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The Wobbler
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 Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:22 pm Post subject: OHR Magazine Memories |
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Baconlabs
PURPLE IS MANLY
Joined: 15 Mar 2009
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Location: Tennessee
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| Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Around 3 or 4 years ago, I stumbled upon an article from OHRRPGCE Monthly; Rinku Hero's "Creating a Game" trilogy, and it very probably changed the way I look at game design forever.
Believe it or not, I actually printed the entire thing out and read it at school when I could (alongside the Grand List of Console RPG Cliches, but that's another story). I thought studying such an article would strengthen my game-makin' skills.
And it did! Not immediately, of course. The fact of the matter is that game design and everything that comes with it are skills that take lots and lots of practice to understand and perfect. What the article taught me was the importance of planning and infrastructure.
Now that I have concrete maps of my games' layouts, I know exactly how and when they're going to end. Which means that they will eventually end. This somehow makes everything else easier to work on.
So kudos to old man Rinku, wherever he is.
Also, Hamsterspeak. Every time I see someone I know (or better yet, myself) get featured, I get incredibly giddy and excitable about game-making. This is felt even stronger if the issue includes informative articles with nifty info I never knew before, like a sprite or plotscripting tutorial.
Pretty pictures are awesome too, we have some great artists here. |
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Rimudora
Psychopath yandere
Halloween 2006 Creativity Winner
Joined: 26 May 2005
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| Baconlabs wrote: | | Believe it or not, I actually printed the entire thing out and read it at school when I could (alongside the Grand List of Console RPG Cliches, but that's another story). |
Haha, I remember doing the exact same thing several years back. Mind you, I didn't print out the whole article, just a couple of the heftier ones. They were really helpful back when I first started, especially since they were easy to understand and were written in an encouraging way. I should read through some of these articles again. |
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Rinku
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:36 am Post subject: |
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" kudos to old man Rinku, wherever he is. "
haha, i'm right here.
as for quotes or stories about hamsterspeak/septaweekly/ohrrpgce monthly, i'm not sure i have any interesting ones. although i should mention that my interest in reviewing ohrrpgce games back then and all the practice ohrrpgce monthly gave me is being continued even today; i sometimes review indie games for tigsource.com and indiegames.com/blog.
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