The new board, Private Matters, shows up by Spybot45.  This should be fixed, as people would not like personal matters leaking into #omnimaga.  Thanks, Netham.

Hi,
 I figured I'd write this to everyone to state that I've decided to unfriend everyone that I know from the calculator community on Facebook.  This decision was brought on because I don't actually know any of you and because of the "clean up your Facebook" speeches I've heard for applying to colleges (or jobs).  I'm sorry if this offends any of you; I still like you guys, I just decided to remove everyone I don't actually know.
 - ztrumpet

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So, I've been doing a lot of thinking recently about my own RPGs, Elmgon and Midnight, and I began to expand on their concepts and daydream.  I got to thinking about what the perfect calc RPG would have, and what would make it perfect.  However, since everyone's definition of perfect is different, I decided to ask for everyone's opinion.  I want to know what your dream calc RPG would be like.  So, let's start a list and begin this thought process of what would be the most perfect calc RPG ever.

I'll start with a few of my thoughts:

1. An amazing story.  Without an incredible hook no RPG gets above "bland" unless one of its other aspects really stands out.
2. A great battle system.  Whether it's a screen of its own or on the map, turn based, or action packed, the battles must be easy to control yet fun throughout the experience.
3. Character depth.  Something must be know about the characters so there's some sort of motivation to keep progressing through the game.  You have to feel for the character, and want to control them so they will succeed.
4. Suspense.  Keep the player on the edge of their seat at key points throughout the game so they'll want to keep playing so they can figure out what happens next.
5. Validation. Reward the player for playing.  This can be achieved by something as simple as leveling up or something as difficult as bonus mini-games that will keep rewarding the player for advancing in the game.
6. Resolution.  Make sure all the loose ends are tied up at the end of the game so people aren't left wondering what happened to some character or characters.

Let me know what you think.  I'd love for this topic to turn into a resource where people stuck in RPG development (like myself) can turn to to get ideas.  Thanks!

Earlier today, ThePenguin77 released a demo of TruVid, a program by him which creates 4 level grayscale video with sound for the TI 83+/84+(SE) line of calcs.  It in only for 15 mhz calcs, and even then not a lot of video is stored on the calc.  By his estimates, the 83+/84+SE can hold about 45 seconds and the 84+BE can hold around 15 seconds. But, this is full video on the calculator with sound.

Here's a Youtube video showing it in action:


Link to the Discussion Topic, including Downloadable Samples and the Source

This is truly revolutionary software for the 83/84 line of TI's graphing calculators.

Today Stefan Bauwens released Myst 89 for the TI-89 series of graphing calculators.  He considers it a demo because the whole game would be impossible fit onto a calc but there's a lot of fun in this game.  It's limited to the main island and some other things, but it's apparently worth the huge file size.  This is a great adventure point-and-click game and should not be missed by people TI-89 series calculators.

Screenies:




Download
Official Release Post
Original Discussion Topic

I received a text from Sir earlier today, who wanted me to let the community know that he won't be around for at least two weeks, due to his parents.  Unfortunately, Sir's parents have a history of grounding/punishing Sir quite often for minor incidents, so I doubt if we see much of him at all for this time.
That's pretty much it.

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