CLEST'S PROFILE

hehe thankies Tao, but I think the deadline has expired, though if you can post something anyway and hopefully the judges will let it in since they didn´t actually post a "deadline ended now" thing. Good luck anyway =)

author=Kuroi link=topic=2301.msg44980#msg44980 date=1226957526
serious, RM is just a format to get your head spinning to think as a designer, pasing and all that nothing more really, doesnt teach you ANYTHING about actual game creation, just an understanding of varibles and fork conditions. Everyone else who is wanting to be serious you need to get onto 3D game making and out of pixel, learn Maya or/and 3DSM and maybe an engine; then go to college lol. RM is THE amature program, you'll never get anywhere with it. great fun tho :)

That is a really silly (being polite here) statement about both RM and pixelart.

RM, as far RPGs go (other games can be done but it is not the point of the software) is a good tool to create RPGs, maybe not in the same 3D games we have nowadays with nothing but graphics, fmvs and pretty much recycled and unoriginal content. And it has commercial power given the designers capabilities as any other too has. Same as a good artist can make art worth selling with just a coal stone and an old piece of paper.

As for 3D, I won´t go nazi and say it is worse and all, 3D has it is usefulness and pros as much as 2D has. Certain genres of games (mainly ones involving action) work way better in 3D for camera angles and motion, but when it comes down to strategy or turn based RPGs, sprites do just fine and are easer to configure on low end tools/languages, thus saving costs for smaller companies.

I pretend to keep working on small companies myself or keep freelancer. I don´t like big companies mind set nor do I want my name lost in with 3000+ names in credits for a game as the guy who modelled the trees of one of the games 30 forests. And there are many small companies doing well, half of then end up selling their games to big companies, they just work on a different philosophy.

If you believe tools matter more than skill, then you are far in the wrong side.

Xenogears sewers involves "cleaning" the sewers from monsters who eventually grow in there, however ppl who do that service start to die so you gotta go down there investigate who has been killing the best "cleaners".

And the idea of just lame monsters in sewers suck, I´d considere more on mutated creatures, automated "monster cleaning" droids and human enemies lurking in there (most of my game´s enemies are humanoid/inteligent beings ).

Surely, even though for the past weeks my progress slowed a bit, but it is all due to work and RMN pixelart contest :)

Just because Squaresoft does that... okay :P

Seriously, all I care is having my name in the credits so I can use the game in portfolio, this whole company stuff is just trying to immitate big companies.