CATMITTS'S PROFILE

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Here's my entry http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/3654/locker/One_Room.exe (link works now, thanks geodude!)
It's probably a piece of shit, but at least it's done xD

this is amazing jesus christ.

Here's my entry http://rpgmaker.net/users/catmitts/locker/The_Room_XKVD_Hi_Quality_DVDRip.rar it's really bad!! I'm not being cute or selfdeprecating it's probably the worst thing I've made. It's basically a Phillip K. Dick / Adolfo Bioy Casares ripoff except really stilted and badly-written and horrible aaa. Anyway it's uh definitely a spur of the moment oneroom contest game yup.

I might try this *slowly pulls on mint-condition NES Power Glove w/ letters G.A.M.E.S attached on knuckles* but uh bearing in mind it takes like a day to get a gamepage approved and another day to get a download approved it's probably better if everyone just uses mediafire or something.

I agree with all this but especially #1. The only generic RM2k3 game I actually enjoyed playing and found memorable was one called I think Love And War. It was all RTP iirc and there was nothing groundbreaking in terms of writing or design or whatever but the creator had an obvious affection for the game and the characters in it which I found charming. One of the things that popped out at me from watching those Let's Try videos is how bombastic some of the games were. They'd hit you over the head with dramatic cutscenes and mountain fights and portentious text and I guess hope you were impressed enough to follow up on it. I think trying to charm the player is much more effective than trying to awe them (and easier, for amateur game designers working with ripped materials etc). I realise that talking about the importance of charm makes me sound like an aging gigolo but you know what I mean.

I think the second one is important mainly because of the RPG Maker message box system. Like uh movies and comics and books and so on can get away with more "fluff"/mood-setting/digressive stuff because I think they have a lot more room to differentiate between the digressive conversations and the important ones. In RM games all the information, important or not, is given the same way through little default text boxes and sprite things walking around. The example I'm thinking of is that Let's Try game with the uh scientists in the lab going
"Press button"
"button pressed"
"increase leg pump x200"
"pump imcreased"
etc. which in a movie or something could just be background noise to show these guys mean business but in a game means clicking through a stack of boxes with absolutely no actual information. So I guess it does demand brevity in a way.