DRAGNFLY'S PROFILE
Developer of videogames and boardgames. Yet to release a boardgame or a game made in RPGmaker.
Favourite genre: jRPG, Strategy RPG, Action RPG
Other likes: Anime, digital media, writing
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Avatars: Tiara from my should-be-upcoming game Resolem, by NiwaRhythm
Favourite genre: jRPG, Strategy RPG, Action RPG
Other likes: Anime, digital media, writing
Proud Canadian
Avatars: Tiara from my should-be-upcoming game Resolem, by NiwaRhythm
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And this is how it goes, Kerliy. Don't take it seriously and feel you need to put a fist, gauntlet or Saviour of the Wasteland there or whatever. We're just joking.
Fisting Frogge sounds like one of those really unfortunate cases where different English-speaking cultures use the same word to mean vastly different things. Like rubber being an eraser in some places and a condom in another. "Teacher, I need another rubber. Mine broke." "Well, you're a good boy so I have a whole box of them in my desk that you can use."
"The mantis shrimp can fist it's target at speeds of up to 23 m/s!" Boxing would sure be a different sport.
Ok, I'm done being silly now. Sorry for derailing.
Fisting Frogge sounds like one of those really unfortunate cases where different English-speaking cultures use the same word to mean vastly different things. Like rubber being an eraser in some places and a condom in another. "Teacher, I need another rubber. Mine broke." "Well, you're a good boy so I have a whole box of them in my desk that you can use."
"The mantis shrimp can fist it's target at speeds of up to 23 m/s!" Boxing would sure be a different sport.
Ok, I'm done being silly now. Sorry for derailing.
Progress
For bunches of flowers like that I find it's usually best to give them a border somehow so it's like a garden or to use Photoshop or whatever to move them closer together and in more random rows. Then place them as an empty event so that it's not taking up a gigantic amount of space on your tileset. Using tall grass like in the lower right can help too.
But yeah that house looks great.
But yeah that house looks great.
Dark Sketch
Experienced or intuitive devs give fantastic input on how to actually fix problems and the technical side of it. I can't really do that with RPG Maker yet.
When it comes to simply finding problems all you need is to be meticulous. Walk places where the player might walk. Go places you might not usually go. Try to play the game out of order. For example, I didn't check the note in the kitchen, so I never found out what it said. That's my own fault so hopefully it's not something important but I figure that if it was important then you would have made it a requirement for leaving the house. Stuff like that are things players sometimes do, and it's how bugs are found.
When it comes to simply finding problems all you need is to be meticulous. Walk places where the player might walk. Go places you might not usually go. Try to play the game out of order. For example, I didn't check the note in the kitchen, so I never found out what it said. That's my own fault so hopefully it's not something important but I figure that if it was important then you would have made it a requirement for leaving the house. Stuff like that are things players sometimes do, and it's how bugs are found.
Dark Sketch
-For the part where I walked into the wall, it was the same when you re-visit that area so check the tile used on that spot for if the passage arrows (or the circle/X/star) are messed up. I think that's the only tile on that map to look like that (I think it had a crack in it or something).
Getting rid of bugs in games is like getting rid of bugs in a house. You need to check again and again and it takes a really long time. It's tough.
About capitalization, a good rule of thumb is that every text box should start with a capital letter unless it's a single word that is also a sound that is difficult to detect. And that's not even proper English but it's just kind of how people often use it.
Example:
Charlie lit the stick of dynamite.
ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
I should really throw this thing. But it feels so nice and smooth. I'll hold onto it for longer.
sssssssssssssssssssssss
BOOM
Getting rid of bugs in games is like getting rid of bugs in a house. You need to check again and again and it takes a really long time. It's tough.
About capitalization, a good rule of thumb is that every text box should start with a capital letter unless it's a single word that is also a sound that is difficult to detect. And that's not even proper English but it's just kind of how people often use it.
Example:
Charlie lit the stick of dynamite.
ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
I should really throw this thing. But it feels so nice and smooth. I'll hold onto it for longer.
sssssssssssssssssssssss
BOOM
Dark Sketch
My plans to work on my own project for the rest of the night fell through so I'll give this a try.
-MV can use custom icons for the taskbar!? AWESOME! I didn't know that.
-OMFDDHGFTG She's so cute! Really cute! I also love your music choice and your minimalist menu with the blur.
Now on to the problems. Since English isn't your first language you should note that you can still ask people for help. If you're not a native speaker then I only dock points if I can't understand what you mean or if there's an English problem that completely breaks the atmosphere.
-Is the lack of capital letters in the intro a stylistic choice?
-Your mapping has some problems. I'm only about 20 seconds in and I've run into passabality issues and some of the auto tiles aren't being used correctly.
http://i.imgur.com/GBd3BJR.jpg
-The girl you meet at the house phases through the door. It's always a good idea to have the door open/close as usual. Especially since there's no audio in that scene so it's even more noticeable.
-Typo when getting your notebook. http://i.imgur.com/8ABBZ93.png ("Did I leave" --- and "and when checking it again http://i.imgur.com/Zdy7dTc.png though your meaning is still obvious.
-When looking around in the other house http://i.imgur.com/vcVTGLD.jpg
.... I'm gonna stop tracking your lack of capitalization, actually. It seems to be completely random and it's absolutely all over the place so it can't be blamed on secondary languages or whatnot. I can understand what the characters are saying. It's just really off-putting how sometimes lines start with capital letters and sometimes they don't.
-Text gets cut off http://i.imgur.com/dTo8kNK.png
I'll come back to it some other time. It does show promise and it's interesting.
-MV can use custom icons for the taskbar!? AWESOME! I didn't know that.
-OMFDDHGFTG She's so cute! Really cute! I also love your music choice and your minimalist menu with the blur.
Now on to the problems. Since English isn't your first language you should note that you can still ask people for help. If you're not a native speaker then I only dock points if I can't understand what you mean or if there's an English problem that completely breaks the atmosphere.
-Is the lack of capital letters in the intro a stylistic choice?
-Your mapping has some problems. I'm only about 20 seconds in and I've run into passabality issues and some of the auto tiles aren't being used correctly.
http://i.imgur.com/GBd3BJR.jpg
-The girl you meet at the house phases through the door. It's always a good idea to have the door open/close as usual. Especially since there's no audio in that scene so it's even more noticeable.
-Typo when getting your notebook. http://i.imgur.com/8ABBZ93.png ("Did I leave" --- and "and when checking it again http://i.imgur.com/Zdy7dTc.png though your meaning is still obvious.
-When looking around in the other house http://i.imgur.com/vcVTGLD.jpg
.... I'm gonna stop tracking your lack of capitalization, actually. It seems to be completely random and it's absolutely all over the place so it can't be blamed on secondary languages or whatnot. I can understand what the characters are saying. It's just really off-putting how sometimes lines start with capital letters and sometimes they don't.
-Text gets cut off http://i.imgur.com/dTo8kNK.png
-I got stuck here http://i.imgur.com/AYWlM3t.png I'm missing something for the door but I checked all the non-black papers. Some seem uncheckable. I even checked a black one just to see and sure enough, game over. It's clear that I need to take my bone paper to the dog but I can't. I can't go back up to the top part since that paper near the hallway blocks my path.
I'll come back to it some other time. It does show promise and it's interesting.
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According to RMN's notification thingy this update was called fist_test.png. Just picking fun at what "fist" could be about.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the One-Punch Man intro just started on my playlist. HAHAHAHAHA oh I love life.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the One-Punch Man intro just started on my playlist. HAHAHAHAHA oh I love life.
Imaginary Friends
I'm really enjoying this so far. Like nahubih... wait wait wait. Instead of potentially being rude I'll just scroll up. Yeah, so like nhubi said you have an extremely good balance between cute and unsettling. The puzzles aren't too difficult and most of my deaths have just been me wanting to see what happens. I'm currently stuck looking for water but that's moreso because I ran out of play time. I'm going back at it tomorrow.
Two things worth mentioning though:
-In the house to the right side of the picture map, you can walk through the sofa in the TV room, complete with clipping.
Two things worth mentioning though:
-In the house to the right side of the picture map, you can walk through the sofa in the TV room, complete with clipping.
-When getting the hat, if you take the hat from the bottom it's instant death. Not really a bug or anything and I just chuckled and reloaded but if more people complain then just move the hat.
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Very nice atmosphere as usual. Are the arrows to show where exits are or can you not move on the map and you just hit right or left once to move to that screen?
As for the fist, I bet it's a typo of first. Yeah, I wish there was a Kenshiro mode but I doubt that's what they mean by fist.
As for the fist, I bet it's a typo of first. Yeah, I wish there was a Kenshiro mode but I doubt that's what they mean by fist.