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Yeah, I saw this one too! and posted this at least once or twice on the RMN discord. Batman & Robin for genesis was one of my favorite video games growing up. So it was really cool to see how the Sonic 3D Blast dev, tries to explain, how Clockwork Tortoise might have created these effects on the genesis, while using examples from previous games he's worked on, like Toy Story for the Genesis.

What's really fascinating to me about this video, is that, it's not just programming, it's art and animation as well. It's learning these sort of principles, these tools and techniques and how they work together, where you can start to begin to stretch the limitations of something like rpgmaker2003 and other makers in general,

Like often times, we can't do what we want with what's available to us. But with some really creative problem solving, we can create something new or something similar to it, once we have a deeper understand of the tools, that are available to us. - I know I've thought about this a lot while making the silly tech demos I've made in the past. But I feel like watching a video like this, is really important when trying to understand and learn how to tackle the more heavy stuff.

But yeah,Definitely an excellent video worth checking out. ♥

Thanks for posting this LDanarkos!

EDIT: another really great bunch of videos to check out are the Ars Technica: War Stories interviews They have stories from the creator of Crash Bandicoot, Myst, Prince of Persia and Diablo where they talk about the issues they faced while creating these famous games and the creative problem solving they eventually had to learn, in order to tackle them.

I think the most interesting one, is the Prince of Persia story, where Jordan Mechner talks about the biggest issue he had while creating the original Prince of Persia, was memory limitations and how he ends up turning this issue, into not only one of the most compelling characters in the game, but being to carry that character over to different versions once it was completed and ported.

This kind of creative problem solving is something I think everyone should really get into and learn, because sometimes, you're not just making a game, sometimes you're trying to get all these different components to work together in harmony, in order to not just create art, but something that will work and something that will last for that current situation. Which I think is a really important skill to have when you're working with this sort of medium.

Just a reminder for anyone still struggling to fill in Misao Nominations for 2021:
BilouConcept is totally eligible for the:

- Best Non-English Game (Best translated or non-English game released this year)
- Beetle Ninja Award (secret best game you played that's below 150 downloads)
- The "How The Hell Did They Do That" award (most technical prowess)

You can probably even toss in the "Eye Candy" as well. This game looks great.

author=ElectricCatguy
should i be using a different program or something else?

Download InfanView, it's a free and very easy to use image editing program:

Open your sprite sheet in Infanview then select, Image>Decrease Color Depth> Custom: 256> Click "Ok"

Then select Save (original folder) or Save as... to export your image for use in RM2k3.



Note: It's highly recommended that you make backups of your images in case you run into any issues, during this process.
So what I usually do is select Save as... but instead of saving over the original image, I rename the original "filenamebu"

i.e. while saving, I rename the original image "Actor3bu" and then save the new 256 converted image as "Actor3" then test the new image out in RM2k3.

By making a quick backup like this and having the new image share the same name as the old one, you can quickly test whether or not the new image works in rpgmaker2003 - if "Actor3" doesn't work in rpgmaker2003 or if there's transparency issues, all you have to do is remove the "bu" from "Actorbu" and try again to convert it again Infanview.

Let us know if this helped. ♥

...Also Punniest Game Alive
and the How the Hell Did They Do That Award. (Most Technical Prowess)
PepsiOtaku was a huge contributor to dynplugins over the years
to the point where a few times over the last few years
peeps keep asking me when would the next demo for EJ would be coming out.
So it was huge deal we got a release this year.
It was a very big deal.

So to those reading this, when you get a chance, make sure to click nominate
and select a couple of misaos for this one. :thumbs up: