[Serra Britt]

Yes I wouldn't mind either :3 I've been game testing for friends before but they were action games not RPGs so I think I'd have more fun with this :3

[Sushi]

Rpgs are my absolute favorite. The more options the better! lol

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Well, that's encouraging to hear. I'll have to start working on it again. Luckily, I'm a lot more productive at game design than I am at writing; I can actually sit and do it for hours at a time.

I've never actually compressed it and tried to distribute it online. I'll have to test to see if that works after I'm ready.

As it stands, I need to finish up the flashback sequence I was working on, tie it into the rest of the events, and then play the whole thing through to make sure there no as few bugs as possible.

A guide of some sort might help, too, as the bosses are seriously nasty.

[Jurinjo]

Ah the Game Maker! I found that thing years ago before they revamped the site and something or the other. I tried to do it, and it was fairly easy! But the moment they threw some minor scripting/coding stuff at me I felt daunted and just gave up. Things like that scare me... unsurprisingly. I'm sure intimidates a lot of people. I was one of the better folks as html & css in my class, but I hated it so much and only learned it so I could keep my grades up xD

But anyways I would like to test it! Please add me to a list if you got one xD

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Sure thing. :)

It should take me maybe a week or so to get it ready to go, assuming all goes well.

I know there are a lot of tutorials for the scripting floating around online, but I've never had the patience to try and learn. I hear it isn't that hard to learn, but I have no experience at any kind of programming, so I figure I'd have a hard time picking it up.

[Serra Britt]

Having some programming experience makes everything else a little easier, but I remember the last contest here with the coding puzzle and I was TOTALLY lost, and I do have some programming experience. I think I was just looking at how the variables worked wrong.

I'm kind of excited to try out your game Suzerain :3

[Suzerain of Sheol]

I should probably point out that it's very heavy on story. Though, that's sort of a product of being, maybe, 40% finished at the moment. The random battles are really only place-holders at this point. Stuff like that won't be done until I'm finished with the story and everything else. It's playable, though. It just feels kind of shallow. I've been working on fleshing it out as I've gone along, but I have a long way to go.

The plot's also kind of weird, since, against my nature, I made it up as I went along and some of the things that come up stretch credibility a bit. I've done my best to make it work, though, and I think it does, for the most part.

Oh, and don't think I mentioned, the battle system is basically Dragon Quest's (the older ones where you can't see the party). I know there are scripts for other systems, but for one thing, I like that battle system, and also, those are a lot harder to get resources through, like attack animations and what not.

One thing I can do either tonight or tomorrow is get some screen-shots, since I do have parts I'm proud enough of to show off. :p

[Serra Britt]

Hehe, I adore Dragon Quest so your battle system is fine by me. And remember it's best to test something as you go along, game mechanics break a game just as much as story does.

As for your story does that mean you get some of those "WTF?" moments in certain spots?

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Don't get me wrong, it's roughly balanced as is, to the point where it's playable both without the need for excessive grinding or being able to become too strong too easily.

What's tough is trying to gauge how much people are going to grind. I have it balanced for like... 15 fights between areas (when traveling for story reasons) which is maybe twice as much as you'll trigger just walking to your destination.

Stuff like that is easy to tweak, though, since it's all in the database. Doesn't require any complicated functions, just changing numbers around.

Plus, the bosses don't rely so much on huge numbers to be difficult as tactics. They all have complex patterns that put the player at a severe disadvantage most of the time, and in some cases, a counter isn't readily available and you have to just tough it out. That's something else that only playtesting can perfect, but I've been working on those a lot since I have to fight through them every time I test the game to see if my event coding worked right.

For the story, it's actually remarkably cohesive, in my opinion (or will be, once I finish this sequence I'm working on). There's just one moment that isn't so much ridiculous and contrived as it is... out there. Even then, it only really comes to the fore if you scour the bookshelves and read up on the backstory of what's going on. (One of the few areas in the game where I went to the trouble to detail the bookshelves with text ahead of time. I have a long list of those to do yet.)

[Serra Britt]

The bosses sound like the ones from Persona. So Suzerain, where do I preorder? Do I just send my soul to you? xD

[Suzerain of Sheol]

No need for any kind of application, actually. I'm hoping to able to put it up on Megaupload or something and let anyone who wants to download it go ahead and do so.

As I said, I've never tried sharing it before, so fingers crossed that it all works.

[Jurinjo]

Hearing some more details on the game....I'm ECSTATIC! 8D I know since it's still not complete by the time I get to trial test it (if I am) I'll be pissed xD But no worries that's normal for Juju. He's quite hateful towards machines when they don't obey his every whim haha ;;>w>

I'm so proud of you. Having stuck through making the game little by little for your own satisfaction. ^^

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Honestly, I go back and forth between being ridiculously proud at how much I've managed to get done on it, and hating every second of it, thinking it's complete garbage. We'll see what everyone thinks.

The idea is to get the section I have produced (which ends at a pretty solid break in the story at the moment) as complete as possible. I'm giving myself until this weekend, since the stuff that actually *needs* to be done to make it playable should only take a day or two to sort out.

[Serra Britt]

Your new avy looks nice, Suzerain :3 And if I did need a spear for my Etna cosplay now I know what I could use xD

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Thanks, Serra. No black this time. Well, just a little black. :p

Oh, by the way, I found this earlier, it's the same spear her special DLC weapon is in Trinity Universe and I think it's what she uses in Cross Edge, too. I think the red Spirit of the Tribe looks the closest to it, out of the items on Trisphee.

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/im...1194638409.jpg

[Serra Britt]

Well oki then, I'll go add that to my quest thread right now :P