LOTUS_GAMES'S PROFILE

I suppose your method could possible work NewBlack but actually it's as Gibmaker says. The images are pre-rendered and with some coding they can be made to rotate.

Thanks to the both of you for the comments/interest =]

@Chana: That looks great, maybe add some lighting sfx over the lamps for some subtle glows.

@Link: Hey nice screenshot map, I'm loving the retro/gameboy feel to it. I prefer the mini icons by far.

Yeah it's Eden and the only planet rotates horizontally.

I disagree, while I can see where you are coming from I think that kids have a slight edge because they are not limited to group think and what society tells them like most adults. Their minds run free and tend to be very imaginative which is why for us it may make no sense at all but for them, their ideas are probably the most original imaginative ideas. Imo you can't underestimate kids. They have a lot of potential and I think that's something to appreciate and not push away. It's important to listen even if we think it's just nonsensical...I think we can learn from them just as much as they can learn from us.

I think you should make the game for yourself first and foremost, as for what other people think it is only relevant if you let it get to you. Personally I use constructive criticism to improve the quality that I create. If I don't feel it is constructive, or if it is mean-spirited, or I just don't agree with it than I don't take it and I think this mentality has helped me to make games for as long as I have been making them.

Let me give you a recent personal example...right here on RMN we had a Christmas Mapping contest and I tried pretty hard to make something original and custom...made my own trees and edited the landscape through tedious work. So I post it thinking it'll get some recognition. At the end of the day no one voted on it or commented on it. At first it caused confusion and I was vocal about it but than I learned to accept the outcome for what it was and congratulated my competitors. Now I remember entering another Mapping Contest a few years back in Gaming World where the outcome was totally different. I think only one other person came even close to what I created and I won by a landslide (I remember people comparing my rpgmaker map to that of playstation games). So you see at the end of it all people's opinions are just that, don't let it affect you in a negative way. If you love making games than keep making them regardless of what happens. Really the only person who has any control over your efforts and the quality that you achieve is yourself. People will help you and hurt you along the way, just like in any aspect in your life you can't let that stop you and on the same note you can't let positive comments make you feel over confident because you can always improve.

Anyways that's how I see not only games but life in general. You can rot away being miserable by what someone else has to say or you can be happy with yourself and still work to improve yourself to be the best you can be. That's all anyone can ask of you anyways.

-Lotus