SYNBI'S PROFILE

Tileset support could use work... parallax mappers, who always have to do extra work just to get simple things done, should get more tools to help them and not be punished with the silly engine limiting their efforts. And how in general the parallel process eventing is... just crap and so 1990's in how much lag just a few non-complex events can cause. Like its the same poor engine code reused from 2000 until Ace!

But... "RPG Maker 2015" will probably just be something designed solely for smartphones in mind and be limited in scope and ambition. There has to be a year for the company to goof around, when most of the staff can now finally take good long holidays and temp interns code something just as proof for showing up for work in the meantime.

author=shogungari
Looking at most games on this site it seems people don't use the default resources at all

Most games use some form of default resources in fact. Sound effects, default UI layouts, message box styles, font etc. RM scene is very forgiving and generally supportive of the RTP.

One problem is that some of the default resources don't always seem to be in agreement with each other, basically. Some RTP graphics clash horribly with each other and seeing them used together just feels to me the game maker is putting less effort into his game than they should, and in return I'll be a little less willing to try out the game with those impressions in mind. In the best case it doesn't do the game any harm, but poor or devil-may-care attitude to mixing RTP resources never adds to its credit.

Ace's faceset generator is a prime offender, those portraits just never seem to work well with anything, they don't mix with RTP tilesets/charsets at all and are an eyesore almost universally. Another is Verdana... the horrible default font that thankfully any beginner can change easily with a few lines of code.

Worry less about using default resources, pay some more thought to the hard stuff like balancing and how not to get overwhelmed with eventing and engine limitations at first.

author=shogungari
Edit: And I actually like the music. :( There's some really awesome themes included.

Sure, only it doesn't tend to mix well with much anything else than other RTP music though, so you don't have that much to work with.

I'm working on a simulation/trade/diplomacy/politics-RPG that for once in the longest time I can actually say with confidence will see some sort of a release in the horizon! Mostly thinking of backstories and ideas for its characters at the moment. No random battles here, all enemies you encounter are unique guys and gals with different strengths and weaknesses, and your goal isn't necessarily to beat em all up, but maybe to get as many of them on your side as you can: and it might be necessary, because they might also team up and hunt you down together if you piss them off too much. I settled to have about 35% of the rivals you meet to be assigned random factions/strengths/weaknesses to make things more interesting.

Having a blast with simply eventing and writing dialogue, perhaps just for the fact that this time I decided not to map any towns, which I always hate making, and forcing myself to endure them just grinds my projects to full stop. Here cities are represented simply by "here's a list of locations, where'd you like to go?".

"As a game developer, you don't rake in millions of Makerscore without performing some sacrifice on the altar of Gaming." -Franz Liszt

author=LockeZ
WildStar Online suffers badly from high number syndrome. You can do upwards of 1000 damage per swing before you hit level 5.

They've scaled the numbers so high because higher numbers are easier to tweak for balance. Reportedly they're going to scale the numbers down for launch. Not a bad approach, honestly.

Original Paper Mario is one example where extreme small numbers end up as a detriment: I felt its battles often ended up repeating their motions, as there wasn't any variation in damage and everything became predictable once you had fought a certain group of enemies the first time.