The Also-Rans

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  • Where’d you come up with this idea?

    Where’d you come up with this idea?

    The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…

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  • Where’d you come up with this idea?

    The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…

  • card sharking a card based combat system

    I wanted to show off some of the flexibility thoughts for the combat engine, and introduce at least some of the moveset for James Kopecky, the gambler character. James’ ability to manipulate luck and his skill at doing so in the casinos makes him a natural to muck about with his fellow players’ luck. By…

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  • The action economy and RPGs

    I really want to make an RPG not be a yawn fest. The classic RPG turn formula is pretty simple: Attack, Magic, Item, Defend. Magic and Item require a resource to use, although with tonics and other Spell Point restoring items, its basically just an gold based economy at that point. So you either swat…

  • Like teaching a toddler to paint

    (This is more of a “look what I made” kind of a post, but I do want to share some “how you do?” notes, right up top.) I wasn’t expecting to get a lesson in AI bias, but, well, I got one. It took a lot of effort to get StableDiffusion to understand the ethnicity…

  • do my little turn on the catwalk

    (This is more of a “look what I made” kind of a post, but I do want to share some “how you do?” notes, right up top.) One of the things I wanted to do was generate some character art, which for visual novels and RPGs both, are important for the stand up and flap…

  • why my game is sporty spice, apparently

    Confession time: I really dig Mel C. For a band manufactured as a product, that any of them have a career once the flash leaves the pan, there really isn’t anything but “remember them” tabloid fodder, when you see them 10 years later and life has not been kind to them. So despite the usual…

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