YELLOW MAGIC'S PROFILE

author=GreatRedSpirit
Interstella 5555

My brother

If I had to pick 5 they'd be (in no particular order):

1. The Breakfast Club
2. The Social Network
3. Cloverfield
4. The Man Who Stole The Sun
5. Zoolander (no I'm not kidding)

Apart from these, almost any movie with Jackie Chan in it from previous decades. Also Napoleon Dynamite. I have shit tier taste in movies really

Thanks for that Craze and Red_Nova. I feel a bit more at ease now.

@Red: LOL that's SMT for you IIRC most bosses in Nocturne have either Beast Eye (+2 turns) or Dragon Eye (+4 Turns).

And I agree with Craze: SMT Nocturne is one of my favourite games ever but that's definitely NOT because of the gameplay. Having said that, I do think the bosses in Digital Devil Saga 1/2 were pretty balanced.

Recently finished Gravity Rush 2 - including all the sidequests, and damn were they good - will be starting Tales of Berseria today. Pretty psyched.

In the meantime I've been playing quite a bit of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links. I was initially skeptical because of what I thought were arbitrary limits on certain mechanics (e.g. only 4000 LP each, 20-30 cards per deck and 3 monster and magic/trap cards max on each side of the field), but actually playing the game, the limits make alot of sense in this mobile format. End of the day it's still Yu-Gi-Oh through and through.

Also, loving the fact that it's the characters from the original series that are in this game, with voice-acting too. I'm enjoying playing as Kaiba because of all his trash talking ("You're a third-rate duelist with a fourth-rate deck!"), and can't wait to put that wasteman Yugi Muto in his place.

TL;DR Niantic needs to take notes from Duel Links because it does everything Pokémon Go does, better.

author=psy_wombats
Do you like making games? Not the design big-picture parts but like the actual day to day grind of coding, or cranking out art, or designing UI for hours etc. If so: great. There's someone out there willing to pay you to do it professionally if you're good enough. You'll get paid and probably get health insurance and whatever, but you'll have pretty much zero creative control.

Yeah, the zero creative control part is pretty important and what has put me off of game development as a career.

As a full-time software engineer I can safely say that even writing software is nowhere near as fun if you have to write it for someone else's end goal. I'd hate to work overtime and underpaid on make games that didn't match my vision.

+1 for stable career while you mak gam on the side, although I know that's nowhere near as simple as it sounds, depending on how many other priorities you have in life. If you get big on those side games, though, you might as well go all the way.

By the way, what's the gamedev scene like in Bangladesh? I'm from Pakistan and when I lived there, I was the only one I knew who had any sort of interest in making games.

author=WIP
Thought about it. RMN has a decent userbase and some good stuff, but would it make sense to try and get back in to drag it to a different "place"?

I'm (supposed to be) helping Ankylo with some site maintenance work...at the very least, would you mind if I asked you questions about the codebase here and there?