RADNEN'S PROFILE

I like the SoM style or Zelda style of ARPG. I like swinging a sword around and cutting things like grass and hurting enemies. Its fun, it's combat on the main map.

What I think is fun and what I'm trying to focus on in my game is the environment. Fire propagation, and other environmental things can be cool additions that help you use your skills in a creative way.

I like to think of weakness as a strength. As in, you play a character who has no super powers, who has little in the way of strong skills, but has a creative mind and a knack for using the environment to his advantage. Its things like this that adds more immersion, and makes it fun for me.

I didn't quite answer the question. It may seem I'm doing very well, as because I'm not using RPG maker. I've been using Sphere, but that's still not going to make it easy. I use Sphere because I can script the system to my liking. I think you could do this in VX or XP given if you know Ruby.

It doesn't matter which way you slice this pie, ARPG's are the hardest to do, but are easier in a more malleable game maker. Plus, you'll need a good grasp on technical game design skills. ARPG's are designed top-down, while most other RPG's are designed bottom-up, for example.

post=Darken
lol everyone will vote for kentona's baby in a photo contest but then the wellbeing of horses go into ethical questioning

Same reason why a skate park won over this. :P

Sorry I couldn't get to vote. Horses are awesome, but I've never been around them long enough to care.

I'm going to give the player an ethical choice if whether or not to destroy all of life including yourself or save everybody because some very superior and intelligent entity who seeded all of the worlds asked you to. (He'll either destroy everybody and start from scratch or keep everything as is). As you play the game you see the shittiest shit mankind (or other kind) offers, yet also the joys and wonders. Then you as the player gets to balance this fact. You may question your own moral compass, because it ain't going to be easy. This in place of a (final) boss battle, but there may be a couple semi-bosses before this - a kind of "trial" the player goes through to be "awakened" by a "sea spirit". The setting is deep under the ocean of some planet, where tidal forces fuel the entities life (it has practically connected itself and rooted itself into the planet).

re: enemy,

Why not: "The enemies are defeated!" "enemies" is the plural form of enemy. While "the enemy" may refer to a group, the point to be made here is what use of this word as a plural seems less contested (and if so, use it).

While you can regard a group of people as the enemy: "Let's attack the enemy!", when they die, and they don't die at once (as a collective in which they were formerly regarded as) we should use the plural "enemies", as because "enemy" will no longer pertain to a collective, but as an individual instead. If you do happen to kill them all at once, then you can say "The enemy has been defeated!". Notice of the use "has been", "defeated" is an adjective in the past-tense, and is therefore modifying the object who changed state of "being". Also notice past tense doesn't tell you if whether or not you did kill them all at once, this is because the moment the past tense was narrated, every enemy was presently deceased. You do not say "The enemy are defeated" regardless of what some dictionary tells you, because it violates the English rule (born into english speakers, but not quite fully understood by foreigners):

"You shall not use "are" with the collective-singular-noun such as "enemy", followed by an adjective or verb, use "enemies" instead."

These rules are hard to sometimes understand, English speakers live by them everyday. This is one of the many reasons why English is such an awkward language and is notorious for some weird <--- like this word, exceptions to certain rules and other weird <--- like this word, rules.

I've been working on a kind of mouse based equipment system:
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I wanted everything keyboard based, but it was taking too long. The mouse was easier to use. My next task is to have a stat comparison on the bottom right. Like green arrows indicating a stat increase and red arrows indicating a stat decrease.