SAILERIUS'S PROFILE

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A few other thoughts:

1) Basically, if you try to do this all yourself, it's never going to get done. The idea of a community project is that everyone contributes to bring together the final project. Think of some way to break up the work.

2) You'll also want a style guideline for graphics. The game will look like crap if all the characters are different styles, proportions, et cetera.

3) ABS systems are kind of hard to pull off. This is just my personal opinion, but unless you've got experience with making one before, maybe try sticking to something simpler.

Thank you I will put up some graphical guidelines in the main post.

I would actually suggest posting a template and having submitters make a version of their character using that template.

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This is an idea that has been in my head for a while now.
RMN Dissidia, 15 RMN villains vs. 15 RMN heroes. It's going to have an ABS so it will be like Dissidia in a way. Story mode is going to be exactly like Dissidia where you pick a character and go through their story and so and so forth. I will also make it so that you can go online and battle against other people. Anyways it's just an idea for a community project. If you want to participate in it just tell me your character's name, give me a graphic (don't worry. I won't steal it and I will give credit to you) and face graphic. Okay that is all. Chao! <_>

Current Characters

It has the potential to be a good idea but I think you're being a little bit too ambitious here. Do you have any experience with networking or developing online games?

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The early Final Fantasy games, I'll say up to part VII stood the test of time, even though VII looks terrible today, it's story and characters are still one of the best IMO.

Chrono Trigger, great somewhat cheesy plot, addictive game play mechanics and graphics the best for their time and even still good today.

A lot of other classics like the Mario games, the old Sonic Games.. I felt Shadowrun for the SNES was wonderful and so was Lufia II.

How does Chrono Trigger have addictive gameplay mechanics? It's exactly the same as every other ATB game out there. It wasn't until I was 18 that I actually played Chrono Trigger and I was stunned by how primitive, boring, and uninnovative it was. There is no reason to play that game in the modern day aside from the nostalgia factor. Everything it has done has been done by another game since, and better. That aside, Chrono Cross had a far more innovative and engaging set of gameplay mechanics.

Also, in before "it's different from Trigger thus it sucks"

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Yeah, I get the idea that you're trying to get home. That's obvious. It just wasn't... made interesting enough. I don't care about Auria enough. (No, adding melodramatic monologues about her waaah waaah past won't help.)

Here are some suggestions:
-Really play up the Virad. Have lots more people (new people) in town talk about them, have more clues about their presence available, etc. That way people will actually want to go around and figure out what exactly is going on! People will want to know how the intro connects to Random Apathetic Girl. Use this to -
-Lead people to NPCs that help identify the time period, government, technology, etc. of the world. I complained a lot in videos that I had no idea what to expect or know about the setting, meaning that I couldn't grow attached to it. If I'm not attached to a place, I don't care when it's removed.
-Spend waaay more time getting to know Seri/dudeIdon'tremember. Maybe have you watch them collect you in the forest, showing their interactions and developing their personalities. The scene could only be thirty seconds to a minute long and it would really, really help.
-Make Auria less boring. Right now she's an apathetic teenager. Yeah, I'm sure you have Big Development planned for her, but that doesn't mean she can't have a personality. Look at all of the interactions with NPCs again. Do you really want to play as a girl who has conversations like "I have flowers here. "Okay."

Basically, make your NPCs not suck and liven up Auria. Show the player brief snippets of Seri/Dude (which will also make the transition to the "real" game smoother).

You also have a lot of wasted potential. When Seri become my "translator," I thought she would actually pipe up and interact with villages with Auria. Nope. Look through the game for spots like that where you can apply a layer of polish and pizazz. It's the little things!

EDIT: Have you played Hero's Realm If not, you should because it's hella fun. If so, do you remember the intro to chapter 4? I care more about that random village getting burned than Auria's plight because I already became invested in it. The three-minute (max) scene with a little girl running around saying "hello" to everybody was more powerful than forty minutes of fetch quests.

-I see your point about the Virad. There was one minor thing you missed in East Naven; if you explore the town at night before going to the train station, the mask in the park will be gone and you'll see a Virad in the park briefly. I'll work them into more dialogues.
-Fair point about the NPCs and setting. I kind of left it to the library for that, but there are some NPCs who could use more interesting dialogue.
-Actually, that scene you just described with Seri/Zaqris was in the original version, but a lot of people suggested removing it. That kind of leads me to my big conundrum with Act I; I really wish I could find some way to streamline it better since the game's pacing, story, and characters improve so much once you get past Alibaas. I really dislike this part of the game (and it probably shows) and have been frustrated for a long time by trying to come up with a way to either shorten it or make it more interesting.

EDIT: One thing that it seems you didn't pick up on is that you're fully healed when you go to a save point. It seemed you were struggling to get through Danjen Pass because you couldn't heal, but there's a save point right by where you started. Battles do improve significantly once you level up, which is when you start being able to customize Auria. Also, you seemed confused that Zaqris had no healing abilities. When you first get him, it says that he develops healing abilities, not that he has them.

EDIT2: I also wanted to thank you for taking the time to play, critique, and offer suggestions. I really want to improve the game and getting this kind of detailed critique is very helpful.

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http://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/6925/?p=1#postsDid more Let's Trying. I'm, to be honest, not very impressed.

Thanks for all the suggestions, especially about the mapping. I guess when I've been looking at the same maps for 2-3 years, it gets hard to look at them with a fresh perspective. I also understand that the beginning needs to be compressed more (though, to be fair, you can complete East Naven in 5 minutes if you don't do any of the optional content). You're about to start the part of the game that's seen the most heavy revisions in the new version. It's a lot more streamlined from here on out.

I'm not sure what to do with East Naven. I originally planned to axe all of the shopping quests, but several people said they'd rather they be made optional rather than removed altogether.

EDIT: Most of the problems with line spacing and weird line returns is because there are invisible message codes that sometimes take up a lot of space. I'll do what I can to make them more aesthetically pleasing, though.