WOLFCODER'S PROFILE

Why do people bother trying to make an ABS in RPG Maker 2003 anyway? I've written Server/Client network applications that were much easier than a good RPG Maker 2003 ABS. Hell, that seven digit score display I wrote last summer was a bit of work compared to my point-of-action cube system I just got up and running in my latest engine (it's a cube aligned to a fixed grid that makes people solid and lets you examine/talk to events). I knew how to do it but it was sooooooo teeeeeeddddiiiiioooouuuuusssssss...

And you have to realize there's a limit to how good an ABS you can really make in RPG Maker 2003, sure there's ABSs on the NES that use only 8 sprites a scanline (compared to 50 total in RPGMaker2003) and the scripting language is close enough to Turing Completeness (but so is Brainfuck) to process something fun, but planning and doing it takes an insane amount of work- do you really want to spend a year or two to make a mediocre action game when you can learn Game Maker (or something else, anything else, it's actually kind of fun in RGSS) and actually make something to be proud of? Or at least write an equivalent ABS in half a month or so.

I mean, if you're so interested in taking programming in your own hands you might as well learn new things and gain skills.

I mean, there's being an amazing and resourceful programmer who "breaks through walls" and then there's just self-torture. It's easily arguable that the scripting language inside RPG Maker could suffice as another Turing Tarpit for video games- you'd do it because you like hurting yourself.

Hey I love that quote, how fitting "Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

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Alright everybody back on topic......I sense the troll spirit coming with a quickness.
But now at least you guys know my intentions.

You sure post a lot for someone who doesn't like being criticized both constructively and destructively, flamed, berated, or whatever you want to call it.

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...Like how a lot of indie devs who grew up in that era use the rough minimalist pixel art of early arcade stuff as a deliberate aesthetic and it seems like this could pass on to 3d as well.
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... And there's a(few) right and a(few) wrong way(s) to do this.

...The Real Texas is about exploring an environment so in that context the overall tone and look of the world in total, the sum and arrangement of objects and textures rather than the individual components, is more important than whether or not the objects stand on their own...

I like knowing where I'm walking in adventure games.

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oh hell yes a claymation adventure game

do it, man. do it all the way.

That's right.

When in doubt use Game Maker.

I'm playing around with writing a battle transition effect.

So far Mary4D has joined my party in my quest to make a nicely (er... I use the term loosely) machined engine and game for WeaponBirth. I might continue searching for more people as the need arises, but so far I kind of need to get the game going a bit more first. Perhaps. I don't want to toss a handful of developers at a project and 50% of them are waiting for me to assign things to them.

Plus every developer I add also means there's one more person to sync and provide tools and information to (thank the maker for Google Groups).