Inspiration and Staying Motivated...

[Fallen Angel X]

Truth be told, there's a girl inspiring me right now ._. But uhh another thing inspiring me is just knowing that I've got a good friend behind my back and that we can rip through our project

[winkio]

Right now, I am not motivated at all.  I got roadblocked by the overwhelming task of re-doing and polishing a 500x300 map area (which is broken down into much smaller maps in game, of course.)  The rest of game making is fairly easy for me, except spriting.  Basically, I'm very slow with grahics .  But everything else is very easy for me, so I guess it's not all bad.  No other people inspire me: rmxp is just a small hobby for me, and I have no real goals with it, except to finish my game sometime.

[Blizzard]

Sometimes slacking off is a great way to get inspiration. I usually work on Blizz-ABS which gives me cool ideas about CoSLAL EXA. Related to that I get the one or another idea for CP as well.

[Calintz]

I know exactly where you are coming from Blizzard!!

So I work at a potato chip factory hand loading their fucking trucks all day right. So, what do you think I do all day while I load??

Bingo!! Ideas are constantly flying into my head!!

[King Munkey]

i typically listen to music and relax to try and get ideas. Or sometimes i will be driving somewhere and get ideas. Then realize that i have nothing to write it down with and i have noone in the car with me to have them write it down. And typically by the time i get the chance i forgot what it was.

[Fallen Angel X]

So I'm just reviving this here dead topic.

Well, if I were to continue making the game I was planning to actually make, I'd do it because I want to give back to this community. I know it sounds corny but the community here is awesome and the thought of giving back might just drive me to actually do something. And sometimes I try pretending I'm competing with some people here. It gets you going a little bit atleast.

[Starrodkirby86]

And sometimes I try pretending I'm competing with some people here. It gets you going a little bit atleast.

A-men to that. I don't know if my definition is quite different than yours, but to me...Sometimes when I see people's projects I just simply go, "Ah, I know I can do better than this." It's natural...And it's more motivation when you seem like an underdog or people underestimate you.

[Blizzard]

I admit that I'm guilty as well. Competition is always good.

[Valcos]

I'm actually going to get back into rmxp. Just unlike you people, seeing competition for rmxp doesnt motivate me cause.... im probably worse than those people who've actually published their games on the forum. Know what i mean xD?

[Fallen Angel X]

Yeah, I might get back to rmxp too. Well, when I can, that is. But today I just started up a new project. And one of my previous inspirations is the cause End of the story for now xD

[Jackolas]

my Inspiration and Staying Motivated is probably from my gaming community.
have about 500+ members that help me with ideas and love the stuff I done so far.
and its the idea that if I finish my game that its realy be looked at and played by those people
and not put away on some site never to be looked at again

[RoseSkye]

Being the best at my craft.. that and I'm making this game as a final goodbye to my sister. Why? Only I know the reason.

[shdwlink1993]

Looking at the crap RMXP games that have been sold commercially, I realize that if they sold for a good $20.00 bucks and they use a grand combination of some wonderful features (for example: resources (especially scripts) used without permission (and on the scripts, they frequently don't realize how to USE them to their full potential, like you would expect from a commercial game), interchanging usage of RTP and Clashing-with-RTP style graphics, a plot that even I can easily find to be riddled with plot holes that most five-year-olds would notice (this isn't a case of "Use Phoenix Down on Aeris", but rather a case of an idiot plot), logical failures of epic proportions (EVERYONE can instantly teleport anywhere, right in front of you, except you. I'm surrounded by ninjas), and a few graphics that were probably used in an RPG Maker 2003 game, judging by the pixelation), then I could probably make one and sell it for $40.00.

@Blizzard: ShowHide

Please don't get any ideas about Chaos Project from this. >.<

Oh, and for a laugh (and possibly some angry emails sent to some developers), look at this game. Do ANY of these non-credited scripts sound vaguely familiar? Caterpillar walking script (Copyright (C) 2005 fukuyama), Easy Party Switcher 1.51b (by Blizzard), Location names with a window 2.0 (by Blizzard), Easy LvlUp Notifier 1.21b (by Blizzard)?

[Blizzard]

OMG, I'M GONNA SUE THAT GUY! :O I'm not kidding. I'll request 10% or 20% of the earnings as my scripts are vital parts of the gameplay. I did give permission to use the scripts, but that was for Laxius Power 4 if I remember correctly. Also, even if I gave permission them to be used, I request proper credit. I could care less about non-commercial games (as long as people don't claim to have made them themselves), but it's a completely different story in a commercial game.

[EDIT]Credits are at the bottom. http://www.3starsofdestiny.com/ I still don't remember giving permisson.
[/EDIT]

Don't worry, shdw. I know that CP has incosistent graphics. At least I tried to keep them somewhat consistent in different areas like characters, battlers and animations. I don't have the time or the people to make a graphically consistent game CP a graphically consistent game.

[shdwlink1993]

OMG, I'M GONNA SUE THAT GUY! :O I'm not kidding. I'll request 10% or 20% of the earnings as my scripts are vital parts of the gameplay.

I'll remember not to sell a game with any of your scripts without asking, that's for sure. xD

[EDIT]Credits are at the bottom. http://www.3starsofdestiny.com/ I still don't remember giving permisson.
[/EDIT]

Question for everyone in general: If a person is added to the credits of a game only in a section of their site (the bottom of a page, not the download page), and never mentioned them in the actual game, does it still count as fully crediting them? To me, it's not exactly credit. More like a half-hearted, last-second afterthought to throw them in.

Don't worry, shdw. I know that CP has incosistent graphics. At least I tried to keep them somewhat consistent in different areas like characters, battlers and animations. I don't have the time or the people to make a graphically consistent game CP a graphically consistent game.

I was referring to the idea of selling your game, actually... xD

[Blizzard]

Lol! If I made the decision to sell CP, I would have gotten original graphics that are consistent.

I don't know if there are credits at the end of the game. In any case I'll contact Indinera and ask him what's this all about.

[Tazero]

I stay motivated through competition

[shdwlink1993]

I don't know if there are credits at the end of the game. In any case I'll contact Indinera and ask him what's this all about.

That's why I said non-credited. At the end of the game, there is indeed a credits sequence. It's not that long. The scripter is Zeriab and Special Thanks go to Amaranth and Bryce.

I stay motivated through competition

A succinct motivation, and a pretty good one to boot (My praising the idea has NOTHING to do with mine  being something like this xD).

[Fallen Angel X]

Truth be told, there's a girl inspiring me right now ._.

There still is And I really like her xD I just don't got the guts to ask her out lmao. But being around her just inspires me to actually do stuff

[Tazero]

Well 2 things inspire me.....
1) Competition ideas and plot twists come from competition
2) Music, all of the music I listen gives me an idea somewhere somehow-
Music is the one thing that speaks to me the loudest out of all forms of communication.