~Screenshot Central!

[Moosetroop11]

I like the look of that broken part of the wall. Do you get from the dungeony type bit into here and go like "Oh wow a palace"? Wait that wouldn't make sense since she's in the portrait.

[Prpl_Mage]

That's sweet, but I can't decide if I like how the walls fit the watery parts or if it would look better with some contrast.

[Archem]

That's a decent point. I think it looks fine, but for people with color blindness, the two colors are very similar, and could become difficult to tell apart, leading to obvious confusion. Maybe something can be done to help fix that.

[Meiscool]

Zoltar: Yeah rm2003

Archem/Prpl: I agree also with the color choices. I actually rotted my mind trying to figure out a good set of colors. Since this is pretty much the only area of the palace with water I'm not gonna put much more thought into it.

Moose: Good eye.

[Momeka]

BTW Momeka, any progress?

Made a couple of maps. Haven't gotten further than that, been pretty busy lately and the little free time I have I've been spending on other projects. I do like the idea I had for the game so I will probably go back to it in the future.

Fully animated palace entrance with mirror goodness.

I love the color scheme you got going there. The place looks really interesting.

[zuhane]

It's all messy and debuggy at the moment, but here's some of the proto I've been messing with:

[Prpl_Mage]

Well that is looking sweet, how is that thing coming along?

[zuhane]

Thanks Purp my PC is broken at the moment, and it has the most deluxe programming set up ever, so progress is pretty
stunted at the moment as I work from my laptop. It's a long-term project, so expect to see lots of other games before this
ever gets released!

It's a pretty neat little system though. You can free-run and scale practically everything, including moving enemies, and there's
a boat-load of physics integration being added. Also, your grandma's 1980 DOS PC could practically run it!

[Archem]

Also, your grandma's 1980 DOS PC could practically run it!

My grandma's dead, and her first PC ran Windows ME.

:I

[zuhane]

Jesus Christ! You've really put me in it now, Archem.

Sorry from the heart, bro.

I would love to see some more posts here as I always get really excited to see what people
have been working on, even if it's only minor adjustments. I always feel like people always want
to really polish every screenshot and release updates rarely, but I'd just be quite interested in
seeing what people are working on, or for people to put some extra time aside for game making.

It's the thing that brought us all together at one point, even if we have all moved one and become
overburdened with commitment and other things. I know we all have busy schedules and reasons
each to our own, but to see some real RPG Maker experts, programmers, artists, musicians, and
just generally really cool people not being allowed to creatively blossom is just a terrible shame!
Of course, hypocritically, I'm no better myself

I've seen what you're all capable of and some of the games, demos and concepts you've all collectively
created over the years have been amazing. With huge budget titles always on the rise, games seem to
gear more towards vast scales and huge, open worlds. With RPG Maker, or with any development
tools creating content released as Freeware, we have restrictions on what we can build. However, I think
because of that, we have to come up with really solid game mechanics and good aesthetic appeal. We don't
have to compete with that huge market of churned out repetition, because we don't want to.

When was the last time you saw an incredible (and I mean INCREDIBLE) rm2k3 game, XNA or Game Maker
game? There have been many great releases over time, but overall, when compared to some budget and indie
games, it's still hard for them to hold up and stand the test of time (in my opinion).

I feel that smaller games are interesting, as they're a complete projection of one person, or a small group
of like-minded people. On the off chance that another group somewhere has the same niche, they can
appreciate it more than EA / Activision 's latest money-grabbing recycled trash. I just guess the take home
message is that I just really want to see more activity on here again. I check charas quite often but I
don't often see projects being worked on. If anyone's willing, we could possibly dedicate a time to creating
something each with a tiny deadline, just to get some life flowing around again!

Rant over

[Moosetroop11]

I agree, Zuhane! I love seen the screenshots! Having said that it's hard for me to find the time to actually play the games >_>

As for myself, I'm still making that platformer on and off. But I have so much going on...

[Archem]

Jesus Christ! You've really put me in it now, Archem.

Sorry from the heart, bro.

Don't be too sorry, she's been dead since '07. I mostly just said that to fuck with you.

[zuhane]

It totally worked mwahaha.

Skibbady bop dooo wap! That's Archem!

Get some screenies up, Moose I tend to work better in parallel with people, and I get more done
when I see other people doing the same thing!

[Momeka]

Looks nice, zu.

And here is some junk I've been working on:

This is the most active project I got going atm. Currently working on getting collision up, the plan is to turn it into a top down shooter.


Here some mock ups for the graphic of gameboy color game I never got around to do.





Here's another color mock up, didn't go much further than a background.

[Archem]

Here some mock ups for the graphic of gameboy color game I never got around to do.

Looks a lot like Metroid II. I liked Metroid II.