ACCHA'S PROFILE

I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY THIS GAME AGAIN
PLEASE LET ME DRESS AARIN IN THE MOST RIDICULOUS CLOTHES

I like how you're even going to add effects to the outfits bahaha I look forward to "extremely likely for customers to leave unhappy and possibly terrified"

Also, the graphics overhaul looks amazing! Do you think you might make this commercial? Or donate-able? There's obviously tons of work being put into this, and I'd love to support you guys somehow.

This is hilariously terrifying, or terrifyingly hilarious.

Cash, Slash, and Housekeeping, thanks very much for the thorough comments!

You guys (except for kentona >:E ) helped a lot and pointed out some important stuff I didn't consider. I think I have a clear view of the driving concept of the game now, focusing on why the story is important for the protagonist rather than just throwing him into the plot.

I'll follow the advice of pushing one facet of gameplay to complement the story. It technically won't be anything new (such a noob at rpgmaker...) but with any luck it'll work out conceptually and trick people into thinking it's innovative. Or something.

author=slash
Just as an example, if your game was about a kid who gets nervous talking to others and has a hard time speaking his mind, you could have some dialogue choices wobble and disappear if the player takes too long to read and decide; this kinda fits the kid's inability to say what he's thinking. Another example - one of the things I thought was clever about Depression Quest was that, as the game progressed and you fell into depression, it would show you dialogue choices that you weren't allowed to pick (because of your growing stress levels) to emphasize your helplessness.

Slash, this is an awesome suggestion and I'm totally going to steal it *slapped
Well, not exactly this, but after reading the article Hasvers linked in the old thread it sparked some ideas.

All in all I'm going to try to develop some thorough, realistic characters, and ruminate some more on how to play around with player agency and character agency to capitalize on making something fresh and subverting expectations. The lying and deceiving is definitely a big part of this... I think the various ends of the game will be the MC deciding the truth of the matter for themselves. Will definitely have to do a lot of work subtext and nuance, among the other things in Housekeeping's comment >_<



Now I'm really pumped! Thanks again for all the advice, I'm feeling confident that I can make something now!

Thanks for the advice so far!

author=Liberty
Treat the character like a living person. Give them real reactions to things. Give them a personality. Do not fret over the differences between genders or bullshit like that - kids under 10 don't have a defined gender issue unless they've been brought up to. Keep that in mind.

Talk to some kids. Get in their heads.
Like, seriously, get to know the subjects a little. It's something you should do if you're serious about portraying the character correctly.

Yeah, it's a good idea to have better and more fleshed-out characters... Children are a little hard to come by on a college campus, but I'll give my niece a call and see what she's up to. >_<

author=kentona
My solution is to not make very good looking games.

genius

@Corfaisus, thanks for the tips on setting up dialogue and gameplay :) I'll do some brainstorming and research on the characters and do the visualizing when it comes down to making the dialogue.

author=DragonMaxter
Hello. I don't know if you're still reading these or not, but My boss and i just finished playing. This was such a wonderful game, and so whimsical too. We got all of the endings, including the joke ending, but we didn't get a pass code to unlock the file to the bonus content. Did we screw up by getting the joke ending before the Good ending?

Also we'd love to talk to you some time if you are available!

Hi! Passwords are in the spoiler tags below.


To contact me, it's easiest to message me here at RMN :)