KALIN'S PROFILE

author=RyaReisender
- Players don't feel forced to use a guide for a build, which increases immersion as you don't have to alt-tab out of the game and read guides on every level up

It's funny you mention immersion here, since I feel that respeccing causes a huge loss of immersion. ("Thieves are useless here, so I'll make him a mage for this dungeon.")

And while I approve of removing things that are needlessly frustrating, doing so could lessen the sense of accomplishment and some players may quit out of boredom.

I mostly agree with the rest of your points, which is way I prefer games with limited respecs.

author=LockeZ
Can you slowly get to know a character over the course of the game, developing a deep friendship that gradually evolves into a romance as you realize how much you care about each-other? That's my fetish

*like*

I have a fondness for porn games, but it would be nice to see one actually have explicit consent. One that I'm currently playing occasionally touches the subject, but it's undermined by the general theme that any woman will fall in love if you grope her enough. (But that's sort of like criticizing RPGs for always using violence to solve problems.)

On a related note... I haven't found any way to be notified of new articles or tutorials. Could something be done similar to the forum that shows the newest game-blog posts?

That's odd. When you use the Resource Manager to import an image, it should ask you to click on the background color if the image doesn't already include transparency information.

Did you just copy the files into the directory instead of importing them?

author=Craze

kory_toombs
Go to the top of screen to submissions/
Submit Tutorial, though this looks like it could be an article as well.

or we could... not do that.

But someone has a question I can answer!

author=zeello
One thing I don't get is how big to make the map. Lets say if you just need 30x30 do you make the map exactly 30x30 or do you make it bigger and put like trees or water or something around the edge? Do you want the screen to feel boxed in or is this actually desirable some of the time?

The player sees 17x13 tiles at a time (the minimum map size). If you add a 6 tile border to the top and bottom and 8 tiles to the left and right, the player will always be centered on the screen. Otherwise the map will stop scrolling when the player nears the edge of the map, so it's a question of whether you want to player to have that information.

author=zeello
You'd think RPG maker would have like a feature where you can click and drag the edges to increase the map size in that direction.

If you right-click the map name in the map list, you'll get a menu with Map Properties where you can change the map size (changes will be made to the right and bottom edges of the map). Also in that menu is Shift which allows you to push the map around in all four directions (tiles will wrap around).