LOUISCYPHRE'S PROFILE

zenyatta is cool; play him more. espcially when there's a camping bastion

Vertical stacking seems simple to navigate with Q-W-E, A-S-D as directionals. Horizontal stacking is more aesthetically pleasing, but harder to map to a keyboard.

You may also want to consider mouse controls as a cop-out option.

author=Liberty
because10 had such a dark and edgy (lol) story

FFX had a killer setting. I'll fight you over this.

the only reason X gets a bad rep is because people can't deal with the idea of a 17-year-old sports superstar going into a strange world where he has to fight for his life every day and then ACTUALLY ACTING LIKE a 17-year-old sports superstar going into a strange world where he has to fight for his life every day.

author=Liberty
they didn't like the fact that you were a girl doing feminine things in order to kick ass and save the world again (and heal it).

ding ding ding

most tweenage gamers aren't good people yet

This is pretty much in concert with the rest of the thread, but I'm of the opinion that towns exist first and foremost to serve up NPCs for the player to interact with. If your innkeep has something to say about each plot event, and your market is full of interesting merchants conspiring against one another, and the guards have worthwhile observations that they've dreampt up from their long, peaceful shifts, then you've already won half the battle. I think it's best to plan out what interactions you want in your town, and THEN go about planning your layout, so as to best guide your player passed each one. Perhaps tuck a few in harder-to-reach places, for the explorers to enjoy.

Further, I-

author=Corfaisus

...Hold on, what?

Things in your game you didn't make:

• The engine.
• The tiles.
• The music.
• Hell, we'll be succinct. Not a single resource used by the game.

You chose to forego the process of spriting hundreds of tiles. You decided against composing a list of MIDIs. Your battle mechanics are decided for you thirteen years in advance. You've made these decisions to skip the parts of game development where you are unskilled, so you can focus your efforts elsewhere.

The whole point of these pre-made, free-to-use assets is to lighten the workload of the solo developer. The whole point of this thread is to swap ideas on how to streamline your workflow to be more efficient. To increase the amount of quality and quantity you get from each hour at your desk. This has somehow escaped you, because you're too wildly eager to jump down people's throats for a chance to put yourself above them in some imaginary pecking order.

author=Corfaisus
Or you could, I dunno, try and improve your craft.

Your argument is that you shouldn't improve your efficiency; you should sit at the grindstone and mindlessly piece together towns the way Nessy would paint her portraits, or the way I would optimize my code. You're advocating the exact opposite of this quote. Premade resources are what allow us to each ply our crafts.

I hope you can go back to the opening post and re-read it without the puke-tinted shades. Craze's premise is right in the center of his post, in big bold letters. "So, how do you get the best ratio of effort to player experience out of your towns?" Address his post, not your own dramaticized, invented version of it, and do so with a thoughtful response that shows you care about the quality and timeliness of your game.

Or, preferably, do not post at all.

Still top ten posters?

buy why