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One of the things I've pondered as a mechanic for Forgotten Gates is disposable equipment. It's a lesser-used but still not-unheard-of mechanic for RPGs: as you make use of a weapon, armor, or other piece of equipment, it becomes dulled, battered, or otherwise unusable. Some games will gradually decrease the effectiveness of the equipment as it is used, and perhaps allow the player to repair it to full strength periodically.

So v0.2 has came and went, and I’ve been really happy to hear your feedback since release. This is the first major content update, so expect future updates of a similar nature to go just the same as The Sweetie Belle Update, i.e. new dreams, characters, game balancing etc.

I also wanted to address some common problems I’ve noticed and try my best to remedy them here and in the game.

Gloomy greeting, reader.

I’ve spent the weekend working on the menu and inventory system for the game. It’s not yet 100% but it’s far enough to show how it’s going to look like.

Shadows of Adam is a JRPG with every resource and I believe engine crafted by scratch. I I am a video game developer who actually uses RPG Maker to make JRPGs for it is my favorite genre and one I am quite passionate about. It is a dream to be successful and release the vivid JRPGs that form within my head. Shadows of Adam is quite high up there in that dream. It is my duty and pleasure to have played and reviewed this one.

I am writing this because of all the people who are dropping out of the winterrruption event. To those dropouts I am dedicating this article.

I am also writing this because an attempt at scoping is the first thing I do after I get a concrete initial idea for any project I have done (RM or otherwise) over the last 10 years. I could talk about scoping projects in general, but this is gonna be fairly gamedev centric.

There's been quite a few issues with RPG Maker MV since its release and many have bemoaned that certain features or processes are lacking. Well, lack no more! Degica and Kadokawa are now working on implementing the ideas of the community into the engine!

They will need your help to do this, however...

Hey guys! I know I haven’t updated much in awhile so I suppose that is why I am going to be writing this segment here on this blog. I deeply care for this project and want to make it the best it can be, especially for my first game.

To start off...

It's a rare dev that custom-builds every part of a one-man project. Save for a few key scripts, Toymaker - Prologue looks, sounds, and feels like a very different creature than RPG Maker 2k3 usually wants to create. Moody and atmospheric, it depicts what I can only describe as Santa's North Pole undergoing some kind of Game-Of-Thrones-ian ragnarok, and it manages to present that setting with such gravity and clarity of purpose that the places where the game is lacking feel more like rough patches than oversights.

As you likely know by now, development of Archstone is complete, and it is a published, full game that's a boss rush from the Kid's Design event. There's really nothing else coming for Archstone, so the game is complete and I encourage you to play and finish it before continuing on, as it doesn't take long, and if you'd like to write a review for Archstone, that would be totally cool too.

So, here's a little behind the scenes information regarding Archstone!

To officially mark my return to the RMN after a year-long break in general (and a 16-month break from reviewing in particular) I decided to start off with some nice, simple game, and TungermanU’s Halloweeb, apparently made for the Halloween event just a couple months ago, seemed like a good choice.