SBESTER'S PROFILE

I'm trying to make a "position-based" system for my new game, Fragile Hearts, but I don't have the timing aspect of yours. My idea is more environmentally based, where the player will have new battle options available to them depending on where they are standing/where they move to. The main problem with systems like these is the amount of time it takes to program it all, especially when trying to create different environments.

Anyways, you should definitely see what you can do, it sounds pretty cool to me!

author=LockeZ

Honestly, I think there should be a length requirement on reviews. The ability to give a score to a game is a very influential power here considering it directly impacts the game's visibility and downloads, so it should require a lot of thought.

It's only so influential because it's so rare. If every game had more ratings, then every rating would be less influential. And the end result would be that the trustworthiness of the overall rating would be a lot higher - 40 reviews are a lot more likely to balance out to an appropriate number than 2 reviews. With 2 reviews, it only takes 2 of the designer's friends or 2 people who barely played the game but hate the engine to fuck up the game's score.

It's like on trivia game shows when the contestant decides to Ask the Audience. Some of the people out there are stupid, but by looking at the trends you almost always get the right answer.

It isn't working out so well for RRR. People vote there without ever playing the games. If all they had to do here was write a few short lines, I could see a lot of people making bs reviews just to get their votes to count. The format of RMN is way better, no matter which community you like more.

Thanks, Amerk!

I'll definitely be using this review when I upgrade this installment. In fact, just reading through this, I got a whole bunch of new ideas on how to improve certain parts of gameplay and plot! I'm really hoping that the upgrades will allow these games to intertwine a little better, having more fleshed out narratives as well as improved gameplay.

I could probably write a book on the number of problems I ran into while making this particular entry to the series (there are probably still some lingering bugs), and having my five month time frame didn't do me any favors. It definitely helped my work ethic though, and I have a lot to work with when I start on the Trilogy Editions. I wanted this game to be somewhat unique to the series in the features it uses (day/night system, linear narrative, wonky dungeon designs), and it is easy to see what worked and what didn't. I'll take it as another learning experience and utilize those lessons when tackling all future endeavors.

Stepping out of my forum break for this one, as I saw it on the main page.

VideoWizard's and newdisciples' games should stay.

I think we should focus on abandoned games rather than the RMN "standards" bullshit. Link 2112 is finding some good examples.

If you hate rips so much you're probably on the wrong site. :P