BLIND'S PROFILE

Hmm, I actually prefer the colors in the original tint. It has a more mystical and alluring kind of tone to it. XD

Trees (and overall composition) are looking great though. The shrubs suffer from the same issue your old trees had. They aren't clearly shaded or distinguishable from the grass textures.

Thank you~ ^-^

These are semi-outdated now. I'll have to post some recent work, maybe with a more modern RM Engine.

More or less, just try to be more pragmatic as a human (and a developer~ XD)

Great quote on Jazz that also applies to game-make:
"It is true of any subject that the person that succeeds in anything has the realistic viewpoint at the beginning and that the problem is large and that he has to take it a step at a time and that he has to enjoy the step-by-step learning procedure. They’re trying to do a thing in a way that is so general, they can’t possibly build on that. If they build on that, they’re building on top of confusion and vagueness and they can’t possibly progress. If you try to approximate something that is very advanced and don’t know what you’re doing, you can’t advance."

I returned to working on games in 2014, but this was the year I truly flourished and learned what I was doing. I went back to basics. Any work I had done before that, I think, I was partially running on autopilot. Especially during 2007-2010, it was all a big clusterfuck of confusion.

In my personal life: I really took this year by the horns and got started with a great small company in my first post-grad job. I bought my first apartment in the city. I've become much healthier, and definitely more humbled. I've learned self-discipline, and how to budget (mostly XD); when I had been a pretty impulsive spender in younger years. I let go of many friends who started to feel like baggage.

RM Wise: This will be the year that I finally put Beloved Rapture behind me, and start on something genuinely new. As the old adage goes; it takes 5-10 years to truly "master" a craft... and hell, they weren't kidding lol. Fundamentally, I'd like to go in a vastly different direction with my next project -- something in a grittier genre, a modern setting... something Huxley-esque and with more social commentary.

Most importantly, I rediscovered that creating art is (hard) work. At the beginning, I think every artist secretly believes that he or she will be the exception. The prodigy. The outlier. That one-in-a-million person to whom it just comes naturally. We want to believe that artists are inspired by divine breath. And while that may be true for a (very) select few, it still takes work. With game design, we want to believe our first game will be a crowning triumph without breaking a sweat. The reality is that it can take hundreds of hours of dedication, just for an experience that hardly lasts a couple of hours.

.. So I suppose most essentially this year, I've learned a sense of patience, and the resolve to follow-through.

Thanks Jo - I'll make note of that!

(..Ironically, this area has been cut from the demo. Don't murder me.. XD)

On the 4th day of RMas
my true love gave to me
7 pixel trees
6 tilesets
5 utility plugins
4 music tracks
3 animations
2 battle sprites
and a copy of RMMV