WOLFCODER'S PROFILE

Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention that the bright inside with the black outline ensures that no matter the level lighting, you will be able to see the HUD/Menu. One of the things I find most annoying about other people's displays is that they blend in to their overuse of dark areas and I can't see the numbers or anything. Or it's a bright HUD, but all the explosions/sunlight keep obstructing the numbers.

Or they just print out a block of text in Arial without drop shadow or anything and it's a headache-inducing display. Badly designed Korean MMORPGs tend to do this where they print out all the explanations, stats, and effects of things in just a formatted paragraph in the default system font or- even worse- Gulim Che.

The JVM is improved, but native code is always going to win. I mean, it has to be interpreted from byte code to native code somehow. With compiled regular code, there is no interpretation. Plus I get to have more control over everything. The JAVA fanboys love to get upset when you call Java interpreted (which it is), but it's closer to a sort of emulator than anything else.

And. I'm not really using an IDE, I just write the code and run make.

if you would like a demo, give me a MIDI or typical wave song, and I'll create an application that plays it and lets you make chiptune noises with the Z, X, and C keys.

Oh, I actually really, really want to work on this game! I really want to but there's too much stuff going on that I have to drop what I'm doing to study for midterms, etc.

-- Oh yeah, and while I like RPG Maker 2003, I felt there were lots of things missing or wrong with it. Importing RPG Maker format games is a feature that I decided wasn't really worth it- why do that if you're just going to make your own game anyway.