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by mikey
Sat May 16, 2009 4:27 am
Forum: Anime, Games, and Japan
Topic: Contemporary JRPGs for the PC
Replies: 6
Views: 1856

Re: Contemporary JRPGs for the PC

If you don't mind going the translation path, there is this translation patch for two beautifully-looking PC JRPGs, Y''s 1 & 2, this would definitely be my suggestion. Many screenshots (untranslated - but both games are fully translated): http://www.ysutopia.net/translations/yscomplete/YsShots.html ...
by mikey
Fri May 15, 2009 9:01 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: BTW: The EVN Community Webzine
Replies: 30
Views: 3997

Re: BTW: The EVN Community Webzine

In response to negativity: A few days ago there was this discussion about featured renpy games in the renpy section, and I tried to explain the fundamental principles of that problem to my wife - how this human decision is better than a set of criteria and what dangers a selection process holds and ...
by mikey
Fri May 15, 2009 3:44 am
Forum: Creator Discussion
Topic: BTW: The EVN Community Webzine
Replies: 30
Views: 3997

Re: BTW: The EVN Community Webzine

A magazine is a great way to make controversial statements without giving room for dissident voices to respond. It even makes you sound quasi-authoritative. Congratulations. A magazine is really just a "format" if you will - how it is used is really in the hands of the editors. They should recogniz...
by mikey
Wed May 13, 2009 11:02 am
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: Featured Ren'Py Games
Replies: 71
Views: 13766

Re: Featured Ren'Py Games

Honestly, it would be SO much more practical to have just one person pick 10 showcase games, let others briefly comment on that selection, and then the person (editor) would create the game pages. This task is wonderully fitting as a job for a single person with authority, rather than a virtual proc...
by mikey
Tue May 12, 2009 6:34 am
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: Featured Ren'Py Games
Replies: 71
Views: 13766

Re: Featured Ren'Py Games

I'm considering establishing some sort of "Featured Ren'Py Games" process. To some extent, there's already an ad-hoc process by which games are added to the rotation on the front page of the website, but frankly, it's not a good one. It lacks comprehensiveness, and it's biased towards older games (...
by mikey
Mon May 11, 2009 7:23 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Guestbook
Replies: 5441
Views: 1457077

Re: Guestbook

Welcome back, Jerails. :) Indeed, so much has changed... But I guess that could be said of any community - more people, more ideas, more differences, more possibilities. I can still remember the times when the forum had just a handful of posts a week . It's easy to miss this on occasion, especially ...
by mikey
Thu May 07, 2009 12:08 pm
Forum: Development of Ren'Py
Topic: Portable Ren'Py
Replies: 12
Views: 3598

Re: Portable Ren'Py

Yes, please-please make Ren'Py portable, and also if there could be an option to make games portable as well, that would be great.

I run and develop from a USB stick and on every one of the 3 computers I use, I have different saves and everything. It's really bad. :(
by mikey
Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:02 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: Katawa Shoujo Act 1
Replies: 86
Views: 28715

Re: Katawa Shoujo Act 1

I have to say, when taking into consideration the goals that the dev team outlined they have set for themselves in the post preceding the release, for this demo there is practically no criticism that I could think of. It's excellently programmed, and does exactly what is expected, which is not a bad...
by mikey
Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:09 am
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: The Scaglietti (NaNoRenO 2009)
Replies: 22
Views: 6909

Re: The Scaglietti (NaNoRenO 2009)

This one leaves quite a new taste, Mikey. For me, it was. Especially as far as the protagonist is concerned - I wanted Domenico to be calm, confident, happy and without any inner problems, and since I use all the non-scientific elements for the purpose of the protagonist being able to resolve somet...
by mikey
Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:49 am
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: Heiress II (NaNoRenO 2009)
Replies: 33
Views: 11171

Re: Heiress II (NaNoRenO 2009)

monele, Ayato Vu >> thanks for the comments on the longer epilogue - read and understood. And I'm really happy you liked it (yay for monele's cliche-but-not-really experience! :) On the "technical" side, bravo to the artists and I was impressed at how little art there is in the end but how it all fi...
by mikey
Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:06 pm
Forum: Ren'Py Questions and Announcements
Topic: Ren'Py 6.9.1 Released
Replies: 83
Views: 7391

Re: Ren'Py 6.9.1 pre-released

On the other hand, is there really much difference between not building and not distributing Mac and Linux versions of a game? ;-) Well, it would make it harder for someone to say: While you work that out, though, you could at least upload the distributions that are already sitting in your renpy fo...
by mikey
Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:22 am
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: Heiress II (NaNoRenO 2009)
Replies: 33
Views: 11171

Re: Heiress II (NaNoRenO 2009)

Thank you for the responses, I'm happy you liked the game! I was also surprised to see how well Ren's (congratulations on your first VN!) and cloud's graphics fit together... myself I'm always a bit (too) skeptical about two different artists doing the art, but I guess Heiress II killed a bit of my ...
by mikey
Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:07 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: Crimson: A Story of Alienation
Replies: 12
Views: 8082

Re: Crimson: A Story of Alienation

I must say these (Fade-style, I would call them) ministories which kind of verge on the abstract, but have this narrative element, definitely seem to suit you. Also, this time especially, the pictures really (and I'd almost say essentially) complemented the writing. There are not many people I will ...
by mikey
Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How to search Private Messages
Replies: 3
Views: 550

Re: How to search Private Messages

I have to confess, I save all my PMs individually, according to date stamp and person who sent it. It is extra work, sure, but I like to have all information offline. This is great if you communicate via PM with someone while working on a project (especially if you have hundreds of PMs), in fact I h...
by mikey
Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:35 pm
Forum: Completed Games
Topic: The Scaglietti (NaNoRenO 2009)
Replies: 22
Views: 6909

Re: The Scaglietti (NaNoRenO 2009)

I have now uploaded the mac and linux versions (see first page).

There is an updated windows version as well, this starts windowed instead of fullscreen, so there should be less problems. Otherwise it is unchanged. Sorry for the inconvenience.