KRIMSONKATT'S PROFILE

author=Corfaisus
NEVER!!!

In all seriousness: I've seen the whole "have you seen this guy?!" and it wasn't even that guy. I have no regret about asking for evidence that lead to correcting the narrative, especially when it became apparent that others were already spreading it.

Unity, I don't use; I know games that do (especially anything that starts with a drop down box for resolution, full screen, etc.) and I play them. If RPG Maker pulled something like this, I'd have to leave. Steam's $100 thing is already too expensive for me, and the fact that I don't see any sales revenue until I hit another threshold has soured me from operating under them again.

$100 to post your game on Steam honestly isn't that bad. If you have a working job you can pay that in a single day or less. Groceries, you know, the thing you need to live, is far more expensive. A single jar of milk, alone, is like $20. Most people pay $200+ every week for groceries. $100 is nothing and you can just post your game on itch and once you get $100 revenue you can post it on steam for no cost. Plus if you get $1000 revenue from your game on steam you get refunded the $100 investment, which if your game is $10 just means 100 sales which even the smallest devs can usually pull off if their game isn't shovelware.

Also Unity bad. Switch to Gadot if your switching off RPG Maker.

i NEED THEREPY

Chronicles: The Lost Page is a good game. It's only errors are some minor spelling mistakes, a few very minor bugs, and some gameplay and story nitpicks such as the MP not restoring after you level up, (it's supposed to be like megaten where MP is limited and a resource that needs to be managed) a character's accent being hard to understand, (it's really not if you've read the original translations for any Shakespeare play in high school) and there being no real opening and ending. Also the bosses were "unmemorable" which what can I say? It's meant to be a short simple game, not every boss be some massive spectacle with huge build-up like this a Platinum Games game.

Yes, it uses RTP but your acting like using RTP automatically makes the game bad. It doesn't. Making your own custom assets is HARD. I can probably do the facesets, enemies, and battlers with enough work but there's no way I can make tilesets that actually look good. I'm awful at those. Chronicles: The Lost Page does have a coherent narrative. It's just very simple because again, it was a 2-4 hour long event game made in a month. It did get a 6/10 which is better than pretty much every other game I made, it's main criticisms being:
-Nitpicks like MP not restoring upon level up and Mundas' accent
-"Bad mapping" which mainly just applies to the last couple floors of the final dungeon which are just mazes. Because, once again, this was an event game developed in a month. I didn't have time to make a fleshed out final dungeon with puzzles and stuff, and having confusing mazes added to the horror. I'm not a 10/10 mapper, but my maps are at least passible.
-A few minor spelling errors which I didn't even notice while writing them due to poor vision. (im legally blind, can still see but very badly. I miss grammar errors a lot)
-A few minor, non-game-breaking glitches. (which will definitely be fixed along with the grammar issues)
-Too many elements, which I have already fixed in my future games I'm developing and will probably make a skill overhawl relatively soon for CTLP.
-Too handholdy with too many tutorials, which was primarily because of early feedback saying that the game was too vague mechanics-wise, especially for people who never played Octopath.

These are absolutely trivial compared to my previous games which suffering from a lot of issues. The one review I got, while very critical, made sure to mention that the game isn't bad and he's making it sound a lot worse than it actually is. Plus, a 3/5 stars on this site is pretty good all things considered especially since the review standard is so high. 4 stars or higher is considered "highly rated" by the site, so most people only give reviews that high if the game is a legit masterpiece. My game is not that, I'm a simple, short, event game made in a month with some minor flaws that most amount to nitpicks. Personally I would rate my game a 7/10, which would be equivalent to 3.5 stars on this site. Flawed and definitely not amazing, but still decent and with a lot of good ideas.

I will stand by the fact that Chronicles: The Lost Page is a good game. This isn't like Zero Gear Fighters where I was just a immature little kid and in denial that I made a bad game, Chronicles: The Lost Page is a legit 7/10 which is pretty good considering how this site usually rates things. (8/10 or higher being a masterpiece) Basiclly when comparing this site's ratings to others just take your star rating and times it by 2.25. So a 5 star game would be an 11/10, a 4 star game would be a 9.2/10, a 3 star game would be a 7/10, a 2 star game would be a 5/10, etc. So basically the higher the star rating, the larger the quality gap between ratings when compared to mainstream review scores.

As for the asset issue, yes, if you want your game to be popular or make money you need to use custom assets. That is just common sense. And if Chronicles: The Lost Page DID have a unique artstyle and had all the issues fixed, it would at least have a niche cult following. Instead it's 7/10 simple RPG Maker game using default assets that only got a review in the first place because the dev begged for one for years.

author=Irog
We reach the same conclusion: characters need to keep human sexual traits to appeal to humans.

Professional game developers wants to increase their revenues by using edgy content to build buzz... or because they think some bears will buy the game.

Of what I've seen it's worked out for them extremely well. Baldur's Gate 3's full release is selling incredibly well and getting extremely high praise in spite of all it's edgy/perverse content. Appealing to the furry degens who are into bestiality (not all furries are degens fyi, I'm only talking about specific ones) only helped matters and the casual audience either didn't care since the bear sex is optional and hard to access or didn't even know about it since they didn't follow the news surrounding the game.