CAZ'S PROFILE

Hmm, were these made in a generator? They look very, very familiar..

The best pixel artists can imitate smoothness in as few frames as possible, and I think you've done well. :] Perhaps you could imply his left arm swinging ever so slightly just to fix that motion up if you didn't like the previous suggestions of his hand over his holster, etc.

Very impressed by this though, you should keep up the good work!

He shouldn't base his game's title on how popular the word "the" is at the beginning of famous games. :P Instead he should consider what this "Ender's Amethyst" is. Is there more than one or is it particularly important? If there is only one, then I believe it does merit a "The" at the start of the title.. if he chooses. He may want that to remain unknown.

But then again, it is his game. Maybe there is no reasoning behind the wording of his title. :D

(Oh and subbbbbed.)

Yeah, I did consider that running into a giant group of criminals might seem a bit unbelievable in a game setting, unless it was a very crime-based game. I'm being reminded of things like HoboWars.. which wasn't intended to be taken seriously anyway. :P Not that it necessarily has to be a serious game.

You could fight innocents or something - very GTA-esque - in order to get money and have fun playing the game. The part that bothered me about GTA games was that it was all "kill this guy" and "run over that guy," but there was no alternative way of doing things like being a helpful pansy or something. It'd be nice if you could be less of a criminal in those games and turn the page entirely.

As for fewer battles, that could be something to consider. I quite like the idea of just having one complex fight where you have to think of tactical advantages such as weaknesses, debuffs, etc. instead of five consecutive curbstomp battles where you annihilate everything instantly.

Hmm, I guess I phrased a lot of this fairly wrongly. I guess what I was trying to ask in all is how people explain why there's fighting in their games: monster invasion, hero gets a kick out of killing things, other psychotic reasons. Sometimes I'm put off by games with mindless violence (strange, isn't it?!).

I know that a game doesn't need battles, I was never trying to say, "there's no battles?! WELL IT'S NOT A GAME! *quit* " because that would be dumb. There are a lot of games I really, really enjoy without any fighting at all. But I wanted to know how other people got away with that kind of thing in their own games while keeping gameplay gripping and interesting.

I ought to get better at expressing what I actually mean..

Despite me lacking basic communication skills, I have actually gotten a lot of replies from this which I'm happy about. While writing a story or something would be a lot better in terms of my brain not melting trying to come up with good gameplay, I think I'll try and progress a bit in the world of games without fighting and the world of quicktime events and NPC dialogue choices.

author=calunio

author=kentona
You could even abstract it a level and have them play videogames against each other as the "battle".

VIDEOGAMECEPTION

That's a pretty cool idea, you should use it for your new project. :O

And hells no, I called it. :P