The Dog Days of August

I agree that Guild Leaders should have some form of creative presence on the boards before they apply.

I also hope that all of these "writers" have at least one skill other than being idea people.  Idea people are largely worthless in the grand scheme of things, and if that's all you are, you won't be contributing much at all to the project.

Need more artists, for the love of god it takes more than writers to make a game.

I'll be doing art, maps and sprites for my game, so guild leaders will need to do more than just shout sort of good commands at people.

What system are we focusing with vx or ace?

The guild (or guild leader) should decide which version the game will be made in.  There is no version requirement.

All right, fair enough... I'd like to be a guild hopeful, then. I'm a decent RMXP Mapper/Eventer. I also have a little bit of skill in scripting in RGSS: I couldn't make a complex script from scratch, but I've created or edited a few simple scripts. I posted one of these here: http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,41583.0.html

If you're not using RPG Maker XP, I won't be much use to you.

RMVX and VXAce eventing isn't that much different from RMXP, Mapping is a little different, but if you have basic skills you should be fine.

Scripting is another animal entirely.

I do find it rather funny how the email about this has pulled mostly just lurkers out of the shadows.

How many team leaders are we expecting?
I'll switch to a guild leader if needed...I have experience leading teams.
www.codedemotion.com

But if a third person steps up by the 21st, I'll stick to a guild hopeful haha.

I've just realised that I forgot to mention spriting; I'd be cool to do some spriting for this as well, but not XP sprites.

The previous ones were set up for only two, but I think Nam's experimenting with the possibility of more this time if there's enough people who join in.

Where the hell are the artist/spriters at? Just checked the list...really?!

I'm actually going to be fairly busy in August when it comes to Uni stuff; but I can try to get as much done in this as possible.


I'm an Eventer and that's all my skills will pertain to for this, we don't need more writers; put me down for a guild leader if you need another though.

The previous ones were set up for only two, but I think Nam's experimenting with the possibility of more this time if there's enough people who join in.

We could probably do with another 1 or 2, but I'm not sure how the teams are going to end up.

I agree that Guild Leaders should have some form of creative presence on the boards before they apply.

I also hope that all of these "writers" have at least one skill other than being idea people.  Idea people are largely worthless in the grand scheme of things, and if that's all you are, you won't be contributing much at all to the project.

I guess by 'writer' I meant something a little different. There's backstory and ideas, of course, but I think the quality of a lot of otherwise great games is ruined by the actual text elements. Dialogue needs to be well written, well formatted, and consistent with what's going on with the story and the characters. So I guess what I was really aiming for was scene/dialogue writing and quality checking.

As far as scenes go, that's really more in the domain of eventing, which I don't have a problem with. So I guess I'm fine with doing events too. Maybe some mapping (any version). And I could contribute some music, but it would be limited to midi.

Dialogue writing is a pretty big part of your typical rpg, especially with making sure everything is spelled and structured correctly. If anything else, the writers could double as beta testers. It's always nice to have someone else doing the stress tests.

I'd like to sign up. I'm a writer and an artist. I'm still learning the art of making sprites (I convert my hand drawn characters into sprites, which is how I'm creating the art for my own project).

As a writer, I've got a lot of experience, though none professionally. I can be pretty sloppy when talking on the forums, but I'm endlessly meticulous when writing. I prefer to be in charge of story AND dialogue, as, to me, that's as much of the story as anything else. Really, and the guild leader may have other ideas, but I like to have my hands in as many pots writing-wise as possible. It's hard for me to work on just one thing, since, for me, writing is all of those things and not just ideas or backstory or dialogue.

I'm also an actor, though, I doubt there's much use for that in this case. Throwing it out there all the same.

I know I haven't been here much, and examples of my own work are nonexistent, but I thought I'd throw my name in the hat. I would understand if I no one wanted to use me.

So, in short: Writer/Dialogue/Artist(Maybe)/Actor(not a skill that would be needed, probably), and I won't get my feelings hurt if I'm not on anyone's list.

EDIT: And it just occurred to me that getting decent recording equipment might be iffy (I'm sure I could rent time in a study at the University), so, again, just something I'm throwing out there.

EDIT 2: Yeah, I know. Another writer. But when that's your skill, what else are you supposed to say? Again, I won't be hurt if I'm not picked.

I suppose voice acting could be cool if someone was interested in that.

Would it be out of place to ask the artists/pixel artists to show examples of their work?

Would it be out of place to ask the artists/pixel artists to show examples of their work?

http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,41225.0.html  (some images not working it looks like)

http://rmrk.net/index.php/topic,45921.0.html  (custom vx rtp styled characters in modern style)

A game I'm slowly working on in gamemaker (all graphics are my own)





Big animated battler for Ender's Amethyst

Spoiler for:

I'm sure most of you guys already saw it all but since you asked...

I suppose voice acting could be cool if someone was interested in that.

Would it be out of place to ask the artists/pixel artists to show examples of their work?

Never thought of that. It might be cool, but would we really have the time for it?

It's less about time and more about having enough people with vocal talent and high quality sound capturing. And also the file size would be gigantic. But yeah, I dunno. Could be cool.

My timing always seems to suck on these things so if this isn't valid anymore my bad.

I'd like to sign up for the writers guild, any of them is fine since about six of the guilds have writer listed.
I can do story, simple dialogue, and the design for character personalities, or a combination of all three.

I'm free for most of the month. If anyone needs a storyboarder, I'm your grab bag.
But I'm also good at making puzzles and dungeons with events.

i'm in as guild leader...
guild jomarcenter rocks!!
here my skills
-eventing (expert)
-story writer (improving)
-mapping (improving)
-language and grammar check (still working on that)
-graphics (little improving)

my team name is - the jomarcenter game development team

and i will be using rpg maker vx ace since this is the only rm program i have.
and if you don't have, i herd there an competition is in progress in the rpgmakerweb for the best mini-game creator in the competition will win any item in the store. and the deadline is july 29!!! just in case for people who want to join a certain guild and don't have the require program to do it.

My timing always seems to suck on these things so if this isn't valid anymore my bad.

I'd like to sign up for the writers guild, any of them is fine since about six of the guilds have writer listed.
I can do story, simple dialogue, and the design for character personalities, or a combination of all three.

You did not read the first post at all did you?