was too fun reading a post in indiegamer forums made by the friends at Sakura Games they announced a sort of casual game name generator online! you can check it here if you want to have some fun:
http://www.sakuragames.com/casualgamenamegenerator.php
that one is better than the Kasual Kit joke…! 🙂
Was fun reading on indiegamer forums the usual newbie talking about the game made with RPG Maker XP, Aveyond, defining it as “easy money”.
I think that is one of the biggest offenses you can do to a developer. I know, before I was like him when first I saw the various casual games “bah crap games” I thought.
“I can make one in 1 month” and so on. I know because I was thinking that myself too.
THEN when I started trying seriously to make them… oh well! even if you use a middleware solution, is still quite HARD to come up with an interesting story, and bugs can be present even using a script system (like plot holes or worse blocks so you are stuck and can’t go on anymore).
So only because someone used a toolkit or a gamemaker tool, don’t think is “EASY”. Nothing is easy as it seems 🙂
I’ve recently replaced my old hosting for .net domain with a new (faster) european server, so all people from europe will be able to download faster!
I’m think of adding a ip detection on download page so it automatically download from this one if you come from a european country…
So finally this weekend was able to release the Ice Queen expansion for Magic Stones. The amount of help I got from testers and users was enourmous and wouldn’t have been able to finish it so shortly (yes, such updates takes lot of time, since basically I changed completely the fight system).
Anyway if you’re curious to see the new changes, head to the game page right now!
Talking with the testers today in my forums, I decided to change the way the experience level of avatars works. Instead of having a “multiplier effect”, which was causing avatars too powerful, I opted for a simple “addition”.
Each level will add +1 on attack and defence, and +5 on hitpoints.
As you can see in this screenshot, even the most basic and “harmless” avatar can turn into a deadly opponent once it reaches higher levels. Sure reaching level 5 means collecting 50 stones and that should take a while!
