/rpgmg/ RPG Maker General #110

>Not updating the queue in the OP again.
Damnit Anon. Anyway, the next person in queue IS Silent Maid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJED6E2Qj7Q
Got things together enough for an example video.

Talk to me about your battle systems, /rpgmg/.

I want to use TP as kind of a bad thing in which you need to use special skills to keep it down, but I'm shit at getting this mechanic to work.

Is there a way to make it so that you gain less TP from getting hit? I'd rather the bulk of it come from your own attacks rather than enemies beating on you.

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Project Info Post for

The Long Road

Find out more here:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/50078-the-long-road-early-development-feedback/

>>124497362
Are you using any custom battle systems scripts? I might be able to help you with your tp problems. What version of RPG maker are you running?

My battle system for The Long Road is a CTB system focused on using the proper abilities to counter telegraphed enemy attacks. Combat is only a small part of the experience, however, because you can gain exp from interacting with objects in the environment (exploring) as well. There is also no levels, and abilities and stat upgrades can be purchased with this battle/exploration point system.

>>124495963
Giving you feedback as I watch:

The movement seems a bit jarring, is there anything you can do to help transition between tile movements? Perhaps make it so you "slide" between tiles?

I still don't like the "you feel there is a shortcut" it makes no sense unless the character is psychic.

The graphics are amazing, your spritework is pretty good! That said, i'd be nice to have some kind of gameplay elements that break up the dungeon crawling. This is exacerbated by the fact that the tiles all look very very similar with not much difference between areas, so its easy to get kind of bored at looking at the screen.

Keep at it though, this looks better and better every time you show it.

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>>124498446
For the first one... I believe it's possible, but I want to have this thing squared away by the 24th, and trying to get smoother movement in would cut into my time substantially. I'll look into it after this is done.

I changed the wording around a little bit, to make it more obvious that there's something there [pic related]. The passages are ripped from Etrian Odyssey, which never really explained how [for instance] the presence of blue flowers indicated that there was a passage.

There's going to be battles and the like, don't worry. I just want to get all the important maze stuff squared away before doing that stuff.
I also need to draw the alternate walls/floors, but those come after I get all 4 main wall/floor sets dealt with.

And thanks. Hopefully everything I have will come together for Christmas.

>>124501902
Awesome! Like I said you're doing great, and I can appreciate the work that has gone into this. Will you be posting a demo/final version? What exactly are your goals for this project?

>>124501902
chocolate =D

>>124497904
I wanna pet that white cat.

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>>124509425

>>124502062 I have a proof-of-concept here:
http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?p=119815 . A lot of the things I have now aren't in there, and I decided to do a few things now differently than I was doing when I put that up.
I want to have this done, with all the floors, enemies, and event stuff squared away, by the 23rd. I have two more basic wall/floor sets to do (for the first and fourth areas), neither of which should be as annoying to do as the forest one, and then some slightly more optional wall variants if I feel I have the time available.
It feels like a lot, but I did square away the witch game in three days so I have faith in myself. Thanks for the encouragement.

Dumb question but can i use the same characsets and facesets in RPMV and RMVX ace ?

So i can create random characters export and use in RMVX ?

>>124518340
No, I believe that MV uses 48x48 sprites and ace uses a different resolution. You'd have to downscale them or edit your tile size in ace.

I could be wrong though.

New Yanfly plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuE3XTMnZxw

He/she/it is really cranking these out.

>>124518340
just resize them. have a look at vx resources to see what size they need be.

>>124519393
>>124520574

thks i was toying with scripts or i would test my self .

If you're thinkin' you be rid of this general, lad, you'd be lyin' in th' dirt a'fore it ever became true.

What animal do you associate the most with each element?
Say elements are the usual:
Earth
Fire
Water
Wind
Ice
Thunder
Light
Dark

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Some train conductor robot, that's about all progress I did today, as well as her cutscene dialogue.
All conductor robots are citric fruits themed, this one being a tangerine.

>>124536967
>Earth
Bull

>Fire
Falcon or Tiger

>Water
Jellyfish

>Wind
Swan

>Ice
Walrus

>Thunder
Eagle

>Light
Rabbit

>Dark
Bat or Wolf

>>124537105
Citrus Trans... with damn juice body.

>>124536967
Earth - Armodillo
Fire - Cheetah
Watar - Sea Horse
Wind - Eagle
Ice - Bear
Thunder - Snake
Light - Owl
Dark - Bat

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Is plaid a bad choice? I can't make up my mind about window settings.

>>124543384
Use a script that lets the player change the window skin through their menu. Then just use all your favorite window skins! BLAM!

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>>124537105
Damn, you get more done in a day than I manage in a month. I'm tempted to go full ONE and just stop giving a fuck about drawings looking good.

>>124544185
ONE?

>>124537105
damn that's a good theme.

i can't wait to see lime.

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>>124548621
Creator of One Punch Man and a couple others. Saved money for a year so he could become a serious manga artist even though he's pretty bad.

buuuump

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I spent all day today making a water tile complete with occasional random fish hopping out of water. I need to step up my speed :/

I guess I did some databasing too, but not much. Just some term changes and stuff.

>>124556432
Trust me, it gets faster and faster.

I have an hour of gameplay so far and its taken me three weeks, but I've put in place almost everything so creating playable content now is much much faster.

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>>124480420
>>124483943

Decided on a title screen.
Not what I was going for but I fucking love the way it turned out.

Accidents are not always bad.

>>124563004
Pretty cool! Just needs a good UI and font now!

>>124563004
It doesn't go well with the window skin, desu.

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>>124563464
>>124563567

Final Page X

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god damn... animating and making character sprites is my worst ability ;.;

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>>124572714
this is for this character

>>124536967
Earth: Tortoise
Fire: Salamander
Water: Whale
Wind: Falcon
Ice: Polar Bear
Thunder:
Light:
Dark: Snake

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>>124567247
Does anyone have some retro iconsets of some kind to fit this style?
I'm not a sprite artist and the default RPGMaker VX Ace item sprites clash heavily.

I need item icons/weapon icons n shit.

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Should I do Zelda-like gameplay on a party based game, or stick to the standard FF1 sort of shit?

>>124576619
Just make them, are you making the art in that screenshot? if so you can make your icons ezpz

>>124580632
I already said I'm not a sprite artist dingus.

It's the retro modern resource pack.

>>124577851
Mystery Dungeon

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Is Cthulhu save the world a RPG maker game?

Sure look like it.

>>124584140
Zeboyd used their own engine to make it, as well as Breath of Death VII. You should play the Commentary Mode, bro

>>124584210
Meh, didnt want to break the "immersion" of the game by having ? marks. I'm not a JRPG fan so it's not a game I'll replay. But as far as JRPG go, it's more enjoyable than most. The fact that after 25 random encounter, you dont get any more random encounter is pretty good. Combat are fast too.

>>124584379
I beat Breath of Death VII, but after the labyrinthine dungeons and tough bosses, diving into CStW was a tough sell. If I ever went back to it, it would be played exactly once with the commentary on

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Gonna worry about textures later and just build, dammit.

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Bumping with another drawing thingy, I guess

>>124587675

Looks great desu
The characters seems out of the place

>>124584379
>I'm not a JRPG fan
Are you sure you're in the right thread, senpai?

http://rpgmaker.net/games/8053/ Reminding people on what should've been RPG Maker MV.

>>124596514
>http://rpgmaker.net/games/8053
I'd rather have MV, not a fan of that blend of 3d and pixel sprites

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>>124591943
yep for now. =) will sort that later.

bumperino

>>124591943
That you, Pac?

I like this general.

it's honestly not as autistic as i expected.

There's some genuinely helpful people here.

Sometimes I forget it's 4chan i'm on.

There's two plugins spotted on yanfly's plugin page that aren't announced: http://yanfly.moe/yep/

Based on their URLs, they are scheduled
Event Mini Label - Tuesday
Actor Variables - Thursday

bump again
are people actually working on their games for once?

Did anyone release a game from pirated rpgmaker?

>>124611548
Yeah I've been drawing sketches of my characters every day

>>124611548
Harpy game guy's stuff (especially the video) has convinced me to try out some sprite-based first person stuff. Will probably not get anywhere, but we'll see.

>>124603719
>actor variables
I hope this includes strings and not just numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeKkdY-iLg0

New Yanfly poll is up! I got my winner (Gab Window) so what do you guys want and I'll vote it too. I'm eyeing the Row Formation.

>>124611548
Yup, currento working on the core mechanics , when all is finished i will start the visuals so i can start to build the game.

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>>124611548
I am! feels good.

>>124615796
is that even in any RPG maker ?

>>124615845
rpgmakerXP

>>124614007
>new music

>>124615796
>swamp
Looks more like a regular cave, desu.

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>>124611548
Yes. Working on a menu to bind what type of skills or items you want to have quick access to.

>>124617372
Wow that's nice!

What are you all using for music in your games? Do you make your own, use what comes with the rpgm, or something else?

I've had this music editing program on my computer for years and never really used it, but I've been tinkering with it and I'm exporting the music in VX Ace and chopping it up/editing it a lot to come up with something different. I like some of the songs as they are, but with others there are parts I just can't stand and am editing those parts. I can't afford a good music making program for commercial use so this is what I've resorted to.

>>124618208
I ask a musician friend. I'm trying to do everything by myself but I just can't into music. Here's one track by him: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/16thpa5hr6mdcnv/mines.ogg

>>124617494
Thanks! So far scripting all the stuff for my game has been swell and somewhat quick. The only real pain I'll probably have to strugle with is in map animations. I've got no idea how those work within scripts.

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Updated this portrait a little bit.
Now colors aren't so bright.
And I added some small bodysuit lines and navel there because fuck it, i have a fetish for those :^)

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So I really want to emphasize the wildlife of my game and have been working on a lot of animated animal sprites just to scatter around the maps having them pop up as a surprise to the player. They have no purpose to gameplay and are just something fun to look at while they travel.

Is there such a thing as too many events on one map? From what I've decided on so far, I'll have about 50ish parallel process animal events on my first map and still need to add probably 20 to 30 gameplay-related events afterwards. I could potentially reach 100 events.

Working with VX Ace, btw. Also, here's a pic of all the animals I've made so far (butterfly, fish, squirrel). Working on a bird next.

>>124623560
why is your resolution so tiny?

>>124625215
I crop the pictures to show the essentials of my posts. It's VX Ace default resolution normally.

>>124625428
post a full pic =P

Just found out that you can't read Input.trigger? if you're already reading Input.press?
That kinda sucks.

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Is this font good for the damage popup numbers?

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Finished the window and now can change what skills I can quickly access and use within game. Time for sleep.

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Is there any way to reorganize the list of events for a map? Every time I make a map my list of events end up like this and it kinda bugs me. If there isn't, I guess I'll just learn to live with it.

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All the progress from today.

https://a.pomf.cat/xvthay.mp4

I'll just draw a train there later... whoops

>>124634971
Cute as hell!

ump

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>noticeable stuttering everywhere
>assumed months ago it was from parallel processes
>persists even on maps with 0 events
>totally goes away when I remove my ~40 scripts
Somebody fucked up and it's time to find out who.

10 bump.

>>124641635
I get stuttering after adding the new yanfly cbt

been messing with my UIs to get them to feel better, inspired by the dragon quest 1 base menu

https://youtu.be/vX_X9g722Ho

>>124650263
Looks good and functional, although not particularly memorable.

>>124650263
battle UI (CBT will be included once i can fix the lag)

https://youtu.be/LYF8RV0DEBs

>>124650960
I completely agree, any advice on making it a little bit more memorable?

>>124646050
The only stuttering I get with the Yanfly CTB is if have it draw the turn order itself from a SV battler instead of an icon but Yanfly even warned this.

>>124646050
I'm using Ace. There's no telling until I've gone through and eliminated the right one. Been too busy with real life to do anything today though.

>>124651801
Probably making it relate to the theme of your game a bit more, which might require you to use something a bit more graphical.


Using more terms unique to your game could add flavor as well. So maybe Quit could be something like RIP or something like that.

Firgof, hope you're still cool at work. I'm still just writing and cleanig dialogues.

>>124658975
Cool, i'll see what I can do :)

Away from Page X!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYVisxKhZY

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So I'm trying to make a Status Effect (Burning) that damages over time, let's say I want to cause 10 dmg per turn for 5 turns, but if you cause another Burning Effect it will cause 20 dmg per turn.

In other words a cumulative DoT Status Effect.

Any ideas ?

>>124668190
so ailments that stack?

>>124668190
My thought, and it's probably the worst idea, is to have multiple status ailments related to one another (example, Burn 1, Burn 2, etc.) and set a condition that says if target is inflicted by Burn 1, remove Burn 1 and add Burn 2.

Probably the worst idea because you can't just go on infinitely with it, but it could be a last resort.

>>124667318
I like you.

Don't think that's how his castle is laid out.
It's too big with no interactive elements.
Walk speed is awkward.
Etna sways too hard when walking. Very jarring. Laharl's walk cycle looks fine.
Sea of Gehenna entrance and Overlord Castle entrance aligned awkwardly.
You could've picked a better Victory Fanfare.

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bumping for comfy

>>124621561
>>124634971
Looks cute. I like it.

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Comments? Questions? Violent Reactions?

>>124673540
it's cute

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Comfy posts while I setup these scenes :)

>>124673540
I like it, it's rather funny.

>>124674690
>>124677662

Thanks, it's one of my planned additions to the collab.

Firgof, oh Firgof, wherefore art thou Firgof?

>>124678051
still without pc. should be back uo by tomorrow.

Resist State: Death

Someone just beat your game. What do you hope they've taken with them from the experience?

>>124689276
>Wow, I could make a game way better than this!

>>124689774
>I'll take "My experiences with Undertale" for $400

>>124667318

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw_80mb28io

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>>124576619
>>124567247
>>124563004
bumping with content.

>>124694848
tile your trees properly holy shit

>>124694848
What

>>124694909

Said but instead if just whining I'll give you some advice. Stagger the tree tiles so that every other tile is a tree, then behind that make it so every other tile is a tree in a different tile. Think dithering. If this doesn't look good you'll have to remake the tree tile

>>124695064
he's using a premade tileset you dingus.
they're made to be tiled already; he just did it wrong.

>>124689276
>I hope there's some good porn of these characters

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>>124694909
>>124695064
>>124695231
My god thank you for pointing that out.
I didn't even notice how fucking awful it looked until you pointed it out...

I feel intensely retarded now.

>>124695695
I haven't used that tileset but I'm pretty sure that's still not 100% right. I think there should be a tile that fills in the blank space between trees.
Anyway, I wasn't trying to make you feel retarded just by being blunt about it.

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>>124695821
fix'd

>>124695873
Nifty

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bump

How do I make party members say something before dying or getting knocked out during a battle

Who here takes inspirations?

I prefer to take inspirations from other fantasy RPGs or old fantasy stories.

>>124668362
>>124669138

Ok I found a stacking script now the dot dmgs are all good just need to put flat or % .

>>124701925

Any game at all.

I copy ideas of games that i like, being honest here.

Now the history you need to be creative yourself.

>Main character is normal human child who is strong as fuck for some reason.
>Inhumanely strong.
>Can beat monsters with his fists grown men would have trouble with.

r8 or h8.

>>124706651
A human anomaly? If you put some emphasis of it into the story, then it would be cool.

>>124707332
It gets hinted at later and outright revealed near the end.

But it is obviously the centerpoint I mean you see a child punch a fucking troll out you're gonna be mystified.

>>124706651
I'm the guy who always has to find logical ways for things to exist so unless it's explained (i.e. he has a myostatin deficiency causing extreme muscle growth) then h8. Otherwise I could see this going cool places.

>>124708256
It's a sort of fantasy setting.

So the explanation isn't going to be rooted into reality.
Unfortunately.

>>124701925
I haven't finished anything yet, but I prefer more quirky settings than regular fantasy. The general concept of my game draws mainly from Toriko and Earthbound.

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Is it a good idea to have a coloured character outline or should it just remain black?

>>124712053
coloured outline looks better

>>124712053
Colored outlines make the characters look overall softer. It is a porn game, so soft could be a good feeling for the art.

However, that also puts some restrictions in the backgrounds you can use, since you will have restrictions on the colors that can contrast well with the character..

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>>124712357
>>124712652
Then I will stick to the coloured one. Thanks!

>that also puts some restrictions in the backgrounds you can use
Technically, I'm making a type of game like MaidenSnow Eve, for instace, where you have an active portrait of the character all the time. So I can easily put a specific background underneath the portrait.

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I liking how this is going.

i think I'm done with the core mechanics.

Now going to build the Skills and States.
When it's all done i wii start the main city and first dungeon.

I'm feeling it baby.

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/12/08/rpg-maker-mv-adds-characters-from-danganronpa-ninja-slayer-and-more-in-japan/

._.

>>124713925
They'll probably get leaked to us eventually. Maybe even localized if there aren't too many rights issues.

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How hard is your game?

>>124715861
Hopefully pretty difficult, but not so much as to make the player constantly grind.

New Yanfly plugin for event map labels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU_wIOX_JqY

Wasn't there someone who wanted something like this a couple of days ago?

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Bumping with yet another concept.
Hope you like it :D

>>124722868

what undertale character you based on ?

>>124727254
I've never played undertale

>>124727254
Can I ask you why did that remind you of Undertale? Is there a character similar to that in it? I don't want to rip it off.

>>124732358
it's a meem
everybody is copying undertale in this thread

>>124732605
Aaah all right. I thought I accidentally ripped off some design from undertale. I'd really like some real critique though

>>124732358
Even though you weren't ripping it, Undyne was my first thought for real. You can image search the character to get people's impressions of her.
>blue scaly noseless warrior female with yellow eyes and a patch over the left

>>124734329
Well, shit. I should change the color then, but I really liked the eyepatch, since I wanted to do a gorgon character with her stoning gaze ability gimped. What should i do?

>>124735137
If you're really concerned you should just change their color, but I don't think you really should worry about it that much.

>>124732358
ignore the tards

>>124722868
My dick seems to like it, but that's another story.
Anyway, love the design and colors.

>>124733827
I think she is a tad over designed. The eyepatch or the snake mouth are a bit much.

>>124736839
>over designed
Damn, that's exactly what I wanted to avoid. Thanks for the input

>>124737674
You're very welcome, it is a great character but i think maybe keeping it so the hair snakes are alive (and can maybe talk) is enough. the tongue snake is over designed more than the eye patch the more I look at it.

Keep at it! Good luck!

>>124739062
Thanks again. I think I'll remove the eyepatch and just make the hat thingy cover one of her eye.

>>124740063
Maybe just give her a visible scar?

>>124743304
i like the hat covering the eye better, scar is just more design

>>124722868
The functionality of the shoulder-pad disconcerts me.