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Ratty524
The 524 is for 524 Stone Crabs
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I'm an artist and animator who loves making games in my currently vast amounts of spare time.

I also enjoy messing with people. :P

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Oblivion Quest
A FF-styled JRPG with a Classic Twist!

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Visual Character Design

author=Dudesoft
Awesome article, Sooz.
Makes me think about something I've been lacking a lot in my design process; Inspiration collection... I usually skip the process of looking at other people's stuff/photos, unless it's a previously existing character.
I'm going to give this a whirl on my next project.

Definitely collect reference images. I tend to do it a lot because of how little I know about things, but doing the research is easy.

Visual Character Design

Yay it's an article now!

Thanks Sooz! You've inspired me to not give up on this whole thing called "art" yet! :D

Inspiration vs. Ripoff

Great article. I think it nails the differences perfectly.

As a matter of fact, nothing is truly "original" in the sense that creators are constantly drawing inspirations from other games and other mediums to put their own spin on things, and that's not a bad thing at all; it helps you learn what works and what doesn't.

In that regard, I don't think it's a bad thing to develop fan games, so long as you do it right. That is, you deconstruct what the original material did and why the designers made those choices to apply it to your game.

It can be a good learning experience for developers, not to mention there are many who began making fan games before venturing off to original work. The creator of Terraria also created the SMBX engine and made Mario levels, and before Toby Fox made it big with Undertale, he was a regular on an Earthbound rom-hacking forum.

RMN JANUARY 2016 PODCAST

author=Toaster_Team
I'd be nice if we could have time stamps of the content so we can skip and go to the parts which interests us as opposed to having to listen through 2 hours of audio. Interesting stuff though!

And Liberty, I would've never guessed you're Australian, I can't pick your accent (except for your ''yeah''). As for Nessiah, I can't tell where this accent is from, Netherlands?

Lib's Australian and Nessy is Filipino I think.

RMN JANUARY 2016 PODCAST

Best moment:

A-"I've never played any of these games."

L-"So do it"

A-"But I don't wannaaaaa."

xD I love you two, you bring hilarity to my miserable life!

The Optimal RM2k/3 Number Guide

author=kentona
but that was what made this article charming

Please, Stop Writing Happy Endings

I thought the story of The Lion King reminded me of Kimba the White Lion

Wait a minute...

Please, Stop Writing Happy Endings

author=Liberty
Yeah, there are some great games out there that follow ordinary life scenarios and work out well. There was this one social interaction one that was a hoot. Basically you just controlled your eyes to interact with others. Interesting, if a little simple, but funny nontheless.

You mean Social Interaction Trainer? Yes, that was fantastic.

Please, Stop Writing Happy Endings

author=CashmereCat
I am legit thinking about making all of these scenarios into games, you don't know how serious I am

Games about realistic scenarios have already been attempted by the way, and they work as horribly as you'd expect

Please, Stop Writing Happy Endings

author=CashmereCat
But Sooz don't you see, all stories need to be grimdark and have depressing tone and endings full of angst because REALITY.

All stories should involve a day working in retail.
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