WEASLEX'S PROFILE

author=Xenomic
I think the thing that kept me going is that A) I just don't like leaving things unfinished, and B) The story I had I wanted to tell using gameplay. Sure, I could've just wrote a story or did a visual novel instead of a RPG or video game in general, but it was a story that I wanted to share with everyone, with at least some fun and/or interesting gameplay mixed in. I have fun every now and then, but then there's also a lot of times I DON'T have fun but still do it anyways.

Yeah, it kinda happens, like I said, I was out of it for 10 years. I'm kicking myself for that. Especially now that I'm making something so ambitious and am having a ton of fun just... MAPPING, of all things. I've been with RM2K3 forever, so switching to a better engine really opened my eyes. (though apparently I don't know how to code, so... maybe I may try to learn some of that too while I'm at it. =3 ) It's something new, so for me, it's exciting.

author=Deacon Batista

Lot's of detail, you can really tell your in a thick forest. I also like the bar on top. So I'll say this is probably a custom battle system of some type, and it meshes well with the overall background. I can tell that a lot of time was spent with this, and it does look sweet. But... and don't think this is a bad thing. However, there are is something I notice a lot about RPG Maker Projects that follow this same trope.

Everyone uses or has used stock assets from RPG Maker at least once or twice, and it kinda makes a lot of projects just look the same. I would suggest, maybe try branching out a bit with other assets that don't come packaged from the game maker. Though, just take what I say with a GRAIN OF SALT, you do you, I think what you've done overall looks sweet. =3

author=Xenomic
So, getting very, very near the end of this game. And the closer I get to finishing it, the more depressed I am about it. Is this normal at all? It's not about the game being done, mind you. It's more about how I should've just made my own, original game instead of a Touhou fangame that borrows elements from the Final Fantasy series. About how the past 10, nearly 11 years here in a month, have all been based around this game that I can never sell nor really do anything with. I mean...I learned a bit here and there about game designing and whatnot, but...in the end, I don't know guys. I just...don't know...

I got one skillset left to add into the game for Hope, and that's it for skills other than updating Koishi's Blue Magic. All enemies and bosses are done and set to be tested, and only the final dungeon remains to be mapped with the events in there being put in, and that's it. But...I still feel there's a lot more I could do with the game, but I just don't have the drive to do THAT anymore either. All the ideas for sidequests and optional stuff, I don't know if I'll ever get to.

The worst part is, once I finish this game and release it, I don't know if I'll ever work on another game after this, as much as I'd LIKE to do my own game, simply because of how much time it takes, and the lack of resources that aren't used from other games and whatnot. T-T

The big question, DID YOU HAVE FUN BUILDING IT? Because, I doubt you spent all this time on a project and didn't have any fun with it. This is the thing with me, when I started with my old old, really old project, it was about having fun, it was never about finishing, or selling it. It was all about, if I had fun, then that's what mattered. (Granted it was more or less my own project and not a fan project, but still)

I learned how to script with that game, I learned how to use RPG Maker 2003 do things it wasn't meant to do. To me, that was the fun, to me problem solving issues that took me day's to resolve was fun. When I stopped having fun, I stopped working on it, I moved on I guess. Didn't pick up another RPG Maker project for years after. (10 to be exact) I wasn't so much burnt out, as much as I wondered if I wasted all this time. But I came back, (quite recently actually) and jumped on my... now currently engaged in project, with a newer engine (RMXP, I know, it's old as dirt now, BUT OMG, I've found my fun again! XD) and as long as I keep having fun, I'm going to keep working on it.

I'm not saying that's your driving force, but it is for me, I think it's a major factor in why anyone makes an RPG Maker Game. My objective isn't to sell a game, or make the next big thing in gaming, it's simply to have fun. If fun wasn't your main driving force, than what was it? It's really that simple, if you spent all this time dedicating yourself to a project, then there had to be a reason. Final thought, don't give up, but start something you've never done before, something so crazy, so wacky, that you find that magic spark again. I don't think I'll ever forgive myself for waiting this long to get back into the groove.

btw... sorry for the wall of text, I've kinda just been there already, so I figured I'd pass on my two cents. =3

Been gone for too long, I started a new project, still don't have a name for it. It's a Pokemon Fan project though, I'm currently mapping the Kanto Region and may map out the Johto Region after that. Here's some screens, keep in mind, I'm a shite pixel artist, I mostly do recolors or modifies of sprites I see (Original Spriter Credit: Zao, Morlockhater, WesleyFG, and Toribird.

Mostly I'm showcasing my mapping, which... I think I'm rather good at.

Pallet/remapped by me originally mapped by morlockhater

https://imgur.com/V6VtXQL

Pewter City

https://imgur.com/IuKWx4Z

https://imgur.com/q8NiKwe

https://imgur.com/Ac6JZ5N

Route 2 and Viridian Forest

https://imgur.com/rpx0JYO

Viridian City

https://imgur.com/MWrXy0d

Route 1

https://imgur.com/Cjhnk92

https://imgur.com/91Ajgog

KEEP IN MIND! I've been going back to these and adding more detail. This is pre pre beta when I started back in December. (especially Route 1)

Route 3

https://imgur.com/oNWYTaP

Route 4

https://imgur.com/jCTJdrc

OH! And I'm using RMXP with PokeEssentials! I've been having a TON of fun with this project.

Anyone have a Download for this game still, I'd love to play it.