BLIND'S PROFILE

author=Dragon_Kamillo
@Blind - This light picture do that screeen seems be not sharp in up left corner. And is problem with shadows. Why mountains not make shadows, I know this is very hard and long time that make this - but all things have a shadow (except hero!) only walls of mountains not. This is problem which I also have in my game, maybe someone know the solution, bacause shadows is great and make that map seems is more 3D but this is usually not add shadows in mountains, so this is inconsistent in whole game...

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, it's actually something I'm thinking over. It'd be a lot of tedious extra work to add shadows to every single cliff edge, but it might be worth doing for the sake of consistency.

Testing some new desert tiles. Oasis-side ruins, perhaps? ;0

Might have to desaturate or lighten the Hero sprite a little.

author=Luiishu535
Right now, "looks like an RPG Maker game" is used as an insult among people who are looking for video games to play or buy. If Square were to start developing them again, they might be able to turn that into less of a burden.

Yeah, that's probably true, but it may depend on your perspective. I've heard Undertale mistakenly referred to was an RPGMaker game. The FF6 iOS port looks absolutely horrendous and there are plenty of RM games that visually surpass it.

Many younger players had no idea Ara Fell was an RM game, if the comments on Steam are to be believed. I think "Looks like RPGMaker" is a catch-all for amateurish, but the disdain isn't necessarily toward the engine itself.

Mostly, I'm just surprised that the Indie boom hasn't tempted Square-Enix to "reclaim" the 2D domain where they once thrived. They haven't been afraid to tap into various niche genres before (honestly, who the hell would have thought Life Is Strange would be successful?) so a grand, 2D RPG would be an easy sell for them. And not to knock the game too hard, but I think Octopath sold quite well because of SNES nostalgia alone.

I would be very reluctant to dismiss 2D games as irrelevant to the industry, even though that's how Square seems to be operating.

Too bad it's A.) Fan-made and B.) not real, but stunning to watch nonetheless. It makes the art direction on games like Octopath (or the horrid FF6/CT Steam ports) even more upsetting.

..Wow.

I couldn't bring myself to read through all of this without cringing, but all I can say, Bulma, is that I think your perspective on this all is very sad, deeply confused, and quite worrisome. It's also reflective of the larger anti-intellectual trends in our society. In effect, propaganda has been placed on all fours with verifiable, fact-based journalism.

Infowars and Breitbart now occupy the same place in public discourse as the New York Times or other institutions.

I think this one remark is pretty revealing:

author=Bulma
There is no such thing as real news. Not Infowars, not CNN, not WSJ, not that history book, not nothing. Historiography is the study of how history is written. We studied two perspectives of the same event.

No one credible would deny that all journalism is (inevitably) biased to some extent. But I think you're intentionally overlooking the many orders of magnitude that separate legitimate historians and journalists from "fake news" or the various modern forms of misinformation. It's attitudes like yours that have ushered-in the epidemic of social-media propaganda campaigns, among other things.

But yeah, I think your "nothing is factual!!!" assertion (to straw-man it a bit) is a pretty sophomoric and nihilistic approach to how we interact with the world.