CREATION'S PROFILE

Did you do this, s_w? The characters on screen are rather heterogeneous but look great. I'm genuinely curious :).

Anyhow, the game I posted about earlier, Sarcia, has released a demo. The good news is that the game is in... English! Which means all of you guys can try it out! Better warn you though, it's pretty big in size. Click the picture to download. Sorry for posting this here, I'm trying to convince the author to create a profile here!

Hmm…

Fine I will cancel the game and take a hiatus from RM for a while. Like the
year 2012, say. At a minimum.

That’s disappointing, doesn’t sound like you. I hope you’ll reconsider because I never really pictured you like a weak defeatist who gives up when under too much heat, quite the opposite actually.

This game is getting *loads* of attention which is much more than can be said about 90% of games made by other people. The more attention your game gets, the more likely it is to get criticism but I’m sure you know this already. Besides, the concept for this game is different as far as rpg maker game go, surely some heat was expected especially at RMN, no?

Your reaction to criticism entices other members to press your buttons. They’ve probably noticed you reply to every single comment and that you takes things very personally which makes you an ideal target. Just letting you know from an external point of view.

Anyways, I haven’t played the game but I’ve read some pretty interesting and valid points being made although the form is certainly questionable at times… Please don’t take the following as personal attacks or anything, this is 100% about the game, 0% about you as a person.

BTW, why do you need to equip your axe to cut logs or fishing rod to fish? Why isn't it enough to just have them in your backpack? Furthermore, those quick button icons don't help much when you've remapped your keys like I did.

Honestly, coming from someone who hasn’t played the game, that seems like a very valid observation. It certainly would make it more practical.

I made the exact same complaint. 30 seconds is actually a huge chunk of time when you're trying to start playing a game that you may have never played before - it just becomes a totally unnecessary delay. There are better ways of conveying the information contained in your hints through the gameplay itself than smashing them into a bunch of "hint screens" that all flip by a little bit too quickly and ultimately just delay you from getting to play.

I personally wouldn’t say 30 seconds of waiting is a long time but that’s a matter of personal preference. I do agree that there are very intuitive and enjoyable ways to integrate tutorials in games than reading text. I always thought that was a shortcoming no matter the game. I think progressive integration of information is the best bet. Again, I haven’t played the game but I’m just saying.

Just goes to show you can't please everyone. The hintscreen is there specifically because a few players mentioned being confused and not knowing what to do right out of the starting gate. It is also all of 30 seconds (literally just 1800 frames, total, 360 frames per message) so...yeah.

Maybe the hintscreen wasn’t the best solution? I think “you can’t please everyone” is a bit of a copout at times (not saying it’s the case here though). If someone complains about “x” and you try “y” and they still complain, why not try “z”? You’re exploring ways to make your game better aren’t you? Well, keep exploring then.

About the minigame, I kind of agree with DE to some extent. Investing time in learning RGSS or finding someone to help you out might certainly be worth it to have some variety depending on the resource you’re trying to harvest unless you think you can manage by using another method. You mentioned that you weren’t sure that it could be done but I’m pretty sure someone could help you tweaking scripts so that you can make those games more interesting.

Anyways, I hope you won’t quit considering how much time you’ve invested into this. I think it’s great you’re getting so much feedback which point out pretty clearly where you could tremendously improve this project.

I went ahead and tried your game. Is it normal that there's absolutely no instructions and you're just left guessing what it is exactly you're supposed to do? The art is fine but some guidance would certainly prove useful.

I build some cannons but didn't manage to destroy so much as one asteroid so I don't know what's up.

This is superb. It's oozing with style and personality with a hint of the 1960s movie advertisement.

Some of the best recent screens from Oniromancie (it had been a while):
From Thanos:
Those screens a reminiscent of good old fashioned European comic books.





From Daxter:


From Al Rind:


From Wanoklox:


From Rockmik:


From Troma:


Le Cornu:


From Jikaz:


From Bambi:


Roi of the Suisse:


sriden:


Sylvanor:

Thanks NicoB. You should watch it, you're wrong in your impression. Omnium Project didn't fare so well however.