BULMABRIEFS144'S PROFILE

Yea.

The biggest thing I'm running into in my new game is that I kinda want enemies to sorta build in power, so I've got a hp range for enemies of 58 to about 94000. Still, I tested versus the final boss and won with the right party and weapons. And the battles in the new game do have more of a sense of strategy. But this strategy requires pages of battle code. Ugh, I HATE battle programming. (currenlty testing final boss at 1/2 the level)

I managed to build a bank system which actually works for the most part, a time system, a day/night system based on time (which doesn't QUITE work since although it turns off when you enter buildings and gives you normal lighting, it kinda resets the shading when you go out, either that or I'm in too long and it became night/day), a weather system (which kept snowing inside until I realized you can't do weather stopping in the same event, and had to turn off weather to keep it from snowing inside, still might be a work in progress), a working party switch system (crappy, but working, sorta reminds me of Chrono Trigger's End of Time), a few battle commands, and a pretty cool boat port system which I figured out from reading someone else's basic teleport event and adapting on it (it basically saves all boat locations into a memorized location, and send you to places even ones you've never been, and you can limit this by adding switches or variables to the condition, or even put a "ghost ship" like event. The only thing out of place is that I really didn't care if you were actually near the sea, so there'd be a dock in the middle of a desert. Still, I'm pretty proud of it).

The plot is more coherent, since it's based on an idea that I had when I was younger, but it still might be a bit loosely strung together. My game still seems to have a tendency to sorta not hang together. Also kinda worried that all the special stuff is distracting me from the plot.

I liked Befuddle Quest the original okay. But some of the puzzles were seriously messed up, in terms of how long they took to solve. That is, either you got it immediately, or like the one with the time warp, you got a general sense of cause and effect, but didn't get how to string everything together. I got literally stuck there for most of one day, before breaking down and looking at a walkthrough.

#10, 13, others that involve time, I find timed parts are extremely difficult using a keyboard. For RPGXP, you actually have the option of using a controller (I something played mine with one, although it certainly didn't add anything), so that makes things alot easier, but time puzzles really aren't ideal for 2k3. Also, if you do puzzles with timing and monsters, the penalty should be a battle, not restarting the puzzle (example, getting past enemies with a horizontal or vertical movement pattern). This way, if you aren't one for solving puzzles you can have the option of just mowing through. Between restarting due to potential gameover, and from simply messing up a puzzle, this is usually preferable.

This looks promising in that regard. http://rpgmaker.net/games/1728/

Enjoy!

This was a first game, I certainly hope I can do better. Just out of curiousity, did you not make it out of the first scene? All the parts seem limited to just getting stuck in the forest. In fact, all of the people who have reviewed me seem to include early scenes. The reason I do not believe it is worth a 1/5 is more to do not because I think it's awesome of whatever. I just don't believe in absolutes. This game is "completely good, completely horrible" nah I've only seen a single game on Rpgmaker.net that I'd call perfect, and still, I got stuck on a town where I don't know how to proceed. I liked it, but that's likely because I knew where all the stuff was, so no frustration and hate involved (still, the battles were insane). I still maintain it's 2/5, but not due to I believe there are certain guides to rating, and anything with more than one ending cannot score below 2, just as anything which they didn't bother to include an RTP means it can't rate above a 4/5. The unfortunate thing is that if you want to enjoy these endings, you'd actually have to PLAY it more than once.

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This is actually an event, believe it or not, but you have to complete the 2nd trigger event of the game to have him say anything other than that. So until you do rather than saying something that might actually lead you to believe he has more lines, it tells you the opposite.

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And this was a lame attempt at a puzzle hint. Because people probably still didn't solve it. And yea, I kinda got disheartened by criticism there.

My worst was definitely monster design (still very bad, but working on it for the next game). It's kinda a case of trying to make humor/randomness in the game, but having it sabotaged by it being more random than funny, and REALLY sabotaged with bad coding not being AT ALL funny. Having all characters have elemental susceptibilities kinda threw the entire battle system off, making 1hko or 0 damage. I'm working on a better system that's more intuitive (frogs and such can get splashed with water, birds are weak to ranged atks, etc), and more forgiving for the next game I do, if I ever finish that one.

My games are probably all horrible, but a huge part of it is that I just try to get it done (I worked on the New Earth for 3 years before submitting it, and then finally just uploaded with or without some of the glitches fixed). I wish I actually knew someone who could help on the battle programming. Then I wouldn't have the issue of trying to do plot while knowing that something was horribly wrong.

Actually, it's not softcore porn. It has the added "bonus" of being hardcore anime porn if you unlock certain switches.

Bah, I liked the dialogue and the drawings.

I think he's moderately anti-political. He says that before all the wars, people were in small towns trading with each other. But then the trouble started when kingdoms and such formed.