2006 - 2008
By Emzee,
Anywho, let's not waste anymore time! With anniversary week almost over, I decided it may be best to just do 2 years today and 2 years tomorrow! Not much happened during my recent years, so these entries should still be at a bearable length.
In 2006, I was working on my biggest JRPG to date: The Legend of Mata Zuto: Fall of the Conqueror . The last half of 2006 was admittedly frantic because of this. In RPG Maker, you generally have to use the default menu system that it provides, but I wanted to create my own using only the resources provided by the engine (so external scripting was available). A lot of time was taken away from the BZPRPG because of this, however, I honestly was not too bothered. Ego trips and bouts of drama took out much of the fun for me (no names will be mentioned). So I effectively spent even less time on BZPower, trying to pique interest in the video game RPG fans by making something truly original.
I also kept close watch on the BIONICLE storyline. Vezon was my favorite character for that year - everyone else kinda annoyed me. The VNOG had great potential, but was ultimately too tedious and boring to complete.
In January 2007, I officially resigned from the BZPRPG (though I didn't make an announcement -- the people who cared would learn soon enough where I had gone). So that really opened up more time for me to make my comeback in the RPG Maker community.
In February 2007, I released the first demo of The Legend of Mata Zuto: Fall of the Conqueror. It was a great success - one that, all-in-all, I was satisfied with. Keeping close watch over my game's topic and giving hints and help where needed, I continued working on my game. Later that summer was when BZPower created it's best forum: Fan-Created Games! *dodges tomatoes and shoes* I helped make it happen too, it was easily my biggest accomplishment of the year. Yup. Nothing would surpass that for the rest of the 2007...
*clears throat* =P
2008 was mostly dull for me BZP-wise. The BIONICLE storyline's recent turn had completely jumpstarted my interest, but the general BZP reaction of indifference (added with a lot of people who just didn't like it) just led to me spending more time involved in the BIONICLE story than BZP for once! That hasn't happened since 2003!
Anyway, in February 2008, I had finally finished Fall of the Conqueror. It was an absolute roller-coaster of a project, and it was thanks to it that I pledged never to make another game with RPG Maker 2003. I would using a real coding language from then on, like BASIC. Yes, I still had a lot to learn when it came to picking good tools for game development. Right after Fall of the Conqueror was finished, I spent the next four months transferring my other RPG Maker 2003 game (The Infestation) into an RPG Maker XP game. That was another huge success, and with both my games that I've been working on since 2002 FINALLY done, I was ready to start on the project I've been trying to do since I started making games. I was going to fill that void created by the cancelled BIONICLE PC game, and I would make a 3D Action RPG of my own.
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