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I'm going to attempt to resurrect a very old RM2000 game for the Revive the Dead contest. I want to redraw the enemy sprites but I remember that you can't just use any colors willy-nilly without them being converted, so I was wondering if anyone had a palette of the required colors, or any information.

Also, do most people just use midis for RM2000 games these days, or do they work out someway to use MP3s?

I'm curious about your opinions on this: In an RPG, is bringing back all the previous bosses and putting them in the final dungeon (perhaps with increased stats so they still challenge the player) a neat idea, or just a cheesy cop-out?

I always found it neat in old Mega Man games when they had you fight all the robot masters again, and in Chrono Trigger they had Lavos (in certain situations) mimic each of the bosses from the first half of the game.

But is reusing bosses like that just padding the game, or will players find it interesting to see how they fare against the same bosses now that they have greater access to skills and abilities?

I'm talking about the sort of relationships you find in Bioware games and other games where you can romance one of your allies. The only real version I've seen is the one where there are generally a bunch of multiple choice questions and it pretty much comes down to: If you can guess the answer that the person wants to hear, you can get them to like you more, and eventually move the romance further, until you have another multiple choice question, and then rinse and repeat.

But genuine relationships in real-life don't go that way. People like other people despite their differences, and while they generally don't like people who are mean or disagreeable, that doesn't mean they're going to lose respect for you if your likes and dislikes don't completely match up with theirs.

So, what if in a game while you still have the questions, but your answer doesn't raise or lower how much the other person likes you? What if, instead, the answers alter the outcome of the relationship more than on a simple "S/he likes me vs S/he likes me not" aspect? Such as, a character who has a philosophy that you, through your answers, disagree with causes her to inspect her own feelings on that philosophy and thus triggers a new scene about it later in the game?

I guess what this basically boils down to is: Can someone remove the whole sense of 'winning' or 'losing' from the equation of in-game relationships and still make it fun for players?

Thinking about the somewhat recent Game Name Game contest, I thought it might be cool to apply the "Short pitch" to existing games, as I often see people struggling with encapsulating their own games without huge blocks of text.

So I thought I'd make a game of sorts. It goes like this: Pitch your game (or a game that you like that could use some love) to me in 15 words or less. Underneath the pitch, put a link to the game's gamepage. Do not list the name of your game in the pitch or in the link, as you're selling the game on the description alone.

This will both give people pitching practice and give me more games to try out XD Remember though, the point is to get across what makes your game unique and worth playing in just 15 words or less. Also, it's preferable that the game at least has a demo, so we can see how your pitch translates into gameplay.

I have a skill that's basically White Wind from Final Fantasy; it heals the party equal to the caster's current HP.

I'm using the simple damage forumula of "a.hp" for this. However, while it works at first, as it goes down the line of characters and heals them, after it passes the caster, the spell heals the rest of the party more, as it's basing it off of the caster's now healed HP rather than the HP they had when they cast it, if that makes sense.

Is there a way to fix this, or is this an oddity of the ability that I'll just have to live with?

Thanks in advance :D