LOCKEZ'S PROFILE

author=Zachary_Braun
People with like minds should go to the places where they feel they belong.

Game design school? The dumpster? A mental hospital? One of those suicide booths from the first episode of Futurama?

I believe the traditional answer is to put 8 books in your library, which are each 3 sentences long.

Just posting the solution here for anyone else who finds this topic through searches:

This is a known glitch with how RMN handles submitted images. This problem happens if you remove or replace an image on your game profile, and your new image has the same filename as one of your old images. (Having the same creation date may or may not be required to cause the glitch.) The image actually looks fine to anyone looking at the game for the first time. It's just broken for you because it has the same filename and date as one of your old deleted images, so your browser cache isn't dealing with it properly.

To solve the problem, you need to make sure you don't need to reuse image names. If you upload an image for your game, make sure it doesn't have the same filename as an existing image or a deleted image.

You can also kind of solve this problem by clearing your browser cache, but doing so only solves it for you. It won't solve it for other people who also saw the old image and have it stored in their own browser cache.

There's a massive difference between someone thinking that something happens more often than it does when they don't know the numbers, and lying to someone about the numbers in order to perpetuate their bias. People falling prey to a bias doesn't make it acceptable to lie to them. It's fucking repulsive. I don't think any of you should be allowed to make games.

If your game is designed around dungeons being tests of endurance for the players to get through without running out of resources, then giving them nearly-unlimited resources ruins your game. Games like Secret of Mana, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Age 2/3 handle items like this and do a good job, letting players carry a small handful of healing items which are pretty carefully measured to match the length of the dungeons. A lot of these games also let players increase their inventory capacity slightly as the game goes on, matching the increased length and difficulty of the dungeons.

If your game isn't designed around testing the player's resource management as they go through an area, then why do you have a giant inventory of healing items at all instead of just automatically healing the player after each fight? Just give them a few emergency supplies, which they can use when they're on the verge of death in a boss fight.

Attack items that basically function as ammunition are different. If every time the player attacks, the attack expends an arrow or a grenade or a dose of poison or whatever, then the game should let players carry however many of those items causes the player to feel getting lost or grinding or using a bad strategy will cause them to run out of resources. Let them carry just barely enough to beat the dungeon if they ration their resources carefully.

MP recovery items can, annoyingly, fall into both categories if MP is used for both healing spells and attack spells. I usually feel like offensive spellcasters should have a secondary way to recover MP in these kinds of games, so that MP recovery items can be limited in a way that's calibrated to the healers.