COZZER'S PROFILE

One of the problems is that, hey, why use potions or grenades when you have healing and attack magic?
In the late game, in most FF-style games, the only useful items end up being Ethers (and some Phoenix Downs for good measure, if your healer dies). And maybe the occasional Megaelixir if things are looking really bad.
For everything else, you have skills/magic, which you can use pretty much whenever you want if you have enough Ethers.

Another problem is that items don't scale: your Cure spell will heal more HP when your characters become better mages, while the potions you hoarded will become useless.

I don't really like having limits for items; my characters can carry 30 different swords but the weight of the tenth potion will break their spine? Are they suicidal, or something?
If you want the player to have less items, just make him find less items (and make them cost more).

The best idea that I can come up right now would be to have only items with effect that cannot be easily replicated by skills.
Maybe there's no healing magic, and you have to use those potions; maybe there's no fire magic, and you have to use those grenades; maybe there's no buff magic, and you have to use drugs or something.

author=Despite
Imagine if the hero instead met that one chick at a party, both were drunk and he'd hit it off with a corny line that somehow made her laugh and they get to chatting. He gets her number and asks her out two days later and she's down for the cause. the end.

If somebody came up with some fun gameplay for this, it would istantly become the best love story in videogames ever.
("You're drunk! Try not to fall on your face and look like an idiot!" ; "You're still drunk! Reach the girl on the dance floor without bumping against the big muscolar angry guy!" ; etc.)

More seriously: personally, I like a bit of reality in my escapism.
How can I think "I wish I was him" or "I wish she was my girl" if he and she aren't human beings?

I liked it.
It's sad how most videogames can't seem to accept the fact that their audience isn't entirely composed by 14-years old anymore.

Now, I believe that what is "serious business" for a 14-years old, if done well, is a pretty good light read for an adult (shonen mangas are my main example).
Still, there's so much more that could be done...

author=Calunio
Though I enjoy the development process as a personal experience as well, I'm very result-oriented, and I can't get motivated unless I think of a final product that will be played by people and from which I'll get feedback etc.

I agree with this.
Gamemaking is an hobby for me and I don't take it seriously at all, but if I at any point thought I'm creating something that has no entertainment value to anybody except me I'd lose any motivation.

Anyway, I can finally upload my attempts at this thing!

Rather than focusing on a good anatomy, I tried to make the most "complete" drawing I could in the allowed time slot. That's because I think inking and faces are the two areas where I need to improve the most. (Though I do need to improve in everything... so many good people here. °°)

Day 1


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Day 3


Day 4


I somehow lost my drawing for Day 5. ò_o

Day 6


Day 7


If somebody has any criticism or any tips on how to better improve, I'd be glad to hear them!