Castle Paradox

So I've been thinking about character customization. I had the idea of enemies giving no XP, and characters getting stronger by paying for training. So the player would have to choose between buying t ...

Also by using enemy sprites, you could manipulate it so say when an enemy is about to do a certain attack, the enemy pose and frames change completely to indicate something is about to happen, so yo ...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_132/2801-Play-Like-a-3-Year-Old

Discuss!

Yes, my taste is a little different than that of some people. The part that the Drizzle quoted really sums it up, I guess. I get bored by 'short' challenges that can simply be retried until the corr ...

Yes, because THAT WOULDN'T BE FUN. Would you enjoy a game that punched you in the balls every time you died, because you feared death? I wouldn't. Should you be rewarded for dying?

That's not what ...

If I make a mistake in my resource management, either through battle mistakes or 'map-based' mistakes (going the wrong way), then I should have to retreat and attempt the dungeon as a whole once more ...

Honestly, if people are dumb enough to do this, they deserve to sit there and die. I'm sorry if I'm offending anybody, but it's a Darwinism curse to manage to screw yourself over with a type of save s ...

More detailed thoughts, from the whole thread.

You have to look at it from a game designer's point of view more than anything here, especially since this IS A community of game designers. If you'r ...

I've been on a hard game kick, recently, so I thought I'd offer my two cents.

I've been obsessed with Devil May Cry 3. It's considered one of the hardest console games in existence by [url=http:// ...

A Weekend

How does this sound?

After you've made it to the top of the monster-infested tower containing clones of all the game's earlier bosses, the game's "final boss" makes part of his speach and ...

Let's not turn this into a religious flamewar, kthxbai.

Nooot my fault if someone decides to be offended by what is clearly stated as an opinion.

Sure it is, because the opinion had nothing to d ...

Let's not turn this into a religious flamewar, kthxbai.

Where a story falls in the good-great spectrum is a matter of subjective opinion.

Where a story fall on the good-acceptable-bad spectrum can be measured objectively.

It's exactly the same as m ...

I'd be interested in participating, though I'm a REALLY slow artist, so I'd probably submit grass made out of solid green or something like that >_>

What would hosting one entail? Doing the j ...