GERKRT'S PROFILE

I want to traduce it i say in the introduction, no?

My first game was with RPG maker 95. It had a open-world like zelda but the combats used traditional combat style. The history was around the people of my college so in the maps you found them and other things. I remeember a random walker that was a deadly enemy and a serie of tests that one include passing through a invisible tiles.

That game was very awfull, only my brothe played it, but it was fun because it had a lot of jokes.

Later i discovered 2k. With i started 4 projects. One was around my college again, but more evolutionated. Other was one with a friend, but we never really do a thing...

Other two were a game that passed in a island full of Final Fantasy mogs and chocobos, and they had strange rituals and dances, you had to explore it all.
The other was a Legends of Dragonlance rpg maker project. I think it was pretty interesting. I created my own charas and it had a animated intro using images and the dragonlance synbol ( a lance) that pushed and enter into the dragon. I created a long intro and i was trying to create a cbs...

But the problem is that im very poor and my computers allways sucked. That in particular freezed up any rpgmaker game with 1m of play. I tried other versions and the problem was the same. So, i colundt create nothing for a very long time, and later, i had a other pc, very old, that didnt frezze up but i didint have internet and the sound wasnt funcionting... anyway with that i managed to create a few projects, nothing playable of course.

When that old pc died, me and my brother worked for a few money so we can buy a new PC... for last! I started the game and later ported it to XP... but i didnt really do nothing, i just write histories and all... after a lot of years of whicked pc's i was somewhat diconnected of rpgmaker and also, i was entering in a long crisis of my life...

A lot of years later i refound rpgmaker. I created a playable game that was a dungeon-solo. It was fun i think, and very playable. The idea was to connect to my old history, and make the game modular. But i losed interests again... and then my pc broke and i losed it all.

Later i started a comic game that had 40m of gameplay. It was fun. Things that i do very bad?xdcdd, the graphics were all rtp, but that was my idea because it was a joke game for my friends. It had two dungeons. One was nice, other sucked, i designed it bad, because you had only 1 actor and battles in 2k3 are slow....

Any other project beyond that i dont consider it a newbie game...

author=Ocean

author=gerkrt
I post here because i dont have the english skills or time to create a full review. I liked a lot your game but my main problem with it this the very low challengue. For a game that tries to have a retro feel that hurts a lot. In general i have passed the complete game in a very low low level, evading 95% of the combats of the game, ending in in level 7.

I know that in rpg you can calculate the challengue you want but evading 95% of the combats is totally awfull in my opinion, also because you spent A LOT of time creating beautfiul monsters, classes, items, engines, animations... and that gets totally lost when you pass over it.

I suggest you creating two versions of this game. Other will have also a 8-16 bits challengue....

For the rest the game shines. The music is great, art, etc... the history is bad but i didnt care about. And with or without the challengue the game is fun, and that JRPG-Oblivion gameplay is very interesting.

Oh yeah, this is interesting. I've seen at least 2 other reviews that say it's too hard and that you feel like you needed to defeat every enemy to get through. Perhaps you just found and stuck with a good strategy, or they didn't figure a good one out, I dunno. What classes/abilities did you use? Maybe I can see why some people are doing so well and why some aren't. Perhaps I didn't balance the game correctly.

Honestly it is possible to beat the game at Level 1 if you reaally want (I forget if I tried the bedbug at Level 1 too) but yeah there does come a point where the later enemies don't really match up to how strong you get and you'd have to do the optional bosses for that challenge.

I was not really going for old school difficulty though, as I don't like that kind of difficulty. I prefer to beat games at natural levels, and go on more the easier side. I'd have added low walk speed and frequent random encounters if I really want to keep a retro feel. But yeah, I hope my next game won't be as bad in the difficulty section.

Too bad i erased the game, i remember:

-Using the regen, speed, and first strike(to scape easily), also the merchant one, of course, that saves a lot of monet.

-Althought i didnt fight enemies i dont rememebr having money problems. The quests gives sufficients, and also, checking all areas for chests, etc, and have a thief or a hidden skill always, also the spped one.

-Obviusly i used the status skills, and defensive ancs.

I used all the classes, i think, i had they balanced. Except assasin and cholocaltier. I changued to any necesary when needed. I also developed the skills that looked better to me.

Because of my low levels i only had a physical attacker actor that used fighter/archer classes, but hte trully nice thing was that his weapons had interesting effects. I remeber using two weapons state causing a lot of time.

I love time mages and autohaste is very good for normal combats.

Note that the final boss took more time to me. The rest, no.

The game seemed pretty easy, at least for me, i didnt win the optional boss, although.

The complains for the a hard challengue... well your game has a nice gameplay. Im a fan of the job systems and was very interesting. The problem with that people is that they will be playing trully bad. Maybe your game is broken is some way, remember FF8? if you convert spells you have 2500 of life and 90 of attack in the 3h of game, in your game i feel somewhat liek that, that without leveling i can do anything and very accesible.

Too bad i cant think in anything particularly broken. The problem for me was the lack of challengue. I defeteated no enemies and i didnt have any gold or ap problems... and the bosses didnt hit that hard. It was just pretty easy but with all that options you give it can be complex for some people.

Anyway i think a more hard standard difficulty will be better. Think that i finished FFVII with only Cloud, for example, but thats a game that i ahve played 10 times. In your game that was the first time and i was doing the same, thats a bad challengue, at least for me.

I dont like 8 bits nes era challengue 100% of the time. But for true i will give this game a challengue at least bewtwenn FFV and FFVI, and it will be a lot better, at least for me.

xd, for my game i want a between FFNES - FFV challengue, with a easy difficulty level and ambe a hard one. Note that i use XP so its more easy to balance diferent didiculty levels.

pd: Note that im a very skilled rpg gamer, but in general i think its easy.

author=LockeZ
Every time I try to plan a project out ahead in detail, it never gets past the planning stage. I abandon it there.

However, if I've actually started working on a project, I'm far, far less likely to abandon it. I feel like I'm more invested in it, and so I don't want to stop. It especially helps if I've done enough work to create something playable - even if it's tiny and awful so far, I'll want to keep going.

If I have ideas that I can't implement immediately but want to do later, I do usually try to jot them down. But a lot of the time, writing my plans down takes as much time as just doing them, if not more... so I just do them. 20 lines of writing and 20 lines of code aren't that different time-wise, unless you aren't sure how to write the code.

Then you write the design documents truly bad or the code is too simple. For me, writing a portion of the game with all its contents maybe will cost max 1hour. Creating that with all the graphics, maps, combats, scenes, balance, design... it took a lot more. But a lot lot more.

That 1hour of design saves you a lot of trouble. Because if i plan the dungeon before doing it well, i can get any error and chague it erasing only one line, imagine redoing all the work in the map...

Also is very important to know what are you doing and where are you going. You can balance things and do it very well. If you sketch the history you can create a better history, because you can see and modify all the hitory in the same moment. If you just go straight forward cant do this, or you can do that but you eill be forced to redo things.

I have a very huge and giant project, and a few small ones. My problem is that its complexity requires a lot of work. I think that planning and desinging and writing a videogame in design documents is the way you can complete a task like this.

My project have:

-7 main characters, with 7 classes and subclasses.
-12 secondary but playable characters.
-Open party selection, and in the end, you can select beyond any secondary.
-A lot of freedom, giant mapamundi and sidquest.
-Each character have 3 habilities that are very unique and complex.
-Exist 10 "shops" (in some way...) more than item,equip and magic.
-Each enemy gives special item with a LOT of effects.
-The enemies have a complex IA script
-A limited inventory based on weight with a improved interface.
-Tactics system with 6 rows and using battlers distance for some things.
-Elements and status have a important twist.
-3 difficulty levels.
-A lot of secrets and extras, including a new adventure, and special methods of playing the game.
-Some other complex sub systems...
-A argumental and playable tree that have 12 different endings.
-You can use the invocations to special combat to other invocations and use them in mapamundi and dungeon exploration.
-6 different tipes of equipment (types based on how are created, not armors, weapons,etc)

And a lot of other things, a LOT. The history is complex, and the idea was to create my own graphics. I was thinking in 20h of duration.

My actual design document have.... 300+ pages!

I'm mad?

The point is that i have been years with that. I have a few practic things... some scripts, etc. For some reasons i havent worked a lot in it, but anyway... 300 pages and i think its only at 60% of completion. Because a lot of things are just writed too superficially, and a lot of systems have to be writen at 100%...

What do you think? Im planning on staying 5 years wuith this game. Its possible?

I think i have to cut a lot of things...