KOMODO GALLANT'S PROFILE

Thanks for taking your time to introduce us to all these. They'll be a lot of help, especially for those who only have rm2k. :D

This looks beautiful, and from what I see here you've done great things with the programming, musical, and artistic talents and resources available. I really wish I could play it, but I've been having computer issues with games and rpgmaker lately. Hopefully I will get them resolved in time to give what looks and sounds like an amazing creation a test run.

I'm a sucker for storylines, and good writing can easily pull me into something with minimal or no gameplay. If you ask me, you probably made the right choice.

In my opinion, character design is one of the most important aspects of video games- unless, of course, you've got something like the Halo series or a MMORPG where your audience creates it's own character.

What are some game characters you've liked in the past? It can be anything about their appearance or personality that especially stood out to you, and made them memorable. Moreover, what do you focus on when you create your own characters? One of my personal favorites was Ferris from Final Fantasy Five, if only because they actually gave a girl character high hp. And why not? She'd been living with pirates on a ship all her life, of course she would have built up some serious durability. Which reminds me; it's much better to be realistic about your characters than to stick to normal expectations.

For me, empathy is the most important aspect of the main character. His or her reactions to any tragedies or victories they may face in the game need to be the most realistic- in my opinion, of course. Which ties into the writing aspect of character design.

Do art and writing have equal value in character design? And what are your thoughts on how both should be used to their fullest potential?

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I'm afraid that doesn't help me much. You say it was your computer settings? That could mean a great deal of things. Music drivers? Settings on Windows Media Player? I doubt it's a hardware or driver problem, because it was working fine up until I made those recent downloads. (which I've already removed, it still doesn't work.) And I can't remember changing any settings in any programs before it stopped working....

What really confuses me is that I can hear the song that is supposed to be playing whenever windows media player is also playing a file. I have no idea what could be causing that.

I'll look around at my speaker and windows media player settings one more time, though, just to be sure. If you have any other ideas, I'd love to hear them.

I love making chip and character sets, anything artistically oriented I find comes naturally. Maps aren't much harder, but that's usually because I draw out a plan first. Of course, it gets really tedious when making big, sprawling things like castles and manors. D:

I STRONGLY DISLIKE having to nit-pick over my chipsets again and again, though. Every time I think I'm done I find something else I have to fix. Grr. Okay, once I'm done with these last revisions, I'll never open this file again. And that's what I keep telling myself.

I'm also not much of a programmer. Long code strains scare me, even making long, drawn- out event sequences for 'cinematics' can get on my nerves. Unfortunately, this often means that all my projects have a lot of custom graphics, but not a lot of ingenious interactive aspects.