DIGITALKOIFISH'S PROFILE

So I just read this through again and realized that there are a few typos and such. Please don't take my ineptitude in editing the wrong way. I typed this article up in the whole of fifteen minutes. For now I just hope everyone can understand my thought process.

Thanks guys, I'll definitely be adding that stuff to the dialogue tutorial as well as town design.

Sweet, constructive feedback! Anyway you guys have brought up some good points about the article. In my defense I was hoping that this article would be more of a hook to get people interested in the series of articles. I agree that NPCs being all around isn't a good enough reason to focus on them, but because NPCs exist in every single game, there needs to be something more about them to give the game a more engrossing feeling. People tend to lose the illusion if one guy keeps telling you, "Pressing the X button allows you to talk to or interact with people" every time you talk to him.

The reason why I didn't discuss what kind of dialogue to give the NPC is because I wanted to save that kind of stuff for maybe a part 2- The Typical Town/City, or part 3 - World History or something. Talking about town design and layout as well as history and such are topics that need to be developed beyond a simple article about how to make an NPC slightly more interesting. I do agree that it is a specific mechanic that may work only on some games but not all games are going for that classic feeling of talking to two guards standing outside the gate who constantly tell you to have a good day.

Again though, I can't stress enough that dialogue, motivation, history, town layout, monster design, dungeon design, geography, all that stuff needs to developed on its own with individual ideas within those topics that may need to be discussed even further.

I love the feedback, and I agree with you guys so I will add those things to other articles in the series.

Thanks garthyo.

Oh and a step I skipped out on explaining. If you're using photoshop to create a 'Picture' file for RPG Maker, then you have to set the transparent background color. To do this, you have to go to the Image dropbox once more, go to 'Mode' and drop down to the 'Color Table' option. Then use the eye dropper tool in the dialogue box and select the color to be transparent. Then when you import this into RPG Maker, you must make sure to double click on the color in the preview box to set the transparent color again. You know this has worked when the color begins to blink.