New Charas Chain Game

[Prpl_Mage]

Fish mentioned that he might have time to work on his fixes.
So when you feel that you'vr done with the stuff you wanted to fix- send a copy to everyone involved.

[DragonBlaze]

Just sent the fixes to you and Fisherson, if anyone else wants this version, let me know.

I sadly didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted, but that's life. :/

[Prpl_Mage]

Great, so what's left to do? Still the balancing issues?

I could probably give that a kick and send it to Fish so he don't have to put effort into that.


Also, may I fix the enemies in your chapters? You made the same thing Moose did at first, escape is not allowed from the battles.'

Did I get the right version btw? I noticed that the enemies at the start of chapter 7 are unchanged.

I did what we talked about, reduced the hp of enemies in chapter and increased the gold and xp reward. I also added some new monster graphics to the start of chapter 7 just in case you didn't have any time to do that yourself. Didn't change the overworld monsters though, I want Fish to have it as fast as possible.

[Momeka]

So are we actually going to finish this? How much is there left to tweak anyway?

[Prpl_Mage]

Fish got the game and is doing his fixes and a sidequest.
Not sure if DB was finished or if he wanted to add anything more, same with Moose.

I'm done and you seem to be done. So we're pretty done when Fish is finished.

[DragonBlaze]

Great, so what's left to do? Still the balancing issues?

I could probably give that a kick and send it to Fish so he don't have to put effort into that.


Also, may I fix the enemies in your chapters? You made the same thing Moose did at first, escape is not allowed from the battles.'

Did I get the right version btw? I noticed that the enemies at the start of chapter 7 are unchanged.

I did what we talked about, reduced the hp of enemies in chapter and increased the gold and xp reward. I also added some new monster graphics to the start of chapter 7 just in case you didn't have any time to do that yourself. Didn't change the overworld monsters though, I want Fish to have it as fast as possible.

Hmm, I just worked on the version that Moose sent me via PM, so I'm not sure if the changes to the enemies in Chapter 7 were made or not. Do you have a version with the changes to those enemies? If so, I can take a look and see if/how they were changed, and reapply the changes if needed.

In my personal opinion, I think the game could use some balancing. All that really matters though is if the game isn't impossibly hard or annoying, so if everyone agrees they meet that requirement, then I'm fine with leaving the game balanced how it is.

And I didn't really think to test the ability to escape from enemies >.< my bad. Feel free to fix that. If you don't have time, let me know and I can make the changes myself.

Honestly, there are still so many little things I want to add to my chapters in order to make them how I originally envisioned them as. Realistically though, I don't have time to do everything I want to, so it's probably best to leave my stuff as is because done is better than perfect. So I'm happy making the game as finished when Fish is done and if Moose doesn't have any more he wants to add.

BTW, did Fish ever confirm that he got the game and started working on it?

[Prpl_Mage]

Fish confirmed that he got it and been working on it lately. At least he updates me from time to time on skype about it.

[Dr. Ace]

Jesus Christ you guys still working on this?

[Prpl_Mage]

The actual game has been done for a while. But you know, additional contents, man.

[Dr. Ace]

This project has really gotten out of hand. Additional content? What? For an RPG Maker game? Guys, is that really needed? This thing should've been finished in August.

[A Forgotten Legend]

With it being so close to completion, I think the tidier the game is the more it can be used to show off our community.  Rm2k3 isn't really used a whole lot anymore, and to see a community still dedicated to it is cool.  It may of taken more than a year, but I'm excited to see what you guys have come up with.

Another thing that might be a good idea in the future is to use dropbox to share the game with eachother.  Just put the game in a folder, share the folder with everyone, and then when you update the game it'll automatically update for everyone else, too.  With that, just note when you are working on it in a forum topic and then when you finish so then people don't save over eachother.  This way multiple people can technically have the game at the same time.

[SaiKar]

The funny (or the sad) part is that I don't think I even want to play it at this point because of all the complaints that certain parts are too hard / tedius / long / boring, and the various justifications of not changing them.

[Prpl_Mage]

The funny (or the sad) part is that I don't think I even want to play it at this point because of all the complaints that certain parts are too hard / tedius / long / boring, and the various justifications of not changing them.

Which I find funny 'cuz we have changed them.

[Momeka]

Yeah, pointing out things that doesn't work so we can fix them is all part of the development cycle. I assure there is a lot of good stuff in it, they just doesn't get mentioned as much as the bad stuff since we don't need to work on them.

[DragonBlaze]

This project has really gotten out of hand. Additional content? What? For an RPG Maker game? Guys, is that really needed? This thing should've been finished in August.

You know what they call projects that release with all sorts of ignored issues? Crap. I'm not saying this game will be great, but it would really be a shame if we ignored all of the little things after we spent nearly a year creating the chapters.

The funny (or the sad) part is that I don't think I even want to play it at this point because of all the complaints that certain parts are too hard / tedius / long / boring, and the various justifications of not changing them.

I wouldn't count them as complaints, but more of developer feedback/criticism. I would be much more worried if we didn't call out potential issues as we saw them. Personally I've played through various stages of the game 5 times now, and I've become very particular with certain balancing things, so I called them out. It doesn't mean that I think it's terrible, and since it seems like people don't really share my viewpoints on those, it means they're probably not big issues.