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I've been working to include dynamic economy in two of my games, and it's the main reason why I still want shops to become part of plotscripting sometime in the near future. I've found that the best way to create a dynamic economy is to first set a GNP for the game world to a global variable, and th...

My point is we call anything and everything "art." I could cover a canvas with glue, whip a Scrabble game against it, and make up some jibba jabba about it representing the oppressiveness of words and language in modern society, and BOOM. Museum display. I think you should try this and se...

I (mostly) love the idea you're running with, but I do have a few suggestions. 1. This should be a quasi-serious game. "Beating the snot" out of anything is going to ruin the aesthetic. If you're gonna make an artist game, then the dialogue should sound pretentious. Pretend like you're lis...

Nathan, is that Maces Wild? If it is, I've got five words for you:

Heart of the OHR 2012.

Stay focused, bubba.

Maybe I just want a direct template port of Super Meat Boy here, but is it possible to add the remains of failed attempts to this game? That was my favorite part about Meat Boy.

I can see now why higher frames per second is so important for the OHR.

Personally, I'd like to play Option 3: The Da Vinci Ultimatum . Sounds like it would be all kinds of cool. I'd love to see FnrrfYgmSchish's art style dominate that one. I had a contest years ago that some people entered but nobody actually released a game for that I had spent months writing and prep...

Going on experience I can tell you that making manually controlled staircase movement is an exercise in masochism, especially if you have trailing party members. Heck, any kind of staircase control is painful if you have trailing party members. Your stairs look simple to navigate, but I can warn you...

I may be reading too deeply into your post, but it looks to me like you may be overcomplicating things a little. The point of zones is to cut down on the need for excessive write map block commands (among other uses). Consider this: you can stack up to 15 zones on a single tile. Although zone compar...

I'd be happy with: -12-16 map layers for multiple weather effects or tall, complicated structures -tile clusters so that large objects with many clones (like tall trees) can be "stamped" without having to lay out several tiles for each clone by hand -larger tilesets so that panoramic scene...

What I like about the game from these Youtube videos is that everything seems to run just a touch better than the OHR does. It's very subtle, and almost unnoticeable, but I'm pretty sure the screen scrolls at a smoother frame rate. The map fading also looks a little nicer. Or maybe it fades a little...

Well, I think a rerelease is a rerelease no matter how it's released. If everything changes but the name, then maybe I'd count it as a new game. But why would you rip out the original style of gameplay to convert it into an RPG? Seems like a waste of all that extra scripting you did to make it a non...

I like the name Apophenia , and I also like the name Viridia . Even if both names have little or nothing to do with the games themselves, I've gone so long knowing them by those names that I would feel funny calling them anything else. It would feel like that one time long ago when Charlie Sheen wan...

There's a good chance I may be entering this one. I've got an untested concept I'd like to try out, and this is the perfect contest to see how well I can get it to work. If it does work, I'll likely follow it up with a HamsterSpeak article in June. The article would focus primarily on design and pro...

The second concept doesn't seem very strategic to me. How would dishing certain attacks based on time progress the battle? How would the player plan his attacks? Maybe I'm missing a key factor here, but it seems like it would work slowly and would be slightly the definition of antifun . The first co...

Amusing. How long did it take you to make that?