/rpgmg/ - Rpg Maker General #209

If I want to make a lewd game for Patreonbucks, should I try to leave cutscenes and sex scenes for later like I would in regular game development process?

>>179515438
If it's patreon, you're going to need promotional material.

>>179515438
Your backers are going to want these lewd scenes.

>>179098323
>>179434250

Did you try this anon?

>>179515598
>>179516261

But couldn't the promotional material be built entirely about gameplay? I am just not the best artist, so I'd like to focus on the game deving and then hiring an artist for the sex scenes.

Is there a program that I can use to make the visual effects of abilities? I'm thinking of something like after effect, but simpler.

>>179516506
Well, it depends on what kind of game you are going to make.
If your main selling point is lewd then it better have lots of lewd scenes.
If you are making a traditional game with some optional lewd scenes (like after romancing a girl or visiting a brothel or something) then yeah, you could go for it.

>>179517026
This. Also you have to think what is the most important feature that will atract supporters/buyers. But if you include both (lewd/gamplay) you'll have more chances IMO.

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Post progress!

I predict rpgmakerweb is going to die soon.

>>179515438

Steps (in order)

WRITE YOUR GAME, leave lewd scenes to later

WORK OUT LEWD SCENES, you must have a basic plan before you start drawing and a damn near CONCRETE plan before going to an artist.

COMMISSION/DRAW LEWD SCENES; drawing's easier than commissioning, but odds are there's a better artist than you out there somewhere. Commissioning also saves you the time you'd spend drawing, and if you're doing EVERYTHING else, then damn right you might want to save the time.

BEGIN JEWING ON PATREON!

ASSEMBLE YOUR GAME.

PUT OUT A DEMO, ideally, your game should be completely finished but everyone expects a demo.

USE FEEDBACK FROM THE DEMO TO FIX YOUR GAME

PUT OUT FINAL VERSION

RELEASE UPDATE PATCHES MONTHLY SO YOU GET PATREON REWARDS.

How do I make myself stop using the default tilesets?
I'm not an artist, and I can't really envision what tone or style I want mt game to be

>>179523998

Step 0/Background Step:
Start learning about how to draw

STEP 1:

MAKE COPIES OF THE DEFAULT TILE SETS (this is important)

Step 2:
Whenever a tile doesn't quite fit with what you want, edit it until it does.

Step 3:
Learn more about sprite editing through this process until you get more confident.

Step 4
Use your increasing confidence about drawing and sprite editing to change the default tile sets. You eventually will develop more competence and confidence, and you might start to realize what you want.

>>179521827
why is that?

Stop watching the E3 and work on your game

Do we know the limitations of RPG Maker FES?
Obviously other than no external assets

>>179530090

>watching E3
>after the age of like 17
But why?

>>179521827
is this a "you guys are alright" post

>>179530656

What is he going to break into the server room and smash the server and maybe beat up the one IT guy there?

You can't really 'don't go to the server room tomorrow'. It's not like a public place.

>>179532183
if we're going to entertain it, it could be that he's just going to hack the site and infect anyone who visits the site.

>some of you guys are alright; don't log onto rpgmakerweb tomorrow.

>>179532391

Ah, perhaps.

But I think he's more concerned about it being dead like the Hearthstone general is dead.

Naw, I'm just saying they're waning in their duties.
The v1.5.0 update was 5 days ago and they haven't announce it yet, still waving the 1.4 update banner.

Caz, the lead ReStaffer, admits the ReStaff is inactive because she's not around. Which is basically saying, "I'm not responsible enough to find a replacement."

And ever since the FES release, more people have noticed there's a big asterisk after The Official* RPG Maker Forum, and realized it doesn't mean what they think it means.

>>179534686
A shame, really

Does anybody else feel like writing the villain's backstory, objective and plans first makes other things much easier?

>>179540962
yes. nobody cares about the protagonists. it's all about a compelling villain.

Does anyone have the new modern tileset they just released for MV? The MV graphics packs are hard as fuck to find pirated versions of, VXA packs are everywhere. And does SumRandomDude ever come here?

>>179545149
>srd
doubt it

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>>179545149
The Japanese Festival one that looks like shit?
I've mentioned this before, but who's in charge of promoting this stuff.

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>>179547260
I think he means the new one in the rmweb store.

>Created by Sherman3D, this classy tile pack is an excellent add-on to the existing RPG Maker MV material.
>With an emphasis on clean lines and essential objects, this pack will help you create that perfect light and airy feeling of modernity.
>Modern Urban Tileset includes objects and textures needed to create a hotel entrance, a modern casino and a modern boxing or wrestling ring.

*Bellhops, Casino Dealers, Wrestlers, and other modern character sets not included.
*Dragon-thing in promotional image, also not included.

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Bump

>>179548384
There's nothing wrong with it. It's just half-baked and ultimately useless.

>>179547260
Yeah, that's pretty bad. It's got to be someone from Degica. The Japanese store use the same images, and even has English dialogue in a screenshot for the DS+ pack.

What does your villain want and how does he plan to obtain it?

>>179554282
he wants revenge for the dark elves being oppressed by the light elves.

i forgot, actually.

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>>179554282
She wants to capture Earth's men because she belongs to a race of sexbots whose creators became extinct.

>>179559312
do those sexbots know that their creators have already become extinct?

are they only fighting for the glory of semenkind?

>>179559774
Of course. With their masters dead, the sexbots needed to find themselves a new purpose, so now they travel throughout the universe looking for new masters. All the new species they find become extinct too, though.

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Just played Harold vs Pax East
The solstice puzzle was pretty good, but the rest of it was bullshit, no warning, play it again and don't make the same "mistake" this time.

No thanks, I wasted enough time.

>>179548384
They're always stretching for nice things to say. I wonder what kind of approval process they have to go through.
>what approval process? They answer to no one.

>>179545149
Not recnetly. His buddy Skullboneslayer has, too. They've shilled each other's Patreons on here before

>>179554282
He wants to prove to himself that the modern civilization was a mistake, so he crudely made a replica of the middle ages world but with magic and shit, while attempting to forcefully stop anyone from starting the age of discovery. By the beginning of the story things were going very badly so every time he fails he resorts to more extreme measures.

Pretty much is you vs a very assholish Sims player. Good luck finding out though.

Don't die /rpgmg/! Your friends are cheering for you!

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>>179575834
>cheering
>not each contributing to a section of the final dungeon and/or boss culminating in a cavalry moment where they all return at the very end so you truly aren't fighting alone

>>179554282
He wants revenge. Against the 'final boss,' for destroying his village, and the MC, for taking away his only friend

>>179554282
Rival company wants to monopolize trade and businesses in the capital, rumored to harass smaller businesses by hiring bandits or causing problems for them.

Get in the bag, already

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im making a part where a dialog changes depending on who is in the front of the party, does anyone know how i could go about doing this?

>>179540962

Antagonists make the plot happen, so they damn well better be well made.

>>179585125
There should be a checkbox for actors in the same place you check switches and variables for events.

Rate my protagonists purely based on their (admittedly made in RPG maker) appearances.

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>>179588463

>too retarded to actually post my image
Man, that's a good sign

>>179588639
I know it's hard to change without abusing hairstyles but I cannot express with words how much I despise catpeople with four ears. Looks fine otherwise but I'm not sure pink hair meshes that well with dark skin.

>>179588864

Yeah, i hate it too, to be honest. There's no reason I couldn't just edit the image to remove it, right?

>>179588639
Pink hair on that skin tone makes me cringe. I'm also not a fan of that particular hairstyle with that face on the male. Dude looks too old to look like that. And then we have the cat ears and the human ears.

On a whole I'm not a fan of MV's character creator, so I might be biased.

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>>179593114
you fucking gay?

but "long hair, covering eyes/face of masculine face" definitely looks bad. after a certain age, people stop wearing those kinds of bangs. unless they have the features to support it, which a strong jaw, nose and small eyes do not.

Is there any way to have an enemy's stats affected by a variable to simulate difficulty?

>>179594252
I said that skin tone and this is clearly not an example of that. In your character's case both colors clash too much. In this case it looks good because more than pink this is a very bright red and the eye color compliments the skin.

Don't get me wrong, it can work and I have seen examples. Just that I personally find it too contrasting.

>>179588639
Is that a catboy?

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Good night bump

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>>179586804
is it this? and if so what does this even mean

>>179600785
It's storing the Actor ID of party member #1 in that variable

>>179602401
i was able to get it thanks people.

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Stop dying

Post your progress!

>>179610007
Soon (tm)

>>179288912
One way to make this happen, in theory at least, is stretch the width of the stairway part, that is suppose to be to upper part, since objects that appear closer to the eye are bigger.

>>179598076

Aye.

>>179610007
Still trying to improve my artistic skills.
Perspective is not easy at all.

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>>179612819
You can cheat on occasion.
It's a projection not perspective. So things aren't suppose to recede in space. But in a true projection, spheres would be elongated ovals - which doesn't fit the concept of a sphere. But cubes in a projection, being 2 squares on top of each other, don't bother people because it fits our idea of a cube having equal sides, and that's what we see.

In a cabinet projection, we give the illusion of perspective by shortening the top side of a cube by some amount; it seems more natural because we are used to seeing thing in perspective. But we don't distort the ground even though that too is technically the top side of the earth. It doesn't seem to be a problem when you put a cabinet projected cube on a square floor.
But put a cabinet projection of a fountain - the top being shortened into an oval - on a circular floor, and we notice something is wrong right away.

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>>179610007

The first place where you get control of your character for more than one room is nearly done (it mostly just needs flavor events now). I have the slum started but unlike the mansion it actually needs changed some and has more than one part, since it's where most of the game takes place.

>>179610007
I'm writing everything down before I do anything else for my game. I mean EVERYTHING. No real progress until then :(

Storywise, I need 4 main characters.
Character dynamics-wise, I want 3 main characters.
Gameplay wise, I want a party of 3.

What do I do?

>>179622175
Make it so you have to change characters in cities.

>>179622175
Maybe one of them can't fight at all and joins the group for moral support.

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>>179622175

One character's a non-combatant and doesn't show up in battle.

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>>179622175
The 4th character is a pacifist or oath bound not to harm any living creature. They only appear in combat on special occasions as a gimmick. Like they're an exorcist, so they're only used to banish ghosts and skeletons that are incorporeal or otherwise immortal.

Ion in Tales of the Abyss was with the party for the most part of the game. As the Fon Master he would have strong mystic arts. But it weakens him whenever he uses his Pope powers, and they need him save his strength in order to break seals.
However in a new game +, for whatever reason, if you use Luke's special and press Triangle then Ion will appear and do an extension with his own mystic arte for more damage. "Perhaps I can help. "
So he's basically an optional summon during certain story portions of the game.

Additionally, the annoying mascot character for this tales game is a fire breathing cheagle. They use him for adventure mechanics to hit switches and open new paths, but he's not used in battle.

>>179625953
gotta love portable switch flickers

>>179625953
The exorcist thing reminds me of fighting skeletons in White Knight Chronicles. They're unique in that they only collapse for a little while but get back up again in a minute or so unless you uses a special skill or holy water on them while they are collapsed to properly banish them.
If you have neither, you can use the party chat "Pray" emote while targeting the collapse skeleton, having the same effect.

I kinda wish more online games used chat emotes as a useful game mechanic. Like, to enter a building you have to salute the guards before they let you pass. Or you can "poke" a treasure chest to see if it's a mimick before you try opening it.

>>179626415
that sounds dirty and degrading. hah.

Man E3 was a whole load of nothing at all.

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>>179629441
I disagree with your assessment.

>>179629441
yeah, a lot of it was irrelevant to me. i'm hype for monster hunter world, though.
i've also been writing and listening to a lot of big band-y jazz music recently, so i really liked the odyssey trailer music.

>>179622175
Why do you need four characters?

One option is to just do away with one and distribute their important bits among the remaining three characters.

However, from what you're saying, it really seems as though you want a party of three and an important npc.

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making rpgs is ruff

>>179633892
ver ruff

>>179616050
What's up with this weird sleeping room?

>>179638632
There is only one bed, the rest are mimics.

>>179638632

It's where the kids sleep.

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>>179514565

Anyone got all the Time Fantasy sets to share? I plan on buying 'em, but I'm currently broke and I really wanna start doing more than just writing down the concepts, database, etc. More specifically, the MV sets.

How many possible party members should a good rpg have?

>>179651559
Between 1 and 108

>>179651559

As many as you can make up distinct party roles for.

No two characters should do the same thing the same way.

Is 12 party members in battle at once too many?

>>179653227

Question one: does this clutter the game unnecessarily?

Question two: Do the threats you face warrant so many party members?

>>179653227
i have a hard time caring for micromanaging that many units.

those battles had better be over in one or two turns.

I'm updating the collab project with the new MV 1.5.0 files.
While I'm at it, I might do some things with the maps.
I just combined the Chapter 2 prison floors 1-6 onto a single map.

Keeping maps separated by chapter is kinda nice. But unlike the last collab, there's a bit of a overlap between chapters that reuse locations and allow for backtracking. It's not as linear as the last collab project was were whole chapters were pretty much self contained.
So I'm not sure it's the best organization method.

I guess that can be pretty intimidating. So I want future collaborators to know that their only responsibility is to move the story forward, and it doesn't have to be 100% finished when you're time is up.
Like, here I am. My turn is over. But there's no reason I can't debug previous sections and fix things for continuity sake.
And you don't have to address or make acknowledgements to things that were said in previous chapters. I mean, we want to be respectful, but it might be difficult to pick up what other collaborators have laid down.
For example, in the prologue the King says to do "that method" for dealing with the shadowfey. But if no one follows through to explain what "that method" actually is, we can just edit it out in later revisions. It's a minor hanging thread we can snip off by erasing that line, no big deal.
Or conversely, chapter 2 was focused on Jaye, if no one wants to explain what happens to her next, I will gladly add in a side quest or work in scenes somewhere somehow, just to tie up any loose ends.
I gotcho back.

It's kinda like an Ouiji board I guess. No one person is guiding it. So even though Silent Maid and the other collaborators were pushing in one direction, it might end up changing and going somewhere completely different. But they still had an influence and it's in a different position than if they hadn't touched it at all, right?

>>179653898
>micromanaging.
That is what I hated about games like Agarest War and Cross Edge.
They have 20+ party members, you only use a handful. But they all gain exp regardless of them being in the party. So after every boss battle you you got 5-8 characters that just leveled up and you're forced to allocate stat points for each of them before you can resume the game.
It's a terrible idea.

>>179652714
Thanks, I'm aware of that. But how many are too little and how many are too much?

>>179653227
Yes. Unless it a strategy game where you fight maybe 40 battles total in the entire game.

>>179656297

Too little is less than two, always; there needs to be someone for the main character to talk to unless isolation and loneliness are themes of the story.

Too many depends on the nature of your game. As I said: what's too clunky? What makes things too easy?

It depends. The answer is different from game to game.

>>179653898
Battles are infrequent, think sub-bosses and bosses only. Perm death also. It's like an endurance test.

>>179656523
My game would be something like Darkest Dungeon but with world exploration.

Would you people think that players would get angry if they were locked out of certain events if I don't specifically tell them that it's going to happen?

Say, my game has a calendar, the likes of Rune Factory, and I guess Harvest Moon. For example there's one event where the hero has to save a companion who's been captured for experimentation. I didn't put anything besides the usual "Hurry the fuck up if you want to see her again" If he does it in within a quantity of days depending on how strong is his bond with her, he saves her, if not he arrives too late and has to kill her corrupted form in a boss battle.
Unlike Persona,the game continues and the player has to live with the regret that he chose to grind materials or whatever over a friend. Would the player get pissed that I didn't spoonfed him that something bad would really happen?

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>>179659414
I think it would be perfectly fine because you warned the player beforehand by having a character say "Oh shit we need to do this ASAP Joker."
It's their fault for dicking around doing different stuff.
If you want to be a little lenient then have a somewhat innocent event somewhere before where the outcome is also determined by how long the player takes.

>>179659414

My advice to you: demonstrate in a less serious event that if someone says 'hurry up' they don't mean 'whenever you like'.

Lots of games are guilty of saying WE NEED TO HURRY HERE NOW but the claim is toothless.

TEACH the player that time constraints are real, and they will learn

>>179659414
I would.
Another reason I hate Agarest War is that there are hidden time conditions that you would never know about unless you use a guide. The game has a "turn" counter that goes up every time you enter an area. So you're ~suppose~ to level grind in dungeons where the turn counter can't go up. But there's no in-game instructions to tell you the "right" way to play.

I was already halfway through the game before I looked up a guide. So I effectively missed out on unlocking most of the cgi scenes as well as recruiting certain characters
I'm still picking away at it, there's no way in hell I'll ever want to replay it. It's so long that RPG review sites had to make an exception to their rules about playing a game to completion.

>>179660320
>>179663030
I thought in doing something like that but then again, how would the player know that the outcome wasn't scripted?

>>179664997
Just do some earlier events where you have consequences like "hurry up or you won't get free ice cream" or "hurry up or the racoon will run away with your pumpkin". The player will learn to hurry up.

Some games assume players will have some kind of pre-knowledge about a the genre and game mechanics to expect certain things.

If you've played a reasonable number of action games, you'd be pretty familiar with the double-jump ability and recognize "I can't make this jump yet, I'm suppose to come back later."
But for newcomers who are playing adventure games for the first time and aren't familiar with the concept. They can waste so much time trying to make a jump. And is some cases, actually making the jump before they're suppose to by some fluke, and break the game because the developers failed to signpost "Amateur Climbers Forbidden, [High Jump] needed. "

>>179665283
That's my point. How will the player know, even in those examples that there was actually a choice? Players tend to roll with what they get. Let's go with your ice cream example. We got two options

1 Player gets icecream. He doesn't wonder what would happened if he didn't hurry up because he did.

2 Player doesn't get icecream. Welp, I guess I wasn't meant to get that icecream in the first place. Fucking scripted events.

>>179667834

You can't make an idiot not run into a wall. You can only paint the wall, wait for the idiot to go to the internet forum and ask HOW DON'T I RUN INTO THE WALL and then someone will be like 'idiot it's a timed event'.

And he'll be like HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?

And then he'll be banned for retardation.

My answer assumes you're dealing with an individual who uses his or her grey matter.

If you want to communicate to an idiot, you just have to come out and say it. But by that logic, you can't have any subtlety anywhere. Basically, don't worry about idiots too much.

>>179667834
Put a distraction in the way.of the ice cream, and then have the character offering the ice cream explicitly reference the fact the player chose the distraction instead of the ice cream. Then maybe repeat the event some days later. Perhaps now making the distraction less appealing (make it an item that is useless in multiples)

>>179667834
>NPC tells him he took X amount of time
>NPC comments that he's surprised he actually made it in time
>NPC comments that ice cream generally melts in Y amount of time

>>179667834
Use bold color phrases to tell the player what the objectives are.

>>179669090
>>179669189
That's a good idea, thanks.

>>179667834
In games that run on a schedule, there's usually a courtesy prompt.
"You just remembered you signed up for today's tournament match"

After all, it might have only been a few hours in-game. But in reality, you could be picking up from a save file that's weeks old and could have easily forgotten by then.

>>179670419

A 'quest log' is always a good idea.

good lord, i hate discussing game design with rpg-exclusive developers, or even just reading their discussion.

i feel like i can only respect opinions from people deeply familiar with high-level fighting game and perhaps RTS gameplay. everyone else is completely retarded when it comes to logical thinking, or something.

>>179670856

...did you mean to post in the AGD thread?

>>179670856
Are you talking about us or someone else?
And if it's us, what were you expecting to find in a thread that says "RPG Maker General" in the title?

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weeks. Or years.

>>179671162
nah, you guys are cool. probably. i just tune out anything that's not progress posting, or a scripting question. i don't recall reading anything too offensive here.

i had the displeasure of browsing the official board's design forum a bit, though. but back to work. perhaps a demo within the week

>>179670856
Your logic might not be universal.
It could be culturally exclusive.

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>>179671967
But we've got 30+ years of infamous game design faux pas to learn from.

>>179671967'
It was a fundamental concept being discussed.

Why is the Defend command so unused in RPGs? Monsters will keep relentlessly attacking you regardless of whether you defended or not. They'll still be alive. You're better off just constantly attacking.

In third-person shooters, how do you stop someone from camping and peeking around corners? They're completely invisible to players running up to the corner, but fully visible to someone completely obscured by the wall. It's a completely lopsided situation, thanks to the camera.

In fighting games, how do you stop someone from just running away and blocking everything? While attacking, you commit yourself into an attack, leaving yourself vulnerable. When moving closer to the opponent that's running away, you leave yourself vulnerable by being forced to let go of block.

In RTS, how do you stop someone from just rushing constantly? SCVs, marines and bunkers? What is the optimal response from a competent player? Is there any guaranteed solution to this cheese?

The less familiar you are with thinking about things at a fundamental level, the more hack-y your solutions will be.
>uh, how about defend provokes enemies into attacking them, and performs a counter attack when attacked.. it also restores mana?
>uh, make towers have +50% armor for the first 10 minutes? then players will be forced to stay away from the opponent's bases
>uh, how about you make the person running away for 30 seconds in a row lose all of their super meter? now they're forced to fight
etc

>>179674817
Listen to the podcast (in the OP) if you haven't already. We bring up Defend in shows with obvious titles (8, 14, 27). The worst part of Defend is in certain games where it doesn't even activate until that character's turn, making it useless against the fast enemies it usually is trying to defend against (you'd just try to finish off a slow enemy).

Bravely Default gives you a turn, which is nice. The subject of the upcoming podcast (Sacred Earth: Promise) boosts your HP and MP if you choose to Defend. MP is especially important, since you can extned your attack chains by burning MP (and one long chain is better than two short ones)

>>179676280
i do remember listening to one where it was discussed in depth. legaia's one of my favorite games, since it was my first ever JRPG, but it's like the prime example of the complex/bloated type of solution to this problem.
>reduces damage taken
>increases evasion
>increases (effective) damage output
>restores mana
>depending on accessories equipped, it can do a plethora of other things, like restoring the health of the party, adding a damage multiplier, removing status ailments, counter attacks are activated if attacked, ...

through a combination of all of that, you have finally have (an overloaded) Defend option that's actually attractive.

>>179678081
I think Defend worked better in the overall scheme of old-school JRPGs, where death was a Really Bad Thing and random enemies were capable of getting your characters from Nice N' Healthy to Very, Very Dead.

I'm currently replaying Lunar, and I like how Defend is also the command that lets you move your characters around the field. They sort of understood that anyone who wants to move (without using Attack to move toward an enemy and attack them) must be fleeing danger.

Legaia's Defend really does sound like a mess. Shame you still have to Attack to beat the game, with how good Defend is on paper

>>179678081
>legaia
already like you

If you want a reasonable defend option, Wild Arms 3 had a thing because the entire party used guns.

Defend reloads your clip to full. If all you did was attack, you'd end up with the very weak melee hit that was barely accurate, and the damage of the Gatling special attack depended on how much ammo you had in your clip.

>>179678081
legaia's defend did so many things they didn't outright mention.

>>179674817
having defend also increase resistance to status ailments is critical to making sure it actually does the obvious job properly.

Defending to restore MP is not bad, but that can easily result in grinding fights to fullheal the party. I like the idea of linking amount restored to damage you take while defending, but there's a danger of being needlessly complicated.

Increasing speed/actions is definitely a good choice to reduce the overall action cost of defend. A stacking speed buff that only stays in effect for 1 turn, 2 with particular accessories.

In games where enemy MP is seriously implemented, outlasting them becomes a viable tactic. Enemies often have far too much MP, and it's not wrong to assume that certain enemy types are also worn down instead of constantly on full tanks. Survive(or mp drain) 2-3 hits, and their moveset gets cut to a third.

In games with field effects, I also think it would be good if defending gives you some measure of control. Like if every party member has an element, defending shifts the field in that direction. It's hard to get it into a single element AND exploit damage bonuses, but it's easy to shift the field away from an element a party member is weak to.

Now that I think about it, having Defend increase the success rate of Running in the next round would also be convenient.

It's an old discussion that comes up now and again.

Without changing what the defend command does, (You) the design, in order to make the defend command useful, have to manipulate enemy behavior via switches and special conditions.

The oldest trick in the book is the countdown. "The enemy is charging to attack" giving the player warning to defend.

A more elaborate set up would be a mime / mirror / shadow version of your heroes that copy your actions. The harder you hit, the harder they hit back. So one possible strategy would be to poison them and just ride out the rest of the battle by guarding. (Or attacking yourself)

By today's standards that would be a pretty "advanced"
But back in RM2K days, "advanced" was elaborate animated sideview battle systems and damage displays that were all done with events.
If you guys ever see the inner workings of The Legend of the Philosopher's Stone battle system, it'll make other rm projects look like kindergarten glitter & glue crafts.

El-Sato (Deviantart) had made some fancy custom battle systems in Rm2k way back in the day. Plus he did is own pixel art, I considered him my senpai.
I'd show you his old work, but it's long gone off the internet at this point. And his rm2k project files were on my family's old Win95 computer. Yikes, I feel old saying that.

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>>179681651
No joke. A custom menu system on rm2k is impressive by itself. But a Custom Battle System? All done by events?
I don't think most people can appreciate the amount of work put into crafting something like that.

>>179682318
The windows, the numbers, equipment text.
Those are all individual pictures.

Displaying numbers is a trivial thing to do in Ruby and Java.
But as a RM Event System, it's a ridiculous amount of variables and conditional branches and show picture commands to display numbers in those positions.
And then, to even make the numbers roll up, down, and even bounce after stat changes.

It's so beautiful, I want to cry.

>>179674817
>Why is the Defend command so unused in RPGs? Monsters will keep relentlessly attacking you regardless of whether you defended or not. They'll still be alive. You're better off just constantly attacking.
Play Disciples II. It's basically an Strategie game with turn based RPG fighting screen.
In this one the defend button is actually useful.

10

The defend command is useless because people expect the engine to do all the design work. Leaving enemy behavior up to basic RNG.

>>179674817
It depends on the battle system. Even something as simple as giving two actions per turn would make a defend command viable. But they're usually only used for big telegraphed attacks, which is honestly sad.

Stop dying dammit.

>>179692760
then that alone isn't a solution at all. the difference is just "you wasted half of an attack" instead of "you wasted an attack".

>>179694824
Alas, you're right. Guarding is a stupid command if you put it that way. If guarding somehow exhausted your opponent it would make some kind of sense to do it. A guard that buffs your defenses or some other stat makes one wonder why not use said buff instead, since both are the same waste of a turn, and buffs might be cast to the whole party.

Then again it might be the same shit with debuffs and what I said at first.

Who the fuck guards in a RPG?

>>179695510
One of many problems is how cheap healing is.
You don't have to worry about a little more damage if you can easily heal for a hand full of mana afterwards.

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i'm filling out a "attacks this unit does on this enemy speed, on paths with this shape" chart, and I just realized the "straight path", "90degree corner", and the "180degree turn" values I use in the path field spell out ILU.

late night ilu bump. <3

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Good night bump

>>179524701
Can you subdivide step 0 in more steps?

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i was gonna make a game where you can get
temporary townsfolk to join your party but i want to use the side battler, does anyone know where i can find side battlers of the default MV people?

So, is there a consensus on how shit MV is?
Should I just stick with Ace?

>>179674817

>not having 'wind up' or 'power' attacks that force or incentivize use of the Defend command

>>179701492

Easiest way to learn how to draw is to start drawing shit around you.

Learn how to draw shapes, too, since if you can draw shapes you can draw most things in the world.

An actual artist can teach you better than I can; I am but a learner myself.

>>179704609

Honestly, it's not bad.

Admittedly, if you already have Ace and you already like Ace, there's no reason you CAN'T use Ace.

I mean there's probably some fag working on a AAA quality game in 2003.

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I'm watching a Japanese let's play to one of the Off fangames.
The way she says Batter-kun is adorable.

>>179708406
Should I start drawing with a pen or stick with computer programs?

>>179708904

I prefer drawing on actual paper, but that is me.

If you have drawing equipment and it is electronic, then use that.

Ultimately, learning which you prefer to do is a learning experience.

Tall (realistic proportions, so no XP type) characters:
16 pixel wide? (x3 for MV)
24 pixel wide? (x2 for MV)
48 pixel wide?

How to work with the color palette of MV? It looks like a mess to color.

>>179554282
She want to save the planet by sacrificing 30% of the population.
One of the sacrifice is MC's family. I'm sure you can guess where this is going.

The planet need heat energy after a freak star accident that cause the planet orbit away from its solar system.

Before it happens, humans make a pact with Gods to supply the planet with heat energy and stuffs. In return the Gods demand human sacrifice every 200 years.

>>179554282

The first one wants to create a society that entertains her, where anyone, human or not, can achieve success by merit rather than blood.

The second one wants to understand the place of monsters in her new Empire.

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Guess, I'll bump with my first map. Not quite filled out 100% but close enough.

>>179711997
It's not bad but I would take away ~50 % of the trees

>>179711997
keep the trees, but don't let there be any cliff height inconsistencies.

if you look at the right side of your map, it's both a "1 height" cliff, and a "2 height" cliff at the same time.

it's a lot more lively than my beginner maps, though. i was a big fan of big open maps.

>>179711997

Are the trees intentionally planted?

If so, they should have more space.

If not, they should not have a relatively fixed pattern.

>>179712558
>>179712675
>>179712704
Thanks for the feedback.

I feel a bit silly making that cliff height mistake.

>>179548384

Yeah, that's the one. I'm surprised there isn't more piracy of the graphics packs going on. I would probably buy them after my game was finished, but I don't feel like blowing my money on assets I may never use.

>>179514565
Is this the cracked version?

Why doesn't your game have a pacifist route? Don't you want those sweet Undertale audience bucks?

>>179717419
I wonder, why was Undertale so successful anyways?

>>179711997
Why would someone build a statue on this dangerous place?
The ground easily sag in cause of the water soaked earth.

>>179718468
The author already had an established audience because he had a popular webcomic, and the game included meta-elements and nostalgia-throwbacks at a point in time when those things were at their peak.

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>>179715424
I'm not. Just because someone puts a price tag on something doesn't mean there's a demand for it.
If you're going to sell workout equipment, hire bodybuilders to make it look like your product actually does something.
If you're going to sell rpg maker tilesets...hire someone who can make an appealing map out of it.

And by calling it "Modern Urban Tileset" Degica is only shooting themselves in the foot, because they're telling you they can't be trusted with accurate descriptions.
>Dissatisfaction Guaranteed

>>179718543
Remnants of a civilization from before the great flood. Idk.
Use your critical thinking skills.
Or your imagination.

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>>179718734
*worked on a popular webcomic

Toby did a lot of music for Homestuck, but didn't draw much of anything for it. He did still have that audience, though.

>>179717419
I want to make a lewd game with a pacifist route based on Marquis de Sade's Justine, where it is basically never-ending humiliation and ntr for the player choosing to be spare his foes.

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"Hey guys. It's me, Aldo! Remember when I was the fresh new look for MV before it turned out I was just promotional material and you got Harold instead.
How mad are you?"

>>179652145
you forgot the squirrels you monster

Hey guys
PIXELART IS AWESOME

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Added this visual aid at the start of the Collab Game.
It doesn't need it, but it doesn't hurt either.

>>179728817
I love these types of QoL upgrades

>>179717419
Because there are people you can't reason with. In my game's case, let a certain villain boss off twice and don't let the party member who's obsessed with revenge kill him, and he'll reward you by killing one of your party members the next time you find him.

kai monkeys random dungeon generator is perfect and I would love something similar for MV

>>179717419
I actually like the idea of making putting some elements of pacifism. But it would probably be a game entirely focused around that, exploring different interpretations of it and the flaws and hypocrisies of each.

You can capture people, but you can only keep and feed so many. You can maim, but that is likely to kill them or end their functional lives. Not everyone is willing to talk, particularly when their view of you is colored by the atrocities you've committed. Someone who sneaks past an army to reach the leader is generally considered an "assassin" rather than someone to talk to.

But talking DOES work, if you take the time to understand one another. Honor and simple Decency have their place on the battlefield. One can lead by example, and inspire others to do the same. Owning up to ones' mistakes is crucial to establishing trust. And you have to actually trust someone other than yourself, not because you're so damn amazing that you don't care if they betray you, but because you have faith.

>Dying

>>179727961
So it is!

What do you do when you have a good idea for a plot twist in your game, but you know that including it will easily increase the length of your game by a good 50% and probably add a number of plotholes to the story?

Why are the preset things of MV so limited like hairstyles, facial features and colours?

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>decide to port my ancient RPG Maker 2003 project from 10 years ago over to MV for fun
>realize I can just drop the old RTP charsets from Rm2k3 directly into MV and use an amazing Yanfly script to scale them up and make them look good in a 1080p game window
>also realize that the order the characters are facing in Rm2k3 charset images are in a different order from MV
>now have to painstakingly move sprites around to make them face the right way and also remove the solid colored backgrounds from the old RTP, for every characterset
>have to do similar things with tiles, facesets, sv battlers, etc

It will be worth it. I love the look of old Rm2k3 RTP and I'm making my own edits as well. I'm surprised this scaling script works so well.

What's the best way to convert VX tilesets to MV?

I'm trying to scale them using GIMP but they continue to come out blurry

>>179745830

http://www.kickbackgames.com/mvfu/

Youi're welcome.

>>179740346

One, they're supposed to sell DLC.

Two, they're supposed to be a basis. Since you can use the assets freely, they expect you to modify them if they don't fit your purposes.

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>Link for VXAce is dead

Okay..

Are there any basic guides to sprite/tileset editing around these parts?

I'm not an expert but I'd like to start producing my own content even if my own content is literally 'RPG maker stuff but slightly different'

>>179744473
Grass!
Leaves!
Snow!
...Skin?
B̴̩̣͍͞͞L̺̻͙̩̝̀Ó͚̼O̴͖D̢͎͙̦̣͇̹̜̼!

>>179746990
open sprite/tileset in gimp
make changes
save sprite/tileset

>>179747071

That was the idea I already had. I wanted a guide, possibly with some do's and don't's, not some no name patronizing me.

>>179747040
I haven't seen Zalgoposting in a long time.

>>179747207
okay, buddy boy. btw, since this is the entry-level software, RPG Maker, there are, in fact, people that visit /rpgmg/ that weren't already aware of how easy it is to add new images to their project. sorry you weren't one of them, hun.

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>>179746990
The question's a little broad. It'd be easier if you had a specific thing you wanted help with, but a couple of things that are pretty much universal:
* Make sure not to mix pixel sizes. (see picture for a How Not To)
* Make sure to have a consistent light source. (Typically above or above and to one side of the characters.)
* Always save your work in a lossless format - png is good. Jpg will ruin everything for you because it compresses shit.

>>179749120

Thanks. That'll save me ages of hitting my head against the wall.

>>179748479
I can believe that. But sometimes, you just gotta b̺̩̘̳̖͐͛̓ͫu͈̒s̛͓̟͙̳͕͎͆̇̒̿t̺̖̜͎͇͈͆͂̏ͫ out the c̰͂́̚l͔͔͉̹̓̕à͙̱͓͐̎̏̊ͯ͋ͅs͈̻̞̤͓̍̾̓̉s̮̯̈́ͪ̑ï̺͓̺̻̰͆͋ͫ̄͂̍͘c̢̭̖̓ͨͪͭ̏s̯̓̄ͩͫͬ.

>>179749317
No problem! Good luck with the pixlin'.

I just decided to add a Transformers reference to my game. What was the last pop culture reference you threw into your game?

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What's the big difference between XV and XVAce?

Since the Ace link is dead I got XV instead.

>>179753013
At this point, what ISN'T a pop culture reference?

Jojo's aside, I mean, that's obviously a high art reference.

>>179754945
From my understanding, XV is buggy as shit. XV Ace is pretty much the Patched version of XV that they shilled as a new version to make more bucks than they would have if they just released the Patch. Even 2003 and XP are better than vanilla XV, AFAIK.

>>179753013
While I do have some references here and there I have to wonder when exactly is something considered pop culture? And when is it a dank meme?

>>179754945
XV is like the no longer supported beta of Ace.
I went legit a long time ago but maybe this will help you.
https://pastebin.com/nr4un2J4

>>179755426
And they have the nerve to sell it 10$ off on their site.

>>179755985
>that link

I won't regret downloading that right?

Thanks.

I plan to go legit as well but I want to mess around with it first like MV and see which one I'm more comfortable with before I buy it.

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reading XV and XV Ace is triggering my autism bump

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What kind of tablet do you guys use?

I plan to buy one so I can practice making my own sprites, because drawing with a mouse isn't fun.

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>>179759603
>pen
i used to believe the "always go with wacom" saying in my earlier days. used several wacom bamboos. pressure levels are just memes, though. i'd never factor in pressure levels above 256 in any tablet purchase decision, even if you're intending to do more traditional drawing.

>screen
if it's in your budget, i'd heavily recommend a screened tablet over a screen-less one. it's (almost) fun to draw again when using it.

i personally use a surface pro 3 with its "garbage" 256 pressure level, n-trig pen, and it's been the perfect drawing device.

I want to have a series of flashbacks about my character's childhoods.

They'd be kinda long and far less combat intensive than the rest of the game so at first I was thinking about having them be optional when you rested at the inn like Lost Odyssey's Thousand Years of Dreams.

But they're waaay too important to the plot for that.

And the game kinda has to be en media res because otherwise there'd be a hell of a long time before the player got to combat if we just started at childhood and worked our way up plus the last flashback kind of has a mindbender for a plot twist that would ruin it if I showed it before the present-time events of the game.

So what's the best paced way to present these to the player?

>>179764584
I would make them skippable, but splice some information in the regular dialogue/descriptions so the context is not entirely lost if the player skips stuff, as well as give the player more control over when he sees the scenes. Kinda like the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon side-missions or the memory crystal thingies from FFX. Once unlocked, they can be played at any given time.

>>179554282
He wants the corruption of the land to continue in order to appease his god. He plans on doing that by manipulating what the hero thinks is a journey to cleanse the land.

>>179610007
Major breakthroughs. Wish Yanfly made his damn comics years ago. I've just been writing the story and making a walkable path from A to B for my main character with exposition at every "checkpoint". Today I've got dialogue covering up to 2 more of these checkpoints.

Honestly though getting your villain and heroes motivation to do the things that make a plot compelling and taking your hero from their hometown are the hardest thing about starting your plot and since I've done that I've been moving at the speed of light.

>>179622175
The FFII route where he only pops in during certain parts and then joins permanently right at the end.

>>179653227
In a standard turn-based game, yes.

I would have liked a more serious version of Final Fantasy All The Bravest though, and something like that could work with like 20 characters.

>>179659414
permanent missables with small triggers to miss are the bane of my existence. I'm a completionist though. A game like yours I would have a FAQ on the other monitor at all times.

>>179674817
Legend of Dragoon's defend restored 10% of your health. Since you could only carry 15 of an item with you, it was the most useful defend I can remember in a turn-based game.

>>179765373
Oh yeah those memory crystals in FFX were pretty damn important to some character's backstories but completely optional. Maybe I'm not so fucked leaving it as an inn menu option.

>>179764584
I recommend >>179765373

Explicitly declare when new flashbacks are unlocked. Flashback characters have their own stats, and either keep them consistent even if you repeat the flashback, or just flat out remove EXP for them.

Give them mechanical benefits in the form of secret hideouts that are only unlocked when you play the flashback. Inside are items that are gimmicky but possibly synergizes with new stuff, or simply rare ingredients/consumables/doodads.

>>179766750
>a more serious version of Final Fantasy All The Bravest
how would it be different from, say, Brave Frontier?

Mapping interiors took longer than expected.

i'm hitting the hay early tonight.

>>179773435
k

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Monster Tower anon here.
After losing my harddrive and all the files on it, I've been in a slump. But I managed to find enough of everything for the first game, so I'm just retouching some things here and there, mainly with the design and how to navigate it.

I'm trying to find the larger variant of this set, but no luck so far.

I'm such trash with RPG maker and I haven't finished a game even though i've been using it since RPG maker 95, but I still love following this general and I'm excited for the collab project

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I've finished my plans for a 1-2 hour short RPG in a sort of Dragon Quest style. Light hearted, not too serious. Colourful. That kind of thing.

The only problem is I'm not sure what sort of art style to use. I hate the MV RTP and I sort of want to use the 2000 RTP for some reason...

Would you guys play a game in with 2000 RTP graphics or would I be cast out of the thread forever?

>>179783980
Well those are the graphics I'd use for my own game so yes, I'd play it.

>>179783854
I too am excited for the collab project. You WILL be participating, right anon?

>>179783980
The art is fine as it's not 100% lazy. Only like 80%.

>>179784214
Nah senpai, like I said, I'm trash, so I wouldn't feel comfortable. I will be cheering everyone on though!

Anyone have any experience making a very large RPG?
Like 100 hour length.

>>179788810
Is it your first time here? Because you really shouldn't make your first game 100+ hours long.

>>179788938
Even when you are experienced, I would restrain from making it this long. 60 hours at best. At least for the main story.

>>179788938
>>179789117
Yep, first time.
And I know, that advice goes same for everything.
It's not good to make a 2 hour movie without making some short films/music videos first.
I get it.
But this is the only thing I want to make.
I don't plan on making a 100 hour main story.
Maybe like 50 with lots of side content.
I was looking for some advice on how to plan out a big project.

How do i git gud at RTP mapping. Like cities and such.

>>179649919

Really? Nobody has 'em? Afraid of pixel art or what?

>>179789332
>I get it.
If you did get it, what exactly do you think you're doing??

Besides, length doesn't reflect quality.

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>>179789332
Try making a decent game that's even 1 hour long and you'll soon realise just how much work goes into it- even with tools like RPG Maker, it takes ages to make something decent with even 1 hour of playtime.

If you set out with the intention of making a 100 hour game without prior experience, you will fail. I don't say this to be mean, I'm just being realistic.

Try small stuff first. Make a game with just 1 town and 1 dungeon and see how you go. Then once you've got a feel for it, go from there.

>>179789332
I know it's not what you want to hear but you'll have the experience and knowledge of being able to plan out a big project by finishing a bunch of small projects.

Everyone's first RPGM game should be a simple slay the dragon and save the princess with one town with a few stores, a dungeon with a few enemies, and MAYBE a world map transition between the two.

Then you should expand from there.

And honestly any project that results in a game that's longer than 20 hours shouldn't be a solo venture.

There are sooooo many people here who wanted their first project to be a killer game with dozens of recruitable characters, sidequests out the wazoo, and mechanics that would change JRPG history, that worked on their project for months, years, and then scrapped it because a new maker came out, or they got bored, or something about it simply wouldn't fundamentally work.

If you want advice for basic planning have a basic idea for gameplay. Then a basic idea for the story. Expand upon the gameplay using those two as your guideline and once you've got an outline for exactly how your game is going to play, expand the story.

Then your finishing touches are going to be constant tweaking; adjusting for difficulty, class balancing, and optional content on the gameplay side. Followed by dialogue tweaks, pacing, and storyboarding on the story side.

>>179789750
>If you did get it, what exactly do you think you're doing??
I did say this is the only thing I want to make.
I understand that it's not a great idea but it's what I want to do.
>Besides, length doesn't reflect quality.
I know, I never implied otherwise.
I just have an idea that I want to do and I think it's going to be long.
I thought I'd ask for some advice on planning a large project.

>>179790047
>If you set out with the intention of making a 100 hour game without prior experience, you will fail.
Maybe.
I'm not saying its easy.
I'm not saying my game will be any good either.
I just want to make what I want to make.

>>179790298
>plan out a big project by finishing a bunch of small projects
I understand and you're right.
I want to do things my way though.
I'm not trying to act like I'm right, I just want to do what I want to do.
>a game that's longer than 20 hours shouldn't be a solo venture
I have people who I can call upon.
Money if it requires it too.

I have all the basic stuff down.
Outlines of everything and such.
I was kind of looking for something slightly more intermediate.
Like, is story or gameplay more important to RPG plan?
Would it be more gameplay like:

>battle system and items
>story treatment
>mapping
>story script
>trigger & actions
>artwork & sprites
>lighting
>tweaking

Or something more story and art focused, like:

>story treatment
>story script
>artwork & sprites
>mapping
>battle system and items
>trigger & actions
>lighting
>tweaking

>>179791159
http://yanfly.moe/comics/

Read these if you want something to get yourself started on something. Just remember it's a lot of suggestions, not a solid rulebook. If you have other questions afterwards, feel free to ask again.

>>179791816
Thanks.
I wouldn't have thought to look in webcomic part in that OP link, but it's quite useful.

>>179791159
>Like, is story or gameplay more important to RPG plan?

Unless your game is as gameplay-lite as a Telltale game or a visual novel, the gameplay should always take precedence. Meaning that planning out the story beforehand is FINE, however if you must sacrifice something fun or profound gameplay-wise to make something in the story work, you're making the wrong move.

If you've got a full outline that's actually fantastic, although I'm skeptical of an outline when you may not know the extent of what RPGM is capable of. Or more importantly its limitations.

If you're serious about this I'll tell you the way I'd try to accomplish it. I however am by no means saying that I'm an expert on any game scope beyond indie (and honestly you'll have trouble finding anyone who is within this thread).

First and foremost, make a project called sandbox to test out stuff in your main game.

Then make a debug room in your main game as well.

I'd start by making the most linear path through your game the player can take. I'm talking making FFXIII look like goddamn Daggerfall. Remember that things we take for granted like town NPCs, treasure chests, shops, and even skill development systems are all OPTIONAL.

You should be able to move from town to dungeon, to town, to dungeon, etc (or whatever path you have set up in your plot, you get the picture) all the way from the opening to the ending of the game without going off the beaten path.

It might seem like we're focusing on story here, but for 97% of games traversing the world is the primary form of gameplay introduced to the player. Here you'll be able to add in small things to gameplay like if you want your PC to be able to jump or use skills/tools for puzzles.

Don't worry about assets for now, just use RTP. If you spend time/money on assets before this step you might end up scrapping everything because you'll see that you'll constantly be tweaking and adjusting crap as time goes on.

>continued next post

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Good night bump

>>179783980
That's fine as long as the game is fun! I'd definitely consider doing SOMETHING with the grass, though, that tile repetition is so painfully obvious.

>>179792286
The priority following traversal to me would be UI. Again the things that a player sees first are what is most important to me.

So whatever unique things you want to do with all the menus in your game, whether you want your speech to be in bubbles or full character busts I'd lay the groundwork for here (with filler assets if you're taking a more artsy route). Every window and menu should be customized to your liking before moving on.

Once that's done, my next step would be to take the plan from combat in my outline and implement it in the game.

Go back to the linear path you've made and focus on each area. Make and balance your enemies and bosses. Then add some things off the beaten path to help your player. A shopkeep that sells this or that to help with enemies here. Some alternate paths with treasure for the boss. NPCs that tell give you hints on what the enemies on this area like or don't like to do.

This step will take an eternity, but at this point you have a working game. Polish your mandatory dialog and story a little bit.

If you've got any extrinsic gameplay systems (crafting, minigames, etc), nows the time to implement them and balance their rewards and how those rewards effect the difficulty of enemies. After everything is balanced...

Sidequests! Which is unfortunate because sidequests create an exponential amount of work. But they're what make good games great right?

The fact is they're going to completely fuck up all your great gameplay balance because unless you're doing something completely different, sidequests make your characters stronger and grant rewards. Because gameplay wise why else would a player bother doing them?

So figure out where in your linear path you want to place your sidequests. And then repeat the above steps that you did for making your game for those sidequests. A linear path that gets you to the end of each sidequest and then add the "optional" stuff to them afterwards.

>cont

>>179792741
You'll have to go back and balance the main game after each sidequest and then balance the SIDEQUESTS after you add new sidequests too.

You'll also have to balance the story. What the fuck!? you might ask. Well does it make sense in our story's canon if our hero goes on a sidequest to slay the dragon king before rescuing the princess? Will the dialog of the king in the next cutscene he's in reflect whether or not you've done so? Think about those kinds of things.

whew. Your Alpha for your game is done! Now polish fucking everything. You know exactly down to the wire every asset that's going to be in your game, every enemy, every NPC, every PC, every town, building, tile, etc. Wipe that ugly ass RTP out and replace it all with custom artwork and assets.

Once the art is all done focus on music and sound effects and menu sounds. If you want to go that extra mile you may want to revisit your cutscenes one last time to edit them to fit the mood of the music playing.

You can do fun shit in this step like all the battle animations and stuff. Basically any art stuff that you already didn't cover when you went to do UI

Now you've got a Beta. Play through your game multiple times. Bug test it. Have your friends bug test it.

If you're planning to sell your game (which my god you should with the time and money you'd be pouring into it at this point) use this guide:

http://aveyond.com/downloads/How-to-Sell-your-Game.pdf

Shill on kickstarter. Shill here. Maybe use them patreonbux and add some anime cutscenes to your game.

I still think you should have some smaller projects under your belt first and I'm PLEADING with you to take us up on that. Or at the very least consider breaking your game up into parts. I believe scripts/plugins exist where you can transfer your character's stats, inventory, etc to sequels Golden Sun style.

Whatever you decide, good luck

Does your game have a deep lore or just a little background?

>>179792286
>>179792741
>>179793036
>I'm skeptical of an outline when you may not know the extent of what RPGM is capable of. Or more importantly its limitations.
That's fair.
I'll be honest and say no I do not know its boundaries but I have an alright knowledge and there's nothing I think will trip me up.
If I encounter something, I'm flexible.
I'm not planning on making a high tech game, just one that tells a story.

But thanks for taking the time to pour out some advice for me.
I've copied all your stuff into a word document so I can look back on it when I need some reference.

>>179793413
Just one last piece of advice

A game like Final Fantasy V took over 30 million to make, with a team of more than 50 people working on it for a year and at MAX even with sidequests the game is like 30 hours. Now, Enterbrain has done a lot of the engineering parts for you on the budget side, and obviously changes in technology have made things cheaper, but remember that 50 hours is a looooong time so don't try to stretch things if you're not hitting that quota.

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Does anyone have these tiles?

http://www.dlsite.com/home/work/=/product_id/RJ165626.html/?unique_op=af

I can't find a free download anywhere, and I don't really wanna pay 3000 yen for them, even though they are really nice

>>179708860
Link?

>>179791816
The tips of that comic look promising, but man the jokes really suck.

Using Beer, Wine, and Liquor in place of healing items is okay, right?

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>>179800402
Not if you want minors play your game.

>>179800402
>>179800450
clearly, it should be a different type of fermented good.

>cabbage
>sauerkraut
>kimchi

>>179800402
>>179800450
Or if you're a liver.

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Could someone explain the purpose behind the highlighted script in the image?

I ask because with this event in place i don't see any turn left/turn right actions. It seems like it's meant to portray someone as shady before sneaking into a house but it doesn't actually do that in-game.

>>179800450

Does this mean I should not have played Harvest Moon at like 7 and fell in love with Karen the alcoholic, because if so I was victimized by whoever made Harvest Moon 64 and I would like to file a law suit.

>>179800498

Obviously cheap salty meats are going to restore MP which let you perform criminal acts and shenanigans

>>179800617

3 frames is... 1/20th of a second
You're going to want to up that to 30 frames (or more) to get more of the 'glance around' feel.

>>179800617

It's set to make the door (which can't turn) turn, rather than the player..

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>>179789386
Learn how the tilesets are meant to be combined.
Some people think there is no wrong way to use tiles.
They're wrong. So very very wrong.

>>179802129
I don't see the issue with the house on the left. I mean, I would give it another tier or something so the roof isn't such a giant flat space but it's not like you don't get houses with flat roofs in hot countries. Sloped roofs are only really a must in countries with heavy snow.

>>179802437
The top part of the window is designed to be freestanding, not set into a wall. You can tell from the way the shadows are placed and how it has a to surface.

>>179800617
It's the door opening animation. If you look at the graphics sheet of the door, the door swinging open is equivalent to a person turning at those orientations.

>>179802652
Oh, I see what you mean.

That seems like an easy thing to fudge with shadows though. The in-game tool might be too big though.

>>179802890
Well, that's also one of the preset events you can quick-make, which is why it's there. New people can look at it and see how it's supposed to look at a basic level, then they can change it on their own.

How would you achieve effect triggering on hit (with a % chance of happening)? Among others, I want to make a slime that has a chance of splitting when hit. I'm unsure what would be the best way to proceed. If I can't do that, then it would "split" into small mini-slimes (which I know how to do with enemy summons, but I'm unsure how to properly trigger it).

Secondly, I have a stacking status that makes you covered in slime and I want a graphical representation of it. What would be the best way to do it? Changing actor sprite seems like a lot of and not very good performance-wise.

I'm using RPGMV (and if that matters, some Yanfly plugins).

>>179783980
I'm using the charas/battlers of 2k3, so yes. I'd play a game with these graphics.

>>179805858
If you don't want to write a whole paragraph of "know-how" I would appreciate even a tip or pointing me in the right direction so I can go from there. Thanks in advance anons.

>>179805858
>How would you achieve effect triggering on hit
maybe you should look up counter abilities, then just modify the counter attack into the splitting.

>status ailments
is changing actor sprite really a bad idea? Animations should rely on body parts rather than actual sprite graphic.

>>179807217
>>179805858

You would think slime division would be the most obvious and easy shit ever to make. I mean fucking Dragon Quest 2 had it so it should be a basic thing RPGM just has.

You'll want to look at some of Yanfly's enemy reinforcement plugins, possibly his advanced enemy AI plugin, and all the shit he wrote on skill plugins

worst case scenario if you can't figure it out, go to his latest tips and tricks video (if he hasn't made one for this already) and request exactly what you're looking for and keep your fingers crossed that senpai notices you in a few weeks

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>>179802129
In MV they label tiles to be less confusing, But they botch the arrangement so bad. Missing Labels. Missing tiles. Tiles that shouldn't be included. Chaotic letter system.

In a previous thread I went over how shuffled the Dungeon tilesets were.
But the inside set is just as bad, probably worst.

This isn't even everything wrong with the sets. The longer I looked at it, the more things I find.

>>179812902
It's really hard to say way happen.
Like at the top of this image, there's a Wall A and Wall (unlettered. suppose to be B) crammed between K and L.
At the end of the next row the Tent and Stage walls, O &P following H.
Obviously O&P were suppose to follow N, but didn't because A&B are there.

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Show me your self made tiles.

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Does your rpg have unique lore? Is it influenced by something else than D&D or LotR?

>>179815343
They're not for free :^)

>>179816096
I'm trying to think of fictional races outside of your typical dwarf, elf, orc bullshit, but it's tough. Thinking about shelving that idea for another project.

I like the idea of Zora from Legend of Zelda and would like to make a race like that without being blatantly obvious what I'm copying.

Dryads are another one that I'm thinking about. Or at least some kind of tree/plant people.

But I'm too creatively bankrupt, I need a concept artist to just draw the shits up with the most basic description until I like one.

>>179817046

BUG PEOPLE
B U G P E O P L E

>>179817345
Yeah maybe.

>>179816096
Not really unique but I went for a setting with different humanoid races, instead of humans, elves, dorfs and orcs you get humans, cathumans, fishhumans, foxhumans and the like.

To people planning on having cool fantasy races in their game, i seriously hope you let me use them in my party.

>>179820087
3 humans and one non-human. If I ever return to the game's world the sequels would have a more even distribution

>>179817046
>>179817923
It's difficult because races have to be coherent with the setting they're in.

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>>179820087
What the fuck is even the point otherwise?

>>179821123
Those are his wives and daughters? Funnily enough since humans are pretty much non-special in my game I decided to make their lore "superpower" the sluts of my world.

Humans are the only beings that can have half-breed babies with other races

>>179816096

>unique lore
It's based vaguely on the Slough mod for Hearts of Iron 4.

>>179821545

They're paramours and daughters. The butch elf in the party wants to fuck him but she's mad at him for not fucking her, so naturally she wants to cut that bard's dick off yo.

>>179821647
What's that about?

>>179821852

It's a poor industrial area with drunks, cheap stores no one wants to go to, and high violence despite being in a first world nation.

The main character gets buffs from getting drunk off of her tits.

>>179821852
>>179821937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough

So what's the deal with the collab?

Does it have a wiki or an infodump site?

>>179825765
Don't overthink it.

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Roll for some classes you could include in your game

>>179829757
10

>>179833481
>81 thief
..but i specifically chose not to include that, because ff: crystal defenders already has thieves. i made the bard generate mana as the "increased resource generation" unit

>>179829757
roll

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>>179834468
?

>>179835156
You know what you must do

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>>179834468
>trapmaster
That'll be our little secret 'kay, /rpgmg/ ?

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Mandatory kek

>>179837891

>>179840295

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Work on your game

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Thalzon's Battlers are actually starting to look less crappy.
His humans are still missing something to be desired. But he's finally starting to shade his monsters in a way that doesn't look like they're made from sculpey.

>>179844935
i don't wanna

I deployed my game so that my friend could test it, but the deployed version didn't include the windowskin. I've sent the file to him manually, but I'm worried that other resources will be missing as well.

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Steel Zeroes dev here.
Over the last few months I've been working on another side project I want to have done by the time halloween comes around, and I got a small demo done, it should be around 20 minutes long, 30 tops.
This is meant to be a small game based on an old webcomic of mine, the basic premise being that of a spooky castle that you can't escape and you must get a special gem on top or you'll die in 12 hours.

I have a demo ready too, and I need to know if there's stuttering issues like the first demos of SteelZeroes.

https://www.mediafire.com/?n32ssapqaa5jr95

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>>179815343
H-here you go

>>179846812
If you check exclude unused files, it only keeps files that are referenced in the database, maps, events.

Not files that are used in scripts and plug-ins.
So for example, the collab project uses a plugin that replaces the cursor with a pointer.
The pointer graphic would be excluded in this scenario.

>>179846970
I'll give it a look later!

Are there any Nazi resources available? Sprites, Flags, enemies ect...

Asking for a friend.

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>>179853874
I know of these Battlers.
http://cyanyurikago.web.fc2.com/material-letzt-batallion.html

>>179846970
bump

I made characters in MV using the presets as placeholders until I stop being lazy and get out of my comfort zone.

I even have retarded descriptions next to them, showed them to some friends I've told I was making a game.

b

Why do I feel like adding plotlines into my game that might turn it into a clusterfuck?

>>179865791
Don't do it anon

What sort of "spells" would the characters in a Raypunk setting use?

>>179869186
>Raypunk
Is that a thing now?

>>179869271
Yeah, the entire world is powered by Ray Romano and everyone is resisting it because everybody is SUPPOSED to love Raymond.

>>179829757
Rolling for justice.

>>179829757
Rolling reroll if anything with magic.

>>179869271
I think he means Retro-Future, but with rust instead of chrome? Assuming "-punk" means dystopian.

Use old-timey language. They had ray guns, not lasers. The imagination of society then hadn't developed past radios and black & white TVs. Everything ran on Tubes and wires. Transmissions and Codes. Blinking lights and gauges. The kind of speculative fiction that would eventually become the first star trek episodes.

Terms like "Automatic" and "3000" sounded sophisticated and progressive.
They were just breaking the sound barrier. So words like "Sonic Boom" and Mach 1...2...3...were relevant.
"Photon Torpedo" is pretty archaic sounding, but they borrowed a lot of Naval terms for Star Trek. Space "Ship". Not space car or space plane. But in other media they might us the terms "Rocket" or "Rocket-Ship"
Radioactive Elements were buzzwords. This stuff paralleled the emergence of New Age crap about "vibrations, frequencies, and Higher dimensions". A lot of that junk is still circulating today. The lost civilization of Atlantis. UFOs. and other paranormal stuff.
Everyone wanted Moldavite because it was slightly radioactive. They figured these things had regenerative properties.
My grandma has an old comic of bugs bunny finding a lost civilization under the south pole that was kept immortal because of their Radium crystals or something. Disney's 2001 film Atlantis and it's crystal tech was a cliche trope from the 40's that everyone was using, including Superman.
It wasn't well know that radiation destroys DNA. That knowledge would later give use superheros like Spider-Man and The Ninja Turtles who got their powers from mutations.

>>179829757

Imma need to do at least one roll.

i want to work on something fun, but i have to finish this project, don't i? bump

>>179875810
Your actual project is not fun? Drop it?

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>>179875810
How far along is your project? Why is it not fun?
Sometimes you just need to power through boring or tedious parts of development so you can get back to the fun parts/finish your game. If you've just started though, at least see what you can salvage from this project before dropping it.

>>179875810
Yes and No.
Looking back on the last 10 years of my life. I don't have any pride for the things that I have completed. The sense of accomplishment wears off pretty quickly, after a year it would just feel like some mundane thing I did.
On the other hand, the regret of projects I never finished, let alone start, can haunt you forever.

At least, that's how it is with me.
I guess I'm the type that's motivated to avoid displeasure. Rather than try to feel good.

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Good night bump

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Why don't you do what you dream?
Call my name. Please. Save us.

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>>179879481
it's the tower defense project, and i'm not *really* questioning dropping it.

>>179879835
i'm actually at the "fun" part now, where i have the basic programming done, and artwork's mostly out of the way.

since i'm the creator of the "puzzle" of each stage, i already know the solutions to them. i know how much dps each unit can output, and i present challenges accordingly. i know how many resources the player will have after each wave, and i increase the difficulty accordingly.

oh, it's wave 3, and the player has up to 50 dps available? i'd better spawn monsters that only require up to 50 dps.
gee, looks like i was right. that's exactly what was needed.

my previous projects were more action oriented, the shmup and atb tcg, and it was always fun to playtest things. the fun in playing a tower defense (a puzzle game) is figuring out the optimal formations to solve the challenges presented to you. and since i already know those things, since i'm the one who made them.. i don't get any enjoyment out of testing things.

solution: get blackout drunk, design stages. next day, sober up and try to solve them.

Any recommandable animation programm to make animated tiles?

Anyone played the 3ds rpg maker, and can custom music be used?

>>179890912
Photoshop.

>>179896037
If it's anything like custom graphics (ie you have to make them) probably not. I can't imagine FES coming with a music maker, even though it likely has a graphic/sprite maker