CREATION'S PROFILE

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.

It's just one very minor element.

I strongly, strongly disagree with this statement. The title screen is the first thing the player will see when launching your game and it's easy to give a bad first impression. It's nowhere as important as the rest of your game but it's pretty important imho.

An example:

If you don't have any artistic talent, just go for something simple like a uniform color for background with some carefully selected font. If you don't know what you're doing and wish to experiment, post your creations for criticism before implementing them into your game.

skip over problems that I think are small, but are quite large problems in reality. Overly tough monsters? Just grind a bit more in the previous area. Terrible mapping? That's not my strength, so why care? Underdeveloped characters? Players must be skipping the dialog.

Yeah, it's easy to skip what you like the least thinking your strenghts will make up for your weaknesses. The thing is, things sometimes turn out that way but you need some really amazing skill in one field or another.

I think it's sort of related to maturity. When we're kids, we want to show our awful drawings to everyone so that we can get a pat on the head and be told we're good. I think what Ness has decribed is the realization that there is no shortcut and success only comes as the result of very hard work.

It's great to read that you don't have that unbearable loser's attitude to find excuses for your shortcomings (the mapping comment comes to mind). Being weak in something is no excuse to cut corners and give way to mediocrity. You might be fine with it but trust me, other players won't be.

If you know your title screen sucks and you choose not to change it, you can only blame your own laziness to put some effort into creating something somewhat nice to look at.

Same thing goes for other aspects of your game. No one is good in everything, find people who can help you with your shotcomings.

Frankenspriting is not all that hard. You could easily combine various elements of the RTP to create new, unique pieces for your game.

Have you ever heard of Aedemphia? Everything in Aedemphia is custom made, hand drawn. Two years into the project, seeing that his artistic skills had improved, he redrew *every* single element! Now that's dedication to look up to.

And this the kind of mapping you end up getting:

Anyways, I'm rambling. I guess the point is to be patient and polish every single element of your game before releasing anything (as opposed to botching what you don't like to do).

They made fun of your game to entertain others. Avgn does the same. Don't take it too personal. Just learn from this and make sure you don't repeat the same mistakes in the future.

This has been coming for some time now by the only staff member who actually does something of value.

Just so you know, Nightblade, that's not actually true. I can understand how you might be under the impression that Kentona is the only one doing something on the website but it's actually not so. Having been on the private forums, I can assure you that a lot of people are putting some time and effort into RMN, including holbert who seems to have become the scapegoat for just about everything ''wrong'' on RMN these days.

Don't let this assumption lead to unnecessary conflict.

Pretty clever idea, well done.