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That is so awesome.

Also now they have the ability to make FFV and FFVI on the DS in 3D! ^_^ Well actually, does anybody know how much of a DS cart this takes up? I'd imagine that V and VI would recquire a ton of character/job data (more than FFIV, at least) and that FFVI's 500000 summons would use a lot of space.

My mother is really bad about grocery shopping/cooking/etc., so I've pretty much taught myself how to make relatively decent-for-you and okay-tasting meals from various canned goods and copious amounts of starch. I usually take disgusting frozen meals and some random FRESH ITEM OMG in the fridge and turn it into something not-so-disgusting and slightly more healthy. So yeah my eating habits are to make the best of a mother will neither shop nor let her son shop! I really haven't figured out WHY but I think it has something to do with all the money she spends on those 100-Calorie Packs. She eats like five at a time (still 100 calz, right???!?).

I count calories but I seriously have the slowest metabolism in the world*. My goal every day is to have at least twenty minutes of energetic action (usually really hyper interpetive dance or jogging while singing to build lungs+exercise), lots of slow exercise (lifting lightish weights while waiting for a game to load, during fifteen push-ups when I finish a paragraph of homework, stuff like that) and to not over-eat. Sadly I've destroyed this over the past week (ICE CREAM YAY) due to various personal issues but I'm normally good about it! I'm still chunky though, which is really depressing... but for some reason it's pretty well distributed (so I do not look like UGLY FAT PERSON but like DUDE WITH BIG ARMS... it's not fooling anybody, but it looks a Hell of a lot nicer than FAT SLOB).

My strength is impressive, however, and I have an enormous amount of tenacity/pain tolerance. Exposing yourself to hurt isn't exactly healthy, but I've done some pretty incredible things while not on an adrenaline high. Also thanks to the types of "exercise" I do (re: DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING (oh god nobody better see me)) I am remarkably agile and flexible. My balance could use some work and I can't jump high due to the chunkiness but man can I stretch!

In short, I'm really weird. =P

*=Not an excuse for LOL WEIGHT. A year or so ago I spent a few weeks with a friend and his brother. We all ate the exact same food and did roughly the same amount of active stuff. I gained a few pounds, they stayed the same. MOST DEPRESSING END-OF-SUMMER EVER


EDIT: Okay I made this sound TERRIBLE. I have actually lost a lot of weight over my teenage years and I'm a lot healthier than I was two or three years ago.

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HOW TO MAKE ROW COMMANDS WORK IN RM2K3's BATTLESYSTEM:

Okay, so on GW Neo had a way to make the Row command "selectable" that works flawlessly in all three battle styles with a few little dealies. I made it so that weaponskills can only be used in the front row and magic can only be used in the back row. Caveats: you have to take Row out of the main menu so people don't mess it up outside of battle, and you have to make an event that checks switches after going to an inn to re-apply position conditions.

Basic set-up:

--Inflict all characters with Front (or whatever you want) when they join the party.
--Each character needs a battle event in all monster groups that goes off when they take turns (so that it fires every turn they take, but not "turn 0")
--Make a branch for each possible command the hero can use. If they take it, End Event Processing.
--After all the branches, toggle a switch for that hero (like ).
--If the position switch is on, remove Front and add Rear. If off, remove Rear and add Front.

Ta-da! =D

ARIA might not be as long as we hoped: we're getting a little cramped thanks to Karsu's end of the school year... but the first chapter is (almost) done, so there will be something!

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THIS THREAD IS RM2k3 ONLY. DO NOT COMMENT ON RM2K, RMXP, RMVX. DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT GAMEMAKER OR SPHERE OR ika OR VERGE OR FURY^2 OR OR OR OR.

So, people always try to make an rm2k3 game that BREAKS LIMITS or EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS. They use ripped graphics most of the time and most people use the DBS with some sort of little tweak. Gameplay usually revolves around collecting little shiny things (seriously. play any rm2k3 game and there will be shiny things on the ground) while exploring dungeons that may or may not have a fog overlay.

We've ranted and raved about that long enough, however. AMATEUR GAME DESIGNERS SUCK IF THEY AREN'T CREATIVE and all that aside... how do make an rpgmaker2k3 game that is really, really, really at being an rm2k3 game? In other words, an rm2k3 game that knows that it's an rm2k3 game.

Examples of this mindset are the rm2k game Three the Hard Way (normally impossible-to-get chests that instant-kill you if you cheat to get them) and basically any humor game. TTHW doesn't really cut it any more and is rm2k anyway (I'm looking for lots of discussion about battles as well as exploration, here), and humor games tend to be not-so-great 50-80% of the time.

How do you open up RM2k3 and make a game that is really great at being an rm2k3 game; that is fun and interesting, yet knows that it's made a somewhat awkward program?