kurin

Yeah; I already have it (and currently only have like $2 on Steam), but I know the feeling and I definitely wanna get some more assets while they're on sale...

Welcome to the "VX Ace club," a phrase I use to refer to people who firmly stick to VX Ace! I own the licenses for both MV and MZ, but I deliberately use VX Ace for all my projects. I can go on about in paragraphs of writing on why VX Ace is so much "better" than MV and MZ in many ways. I did mention a bit about my preferences in this post though. Of course if a person's goals are different, MV or MZ might be the "better" engine, but at least for me, the pros of VX Ace far outweighs the cons, while the cons of MV and MZ far outweighs the pros.

ace master race

You know what, I extremely felt the same. I prefer VXA over newer engines.

All three, but usually I have story element/game idea in mind beforehand.

Programming for me I guess. :3

♫Come on, baby, won't you show me what you got, yeah; I want your salvation, whoa-oh-oh...♫

lolz
Only one way to know for certain. As is, it would be the only RM engine I can't use...

@PhoenixSoul vx ace can be pried from my cold dead hands, mv already bugs me because the assets all just look. CLUNKY. and it feels way more tedious to add scripts ("pLuG-iNs") imho

I think that some of the MV assets are decent, namely the angled faces from the generator parts, as well as some of the sprite parts like the hair and certain other bits.

That said, I only ever use the opinions of others as guiding points.

A good parent is a pillar of guidance and nothing more...

Almost daily, and sometimes more than once in a day.

Sometimes I think. Most of the time I speak monologue aloud instead though. :P

Hop to it, Frogger. lolz

Mm-hmm. I hear that.

In essence, a MIDI file is one large piano roll keyboard with note annotations.

Try loading any of the MIDI files from any song for FoF/Phase Shift/Clone Hero, and feast your eyes on all the piano roll notes for every single instrument part charted, including vocals, drums and dance. It doesn't seem to load in vocal harmonies or two-handed/pro keys though...

Yeah, I know. No one plays rhythm games anymore. It's just an old, dead fad, right? lolz

I'm not sure... Sure rhythm games are an old dead fad, but fads are a bit like the great old ones. They rarely truly die, just wait for the time when the stars are right to raise from their slumber and spread madness over the world once more. It's the way fads tend to be. Even those fads that seem to linger on as undead abominations after all the life and soul has been sucked out of them until they are pale shadows of what they once were seem to be able to spring back to life if the conditions are right.

Hence, Clone Hero's current popularity.
Actually, Indie Gaming in general is upticking in popularity, what with 'games as a service' being forced on the sycophants...by the sycophants...

What about when you wanna make an animatic of your characters singing "no homo" but you realize they actually homo?

@Kayzee oh, my characters are 100% homo >:DDD

"oh, my characters are 100% homo >:DDD"

No homo.

Phew, saved you.

@PhoenixSoul @Kayzee oh true? I thought that was a term everyone knew :0

executive functioning is essentially- the cogs in your brain. you know how when you think "I wanna do this today" and you do it? that's executive functioning.

executive dysfunction is when you think "I wanna do this today", but you're still glued to the spot you're currently in. your brain, nerves, everything is saying "IF YOU WANNA DO THE THING DO IT NOW" but you're still sitting there. not because laziness or "not really wanting to do that", but because- well- that one cog in your brain that actually gets you up to do something just isn't working, no matter how much you really want to stop sitting there doing nothing. it can mess up your time management, planning, problem-solving, etc. and it's prevalent in people with mental disorders like autism or adhd. (I'm autistic fyi)

so most days, I think to myself "I wanna draw/write/be productive", but end up doing nothing but watch youtube videos or lurk on social media because that specific function? doesn't work. not to say it NEVER works, but I really have to push myself to plug in my tablet or pull up google docs if I actually wanna get any work done.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I have basically the same problem. I have been diagnosed with aspergers and adhd. But honestly? I am not sure if being diagnosed as such is really that informative or helpful. It seems like it's a bunch of symptoms that no one really understands thrown together in a box. Some I have, some I don't. I am not saying it can't be a useful tool to get help, but I wonder sometimes if thinking of these types of problems as 'mental disorders' is misdirecting people. It really doesn't matter, it's a problem regardless.

When it comes to not doing things, I might have a broken brain cog, or I might just be lazy, or I might just not want to do things as much as I think I do. But what I suspect more then anything else is that all three are true. I suspect that the actual problem with my brain is that I just don't get the kind of endorphin rush that normal people get for doing things. I just don't find things as rewarding. As a consequence I don't really want to do things, even if i do (yes, you can in fact want and not want something at the same time). And because of that I become incredibly lazy which causes me to want to do things even less.

Here is the interesting thing though: I don't think this behavior pattern is actually universally bad. If we consider the opposite scenario, it's easy to see how someone might be caught up in having too much of an endorphin rush, causing them to because impulsive and/or have an addictive personality. It seems to me like more and more 'normal' people are being preyed on by people who exploit human psychology. Is some of this in fact an adaption created in response? Who knows? But either way, it can get really annoying.

I can safely say I have the same executive dysfunction issues, though they're triggered externally, for the most part (meaning that it's other people spreading me thin and stressing me out).

what the fresh hell happened here

I don't judge what characters people like; I'm not some doting, admiring and ANNOYING AS FUCK FANBITCH. lmao
(a battle of context versus wording is what happened)

But half of a language is context. If you aren't using English in the context of English, you aren't really using English. You are using a zombified husk of English that might use the same words but has none of the soul. Same with any other language too. Also: English is an odd language sure, but language in general is pretty odd.

Also: @kurin What's that look for? Can't two girls just be complete rambling lunatics sometimes? :3

Not sure what that is, but an epiphany is an epiphany.

No better time, really.

Why not? Most of fiction is people projecting their issues after all!

@Kayzee

I always find those kind of passive battlefield effects rather interesting, especially where the battle field it's self has states of sort that change how battle works for everyone and can be harnessed by with some strategy. A bit like the weather effects in the Pokemon games.

Like maybe there is a song that fills the battlefield with holy light, which may heal most living things but hurts undead and/or demons? Both allies and enemies would be effected, but most of the time those types of creatures are enemies. Also there could be a reverse version some enemies could use that fills the battlefeild with darkness that heals undead and demons but hurts most everyone else.

Another example might be a version of the Bard's 'counterspell' ability from D&D or maybe more like a multiturn Runic from FFVI in the form of a song. Basically something that prevents spells from working when it's sung, but again effects everybody. There probobly should be a way to tell a bard-type to stop signing on their turn or play a new song.

Maybe also so you don't end up switching songs every round, they could start out not that powerful but get stronger the more rounds you keep singing? I donno.

If there can be only one effect on the whole battlefield that might also mean enemy bards can sort of block yours and visa versa.

(what I saw at first glance)

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just a passing idea, but how would y'all see singing as a battle mechanic?

Yeah, I'd go with a Final Fantasy type thing where once in song, the battler cannot do anything else.

@PhoenixSoul (I edited it bc I felt the word choice made it confusing :V)

I've got a list of Animated battle scripts in my topic for Animated Battler resources.

I have the simple side view battle system; not using it for my current project but it is a good one.

@Holder just gonna bookmark every single script you linked in that thread because this is a HUGE savior

How else are you supposed to do it? I suppose you could try to commission one but good animators don't grow on trees ya know.

Also: VX Ace's video player is kind of terrible. I don't think you can even skip videos.

@Kayzee I'm mocking my own laziness lmao, still gonna try to do it, I'm too broke to commission somebody

Honestly you could probably do something cool enough with still images or in-game graphics without needing to actually fully animate anything.

@kurin Hey! Awesome birthday gift!! 

Not bad at all.

@PhoenixSoul Oh it is, it really really is. That doesn't necessarily make it bad though, and most programing languages are weird in their own special way. Thing is, I actually sorta like Javascript in a lot of ways. You can do some neat stuff with it I hear. I just happen to like Ruby more and know it better.

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I just happen to like Ruby more and know it better.

That makes two of us, well, as far as knowing Ruby better than I do JS...lol