HeroineOfTime

Oy, procrastination is like, everyday life in pretty much every thinkable situation. It's interesting to see you all analyzing your experiences with procrastination, since I honestly never really brought myself to think about it. I kind of... procrastinated too much to think about procrastination? Anyways; I think it's especially interesting for me that you see answering private messages as procrastination, Riki. Replying in WhatsApp (for example) is pretty much like work for me, haha! Weeeeell, that being said - I think I'd like to try to get to the bottom of my procratination as well! 1. When you're not doing what you've planned to do - what do you do? Most commonly - watching videos on YouTube while lying in bed like a weird cross between a pig and Baloo. Sometimes I'm just napping the whole day. Other variations might be listening to music while staring out of the window with soulless eyes or playing repetitive games. Wow, I'm really lazy- (Sometimes I'm also cooking, though. The food usually tastes gross, but theoretically it's eatble, I guess...?) 2. There may be things, that distract you and make you procrastinate - what usually distracts you? I think mostly it's fatigue. I dunno, maybe I just slept very badly or am too exhausted after a day in university so that I just feel like doing nothing at all. Which is kinda funny, since I also feel like I did actually nothing in university as well. I'm not a good student, huh. Whoops? Meeting with friends and other socializing things might keep me from working and sleeping as well, sort of. However, there is another reason for procrastination that I experience pretty often. It's the feeling of being trash. ...Wow, that sounded more emo than anticipated. I just meant that I'm constantly afraid of doing something stupid or something that's not good enough. It's... a weird sense of perfectionism I guess? I want something to be as good as possible and have so ridicolously high expectations to myself that it's just too hard to get something done, because it's simply not good enough. Do you know what I mean? 3. What helps you stay motivated? Deadlines. (growling thunder can be heard in the distance) I think we all know the feeling of a deadline being dang close while the work isn't even remotely finished - you probably didn't even start working on it. The panic monster screams and scares the instant gratification monkey off, so you finally find the strengh to work on something in a rush of adrenaline. For me, this feeling mostly occures one day before the deadline. Heh. Speaking of panic monster and instant gratification monkeys - I watched a TED talk about exactly that topic. I really recommend you watching it too, it's pretty entertaining - just look for "Inside the mind of a master procrastinator" by Tim Urban on YouTube. But... do us all a favor and don't watch this video about procrastination to procrastinate. Something that helps me stay motivated in terms of creative works may be deadlines of other projects as well. For example, if there's an important deadline for some term paper or something, I get surprisingly much motivation for working on my game... Oh boy, I'm really not a good student at all. Other than that, music may be really inspiring sometimes. Also, I think you all can agree with me that nice feedback is a bliss. ...Gosh, writing this post was too much work for me, I think I'll take a nap.

Hello everyone! ♥ Sooooo... I have a script request to make. I’m afraid this might be a tough one to crack (I'm not sure, though), but I hope somebody can help me out…! Basically, I’m working on monster encounters. There’s an event on the map which follows the player, and if this event touches the player, the battle will start (via event touch trigger). Moreover, if the event touches the back of the player, the player starts the battle with some disadvantages. I actually managed to event this successfully, but then I faced a problem I didn’t consider. I’m using a caterpillar script in which the followers are treated as events. Oh boy, stupid me. In other words: Now, the monster-event doesn’t only have to be triggered after touching the player, but also after touching the caterpillar events. Theoretically, this can be done by eventing with variables and parallel processes. Normally, I’d do exactly that. However, in this case, I have several follower-events being potentially triggered by the touch of several monster-events on one map, which means that firstly, I’d need a ridiculous amount of variables and secondly, the map will probably have some serious lags. Like, the really, really bad kind of lags. (Are there even “good lags� Well, this is most certainly not one of them.) So – here’s the question: Is there a way to let an event be triggered by touching another specific event? Maybe there’s a way to let these specific follower-events (maybe by marking them with a comment) be treated like the player when the monster-event approaches it. Or something like that. I honestly don’t know. If you have better or easier solutions, I’d welcome them with open arms. I really tried out a lot of different stuff and googled like a maniac to solve this problem, but without avail. I really, really hope this script request will be more successful. As help, here’s the caterpillar script I’m using. It’s by Zeriab. Thank you very much for reading this request! I hope somebody can help me out with this. (Pretty please? ♥) If you need a demo, just ask and I'll prepare one right away! And sorry for bothering--

OH my gosh, Amysaurus, that's absolutely perfekt!! I'm so happy! I'm really sorry that the artstyle caused trouble, but I gotta say - it tourned out wonderful! ♥ Thank you very, very, very much for your work. ♥ Is it okay if I use "Amysaurus" for the credit-mention or do you usually go by another name?

Hello, everyone! ♥ Thank you for reading this. In the project I'm working on right now, there are two friends named Drake and Kyrie. The sprites of each character were easily made; the thing is: I really need a sprite where Drake is giving Kyrie a piggyback ride in the style of VX/Ace sprites. I desperately googled for piggyback sprites to edit these myself but it was no use - I didn't find anything. That's why I wanted to ask you guys if you could create a piggyback sprite of Drake and Kyrie for me or if you know of any piggyback sprite I could edit. It's for a non-commercial game - credit will be given, of course. Here are the sprites of Drake an Kyrie: - Drake - - Kyrie - I hope this is a manageable request...! It would be really nice if somebody could help me. Best regards! ♥

Of course I like it! I love it! You helped me out like a true hero ♥ Thank you very, very much! And eventhough you already did so much for me, you're still so helpful, oh my. I seriously don't even know how I could properly show my gratitude. (o_ _)o You're the best!

I'm SO sorry for the late reply! I was on the move all day, so I couldn't check it sooner. (Real life may suck sometimes, but I swear, the "screenshots" you can take are totally worth it. Oh my trustworthy camera. (‘∀’â—)♡) Anyways... IT WORKS, IT WORKS, IT WORKS. ♥ Oh Noddy, you're a genious. Honestly, you're a genious! I really hope I didn't cause too many inconveniences - and man, you don't even have to take another look anymore. I mean, yeah, sometimes the state still won't be inflicted, but it seems to me like it's way better already. Also - a good writer is successful in explaining. You can always make small things look like they were TOTALLY intended. *adjusts her glasses* :'D Seriously though, it's already absolutely nice; I'll totally take it as it is right now. Thank you so, so much for your hard work and your niceness (that's a real word, right?), it really means a lot to me! ♥

Wow, you are so quick! Thank you for all your efforts; I don't know what I would do without you (well, probably hating myself for not being able to get it to work)...! (*∇*)｡ Also I really want to thank you for the information regarding kingsofrpg and uploading files! Noted! I think I'll look into dropbox soon. Now that you mentioned it - almost everyone here seems to use it. Okay, I really should have noticed it sooner... O-oh well. Oopsies? :'D Okay, but back to your nice work - Again, thank you so much! I tried it out and it basically works - the right character is taking the HP damage. But unfortunately it seems like the protection state vanishes when the inflicted ally hasn't any MP left. Plus, I noticed that for some reason the protection state isn't getting applied sometimes. Like, it seems totally random when the ally is inflicted with the state after the skill was used. I'm not really sure why... Especially because I just tested it and even without the mana shield script, the problem won't be completely solved. It seems like there is a higher chance for successfully applying the state though, since I feel like the state was more often infliced when I removed the mana shield script. I'm so sorry; I'm causing more problems than doing any good! ๑•Ìㅿ•̀๑)

Are you using parallaxes? Maybe that's the cause. (These are beautiful maps, by the way. )

Aww, Noddy! Thank you for your reply! (o_ _)o Of course - that's no problem at all. ♥ Uhmm, to be honest, I never uploaded a file before, so I'm not sure if it's important where I do so. Since the attach file-function here says that I'm not permitted to upload this kind of file, I figured I just use tinyupload.com. I hope that's okay! This should do the trick! (Or should I rather say "this should recreate the problem"? Well, whatever floats your boat.) Thank you so much for looking into it!

Hmm, I think this may be a bit tough to answer without looking at your events. Could you eventually post pictures of them? This could probably help everyone trying to solve this (me included).

Hello, my dear reader! ♥ I hope this is a managable request. I have two scripts here, which are used for creating special states. Especially for interesting skills, these states are very useful. The first one I'm speaking of is the mana shield script by Kingsofrpg. It basically turns HP damage to MP damage when hit. The second one is the protect skill script by Kal. When the state is inflicted on an ally, the person who did that receives all the damage that is targeted to the ally. These scripts on their own work pretty good, but using both of them in an project will cause rather nasty problems. As far as I can tell, the mana shield works perfectly fine, but it somehow seems to mess with the protection skill. When using the protection skill, the ally that is inflicted with the protect-state (note: NOT the one, who inflicted this state on the ally) is taking MP damage. Yup, that's not a typo, I really mean MP damage and not HP damage. Furthermore, the ally can't even get inflicted with the protect-state, when he/she has no MP left. In addition, the ally also can't get inflicted with the protect-state, when he/she already is inflicted with the mana shield state. Maybe it's worth noting that the protection skill-script is placed below the mana shield-script. Changing that order causes even nastier problems, which include error messages. Oh! And because it probably matters, I want to mention that I'm also using Tankentai. I hope I didn't left out some crucial information. If there are any more questions, I'll gladly answer them! Here are the scripts I'm talking about - - Mana Shield by Kingsofrpg - - Protect Skill by Kal - So... That's it! Thank you very much for your attention...! (o_ _)o

I think the most intresting part for me is not the expectation of some great, professional stages, but rather the pure fun of rashing through some nostalgia. Super Mario World-stages and stuff. Maybe having fun with some references (like this one stage from MatPat "THAT'S JUST A THEORY"-guy) and enjoying driving others nuts by ridiculously hard levels. I'd enjoy playing stages from friends all over the world, but let's be honest - with the options given in Super Mario Maker, no one is really capable of making games that would even remotely be a competition for Nintendo. I'd buy Super Mario Maker once I'm not as totally broke as I'm now and I think this game is a really heart-warming way to honor the late president. But Zelda Dungeon Maker? Nahh, that would be WAY too much.

Banned for using this emoticon-thingie which is creeping me out ｜−・;）

Oh my gosh, the "eeee MACARENA!" almost killed me... and the awesome picture behind that step gave me the coup de grâce. Seriously, wow.

I know, this isn't my thread, but wow. Guys, start working on the new newspaper - our headline: The glorious knight Noddy with his epic coded sword strikes again! ♥ (What do you mean by "that's too long"? THEN USE A SMALLER FONT SIZE. Geez, these journalists nowadays!) But seriously. I can't believe it, because I had the same issue - BUT DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE IT UNTIL NOW (so... thanks Raistlin for... well... helping me fixing a bug without even knowing there was a problem?). And kudos for Noddy again. You're totally great, dude. Ë­Ì¡Ìž(â—žâŽËƒá†ºË‚)â—ž*✰