Did I mention this would be free? Did you not see Fallen Angel Olivia's Octopath Traveler's battle system paid plugins? Of course every job deserves to be rewarded for the work done, especially if you specifically requested it, that's a given. 😉
If you like and get along with a specific plugins maker, then you can hire them to make all of the plugins that you need for your game and pay them for everything at once instead of paying each plugin. 😉
Also, since you like RPGs, this is a challenge to yourself to develop and use your charisma to convince other people to help you just like Tom Hall managed to convince Eidos Interactive to keep funding Anachronox even though Eidos was ruined because of having invested too much into Daikatana and was aware that Anachronox would NOT be profitable, they still made the unprofitable decision to keep funding Anachronox to the end all because of Tom Hall's charisma. Keep in mind something very important which is that RPGs are designed from how the real world works as in we evolve from our experiences the more we try things and intelligence and charisma opens all doors. 😉
Yeah, you got your point across, you can't bear to depend on anyone but yourself, however keep in mind that rejecting offered generosity is just as selfish as ungratefully taking advantage of it because both are driven by untamed ego, never forget this. 😉
So? Did you learn anything from making Empty-66822? Did it make you earn experience? Do you think you could make it better now? 🤔
This is why I eventually grew disgusted of japanese culture even though I have been an otaku for a decade because I eventually figured out that japanese culture is among the most hypocritical cultures in the world, they sell the opposite of what they actually are and do, conformist employed adults fantasize about independent extra-ordinary students as if life was over as soon as they graduate from school and becomes pointless after school life, they admire independent characters whereas they are the most conformist people in the world, porn is legal and is even the 2nd most lucrative industry in Japan yet actually showing genitals is prohibited, japanese people fantasize so much about helpless girls being raped that their hentai industry features almost exclusively rape porn, and as to be expected, Japan has the highest rate of rapes in the world, japanese society treats women like shit and they are taught to like it, japanese women never express pleasure in porns, they express only shame as if they were not allowed to enjoy themselves, only to be used by men, almost all hentai are about girls getting raped by tentacles and it is always the same unoriginal thing and not only in hentai, they pretend to be imaginative and creative however all that they produce is actually the same, being manga, anime or video-games, they all follow the same patterns, you already experienced a few japanese fictions then you actually experienced all because they actually have no imagination and endlessly repeat the same patterns again, again and again, moreover their society is all about S&M because all of their relationships revolve around dominating/submissive, they are clueless about fair relationships because their society is one of the most unfair in the world and yet, they are too busy fantasizing about the opposite of what they are than to actually fix the mess that their culture is, I genuinely grew sick of japanese culture and I can't stand it anymore even though I have been a clueless otaku for a decade until I eventually figured out they are hypocrites who sell the opposite of what they are and do, they trap people into their extra-ordinary matrix so people live into their fabulous matrix, don't see actual Japan and don't try to fix the mess that it actually is. 😒
I'd love to see some Persona about an unemployed dude in his 30s, haha. I think that would be awesome.
This is EXACTLY what I want to make! Well, not a Persona because I never played any of them and I think I made my disgust for japanese culture unmistakably clear already therefore there is no way in hell that I will inspire myself from anything japanese because there is actually not much good material to take from them as everything they make is the same and everything they make is hypocritical, I appreciate occidental fictions more partly for their actually credible characters and I actually want to make occidental JRPGs as in mature 2D RPGs which feature as much personality as JRPGs (but not as unoriginally stereotypical as them) as opposite to generic occidental RPGs and as much credibility as occidental fictions (except Gordon Freeman who is a scientist who behaves more like a Rambo than an Einstein 😏) as opposite to unrealistic childish japanese fantasies, I want to extract the best from both styles then balance them and add my own ideas to develop my own style. 😉
First rule of games making that every good games makers know: You have to make a game that you would enjoy playing yourself. 😉 This is the difference between people who want to be paid to make games and people who make games because they want to get paid. 😉
I am not doing anything anymore currently and to be honest, I am more looking forward to help you make your game than making mine because you already started yours and it only requires improvements, which is far easier than starting from scratch as I struggled to start mine whereas I have already provided you with a complete plan to improve yours just by playing it and giving you a thorough feedback including suggestions to improve upon what you already made, didn't I? 😉
Oh. And as one alien man once said: ""Done" is better than "perfect"".
Who is this alien man? I understand and I approve of what he said. 🙂
No, it's not as if you were obsessed or anything, it merely occupied your mind for a few years until you couldn't take it anymore and had to make it happen to free yourself from this thought, this was definitely not an obsession... 😏
I see, your grandfather was perfectionist, I know too well this curse of never ever being satisfied of what we do because we can always improve it, Leonardo Da Vinci was burdened with this curse too because he said that he was never ever satisfied of anything he made because his hand was not at the level of his mind, which is why the greatest artists are never ever satisfied of what they make even though they are admired and they are admired specifically because they never stop improving their works and therefore produce the greatest works that people already satisfied of their works could never produce but this curse of perfectionism is an exhausting burden to wear, I can tell you that much. 😓
Erm... Are you aware that your whole story is contained within one single hidden scene of your game when Mari explains what is actually going on because the rest of your game is a mess which doesn't actually tell any story and I had no idea what was going on until Mari told the game's story? 😅 I mean, I started as an ordinary high-schooler, living in my parents' ordinary house with my sister (who I still don't know if she is my big sister or my little sister since she is a generic sister without even an actual name 😅), going to school, playing games with my insufferable best friend (who was such an asshole to girls that I was expecting him to grow jealous of my popularity with girls because I respect them and eventually turn into an antagonist that I would enjoy beating up and humiliating 😏) and blatantly hitting on his sister with who I understood I shared a mutual crush and with who we shared our first passionate kiss (which is why I was SOOOOO disappointed when I discovered that SHE was my companion all along that we never interacted with each other to resume where we left off before everything! 😫 But then again, it is not as if your game actually told a consistent story or anything. 😅), I met an alcoholic adult woman who treated me to diner into a restaurant, then one morning, I met my father for the first time when he came to me to request that I help him in our basement then the screen faded in black and when it displayed again, nothing made sense anymore (which is why I told you that everything in your game before the point when we meet L-412 is inconsistent 😟) because my ordinary basement had unexplainably turned into an underground facility out of nowhere so I climbed the stairs back up to figure out what was going on only to find that my house too had unexplainably changed and it was night even though it was bright morning when my father came into my room and my family was nowhere to be found even though they should be home at night, so I explored the mysterious underground facility which unexplainably replaced my basement, I read this memo from an anonymous company's employee:
So since this underground facility was full of sci-fi machinery including a sci-fi generator which didn't fit into the ordinary nowadays world where I lived up to this point, replaced my ordinary basement out of nowhere, and its own employees themselves had trouble recognizing their own facility and were puzzled, I theorized that this underground facility came from another more advanced world because they were experimenting with multiverse theories and their experiments were distorting space, which is why the facility's employees struggled to recognize their own facility as some space seemed to come from nowhere, until their last experiment moved them from their original world into mine at the place of my basement and that all inconsistencies and anomalies that I was experiencing was because some parallel worlds were mixing up into a chaotic mess and this theory of mine ACTUALLY MADE SOME SENSE into your messy world so I stuck to it until disproven whereas the truth is that you made the abandoned house at night and underground facility BEFORE you made the inhabited house with an ordinary basement and you didn't pay attention to the fact that they did NOT fit together. Then I got stuck and I read the walkthrough because I had missed the screwdriver because you hided the way to it behind decoration and so I backtracked many times without finding it until I read the walkthrough then I FINALLY found the screwdriver that I needed to unlock "my house"'s bathroom door where I found an unconscious stranger woman without arms and since she was wearing a high-tech military suit, this confirmed my theory that another more advanced world collided with mine or so I thought. Upon touching her, she awakened, even though I am fairly certain that someone who had their arms ripped so violently that the room is full of blood could not survive but oh well, it's not as if everything up to this point made sense anyway so I ignored this one more illogical thing and got in with the game when she asked me who I was and how did I get here, which is what I wanted to ask HER since she was a STRANGER into MY house but since my character was a generic character without a personality and mute, I had to listen to her without answering anything nor asking anything, and since I couldn't answer her questions, she shrugged it off with a "Whatever" which should be the title of this game since it perfectly sums it up: "Whatever", it's not as if this game makes any sense anyway. 😏 Then she suggested that I "had to" help her get out of here and she was right because "choosing" to help her was actually my only option, which made me question why was it even presented like a choice if there was only one option. Then I returned to the underground facility which was now suddenly full of ghosts who came from nowhere just like the facility itself then I encountered my first boss battle which was against...a chair... And you know what? I am already exhausted summing up this game even though I barely started, my brain is already overloading and the whole game keep getting absurd and nonsensical until the only one scene in the whole game which makes some sense when Mari tells the whole game's story into a single dialogue because the rest of the game doesn't actually have a story and you claimed that the story is your favorite part of this game when it is almost nonexistent? 😅 Oh boy, we'll see indeed... 😅