STORMCROW'S PROFILE

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I'd put it on hiatus instead, Marrend. Nothing lasts forever, not even busy-ness & depression (I also struggle w/ depression as I've probably mentioned at least a couple times).

Anyway, I was thinking about this (open question to everyone):

A) How do you resist the junk-food like chocolate high of starting a new game in favor of the diligence-and-consistency needed to "eat your broccoli" and actually follow-through to finish a game you started and haven't worked on or been enthused about in months? Or am I alone in finding starting new projects a party and following through on established projects a drag?
B) How do you stay in the editor and off the website(s) long enough to get shit done? Especially because at least once an hour when actually devving, you run into something (a resource, a script, a focus-group opinion, w/e) that sends you back to the site(s)?

I voted for rain based mostly on pragmatism (some of the weather effects indicated seem like they'd be really tricky to pull off or work with, esp. the wildfire and tornado options) but also because I've always enjoyed the mood/atmosphere of having varying levels of rain in my games. I just noticed the "flooding" angle after I voted and while that could be challenging too I also see how it could be really cool. IRL at least drowning is horrifying.

You know what would be awesome? Setting the game on board an actively sinking ship complete with actively panicking crew (inexplicably disappearing and reappearing a la Silent Hill). The derelict ship segment at the end of the newest Resident Evil game was awesome too but that ship was already run aground and all fucked up.

I was going to make a joke about the David Cage/Quantic Dream game "Heavy Rain" (probably the best or at least least bad thing that those guys made) but...I couldn't think of one.

The radiation angle is also really interesting...I would like to see it COMBINED with the supernatural (in a different way than Metro 2033; there's this completely throwaway line in Metro that the nuclear apocalypse blew up the world SO HARD that it blew up heaven and hell too and so ghosts and demons and angels and whatnot are wandering the ruined world; in spite of how incredibly intriguing this premise is, Metro never meaningfully revisits it in either game) rather than replacing the supernatural with mutants and whatnot. This is also kind of one of my fan theories about Twin Peaks: The Return is that the tests at Los Alamos sort of punched a hole in the dimensional fabric, allowing the to come through into our reality. (Although trying to make sense of Twin Peaks is kind of like when you were a kid and you'd spin yourself around really fast in a circle to make yourself dizzy for fun.)

I am on the fence about participating in this. I love Silent Hill with all my black little heart, but "make a Silent Hill inspired game" is a box I've already thoroughly checked in my career as an indie dev, a long, long time ago.

Theme Roulette got my event game front-paged for a few golden moments which was pretty cool; through Swap In The Middle With Too I made my best bud on the site and also some fictional characters I'm borderline obsessed with revisiting.

Tough to call. Also I feel like there's a by-law somewhere that says the Alpacalypse must win by default?

Personal achievement? Uh, I started making RPG Maker games again? Not sure if that's an achievement or backsliding for me lol.

coelocanth in case you didn't already see this thought in my status, I was utterly delighted by Phantom Queen it's the best gift I've gotten from anyone in ages and I'm super touched it came from RMN.

I apologize to everyone for my own abject failure as a Santa, I'm glad libby's elves were able to pick up my slack. I had a very rough winter holiday break.