MELKINO'S PROFILE

These were a couple of character sketches around...'05 or '06-ish? I scanned them recently while decluttering and destroying the old originals. For some reason I had all these emotion portraits and bios planned out for something, but had never heard of RPG Maker or software like it at the time, haha

Some redraws and random doodles around 2009


My oldest locker file (2011) is a logo for a project whose gamepage had been hidden for years now because there were very few futuristic assets for regular VX back then.


Probably the oldest internet thing I have period is a neopets account from 2002 which somehow still existed, and I was able to get back in! The place is pretty sad nowadays, though. :/ It's like the dead mall of browser games.

favorite:
- Making the UI less obviously stock RPG Maker as possible, like rearranging the entire layout, custom pause & battle menus, and changing fonts
- Breaking down big tasks into smaller to-dos, then knocking them out in rapid succession to feel productive

least favorite:
- Replacing or renaming an asset (like a BGM), and having to manually find and change every occurrence of the old filename so that the game doesn't return an error message or straight up crash
- Tileset mapping; the idea of setting all those passabilities for every entry makes me freeze up, and parallaxes seemed easier for me to make

Prebuilt HP Envy 700-210 with 8GB RAM and an AMD A10-6700 (3.7-4.3 Ghz) CPU. I added a R7 360 graphics card a couple of years ago to catch up on so many old games for cheap, but I don't know if RM games use the gpu at all. I can get close to the full 60FPS while playtesting, though!

I've only played Lightning Returns because it was cheap on sale and supposedly the PC ports of the other two were pretty janky. And it was the only FF game on steam I was remotely interested in trying out anyway...
Although its story was kinda nonsense, I had fun with the timing combat (after setting the camera to zoomed out because the default was too close) and recoloring the different outfits

There are no new ideas, everything's been done, but you could execute your ideas in a different way.

Like, I never knew that my game shared a number of plot beats, character arcs, and even names from Dragon Age 2 until I played that for the first time last year. Seeing all the similarities in one game was demotivating as hell at first, but in the end it did give me some ideas on how to differentiate my game's mage oppression plot from DA2's. (well, in a 'what not to do' kind of way)