LOKI123546'S PROFILE

I agree with kentona. If it's not a highly interactive game, which you have to constantly interact and do things with the NPCs, also don't bother adding it UNLESS it is needed. For example, just an NPC that says for example "The morning is great!" only needed to be there to give the town an example of a population instead of just being a blank town.

An example of important Non-Playable Characters are those who give depth to the game itself, for example the Old Sage (or something like that) that feeds the player information about the gaming world's history, et cetera. NPCs that have a lot to say that is important to me are considered definately appropriate to put in a game. A highly interactive game would be Razkertim. Also like demondestiny, NPCs are also important because some are destined to interact with the player to give them something, such as a item that is important to a quest or a mission briefing, all of that sort.

I would not recommend NPCs in the middle of no-where because they have a tendancy to add to the question "Why is a person, all alone, right in front of the boss monster?". A GOOD reason is that they can give information to the player about the area they are in (like a certain danger or how to do things), which is usually replacing the normal all-powerful SIGN. Usually, NPCs are a great aspect of RPGs because they contain everything that the player needs, which I have said above. Also they give a 'balance' to the game. If nobody has already thought about it, NPCs are essential to the game, balancing gameplay within a game with the story in dialogue. On the other hand, sometimes bland dialogue is boring...

The game's homepage seems to not work with much BBCode (for example, Size). That's just a suggestion, though.

EDIT: I'd recommend a Article tag (e.g. ).

Normally, I would create cutscenes running by a single event that inputs all of the commands for the scene. For example, the main event would control all other events, such as the characters on the map, or even shifting tilesets, to messages. That eases the reliance on other events so you don't lose track of the order of the event commands in your cutscene.

I just got a Vista theme for my computer today and it's looking pretty good. Heres the links for it:

Multi-Patcher Download (you will need it to use 3rd party un-signed themes):
http://themes.belchfire.net/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=3532

Theme Download (VistaVG Blue):
http://themes.belchfire.net/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=6804

These aren't direct links to the files. You'll have to find the "Click here to download" links to download.

Generally, I'm asking what theme you use on your Windows computer. Currently I switched to Royale. If you want my theme, go here:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/uploads/royale_noir.rar (WinRAR required)