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A mad summoner is on the loose! Journey to stop him in this dark JRPG.

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Finding a market? [RMVX ACE]

It looks like your website focuses on the dating-sim/relationship/narrative angle. I wouldn't expect any action-comedy from your game based on the existing website.

And I only point that out as an indication that it seems that YOU think it's more about the romance/narrative side. And I think that's okay! There's no sense in highlighting aspects of the game that are not as well developed and ones you're not passionate about. People will only be disappointed if you promise action-comedy and it's a dating sim.

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A talk about worldbuilding. It's a little long (over an hour), but worth a listen.

New Developer Mapping Help Thread

You made some great improvements! Nice job!
Two final thoughts:
1) I think you can lose the little "tops" of the cliff at the top of the lower stairs. So instead of a "C" or backwards "C" it would just look like an "L" or backwards "L".
2) The auto-shadows are a little inconsistent. It's hardly noticeable and maybe not worth stressing over. But definitely watch them when you do more town-oriented maps.

mobygratis.com for game music?

Are people familiar with the mobygratis.com site? I guess Moby (the bald, vegan electronic music artist) lets some of his work get used for free for people's film projects.

Has anyone used his site for their game? Are you familiar as to whether game usage is okay? Or is it just for films?

I was going to poke around on the site and check it out, but if someone here is like, "Nah, dood. No dice," I won't waste my time.

Gear.jpg

Great gear names!! This is looking cool!

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A way to think systematically about Zelda dungeons. Although, I think you could apply it to lots of different kinds of dungeons seen in classic rpgs:

Backing up your project

Has anyone moved their working folder to a dropbox folder on their computer - so it gets backed up on the cloud?

Villians: how do you make them unique?

I think all the above stuff is great.
This conversation reminded me of this recent video. Yes, it's about a movie. But I think the same lessons apply - many of which have already been mentioned:

New Developer Mapping Help Thread

Here are just a few suggestions:
Map 1: 1) The fence doesn't have a left side... which maybe was by design, but if you made a fence to keep out animals (from your garden), you'd need a fence on each side. 2) There's something going on with the middle layer of the roof - you see how it's a different color, almost like light is hitting it? It should be the darker color that the top and bottom layer of the roof should be. 3) The windows with the flowerbeds need the top half added; right now, they are half a window.
Map 2: 1) The picture of the wagon(?) should be deleted. All of your walls should have a tile at the top that represents the top of the wall - and vice versa. Right now, the painting is on the top of the wall. 2) The two wall tops on the left of the map need walls - going into the bathroom and going into the hat room.
Map 3: 1) Same thing with the flowerbox windows - you need the top half added. 2) Some people might find the roof of the building a little weird. I think it's good enough for the tileset you have, though. 3) The grass is a little boring, so you may want to add a few grass poofs around or a dirt trail up to the door.
Map 4: This map is okay to me... but you should be careful about all of your maps as to how many tiles high your walls will be. In map #2, your wall was one tile high. Here, the wall is 3 tiles high. And that can be fine, if this is a taller building. But just be careful. 1) In your text, you may want to add commas before your pronouns. For example, correct English dictates that this should be "Move out the way, kids!" And, in map 1, "What are you doing, kiddos?"
Map 5: 1) There is a conflict between your walls and your steps. Either the steps should go one tile lower than where they are, or the walls should go one tile higher. I would move the steps one tile down. 2) There are a few other funky things in this map, but I don't think they're terrible. For example, the piano pushed up next to the books is kinda weird... how will people reach the books behind the piano? :D

Good luck!

HarmonQuest - who's watching it?

I'm glad other people are having as much fun with it as I did!
Episode 1

Subsequent episodes tend to populate on the right side. As mentioned above, sketchy uploads are all on youtube. But it's really just a matter of time before they're ripped down, I would think.