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I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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The Unofficial Squaresoft MUD is a free online game based on the worlds and combat systems of your favorite Squaresoft games. UOSSMUD includes job trees from FFT and FF5, advanced classes from multiple other Square games, and worlds based extremely accurately upon Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, and Final Fantasies 5, 6, and 7. Travel through the original worlds and experience events that mirror those of the original games in an online, multiplayer format.
If a large, highly customized MUD, now over 10 years old and still being expanded, with a job system and worlds based on some of the most popular console RPGs seems interesting to you, feel free to log on and check it out. Visit uossmud.sandwich.net for information about logging on.
If a large, highly customized MUD, now over 10 years old and still being expanded, with a job system and worlds based on some of the most popular console RPGs seems interesting to you, feel free to log on and check it out. Visit uossmud.sandwich.net for information about logging on.
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Players x Experts - Our attitude on playing games
Fine then, let's compromise. Don't post so much criticism publicly; send it privately to the designer instead.
But please, please, please, send it. Always send it. Always. PLEASE. Every single problem you find. To not do so is to say to the creator, "I don't care about helping you improve, either because you're a lost cause or because I just don't care about helping anyone."
Every time someone plays my game and doesn't give me any advice about it, I almost cry. No, really. That is the worst thing they could possibly do to me. It just says to me, "I don't really care about your game."
But please, please, please, send it. Always send it. Always. PLEASE. Every single problem you find. To not do so is to say to the creator, "I don't care about helping you improve, either because you're a lost cause or because I just don't care about helping anyone."
Every time someone plays my game and doesn't give me any advice about it, I almost cry. No, really. That is the worst thing they could possibly do to me. It just says to me, "I don't really care about your game."
Players x Experts - Our attitude on playing games
@Illustrious: I'd wager less than 10% of people who visit this site are gamers who have no intention to design their own game.
Realistically I think it's more like 0%, but I'm being polite.
@Sunshine: I disagree. I want to improve my games so that they're better games. I don't care if anyone plays them. Art is created for its own sake, not for the people who would look at it.
Realistically I think it's more like 0%, but I'm being polite.
@Sunshine: I disagree. I want to improve my games so that they're better games. I don't care if anyone plays them. Art is created for its own sake, not for the people who would look at it.
What's the last tv show you watched?
Players x Experts - Our attitude on playing games
I would go far as saying that it doesn't matter if Solitayre's reviews help developers improve their games, because they prevent players from playing that game, so what's the point in improving it? I've had my download count on several projects SHUT DOWN by low star reviews. The decrease in download rate was REAL AND PALPABLE after a review of 2 Stars or less was posted. I mean, maybe the review itself is full of great pointers that make me want to take my game TO THE NEXT LEVEL but that is kind of canceled out when my downloads per day drop from 12 to 0.5. At BEST, it's a wash.
I think if developers can respect the fact that reviews are there to help regardless of their rating, reviewers really need to respect the fact that people won't PLAY low-rated games.
Man, I disagree completely. The point of posting a game in a game development community is to make it better. Plain and simple. Getting people to play it is never the goal. My one and only goal here is to improve my games. To that end I engage in lots of discussions on forums about what makes a good game, and I try to help other people out in order to foster a spirit of helpfulness in the community. But if all the other members of the community do is play my game and not offer any feedback or criticism, then I've wasted my time. If they're playing my game just to enjoy it, then that obviously is certainly good for them, but it's not good for me.
This is a game development community, not a game enjoyment community. Developing games is our number one priority. You're allowed to enjoy them, but not at the expense of the development process. Not here, at least. Feel free to post reviews like that on a site designed for players, but here, I'd prefer it if every single person who played my game gave me twenty pages of criticism. That's why I posted it.
Custom rm2k3 fonts?
You realize, uh, less than one in a thousand computer users even know what a hex editor is? And less than half know what folders and files are? It might even be less than a third by now, the last time I saw a poll was a couple years ago, I'm sure Windows Vista and Windows 7 have engrained themselves more thoroughly by now.
The point is, people shouldn't have to mess with operating system shit to play your game. Manually installing a font definitely counts as operating system shit. They should just be able to play it the same way they play any other game - by double-clicking on it.
The mom test is pretty good. If your mom can install and start playing the game without any problems, you're doing it right. If your mom actually knows how to use a computer, you might have to ask your grandma instead. Or a hobo.
The point is, people shouldn't have to mess with operating system shit to play your game. Manually installing a font definitely counts as operating system shit. They should just be able to play it the same way they play any other game - by double-clicking on it.
The mom test is pretty good. If your mom can install and start playing the game without any problems, you're doing it right. If your mom actually knows how to use a computer, you might have to ask your grandma instead. Or a hobo.
Class Separation
@EnderX: That makes them different but only in the simplest way. It would be more interesting if they handled themselves more differently.
Custom rm2k3 fonts?
What a stupid thing to say, setup programs make it so much easier to get rid of the game when you're done. Size has nothing to do with it, it just makes everything easier and faster for the user. Not to mention that most people don't know enough about computers to play a game that doesn't have one.
Also, you put "hex editor" and "simple matter" in the same sentence, so all your suggestions about what's easiest and most user-friendly are now null and void.
Also, you put "hex editor" and "simple matter" in the same sentence, so all your suggestions about what's easiest and most user-friendly are now null and void.
[Rpgmaker2003] Battler and Char-set request
He said he didn't want that style. I think. Even though he just said "final fantasy style" which could mean any of 71 different things, since every FF game has a different graphical style. And I kind of assume he's drunk and high and retarded, since none of his requests are remotely serious and the all contradict each-other, and he doesn't seem to particularly care what he gets, and thinks that being confusing is funny.
Fire Up The Delorean!
If you spend too much time detailing the minor effects of time travel and trying to cover all the possible paradoxes, it will, ironically, just draw attention to the one or two minor things you forgot. Because the fact that you're focusing on it will cause the player to focus on it, and they'll pay far more attention to paradoxical implications than they otherwise would have.
Case in point, name an unresolved paradox in Back to the Future. Now name an unresolved paradox in Lost. Most people can do the second one a lot more readily. It's not that they can't come up with plot holes in Back to the Future if prompted, but they've just never thought about it. Whereas if they watched Lost, they've probably already spent hours and hours and hours thinking about it.
And yeah, making a time travel game without time-travel-based puzzles is silly. The entire concept of time travel is inherently linked to puzzles, even in movies and books. Go crazy with them.
Case in point, name an unresolved paradox in Back to the Future. Now name an unresolved paradox in Lost. Most people can do the second one a lot more readily. It's not that they can't come up with plot holes in Back to the Future if prompted, but they've just never thought about it. Whereas if they watched Lost, they've probably already spent hours and hours and hours thinking about it.
And yeah, making a time travel game without time-travel-based puzzles is silly. The entire concept of time travel is inherently linked to puzzles, even in movies and books. Go crazy with them.
Custom rm2k3 fonts?
If you want to use a font that doesn't come with Windows by default, you have to include it in your game. This means creating an actual Setup Program for your game, instead of just zipping it, since a setup program can install a font along with the game. Setup programs are a nice feature anyway.
I use Inno Setup. I actually use it to install the normal RM2K font, though - the font that can also be installed by using that "font patch" you can find everywhere. Because fuck the RM2K3 fonts.
For a while I was just providing the font patch alongside my game, but less than half the people who downloaded the game bothered to download the font patch, and then they all complained that they were ten hours into the game and the font was really irritating and so they'd quit playing. So I just included the font in the setup program. God, people are stupid sometimes.
I use Inno Setup. I actually use it to install the normal RM2K font, though - the font that can also be installed by using that "font patch" you can find everywhere. Because fuck the RM2K3 fonts.
For a while I was just providing the font patch alongside my game, but less than half the people who downloaded the game bothered to download the font patch, and then they all complained that they were ten hours into the game and the font was really irritating and so they'd quit playing. So I just included the font in the setup program. God, people are stupid sometimes.
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