BLIND'S PROFILE

Really fantastic screen tint and ambiance here. I love the trees~

Kinda thrown off by the chibi hero though, especially considering the palette of your other screenshots.

author=Luchino

A desert town.

Looking very good~

I'm glad you re-shaded the trees (?) and added shadows - nice touch. Maybe you could add some variance to the roofs? The buildings in particular are looking a bit square and monotonous. Also, the "wall" tiles could benefit from some harder edges.

author=UPRC
I can relate all too well. My last RPG Maker 2003 game took ten years to finish. Granted there were breaks during that period, sometimes for almost a year, but still.
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With my current game, if I became INSANELY motivated and worked on it for 4-5 hours on weekdays and more or less all day on weekends, I could finish it by the end of February since I'm getting close to the final chapters. Unfortunately, and even though I do have enough free time, I don't possess the superhuman levels of motivation to be able to pull that off. Because of this, I'm shooting for an unspecified "first half of 2016" completion date since I know that it is a largely realistic goal.

Wow, glad I'm not alone. XD

Much like anything else, Game Dev is a discipline. If nothing else, that's what I've really learned through the years. It's not meant to be easy.

Fatigue is a pretty common symptom though... especially with Indie stuff where there isn't really a central leadership or design team to hold things together. Most people also have the natural inclination to compare our work to SNES/PS1-era RPGs (visually or functionally), but we forget that there was a robust staff behind most of our childhood favorites... not one person huddled on a laptop.

(They also largely didn't have a day job to worry about~!)

But yeah. It was probably my own stubbornness and immaturity that led to the reprehensible development time on BR. As an adolescent developer, I frequently refused to compromise on my vision. I prioritized the wrong things. Now that I've come back to designing games, my sensability is more more grounded and realistic. I'd settle for a compelling 8-hour opus, than a larger experience that's muddled by filler.

Wow yeah, I'm excited you opted for the self-publishing route. :) I think this is probably the best direction the project could have taken.

I feel your pain tbh