I did a very quick and dirty touch up job of the room.

One of the big problems is that all of your wood is basically the same color, which makes them blend together and seem flat. Adding shadows beside everything helps a little, but you may want to lighten the color of your furniture while darkening the color of the floor or vice versa. I changed the color of the wood on the sides of the wall to help prop up the 3D feel.

Some of your shadows are going in different directions as well. Determine where your light source(s) is/are coming from and keep your shadows consistent. Their color is also a bit gray and should probably be darker.

If you can add textures to your wood, carpet, walls and so on it really helps bring them to life. I added textures to your carpet, bed and wall to help illustrate my point.

Your room also is not fully 'hemmed in' and the right and left sides seem open with no walls to contain them. I added those walls and made a quick side doorway for the rug leading outside.

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>>5673
WOAH! That's amazing.
I see what you mean about the wood being the same color, and your recoloring really makes it stand out. Also, those textures give such life to the room ;_; especially the wallpaper. I had been wonder forever what to use there, and you may have found it!
I was going to add the border to the outer edges of the room before the release, but the wood color might not have changed.
This is great! This gives me the kind of artistic direction I've been needing! I can't thank you enough.
Do you use photoshop for your texture/lighting placement? I've been using Windows 7 paint (which is actually quite nice, but not good enough to achieve what is being requested).
Anyway, thanks. Although, this may prolong to initial alpha a bit...but I doubt anyone will mind if it will make it a better experience.

>>5674

>Do you use photoshop for your texture/lighting placement? I've been using Windows 7 paint (which is actually quite nice, but not good enough to achieve what is being requested).

I use Paint Shop Pro 7 for all of the graphics that I do. The GIMP is alright as well, and free ... you'll want a program which can use layers, as they're extremely helpful. Here is a link to the portable version if you want to try it before actually installing it.

http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

> Anyway, thanks. Although, this may prolong to initial alpha a bit...

Don't fall into the trap of continually upgrading or tweaking an area, because then you'll never make progress with the rest of your game. I'm extremely guilty of this, but I've been learning to leave an area unpolished for the sake of moving forward.

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>>5675
Oh..I already use GIMP for animations and touchups. I use paint for basic spriting. I was just wondering since you seem to be some kind of graphic designer/artist. Just curious I suppose.

>Don't fall into the trap of continually upgrading or tweaking an area...

Believe me, I know. This isn't the first game I've worked on. I just want things to look decent before I do a release is all. I plan to have all the nexus worlds pretty much done, as well as a lot of the side worlds halfway done.
Maybe I'm just a perfectionist...but I know what you mean. I'm still keeping with my deadline of october 30th, but it may be postponed because of school or other things.

Anyway, update:
-Progress is being made with the treasures, they amuse me to no end.
-Almost done with the room. Reworking it a little to make it more...livable.
-Nexus is mostly done, but might go through a few changes in the near future.

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Bumpin' so people won't go asking around "how do I launch this"

I have vista and it won't even install Applocale. I guess it just doesn't work then

>>5598
Just switch the Reigon to Japanese, that should make things work out fine.

>>5339
>>5598
Actually, for Vista and 7, you just have to run the Applocale installer in "previous windows version" compatibility mode. (It worked for me, at least)

>>4851
Most o' my art is either:
fanart
screenshots
drawings of wolves

There ARE a quite a few beta things about my game there however.

>>4748

>On another note, who's the girl in the green shirt and skirt in OPs pic? What game is she from?

Isoshiki from Madoro-mu, the game I haven't played yet

EDIT: wait I think it's actually Isokishi
idk man

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Locations:
Yume 2kki: The theme park, or as I like to call it, the Coney Island Disco Park
.Flow: I love the whole game. I can't pick one particular area out of them all.
LcdDem: The park, the flood plain, trypophobia land.

I've played most of the other fangames but I don't really have much opinion on them.

NPCs
Y2N: Dancing girl, the clowns, and a bunch more I don't know the name of.
.Flow: The Kaibutsu, that underwater mechanic, the (robot?) maids.
LcdDem: Swing Alien. Also even though she doesn't quite count, Chie's mom.

Effects:
Y2N: Small, Bike+Wolf, Spring, Cake, and while not an effect, the 'split in half' deal.
.Flow: Mechanical Limbs, Slime, Arm, Witch, Neon

>>4703
I picture Sabitsuki having a major ASFR deal going on. In particular, a desire to be at least partially robotic.

>>3747
...w-....wat

Isn't there anything more of this guy?

>>1470
More of these, please.

>>3747
i second that wat.

age ten years before posting again please and thank you

I hope this is ironic.

Since you've got the RPG maker sheet set up, why not use that? Also, the idea sounds pretty interesting. Sort of reminded me of that movie about the people you meet in heaven or something like that.

Yeah....RPG maker 2000 is pretty simple to use. I'd go with that since you've already got the setup, but that's just me, and I'm lazy. The game idea sounds interesting.

>>5529
This. I'm not saying that Yume Nikki wasn't scary. It was to me. But that's the thing that I guess is hard to grasp (and reproduce).

Yume Nikki isn't scary to EVERYONE. Yume Nikki is just full of things that you can make connections to and in the given context, you, as the player, should make the worst connections possible in your head. When I play Yume Nikki, I do remember a lot of unpleasant things from my past, particularly my child-hood. That's the magic of it all.

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it. HAH.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that Yume Nikki was scary. As mentioned many times, it simply had this disturbing atmosphere. IMO game creators should rather try to enchant every location's mood, making them seem lonely, happy and fun, strange, or scary sometimes (because nightmares normally happen aswell, right?). As far as i like .flow and that creepy atmosphere it has, Yume 2kki is really trying too hard to be creepy, which looks kinda strange, comaring to some fine locations. Trying to imlement some of creator's own dreams into a game would be quite good idea imo. It would make game look more dream-like.

Yume 2kki is not really fun for me anymore.

It's at the point that I can't enter a room without something popping up or chasing me.

>>5537

That and it's, like, MASSIVE.

Actually, some of the things you said (slime, collectables) I was going to have in my game. But, whatever. Sounds good, I like the headless effect with the soundproofing, it would be pretty awesome.
Looking forward to some concept art later down the road...good luck.

My project have (has? since I may change back to 2003 due to VX being a bitch I don't know if it will still work) a doll collection system that kinda works like that, except you find half of them in random places and the other half would be buyable. And effects would also have a showcase (for example, when you got the loose hair effect a stand with a wig would show up in a room in your house; might be the same room where dolls showed up). I also had a camera effect in mind, but it was just for fun (no event-hunting stuff), and I kinda dropped it because I was too lazy to make more effects. I also planned on making a warp effect, except it transported you to a random location in the map you were. I don't know if I'll still do it...

I actually like those ideas. Headless sounds cool, and it's not that hard to program, since you just need an event with a condition that stops all sounds when you have it equipped. (herpderp eventing nonsense) Spider is a cool concept but it might need a lot programing to work properly... It depends if you're making your game in RPGMaker, though.
Looking forward to it!

I completed it with both Monoko and Poniko, the ending seems to be the same for everyone.

Also seconding translation request.

It might be a good idea to take snapshots of the ending screens so somebody can translate them easier.

since ive already beat it, i will need to beat it again for the ending again, right?

You use WinRar? WinZip? Those suck balls at fangame extracting.
Get 7-Zip instead.

>>5441
hurr durr now I feel stupid
thanks, it worked.

>>5442
FFFFFF
What did I write my 99% panacea post for?! It is perfectly outlined there that you should use 7-zip T_T

>>5443
Yeah, I know, that's why I feel stupid