How would I go about doing that?I'm not really up to date with this advance technical stuff which is why I’m unable to do any more than story writing.
Here is the thing; by how you talk, I person doubt you want to even try(however by how you talk, you might have already tried coding). If I was to ask you to make a super simple web page, I think you'd give the above answer. Just to clarify by simple all I mean is a file which if you run from a browser like firefox, and has some text.
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<HTML>
<BODY>
Hello nurse!
</BODY>
</HTML>
The above is advance technical stuff I learn as a kid and barely ever used. I didn't look at any resources and it ran. I bet if you looked up something like “tutorials on making website” using google, you'll be doing more advance stuff than that in a day. By saying “advance technical stuff” I feel you're just trying to dodge the criticism and not really facing it head on. Now programming and art isn't for everyone. They aren't things easily master (if that's even possible) but the unwillingness to try bugs me. As a programmer I to do my own art and while I can say some goals or projects just can't be done because I don't have the skill, I at least attempt to create my own content. This icon, it looks horrible because I’m bad at art but I still made it.
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Also even in official Pokemon games there are plenty of grammatical errors so i don't see why that would be a problem as long as the game is fun and people get the idea of what is being said.
Let's skip the first part about the Pokemon games, and return later.
Why is it not a problem if there are spelling or grammatical errors so long as the game is 'fun'? The state of something being fun should not be dictating if there are problems. If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing right. Writing error filled text for your game should not be good enough. While in every art there are going to be mistakes, you should still try to minimizes them whenever possible.
A English teacher once told me he was on some site like CNN where he was reading an article about if women should be able to fight in the army. One commenter brought up the point that women “abilitys” are the same as men. Suddenly this well thought out argument looks stupid because he couldn't spell “abilities” correctly. Why do I bring this up? Because people will remember your game for it's text; the question is, do you want them to remember it because it was good or because they kept finding errors in it. Look at DnD. He's bring up the fact that I have grammatical errors all over the forum and he's right. What he's talking about is not inability to use proper grammar but utter laziness to double check what I write. I normally don't have a huge problem with others spelling errors so long as I can understand them; however on this thread, you should be showing off your writing ability by triple checking everything you say. This thread is your resume to the forums, but if you can't care enough to check this, then why would you double check text in your own game? The same with your story! I was finding grammatical errors that I believe can be fixed with a simple read through.
Now back to Nintendo.
To be frank, they should be QA testing a game so that doesn't happen. The fact that it's on Nintendo consoles should increase the standards greatly. I don't know what the last pocket monster game I played was but I believe it was for the Game boy advance so I don't remember these errors.
Also, why is being just as good as Pokemon alright with you when you can do better in this small area? Sure you can't beat their army of artist nor could you make bigger maps then their army of mappers but writing, I'd hope your goal is to be better if at all possible.
I should point out that Pocket monster is a Japanese game not an English thus grammar has a good reason for being wonky at times.
にほんごをべんきょうましょう。 or 日本語を勉強ましょう。
Literal translation is “Japanese, study, let's.” but even that isn't correct since you aren't getting the meaning of the particles in there.
Your game I assume, is not being translated into English but written in it.
It would also be something new in the Pokemon fan games that others may find interesting.I will correct grammatical mistakes and review the game for bugs and log them so that they could be corrected.
I have nothing to say for this.
As I said above i have no computer skills and that is because I’m not really good at math and coding.I am relatively below average when it comes to computers but i promise i will put in my best efforts to make a great script,since reading and writing(story wise) are my strengths.
I don't understand what you mean by “ no computer skills” or do you mean something like technical skills? When I think computer skills I think basic operation. I'm fairly sure the most common math problem programmers face is I + 1. That is not to say Math isn't required but you can get fairly far with just a basic understanding. Not joking!
I want this to be made into a game because i feel it has potential.I understand it is very hard work making the sprites and actual game play,but if i had some help making it I’d be very grateful for it.As a novice all i can give is my gratitude in return.
I have nothing worth saying here.
If i was more skilled in more fields i would find some other way to show my thanks.
I personally think if you make an attempt at programming, you'll be able to get more people to help (programmers included) because you have the enough drive to learn something required to make the game a reality.
It's still very possible people will help you out in this forum on all fronts; even programming and music.
If you noir anyone else wants to help then that is understood and reasonable.Just wanted this game out there as at least an idea to entertain and perhaps inspire readers with their own new ideas based on a similar concept.
I think I said what I had to say. Well good luck, I wish you well and no ill will. I likely wont be replying here for some while unless you have a counter argument(s) to mine.
Before I go I want to give (force >_> ) some criticism of your story. Anything below this point hasn't been double checked.
To start off with this is personal taste but I don't enjoy the found footage angle. I understand how the story was written it was kinda required, but it kinda wasn't at the same time. For instances this “real event” has a problem figuring out who's telling the story. This is a story told by you, after a friend told you; so why is it in the first person? The story starts off with you talking about yourself and your environment. then you called your friend john.... who is also you! So wait did your friend who tell you this story call you in said story and the story your telling me is a word for word retelling of the story told to you which your in.... * HEAD EXPLODES * why did your friend tell you this story again if you already knew the events that took place?
The periods man! Okay you had this habit of completing a sentience, hitting period followed by writing another word. Something as simple as open office will show you every spot where you do this. Not really a grammatical or spelling mistake, but it looks sloppy.
Does it play on the DS or the Wii.... oh! You have a modified Wii... * grumble grumble * okay so this is a minor grip but it seems like you can't decide what console you want this thing to run on. This is enforced by the fact you I don't think you ever directly tell us what system this game is for, thus we have to guess by what the characters are saying and that you only tell us when it's no long import that you have a modify Wii. This is a problem because it confuses the reader and it seems like your contradicting yourself.
The blood on the mirror... so I haven't completely read this and it's late enough that I plan to goto bed, but unless that message is talking about something that happens later in the story, it's completely nonsensical. I got the impression that the message was talking about current events and if i'm not mistake; that game was given to you.
Okay so you load the game and it looks like a portal which john thought was cool which is you. See this just sounds like your going from first person to third person. See now if you had said “I was taken by fear but, as a looked over at john, he had the opposite reaction.” it would have allowed you to tell a story in first person that isn't about you while not sounding like you're talking about your self in the third person..... that was very convoluted.
After this point.... who's billy again? I know you said he was your friend but he hasn't introduced.... wait.... BILLY TOLD YOU THE STORY!!!.... oh it all makes sense. We started the story with billy point of view but once you entered the game, we took your point of view. This still don't explain why it was first person. Now that this has been cleared up, i'm fairly sure this sentice makes no licking sense.
.After that I haven't heard from Billy since.
maybe “ever since” but if that was the case..... then when was billy introduced?
Tell us that you captured XY&Z really isn't fun from a reader prospective. Since I really can't name many of the pokemon I don't know what these creatures are. Something a someone in the comic book industry said was “every comic book is someone's first”; but more to the point; you should be telling us about the events that happened not the result. What was your first battle with a pokemon like? Were you scare? Did he look scarier in person than in the game? Did he look the same? What does it look like? Did it try to direct you attack you? How did you control your Pokemon?