ILLUSTRIOUS'S PROFILE

You know what you are doing. The screens look well designed and appealing.
They will look nice if you plan to make a game using them.

Have you ever had someone take something from your game and use it in their own?
I am not talking anything coincidental or by chance; I mean something you KNOW could only be unique to your game and somehow you found it in another. Disclaimer: ironic posting for a community who at large freely uses ripped graphics and copyrighted songs.

Example 1: You open a game and lo and behold- the maps are exactly the same as the ones you made, or maybe slightly altered in a way that is not fooling you.

Example 2: "That is my game art/original music composition!" Say you are Lun and you open someone's game and their story is told using your own prerendered backgrounds, just as they were in your game. This goes beyond chance. Say you are MaladroitHim and you stumble on a game that uses all the graphics Teo made for you plus ripped off your game's main theme that you composed.
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One thing that happened to me was
Example 3: I had designed this blackjack minigame. Now making a blackjack game is not the most novel thing in the world, itself; but the stlye of this minigame, the graphical layout, as well as how it played were perfectly mimicked in a way too uncanny to be chance.

This is the screenshot I discovered
http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/239/screenshots/708/

I don't want to make this too long, but if you played Angels of Exodus, this is an exact mockup of the blackjack game with a couple graphical differences, like the background that was chosen. It has the exact same menus, layout, and gameplay touches
I had. Even the same sound effects were used. How many blackjack games in rpgmaker are refereed? Answer, I don't know- but he has one standing right in the place where my referee stood.

I do not mean to chastise this person at all, I have been playing his game and it is actually really good so far. In fact, I feel flattered to be honest and I don't have a lot of reason to get emotional about a minigame I made seven years ago. It makes for a good question though. How would you feel if something from your game was ripped/doppleganged? What means would you go through to rectify the situation?

Nice presentation. While your best maps show a lot of class, the screenshots you submitted are of varying degrees of quality. It really does look like something I want to play when I get more time, though.

Oh, and SuikoV is a pretty cool game. The prince is a fag, though. :<

Truer words have never been spoken! Get about 3-5 hours into the story and you wont care about the sorry prince anymore though as you learn it is best to experience the story through eyes of most of the other characters...
WIP, I hope I get to hear you rave about how much you like how the story unfolds, I thought it was amazing. I can't believe I almost let this game rot on my shelf based on my first two hours into it.

I started making my game on an old desktop and then copied it over to my laptop to continue working on it. I downloaded a lot of perfectly fine midis that play well on every other computer I owned, but on this laptop instruments will not play for so many of my songs. For like one out of every 5 midis I use, I can only hear the drumbeat. I have downloaded the latest drivers and tried a couple various ones and it does not seem like that is the problem.