NEOPHYTE'S PROFILE

First game? Yeah hold on.





The game was called Frontier, and the main character was me. My allies were my brothers, and together we set off on some journey. The game starts off in an RTP forest that was on tile wide, where we fought a slime. Then we returned to town and talked to the elder about something, and left on a journey. The game was originally on RPG Maker for the SNES, but I moved it over. I actually think the one on the SNES version was better.

The project I'm working on now is only my second project. =/

Ah, a Grandia style battle system?

I have a very strong dislike of that text. Everytime I see it in a game, it just hurts my eyes, I don't even know why people use that small text. I also agree with Skie on the other issues.

Let's see these battle systems in action people!

Time for my mini reviews. I'll be judging each category(atmosphere, playability, etc) on a scale of 1-5.


Craze
Man dude, the voice acting freaked me out. It was really cool though, but I couldn't figure it out. Map design wise, there wasn't much to look at. This definitely scores points for being original though.

Ambience and atmosphere - 3
Playability & coherence - 4
Aesthetic appearance - 2
Function and navigability - 2
Use of sound design - 4
Originality/Uniqueness - 5
Miscellaneous elements - 2

Overall: 22/35

Chartley
I really liked this one. You didn't clutter the map with unnecessary things, but still managed to pull of a great atmosphere with the overlay. I had no issues with movement, and the map was easy to traverse. The small mini game at the end also added a lot, since there were multiple endings. Overall, this is probably my favorite.

Ambience and atmosphere - 5
Playability & coherence - 4
Aesthetic appearance - 4
Function and navigability - 4
Use of sound design - 3
Originality/Uniqueness - 4
Miscellaneous elements - 4

Overall: 28/35

Iamnot
In terms of actual map design, this is one of the best. There's too many things wrong with this map, though. First off, is the navigability. You've created a map that looks really great, but half of it wasn't explorable because of the limitations you put on it. The waterfalls were missing the character set that is supposed to be associated with them, and there were no sound effects present(at LEAST a waterfall sound effect would have been nice). You should have made the character set a bird so you could travel across the whole map. =P

Ambience and atmosphere - 4
Playability & coherence - 2
Aesthetic appearance - 5
Function and navigability - 2
Use of sound design - 2
Originality/Uniqueness - 4
Miscellaneous elements - 2

Overall: 21/35

Little Wing Guy
First off, I didn't like how slow the player walked. I realize it was for the sake of the mini game, but it still really annoyed me. The humor was great though. As for the map design, it wasn't that bad or that spectacular. Like Chartley said, it was hard to tell where I could walk and where I couldn't. You used sound effects pretty well, and the overall atmosphere was solid.

Ambience and atmosphere - 4
Playability & coherence - 4
Aesthetic appearance - 3
Function and navigability - 2
Use of sound design - 3
Originality/Uniqueness - 4
Miscellaneous elements - 3

Overall: 23/35

Myersguy
Yours is still downloading. =(

Blindmind
Well now, this was interesting. The map was extremely well done, and I personally couldn't find any issues other than the bird that didn't move. I did however, have an issue with how it functioned. I was able to walk through the upper layer cliff tiles and trees. This could have easily been fixed by using the directional pass function in the database. That was really the main problem with the map. Regardless, it was very solid, and I enjoyed it a lot.

Ambience and atmosphere - 5
Playability & coherence - 3
Aesthetic appearance - 5
Function and navigability - 3
Use of sound design - 4
Originality/Uniqueness - 3
Miscellaneous elements - 3

Overall: 26/35

Tau
Another solid map. This however, also had navigation issues which could have been fixed by using passability and the directional pass function in the database. I was able to walk over the upper layer cliffs, as well as the side cliffs. Also, I think the map would have been more pleasing to look at if you didn't stick to one color. I personally would have made the bushes and trees a magenta/pink color to match with that little flower in the screenshot. The overall atmosphere was decent, but could have been slightly better with the use of sound effects. Good work with those cliffs though!

Ambience and atmosphere - 4
Playability & coherence - 3
Aesthetic appearance - 4
Function and navigability - 2
Use of sound design - 2
Originality/Uniqueness - 3
Miscellaneous elements - 2

Overall: 20/35

Sion
Just like iamnot's, this map would have been better if you were a bird and could travel over all the trees. Right off the bat, I noticed the square water tiles at the top of the map. Some of your cliff usage could have been better, I saw some of the cliffs extending far too long, and they looked unnatural. Aside from all of that, it was an okay map. You had a good atmosphere, and the rain sound effect was alright. There just wasn't much to look at, though. Too much was covered by leaves that it was hard to judge anything. It felt like I was trying to find the character set half the time.

Ambience and atmosphere - 3
Playability & coherence - 2
Aesthetic appearance - 3
Function and navigability - 2
Use of sound design - 3
Originality/Uniqueness - 3
Miscellaneous elements - 3

Overall: 19/35

So...let me see here. Chartley and Little Wing Guy get the nomination for me. Blindmind would have gotten it, but he's not allowed. =P

No, there's no link, just a preview. I'm waiting for Blindmind.

Excellent indeed....

I HOPE YOU'RE READY!

Little Wing Guy, I'm getting an error when I go through a certain part of the map. It's saying that rnh27 cannot be opened. You might want to fix that!

And I'm already finished, but I'm going to sit here and wait until Saturday. There are some impressive entries so far! We shall see though....
*pokes Blind*