GRETGOR'S PROFILE

One recurring problem with RPG Maker ABSes is facing direction issues: you usually have to be facing an enemy in order to attack them, but moving around to dodge their attacks often results in facing away from the enemies, and moving back to a direction where you can attack can result in harm, since (if your ABS doesn't include custom movement) you end up having to take a step towards the enemies just to correct your direction.

I've been thinking about the following solutions to this recurring problem, and I'd like to know what you guys think of those:

1 - Pokémon/Startropics-style controls, where tapping a directional button only changes direction, and only holding it down results in walking.

2 - A way to lock the character's facing direction towards an enemy, kinda like Z-targeting in 3D Zelda games.

3 - Trying to have as many 4-directional attacks as possible, so that not facing the right direction is not that big of a problem.

4 - Chimera Report-esque action style, where the player actually chooses the action they're gonna take through a menu that interrupts the battle.

5 - Using Powermode or similar to mouse-target attacks.

Which of these ideas (or combination of ideas) do you guys think is the best?

Yay ^_^

Also, @Pyramid_Head, feel free to PM me if you need any help with picture-based CMSes in RM2K3! :D

Made a mockup of a menu (still not implemented, though).



The "Escape" function is supposed to simply warp the character back to the last save point (or the overworld in case the player didn't encounter any save point since they entered whatever map they're at). The "Split" function is going to split up the party of characters, which will sometimes be necessary to solve a puzzle. The rest is pretty straight forward, and I'm still thinking about how I'll go into making the inventory menu.

What do you guys think? What should be changed?

All amazing news, man! I didn't know you were at it for seven years already. My review proves that the efforts have been paying off recently. I also recently came back to my old save in the new demo, and I'm having a thrill.

I need some help, actually. If people could discuss this with me, I'd love it.

I've been rather unmotivated to work on my game recently, partly because I've bit much more than I could chew regarding the technical complexity of its RM2K3 execution (I'll eventually get it over with, but still), but mostly because I'm not even sure it's going to be enjoyable for the players anymore. The concept I'm using is an action-less adventure game where players have to solve puzzles and explore the environment in order to progress, and occasionally uncover new abilities that allow them to open up previously inaccessible areas, some of which may contain secrets.

The problem I'm having is that everything becomes rather monotonous after all puzzles are solved, due to the lack of anything to respond to in real time in order to stay "alive", since it's impossible to get hurt or die. The only thing standing between the player and success are puzzles (which are hopefully going to be challenging and fun enough), but once they're solved, the player's left with maps that they can traverse through easily and monotonously, save for the occasional blocked out area that the player can eventually come back to when they acquire a new ability.

Since I don't intend to make the game a horror game (especially because good horror is very hard to achieve), I'm assuming I can't include Ib-like monsters and traps in it, because they'd feel out of place as heck.

Anyways, kinda bored, uninspired, and I'd really like some ideas. I already made the maps a lot smaller, and am currently using an overworld instead of an open world to make navigation less annoying.