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I am not sure where to go from here.

Honestly I’m not sure why I’m posting this but perhaps there is someone out there who is suffering the same issues that I have been dealing with during their own time developing the world of which their game is belongs.

RPG Maker VX Ace has allowed me to do something I have always wanted to do and that is to allow people to enjoy the story that you created within your imagination but man is it not easy at times.

Sure I have released a few joke games in the past they allowed me to test out to methods for bosses to do things and making new ways of making player think when it came to getting out of a dungeon but those are not the stories I want to have remembered. I want the one story I have been working on for 4 years to be the thing that they get to see but things always seem to get screwed up for me.

Not that I’m trying to seem like a drama queen but having whole computer crazy 3 times and then the drive you had all saved data get ruined by storm and a broken computer just makes it seem like a force of nature has been trying to keep me from finishing this game.
If not for me getting the things I need back from old emails I would have trashed it all but I pushed forward anyways only to now find myself in the same pickle again.
Computer has crashed and all that I am left with is the beginning of the game again.
Countless hours of work gone by the magic of a thunderstorm.

I spent over a year polishing the story of this game to ensure that it was going to be good and I have something special but in all honesty I don’t know what I should do.

Should I ask for help?

I have tried a team in past but they all ended up stealing from me or ended up wanting to take things in their own direction on how they saw things.

I do not like conflict in fact I’m a very nice person I just want to keep people calm and happy so when it comes to things like teams I get worried that things will just become a mess again.

I won’t lie perhaps I’m a bit selfish when it comes to my characters and story I feel like if I let people help me it will lose the passion and the heart that I want out into this game.

People will say “It’s just an RPG MAKER GAME it does not matter at the end of the day how it’s made.”

That is true the program makes things a bit more easy on us who like me are not that skilled at doing something with games but we put pride in our work when we know it’s good and we want it to be good.

I won’t lie the story of my game does at points get feeling somethings because it’s not all about “OH KILL BAD GUY!” No each character has a reason for why they do what they do and it makes you wonder could I have been driven to such a level like that?
I wanted to make something that would keep people interested and make them wanting more and when you finally reach the final boss you understood why he was doing all of this stuff but you have to fight him because if you fail to defeat him everyone you came to know in the game will be gone.

Uh...I just needed to rant I guess I’m not sure if I will even leave this up

I just get upset knowing that I have something something that’s different and has some kind of THING about it I know people would love but I lack the skill or the luck to get it finished.