Hi, I'm J and I want to make some really good games

Heya,

So, I posted a similar post almost 2 years ago now. Well, maybe like a year and three quarters ago or so...anyway, I'm J. Edward Edens and I STILL want to make some great games.

I grew up with the classic Squaresoft RPGs of the SNES generation, and my first love was Final Fantasy 2 (IV). Needless to say, I couldn't get enough and proceeded to fall in love with Final Fantasy 3 (VI), Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana (as far as the Square games for that game generation). I continued to play the ones on PSOne and they all still hold a special place in my heart, but the ones for SNES do the most.

Everyone has some excuse why something gets in the way, I can't even begin to tell you what mine is, but I know one thing, I still have a desire to make RPG games. I remembered this community, and would still like to get to know you guys I've floated around the forums a bit and have already seen great advice and what seems like a lot of cool people too, heh.

I started making games when I was 11 or 12, programming on BASIC and QBASIC just making simple text games, but was more interested in art than programming, so I became an illustrator/graphic designer.  But, I've always wanted to tackle video games (especially RPGs) at one point and have several stories developed that would make good classic RPGs. I tried the RPG Maker for the PSOne and it was really cool and all, but so terribly limiting when it came to saving information and distributing it.  I recently thought about picking up the idea of developing a game and looked up for newer versions of RPG Maker and XP caught my eye.

I have 3 games in mind and I plan on doing them in order of difficulty. Some things I'm considering is hand drawn characters and environments vs. sprite based environments. I'm not really any good at spriting, but I can conceptualize pretty well.

I went to design school and film school, but I've always wanted to try my hand at game design.

You can view some of my design/artwork at:
http://jedwardedens.com

My first Game I have planned is going to be based off a webcomic I started last November called Sex Demon Bag:
http://www.sexdemonbag.com

If you're into movies, I also run a Film blog @ http://www.filmdogsonline.com

Anyway, nice to meet you all (again).

J

Welcome!

Nice art J.