RODEN'S PROFILE

Congratulations on finishing! It's mental how fast you've gotten this off of the ground. I almost couldn't believe it when I was hearing your updates on Twitter... Makes me feel like I need to get off my ass and work a lot harder, hah.

Looked uninteresting. I'll pass.

I mean, Chrono Trigger was nothing that special, so why would I blow money on a CT look alike?

Boats. Working on boats.

I feel like games should try to be as open as possible, in that optional content shouldn't become locked off to the player if it's at all preventable. That being said, I do believe that it's fine for content to become locked. Sometimes you just have to make concessions for the sake of something more important. There's no hard and fast single "right" way to do anything in a game, after all.

If there's going to be a point of no return, I think the game should tell the player, but, when talking about RPGs, in a way that doesn't break immersion or seem too mechanical. I don't like it when a big message pops up saying "YOU CANT TURN BACK". I've found, in my own experience, that when characters involved in the plot make warnings about "we won't be able to turn back after this" I believe them, as it's a conduit for the designer to reach out to the player and warn them.

I guess it's a similar principal to the designers warning the player about boss battles via save points and art design/imposing doors/corridors/keys etc. There are ways to give your player more subtle hints that you recommend something, and to me they're preferable to system messages and the like.

The left trees actually use three colours. You're right, too, popular opinion says the three colour trees are best, so they're what I'm going with.

Thanks though!