POLARCACTUS'S PROFILE

Other alias: Luchi
Age: 30
Current obsession: Granblue Fantasy






Enelysion
"A joy to sit down and play" - Addit

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BHY. LA can be Jan 2016.

It's awesome when your game gets a lot of downloads

I actually get more excited over subscribers than downloads. XD

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Absolutely. I don't believe in filler at all in my games, or useless features ( fishing, slot machines, creature breeding, crafting etc. ), or shunting in other stuff just because every JRPG has to have them. I don't even have puzzles in my games. Basically, anything that blows a 5-10 hour game into a 40-hour 'epic' is a no-go in my book.

I tend to design my games around my core strengths, rather than what is expected of a traditional JRPG.

Tristian may end up being even shorter than Enelysion for that, and not just because making custom assets is such a pain, but because LoTL's plot tends to be a lot more streamlined now, with more focus going into the motives of the people/players who dominate the world stage, rather than thrusting them into a save-the-world scenario, a plot that we've come to see in virtually every JRPG since the late 80s.

What are you thinking about right now?

@Dudesoft: That is one of the cutest things I have seen in a long, long time. I'm inclined to keyboard smash at the cuteness of it. ^^

Enelysion

iirc, it involves moving the statues around in one of the chambers until the blue torches light up. I haven't played my game in ages but I may consider writing a walkthrough for it. It is anything between 8-15 hours long, after all. XD

A couple of couples

Yes, you're absolutely right in that regard. Thing is, I love all the characters I create. It's just, I need to find that niche for Dante, because he is still a key player later down the line, even if he isn't a playable character. Worse case scenario, he merely exists as having that dreaded love interest-tag. But there is that sense of mutual understanding, perhaps even more, when I do the dialogue between Tristian and Dante.

And I am trying to cut out characters that serve as nothing more as filler ( I've already nixed about three characters from the earlier versions of Tristian, maybe even four ) because I'm constantly refining the writing of the plot and the characters themselves ( it also explains why I tend to get writer's block a lot >< ) until I get a draft I'm happy with. Which I finally have now after 2.5 years of development. So full steam ahead, I say.


Is that Dante and his lovable female side-kick from Adela Isra I spy with my eyes...? I loved that VX-game!

Screenshot Survival 20XX

More Tristian screens


Part of a semi-permanent army camp.


Inside the tiny medical cabin. I should probably make those beds bigger. ><

Tristian: Lady of the Lion

Well, I never did put the game on Hiatus, did I? ^^ Actually, I hadn't been working on Tristy some time before I made that little announcement. I hit that dreaded wall of creative block, but as usual, I climbed right over it.

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Visual novel format now, eh? ^^

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Actually, there is a heavy, heavy penalty if you use Cover too often. =)