THEDIGITALMONK'S PROFILE

I have a fairy in a cage next to my computer. I feed it peanuts and Diet Dr Pepper. When I want ideas, I beat it with a wooden paddle.


I pretty much only do music for games now. I have good ideas for story or gameplay every now and then, but I'm not good enough to make it happen. If you see me as the developer of a group game, you can rest assured that I'm doing the music and really just acting as a sounding board for the other developers.

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How do I get my games to look Pwn-Sauce McGee?

So here's my dilema.... I have some really good ideas for story and such cooking up in this brain of mine, and I have no worries that I can write, tell, and design a cool game. The only problem is that I have absolutely no idea how to get my games looking as awesome as this...

Pwn-sauce McGee aesthetics: http://rpgmaker.net/games/902/images/

Since I've been gone from the RPGMaking world for so long, the standard for a game's aesthetic appeal has simply skyrocketed, and not to be emo or anything, I'm feeling a little lost. I know that a lot of picture files are involved, but I have no idea how to make them. I have photoshop though and have a basic understanding of how it works (I'm "good" at photoshop in real life and "bad" at it in internet world if that gives you an idea of my level). Also, about how much of the above game's chipsets and charsets are custom made? And if they are not custom made, how do you get a unified look from map to map? And if they are not custom, is there a super-secret resource pool that has pretty graphics to chose from? I know I shouldn't do this, but I'm tempted to just go download good looking games and stealing their chipsets/charsets.

Halloween Short Game Contest

I would be up for a Christmas game. It'd be a nice change of pace.

Halloween Contest Voting!

EDIT: Post deleted. I had a temporary link up until the site's download was approved.

Halloween Short Game Contest

I'M DONE!!

And I can honestly say that I have made the greatest RPG ever made in two days! I'm reaaally noob to the site right now so I'll post screenshots and everything tomorrow, but for now, I'm just going to try to find a way to upload this game.

EDIT: Just submitted mine. Its status is "pending" so either I messed up or it has to be approved by a mod or something. I'll post a link when it's up, but it's called "Hallow's Eve"

Here are some screens.


Halloween Short Game Contest

Well, I'm about 75% done with my game (which I started about 24 hours ago... it's been an absolute marathon between classes and homework!) and I'm really really proud of it so far! It's going to be a great way for you guys to get to know me. I've been working my butt off on it, so you guys better play it! :P

Halloween Short Game Contest

Monk checking in here at 2:00 AM....

I'm on a ROLL!!

But I really need to stop for tonight because I have to wake up at 6:50 tomorrow for a totally worthless class... More to come!

Halloween Short Game Contest

Soooo... I kind of JUST got to this site and I really want to do this contest so you guys can see who I am! I'll be whipping together a short game as FAST as a possibly can because I only have a couple days until the deadline (haven't even started yet) but even though I'm sure I won't win, I can't wait to show you guys some of my personality as a game maker!

2 sleepless nights, here I come!

Is this possible?!

I... don't believe it... there's still an RPGMaking community still on the internet! I'm so happy!!

SO, about me real quick. I used to RPGMake like a madman about 6 years ago, but after this and that, time went on and the RPGMaker community seemed to dry up. I hung out around RPGLand.net if any of you remember that place, and I got my game released, "Birds of Freedom" which has good and bad about it. It's not particularly innovative but it's actually pretty fun to play. I'm my toughest critic though, so I could make pages of criticisms of my own work, but there's no need for that.

Long story short, after RMXP came out, I sort of drifted from the community since I really hated the new versions past RM2K and RM2K3. I've been looking around for a new place to hang out though that uses rm2k and I was told to come here!

So that's me. My current project is to add a zelda-style action battle system (which I have made an uncountable number of in my years) to one of my favorite RPGs of all time, Dark Skies: http://rpgland.net/Ds.html
I'm also hoping to continue the story past where the (very long) demo ends, as well as clean up some of the maps and grammar.