Ok the title might not make sense yet but let me explain. I created an online game that you can play right now. The concept is fairly simple. There are clues hidden in each level that get you the next level's URL. So on and so forth. While coding the game in HTML was pretty easy since all I did was look up some basic HTML tutorials and got a deal for website hosting, it wasn't a huge deal. The majority of the game is looking at images. I had to use Photoshop to make these images. Creating these images was a huge lesson in Photoshop for me. I had to learn practically everything on my own. The main tool I use is the Curves tool. It's great at adjusting the RGB values and RGB brightness of an image. I can change each channel's strength to adjust the image just how I like it. It's also taught me about text manipulation. It's easy to think of text as a simple tool that you place and then move around, but it's far more complex than that. Text can be an important tool in creating an interesting image. Take a look at the 'After' image below! There are other factors as well. For one, I need to get good images to photoshop tbem. As you can see below, I can make a boring image of my Apple IIc into a creative, dark scene. It's all thanks to Photoshops great tools! Before: After:
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It's officially October and that means it's time for the spooky games! You have your ususal crowd of horror games you could play, or you could take a trip to the past and see the horror games that have been forgotten. A little bit of history first: Final Fantasy had become a major success on the NES, and their new game for the SNES was going to be Final Fantasy 6 (In Japan, known as FF3 in North America). The game proved to be a major hit. People loved the stories, characters but what was a surprising hit, was the graphical style. It was very popular. Now days, Final Fantasy is in 3d, but the legacy of FF6 is carried on in the form of RPG Maker. I own two different versions of RPG Maker. The original 2000 version and their VX Ace version. I've never made anything good on them since RPGs aren't really my thing (also I don't have the work ethic) but the software let's anyone (even me) make decent looking RPGs. With the creation of the internet, people started sharing their RPGs across the world and starting in the late 2000s and into the mid 2010s, one trend emerged. While yes, RPG Maker was created with the intention of making fantasy RPGs, the ability to make your own characters AND scripting to create your own game code, it let people take the tool in a different direction. A new genera was born: RPG Horror. Sadly, the genera has faded away. I remember it's peak in the mid 2010s on YouTube. Back in the older days of YouTube (Before it was all corporate and boring), RPG Horror was taking off and accelerating YouTubers to subscriber counts never seen before. It was almost like the Minecraft craze. Many famous YouTubers created their platform on playing RPG Horror games. RPG Horror games had to get creative. With only a few tools at their disposal, it was up to creators to make something scary out of an RPG. Many successful RPG Horror games blur the lines of what can be considered an 'RPG'. Here are a few that broke the mold: Ao Oni, Ib, Crooked Man, The Witches House, Mad Father and many, many more. The Witches house in particular spearheaded the trend. I'll make sure to play as many RPG Horror games as I can for October since I think it's a very creative genera and one that deserves to be remembered.
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