KITTEN2021'S PROFILE

OK, I've read this over a few times and have examined the pictures rather well. I have a few things to direct you on and point out for you:

Picture 1:
I still don't understand what this is suppose to be... Is it a hill, rock mound.... What? If it is suppose to be a rock mound, then it is too flat to be such a thing. The trees did in deed need the help that you provided them, but there is still no life. Are there no birds, butterflies, rabbits, etc. in your world? There's a huge rock pile there in the middle of the forest, but no other forms of forestry decoration on the ground? No flowers, no pebbles, no bushes, nothing.
Let me introduce you to Blindmind: http://rpgmaker.net/games/8/images/2458/ take a good long look at this games pictures.

Picture 2:
I am proud of you. It looks considerably better then the first time you posted, and a lot better then picture 1. However, there is still things missing... Again I am going to refer you to Blindminds game that I posted above in Picture 1 for references. In this one, there is no life... Where is all the life in your game? If this is a farm, where are the farm animals? There should at least be ~some~ form of animal wondering around. I've been to farms in real life, there is always a few stray chickens running loose, or even a few dogs or hens, or really... anything. Maybe even a few people or something... You need life.
http://rpgmaker.net/games/8/images/2462/ <-- Reference image for you. (Albeit this is a small setting, but none-the-less you see what I am talking about.)

Picture 3:
The store looks good. There is still emptiness again in your little store... Your store would be down-right perfect (with a couple of exceptions naturally) if you would just take a couple of tiles out.
I have recreated your scene in this picture on my own just to show you what I mean by that:
http://rpgmaker.net/users/kitten2021/locker/testimage.jpg
Mind you, it is still great looking if you prefer it big, but you see what I mean right? I would like to introduce you to Anaryu, Solitayre and Krisanna - http://rpgmaker.net/games/1722/images/8008/ great game graphics wise and the environment is beautiful to look at. Just like Blindminds game I showed you...

Emptiness is OK to a very - VERY - large point and there needs to be a reason for it. But a forest empty...? A town or home with no people or life...? A store that larger then it needs to be for one girl and no one shopping in it...? No real reason for it. My recommendation to you, as a person that has done this herself MANY more times then I would EVER admit to anyone alive, I would recommend to you that you go and play a few other peoples games first. Start with Blindminds Beloved Rapture and Avarice by Anaryu, Solitayre and Krisanna... These games are going to help you out with your - as Liberty says - map-spaceitis problem, and they should help with your missing Life problem as well.

I hope this has helped to point you in a great direction, Worrierjeb. Your game sounds interesting to me and I would prolly play it when you're ready to release a demo (which BTW, should have at least 1 - 2 hours of play in it, just so you know ahead of time). Keep up the great work and I hope you have a BLAST making it - basically that is all that should really count in the end. ;)

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Good grief, what have I started...

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DURR HURR VARIABLES 2 COMPLEX GIV ME SCRIPT TO COPY-PASTE PLZ.

Personally, FG, if I hadn't been in this group as long as I have been I would take that comment as a very large insult; but I know you well enough to know your just being your self.

And in lo of your comments I have a response:
If I knew how to script I would of just scripted it myself. I am not an idiot, I had attempted everything I possibly could - plus did all research I could - as I previously posted. As well, I stated that if someone could explain it to me in a - IDIOT PROOF - way, I would of been happy to do it myself. But, instead, the script was just given to me with no incentive to try and explain to me how to LEARN to do it on my own.

Therefore, FG, I believe you're incorrect in saying that I just simply wanted the script given to me and hope this ends soon so as to prevent any troubles or anything else here in this thread.

@Kent, Max and Chaos:
I appreciate what was said up there, but in all honesty, I am an idiot to scripting. When I started here though, out of a scale of 1 - 10 I was a -5 in knowledge with scripts; now I can proudly say I am a +3 - 10 with knowledge in scripting on my own scale. MUCH thanks go towards you guys though... (you as well, FG.)

(Just thought I would get my own two cents in to save my own face, btw. No offense meant to you hun.)

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Holy shit, it's been just ten minutes, relax. People have other shit going on.

Feld... I loved your response. Laughed myself into oblivion with it... :3

Thank you, I am going to give the Paint.net a try and see what happens from there.

I don't know... I would guess my games (in my own mind, mind you) are fun because it usually deals with a lot of twisting and turning that the player (normally just me) has to try and keep up with. I enjoy mystery books and military (so action I guess) books so I try to incorporate those things into all my games.

And just for you Chaos: I suppose WHY this makes my game fun is because if any of you have ever read a Tom Clancy or Hardy Boy (when you were younger or whatever) or have read Lord of the Rings and (obviously) watched FF7:AC, then your getting these four worlds mixed into one. Therefore, I am appealing to practically 4 different groups of people and am expecting these four different groups of people to be playing my games (yeah right, I can't even get them out onto the web half-way finished!).

I suppose another thing that would make my games fun is that there's always a good story plot... Not everything is going to be a good decision, whether you like it or not, you might have to sacrifice a hero you love just to save another one or just to continue on in the game (hey, its a life in that RM game of yours, don't forget that they have to make sacrifices too!)... But, other then that, I agree with Deckiller, fun is subject to each person, so its hard to say what group I would be appealing to apart from what I have already stated.