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There are inns, but the one closest to the beginning is hidden in a grove of trees.
There are inns, but the one closest to the beginning is hidden in a grove of trees.
What are you working on now?
How do you tell if a game is bad?
Bad is a generalized question. So is good.
Maybe if the question were more specific, you'd get less of a variety.
Maybe if the question were more specific, you'd get less of a variety.
Revamped dialog that can choke a horse
Tales of Arcadia
Good dialog, and good maps with plenty of space to run around, not blank or anything. There are good details. You can run yourself into monsters to fight them. Its a nice start. :-)
"Customer is always right" - taking feedback
I've been at Subway where a kid was freaking out that he couldn't get a hotdog there. Sure the kid was 5, but there was a 25 year old mother saying surely one of you must have a hotdog in your lunches that I could buy from you to give to him.
The customer is always right.
The customer is always right.
How do you tell if a game is bad?
Revamped dialog that can choke a horse
Using my division idea:
This 1 person's dialog:
Over to the west about half a day's journey is a desolate place that I fear my son would be too stupid to know what's good for him and go there anyway. Its known as Wandscratch swamp. There's yucky purple water that bubbles and stinks. My mom told me stories of how she lost my older brother in that swamp. He was too stupid too. The men aren't the bright ones in my family. I am only telling you this so you can steer clear of it. As if the dead trees that surround it weren't enough warning, the place is crawling with wolves, orcs and dangerous plants. I'd say heed my warning.
Becomes 4 people's:
1. Over to the west about half a day's journey is a desolate place that I fear my son would be too stupid to know what's good for him and go there anyway.
2. The local swamp is known as Wandscratch.
3. My mom told me stories of how she lost my older brother in Wandscratch swamp. He was too stupid too. The men aren't the bright ones in my family. I am only telling you this so you can steer clear of it.
4. Wandscratch is crawling with wolves, orcs and dangerous plants. I'd say look at the dead trees that surround that place and know that only death lurks in that swamp.
This 1 person's dialog:
Over to the west about half a day's journey is a desolate place that I fear my son would be too stupid to know what's good for him and go there anyway. Its known as Wandscratch swamp. There's yucky purple water that bubbles and stinks. My mom told me stories of how she lost my older brother in that swamp. He was too stupid too. The men aren't the bright ones in my family. I am only telling you this so you can steer clear of it. As if the dead trees that surround it weren't enough warning, the place is crawling with wolves, orcs and dangerous plants. I'd say heed my warning.
Becomes 4 people's:
1. Over to the west about half a day's journey is a desolate place that I fear my son would be too stupid to know what's good for him and go there anyway.
2. The local swamp is known as Wandscratch.
3. My mom told me stories of how she lost my older brother in Wandscratch swamp. He was too stupid too. The men aren't the bright ones in my family. I am only telling you this so you can steer clear of it.
4. Wandscratch is crawling with wolves, orcs and dangerous plants. I'd say look at the dead trees that surround that place and know that only death lurks in that swamp.
Revamped dialog that can choke a horse
ok so how about this idea...
1. I cut out the blunt descriptions.
2. I now have a bunch of new NPCs with nothing to say. So I should divide the text. What would have been a paragraph for one person to say will now be said by 1 person and finished by another.
Better?
All the new NPCs match to the number of beds. I was quite surprised just how many people there are in a town.
1. I cut out the blunt descriptions.
2. I now have a bunch of new NPCs with nothing to say. So I should divide the text. What would have been a paragraph for one person to say will now be said by 1 person and finished by another.
Better?
All the new NPCs match to the number of beds. I was quite surprised just how many people there are in a town.
Revamped dialog that can choke a horse
Whew I've been looking for the I am a girl character.
So I used MS Word's auto summarizer to cut it down to 70%. Sure its slightly imperfect, but that can be fixed.
This:
Ah after a hard day of selling and dealing with people that want one hundred pieces of gold for a small blue potion, its good to just sit here and relax. I can't believe how much that woman wanted for that old broach she found in her dead mother's wardrobe. I bet she found it in her casket. I can only have one drink though... I need to go back to my shop and hide in the bushes, so I can figure out who has burglarized my shop. Twice now I've gone in the morning, unlocked the door and found things missing. Maybe I'll have another and then get going.
Becomes:
Ah after a hard day of selling and dealing with people that want one hundred pieces of gold for a small blue potion, its good to just sit here and relax. I need to go back to my shop and hide in the bushes, so I can figure out who has burglarized my shop.
This:
Orcs are hideous pig men that hunt and kill in swamps. I've seen a few of them in Wandscratch swamp. They can smell your blood and your scent is perfumed to them. They'll focus all attention from whatever wildlife they were about to slaughter and turn it toward you. They may hunt alone because they're anti social man beasts, but I have heard tales of warlords that amass orc armies to terrorize villages and nearby kingdoms.
Becomes:
Orcs are hideous pig men that hunt and kill in swamps. I've seen a few of them in Wandscratch swamp.
So I used MS Word's auto summarizer to cut it down to 70%. Sure its slightly imperfect, but that can be fixed.
This:
Ah after a hard day of selling and dealing with people that want one hundred pieces of gold for a small blue potion, its good to just sit here and relax. I can't believe how much that woman wanted for that old broach she found in her dead mother's wardrobe. I bet she found it in her casket. I can only have one drink though... I need to go back to my shop and hide in the bushes, so I can figure out who has burglarized my shop. Twice now I've gone in the morning, unlocked the door and found things missing. Maybe I'll have another and then get going.
Becomes:
Ah after a hard day of selling and dealing with people that want one hundred pieces of gold for a small blue potion, its good to just sit here and relax. I need to go back to my shop and hide in the bushes, so I can figure out who has burglarized my shop.
This:
Orcs are hideous pig men that hunt and kill in swamps. I've seen a few of them in Wandscratch swamp. They can smell your blood and your scent is perfumed to them. They'll focus all attention from whatever wildlife they were about to slaughter and turn it toward you. They may hunt alone because they're anti social man beasts, but I have heard tales of warlords that amass orc armies to terrorize villages and nearby kingdoms.
Becomes:
Orcs are hideous pig men that hunt and kill in swamps. I've seen a few of them in Wandscratch swamp.














