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Drew my brainchildren together
Since I don't have anything "directly" game-related to show off right now and could not let go of these characters if the fate of the universe depended on it, I thought I'd share a small attempt I made last night to draw the main quartet a few (or less) of you may remember from That Game That Got Published on RPG Maker Dot Net About a Pawn Shop™, and have them all look somewhat organically integrated into each-other's respective vicinities (I hate trying to get their height differences just right).
The end goal was to make it look sort of like key art from some 20 year old TV show nobody's ever seen.
Look I'm trying here you guys
I don't know if this'll ever become a thread considering I don't have any plans to post very much 'art' on this site, but in the case that I end up finishing something I deem presentable between now and the next maybe month or so I guess I might as well put it here.
why yes that is a shotgun she's holding why do you ask
The end goal was to make it look sort of like key art from some 20 year old TV show nobody's ever seen.
Look I'm trying here you guys
I don't know if this'll ever become a thread considering I don't have any plans to post very much 'art' on this site, but in the case that I end up finishing something I deem presentable between now and the next maybe month or so I guess I might as well put it here.
Pawn Beach: Sal Goes to the Store to Buy Some Milk Review
author=TheRpgmakerAddict
Well gameplay is not really a necessity, I mean a longer story, more episode, more events would make it really interesting, because there were so many questions about the setting, the characters, it's a pity that some things lead to nothing...
Yeah, the narrative and the way everything's set up are the parts I'm the least happy with, if I make more with this idea I want to make sure to give the core cast and the whole "dreams are actually real" thing a more formal introduction to the player, as well as actually try utilising the pawn shop setting since that was barely even relevant in this game
author=TheRpgmakerAddict
I rather believed that Trish was female (well Trish is girl's name and Rory is a gender neutral name, anyway all Rorys I have seen were male, well nevermind I corrected).
we need more female rory representation in media
It's funny that you should mention Trish (full name Tristan) because I also meant for him to be male and to have the others just refer to him as Trish as a shorthand / affectionate-ish nickname. Can't believe I managed to make two of the main characters' genders confusing but again, I'll make it more obvious if more stories featuring them are to be told
Pawn Beach: Sal Goes to the Store to Buy Some Milk Review
Thanks for your 5 minutes!
I pretty much agree with all of your points. This wasn't by any means a complete vision for a game as much as an excuse to test out the world and some of the people in said world while making some silly gags in the process, and at some point I would like to try making something with more substance (and some actual gameplay) that fleshes them out a bit more, like maybe an episodic series of some kind to really lean into the workplace sitcom angle hard. Probably not very soon, possibly not even this year, but eventually
Just one thing I should make clear: Rory's supposed to be female, but I'm pretty sure the only line of dialogue that explicitly refers to her as such is optional so that's entirely my bad and i'll do better next time i promise
I pretty much agree with all of your points. This wasn't by any means a complete vision for a game as much as an excuse to test out the world and some of the people in said world while making some silly gags in the process, and at some point I would like to try making something with more substance (and some actual gameplay) that fleshes them out a bit more, like maybe an episodic series of some kind to really lean into the workplace sitcom angle hard. Probably not very soon, possibly not even this year, but eventually
Just one thing I should make clear: Rory's supposed to be female, but I'm pretty sure the only line of dialogue that explicitly refers to her as such is optional so that's entirely my bad and i'll do better next time i promise
Hello is this thing on
2023 Gaming Diary
BLUE FIRE
Played a little bit more of it and it's starting to feel a little more Souls-like in its difficulty and I got lost a couple times. There's a particular ability that you unlock in one of the dungeons and it feels really good to pull off more advanced manoeuvres using it. I also ran into one particular void challenge that I'm convinced I am incapable of beating, so I probably won't be trying to ace this
PAPER MARIO
My thoughts on this game haven't changed much since I last played it. I think it's a fun enough RPG but certain parts can get really repetitive - Dry Dry Desert was hell - and I don't feel the dialogue has the same wit or charm as the later entries (Sticker Star notwithstanding) do.
We left off at the beginning of Chapter 4 so we picked back up from there. It was kind of late so I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember we gave a cake to a big red guy and probably said some dumb stuff to eachother in between, then got bored and stopped
BUG FABLES
(I also played this game while My Friend was watching)
I think that gameplay-wise, it expands and improves on a lot of aspects of the early Paper Marios and visually it looks very nice, but I didn't love the musicbecause I'm a snob and I couldn't get into the character writing or humour at all. Throughout my entire play session I got through the whole first chapter and played a little bit of the second, and I couldn't care less about who was saying what and felt that most of the jokes just came across as sort of childish, at least in execution. I laughed at an actual line spoken by a character exactly once, and not even because I thought it was clever, I just found the specific choice of words funny. Then I made the mistake of trying to do the rest of the game in hard mode and it was way too stressful for me and I died like three times in a row to the same enemy and rage-quit in the middle of a battle and I hate my life. Good game though, would recommend
Played a little bit more of it and it's starting to feel a little more Souls-like in its difficulty and I got lost a couple times. There's a particular ability that you unlock in one of the dungeons and it feels really good to pull off more advanced manoeuvres using it. I also ran into one particular void challenge that I'm convinced I am incapable of beating, so I probably won't be trying to ace this
PAPER MARIO
My thoughts on this game haven't changed much since I last played it. I think it's a fun enough RPG but certain parts can get really repetitive - Dry Dry Desert was hell - and I don't feel the dialogue has the same wit or charm as the later entries (Sticker Star notwithstanding) do.
We left off at the beginning of Chapter 4 so we picked back up from there. It was kind of late so I don't remember a lot of it, but I do remember we gave a cake to a big red guy and probably said some dumb stuff to eachother in between, then got bored and stopped
BUG FABLES
(I also played this game while My Friend was watching)
I think that gameplay-wise, it expands and improves on a lot of aspects of the early Paper Marios and visually it looks very nice, but I didn't love the music
2023 Gaming Diary
SPARK THE ELECTRIC JESTER 2
That was really short, it only took me just over 2.5 hours to finish. I don't have much else to say about it. It has extra stuff for beating every level within a given time period and with a score higher than a given amount but I just, don't want to do that
BLUE FIRE
Bought this one because James Nitrorad says it's good
I don't usually play and enjoy Soulsborneringrim-like games because most of the time I'll get stuck on an early fight, start instinctively reciting passages from whatever the demonic equivalent of a holy book is and stop playing forever. That happened with Hollow Knight and I didn't want to bother with Blue Fire for a while because I assumed the same would happen with it as well, but so far I am really liking the balance between the platforming and the walking around and hitting things with a sword to make them dead. Although, I did start running into a weird technical issue after like 15 minutes where sometimes if I leave the game window and come back to it I can't attack on the ground, dash or use my shield and I'm forced to restart the game so thanks for that Azure Ember
The moveset is really fun to use. The dash in particular lets you stop on a dime when you let go of the button so it's easier to not overshoot a jump, which I like. I haven't unlocked any other abilities yet that aren't just extra attack methods so I'm excited to see what other tricky platformer bull I could get up to later on.
Don't care much for the story in this either but I do enjoy some individual characters, like one who helps you fix elevators and all they ever want to talk about is elevators all the time and they will not stop talking about elevators, but more often than not while talking to someone I would end up getting bored and pressing A a bunch until they shut up
One thing I also think is worth noting is that one of the emotes I got is literally that stupid dance animation from A Hat in Time that people memed to hell and back and is just called "Hat kid smug"
That was really short, it only took me just over 2.5 hours to finish. I don't have much else to say about it. It has extra stuff for beating every level within a given time period and with a score higher than a given amount but I just, don't want to do that
BLUE FIRE
Bought this one because James Nitrorad says it's good
I don't usually play and enjoy Soulsborneringrim-like games because most of the time I'll get stuck on an early fight, start instinctively reciting passages from whatever the demonic equivalent of a holy book is and stop playing forever. That happened with Hollow Knight and I didn't want to bother with Blue Fire for a while because I assumed the same would happen with it as well, but so far I am really liking the balance between the platforming and the walking around and hitting things with a sword to make them dead. Although, I did start running into a weird technical issue after like 15 minutes where sometimes if I leave the game window and come back to it I can't attack on the ground, dash or use my shield and I'm forced to restart the game so thanks for that Azure Ember
The moveset is really fun to use. The dash in particular lets you stop on a dime when you let go of the button so it's easier to not overshoot a jump, which I like. I haven't unlocked any other abilities yet that aren't just extra attack methods so I'm excited to see what other tricky platformer bull I could get up to later on.
Don't care much for the story in this either but I do enjoy some individual characters, like one who helps you fix elevators and all they ever want to talk about is elevators all the time and they will not stop talking about elevators, but more often than not while talking to someone I would end up getting bored and pressing A a bunch until they shut up
One thing I also think is worth noting is that one of the emotes I got is literally that stupid dance animation from A Hat in Time that people memed to hell and back and is just called "Hat kid smug"
2023 Gaming Diary
SPARK THE ELECTRIC JESTER 2
First of all, this game has a smooth turning feature which is on by default and it doesn't really make turning smoother so much as it just makes it slower, which you probably wouldn't want in a Sonic-esque game where you're going fast 80% of the time. I didn't find out you could turn it off until like 10 stages in, so that was slightly annoying (additionally it would be nice if there was an active camera option so I didn't have to multitask and could just focus on playing the game)
Also, I'm no expert on level design, but I've been finding a few stages in this a little hard to navigate, so I would often find myself just kind of fumbling through most of the game not really having any idea what I was doing or where I was going. I don't remember ever having this kind of problem with Sonic, not even the Adventure games (emerald hunt notwithstanding), so I'm not sure why I was feeling it here.
Besides that, I'm still having fun. Don't really care about the story and I mostly just tolerate the combat but overall I'm enjoying quite a bit
Side note: I'm currently addicted to PAC-MAN 256 but there's no real end goal in that game so it's not in the master post
First of all, this game has a smooth turning feature which is on by default and it doesn't really make turning smoother so much as it just makes it slower, which you probably wouldn't want in a Sonic-esque game where you're going fast 80% of the time. I didn't find out you could turn it off until like 10 stages in, so that was slightly annoying (additionally it would be nice if there was an active camera option so I didn't have to multitask and could just focus on playing the game)
Also, I'm no expert on level design, but I've been finding a few stages in this a little hard to navigate, so I would often find myself just kind of fumbling through most of the game not really having any idea what I was doing or where I was going. I don't remember ever having this kind of problem with Sonic, not even the Adventure games (emerald hunt notwithstanding), so I'm not sure why I was feeling it here.
Besides that, I'm still having fun. Don't really care about the story and I mostly just tolerate the combat but overall I'm enjoying quite a bit
Side note: I'm currently addicted to PAC-MAN 256 but there's no real end goal in that game so it's not in the master post
Hello is this thing on
Merci! (DISCLAIMER: I am not a native French speaker)
Conversely, I had actually only started dabbling in VX Ace I think around August last year so I haven't really made anything substantial with it yet. It feels similar enough to 2003 so that it wasn't too difficult to get used to though, and I do have one or two ideas for things I could make with it so who knows, it might become my favourite version one day
Conversely, I had actually only started dabbling in VX Ace I think around August last year so I haven't really made anything substantial with it yet. It feels similar enough to 2003 so that it wasn't too difficult to get used to though, and I do have one or two ideas for things I could make with it so who knows, it might become my favourite version one day
2023 Gaming Diary
Hi, hope nobody minds me chiming in here, I mean what better way to get acquainted with the RMN community than by yelling about games I wanna play, right?
Before I start listing stuff, I should probably first mention that I had started a playthrough of Rayman Origins with a friend on New Year's, but later decided to complete the entire game 100% on my own over the course of 3 days. It was excruciating.
Also please forgive my platformer bias
COMPLETE:
-Rayman Origins
-Spark the Electric Jester 2
-It Takes Two
IN PROGRESS:
-Blue Fire
-Pizza Tower (Beat the game, now trying for 100%)
-Tomb Raider: Anniversary
CANCELLED:
-A Way Out
-Paper Mario N64
-Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling(?)
GAMES I'VE STARTED PREVIOUSLY AND WANT TO FINISH:
-Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Got maybe like halfway through and then stopped for a whole year)
GAMES I HAVE AND WANT TO START:
-Spark the Electric Jester 3
-Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (actual title)
GAMES I IDEALLY WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS YEAR:
-Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series
-The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo (Checked the steam page and there's no concrete release window so it might not be out this year but there's no way to know for sure)
-Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe
Before I start listing stuff, I should probably first mention that I had started a playthrough of Rayman Origins with a friend on New Year's, but later decided to complete the entire game 100% on my own over the course of 3 days. It was excruciating.
Also please forgive my platformer bias
COMPLETE:
-Rayman Origins
-Spark the Electric Jester 2
-It Takes Two
IN PROGRESS:
-Blue Fire
-Pizza Tower (Beat the game, now trying for 100%)
-Tomb Raider: Anniversary
CANCELLED:
-A Way Out
-Paper Mario N64
-Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling(?)
GAMES I'VE STARTED PREVIOUSLY AND WANT TO FINISH:
-Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Got maybe like halfway through and then stopped for a whole year)
GAMES I HAVE AND WANT TO START:
-Spark the Electric Jester 3
-Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (actual title)
GAMES I IDEALLY WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS YEAR:
-Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series
-The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo (Checked the steam page and there's no concrete release window so it might not be out this year but there's no way to know for sure)
-Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe
Hello is this thing on
Hello, greetings, bonsoir, etc
My name's Jacob or Jake or J or whatever you'd like to call me and I've been messing around with RPG Maker for maybe a year now (mostly 2K3 and VX Ace), so I finally decided to make an account here in the hopes of getting to put any RM projects I actually finish out there for people outside of my small friend circle to look at weird, hopefully including a small one I'm working on right now, even!
...so yeah, I should probably get back on that
My name's Jacob or Jake or J or whatever you'd like to call me and I've been messing around with RPG Maker for maybe a year now (mostly 2K3 and VX Ace), so I finally decided to make an account here in the hopes of getting to put any RM projects I actually finish out there for people outside of my small friend circle to look at weird, hopefully including a small one I'm working on right now, even!
...so yeah, I should probably get back on that
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