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    Designing Canonical Endings

    Yeah unfortunately if you go with the all choices "matter approach" that's bound to crop up even then it doesn't really get at the concept of Cannon, like ME1 endings are all player cannon but in the mass effect novelization they have a clear "this happened" mentality making the Mass Effect EU...
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    Designing Canonical Endings

    I watched this video recently by Tim Cain and it got me thinking of how to approach canonical endings for multi-branching stories such as RPG games. His essential ideas for designing canonical endings are; Look for the Commonalities in all of the endings, and assume all of those...
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    Incline SHELTER update thread

    Its a really interesting concept for the game glad your getting back to working on it
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    Core Game-play Features You Look for In RPGs

    Speed up the animations, you realise animators get made when coders want to speed up their animations (theirs a fun quote in the making of Halo 2 or Halo 3 about that) Yeah the game is not gonna be heavy on the grinding, it one of the more annoying parts of modern games (IMO), I mean chasing...
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    What Game Project(s) Are You Working On?

    Has anyone else ever been laid awake at 3:30 AM in the morning crunching on game design and been like... Wounder what other games people are working on? I'm currently working on a T-CRPG title which well call SFX-II as I don't have a finalized title yet, a sought of blend between old school...
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    Core Game-play Features You Look for In RPGs

    Okay so originality is important in core game-play systems that makes a lot of sense as we play games to have unique experiences both ludic and narrative. I have some ideas for that sought of combing different aspects of turn based strategy games with aspects of old school CRPGs in which...
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    Core Game-play Features You Look for In RPGs

    Weirdly enough a old lecture of mine in media said something similar, word to the effect off "I can stand watching a poorly shot film but I can't stand a film with poor audio" so maybe theirs truth to this. I remember the speech mini-game they developed for The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, not a...
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    Is AI the future of Indie RPGs?

    Theirs always a catch... sad but not unexpected.
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    So how hard is RPG solodev? An AMA thread

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    So how hard is RPG solodev? An AMA thread

    Well not all weebshit is bad, like anything by YAS or Akira Toriyama is boss, mind you this is literally the definition of "anime weeb art-style" (I'm not a retro-anime elitist... well mabye I am)
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    Is AI the future of Indie RPGs?

    That codeium looks pretty useful might have to check that out later
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    So how hard is RPG solodev? An AMA thread

    Do you really want answers to half those questions?
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    Core Game-play Features You Look for In RPGs

    I know right like I have to make code that adjusts NPC's shop menu because outcome B happened in the Side Quest "The Man, The Women and the Muffin Shop"
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    Core Game-play Features You Look for In RPGs

    Well Tim Cain is one of the GOAT dev's for classic CRPGs and is one of my personal industry heroes along with the likes of Fumito Ueda, Warren Spector, Greg Kirkpatrick and Tetsuya Takahashi and a bunch of others Yeah I don't like spending my time in UI screens ideally want to be playing the game.
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    So how hard is RPG solodev? An AMA thread

    By 3.5 is that meaning you are in the process of developing a new title? Also what were the largest challenges you face in game development over those years? What was the overall profitability of your games? What engine did you use? Do your games share a theme and genre or do you constantly...

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