: You walk into a dentist's convention, and everybody there just looks grumpy or pissed off. You find one smiling guy and ask him why everybody looks so upset. He replies with "These guys went to school and took the job just for the money. I actually like teeth". It's not super funny, but it really drives home the point of why you shouldn't do something just for the money.

I'm in a similar position as you but with Psychology. A lot of people around me just want the money that will come with our doctorates in a few years, but I'm in it because I enjoy observing the insanity going on around me.

You can use them to give the player a choice between using up MP/items to heal and just walk through it or take the long way around and conserve MP. If your damage floors are timed like spikes or a swinging pendulum, it makes players pay attention and think about their next move.

As a fan of the Etrian Odyssey series, I really don't mind damage floors at all and think they add variety to otherwise repetitive dungeons. I'm not crazy about poisonous swamps where more than half of the terrain is going to damage and/or poison me.