HIMA'S PROFILE

One thing I'm wondering about this threat system is, why is it always about dealing damage?

I think it would be more interesting if each enemy has different ways of dealing with threat.
Example Scenario :
Gloria heals the whole party, increasing her threat level. Alex sees that Gloria is in danger so he use Provoke to increase his threat level. Succubus, however, see that Alex is a physical-based character. Comparing two threats, she think that Gloria should just shut up and let the party take damage like warriors so she cast Silence on Gloria. Golem, on the other hand, is stupid and angered by Alex's Provoke, so he doesn't care what Gloria does and his goal is now to bury Alex into the ground.

This way, it won't be too obvious which character should be a tank. Anyone can be a tank if the situation is called for. You can be a tank for damage, a tank for status effect, etc.

I've been wondering about this as well. I guess it'd work with an RPG with a long story, but the game I'm going to make next is an action game and the story isn't that long.

So my plan is to release in a stack ,like King of Games has mentioned, but also add a save transfer that allow people who already play the earlier version to continue their progress. Though I think in my case, it's more like I'll be updating my demo, rather than releasing a small stand alone game as one chapter.

I also suspect that we'd have to do some kind of level cap as well, or else players can keep on grinding in the first chapter and things will become too easy in the following chapters.

I care about credit. It shows how they manage the team, as well as who's responsible for the part I like in the game or the part I don't like in the game.

With that said, I don't care much about credits in a big game. I care more about credits in an indie game, thinking that maybe I can get in touch with them and do some awesome stuffs later on. Or just so that I can follow their works. Another reason is that the credit in a big game is always too long to read, and is not in a separate notepad file for me to read later :/

Why not difficulty selection? And the combat is only skippable in the easiest difficulty. Dedicated players won't feel cheated, and casual players won't care being called a-casual-player because all they want is just to clear the game.

author=LockeZ
Heh, yeah, I think I already O_Oed at your language in the whatchu workin on thread. If you really want to do it then cool; it's ridiculous in a good way. It is certainly above and beyond any expectations I have for even the highest budgeted commercial games.

And that's one thing I like about indie game dev. You have all the power to do all these ridiculous things. :)

author=LockeZ
If you're not creative enough to make it sound like a realistic language... write it in English, use Google Translate to translate it to another language, and then use an al bhed translator or a simple caesar cypher to swap around all the letters. End result will look totally legit but won't actually be readable to anyone.

I like this idea. The end result isn't that bad either. Thanks for the suggestion!