ENKER'S PROFILE

lol I think it's worth it for the content included in the demo - after all on most computers it doesn't take long to download 100 megs now

Possibly a links section for other sites that host and review RPG Maker games? Nothing massive or mad, but maybe a small list of other high-quality sites like this, maybe affiliates? Actually I still uphold that this is the MOST professional looking and well run Maker site out there.

Interesting - is there a word limit for the blogs on the games pages? When I posted the promised Shadow's Reach walkthrough to accompany the demo (and let people see if they managed to find everything it has to offer) I got the following message:

UnicodeEncodeError at /panel/games/239/add_log_entry/
'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 474: ordinal not in range(256)
Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://www.rpgmaker.net/panel/games/239/add_log_entry/
Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError
Exception Value: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 474: ordinal not in range(256)
Exception Location: /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py in defaulterrorhandler, line 33

Unfortunetly three of the pieces of music feature choral/singing and had to be WAV format due to the nature of 2000 - which only runs Wavs and Midi files, Midis not being able to handle voices or synth realistic instruments. Given the originally scored opening theme which a friend spent a LONG time over, I felt it should really be given the full wav treatment. In total three Wav files are used + sounds.

The first boss (annoyingly) NEVER defends itself for me when I test, but I'm going to remove that option. It also has a 1 in 10 chance of regenerating after being killed and forcing you to fight it again (the mage in town tells you this after giving you your mission) However I admit I may have under powered him in an attempt to even things out for newbies. I initially had some very hard bosses in the demo but pre-testers complained about the difficulty level and I may have over compensated more than I should have. It'll be tweaked before the next release.

Fingers crossed that the rest of the demo lives up to expectations - does anybody think that they have found all its secrets yet?

Thanks for your comments so far guys! They're really helpful.

Thank you very much :D