I've asked myself this question many times. I love strategy games (in particular turn-based) and understand them. So even though I'm not that good at them I like to believe the answer is no and keep moving forward.

Of course keeping an open mind just like any other genre never hurts.

Free 2 Play: Pretty sure we can agree on the simple concept of *playing a game for free* (everything else aside) is awesome! As been stated multiple times it all depends on the implementation.

Pay 2 Win: Evil 

As long as developers don't go back to the arcade mentality, where some games were designed to keep you feeding it quarters and nothing else, F2P should be ok.

Invite please!

http://steamcommunity.com/id/radioact1ve

For future "consoles", I see more service-driven systems. It's what we are seeing now x10. That's very generic and a safe route to take as far as guessing.

Hardware I'm not to sure but what do I know. Definitely see increase in spec-numbers across the board.

Now mobile, that's a whole other ball game! Limitless as far as I can see.

Wow. Sorry to change the topic at hand but I just wanted to jump in and recognize the amount of feedback in this thread. Simply amazing. I'll be playing your game Jason and hopefully provide constructive feedback as well. 

Like to keep it clean!

I was thinking about this same thing the other day. Something about red/blue and gold/silver that anything after doesn't come close. And I've given them all a try and the only one that I played past the 3rd badge more or less was Black. I still had to put it down.

I really believe it's the pokemon design. The "coolness" of training my monsters is gone. Nothing can top the original six starters! 

Agree 100%. I have to think of something to get the word out. I was kind of hoping for a little bit of traction from the SFL+TIGS community but it looks nonexistent.

Tell me about it. I'm surprised to even get a response here. I've tried meetup.com to find something but most of them are either dead or not game design/development related.

I'm ready to help get something running if I could get a little help.

I've always wanted to be part of a Miami gamedev scene. Sadly it's really small at best. Most activity happens in Ft. Lauderdale so I regretfully have to miss these.

I was wondering if anyone is interested in starting something in the Miami area. Kendall, Coral Gables etc. sounds good. Let me know what you think.  

P.S. If you know anyone from the area please pass this along!

Excellent work. Can't wait to test things out!

1. Family Motivation
2. Game designing!!!
3. Cup of water
4. Weak camera can't take a pic of TIGF

BONUS: 9-5 job schedule... 

Was about to start a similar thread just to create a TIG Circle.

https://plus.google.com/108181779127879367487/posts <-- Don't judge; Getting started! 

@Lynx: Wow same boat as you. Don't understand why web programming is taking me so long to grasp.

I've been using craftyjs but I'm definitely giving gamesoup a try.

It's another tool in a designer's box. Definitely believe it's a good design choice that adds depth where it belongs, but like everything else it all depends on the implementation. Adding spells, items, armor, etc to combat status effects can really complicate things. And as eclectocrat mentioned the UI plays a major role which can make or break it especially once you're in "battle mode". (Which reminds me of White Knight Chronicles  ... but thats for another topic.)

I can only imagine it does that. Great feature to build a community around. My suggestion is to use it for competitive games, but I'm sure there are many scenarios that can be ranked in non-competitive games as well.

No data to back it though... 

I second reading Sirlin's blog. Always an interesting read. That and study how simple Flash Duel is. That's not to say your game can't be deep, it just to get perspective.

Nice topic. I've been thinking about this myself my game. One thing I'm trying to avoid is by making them related (good brother vs bad brother) or once friends. But I'll admit, it's overdone for a reason: easy and effective!

But now to think of other ways...   

Nice battle system plan. I loved it in Grandia II. Definitely give it a go if you can/haven't.

As for your "character have its turn 20 times before a monster even has the chance to attack" problem, its bound to happen. Say for example at the end of the game, your player is level 40 and travels to town 1 again, hes going to be really fast and able to get consecutive hits, if not KO, before the enemy. Thats unless you make the enemies strength relative to the player. Throwing random numbers to mix it up a bit. I can see it working out that way so it at least limits the number consecutive turns.

Mostly trial and error my friend. Play around with the stats and experience points gained to get a balance that works.

Wow, great books to add to my list! One I would like to throw out there, while note specifically with game design its interesting nonetheless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man,_Play_and_Games
Pretty deep stuff into the human and society aspect of games/play in general. Half way through and its pretty cool.