TheoAllen

For me, it was the first time I saw my uncle playing Final Fantasy on the NES, back in 92. I was obsessed, instantly.

For me it's always been turn based. I remember trying to figure out Ultima 3 and Might and Magic I as a kid in the late 80's...didn't do so well in either but once I got older and tried the Gold Box D and D games, I was hooked.

I always think everything is MV related unless something in the post makes it obvious it isn't :X

Yeah, what @Hudell said. I really gotta stop doing that.

Me too. It's always so awkward when you answer and they tell you that world doesn't revolve around MV.

When something that you values (or you really need) are in the game as well, then it is even better xD

I think this is true ... I feel like I got more done all around back in my school days because I had due dates for things.... but now I dont, and I can't seem to impose upon myself my own deadlines :/ . Why should I? Who's going to give me an F if I dont make it?... i know theres a bunch of faulty reasoning with that train of thought, but thats just the way its gooped up in my head right now. :/

I remember the you made which uses it. Ermidia or something.

I remember it. I also remember we had a chat about the AI.

Peperage farm remembers.

You... bastid. I was just fixin' to go to bed.

@Traveling Bard unfourtunately that won't work since lack of mana, unless those skills have no costs at all

You can trade things like cost for skill cooldowns. Maybe even build up combo points. Zeboyd games' games have good examples of this. Especially Cosmic Star Heroine.

@Traveling Bard I'm Gonna check it in night

One time I wanted to rage-quit a biochemistry exam because there was no methionine so how the heck does translation start?! The scope of bio chem 1 did not cover the exceptions to methionine being a start codon so I thought it was a huge gotcha question. XD

Then maybe that means your game is better than you think ^^

Theo--my bro, you doubt yourself too much. I had a blast playing your game, both of them. I want to see the story continued.

There are two possible answers:
1) They lied about being hard to impress.
2) Your game is actually fun.

I hope that person didn't see this

Its a good feature but the way rm game developers implement it sucks.

Yea, equipment should be consumable like fire emblem where it breaks after few hits.

That's right bro, you tell them features not to be creepin' on your side of the road.

Me every time I think of a new feature: "That sounds cool, and you know what? I'm going to implement and test it!" Cut to two years later, when I'm still trying to implement, test, and re-implement that same feature...

@Wavelength That hits too close to home.

Same. And then of course, once you're done that thing, you're unmotivated and tired.

Just as bad as having time but no inspiration...

Happens to me all the time. I get all these good ideas then when I get home and turn on the computer: "What are words?"

Depends on the game. Old D and D games 0 HP is just KO, -10 is death.

The same could be said of a car!

@Wavelength A car produces 0 HP while the engine is off. That does not make it dead.

@mishakoc it's ok, I just won't respond or care about your RM analogy. It's an entirely different matter in my opinion.

@mishakoc I think I've read somewhere that edits still belong to the original creator, not to the editor. Can't remember where I read it, nor do I know how true it is. Maybe I just misread one of the licenses I have or something. lol.

It's probably Andar's post somewhere in the forum. I recall such line as well.

Good job!

Does that mean people on this forum is very active or does that mean you're someone who know which topics are nice ones to join?

@BlueMage TheoAllen is THE man around here. The big cheese. If there's one person you want, need, to know on these forums, it's TheoAllen.

@BlueMage that means the topic get derailed from "how to game dev" into "what is the meaning of life"

Bare-bones features that are supposedly intended is an excuse to let developers get off the hook for not putting in the effort to make it something engaging. The inclusion of mods should never be an excuse to not put effort into a feature.

I'd argue the bare-bones features are essential for moddable game and it does not always need to be engaging on its own. It is not an excuse, it's a decision.

I think having a game being able to be modded is great Unless there is a strong sense of 'missing' things in the base game itself.