DECKY'S PROFILE

It's called 'Caravan'


Amazing instrumental mid-song.

I have some free time for the next month and a half, so I will be playing and reviewing more RPG Maker games. Thus, I'm making a blog in the style of edchuy's. Here's my current review/play list, in order:

A Blurred Line (Completed and reviewed)
Hero's Realm (Completed and reviewed)
Crimson Sky (Completed and reviewed)
Carpe Diem (Completed and reviewed)
The Frozen World (Will review)
Phantasy Star III2K (Will review)
The Damulan Legacy (Downloaded; will review)
Chrono Chronicles (Will download and review)

If I forgot to list your game and already said we'd trade reviews, feel free to let me know. I like receiving reviews for my game, so hopefully we'll get some give-and-take here :)

I've been wanting to host an online Survivor game since my back-to-back performances in the Star Wars Fan Club, in which I made final two and final six respectively.

Hosting a Survivor: RMN would make me such a happy panda: you have no idea.

Challenges would be based mostly in the RPG Maker. Immunity challenges would be week-long affairs, and smaller reward challenges would be held once a week as well. Every Saturday would be a tribal council, in which one person is voted out. Those with immunity cannot be voted out for that week. 14 or 16 players would be ideal, though as few as 10 is possible. The initial two tribes will eventually merge, and the final two players will plea their case to a jury of the other contestants.

Prizes? Not sure. The ones I played didn't have any sort of reward, just bragging rights.

The RPG Maker challenges would be VERY, VERY simple: probably team (and later individual) contests regarding 20 x 15 maps, single boss battles, single cutscenes, etc. Reward challenges will be smaller and unrelated to RPG Maker. Submissions would be unnamed and judged by a panel of 3 unaffiliated people.

I'm having trouble editing chipsets in Windows 7. Every time I try to mix chipsets using paint, they just appear as a black screen in the maker. It must have something to do with my settings on this new OS, but I can't figure it out. Help?

I've been thinking about dungeon puzzles a lot lately. I like a decent amount of puzzles in RPG Maker games -- maybe not as many as the Zelda games, but certainly somewhere near the level of Xenosaga. How about you guys?

What kind of puzzles do you like to see in RPG Maker/indie games? What are some of your favorite indie puzzles?

What do you feel is an "ideal" number of puzzles per dungeon -- or, in more general terms, do you prefer a few/some/a lot?

As for me, I love everything from ice puzzles to water draining, invisible mazes, switch flipping, passwords...anything to add flavor to a dungeon. If it's just a long corridor or maze full of random battles, I get bored very quickly.