STARSKIPP'S PROFILE

After a heavy night of debating between Calunio, Max McGee, and I, we've at long last have the results for you. It was a tough decision because all the games were pretty radical to play through and if we had it our way you'll all be winners! In the following weeks me and Max will be writing up articles as a follow up on our reasons. So to keep it brief here are the results.

First place I'm Scared of Girls

Second place Zephyr Skies: The Winter Sage

Third place Novella

Runner up Aetherion

There comes a time when real life rears it's ugly head and you have to make a decision. Due to a event in my life at the moment, I'll have to retire from the rm scene for the unforeseeable future. My projects won't be canceled but they'll be put on hiatus untill futher notice, this will take effect after judging the summer games contest. After that I'll be gone =/

The last two years on this site has been pretty awesome I must say. The community is in my opinion one of the best out there and I really am going to miss you guys :(

Hopefully in the next few months (possibly years!?) I'll be able to return and see how you lot are faring.

Who knows, Adon237 might be charge of the submission queue by then...
You guys would be fucked! :O

So what is everyone's take on the concept of timetravel as a plot device and gameplay gimmick?
Even though it has been copyied and abused left right and center, It still is a brillent concept all the same. This does bring up it's own set of problems which proberly deals with the idea of continuity and the worst case screniro consisting of idotic plot holes and utter confusion! So what would be the best way to implement this into story and gameplay whilst not completly turning it into a incoherent mess. The best example that I could think of is chrono trigger a game that was way ahead of it's time.
What problems would this bring up in game design?

Basically one of my characters is on top of a moving truck which is being pursued by monsters, and I was wondering if there was a script out there to make the panorama's move. I gave dubealex Parallax Background script a shot but during test play the game would keep freezing. So I'm just asking if there is any alternative scripts or even better would it be possible doing it through clever eventing?