Kes

Go with the flow and leave file security in the whims of fate?

this post has inspired me to try the challenge. my first thought was "how bad can it really be?" then i thought about it for another moment and almost gave up.

OOoooh can I see them?

@Nightblade50 I have no internet for the next week or so (am away from home) so can't upload anything from my laptop. I might eventually include them in a post on Game Map & Screenshots thread.

This might be shocking but.... How do you back-up a project? Copying it to another folder?

@Elliott404 Copy your game folder to somewhere other than your computer - USB memory stick, external HD, Dropbox etc. No point copying it just to another folder if your computer dies. Add a date to the file name so you always know when you did it.

Oh. It's that simple?
Thank you, sir.

@Angelkitty510 As your games were not made with an RPG Maker engine, then they cannot be posted on this site.

"No worries, everything's fine!"

-Famous Last Words

All I have to lose is my Database. Which, I guess if I lost it, I could put it back together in about two days, minus animations. Oh, I guess my cutscenes and baseline maps. But, they're somewhat replaceable. Still... HAVE BACKUPS! My backups happen to be pen and paper... and a USB Stick I usually misplace.

RM editor seriously needs a reminder for their user to back up their project.

Of course, many Fantasy Worlds have their own terms for such things, so really any word can be used, as long as it makes sense.

@OmnislashXX True, but that doesn't make rouge or dukedom any the less bizarre.

I guess @Kes . What a mess.

*get spammed

Men In Black?

@Marsigne Yes.

tbh, I have lost so much work due to not backing up, and i still rarely backup anything... #livingontheedge

I done one ever time I work on it.

I do one every time I work on it. *

I've moved your thread into so and so forum. Please try to post into the correct forum next time.

I'd love to see that happening someday.

Safe to do it now, the time's up.

At one point he asked for pens, went to a bit of blank wall & in 5 minutes drew a self-portrait.
Why the guitar? Because he plays it, and quite well, he gave us a mini-concert.

Why is that an image & not a link? If you click on it, it will take you to the post with 3 photos, including the completed drawing.

My friend has a history of running into famous people. There was the one time we were at Magfest and he spotted Keiji Inafune (the creator of Mega Man) in the dealers room. Of course, he got his picture. And then one time, he was sitting in a quiet restaurant at some horror convention and Robert Eungland walked in.

Like me?

Some ppl just give up after a day not getting an answer. It happens. I tried to ask a person in discord to try to ask it in the official forum, they give up.

Some ppl might just got an answer in other place and forgot to report here.

Some people used different forums. @TheoAllen, see you on the rpgmakercentral lol.

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I'm new on this forum so I don't know what your talking about...

My phone messed up the macros. Sorted now, just says Closed, without the move bit.
@Lilly We do not delete threads apart from a few exceptional circumstances e.g. illegality, flaming.

Okay..Thanks for clearing that up.

Maybe we should add this to the rules of Game Mechanics Design.

Question: does it still need the approval to post like it used to be?

@TheoAllen Game Ideas and Prototypes is no longer a moderated section, so you can post direct. There is a suggested template to help people.
@slimmmeiske2 yeah, good point.

Probably would be better if you PM kes instead of posting on his/her profile...

Ah! Drat you're right... Sorry I'm new here haha
Apologies. I will do that.

"Liarbox"

You can change it name to a illusion box or a big mouth chest.

Thanks so much guys. I made the update more as a moan than anything else. I didn't expect all these ideas to come flooding in. Nice to see creativity in action.

fallenlorelei... that is okay to do but remember, if the harddrive fails your backups are worthless. Its best to have backups on a different drive or source. I usually back up my projects to google drive <_<

You should backup, the backup of your backup. I remember the horror story of about a month ago where the dude lost 3 years worth of game, because he did not back up the project.

Yeah, ideally you'd backup in several places. On external hard drive (this is quicker if your project is big and internet connection isn't as fast), and also on the net somewhere in case you lose the external HD, but it can take a while to upload a ~500 MB project. I backup once every handful of days on external HD, and about once a month on the internet somewhere.

Doesn't it mean to climb up or down something quickly using your legs and arms? Makes me think of someone sorta hugging a tree. xD I imagine it's a fairly uncommon word outside our isles, @Kes.

@The Stranger I guess you're right. Trying to convey that with a synonym doesn't seem possible. I'll have him say something else.

I love using these sorts of things in games, though. Regional dialects and what not can really help breathe life into your characters. While playing Ni No Kuni 2, I was introduced to a whole town of people who used a Midlands dialect. It put a bloody huge grin on my face, what with being from that neck of the woods an' all. Man, I do love me some regional dialects in games\stories. xD