Starmen.Net

I love what im seeing!
It’s graphically gorgeous!
I can’t even dreams of My games looking that good!

I’m continuing to update the game, new locations have been added and combat is being worked on at the moment.

Blueblueblueblueblue:

I know I ask this alot, but do you need a composer for the game?

I do, in fact. Send me a demo reel or something, and we might be able to work something out.

davidkvis99:

I would also like to apply as a composer if i can.

Again, send me a demo reel and we’ll work something out from there.

This is a little of what I can do, using Garageband. The titles are, in order
- Music Boss Lair
- Happy Town
- Battle against Jazz
- Climb the Summit
I had more, like Music Boss Battle, Ghosts!, and Happy Town 2, but it didn’t transfer right. I have them as .bands if you have Garageband.

For some odd reason, converters wouldn’t take most of my files, and neither would Soundtrap, which may soon be where I make my music as to avoid all this converting hassle. Anyway, I was able to get Climb the Summit converted, here it is for you. The setting is a mountain, on your way to a boss, perhaps the final boss.

Oh. Welp, I guess I’ll do the same. Good luck with the game!

(Hey, that rhymed.)

This will be my final post regarding Beetle Ninja.
Even moreso than with Where the Moon Goes At Night, I think it’s genuinely been quite a struggle to generate much interest in this project on the Starmen forums: I haven’t seen any consistent interest in my work overall from this website, and I must admit it’s a tad demoralizing to scroll through observing the comparatively massive interest generated by what would be best defined as “fan games” or other derivative works which utilize specific aspects of the Mother series. Such games, at least in my opinion, are generally less daunting of a task due to a general framework already existing, whereas with original works, far more features have to be considered:
>New artistic direction differentiated from the Mother series
>Iconography and thematics
>Aspects which make this game original
>Original music
Which isn’t to say that fan works are inherently a “bad thing”, far from it: I believe they’re quite good for aspiring developers to learn more about how game development works, and with a lot of dedication and ambition they can absolutely be worthwhile efforts, but I wager simply to point out that works like these seem to attract far more interest from this particular community, and I’m not interested in producing content for a website if such content will go largely ignored.
In a sense, it’s a bit like cooking a meal: I wouldn’t bother cooking a ham for someone who prefers pheasant or vise versa, and right now it’s as if I’m cooking at a turtle soup at a chili cook off: it takes a lot longer to make, and it takes a lot more ambition to see through, even if not as many people are really interested in it.
Of course, this is all subjective and I can understand any disagreements with my arguments.
TL;DR
I will no longer be updating this game on the Starmen forums due to a lack of community interest. Progress can be followed here: https://rpgmaker.net/games/11443/ if you are still interested.
This thread will remain open, unless a moderator chooses to proceed alternatively.

The problem is that Starmen.net is general has gone downhill from it’s heydays like a decade ago or so, even then there were times of slowness.

The reality is that when making a new game or a hack you aren’t going to get a ton of interest anymore like in older days, because people just give up on their projects and everyone seems to be making “generic person in a grassy background” kind crap.

Don’t give up hope, just know that this website as a whole is mostly a ghost town.