MELKINO'S PROFILE

Melkino
solos collectors on purpose
2021
Exploitation is not flattery or praise

(Steam)
Catharsis
Intertwining storylines in a land of steam and broken dreams

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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

This game is so much fun~ I like the variety of dialogue options and the relaxing music. My character is a human female with mostly tech skills, because I dislike casting magic in action RPGs. The game's combat could be better. In realtime mode, my party members tend to run around and die while I'm struggling to get the heal cursor on them, but it's not a really big complaint.

I've found some awkward similarities with my own gam while playing this. D:
- MP is called Fatigue, check
- Your character(s) are screwed if they run out of Fatigue, check
- Craft mechanical items/equipment with schematics and junk, check

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They get bigger--and freakier.

(unfortunately, front view battlers tend to be pretty huge compared to the party sprites, but they get the job done at least.)

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Thanks :)
That guy is Kaden; I decided to get rid of the names in the hud because it seemed like clutter to me.

Favourite puzzles in video games?

- The zodiac tile puzzle in Shadow Hearts: Covenant. This was a nice and simple one where you place tiles of the western zodiac signs on doors according to the door's description.
- Some adjust-the-beams-of-light puzzle in Tales of Symphonia. The Temple of Light, I think? It's been years since I played that game, but I remember that puzzle being pretty fun even though the dungeon was just variations of that one puzzle.
- These kinds of puzzles are my overall favorite

Engine Switch

Welp, good luck with VX's gimpy mapping limitations

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*turns up screen brightness*
Ah, I see it now. Her old 96x96 faceset had brighter pink hair than the body base. It's easy to fix; I just need to erase the old hair in each layer of the psd. Thanks for your comments :)

Catharsis

frankenportraits are fun!

Catharsis

It will! I'm planning on at least 3 so far.
Maybe more, if I feel inspired and don't burn myself out in the future

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Thanks, man. :)

Everyone with large portraits has that gear behind them, mostly for decoration. (Or unintentional symbolism--the characters are the gears that get the plot machine moving, maybe)

The tedious part is going back through every single line of dialogue, erasing all the old small faces, and putting these in, haha

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That sounds quite badass and I want to plop it in a line of dialogue!

And somehow this game jumped up to the Buzzing portion of the frontpage already? Huh...
/has no idea how the algorithm works