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That's pretty much all correct.

As far as the black orb, that requires a slightly longer answer:


I'm glad to hear you felt that way about the graphics and sound; I agree with your philosophy about what makes quality almost completely. Obviously modern gamers are going to want a fully rendered 3D environment, but hopefully everyone recognizes that older styles can still be slickly packaged.


If you mean professional experience, no. My education is in theology and literature, whereas my career has mostly been in information technology.

I've been playing games since I was a child, and I always try to critically analyze what makes things work, be it a book or a game. The desire to create has been with me for a long time, from text adventure games programmed in QBasic to a more recent effort like this. I've spent plenty of time outlining better games, but never actualized most of them simply due to the difficulty. But for this I decided to finish something to the best of my ability, just to have something complete and give a full game a shot. That's probably all there is to my background in game design.

I was working full time during those three weeks, but other than that the majority of my time was spent on the game. Obviously the idea was older than those three weeks, as I like to let my story concepts simmer until I feel they're exactly what I want.

Basically, I looked over what graphics I had and the capabilities of the program. I tried to have no more than one dungeon per theme (forest, lava, etc) and tried to have a different design concept for each area. For example, the forest is all about the invisible maze, or the initial mountain is about easing players into the game. Once I figured out roughly how many areas I could manage, I put them together in the way that seemed most logical and then started producing maps and writing events.


Yes, but how about I send it to you via PM?


I do realize this is a concern for many, and if I were to be creating a game for anything other than free download I would keep it in mind.


That’s a generous offer, but I’m afraid I don’t have anything like that. I’ve struggled with how to create a decent trailer for a game like this – my imagination exceeds my ability.

Are you doing this full time? Do you have to work to make income to live?

Even the forest level how you force the player to learn the mechanic of walking through trees before they need to use it in a more complex manner. That is smart design!

Would you elaborate on this sentence more? I don't quite understand it.
"but in the sense that Ecclesiastes is a Christian book, not in the sense of gold WWJD bracelets"

Everyone talking about your game is making me want to play it.

What is stopping you Ross?

*EDIT PS* You might consider adding a comparison chart to see what weapons/armor are upgrades to the character. I really like how it looks and feels though.

**FINAL EDIT* I quit. Troll is OP. -_-;; I will try more Monday probably.

uncreativepseudonym, may I call you by your real name here or is it better not to? I'd like to put a free games section up on the Rebel Planet website and would like to put your game on there, just a link to your Antagonist Website and the download. Would that be okay?

Hey, I noticed you were using Hamster Republic's RPG engine. How do you like that engine in comparison to Enterbrain's RPG Maker engine? I know the Hamster Republic one has been around for a while so I was just wondering. I think I tried using that one a while back, but was a bit confused on what to do.

Enterbrain's engine costs money, so I haven't really tried it, sorry. The OHR engine is fairly straightforward, but it's not even trying to be user friendly. Use it in conjunction with their website, as you can't really learn on your own. It has enough flexibility (especially if you want to learn the associated programming language) to make more than cardboard-cutout games, but what you can do with graphics is fairly limited unless you like pixel art.

Average level is 9 or so. All of my players did 1 damage to him while he dealt 55 a piece to each player. I forgot to do any MP refreshers on Ishmael before I went into combat so that is probably my fault...