/rpgmg/ - RPG Maker General #160

Collab fucking when?

Describe your first boss. What makes it special, or differentiates it from other bosses in the game?

Are there any good tilesets for MV yet?

>>150200171
Won't do you any good if you suck at mapping.

>>150199580
An excellent question. I've half a mind to pick it up myself at this point.
Though I have to say, it's a fitting conclusion to the meta-story-arc of the game for it to have massive delays / AWOLs at the eleventh hour. You have to respect a story that holds true to its motif for its entire duration!

>>150199151
>Doesn't remove the [embeds]
That explains your 'Field Too Long' issue. Remake?

>>150199864
Only started on actually implementing this new project, so it is still a bit of a loose concept, but I want it to be two creatures that "work in tandem but not really". One is probably a bird-like creature and the other a plant-like creature. The main idea would be teaching the player to exploit the skills of the two main characters to take advantage of the times when the bosses stop covering each other with their own stat boosts.

>>150199580
No idea. I've been away for a couple of months, so can someone tell me when Bubbles last posted? If he's been gone longer than a month, it's fair to say he's gone. We used to have a 2 week rule (also contributors were considered awol after 3 days without checking in), after all....
>>150201325
>Though I have to say, it's a fitting conclusion to the meta-story-arc of the game for it to have massive delays / AWOLs at the eleventh hour.
lol
Seriously though, if Bubbles hasn't been around recently, you're free to volunteer.

>>150201391
>Doesn't remove the [embeds]
But it's practically tradition by now!
I forget to remove them, too...

>>150199151
Anyone know a good tool for making/converting music with that old DOS/SB16 sound?

Gonna be going for an early PC era rpg aesthetic.

>>150199580
>>150201325
>>150204734
I am still here, though arguably I've been more dead than alive. Really sorry for taking too long. I still don't have an estimation on when I might be able to finish it, but it's been trudging along slowly.

>>150205426
>>Anyone know a good tool for making/converting music with that old DOS/SB16 sound?
I don't know any standalone programs, but if you have Fruity Loops or any other sequencer here's an authentic DOS VST: https://bsutherland.github.io/JuceOPLVSTi/

>>150206001
>I am still here
Well, that's good then. If you could say hi every now and again, it would be really appreciated.

I'm absolute garbage at spriting but I can make edits, is editing the RTP tiles enough?

>>150206490
>is editing the RTP tiles enough?
Depends on what you're making.
A hobby game? Sure. Editing tiles will make them a little fresher for any rpgm veterans playing. Any amount of extra effort is appreciated.
A commercial game? You can if you want, but expect to be lost amongst all the other RTP games.

>>150206760

Obviously not commercial.
I'm just doing it for fun and hoping that at most 5 people will play 1/10 of it.

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>>150206957
I mean, I'll play it. Just make sure you put a lot of effort (or some really neat gimmicks) into the rest of the game. Getting competent at mapping also helps.

>>150206957
You'll get five players no problem just by posting here regularly. I'll play your game, anon.

>Kaduki's highest subscription tier is just a little under $3
Do credit cards exchange currencies automatically?

bamp

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Thoughts on some kind of Truth Lens/Ray? You'd use it and it'd reveal hidden things.
I'm considering adding something like this since my game is more focused on exploration but I'm not sure whether to make it a projectile or a screenwide effect.
If it's a projectile then you'd probably end up shooting it all day until you find something, not sure if that's a good idea.

>>150213538

>If it's a projectile then you'd probably end up shooting it all day until you find something,

Castlevania 2 did this.
It was horrible.

>>150213538
I think it has to have a limited scope of places it would work or some telegraph to make it feel like you're using it for a reason and not just spamming it in case something is randomly hidden somewhere

I remember hating every Zelda Classic game that had a lens because you often would just have to spam it every room to make sure you didn't miss a random secret

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>>150214638
Yeah, I was just reminded of chucking holy water at every suspicious block. Just do a screen/area thing like OoT. Any astute player will be shooting everything anyway, so you might as well make it less tedious for them.
>>150214847
>I think it has to have a limited scope of places it would work or some telegraph to make it feel like you're using it for a reason
Using a mix of this and limited uses might prevent spamming. Maybe think of it more like bombs in Zelda, they work pretty much like the same way: hiding areas/items, limited supplies and hints for where it's applicable.
Of course, you probably don't want to make it as obvious as a cracked wall, but you should reward a diligent player for thinking to examine a suspicious area or successfully follow hints from an npc.
The only way to re-enforce a behaviour (in this case, bothering to look for secrets) is to reward it. And conversely the only way to discourage a behaviour (spamming the lenses instead of using it intelligently) is to somehow punish it (for example, limited uses). A good balance of both of these should result in a fair mechanic.

Does your game have any of your personal sexual fetishes inserted into it? If so, what is it?

>>150218208

No.

>>150218208
Well it is a lewd game so...

>>150218208
Depends on what you define as a fetish. Preferences though? Certainly.

dont die, i need to sleep

>>150221545
k

>>150218208
A few of them, but not explicitly.

>>150221545
ok

Post progress

>>150233169
you first

>>150233169
zero, too sad, rem's fault

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>>150233169
I only worked on the elemental art for my bestiary.

>>150233912
Um, isn't this a blue board?

>>150233912
"Only"? It looks great.

>>150236460
Oh I guess it is, my bad, can't delete the post now though.

>>150233912
Looks great

>>150237125
Forgot to mention that it looked really really nice by the way.

>>150236460
nudity =/= porn

>>150237490
I thought vaginas and nips weren't allowed though?

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>>150236460
>being a big puss

>>150237726
meh. It's cleaner than the sistine chapel.
and it's pixelated isn't it?

>>150238549
Good point.

>>150238549
>>150237726
Either way I should've put it on a spoiler at least. Anyway, sorry about that guys, my mistake.

>>150239331
You're fine, we all make mistakes.

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Why are elementals always female?

>>150241880
Drawing girls is fun.

And they are often mixed genres in mainstream RPGs.

>>150241880
There are a few reasons, mainly the concept of "mother earth". There are also some stories that associate creation with females and destruction with males so you will see elementals, sprites, etc as females.

Anyone have any good suggestions for an alchemy system?

I'm looking to have something where you can harvest items and fuse them together.

>>150241880
I assumed it was because it's sexy to people.

Where can I request boy elemental battlers?
Not rpgmweb, their resource request is a bloody human search engine.

>>150243721
Is it for combat or outside combat?
How many items are there? Can the items be easily classified in different types and power levels?

Assuming it is for outside combat, you have 50 or more items and they can be classified in at least 5 elements with clear rankings for each I would propose the following system:
Mixing two potions of the same element gives you an potion of the same element with a rank equal to the most powerful potion+1. So, mixing a Explosive Powder(Fire, level 1) and Berserker's Ale(Fire, level 2) gives you a Phoenix Egg (Fire, level 3).
Mixing two potions of different elements gives you a potion of a third element following the next two rules:
Adjacent elements: gives you a potion of the third element moving in the same direction and in the same rank as the highest ranked item used. So Explosive Powder (Fire, level 1) and Traveler's Wings (Wind, level 2) gives you Rejuvenating Mist (Water, level 2)
Non-adjacent elements: gives you a potion of the element in the middle of both your. So Explosive Powder (Fire, level 1) and Holy Water (Water, level 1) gives you Traveler's Wings (Wind, level 2).

This is sorta based on Dragon Quest Monsters' breeding/fusing system. But it kinda relies on the weight of losing a monster. In order to copy that weight in alchemy, since Items are probably more abundant than recruited monsters, you should probably also add either a monetary payment or a third "catalyst" item to the process.

And if you want something even more complex, you could try looking at SMTIII's demon fusion system.

>>150247568
Actually I was thinking about using it for making monsters. Not quite fusing them. What I'm thinking is that monsters drop runes and you could combine these runes to make new monsters.

So, if a slime drops a water rune and a golem drops an earth rune you can fuse them to make a dryad.

>>150245806
/cm/, /co/, or /aco/ drawthreads if you want free stuff.

>>150248018
Well, you probably still need to structure things a bit. A dryad sounds like you'd need either a plant element/group/clan, or establish a water/earth hybrid group. In which case you'd also end up with some hybrid characters that drop both water and earth runes.

Moreover, assuming that you higher level creatures just use a larger number of runes, you will probably need some kind of level cap. Much like SMT.

>>150233912
What's up with the highlights having those slightly darker colors around them? Looks good otherwise.

>>150218208
It's pretty obvious, but hopefully the long-running theme of putting said fetish into rpgs hides it somewhat.

>>150251083
Maybe you could give the runes themselves levels, with the level of the runes determining exactly what gets fused? The level cap also seems like a good idea, though.

>>150252407
Trying to test how to make highlights stand out without adding more colors to the art. It's not going well as you can see.

>>150253005
It might be worth either getting rid of the highlights, or biting the bullet and adding an extra color.
I'm also assuming that her right hand isn't quite finished, as right now it looks a bit wonky.

Everyone of you is a wonderful person.
Please don't lose hope.

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>>150258662
They're hiding their power levels. Don't let them fool you.

Have any of you ever tried making some kind of animation that plays at some point in the game (the beginning/end maybe)?
I've never used the Show Movie command so I'm just curious if any of you have.

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Have you made anything for your game that you ended up realizing you didn't actually need?

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what next.. actually coloring them?

>>150260958
The third one seems to be perpetually crying.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B48J7d9S5dwZanZVM2pWREtwWnc

My friend removed Katakura Hibiki's Lords of Darkness from his account, so I uploaded it to my own. Public link if anyone needs it.

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Which one looks better? The background colour is likely going to be the tone for most of the backdrops in the game.

If I save during a playtest in a specific map, will changes made after that save in other maps be present if I load that save file?

>>150263571
yes

>>150263501
right

>>150263501
Left if you want the sprite to stand out in-game and avoid parts getting mixed with the backgrounds, right has a better border artwise.

Nice sprite by the way.

>>150263759
Cool, thanks.

Are people bothered when authors recycle concepts between works?

Say, I make my current villain a benevolent dictator for whom everything goes horribly right, mostly due to a mix of ignorance and overcompetence. Would players be bothered if I recycle the concept for other projects?

>>150267224
I think it would be pretty lazy to recycle your villain.

>>150267224
not sure i even understand what that character is

the badguy is a goodguy king, and things are going well in his kingdom because he's too good at being a king..?

>>150267224
Depends on what you recicle. You can take the risk but if you recicle too much or something important then people are going to notice and could really ruin your game.

>>150267224
Fire Emblem has been slightly rewritten for over 20 years. It's their style. If they did anything else, they'd look merely average

>>150268468
"Horribly right" is more like when things go as you planned, but you didn't really consider the full implications of what you intended. Think of Timmy Turner's wishes from Fairly Odd Parents. So, for example:

Order extermination of dragons. But it turns out that dragons predated on things like behemoths, wurms, etc more often than they did on villagers. So the extermination resulted in the overpopulation of monsters that are overall much harder to control.

Send zombies into mines to substitute miners from their dangerous line of work, as well as getting workers who don't need oxygen and can work all day into the mines. Which in turn lead to much higher production of gold... and also higher unemployment and inflation. Not to mention that he also had to swipe religion to get away with using zombies as workers, so now the nature spirits are angry.

His final goal is giving everyone immortality... Obviously it is going to be a disaster of monumental proportions.

What makes him a villain is that he doesn't want to accept that these things were mistakes because of his inflated ego, and deludes himself into thinking that everything is going alright, which is helped by the flatterers he has surrounded himself with.

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>>150242317
I dunno. It's not just elementals; it's humans in general. I've spent all night wandering through Japanese material blogs and rarely saw any human guys except for rtp edits.

Makapri had a decent amount of dudes, although some were pretty feminine.

Working on anything good lately, /rpgmg/?

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>>150277002
Just sprites for now, had a bit of a complication with the side sprite but I think it looks good now. The very-faintly-tinted-red-black outlines are on another layer so I can edit them more easily later if I need to, or if I want to ditch them completely.

activate the dead, or you'll be dead

I've put more effort into the title screen and intro to my game than the game itself.

dead

>>150277002
Yes
No ;_;

>>150272507
Eh, I'm trying to throw in some amount of male characters in my game myself, seeing as a setting that's overwhelmingly female seems a bit strange to me.

>>150290784
Check your priviledge, male scum

>>150241880
are they? i can only think of final fantasy and like.. golden sun. what are you even thinking of?

>>150290784
I'm doing the same but for females in my project, it's hard to keep the ratio balanced

I just counted my units after sketching up a bunch more and my ratio slipped to 2:1 guys and girls, went and converted some of the male concepts to women

>>150290784
>>150292030
One of the benefits of making a magical girl game is that it's totally normal that all the playable characters are girls. Even the boys!

>>150290784
>>150292030
>>150292173
I've only got three girls in my game so far while everyone else is male, one is the protag and the other two are both bosses. I don't think there will be much more named females than those three unless they're involved in a sidequest or mini-game, world-building wise it's actually not logical for the MC to interact with as many women as she does men.

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>>150292173
>Even the boys!
I hope you don't mean in what I think you mean

>>150292478
Why did I never think of trying this before? Thanks, anon!

Anybody knows how to change the starting party, so that i start with a one member party

>>150295000
Pls
Should i just leave the firts actors empty?

>>150295000
Tools>Database>system
can add or subtract them there.

>>150295483
Ah, thanks a lot

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>>150233912
That looks nice.

>>150277002
Changed and recolored the windows a bit, think it's easier on the eyes this way.

>>150298018
>Not so high heels
Really made me laugh for some reason.

So how much work did you guys get done this weekend?

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>>150277002
making a simple RPG/Adventure game based around 19-21th century germany and a lot of time traveling

The plot:
Its [the current year], you go to 1936 to kill Hitler, but once you return things are the same as they seem.

Its just a bunch of /h/, /gsg/ and /pol/ memes for on paper, but it has potential

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>>150292018
Final Fantasy, Tales of Series, the Rpgm RTP
If it's male, it's a monster.

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>>150299851

>>150299851
are you saying stuff like ifrit/efreet in ff/tales don't count? are those considered monsters or something?

what's an "elemental" then?

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https://soundcloud.com/mondo-nugget/mystic-future-alpha-formation-squad-delta-6

Would be cool to do like an airship shooter segment. Dunno if its feasable or not in rpgmaker though.

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>>150292478
>>150292741
Reporting in. They were nowhere near what I was expecting.

Those authors don't understand what "magical girl" means. Works that sell themselves using another genre's coat of paint make me mad. It's disrespectful and ignorant.

>>150300725
Oh, excuse me. I meant they're always human females, as opposed to furry anthro types. So yeah, ogre/pig/skull/dog-face demons don't count.

>>150298018
Looks better.

>spend an hour making a sprite
>it looks like shit

At least I'm learning.

>>150277002
A little voice work. Have to space it out since I'm an amatuer and some fo the vocies use a fair amount of gravel

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>>150299851
or an old bearded man
>ramuh
>maxwell
>spiritual 7 in the ace RTP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8w3f9x6zi8

That's pretty fuckin' neato. SumRndmDde has some nice plugins too and they're free to use even in commercial games.

>>150319170
How do you make so many goddamn videos?

>>150321982
What? I'm just one among the procrastinators in this general, anon. I was searching for recommended MV plugins sites on Yanfly and Moghunter's blogs and I've found his.

>>150316743
That's true. I was going to say Ramuh was an exception. But that's kind of muddying the concept of a elemental being with a God who has elemental powers.
The semantics get messy. A soul of fire. A god of fire. A body of fire.
I'm not even sure what I mean anymore.

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>>150302049
I still want to make my magical girl RPG, but I still can't find any good music for it.

I've also been questioning where I could find a suitable menu skin for it...

How do you do a "masked" antagonist properly?
I mean how do you make the big reveal satisfying instead of underwhelming?

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>>150325628
For now, I'm using songs from the Dokidoki and HaCha soundtracks, and this window skin by leilaheliday. I'd like to have original stuff eventually, but I'll get to it at the end. No sense being held back from the actual game-making part, just waiting on resources forever.

>>150325701
It can't be obvious, but it can't be completely unexpected. One of the finest narrative lines to walk.

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>>150327620
>VX Ace size
Well... that doesn't do me any good...

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>>150299851
This is true with Mana spirits in the Atelier series. The girls are literally girls while the boys are more abstractions of their nature. The exception being the Wood Mana.
From a design perspective, the thinking might be that boys have to obsess over girls. That's what the wood mana does in the games I've played. Maybe "wood" mana is a double entendre.

>>150331462
When a guy doesn't take an interest in a girl
>He's married
>He's a different species
>He's gay

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Finally got around to setting up a proper to-do spreadsheet. 48 items I can think of so far off the top of my head.

>>150332454

Shit, I'll have to rewrite everything now to make sure the main character is constantly hitting on every girl. I don't want people thinking he's gay.

Please don't die.

>>150337175
It's hard to post and actually make progress at the same time though.

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>>150334582
Remember! Homosexual characters are strictly for comic relief. It's funnier the more questionable it is.

>>150337175
We all are just working very hard

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>>150241880
Secret of Mana says hi

>>150334394
Now I've got it automatically changing the color of the row depending on the status and type, and I've set up a pivot table to track the number of issues.

Pretty soon I'll be able to do some actual work!

FLYING BUMPAROO

>>150347369
this

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working on art

>>150277002
I've been playing a lot of DQ8 and now I want to make a Dragon Quest clone of some sort with a silent fully customizable party. I'm planning out Vocations and Skills at the moment.

>>150241880
Well, in SMT, you have:
Gnome: Male
Undine: Female
Sylph; Female
Salamander: Animal
Mitamas: amulet-things with faces. Three clearly male, 1 possibly female.

In Dragon Quest, 99.5% of monsters are male. Including the elementals like Dancing Flame.

>>150349676
>I'm a shark
>Suck my dick

>>150351519
Nice

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>Old sprites for my previous project took weeks to tweak and adjust and they still weren't good and only had two shades per color
>This only takes a few days to make it look pretty much perfect in-game using an animation adjustment script

reminder that improvement is real

You're working on your maps, right?

Never give up Anons

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1UO1e0sK3ZO

>>150356705
Not maps, just events. Also doing a little voice work. This next episode is gonna be a weird one

Tell me about your MC's family

>>150365180
One character's an orphan who was raised by bandits. The other two have basically spent their entire lives at the academy of magic.

None of them have real families to speak of.

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Any advice for how to make a side-scrolling 2D rpg with turn-based battles work better? I'm thinking making almost all of the fights avoidable (at varying difficulty) and making fights not extremely common. I want to avoid a situation where players are transitioning between the 2d-scrolling and battles constantly. Any input on this and the idea in general appreciated. Some of my favorite games were Zelda II, Metorid, Tomba, Wonder Boy, etc.

>>150366130
Making anything that RPG Maker doesn't do by default will either require you to do massive amounts of eventing or scripting.

If you want to do a side scroller with RPG elements, don't use RPG Maker. Use Construct or Game Maker.

>>150366130
Can't you just make it so that the player doesn't use the up or down buttons? Or have gravity work. I'm certain there's a way to use rpg maker to make a platformer.

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>>150366528
>>150366436
Oh I've already figured out how to do it, I just want to know game-play wise what you all look for in the genre (I know games in it are rare) or if you had any gameplay related input.

Man, I get so triggered whenever I see
>If you're doing anything that's not default RPG Maker, use Game Maker instead.

I just want to tell people to fucking STOP. It's the same amount of work regardless of what engine you choose.

If you're the kind of person who's capable of making a decent ____, then GM provides nothing you couldn't do yourself easily in any engine. You just have even more extra work to do when using a more minimal engine like GM.

>>150366746
I'm going to bring up the ice crystals again from valkyrie profile someone mentioned earlier.
Seriously if you can manage to make something similar it'd make your game a lot more enjoyable.

>>150367908
Also it'd help the whole "avoiding battles" thing you're trying to go for.

>>150366130

I like your idea about the battles being avoidable, if you can show that on the exploration making it so that the player can choose to avoid an enemy depending on the path he takes that could be cool.

I don't think you need a lot more though, if you make the 2D exploration and battles enjoyable along with the story I think you're good.

>>150367679
That's the point, people warn about using RPGM for stuff outside of its intended purpose so devs won't have to suffer through the extra work.

Games take a lot of time, you think people need to waste more time on things that could be worked easily and faster with another engine?

Are there any RPGs or sidescrollers that are really graphic with stuff like blood and guts? Preferably pixel art stuff. I kind of want to study that for my pixel art and sprites but I can't remember any game that are graphic like that.

>>150368298
You completely missed the point.

There is absolutely nothing that can be "worked easily and faster with another engine" that RM doesn't provide.

Why don't you tell me what those features are?

>>150367908
Looking into this ice crystal thing now. I played that game but didn't finish it. It was at a time where I was smoking weed every day, don't remember much.

>>150368298
Thanks for the feedback. I definitely plan on making enemies avoidable. Some examples (you play as a cat):

>Crow chasing after you.
>Open inventory and drop nut item.
>Crow stops and eats nuts then flies off.

>Wolf chasing you.
>Run into an area that is too small for the wolf to fit through.
>Wolf loses interest and walks away.

>Jumping over smaller animals, etc.

>>150365180
Born to the king and queen with two older siblings. One is extremely unfit to be a successor (unstable, ruins things more than helps, etc) and the other is just extremely uninterested in owning land, instead becoming a general to protect the land of the people. In desperate need of a successor, the MC is birthed into an extremely strict lifestyle as defined by their parents.

>>150368872
You wouldn't have to look only at RPGs and sidescrollers, I think even Doom 1&2 could be good inspirations for pixel violence. I can't think of any gorey 2D RPG or sidescroller anyways.

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>>150371029
Doesn't LISA have some of this? Never played it, but I need to. Found this pic related.

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That's about it for tonight. I made some good progress.

>>150371697
I forgot about LISA but yeah it should.

Funny enough it's both an RPG and a sidescroller too.

>>150371942
AND made in RPGMaker

>>150372193
And a good game

>>150371029
Yeah DOOM was the only thing that came to mind.

>>150371697
Never played it, I'll check it out. Thanks.

I want to make something Berserk and Darkest Dungeon style but the more gorey part is kind of difficult to pixelate and animate.

New guy question. Which RPG Maker should I download if my computer cant do better than Windows XP?

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Damn, converting everything from top-down to 2-d is weird. This look half way decent?

>>150373526
Seems pretty good to me.

>>150373379
RPGM XP (the one they built for that OS), 2K3, or emulate the PS1 version

>>150373526
cute cat

>>150373526
Looks pretty good

>>150373379
does mv and vxa really not support xp?

Should party members be introduced at the beginning?
How do you feel about a new member introduced mid-story?

>>150375418
Final Fantasy IV had a revolving door party basically, and that worked alright.

>>150374287
>>150373917
>>150374149
Thanks! Ill be up all night getting this room setup lol.
>>150375418
Really depends on the game. I introduce one and slowly introduce others, similar to games like Final Fantasy 7. The only downside to this is that you cannot add party members too close to the end, you won't have time to develop them.

>>150298245
Glad that made you laugh. I'd like to have some light comedy from time to time in my game, so hopefully I'll be able to deliver on that, at least sometimes.

>>150310280
Thanks.

>>150353946
That looks quite nice, good work anon, and yes, improvement is real, as long as you're willing to take your time to practice and work on your mistakes.

>>150373526
Looks pretty comfy, though I'd maybe try and make the lights a bit dimmer.

>>150375418
as long as the game isn't short it should be fine

Good night bump
I haven't touched my project in like 2 weeks now
;_;

>>150381902
Make a schedule, it's what I did when I couldn't work and now I'm working pretty much all the time and loving it. I only have this tab open because I'm doing research on farms for my own project.

Work on your game or else

ded

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Fixin' up this area quite a bit, still only half done.

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I'm a little bit confused here.
I've ran into "can't add a new key into hash during iteration" runtime error, because I'm trying to create and add to the scene events a temporary event which will play a small animation and sound effect, when a mob attacks the player, then will delete itself.
This works completely fine when the player attacks the mob or uses some other skill, like healing themselves, but crashes the game when the same code is being called by a mob.

>>150386736
What is going on with your script list? I'm super confused just looking at it.

>>150387075
I've just broken them down into separate parts and categorize them by what each part does. Basically a temporary mess that I'll clean up later when I'm mostly done with coding everything.

>>150387206
Okay, but why? You're asking for trouble if you move around / edit / insert among the default scripts too much. There's a reason it tells you to put new stuff at the bottom.
Not that I'm saying this error comes from that, but it's just bad practice in general.

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>>150387379
>Okay, but why?
For each mechanic I have I have categorized it into each own section and put each part of the script that relates to that mechanic into its own section.
>You're asking for trouble if you move around / edit / insert among the default scripts too much.
Moving scripts around is just changing the load order. Plus I don't touch the default scripts themselves. It's much easier to roll back or look at stuff when you have the default scripts still in tact. I just take parts that I need from the default scripts and put them into new ones. You don't need to rewrite the whole script each time when you need to change something in it. That would be absurd.
>it's just bad practice in general
Easier for debugging and finding parts of code that you need, especially if you haven't touched the certain sections of the code.

>got a day off
>promised myself to learn parallax mapping
>first 30 mins was okay
>afterward all that shit become convoluted on how to make a specific layers on top of layers
>make more laeyrs and make sure to have right size

I can't do this bro. Anyone have a simple or a link where they learn parallax mapping ?

>>150388041
Oookay, okay. I see now. You confused me because your customized parts have the same name as the default parts. That makes it look like the total opposite of what you're actually doing -- when I saw the names of default scripts jumbled among new ones, you can surely understand why I thought you were editing them directly. That's what I called bad practice, it's nothing to do with your organization.
I think most people would not have multiple entries with the same name like you have.

Personally, when I copy-paste vanilla functions to make small edits, I dump them all into a script entry called "my modifications". Keeps it all clear and orderly. Though, most of the time it's better to alias them anyway if you need to make major changes.

>VX Ace
>Fomar's ATB internally counts seconds in a fashion I can't decipher at all
>Yami's ATB doesn't have Fomar's implementation of using time as a resource that's only partially taken on some actions and also requires Yanfly's stupid horseshit
>Can't just use the default battle system because what I want to do involves timing when enemy actions happen as a single character, something that's perfect for Fomar's time resource thing

Time to figure out what's going wrong in Fomar's script I guess.

>>150388518
>I think most people would not have multiple entries with the same name like you have.
Well, I guess it is confusing when looking at from the side, but that name field doesn't affect anything. And when you need to add new methods to a class or rewrite the existing ones, you're going to still copy parts of that class anyways. So instead of dumping all of the classes into one file, I create a new file for each class, just separate them by what mechanic they belong to.
For instance, in that last screenshot I have (Action Battle System) so all of the scripts there are related to the battle system that I have.

>Though, most of the time it's better to alias them anyway if you need to make major changes.
Aliasing is good if you want the original code of the method, from that same class, but which isn't loading by default, to work plus dump in some of your own code on top. If you want to completely rewrite a method, then aliasing won't do you any real good.

bump to say
>>150388863
Apparently getting a fresh script and just doubling the time it takes for a turn fixed Fomar's script. I have no idea what I did wrong the first time.

>>150384860
>>150384860
If it is supposed to convey the protag's loneliness, I think you should probably put a bit more space between objects, so it looks more empty.

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Hey /rpgmg/, I'm gonna be annoying and ask for help on something that's probably extremely basic.

I can't for the life of me find out what the spacebar button is called in scripts in VX Ace.

Tried both putting random shit in and looking on google and I've had no luck so far.

>>150395140
Spacebar is ":C", like Enter or Z

>>150395140
have you tried just doing :space

>>150395140
those :buttonnames

are likely mapped to things like ABC, XYZ, LR?
I think that was the name of them in vxa

>>150395328
Thanks man.
One step closer to my dream of fun game without actually working my ass off.

ded

How are you doing the healing in your game?

>>150400527
Potions, or the dedicated healer. As basic as it gets.

Next time, I want to try adding a character who has a 'First Aid' type skill, which only costs one MP but heals a lot for the cost. It would take too long to be worth using in-battle, but be super-useful in the field

>>150400527
>shmup
it's likely only going to be from the melee class lifestealing.

if there is going to be a traditional healing spell, it's going to be terrible. that's for sure.

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Progress!

>>150400527
It's almost all incidental. The buffer class's party buffs come with a small heal, the knight's cover ability heals the user, the thief gets passive regen, et cetera.

>>150400527
Items only, though I might have healing points around if the game ends up with a high skill ceiling.

>>150400527
I have made 22 healing spells so far, with 12 still left to go. So that is it for combat.

Characters also have a regen factor, which is boosted by food and might be weakened by tiredness, illness and some weather conditions. You can also sleep in an area that has been cleared of monsters for full regeneration.

>>150403140
curious why there are so many

>decide to make my own tiles
>they look ugly as hell

What's better, shitty looking original tiles or RTP?

>>150403140
I can't even conceive of a way that having 34 healing spells would have any kind of point.

>>150403282
Original, people can easily tell when you're using RTP and it detracts from their experience. Better to fail than not to try at all.

>>150403282
It depends on just how shitty they really are. If they're like, eye-bleeding offensive, then RTP is better. If they're just amateurish, plenty of folks would appreciate them over the RTP, even if they don't look as good "objectively".

>>150403174
I only have two playable characters, but they go through 16 different classes that represent different aspects of nature. There are around 200 planned skills, overall.

It is necessary to ensure that at least half the classes are capable of SOME form healing for combat purposes, so I need healing in almost every flavor (ie, water-flavored healing, plant-flavored healing, decomposition-flavored healing, mist-flavored healing, poison-flavored healing, etc)

>>150403285
Well, so far I've been playing with different power levels of:
"Hides to heal". Like a Jump but for healing.
"Doom Healing": Set up a counter for full healing.
"Sacrifice healing": Similar. Pay life 1 turn. Get full heal the next one.
Leech/Drain effects.
Heal everyone. Including your opponents.
Drain-everything healing barrier that lasts 3-turns.
Rebirth: Heals you entirely, but removes your boosts.
Temporary Invincibility.
Item spawning.
Ally spawning.
"Jutsu" with a possible healing outcome: Character uses small movements that give minor stat boosts, in order to get a "pay off" that might be healing or damage, depending on the order of the moments.

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>>150403282
even just coloring on top of the rtp with flat colors is more appealing than it.

lacking spriting skills isn't an excuse to use the rtp.

>>150404767
Clashes terribly with the sprites there, though. You definitely gotta flatten them too.

>>150404934
obviously.

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>>150404767

I've been editing the RTP thinking it would look better. Changing some colour and details.

It still feels like the RTP and doesn't look great, but I'll keep making changes until maybe eventually it'll look decent.

For Moghunter's Theatrythm script, how do I remove some buttons?

>>150404767
Huh, I actually like that style. Kind of amazing how something so simple is better than the boring RTP.

>>150199151
Are game development generals dead?

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>>150406468

I'm thinking of doing something similar to >>150404767 and changing all the sprites to only have a few colours each.

How do these houses look? Ignore the doors and other sprites.

>>150409317
they look like a wall and roof.

>>150409317
Honestly, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed. The wall, yeah, but probably not the house.

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>>150412141

Really? I took these 2, combined them and changed the details.

Should a game with a TON of sidequests use enemy level scaling? What are the alternatives? Experience scaling?

>>150412907
Absolutely none of the above.

A huge part of the point of side-questing is the exp and rewards. If you devalue that, no one will bother with your side quests, and rightfully so. Balance your game properly. If you do, it won't be a problem.

>>150412907
Level scaling is lame, make enemies use more attacks if you're overleveled. Or just lower/remove the experience gained from sidequests but keep the rewards good so they're worth doing.

RIP

>>150416995

>>150413307
Experience scaling sorta works in favor of sidequests, I think, though.

For example, in the SMT 1 and 2, you went out of your way to clear every dungeon because the bosses, being high level enemies, gave you like 80+ times more experience than random encounters available at the same time.

>>150424553
That's not a point in favour of scaling. Bosses can give big EXP just the same without any scaling in place.

What's the first line of text in your game?

>>150427586
>Are you still sleeping, <mc's name>?

>>150427586
>How particular, I didn't expect any guests today.

>>150394184
The goal is the be comfy. The empty space is only empty because I haven't made it yet.

>>150402298
Looks amazing, well done.

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Trying to make a dark map, I need some tips.
I should probably remove that shadow on the left, right?

>>150434257
Also please tell me if the light coming from the stained glass windows looks bad.

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>>150434405
Actually it's bugging me a lot so I changed it a little.

>>150434625
The problem is if light were coming through a window it would actually illuminate a good area around it as well as the beam

>>150434257
>>150434625
It looks like its just an oval. Light coming through would be in a cone shape, starting from the window.

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>>150436005
>>150436042
Thanks, does this look a bit better?

I can't decide whether I want names for every random villager or not.

>>150437250
Close but you want a harder light edge around the windows themselves.

>>150437283
Why not?

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>>150437250
The windows shouldn't get darker. If you're tinting the whole screen it's never going to look right.

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>>150437250
Try something like this

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Well, I didn't really do much of anything today, except for fixing that one annoying bug, but I guess it still accounts for something.

>>150402298
That looks very nice.

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>>150439417
How's this?

>>150442386
oops, just realized the reflections are backwards

>>150442386
Like the other anon said, it still looks too dim. You should try using parallax mapping to make the map look darker instead of just tinting the whole screen.

>>150442386
It works for moon light

>>150443008
>>150443581
The outside maps in my game aren't very bright so I've been avoiding making the windows bright like in >>150439417

>>150441254
How did you end up fixing it?

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Do you all personally prefer default face graphics or just scaled up sprites in place of face graphics?

Pic related for what I mean by the latter.

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>>150450628
I've always been iffy about unique portraits, mainly how the default RTP one cuts off on all sides but if some rules are followed they can be alright like the one for FF6; it very rarely cuts off and the head is all in the box the majority of the time, usually only hair being cut off.

>>150451490

I've put a frame around them so being cut off isn't as jarring.

What do you guys think of a party consisting of two cute girls and one cute boy (not including the player character, whose gender is left ambiguous)? The first three characters also used to belong to a party of three girls and one boy. Should I change this? Is there any way this can be done wrong? Or will people generally think nothing of it?

>>150457326
I can't really say I care much about the genders of the party unless there are some lewd purposes involved.

The team dynamics are waaaaay more important, IMO.

>>150457326
I think you're putting too much thought into this.

How do you make bar sections?

This is very important for making sure the game is playable without massive trial and error.

>>150458258
>>150458443
Okay, thanks guys. I'm probably just being autistic.

>>150458815
What exactly are you talking about? Do you have an example?

>>150461564
I want to split up a certain bar into 10 sections so it's easier to tell how much of it is filled at a time. Sort of like Dota 2 health bars except without the number variance, just split by percentages, so essentially there's a line after every 10% of the bar.

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>>150457326
>2 girls
>1 "boy"
definitely overthinking it. that's almost literally my party as well, though more like "pretty" instead of "cute"

>>150464131
That sorceress has some hella huge calfs compared to everyone else, I hope you implement that in gameplay somehow.

>>150464131
Wh-which one is the boy?

>>150464131
What classes are these?
>swordsman
>spellsword/fencer?
>magician
>assassin? what are those things?

>>150464595
Only one way to find out

>>150356845

I want to hug your MC

>>150470770
T-thanks, I'm sure he would appreciate it

>>150470770
She'd be bothered.

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>>150470770

>>150470770
This makes me feel weird for not drawing my own character. Then again I'm terrible at drawing.

Season Pass DLC 3 Train Tilesets and Characters please

>>150471512
Which one's the MC?

>>150473791
The cat

>>150450628
I like pictures rather than scaled sprites. The default face graphics though? Nah.

>>150400527
I'm only doing one-hit kills, so healing won't be a factor. I like how instant death makes the player feel less in control.

>>150337852
Shit, there go all my plans for gay romance.

>>150442386
It seems kind of airy and dreamy to me. It's good, if that's your goal.

Working hard on your games everybody?

>>150475697
Having a break for 15 minutes, I just need to figure out how to split up a bar into 10 sections and that would pretty much make combat golden. I could probably add an image on top of the bar to simulate having splits but I'm worried that it won't be as simple as that.

>>150473791
As other anons have stated, the cat. The other character is the MC from another anon who used to (still does?) frequent this thread. He drew the art!

>>150404542
Now add a zombie status effect that reverses healing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64nrs7-U-9w

finally another video update; writing music and scripting is so much more fun than drawing, jesus christ.

>>150474828
Not a lot of good recipes for that. The whole butch-bitch dynamic is too hetero-normal.
Pederasty comes with a lot of cultural baggage.
All of Japanese folktales legends or whatever with homosexuals ends with one of them dying, usually suicide for tragic reasons. (Nobody does tragedy these days)
School yard romances are predictable and the mandatory teenage identity crisis that comes with coming-of-age stuff is only interesting to, well, you can guess.

I mean you can force something bland. They hooked up sans-plot and stayed that way for the remainder of the game, never really examining their relationship beyond sharing a sleeping bag because there was more pressing matters at hand, like an Evil empire or whatever.

>>150479817
That delay from when you move the cursor to when the character reaches the cursor looks like it'll get annoying fast.

I wanted to ask for help with a story, but as I type it in I realize how stupid everything sounds.

I wanted a game that had to do with a prophecy being wrong, the "protagonist" dying, and you having to fix it. The main character was a ranger and your generic childhood friend happened to be a fairy. Who also happened to have been possessed by the villain at the start of the game in hopes of having a chance at love with the ranger. My friend literally responded to this "Airy lies" and I gave up.

I tried a dream setting, but it changed into a sci-fi sorta. The past was blown up by a old super advanced humanity trying to force evolution and become divine, unfortunately the "angels" were used for war and nuked the planet, last second ditch effort by seven scientist saved what wasnt nuked but left them in a world without memories, bar the scientist. One of them goes emo, takes the blame, makes everything seem like a fantasy world bar a few hints here and there. The player is from the real world and makes his way to stop the Evil Queen but slowly unravels the world's memories and tries to fix what he can. The problem with this is a lot of plot holes and the complexity of it all.

I tried and alchemist setting where shit got fucked up by a demon and you gotta fix it, said demon tries to recruit you and grant you your desires but said desires monkey paw you in a bad ending. One for each character. Also gods are ayy lmaos and dont do shit to help you. This one is just so complex because I am trying to make a not Seiken Densetsu 3 with a decent cast with branching stories, but it looks like I'd have better luck in Gamemaker.

Last few are odd bits here and there, revisited the dream setting, tried five stages of grief but it looks like 2deep4u shit. Tried a sci-fi, friends said no sci-fi.

I'm only good at world building and dont know how to make a good story aside "make main villain new waifu".

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>>150485451
Nobody is original but there are ways to make things sound more original. You need to look at different angles of writing if you want to make a good story because it sounds like what you've got so far is mainly playing it straight.

Though to be fair I'm playing it straight with my own game too; simple revenge story about a character that was very isolated as a child, looking to kill a sibling for doing something that is understandably extremely wrong with and no valid justification whether in their world, IRL or even in any other fantasy world for that sibling to have done that thing. It's not very complex but I think it'll be fun, especially trying to bring out the themes of the story and setting to their potential.

If you want to be complicated, try to think of something simple, then add things that are reasonable to make it work. As practice, try to write something in the style of a Zero Escape game and try to fix plot holes as you go, perhaps with more plot threads that lead to sensible conclusions.

>>150485451
It's nice that your reach exceeds your grasp. Keep that imagination strong, anon.

>I'm only good at world building and dont know how to make a good story aside "make main villain new waifu".
Then make the best damn one you can! Once you've exhausted that well, your brain is free to explore other genres (or take what its learned and make it even more complex/interesting)

Are bosses that you're supposed to lose against ever a good idea?

>>150486648
No.

>>150485451
I'm not that great at making stories, all I do is try to come up with something simple and heartfelt. I feel like that can go a lot deeper than a plot that is intellectually challenging. That is just my personal preference.

That said, my feedback regarding all of these story ideas is that most of what they are composed of is fairly cliche. I think your stories could be strengthened by being condensed and more focused. The first story starts off with a very strong premise, but I think it gets too complicated. The second setting is very much like Evangelion, maybe I'm just too big of a fan but using "angels" instantly made it obvious. Interesting plot but, again, too complicated. Why is there an evil queen?

The last one is actually the most interesting to me because its fairly concise and easy to jump into.

Also, make sure your friends are actually taking the time to understand you and give you proper feedback. I've found almost everyone IRL a complete waste as far as feedback goes.

>>150486648
Yes, getting your ass kicked by a boss can make them appear stronger. I like to completely overdo it if its a "must lose" battle and make them COMPLETELY fuck you up.

>>150486648
>>150486824
The problem with bosses you're supposed to lose against is the issue if wasting time and resources, that's why everyone hates them. Trying hard only to find out there was no chance of winning and no reward for the effort is very defeating for the player themself, not just for the game party.

>>150486943
Making the player feel frustration can be rewarding if you do it correctly. The more angry you get at a boss that kicks your ass, the better it feels to finally defeat them later. Also, you can avoid making the player waste too many resources by making it insanely difficult. I also like to throw in a little preview of abilities so they can start thinking about how to best it as they acquire new skills.

>>150486391
Another perspective? I could do that or from perspective(s) to make a story whole. Ot just pull a Dark Souls and hide the story around the game. Gonna look up Zero Escape and see what I can do.

>>150486479
Thank you! I just need more time and try to reach out for as much feedback as I can. I have pages of notes for these projects all details about everything.

>>150486745
I cant help but avoid cliches, some are things already done that I had no idea existed before someone pointed it out it was exactly like another game I never even knew existed.

One of the scientists becomes the Evil Queen because she felt she was responsible for everything and wanted to unite humanity under a common banner, having everyone blame her for the destruction of their earth.

Probably going to see what I can do with the third one then. I really hope there is a mana/ys combat system somewhere. Base combat system and formula is shit.

>>150483207
you feel it's a "game feel" issue, right? what do you think the solution to it is?

the most straightforward fix is to just increase the movement speed to something close to the mouse cursor's.

which has its pros and cons
+ it feels better to have movement more responsive
+ it makes natural shmup skill more effective
- it weakens the usefulness of active defensive skills, such as dashes, bullet erasing, blocking, time stopping, etc.
- it weakens the usefulness of the movement speed stat

i've been developing the project with three intended control schemes: mouse&kb, kb, and gamepad.

it's really just an issue with one of them, and it's likely the least familiar for anyone interested in the shmup genre. the mouse control scheme derived from Valkyrie Sky, and personally, i don't even really think the slow movement speed with cursor inputs is a problem.

>>150449287
Instead of calling the method directly, I just made a boolean that loops in another class' update function so as to call out that method once per frame update, if needed, instead of calling it out asynchronously.

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Working on remaking the battle sprites.
Left is New, Right is Old.
What do you think?

>>150487667
I prefer the right.
I'm very curious, how many copies has your game sold thus far?

>>150487667
Nice work, you're improving a lot Karbonic. Dont know about the greenish skin tone though.

>>150487843
What do you like better about the one on the right?also souls crushingly depressingly low
>>150487854
It's weird, the face is completely yellow on the color spectrum, could it be the blueish hair around it? Btw how has the long road been coming along, I haven't been on /rpgmg/ lately

>>150488070
It's going, I'm doing the same thing you're doing. I actually just came back after a few month hiatus (family/finance shit).

Have you marketed your game at all? Just curious as to your process. I'm going to be putting mine on steam in about 5 months.

>>150487667
Both have their own appeal, but the left one seems to be a bit more detailed. Though I do agree that you should probably change the skin colour unless it's something that you're specifically going for.

>>150488070
>>150487667
Also check your monitor colors, I'm pretty sure thats green tinted. (either that or my monitor is fucked).

>>150488135
I'm really kinda confused as to how to market it.
Steam has a kinda weird system for it, so I'm trying to think of good places on different sites to promote it.

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>>150488214
>>150488136
>>150487854
Does this fix it?

>>150488408
I think you should try and re-calibrate your monitor. It looks very greenish.

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>>150488479
how's this

>>150488623
Much better.

>>150488662
Good. I have a bit of trouble with this because I'm very colorblind so it can get in the way

>>150488623
>>150488479
i think it's fine depending what kind of scene the sprite is being used in.

you can't really judge the color of something that much without the scene's context.

>>150488715
..oh

>>150488070
The left is much better on a technical level he feels like a poser or something, not sure how to describe it.
Aw man that sucks, while I didn't finish your game yet I think it's fun and has a unique charm to it.

>>150488715
Oh, I see. Yeah, I guess that can be a problem. But I'd still personally make it more yellowish and add a bit of some light pink on top.

>>150488810
That's not a very realistic depiction of skin colour unless they have alcohol poisoning or it's done on purpose with every character.

I need help writing my story. I realized I've trapped myself. What's a good excuse for permadeath if resurrection spells exist? There's a character meant to die in battle before the game takes place, but it makes no sense if there's a healer there. I already have a reason for the healer to be unable to prevent this character's death in the first place, but I want this healer to also be able to resurrect party members because he joins your party eventually. And I want those party members to stick with you through the whole game.

... I guess maybe I can say he hadn't learned the resurrection spell at the time, but that feels too cheap because I don't think this he would've let his party fight a super strong boss without knowing that spell if it existed.

>>150489070
Implement soul/spiritual destruction.

>>150489070
you could always go with the classic "KO" instead of "death" in battles

>>150489070
/what's going to kill the character?
If it's supernatural you could have it so something prevents the healer from using their spell?

Maybe make something that eats the essence of a creatures being rather than killing them.

>>150488975
it actually makes a lot more sense why it's colored that way, and your advice on how to make it more human-like is going to be completely lost.

there's no difference between pink, yellow and green. they're different values of the same color.

anyway, if you did see his cast and world setting, they ARE all colored in that manner. it fits within that world, and attempting to make him change it from what he's established is actually going to make it worse.

>>150489070
Proceed to don't care about that like FF7 did.

Question, me and a friend was thinking of getting RPGMaker MV but wondering if we can split the cost and share, I'm not too familiar with this and wondering if its possible?

Sorry in advance, keep looking online and no one seems to give a clear answer to this.

>>150489070
>>150489486
Any resurrection stuff could just technically be non-canon honestly.

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>>150489525
It depends, if you buy it from the official site you should be good, don't buy it on steam.
>>150489464
Nah dude, I definitely appreciate the advice he was giving me.
mfw most things where a character seems less human due to skin color are most likely unintentional

>>150489703
Ah right thanking you anon, going to get it on the official site now in that case

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I can't possibly imagine why I'd need 20 states for the character but I'm loving the potential anyways. Shit like this opens up new possibilities.

>>150489352
It's supernatural. It basically is the culmination of the despair of everyone in that village and it's purpose is to put everyone out of their misery (unless I get a better idea for this big bad). So I think that would make sense in the context of this monster. So would >>150489287. What better way to ensure they'll never hurt again? So thanks!

Good night bump

>>150491380

What are hard RPGM games?

>>150493568
Maidensnow Eve. I think I'll never be able to complete that fucking game.

>>150491380
Good morning bump.
It kind of sucks that there are a bunch of /rpgmg/ folks I'll never talk to because they're upside down.

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>>150489539
If world building isn't massively important, sure. But if it is, then such a glaring contradiction is irritating. You end up with the Aeris/Phoenix Down problem. People still debate that, even though I'm pretty damn sure it's either explicitly or heavily implied the characters are just K.O'd.
If you can help it, try to keep it consistent. Just say the characters are unconscious or badly wounded.

>>150489703
>spoiler
Eh, I wouldn't worry about it. Your game has a surreal atmosphere, so it doesn't look out of place.

For the record, >>150488408 has pale yellow-green skin. Kinda like a lighter version of that avacado green they have on hospital walls.

>Fomar's ATB has a bug with turn counting that changes when turns end randomly
>It counts turns by checking how many frames elapsed from the last one, so say every 30 frames of time advancement it's a new turn and durations count down and regen procs
>Actually causes some Turn End states to last infinitely if they're used long enough into the battle
>Tried to specifically make it so that the character and enemies only acted on the first frame of turns but the variances are much more off than that.
>No scripting knowledge so I have no idea how to fix it.

scripts with so much potential wasted on stupid mishaps, don't even know if fomar is still on the internet and if he is he's not doing a very good job staying connected with everything

>>150495905
i'm an upside down person and am very annoyed

It keeps happening man.

Thread is so dead.

>>150501218
I don't feel like posting about this stupid fucking ATB every time something comes up but I guess I will now. I managed to figure out how to get a similar style of ATB using states as turn delays instead of having an actual ATB bar, which is actually great because I found a use for this stupidly long state bar in the process >>150490570

>>150490570
>>150501552
>20 states
Jesus, the only instance I can imagine even a forth of those being at use is at some huge boss battle, but even then states usually disappear after a couple of turns.

>>150501879
10 of them are going to be used for the garage rigged ATB, and I still don't know what I'd do with the other 10 since I don't think status effects could cover it, though theoretically I could also use it to denote where in a combo chain the player is. It'd be more work but I don't know if it'd be worth it since checking where you are in a combo is as easy as checking the skill lists. Maybe if they came with little buffs/debuffs as well it could work.

>>150332454
The only reason I made my MCs siblings is because I difn't want to add romance between them.

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>>150502719
I'm not following you here.

>>150502719
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz0OxQMfrCs

I don't see a difference.

>>150502719
Good one, anon. Made me chuckle.

>>150503406
I haven't seen this show, but I bet it sucks. From the related videos, it looks like he gets with the red one for some dumbass reason. Japan really needs to stop making dumb shit protagonists.

How do I keep myself from procrastinating?