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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.
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.
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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
author=LawrThank you! :D
Played it through and the 3D backgrounds took me on a PlayStation nostalgia trip!
I would definitely enjoy anything else you create in the future with this kind of style, MV or not.
I'm personally a huge fan of the 3D\2D Pixel art mixture since those were the style of games I played growing up, it's also a major source of nostalgia for me as well. Thanks for the kind words, truly inspiring.
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Thanks! :D It was fun making all of it, albeit a bit time consuming! XD
The Character Sprites are by Rebecca Murphey, she's amazing! And The faces are some old faces made to fit the RPG Maker XP characters I used. :)
The Character Sprites are by Rebecca Murphey, she's amazing! And The faces are some old faces made to fit the RPG Maker XP characters I used. :)
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All of your forest screenshots have a very interesting vibe too them with the dark tones but different colored lighting all around. It's a cool aesthetic, but it might be one of those games I would boost the brightness on my monitor for. =P
Is it the fog that's multicolored? I can't really place it!
Is it the fog that's multicolored? I can't really place it!
Crystal of Destiny Review
author=NTC3author=drassrayHm, 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!
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.
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
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author=JosephSeraph
oh god this is such a big yes
i mean except for the needlessly high resolution that goes in direct clash with the low resolution, blurry textures (this would absolutely not be a problem on 240p, the small textures would be big enough for such small objects, and texture blurring would be impossible to see as well)
but yeah this is like everything i wanted to do but can't because while i have the artistic knowledge i lack the technical know-how :V
i'd love to play it but
my pc runs MV games like shit =_=
Haha, thanks, yeah I'm still fairly fresh in the 3D world, though I learn something new everyday!
You might try playing anyway. I've been told that this game actually runs better than most MV games people have played on their PCs. Completely up to you! :)
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
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
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