GREDGE109'S PROFILE

There's been some interesting posts here, and I feel bad I can't respond to all of them. But it's good stuff.

I wouldn't make another RPG Maker account, I'd probably just not use this one much. I find myself being pulled more into the digital art and visual novel community. I if I made a new identity, it'd be for that stuff.

I think it's one of those things where you will end up with a solution that pleases some but not all. Casual games tend to, by nature, be much easier to progress through the story, and someone who wants to simply get through the story, like the Golden Path player, is an example of a casual gamer. They're not interested in grinding out fights, they just want to topple the next boss and unlock the next episode of the story, and that's fine.

Then there's people like me who are on the grind-heavy side. I enjoy grinding, killing groups of enemies repeatedly, and feeling my characters get stronger. I invest my time and energy into profit, because I am constantly seeing my characters become stronger, find more items, unlock more skills, and I enjoy that. Of course, I wouldn't do any of that unless the combat in the game is designed quite well, with fun skills to play around with.

Personally I think you should head the route you enjoy most, because you always will have dissenting views despite where you land on it. Do you enjoy on-screen encounters? Then I'd use those: have the enemies block your path, chase you, or maybe a little cutscene once in a while which results in a battle. Maybe they reappear onscreen after you leave the area so people who want to grind can get a few more fights in.

I'll use an on-screen style for most of my games, though personally I prefer random encounters because of the constant threat it gives me. I enjoy the whole "poof, you're in a battle!" Especially if I'm two levels deep in a dungeon and debating whether I head down that one long perilous path with the amount of potions I have left. It's a bit more intense to me.


Now, you could go the route of creating both types of encounters and have the players choose at the start of the game (random encounters vs onscreen), but you'll try to please everyone and, more than likely, will burn yourself out on that endeavor.

I'd love to be in this one. I'd like it to say:

"Happy Valentine's Day! This game has 10 endings. Can you discover all of them?"

Yume Nikki was made back in the early 2000's using 2k3. It started the whole walking-simulator/surreal dream-game craze.

There's no RPG Maker game out there with as many fangames as Yume Nikki. Sure it's not center stage anymore, but it was huge, and everyone started making their own Yume Nikki-inspired titles. Its influence has been far and wide-reaching. People love the idea of walking somewhere and entering a crazy new area with more and more stuff to see and explore. Huge dreamscapes unfold before you, piece by piece, and everyone loved seeing what bizarre creation other developers came up with.

And now that your eyes have been opened to it, you'll begin to see it everywhere. Only half joking.

Fantastic art Momeka. Puts my stuff to shame, but at the same time is quite inspiring!

I think you could definitely profit off of your talent.