CLEST'S PROFILE

Orig!!! hehe Silent Hill is something I need to give a try someday... :)

Yeah, Alissa in 2k3, but I hate 2k3 facesets :PShe looks better in 2k -^.^-

Detailing the characters, working on charsets and tilesets and defining a basic area separation map for my current project. Well alternating between all those tasks actually.

Yes and No, for free RM games really most ppl who play are the ones who also make games and generally are good at it at best, but nowadays we get the comercial RM games and according to some of my clients, most ppl who comment and buy their games are kids or wives who actually want an easy game that looks relatively good and has a nice story.

And I believe that some of this public may eventually find out that there are games in pair or even better than some of the games they buy, but tottally free.

Also it goes related to your game characteristics too, in my case, I know my main target audience are fans of sci fi anime, giant robots in general and those guys are used to moderate games but always complain it is not hard enough. However I got lots of other elements besides mechs which might attract ppl who like other stuff too, so I will add the easy thing for then to still enjoy it if they like :)

Well I do think stealing is lame, BUT stealing is doing fangames wrong.

To say that, fan content in general is usually discriminated because a majority of ppl do it wrong: The point of fan content ofered to others is to add something new related to content rather than just redo it.

That is why fanart is less discriminated. Same goes for when ppl do adaptions of something in other media. Problem is that a lot of ppl wants to make a fangame of a game and to add content to that, you must be original somewhere anyway, otherwise your game will be just a poor version of the original, however there is the opposite: when ppl go all original and slap a famous game name on their tittles for whatever retarded reason or pure fan devotion or lack of appreciation for their own work... example: Final Fantasy fangames not related to a particular final fantasy game.

ABut back to diference between stealing and adding, I once made a first chapter manga adaption of FF6, if anyone is interested I can post it somwhere. I went through a lot of research because I wanted to offer something interesting to FF6 fans and to those who didn´t know or even didn´t like the game - funny cause the idea came from a friend who disliked FF6 for being too old looking (pixels) and she dared me to make a manga which could change her impression and make her play the game - and she ended up playing it afterwards. I won´t say the thing was awesome since I am way better at pixels than hand drawing, but with my research on both game artworks, the game itself and using the game story I still had to draw everything and basically write a whole script since game and comic are different languages.

Anyone can criticise the resulting work and I will consider what is said, but I´d be very pissed if anyone dismissed my effort, I think it was harder to pull it off than some of my original stories.

But on to fangames of games: You can always go with spin offs, parallel stories, prequels or sequels, as long as you don´t make your game be just a reapeat of the original story (like: villain was revived and heroes went to defeat him AGAIN).

You can use the same setting and systems but tell a story from someone else´s view, like a cool NPC. A cool example: Think of a game focused entirely on General Leo from FF6. Or maybe some random guy.

Or go like FF tactics did where Delita was marked as a hero, but someone else did other stuff that enabled him to be there so you can create a party who actually supported the main cast of your favourite rog behind the scenes and tell their story.

Fangames don´t kill ppl, people kill fangames with lack of new content. If you want to make a fangame, the simple question here is: What can I offer that the original game can´t Why anyone would play my game rather than replay the original?