Storyteller-Hero

@Storyteller-Hero That's rough. Feeling for ya

Well, if i'm still alive by then, there's always next year, and I'll be able to start right away by at that time if they do the same thing again.

P.S. for anyone who has an old Mac, if your computer is already having problems, don't update the OS - my already damaged hard drive couldn't take it and got stuck in an endless restart loop with drive locked. The last OS update not so long ago went smoothly so I didn't expect the drive to tank. Even Time Machine wouldn't have helped, apparently.

But there's more than 15 days.

What I had in mind for the demo would have barely made it to the deadline because I'm still learning how to event. A few days lost plus a few more to re-organize my resources has made it unrealistic for me to finish in time.

I could finish something simple, but it would be neither competitive nor representative of what I wanted as a first game made in the engine.

Yeah, she's made some fantastic plug-ins. I really like her horror effects plug-in.

The horror effects plug-in actually surprised me. I thought it was just a screen-wide thing until I saw how the plugin could affect individual actors - that makes it versatile enough for a lot of non-horror themes as well.

I'm using it to create a video effect for when the player looks at monitors. It's much better than using either a static video effect image, or manipulating multiple images to create the illusion of movement.

samkfj, feel free to send me a link to where it's streaming, but I won't be able to give full feedback 'til after the IGMC deadline, when things have settled down. I'm juggling quite a bit to make sure I have time for stuff.

@bgillisp Steam's documentation even recommends your trailer be focused more on gameplay and action than the traditional longer, more drawn-out theatrical trailer. I kind of bank on that personally 'cuz putting together gameplay clips is simple enough but I just don't have the creativity or skills to make a better trailer, nor the resources to hire a professional to do it for me.

After I've completed enough to sample from each of the seven ensemble characters' storylines for my game (free demo will have the first chapter of each storyline), I'll make a sample trailer and use it in a basic guide (on the forum) with sample outlines and tips for improving a RMMV trailer. Almost anybody can make a good trailer if they have sample outlines to work with. That'll probably be in January or February.

We need a petition to add more hours per day for sure.

You'd also need to shadow clone your computer lol.

Hey, if you found anything on my thread you'd need, lemme know if you need something in a pinch.

Just so I can send you a message and say "Hey--you get that thing I sent ya?" Always wanted to say that to someone.

Thanks. For now I'm going to sleep and hope that I don't have nightmares about people getting their stuff pulled off threads because they forgot to check the terms of what they attempted to share. There was a lot of that in the second half towards the earliest threads. Yikes.

I'll be lucky to even finish my first prototype in time, but if things go faster than expected, maybe I could submit a second entry. Dreamers can dream.

For example, one game disabled certain commands during the opening battle tutorial, to guide the player as they learn to use the interface.

Give the player the option of skipping tutorials , especially if nothing is particularly unique about your battle sys. This goes double for replays on your title

You should create a thread to ask for help, don't use status updates. Firstly because you have a better chance to be seen, secondly because status update are not meant for that.

Try checking the MV forums. Should be a link for help. As Dreadshadow already stated you can start a new thread and ask for help.

I'm using iBooks Author to drag/drop all the resource image files into a flip book, labeling them as I go and separating into chapters labeled with the source names. This way I can go through the images very quickly just by scrolling. There's a similar program for Windows if memory serves correctly.

The act of making the flip book also helps me become familiarized with all of the images in my resource folders.

LOL! I have so many I would need two books. Sometimes I don't even remember what's on my pc.

I'm still learning the engine itself. My one advantage might be that I have experience with fictional writing and art design for paid products so I mainly have to worry about the technical stuff.

I've found hundreds of edited icons among the English and Japanese communities, so it should be enough, at least for now.

if you have access to a windows pc I highly recommend using the Yanfly icon generator. It is absolutely fabulous.

I use a Mac only but now I'm tempted to Bootcamp just for the Icon Generator.

I might return to Tsukumate to check out their plugins and window skins but for now my total resources have grown by a titanic amount thanks to a relatively sizable MV community there.

Bookmarking and cataloguing the MV resources on the English forums now. I had some doubts in the beginning about how close I could come to making the cool games that I really want to make but with all the materials available there are so many possibilities. Story ideas are swirling around in my head with every useful building block I find.

I can decide what I want to use later, but at the very least I don't have to worry about waiting if either yanfly.moe or dropbox are down.

I also got a good look at what Yanfly made possible, and it's given me a greater landscape for my ideas to bloom.

I suggest you only add them to your project when you decide you need them. Better than trying to remember what you've used and taking out the rest later. And we recently had someone post asking for help with something that was not working properly, exactly because he'd added all of Yanfly's plugins, figuring he'd remove what he didn't need later.

That's right, horde all of the things! Then all you'll have to worry about when websites disappear is not knowing who the hell to credit, but you'll still have a graveyard full of resources you cannot safely use publicly.

PSA: Always rename resources in a way that tells you the creator, and don't forget to horde terms of use as well as the resources themselves.

I've been placing the artist name into each individual file name, and keeping a screenshot of the terms with the name from the thread.

There's so much here that I'll probably have to make a separate flip book when I organize it more, just to be careful in separating purchased resources from free resources.

I feel personally attacked bcz I took down my blog months ago. It has a lot of embarrassing stuff that I couldn't stand to see it.

I was particularly happy to see that there are Dragons in the pack that match the classical Western Dragon style that I want for my game, and they're side view friendly, more or less.

I believe in you. You will, you will.