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[Harveyjames]

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[Mr. Mechanical]

That was a nice video, Bob. I enjoyed it. I would even be ok with the game just being a series of fetch quests where you talk to someone, they ask for something, and then you go find it for them. Just so long as the context and the situations in which you fetch these items is interesting and fresh, I honestly wouldn't have much problem with it. After all, what else is there to do in an RPG without battles? Either way, good luck.
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[Greng]

block images and it magically appears as text... how neat
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[XORDYH]

Only for the very last part, he just put an alt tag on that image. All the news bits are image only, which makes it a pain in the ass to visit any of the websites he lists.

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[eskaibo]

The irrelevant-info-not-stopping-the-game thing's nice.

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[Kimani]

So it's an adventure game. Unlike Lucasarts style adventure games, though, this seems to be set in a large-scale, living city, with - from what I can tell and guess from the first video - lots of NPCs living in what I'm guessing will be night-day life cycles. A more dynamic world like that could make for interesting adventure game gameplay. Has that been done before?

I'm thinking that one Majora's Mask quest. You know the one. But a whole game like it.

Game has potential if it's going to be like that. Especially if he pulls it off well. If he intentionally made the player go into the basement to come across the circuit breaker, that's the right way to go - guiding the player towards the answer, yet letting them figure it out. As opposed to making the circuit breaker handle shiny and flashing and making it obvious or something.

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[Kappuru]

[XORDYH]

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[schild]

In all seriousness, why don't you port it to the iphone and publish it there?

And on that note: How serious are you about getting published on the DS? Do you have any companies you want to work with? Do you need contact information? If you need the latter, shoot me an email, schild AT f13.net - what the hell, I can be a good samaritan every now and then.

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[manmachine plays jazz]

oh, so this is shenmue with cute graphics.

[sarsamis]

It looks like one of those games I'd buy because it's just so damn charming and hip, but then regret doing so later when I realize that it's just not fun.

As charming and detailed as it is, I sort of dislike that aesthetic when it's been the whole damn point from the get-go. Like, I'm the kind of guy who can become engrossed in video game grass, but it bothers me when I know that developer expects that of me. Rather than noticing on my own how beautiful a tree is, I'd just feel like I'm inspecting it because you told me to, and the whole thing comes off as a mundane chore. It's like how house cats get excited when they find random water, eventhough they've always had it in their dish.

[Ratoslov]

There are companies that can make a custom game cartridge out of a rom. I reccomend contacting one of them to fulfill your chunk-of-plastic needs, and selling the game digitally, rather than waiting for a big-name company to pick up your game. In all probability, they won't.

[Harveyjames]

Yeah, don't WAIT for it to happen. You have to H-U-S-T-L-E, bro! I work as a freelance illustrator and I have a website to showcase my stuff, but ALL my work comes from me getting my ass out and promoting myself in the real world, and even just ringing companies up. It seems like a daunting thing to do at first, but once you've done it a few times it becomes like second nature.

Here, hopefully this song will get you in the right mindset. http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=0gLbV6WDX60
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[Kappuru]

What's your website? How's freelancing? I'm thinking about doing more of it.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

It just occurred to me that I was wondering a little while ago how you could make a good sandbox game on the DS.

I'm not so sure this is it, much as I admire the effort put into it.

[monaco]

Some fonts are ugly, as the enlarged sprites in textboxes, but damn that's a clean engine.
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[extrabastardformula]

Don't sign a statement of intent.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

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[Moogs]

"What? Are Yuu stupid or something? Can't you see I'm on the last level?"

Is there significance to this or just some gross oversight and you really intend to replace "you" with "Yuu" for the entire game? That might not be such a good idea if that's the case.

And you might want to nix having the camera move to each person when they talk, I don't think it's necessary and it might just get irritating to see the screen snapping around under the text bubbles.

And uhhh... how about a different sound effect for button confirmation? or none at all. This is important. High-pitches tones cause fatigue and no one will want to play the game for lengthy periods of time.

I think it looks promising, personally. Like, I dunno... a melding of Animal Crossing and Earthbound.

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[shnozlak]

Text boxes take up a lot of real-estate and lack boarders.


Engine looks really solid I like the snap to talking person feature but it makes the in text box picture of the speaker kind of redundant.
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[Koji]

Hey Bob, nice work. I like the engine, it does have some nice improvements over the typical JRPG bullshit. I hope you put that amount of thought into the gameplay and plot as well.
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[Daphaknee]

it is like shenmue mixed with touch detective
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