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My name's Kasey Ozymy. I'm a game designer from Texas. I made Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass and am currently working on Hymn to the Earless God.

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What process do you do to make games?

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1)Write up a general storyline
2)Plan genre and gameplay
4)Make up the rest as I go, map by map
5)Done!
What's step 3?
That's the secret ingredient.


I bet it either involves conversing with a Lovecraftian horror or making ants on a log for extra energy.

Games you love but everyone hates.

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Beyond the Beyond


But...but it's so BAD. It's like one of the three worst RPGs I've played, right behind 7th Saga and after Guardian's Crusade.

Seems like a lot of people are saying SaGa games; I wouldn't put either of the two Frontier games on my top ten or anything, but I thought they were a nice change of pace. I also was one of the few people in the universe that liked (wouldn't say LOVED) Unlimited Saga. Unfortunately, I only beat one of the characters' stories and made it to the last boss of another's before I put down the controller, but I often get the urge to go back and play it. The only problem is that my copy got stolen a while back (along with almost every other game I had at the time--Legend of Mana made it because it had been nudged under the ottoman).

A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky

You should be in the position to get every remaining villager, so if you have all of the expanded districts, then I would probably do that. Here's a list of the late-game recruits:

-Rochfort
-Fortississimo, Melody, Fermata, Jameson (they join together)
-Sully
-Julian
-Spitz
-Holiday
-Winston
-Minerva
-BeBop Deluxe
-Seamus
-The skill teachers other than Magnus (since he's already in your town)


There are sixteen soul tears, so you're missing one. Here's a list:
Lucas, Mag, Prim, Pallance, Marina, Switch, Greta, Magnus, Gaul, Glass, Brunhilde, Clovis, Raccoon, Cyril, Rose, and Gram

A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky

Yeah, Lucas is your mentor.

A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky

Kind of.

If you've activated the reflecting pond and have a soul tear, you can watch/play scenes for several characters, including Cyril. You can't talk to Cyril after his soul tear scene, though, but you can recruit any of the characters that teach you skills for your town.

A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky

People in Balfur:
-Flavio
-Brooke
-Minerva
-Giacomo
-Herman (and his dog, Brando)
-Walsh
-Holiday

Some of these won't be available until you expand your town to max. Holiday can't be gotten until you have Sully, which requires the max agricultural area, for example. You should also be able to get the characters from the soul tear scenes if you talk to them after you go through their scene, though some require a little extra work (like Clovis), and, of course, if the characters are already dead, you can't recruit them (there are three of these).

Yeah, if you're heading to Ubiquity, that's the final level. Once you reach Ubiquity, though, you can teleport back there at any time from your town's teleporter. Too, after making it there, you'll gain some new measures in the town hall.

Bug Fix

@JimOz: Before what Miz said, you should head to Beriall Brymme and take the boat to the temple in the middle of the lake. That crater is a side area that's definitely too hard for where you're at right now.

The Public Domain Jam

Yeah, I thought it was weird that it's a game competition centered around the public domain and you're not allowed to use public domain resources. Like, I would think that it would be a lot funner if the goal was to make an entire game out of only public domain resources.

A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky

It's in the Green Vein. More specifically:

Go to Richard's cabin (talk to the cat at the entrance of the level for a quick teleport). Go south one screen, and then head down to the fork and go left and up. At the end of that path, there's a cliffside that you couldn't climb when you were kids, but the vines have grown so now you can make it to the top.

What happened to manuals?

I think you're underestimating the tangible quality of a manual, Shinan. This kind of thing has a sense of ownership that people cherish--especially those who enjoy collecting. I'm fine with not having a manual, too, but that sense of ownership is why people would fight you over that point.