LOCKEZ'S PROFILE

True fact: The graphics for the "high res" versions of FF5 and FF6 for Steam and mobile devices, and the graphics for FF Dimensions, were done by the same pixel artist as the original FF6. I think she was just having an off day when she made the sprite template.

Though if we're being honest, everything in FF6 except the human character sprites does look better than the SNES versions. And for FF5, even those look better.

Anyway I actually like Octopath Traveler's graphics better than this fake trailer.

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I'm not entirely certain why people want Square to return to 2D pixel rpgs, since that would reduce the space that pretty much everyone on this site and a lot of indie devs outside of it occupy.

Well, two points here. First, I'd gladly sacrifice my entire career to see the developers of FF6, FF Tactics and Chrono Trigger start making games like FF6, FF Tactics and Chrono Trigger again. They're way better at it than us and I'd rather have their games than my own by far. And second, that's not really how it works - if they make traditional RPGs become popular with mainstream audiences again, then we'll sell more of them, not less.

This basically summarizes one of the main things I dislike about level scaling. Rubberbanding in general, of any type, is super obnoxious because it prevents players from feeling like they're getting better, but level scaling specifically makes it so they actually become worse and worse the more they play the game and the better they try to get.

Increasing the game difficulty based on the things the player has accomplished instead of based on how long they've been playing has always made vastly more sense to me.

I've been running my online game for years and years, and we've had like 30 different coders over that time, and one terrible habit we have is just implementing code on the live server while people are in the middle of playing. Unless it is a vast sweeping change that we can't test without implementing it, at least. Usually we can test everything on the live server, just in private rooms, on mobs and fake characters that inherit custom code. And then when it's time to roll it out we just tell people "nobody fight anything for a minute" and do it.

A few times over the years the game has crashed as a result. WHOOPS.

Also I remember once that an unreleased boss killed my test character, and so everyone found out the boss's name. That was fun. NO GUYS, PLEASE IGNORE THE ANNOUNCEMENT JUST NOW THAT EMPEROR VANDOLE KILLED SOMEONE, HAHAHA, I CAN NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY THAT HE WILL BE FIGHTABLE IN A COUPLE WEEKS, IT'S JUST A CUSTOM NAME I GAVE TO A RABITE, YOU BELIEVE ME RIGHT

Of course I'm not the only developer for this game, so I can't be blamed for everything. There was the time the previous lead developer tried to code a new bug reporting system, and the bug reporting system itself had a bug, which caused it to crash the game if no bugs had been reported. NOT MY FAULT. Also an A+ example of nested irony.

But the time I crashed the game by accidentally making a monster generator spawn more monster generators instead of just spawning monsters, I can probably take credit for.

And the time I accidentally erased everyone's progress on a certain quest chain, and then intentionally crashed the game to try to keep the deletion from saving. (Which didn't even work. It had already saved.)

And the time I crashed the game while coding a novelty item that was supposed to make an endless kirby dance continue on the screen every few seconds. <('_'<) <('_')> (>'_')> <('_')> <('_'<) <('_'v) <('_'^) (^'_'^) (^'_')> (v'_')> (v'_'v) (^'_'^) (^'_') (_^') (__^) (___) (^__) ('^_) ('_'^) (^'_'^) (^'_')> <('_')> <('_'v) (v'_'v) (v'_') (_v') (__v) (___) (v__) ('v_) ('_'v) (v'_'v) (^'_'^) <('_')>

Just make the story vaguely tease eroticism and never get anywhere.

The mafia universe championship ended a month and a half ago and I'm still exhausted from it. I will watch this game, though.