DRASSRAY'S PROFILE

Hello!
My name is Jacob.

I'm a full-time Game Developer for Drattzy Games LLC. I've got 2 beautiful kids and a super awesome wife! :D

I do a little bit of everything when it comes to game dev, but my primary focus is game asset design and level design.

Alterium Shift
Three heroes in training take on a mission that changes everything.

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The Chronicles of Espiria Review

Hey! Thanks for the review. I haven't logged in here in a while, so when I did, I was presently surprised! Anyway, I appreciate the time and effort you put into the demo and I'm glad you liked it. I'll definitely take note of your errors in the game, I think there's a lot of updating I could do to this project now that there's plenty of new features added to the engine I made it in (Smile Game Builder). Yes, I did get Lain's design inspiration from Raynie, and even sent that to my character artist. Spot on, lol. Thanks again, hopefully I'll finally get around to giving this project the attention is deserves.

The Chronicles of Espiria Review

Thanks for the generous review! =P There's a lot of new stuff coming to the game, most importantly, updating the plot and character interactions. I appreciate you taking the time to write this out, I hope to maybe see you return to play an updated version, but that might be a while XD. Take care!

Deymoun: The Traveling Mercenary Review

Thanks for the review. Glad it could be somewhat enjoyable. The reason for the mixed character graphic on that one part is a throwback/easter egg referencing a previous game I made for a different jam. I had a friend actually making the character graphics for this one but they were unable to deliver in time which forced me to rush the mouthless 3D rendered ones I ended up using. So, it's no wonder it threw you off. Thanks again! :D

Deymoun: The Traveling Mercenary Review

Wow, thanks for the review. :) Glad you liked it as much as you did.

Crystal of Destiny Review

Thanks for the review! I will not be continuing this game in RPG Maker. This is mainly do to my move into 3D development and most of everything I make works better in an actual 3D Engine. If I remake the game it will most likely in a 3D engine but still have 2D sprites and make it more like the first Grandia or Trails in the Sky with a rotating camera feature.

Crystal of Destiny Review

author=NTC3
author=drassray
Great review! While I don't disagree with the points you've made about the game\story itself, I do have to point out that these are pre-rendered 3D graphics. Meaning.... they are simply parallax (2D) images. So, until someone actually gets real 3D objects actively rendering in MV, there is still no proper 3D available in RPG Maker MV. The monsters on map are also 2D sprites. I did state some of this on my OP. It's nice to think that the game was a bit of an optical illusion for you though.
Hm, I guess my thought process was "if MV managed to conquer one boundary by being portable to mobile, then true 3D can't be that farfetched for it (especially since GameMaker could it (or at least Doom-style first-person 2D) since forever)". Oh well, it still looked nice enough!

And I am a little afraid that the name itself, Crystal of Destiny, might well be the first thing that needs to be changed if you are going as far with it as to change the whole engine. Especially the "destiny" part: I think it's not far-fetched at all to say we live at a time when a lot of people want nothing more then to rebel against their supposed destinies!


Well put, and I'll put this on my list of considerations! Your review was super helpful, thanks again!

Crystal of Destiny Review

author=lianderson
Dafuq drass. My game´s been out for almost a year and your newly uploaded demo already has a review? Man, this some bull*!#%. I´m gonna PM this reviewer right now and send him a gamekey. (but like my last 2 reviewers, I´m sure he´ll agree to it and then forget about me... story of my life)

Anyways, good review, and drass, I hope your final product doesn't have the overly generic RPG story stuff. "I´m a mysterious woman with mysterious powers who mysteriously needs help by a young, lean, crazy haired man with a mysterious past. And yo check it, here´s a crystal!" Some of this is fine, and it´s definitely excused here for having a 1 week deadline, but I hope the final product takes some new turns after this demo.

Lolol That is a bit strange! Also, thanks! I recognize the game has very generic themes, indeed. When I say "remake," it'll be just that. Much of how the story flows will be less rushed and more fleshed out and, hopefully, the characters will have some originality to them. In fact, I probably wont be the only one making the game, and I've already been changing much of how the game begins in writing. I may not be able to escape all of the generic themes here, but I'll, at the very least, try to make the game as interesting as bloody possible. :D

Crystal of Destiny Review

Great review! While I don't disagree with the points you've made about the game\story itself, I do have to point out that these are pre-rendered 3D graphics. Meaning.... they are simply parallax (2D) images. So, until someone actually gets real 3D objects actively rendering in MV, there is still no proper 3D available in RPG Maker MV. The monsters on map are also 2D sprites. I did state some of this on my OP. It's nice to think that the game was a bit of an optical illusion for you though. =P

Another thing worth noting would be that I made this games' story and maps in a single week for a challenge on another website back in June, 2016. I didn't state that in my OP, but I should. The only things added to it since that point were the custom battle sprites.

I'd like to think I have some interesting ideas to expand upon, eventually, but only time can tell. The time I was limited to make this greatly decreased my story telling in this game. As I stated in my OP, if I did continue the game, it wouldn't be in RPG Maker either.

Thanks for the honest review! :D

The Last Girl on Earth Review

Ohh.. I do enjoy this review very much so, and I believe it to be very fair! :)

I would make one minor correction, and that's the fact that I wrote all the music myself. Their not outsourced, though, some are recreations of another project I am working on. I simply have it available for listening pleasure on my soundcloud.

Thank you for taking time to write this review. It does inspire me to return to the project for some updates and possibly a continuation of the story to answer those question you have!
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