SCITYDREAMER'S PROFILE

I haven't really shown off progress on here before, so here's some third stratum stuff from my game, Slimes.

Also ooh, I really like your art style, orange!

author=Bory
There is a funny bug, where if you talk to the tile in front of priest-slime in the church-like floor, a dialogue will trigger. After the dialogue ends, no battle starts.
-if you have killed all slimes but the priest, you get a reward for completing the floor
-if you have killed the priest, the dialogue still triggers.


When you complete a fight, you should automatically get your ammo reloaded (you can do it in the menu, but it is annoying).

It is possible to use healer to build 100 focus during a battle and then heal from menu (outside of battle) everyone. You have infinite uses of safe rooms, so technically, you can recover after each fight (but it would be annoying). If you remove infinite uses of safe rooms, player might find himself in an unwinnable situation. So, I have a suggestion about the battle system:
after each battle, party fully recovers, reloads ammo and healer's focus is set to 20. Encounters become harder, but from each floor, ~1 encounter is removed.

Another issue is the fact, that the majority of skills you gain are useless. I used only shogun, pistol, take aim, heal, heal all (rarely), concentrate, bleeding slash, clean strike. Nothing else is needed. I have several suggestions on how to make certain fights more difficult and to require the usage of certain skills to be beaten. If you are interested, feel free to PM me.

Thanks for letting me know about that bug! That encounter originally started by approaching the priest from the front but I guess I forgot to remove that.

I've actually received feedback before on reloading the guns, but I choose to stand by it. I'm basing it on my experiences with shooters in that you have to remember to always keep your gun loaded, or else you're screwed over in an actual fight. It's an experience that I kinda want to carry over.

So about using Healer to build Focus, I actually introduced the Rage status ailment to punish players that stall to restore focus. If that's still an issue, I guess I'll have to buff that?

On the issue with skills, it ties back into the rage thing. Enemies throwing out buffs and debuffs are meant to encourage you to use your own buffs and skills to counter that. Unless you have other ideas, I'm thinking I should make those enemy ailments stronger to push you to using other skills.

author=Liberty
Neat write-up!
Have you thought about submitting it as an article to the site?

author=Cap_H
Hey, It was a pleasure to read your article. Pls, publish it here.

Alright, yeah, I've been thinking about publishing this and my RPG Maker preservation and John Clowder articles here.

Forgive me, I'm not sure if this fits in here or "What's Happening in Game Make."

Thecatamites makes a bunch of small-scale games but in this sphere you probably know him for making Space Funeral. A few days ago, he published this long thing about his experiences in RPG Maker culture. As somebody interested in early RPG Maker culture (I even wrote a thing about RPG Maker game preservation for my blog), I think it's a fun read and wanted to share it.

Reading it kinda has me wondering what other people's experiences were with early RPG Maker culture, as I wasn't really around for the early stuff.

Thanks for the review and I apologize if you expected an actual fishing minigame!

Also dang an 8-Bit Theater reference, that takes me back.