FREDO'S PROFILE

For the record, I appreciate Linkforce's right to have the game "feel" the way he wants it to - slow text and all. I also don't pretend that I gave it a fair shot. However, I just saw myself getting too frustrated with the issue to really play and enjoy. Maybe at some other time, I'll feel more forgiving and give it a fair shot. I do genuinely mean it when I say the game looks good. I also didn't say it to be mean. I just wanted him to understand where he lost at least one player - I feel like when I play a demo, it's sort of my job to point out if something significant just killed it for me, no matter how arbitrary, at least so the developer knows.

The intro is so slow and horrible. Analyzation is the ugliest word known to man. The song is not particularly good. The dialog moves way too slowly and everybody is talking about things I have no reason to care about. Just a heads up, long/bad intro is an automatic alt+F4 for a lot of people(myself usually included). I'd look into changing it

Also, for the love of god, please let me scroll through the damn textboxes myself. Nothing worse than having arbitrarily slow textboxes. Point is that you don't know how fast/slow I read. Your events don't require a set text speed either. It's just frustrating. This is the point where I gave up. The hero was going on endlessly(because he was talking so slowly, not because he was talking too much), some carriage was going up the road, and I was like "Screw it." I hadn't even gotten to play yet, and I already wanted to shoot myself. I might try again on a computer where I have rm2003 installed, so I can test play and shift my way through the dialog, but as it is, it just makes me want to rage quit.

That being said, the graphics looked cohesive, the mapping was good, the screens on this site look great. Also, the story sounds like it could be interesting, and what dialog I saw was well-written. It looks like it could be a solid game, but I just don't have any interest in spending my life waiting after that intro to find out.

I think the point is that it creates EVENT DATA for the clipboard. As in, paste it into events.

The real purpose is to set up a huge number of extremely repetitive mathematical operations. Esp useful for CBS/CMSes that keep their player stats in variables.

One easy use would be a quick and dirty "number separator" - ie an event that takes a number(say HP or the like) such as 123 and separates into 1, 2, and 3 so that you can show the number using pictures/events

... Or so I think. Still havent gotten around to trying it. Looks like it might be handy though

I haven't had that particular problem, but every problem I have had with Rm2k3 in Vista/Windows 7 was a UAC/permission thing. I had huge lag in the editor, and it was because it had a lot of trouble accessing graphics files and such. Once I turned all that off and granted full access permission to my rm2k3 folder, everything worked much better. Don't remember if there was any lag in play though, so I dunno if that helps.

@Darken: I'm saying that liking what you do helps you perform better relative to your regular performance, not to other people's performance.

In your hypo, cave story 2 probably wouldn't be better than the creator's work WOULD have been if he'd enjoyed it and done it willingly. I'm not saying that X's Labor of Love >>> Y's Regular Work. I'm saying X's Labor of Love >>> X's Work. BIG difference.

It's not "making up a silly situation" - it's a basic fact. People are more inspired, more motivated by things that they, on some level, enjoy. It's true with job performance, it's true with academic performance, etc. It's a basic theory of people management and of psychology. You can disagree, but I hardly would consider my bringing up this theory to be "making up silly situations"