/rpgmg/ - RPG Maker General #164

If the chain game is really wrapping up, we can leave the credit list out of the OP.

Second for 3DS localization NEVER EVER

>>152700508
Rather than have all these links for getting started, we need to gather helpful links for finishing.

Got any ideas?

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>>152702235
>Rather than have all these links for getting started, we need to gather helpful links for finishing.
This isn't a bad idea.

Derek Yu (the guy who made Spelunky) wrote a good article about this: http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-game
I also found this one, while searching for the former: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RosstinMurphy/20150224/237145/FINISH_YOUR_GAME.php

>>152702872
Japan, that's why.

How does one do ranged combat in an rpg maker games say guns and such?

>>152704759
You don't? Unless you're using one of those action script systems, I guess. Firearms are a funny subject in JRPGs.

>>152703302
Those are actually pretty good! I remember ready the spelunky one awhile back and the second one points out quite a few similar things. I can only give advice though. Motivation is a huge part of all this. There are gonna be many days where you just don't feel like doing anything and that's dangerous because it can spiral out of control and you'll never finish anything you start. The way I get through this is to break things down as much as possible and each day do SOMETHING. Literally ANYTHING no matter how seeming insignificant, if you need that thing done anyways just DO IT. Make one monster and call it a day. Heck even make a single skill or one item and be done with it. While slow, at the end you WILL finish slowly but surely. This has definitely helped me because I can say I did SOMETHING that day and it makes me feel good. Eventually, you'll finish.

>>152704759
It depends. You can do it the way the database has it basically just a weapon that does damage, or you could have them reduce an item in your inventory for ammo with events and what not...or you can use some scripts that do all that for you.

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I hate how badly RMMV deals with custom fonts. They always look different than they should. Pic related, I tested the same font with the same font size in RMMV and in RMVX Ace. While it looks perfect in Ace, in MV it's much bigger than it should be and vertically displaced. Is there anyway I can fix this or do I need luck to find another font that fits well in MV?

>>152702872
>op is too big , but ill make it fit.
I see what u did there.

>>152705939
The only way I can think of is to make the font size smaller since MV has bigger resolution by default. I don't own MV though and don't plan on getting it anyways so I don't know much else about that.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpwZkeCeW0
putting stuff ingame update; overall liking how it looks in motion

i'm still not sure what to do about the foreground and how it'll obscures the play area. for now, i just implemented a simple function that changes the transparency when you cross a y-coordinate threshold

>>152710378
Not bad! Looks good so far. I would suggest making the bigger foreground plants a bit smaller as they kind of cover half the screen, but the way you have it is a decent solution.

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>>152701316
Is there anyone here with Japanese knowledge to translate at least the menu options in RPG Maker DS/DS+?

Then we could have a little contest to see who can make the most interesting game in such a limited engine.

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>>152702872
>Last Boss
>"This isn't even my final form!"

This place usually this dead?

>>152715691
yes. Sheer pigheaded stubbornness is the only reason this thread exists, the last thread 404'd with about 200 posts.

>>152715691
We all are just working very hard.

>>152700508
>Dat bulge

>>152715691
i used to hang around and bump more often while slacking off, but i felt more motivated to work nowadays.

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>>152715691
Most of the time, yeah. If you're an optimist you can pretend it's because everyone is working intently.

I'd post progress, but today I can't decide between working on my game or tossing myself off the roof of my apartment complex.

>>152716337
Post your progress so we can give you the encouragement you need to toss yourself off the roof of your apartment complex.

>>152702235
There are lots of strategies for novel writers.
Usually a long the lines of:
>writing a terrible first draft hard and fast.
>Start with an ending.
>Do one thing at a time; don't be lured away by the potential of another story.

>>152703302
Huh, I've actually never seen these articles before, and I've spent more time reading about game design than actually doing it. They seem good, thanks.

I've been having trouble getting past the "actually start the damn game" step for a while now, but maybe one of these days.

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Localization never, but I bet in a year or so they'll at least sell us the assets for PC At like $50-60. Not much to go on from the tiny ass screenshots but I like the character art.

>>152720201
The idea is really interesting but isn't this a little late?
I mean the NX is coming next year or so.

>>152720859
Handheld RPG Maker is the nichest of niches. I can't imagine the sales numbers are very good so I don't know what the motivation to keep doing them is.

Wii U would have actually been the perfect console for an RPG Maker now that I think about it. Mario Maker proved that, and they probably could have gotten guest characters from Fire Emblem and a bunch of other Nintendo series.

Whenever I make something it just doesn't seem real. Maybe because I'm the one who made it?

Sometimes I think drug-users are creative because they can get so fucked up they don't even know where their thoughts are coming from.

Or maybe it's just their way to plow through the work and get it done. Like alcoholic writers impair their judgement on purpose because they can't write melodramatic monologues while sober.

>>152722810
post your creations so we can judge you and this thread stays alive for another 30 minutes.

>>152722810
>something

I'm guessing you mean writing. It's the field I'm the least familiar with, but I'm thinking getting better at writing is similar to other forms of art: copying better people. It's how I've gotten proficient at drawing, musical composition and I suppose programming.

Steal lines from the same character archetypes as yours?

>>152723161
This.
Maybe we can help you.

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I posted this in the last thread, maybe some more of you can help. Basically I'm using the FTB system and Hime's Enemy Talk script for a recreation of undertale that I'm doing. Problem is no matter how many actions I have, if I use the command for the talk script it uses up all the actions in one go regardless of how many I have to use. Is there any way around this, so far it seems to just be a limit of the script itself and if so then I can't really do much about that. And two, If I use the talk command and select a monster, I can't back out of it to make another choice instead without it taking one action from the player. Is there any way around this?

One anon suggested the instant cast script but sadly I tired that a while ago and couldn't get it to fix either of these problems.

>>152722810
It's hard to look at your own work from a perspective even remotely resembling an outsider's, and it's easy to see problems that aren't really there. At some point you just have to get outside opinions and start learning what works and what you're not so good at, really.

>>152724805
I think you'd have to rewrite some things about the battle system yourself, unfortunately.

>>152722810
>drug users and alcoholics are creative
No. True creativity is not randomness or otherness. You could just get a computer algorithm that makes things far more random and alien than a human mind could achieve. True creativity is solving a Gordian knot. It is understanding a problem down to its roots and then finding a practical solution that is not necessarily bound by preconceptions.

>>152725067
Yeah that's what it's looking like unfortunately. I'll just have to put a warning/disclaimer for people to avoid these problems when playing. I'm like 80% with this demo though. This last stretch is tedious as hell.

>Just have to make a few enemies to complete this combat demo
>Had a skull splitting headache last night and still feeling a tinge of it now
>General lethargy

Guess I'll work on game art instead, or something...

holy shit I didn't know this general existed, nice.
now I can suffer along with you all!

>>152728032
Welcome to the party.
Here take this healthy dose of self pity.

>>152728160
Not him but thanks.

>tfw want to make a North, East, South, West world map but I don't want to drag the game
Should I have the whole game take place on one map and save the rest of the world for post game stuff? Like basically free roaming? Finding shit and secret bosses?

>>152728861
Depends on how involved those world maps are, how big they are, and whether your plot needs that amount of globetrotting.
If you can't be bothered to make several world maps, just shrink everything down a lot.

>>152728861
Depends. Is your story engaging enough that it can last through the time it would take to traverse those places? If not, always start small and work your way up afterwards. Otherwise you try something overly ambitious and never end up finishing anything.

hey guys, so is the "Base resources" in the OP just the stock sprites and tiles I have with the base program? or is this something else?

>>152729074
Well basically I had two ideas in mind.
First one being the whole story takes place on one section of the world map. Let's say North for example. Completing the game allows you to freely travel to the East, West and Southern parts of the world and discover new places, new enemies and such. Each section is going to be 200x200.

The next idea would've been to have it take place on all of them but like I said I don't really want to drag it out too much.

>>152729324
I think it's an expanded set of resources that come with the full version of the game, but don't show up in your resources list by default and aren't included in the trial download. It's been a while since I checked though.

>>152729398
Maybe you can spread the story between 2 regions with some hints that you can visit the other 2 at a later point?

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>>152732693
That sounds like a good idea. I'll keep it in mind

Anons, somehow i feeling bad when using pirated DLC, what do you think anon? should i stopped using the dlc?

>>152734930
Buy it when you have finished your game.

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Just started to work on our items vendor. He comes along with his ice cream trailler (WIP) and a bouncing popsicle.

>Wanted to study
>University didn't accept me
>Again
It's really depressing and now I feel bad.
At least I'll have lots of time for deving now.

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>>152735853
This looks adorable, Anon!
I like the dithering, a few of those sprites remind me of PC98 games.

>>152735496
>Thank you Anon, much apprecaited

Got off work at 1, didn't finish my school stuff until like 8.

Trying to do personal projects during the semester is the WORST

>>152736309
Thank you! I'm still learning the ways of dithering! It is a really difficult thing to do correctly without overdoing it.

Oh, so MV updated. Please tell me it's character generator let's you make children. Otherwise, are there any mods that let you?

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>>152740038
Nope, no children. I think the forum has some edits and customs if you dig.

Heh. I opened up the generator to check, hit random and it gave me this.

>>152740445
>>Nope, no children. I think the forum has some edits and customs if you dig.
Damn it! So much for a loli or shota party member. What about VX Ace?

>>152740723
No

Just sprite your own lolis

>>152740445
Has science gone too far?

>>152740806
My art skills are in the negative. I may as well pay someone who knows what they're doing.

>>152740445
Now I want to make a meme game of nothing but random generated monstrosities.

>>152740950
I think it'd be neat to have an RPG where your party members have randomly generated looks, even if it's just out of a certain pool of stuff to take from for each member.

It'd be the most forceful diversity ever.

>>152740806
Are there any premade loli sprites? Can't pixel for shit.

How do I make turn based combat interesting in most games Ive played I find the turn based combat boring as all fuck.
Any one who has made it interesting and engaging?

>logging out of steam so your younger sister cant fuck up your game

just shared computer things

>>152743375
When my game's demo is ready, people will be able to tell me if my turn based system is good.

Plot idea:

A god comes to earth to steal the secret of clockwork from humanity.

>>152743375
I think I'm probably the only person in the world who like's RM's default ``pick moves for your whole team and then watch them execute'' battle style. Everyone else goes for individual turns based on character speeds.

My thinking here is that choosing everyone's moves in advance forces you to be much more tactical. You have to make assumptions about how the next 2-12 actions (up to 4 party members vs up to 8 monsters in the default system) will play out.

You can optimize damage distribution to enemies to avoid wasting the strong characters' attacks on overkill, often saving you a round of combat.

The only vaguely interesting thing I'm doing with my combat is that action speeds are very significant. Abilities that can only self-target always go first. Abilities that target a group always go last. I'm sure that at some point I'll want to come up with some exceptions.

>>152743375
Super Mario RPG/Paper Mario/Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga

Timed Hits can enhance a game quite a bit

>>152743375
I've had a blast with RPS turn-based combat engines. Note that those tend to only work in 1vs1 battles, though

>>152744440
Why would a god not just make something more powerful?

>>152743375
You can't please everyone. Still, at a fundamental level, I think you should strive to:

-Make it so spamming attack will never win a single battle.

-Try to make interesting and varied abilities.

-Make battles difficult enough to require unique answers.

I think as long as you have those three things, you'll at least end up with something good.

>>152744992
>>152744993
>>152745196
>>152745379

The game Im doing is about a single character setting out for revenge. A single well skilled character out to kick ass.
Said character is a sword and shield fighter with optional missile weapons (How to do ranged weapons at all) and Id like the idea of a RPS dynamic but not sure how to implement it without it ending up spamming random attacks.

>>152745379
>Why would a god not just make something more powerful?

Maybe the god can't figure out how to make something that just "works" and isn't "alive."

>>152745469
>Id like the idea of a RPS dynamic but not sure how to implement it without it ending up spamming random attacks.
See how to do it wrong, and do it better
http://store.steampowered.com/app/449050/

I'm almost afraid to finish this project and start a new one.

I just made a volume shift between two rooms, and yeah, it's super simple but it makes me feel good to learn something new. I'm afraid my second project won't feel as good.

>>152745991
This is where you are wrong.
It will feel better every time because you constantly learn new tricks or different ways.

>>152745493
Sounds like a pretty pussy god to me. (I like your concept, just trying to play devils advocate)

>>152745469
I don't have the best answers, but this is how I tried to solve the turn based problem:

One character's abilities and attacks depend on a combination of mash and timing attacks.

Another depends on combo inputs (sorta like Xenogears).

One character has to use items only to attack, no basic attack.

Finally, one character attacks by dancing and has to hit inputs to a beat like a DDR game.

Success and failure of these combat mechanics enhance or hinder the resulting effects of an ability. For example: all dances do damage, but if you hit every "ddr arrow" a status condition will be placed on the enemy.

>started on a horror game
>basically a corpse party clone but with a religious plot
>it'll have tons of endings depending on the players' choices
But I can't seem to find the best horror theme tiles and miscellaneous resources. Yeah, I've found a few, but I can't seem to find one that FEELS RIGHT to me

Plus I have no idea how I'm gonna make the literal atmosphere dark. I've seen some rpg maker horror games that have a spooky looking dark filter over the game.
Maybe a horror game is too hard?

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>>152747485
I think that horror in the form of gore and jump scares is a little lame. Never played corpse party, but I think really good horror comes from a really really unsettling plot. There are a lot of good creepypastas out there, a well made game about camping and skinwalkers would fuck me up good.

It's pretty easy to make the darkness filter, especially if you go with more pixelated graphics. You basically just have a picture overlay on the screen with a little bit of transparency and a giant circle erased in the middle. Pic related.

>>152747485
I think a horror game is just fine, but you probably need to create the assets yourself for the best effect.
Making the screen darker is pretty easy, either tint the screen or place a darker, transparent picture as an overlay.

Help please? I'm using Ubuntu and RPG Maker MV surprisingly does NOT give me a white screen on level editor, but DOES give a blank screen on playtest.

I was ONLY able to find a solution to EDITOR white screen, not PLAYTEST white screen. Can anyone help?

>>152749728
I had a similar issue but I have W7.
You should have a error file log in your folder.
I had to reinstall the program like 2 times on different drives to get it working again.

Bubump

>>152752914

I hate dealing with the database once there's a lot of things in it, even if it's organised.

How do you cope with the pain?

>>152754097
>I hate dealing with the database once there's a lot of things in it, even if it's organised.
Clearly your database has too many things in it. Purge the undesirable things or put them in a "not often used" folder.

>>152754275
It actually has less than the default database does right now, I'm just horrible with this stupid interface VX Ace has.

Hey guys, I'm trying to set the name of an actor to be the name of another actor. How do I go about doing this?

>>152754868
It'd be pretty easy with a script call.
For VX: $game_actors[id].name = "Name" if $game_actors[id]
For MV: $gameActors.actor(actorId).setName(n)

Change ID to the one being changed and change Name/n to the new name. I'm not sure about MV but for VX you could probably just change "Name" to $game_actors[id].name, the id being that of the other actor so it'd look like this

$game_actors[1].name = $game_actors[2].name if $game_actors[1]

>>152754773
>I'm just horrible
The problem is your mind and your way of thinking about things.
You probably never had to keep things terribly organized in your entire life.
My suggestion is that you invest in some scotch-tape and index-cards if you don't already have them, and write down your ideas on those cards, and organize them into something cohesive on your wall.
I'm not saying this as a joke. I've done it myself and it's done wonders for my thought process. I have several walls in my apartment dedicated to different games and stories that I'm working on, and I've actually finished the first draft of my novel last week.

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>>152755504
I'm not exactly sure if we're talking about the same database here. I've got stuff sorted into categories and with logical orders and it's still fucking me up.

>>152755669
>it's still fucking me up.
in what way are you getting fucked up?

My solution is simply a method of improving your mind to better deal with these things.

>>152755358
It works, thanks!!

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This Squirrel walks into the bar and slaps your gf's ass, what do you do?

>I cant draw his tail to save my fucking life, help.

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>>152756789
>heard you were talkin shit like I wouldn't find out
10/10 spooked me solid

>Download the crack


The link in the "Getting Started" doc for RPGMaker VX Ace is dead. Can anyone offer a new one? pomf.is would be the easiest file hosting solution.

>>152756789
[x]genuflect

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>If you do not dev this squirrel will steal your nuts.

Pretty happy with this, gotta learn just to move on instead of wasting time analyzing everything.

>>152757812
>Pretty happy with this, gotta learn just to move on instead of wasting time analyzing everything.
see>>152755504

>>152757812
I'm strangely aroused

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>>152758230
Daddy squirrel gunna take care of you anon, goodnight.

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>>152758596
send help

>>152712673
I second this, might make for an interesting little competition

>>152701316
>>152712673
Wait, there's an RPG Maker on 3DS?

>>152759779
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201608/23112932.html

Just announced. Gotta wait for Jump's mag before more info comes.

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>>152758596
>Pixels aren't properly aligned

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>>152759880
mon dieu

If I don't feel like working on my main project for a bit and want to make something different right now, should I do that or stick with the main project?

>>152766264
If I were you I'd think about whether knowledge gained from the different thing will help out with the main project, and if it could be done in a short time-span.

>>152766385

I don't know if I could get anything useful from it, but it would definitely be shorter.

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Tomb of Friends 2 is cancelled forever.

Introducing Buddiepop!

>>152768908
>Tomb of Friends 2 is cancelled forever.
brb hanging myself

>>152769306
[Spoiler] its joke ;| [/spoiler]

for anyone who wants to rise up above filthy pirate status, humblebundle has

5$ 2k3
6$ 2k
6$ xp
10$ vxa
14$ vxa + luna engine
44$ mv

>>152770272
>Luna Engine

who would want to use that laggy piece of shit?

>>152771254
I use it, it's ok.

Hump

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Artifact Adventure is on sale for like $1 on Steam today. Made in VX from the look of it. Dragon Quest type game with a lot of party customization and some neat ideas. I've played it for about an hour so far and having fun with it.

What would be interesting skills and moves for a character who fights like a matador with a magic cloth?

>>152776191
Feints, taunts and a weakness to piercing damage

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I'm sure you'll all enjoy the extremely drastic and totally real gameplay shift!

>>152776321
i think it'd be his strength, actually. bulls charged straight at the cloth, like a piercing attack, and matadors sidestep them.

they'd be weak to slashing/cutting/sweeping motions and attacks.

Hey anons, what's a good way to get a Patreon started for my game? I've been looking at various RPG Maker patreons and they all make little to no money.

>>152770272
I already bought VXA in a steam sale a while back. I think it ran me $12.

>>152781536
Make it lewd
Make it good
Finish the damn thing

>>152747485
Tinting the screen is easy! Then again, I'm not programming in a flashlight.

>>152747903
Someone did make a skinwalker game based on a specific story.
https://rpgmaker.net/games/4906/
I watched Cryaotic play it to study player responses. It's solid.

So did that anon ever convert the VX music into OGG format?

>>152781536
beats me. I can't relate to anyone who browses crowdfunding site - to give money away.

>>152781536
get well known
pander
look productive
look like a quality project

"i'm just taking an eating break, i swear" bump

>>152703302
>do the shittiest possible job that gets it done
Just want to reiterate that this applies to first game projects only. DO NOT DO THIS FOR EVERY GAME.

>>152784309
don't believe him.

just do a shitty job, then suffer through fixing all those terrible practices you did to get the demo/prototype out asap as you work towards release date.

>>152783082
This could be a good opportunity for you to learn how to do it yourself.

>figure out how to create .ogg files that do not loop properly.
This is the boring part that I think you probably already know how to do.

>figure out how to make those .ogg files loop properly
RMMV reads the .ogg file's metadata to determine when to loop the track. Metadata is usually used for things like
>author: pizzicato five
>title: la regle du jeu

You'll add your own fields instead of "title" or "album"; they'll be "LOOPSTART" and "LOOPLENGTH".

LOOPSTART is the point in 'time' where the looping will start. this would be 0 if your song would start looping from the very beginning. sometimes songs have introduction parts, which is where this field is more useful.

LOOPLENGTH is how much 'time' the loop will last.

'Time' isn't measured in minutes and seconds, because you can only be so precise when saying you should loop from "0:20.22" for a loop length of "4:20.69". Time is measured in samples instead.

The audio editor I used to use for this was Audacity, as it allowed you to edit metadata and view time in samples rather easily.

Determining what the LOOPSTART and LOOPLENGTH values will be is then up to you to find for each song. IIRC, RPG Maker MIDIs looped naturally on their own, so it may be as simple as setting LOOPSTART to 0 and LOOPLENGTH to the full duration of the song.

>>152768908
I'd buy it.

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Finally some progress on the UI. How does it look? Should I increase the reserved space for busts during dialogues or is this fine?

>>152788313
Well, it is still pretty basic. Even Majin Tensei was more polished.

Is there a way to have an image show up when 'hovering' on a choice?

>>152775948
Artifact Adventure is a great game. Definitely worth $1. It's mostly open world, which I found very cool.
>Made in VX from the look of it.
It is. Incidentally, I love what the dev did with the battle system.

>>152776629
I'd pop those secret boys.

>>152788313
What kind of game is this?

>>152788765
Yeah, I'm leaving the polishing and the graphic assets for later, because I really like to procrastinate.

What I'm wondering is if the busts are positioned too far apart from the center of the screen. Will it be comfortable for the player to read a dialogue with the characters' busts located in the corner of the screen and with this size? Should I put them closer to the center of the screen? Should I make them bigger?

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>>152789437
>What kind of game is this?
Have you played Riviera (GBA/PSP) before? In this game, you can't move freely on the map. Instead, you choose how to interact with objects or where do you want to go next.

>>152789536
The size of the busts is fine. I'd move them just a bit to the center if the character on the left is supposed to be the player avatar but I'd leave it where it is if he is not.

I think the text box is too long for a 16x9 full screen read at a normal distance because it will make the player's eyes move up quite a bit. Probably compress it just a little bit (90%), as well as the font size. That said, the current size could work if there is not much text.

>>152790264
Hmm, I was working with 50 characters per line, but this makes sense. Thanks!

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>>152790132
It's basically how Table Top RPGs or a Text Adventure would look, visualized. Enter Room. Look around. Inspect point of interest.

Oops, you didn't check for traps. -100 damage.

Unlimited Saga worked the same way. But I don't care for it. It's not very becoming of a video game.

>>152790132
Damn I forgot about that game, I loved Riviera and Knights in the Knightmare, beautiful games.

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Here's another one to get a better idea of the concept. I've reduced the message box and the font size.

>>152791527
I-It will be different from these games! ;_; Actually, I'm working on this project just for fun. If other people like it, great! If they don't, it's fine.

>>152791881
Yup, they're among my favorite games from GBA.

Can anyone post some good RPGMaker MV games? Web Browser versions would be preferred, but Windows would also be nice!

>>152793668
I don't like the character portraits being cut off if the text box is transparent; unless you are going to add a real border around them.

>setting up a somewhat-complicated event that involves a lot of steps, programming-wise
>test it
>it doesnt work
>change, test again
>doesnt work
>more small changes
>now it works exactly how i wanted it to work
>that satisfaction

working on your own stuff really makes you appreciate the games that already exist. this shit is hard.

>>152797993
I know this feel.
Can get really frustrating if something doesn't work, though.

>>152799136
true, true. i think if you keep in mind that what you're doing is really difficult though, its easier to stay out of the mindset that stuff working is inherently your fault. like, technically they are, but its really easy to make mistakes and you shouldnt hold them against yourself.

>>152799375
*stuff not working

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Labyrinthilum dev here. Any particular types of monster people I should throw in?

Here's the link to the demo again: http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/download.php?id=4519

Just learned how to use switches and variables. Sort of. Any ideas for exercises so I can drill them into my head?

>>152794875
I...actually haven't seen any worth playing.

>>152803043
A small room where you need to press a certain amount of switches around the map to open a door.

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https://youtu.be/upMICrJLjgA

New podcast, everyone! Imagination allows us to put meaning and emotional weight into what are essentially blocks of data: Your party members. Do you prefer blank characters (like toys) or fleshed-out companions (like in books)?

>>152794875
not mine

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testing a bit that gives a player or a key, depending on items in the inventory. its accessible from two different directions so have to make sure they work in tandem, otherwise the player will get the key twice or one event will play as though the tub is still full of water

when will the pain end

>>152805454
>two different events
idk, but you could have just made the invisible event ontop of the intended location, and set its priority to the same level as characters

>>152805917
tried, but i want the event to trigger on action button and for some reason when i did that it didnt work

but i'm going to try and simplify this, get rid of some of the conditional branches and use the switches off to the side that i just realized were a thing
i'm an idiot

>>152804018
A comfy podcast is exactly what I need right now.
I think I prefer fleshed out party members while I prefer a more or less blank MC for self inserting.

I've made progress today!

Writing things that change based on your decisions and dialogue options is a pain, but it's worth it in the end. At least I hope it is.

>>152808602
That's great Anon!
And yes it is absolutely worth it.

What's the best side-view battle script for VXA?

>>152803874
>>A small room where you need to press a certain amount of switches around the map to open a door.
Now I feel lost again. I used Echo007's video so I only know how to change lighting, alter dialogue, and add party members (and even then I had to figure out on my own how to make the NPCs disappear upon talking to them). I want to make it so that a door appears after doing stuff. Shit's much more complex then I thought.

>>152801809
I'll post criticism later. But I am wondering.. how do I save?

>>152808602
Any progress is good progress!

>>152806176
Invisible event on top, priority same as, trigger is action button.

Condition if player is facing direction
Condition check switch
If on do this
else do this
Condition if player is facing second direction
paste the exact things you wrote above.

Don't see how this wouldnt work.

>>152810048
Make events that you want to use increase a variable. When the variable reaches a certain number turn on a switch. Make the door event be checking if the switch is on and put it to parallel process.

>>152810048
Don't worry, everyone was there before.

>>152810048
Don't feel lost, it's not as complex as you think, I still remember when I was new at rpg maker 2k3 and didn't know how to do anything.

I'll help you a bit, make an event with a nice graphic, it doesn't matter what for now, Inside, put a control variable +1, and finish with either local switch or simple switch, then, make a new page with the condition of this switch being ON and an empty page (or some dialogue if you want).
You can now copy and paste this event as many times as you want, and set a new page on the door with the condition of the variable being equal or higher than that value, and it's done.

I believe in you anon!

>>152811040
>>152811325
>>152811495
I almost got it. Sticking with a switch for now. A button in the center of the room and a closed door to the north. I want the door to open and be transparent to make it more apparent that the actor is going inside, rather then having to press a button at an open door.

Long story short, I must be missing something or screwing something up. I press the center switch, door opens, but I can't go through it despite specifically checking the "through" box on the second event page.

>>152810980
You can save by going into the System menu while in the town.
I'm definitely going to 1) point that out 2) put save points in the labyrinths, but I didn't manage to get that done by the time the demo needed to be finished by.

>>152813045
You probably have a solid tile behind the door. RPG Maker is weird about that stuff. You need to delete the solid tile and then place the door event in the empty spot.

>>152813375
>You need to delete the solid tile and then place the door event in the empty spot.
I knew I forgot to ask something. How the hell do I delete a tile? I see no erase option at the top.

>>152813546
Paint over it with a different tile, I usually use floor tiles

>>152809602
b-bump

>>152813546
Go to the map edit mode (F5). There should be an empty tile in the tile select on the left, it looks like a checkered black and blue tile. Or just paste in a tile that lets you walk on it like a floor tile.

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Made another portrait.

>>152814103
She has some big PROGRESS

>>152814072
I tried that when making a basic room but apparently you can't go walk on transparent tiles.

>>152813698
>>152813375
>>152811495
>>152811040
>>152811325
In other news, I did it! Although I might need to type out some notes because I know for a fact I'll forget this stuff. Also, some of the tiles are a little screwy. At one point I went through the brick wall. Thought that's not supposed to happen and I'm sure I didn't mess with whatever governs collision.

I'll try variables next. Make it so that the door opens after pressing a switch 4 times. Also, is there a way to make them reset after leaving a map? They stay activated after I leave.

I'm trying to write my setting, and I need some tips from you guys.

How do you straddle the line between being obviously very inspired by something, yet make it different and unique enough to make it stand out on it's own? What's the line between inspiration and downright emulation?

>>152815539
start with the very basic version of the idea and work from there

>>152815175
>Also, is there a way to make them reset after leaving a map?
You should use a global switch instead of a local switch, so, after pressing 4 times the button, you activate the switch and in the door's event, you turn off the switch.

>>152815539
Just use different names and other surface details, making sure similar characters can't be visually mistaken for each other, and you'll be fine. Everyone gets inspiration from somewhere, and as long as you're not trying to copy something, the own quirks of your writing style will probably make it more distinct than you expect.

How does the idea of an RPG with very loose rules and little characterization sound? To elaborate, you could recruit random people off the street with little significance and just slaughter whoever you wanted (with repercussions, of course). Because they're just random people, you can equip them with whatever you want, but death is final. Perhaps they could have various traits that alter their combat effectiveness, such as not wanting to be a part of large groups or having abnormally high pain tolerance.

>>152816172
I think I'm stuck again. In fact, I might be totally confused as to the difference between a switch and a variable. Don't know if the specified variable can represent how many times an event's been pressed before a door opens. What is a global switch anyway? I see no such option in the events.

>>152815647
>>152816609
Pretty encouraging thoughts, thank you. I suppose finding someone else to read through what I have and tell me if it's too similar will also be important.

>>152817238
Crash course time.

A Switch has two states. ON or OFF. its like what you use to turn a light on or off. You can specify what should happen when a switch is in either state.

A Variable is literally anything. Usually however they are mostly just numbers. the numbers can be tied to anything. A number saying how much gold you have, how much of an item you have, and so on. They can be used as counters as well which is one of the more common uses for them.

Say you have an event with the trigger being action button that is literally just increase variable 1 by 1 point each time the button is pressed.

Then you have a door event that uses that info. You make the door event parallel process and have it use the info from the variable.

You can make it so the door opens when it reaches a certain number or exceeds that number as well. Or you can have the first event that is increasing the variable turn on a switch when it gets to a certain number, then have the door open when the switch turns on.

Either works but switches are pretty much more basic because they use two different states to work with and should pretty much be used to simplify things. Variables are mostly used when you need to count stuff or work with multiple numbers.

>>152817217
sure, sounds neat

>>152817238
A switch is either on or off, a variable can pretty much be everything.

>>152817238
Sorry if I confused you, but I call them global switches because they can be recognized with a different event, while local switches only work on the same event.

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>>152817217
Sounds fun. I made a prototype game with random mercenaries once which was kinda like that. Just make sure the gameplay is satisfying. I personally don't mind RPGs that are 99% gameplay. Mostly people seem to think that only works with platformers and other action games, but Artifact Adventure (mentioned earlier in the thread) is a lot of fun. It's less plot or character driven but more.... world driven? You explore the world and complete quests so you can be strong enough to destroy a bunch of evil towers. The world and the gameplay are the characters. Another good example would be Metal Saga, which is basically another turn based open world rpg. The characters have next to no personality, but the game has so much to do and explore that it doesn't matter. In fact, if it was story driven it would be worse, it would get in the way of the pure gameplay.

tl;dr go 4 it.

>>152818223
To be clear, this guy is talking about Self Switches (aka local switches) and Switches (aka global switches).

Self Switches only affect and are controlled by the current event. Switches however can be controlled by any event.

bumpan

>>152817259
Another good test might be to pitch your idea (or show a demo) to a group of people and ask them what they think, without mentioning whatever you've taken inspiration from. If they're familiar with the original thing and make comparisons without criticizing it as a ripoff, that's a good sign (assuming you want the inspiration to show).

>>152817984
>>152818048
>>152818223
And to think at some point, people mastered this. So far, the second door and button only activate upon hitting the action button just once. I'm not seeing anything in the control variables menu that let's me dictate how many action button presses it takes to trigger an event. In this case, the door opening only when an event is triggered four times instead of once.

Of course, I managed to tinker a little bit and make an alternative work perfectly. The green button open the door when the actor has a specific item. But that's not what I want.

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>>152821410
Here. Look closely at how these things tie together.

>>152821410
I tried to write a short tutorial for you, but then I remembered that I'm really bad at explaining things.

Okay so let me get this straight: you want a door to open after you have "used" it 4 times? So after the player presses the action button while facing it 4 times, it will open?
There are two simple ways to accomplish what you want: use a conditional branch or use 2 event pages. My advice would be to look up how conditional branches work.

Here are some tutorials about switches, variables, event pages and conditional branches:
http://finalbossblues.com/rmvx-ace-switches-and-variables-p1/
http://finalbossblues.com/rmvx-ace-switches-and-variables-p2/

Oh neat, it's on sale at the humble bundle.

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>>152822962
I was following it just fine until the second part. What you're showing me conflicts with what I saw when I tried to imitate it. I'm using MV and that looks like VX Ace.

>>152823925
Oh. Yeah its VX Ace sorry. I don't have MV. The principle is the same though. Make the button increase a variable, have the door check when the variable goes past a certain amount then have it open.

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>>152823925
Ace and MV's event editors are virtually the same.
Your problem is that you've put your commands in the wrong place. See my pic.

Just wondering, has MV gotten a plugin or something that adds more frames of animation to sprites?

>>152824468
I believe there are several, but here's one that Galv made: https://galvs-scripts.com/category/rmmv-plugins/mv-audiovisual-effects/#post-1537

>>152824536
Cool
I'm interested in more frames in battle animations too, but I'll take what I can get

>>152825050
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/57104-sideview-frames/

>>152824349
NOW it works! Thank you! Now would it be proper to try to pull off something that works across multiple maps (a switch in one map dimming the lights in another) or is that too ambitious for a newbie?

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>Enemy action rating only goes up to 10
for what purpose

>>152826791
why do you need more than 10 priority levels?

>>152826370
turn a switch on in one map and have events in other maps on parallel process checking to see if the switch is on.

>>152826819
Less boss randomness + craploads of moves.

>>152827108
If you're using MV, you could try this: http://yanfly.moe/2015/10/19/yep-16-battle-a-i-core/

>>152827247
Too bad I'm not.
I'll just try to work around it, but I was annoyed since the enemy design docs went up to the 30s with rating but it's my fault for not checking first.

>>152827393
>Too bad I'm not.
Ah well, that's a shame. Sorry I couldn't help. Good luck with whatever solution you come up with.

>>152827393
This is a really dumb solution but it's the only other thing I can think of:

Copy and paste the skill you want to have 30 rating and have 3 duplicates of it to the skill list.

>>152827393
i'd like to see an example of an enemy with a set of skills that exceeds the 10 priority levels.

>>152827108
Have you tried using states and switches?, In my game, I've set it so using defend let's you use two actions in the same turn, a boss can use Defend and the next turn use an ATK buff and a special attack to nuke.

>>152825264
Excellent. Most excellent.

So is there any reason not to use MV now? When it first came out there were some performance issues but it looks like most of the other issues have been ironed out one way or another.

>>152828156
I believe the performance issues have been fixed since 1.3 because of the updated graphics renderer (?) pixi4.
I haven't tested it myself yet, though.

So I would say that it's on par or better than Ace by now.

>Finally got some enemies done for my combat demo
>It's hard as shit when fighting multiple enemies with little in the way of mitigating the pain

Slow enemies it is then...

>>152829186
Balancing combat is always a giant pain, I know that feel. I have to use pure eventing for all monster battles and it's killing my brain so I keep on procrastinating.

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>>152829491
>I have to use pure eventing for all monster battles
You madman. As a fellow practitioner of event-fu, I am impressed by your ambition.

>Enemy uses a skill that reduces player's attack by 50%
>Attacks do no damage at all now
>But attack increases
the fuck is going on here

>>152830914
Screenshot your skill setup and see if we can figure it out?

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>>152831020
Formulas are by a skill's power multiplied by a % based on the player's atk so atk is 100 by default, a 50% reduction would turn it into 50 logically, which would split attack power in half. Defence is handled by resistances and elements which works as it should, so I don't know what's going on here.

How do you all handle tree sprite size in relation to your character? I feel like any tree I make has my character looking like a giant.

>>152831269
Probably your new attack value is below 100, and it translates as 0 damage, try using 0.01

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Someday I'll get past my 1bit phase. But not this day.

>>152831362
I reduced attack by 0.01 and it does no damage, which leads me to the conclusion that RPGM can't do decimals for shit, gotta figure out a solution to this shit.

>>152832212
use 80.00 * (a.atk / 100.00)

>>152832212
I meant in the skill formula, write 80 * a.atk * 0.01 and it should work correctly, there's no need to use parenthesis since everything is a multiplication.

It happened to me once too when I tried using a similar damage formula.

Ummm...I'm kind of freaking out right now. I closed my VX Ace to restart my computer and when I opened it up again it loaded an old project version from MONTHS ago, even though Ive been constantly saving...I have the updated rvdata files too so its not like the got deleted but I can't open up the project that I was working on! Please tell me I can somehow fix this...even clicking load on the cloud manager opens up the old version...I really don't want to find out that I just lost MONTHS of work...

>>152832840
No idea, but this is yet another time I've seen someone having issues with the integrated cloud services.

Can people please stop using it? It looks like it's really fucking people over.

Just back up your project onto GoogleDrive/OneDrive/Dropbox/whatever manually each day.

>>152832582
This works and is pretty easy to copy across skills, thanks.

>>152826937
Yep, worked like a charm. Pressing a button on one map upped the saturation of another, exactly as it should. Though that's just a switch. Still need to get the hang of variables.

>>152834225
Oh fuck, it worked too well. The tint isn't constrained to the one map. It's everywhere! How do I keep it isolated to a single map?

>>152813291
>>152801809
Ok, thanks.

First, I really like the magic learning system. It is puzzley and allows you to customize the characters with ease, yet it is also pretty simple. I kinda feel like there should be more variety regarding the magic slots, though. Less horizontal lines, more diagonals and vertical lines. That way, they don't have to replace each other fully every time..

Second, I really liked your monster/character designs. They are a bit more demonic than normal monster girls, but still very cute.

Third, the balance during monster fights was good, but I felt like the boss fights were a bit easy. Admittedly, that is good since there was only 1 save point. That said, I kinda got lost in the third floor of the dungeon, so I might have just been overleveled and overequipped.

Fourth, I have a really poor sense of humor and my favorite comedy shows have only made me laugh about twice per hour, but I still feel like a lot of your jokes, and dialogue in general, need some work.The characters sound samey and insincerely self-aware.

Fifth, I am not familiar with the engine you are using and this opinion is entirely subjective and it'd probably not be worth it to change things at this point, but I think you are overdoing the retro look and music a bit too much.

Sixth, the labyrinth is a bit too plain (ok, that is normal for labyrinths, I guess), so I think it could be cool if each store had a different type of door to spice things up just a little.

Regarding new possible monsters I'd particularly like some insect and mushroom-inspired demons, as well as some demons with partially ethereal bodies (material hands united to the body by energy limbs, for example)

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>>152834805
>How do I keep it isolated to a single map?
You can't. If you want to change the tint, you'll have to set a new tint with another event. If you want to remove the tint completely, make your tint event look like this <<<

>>152835112
how did you make your window black?

>>152832840
>>152833889

So I really just lost all of those months of work? I was almost done too...

>>152835723
Tools > Options
It was added in 1.2, so if you haven't updated you may not have it.

>>152836057
I assume this is mv

>>152835764
I wish I could help you but I fear Steam has overwritten your project.

>>152834974
Regarding your comments:

I'm definitely going to have more variety in the arrangement of the magic fragments in the second dungeon going forward. I wanted to be simple with them in the first area, which is why they're only 2x2s on the first floor and 3x2s on the other two.

What level did you end up at by the end? The other people who've played through this ended at about level 6, which may or may not have involved some getting lost.

I definitely feel that my writing needs to improve a lot. Of all the things in the demo, the text is the thing I put the least time into, and that definitely shows here.

I'm using a self-made, largely hacked-together script in an engine that only supports 256 colors at any one time, so the graphics probably aren't going to improve that much. Music's going to change in the final version, seeing as I'm not going to be using stuff from commercial games at that point.

I have the capacity to add in an extra floor type and an extra wall type to the labyrinth graphics, but anything more extreme will probably require me shifting to something more robust than what I'm currently using. I do feel that I could add in markers for the front of shop doors, though.

Again, thanks for playing through the demo, and for giving your critique.

>>152836218
Yeah.

>>152836057
>>152836218
>>152836327
oh never mind then, Im using vx ace

>>152836241
>What level did you end up at by the end?
Level 9 (note that I left the computer on hibernation mode after asking you how to save, so I forgot about the dungeon layout by the time I returned).

>>152837054
And I am also the type of player who hates to leave a single tile unstepped in this sort of game (unless the terrain has mines or something, then I avoid walking as much as possible).

>>152837054
>>152837250

Yeah, in that case you'd definitely be finding the battles easy, seeing as stat growth is linear.

In any case, I'm probably going to start rewriting things sometime soon, and actually try and establish a voice for the various characters.

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bump

>>152831890
I really like this

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Here's a preview!
Been reworking the intro a little bit here and there.
https://aww.moe/gg6966.mp4

Warning: Contains engrish and unpolished sprites.

>>152841410
That looks pretty nice.
How do you make the text play sound or whatever you call that?

>>152841410
>https://aww.moe/gg6966.mp4
Really cool! Needs a bgm to start up RIGHT when she says "hi mom!".

I also really like the ambient sound and the way the scenes flow by snapping onto the person talking, looks really neat.

Also another one!
https://aww.moe/457wp0.mp4

>>152841741
Some text SE script made by a fella called Zerbu

>>152841819
I'll put music later! Once I get some tracks commissioned that is.

>she

Guys, I fucked up. Someone posted a great little guide on how to make custom tilesets for vx ace and I forgot to save it. Does anyone happen to have a copy of it?

Any music fags present that are willing to answer a stupid question?

>>152843951
sup

>>152844193
How do you get anything done? I read up on music theory, I'm reasonably comfortable using my DAW, I've fiddled with the synths and VST it provides but when it comes to making actual music, I usually scribble some stuff down, fiddle with it unitl I think it's okay, come back the next day and fucking delete everything because it now sounds like garbage.

>>152842501
>she
I know better, but those hips always lie. I really like your game, keep it up!

Should stuns remove the guard or should guarding prevent stuns?

>>152847286
Stuns should remove guard. IMO

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Bump worm.

>>152844883
I know how you feel, I've got at least a dozen scrapped melodies in my folder, but really I think all you need to do is keep your head high and keep trying to make something until you make something you like. It took me at least 4 years with the software I had to finally buck up and make a full song, so if you keep at it, I'm sure you'll get it eventually.

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>>152849425
Whelp, guess there is no shortcut to geddin gud.

Also bumping with todays progess.

>>152841410
God, this looks so good. I'd buy it.

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Goodnight bump, working on this map, it's largely incomplete. Kitchen is shaping up thou!

Goodnight bump

When compressing a game that uses RTP, is there a way to make it so that it only takes the things from the RTP it really needs?

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Bumpy roads ahead.

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Not on my watch!
Bump.

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>Check around Steam out of boredom
>Mixels

EARGH

has anyone from here released a commercial game at least?

>>152861137
Dashbored by Karbonic

>>152861137
There's been one, Dashbored.

I was thinking of maybe putting Tomb of Friends 2 on greenlight since it's going to be a lot longer, visually appealing, and overall more fun than the first one. I'd put it for a pretty low price of course.
What do you guys think? Would you vote for it and/or buy it?
If it does get on steam, I'll drop a few keys here every once in a while!

>>152862953
I can't buy it since I don't have the means to pay for games on steam, but I'd vote for it on greenlight.

>>152862953
I would.

My combat demo, at least the first version (1st version mechanics and no boss) is done now, I was wondering when would be a good time to post it so a lot of people can see it since feedback will be extra important for an experimental system.

bumpu

>>152866436

>>152861137
Celia's Quest

>>152835112
So if I wanted a tiny demo where a room goes lights out (I have no idea how to make cutscenes so that's out of the question for now) and the actor has to go outside and into another building to trigger the event that'll light things up again (a circuit breaker or something), it'll be dark on the world map despite being daytime when I don't want that to be the case?

Not very immersive, that. I'm assuming there's no plugin (like say, from Yanfly) that can simplify this?

What screen resolution do you guys make your games in?

What's a good place to upload my game?
I don't want to use Google Drive because it's got my name and shit on it and I'd rather not go through the troubles of making new accounts.

>>152873104
Just use switches, man

>>152873104
There's no need for plugins or things like that, just manually set the tint change with events, I guess if you want to leave the room you have to warp somewhere else, put the tint change inside that event and another tint change with the conditional of the switch on the event that makes you enter the room.

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Some enemies and The Pumpkin, party member, farmer of pumpkins, creator of all pumpkins in Pumpkin Town (we're pretty creative with names here).

>>152874879
I love these!!! What game is this?

>>152874283
Fuck it, I guess tinyupload will have to do.

Here is the experimental combat I've been working on. The basics of what you need to know are in the game but there's information I've intentionally left hidden to see how people respond to it.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=09636722874546877672

Some quick notes:
>Enemies went through a few revisions because of sheer unbalance
>Everything is WIP, though in the real game you'll see plenty of what you see in the demo
>After balancing the enemies I've been considering making an assistant party member system in which I wouldn't have to change anything with the current story to fit so it's a-okay if you think it might be necessary for this gameplay style
>If you think something works weird, it's probably intention but don't be afraid to ask about it.

I absolutely need feedback on the combat to make sure it's great in the full game, so many opinions would be appreciated. The NPCs are there just so I wouldn't go mad.

Someone needs to finish the 3DS port

>>152874461
>>152874395
Why do I get the feeling I'll have to repeat making these events until the concepts of switches and conditionals stick? Oh well, I'll try a little later. Try too hard while I'm frustrated and I'll end up quitting. Not that I have a game in mind. Just trying it out for fun.

Either way in case there's no specific step-by-step guide for what I want to do I might have to jot it down myself.

Am I the only one who can't stand VX and Ace games anymore? Their tiny ass screen resolutions make the game near unplayable on my huge af monitor.

>>152883239
For some autistic reason I prefer small windows. I played through all of LISA and Undertale in windowed mode.

>>152883239
I play most of them in windowed mode so I don't care.

>>152883239
That's why I'm giving the player the option to increase the resolution

ded

>>152886296
no ded
people are just at work

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>>152710378
so, it looks good right now, but the play space looks like it should be only the bottom half of the screen because of the ground tiles. unfortunately this is a shmup not a beatemup, so a play space this small is pretty restrictive.

1. keep it as it is
2. let the play space extend into the trees
3. shift the trees up, and add ground tiles
4. shift the trees down, and remove ground tiles

which seems best? originally, i thought 1, but 4 looks neat

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>>152887104

>>152887104
I think you should just make everything look like it's flying, so give the witch a broom and give the blobs wings. That way the ground will leave the player's mind

>>152887104
Either 3, or >>152887387 This.

>>152887104
I really like how 4 looks, and it seems like it works better for a shmup, but 3 is a very close second.

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>>152887387
i already am intending everything to be flying.

the playable characters are meant to be.. 'floating', but when i get to finalizing the sprites, i'll make their flying aspects more prominent.

death

>>152891191
See this post. >>152886625

Specially me since I lost a couple months worth of work.

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>>152891576
I had the same thing happen to me, horrible stuff. This makes me feel a bit safer:

http://www.rpgmakercentral.com/topic/520-woratanas-auto-backup/

Everyone should be using this. Pic unrelated so people see and read this.

>>152859371
This looks awesome.

>>152861137
The Long Road is going to be a commercial game. It's going to be about 6-8 hours long with a few different endings. I'm going to do a "pay what you want" structure and 10% of the revenue goes directly to no-kill animal shelters and low/no cost veterinary service centers.

>>152892310
That's pretty cool. Unfortunately I lost my data due to steam cloud being garbage. I'm just gonna back up the whole folder everyday a bunch.

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Someone please convince me to pick MV up again. I bought it at launch a while ago and gave up out of frustration due to the lack of plugins available at the time and the shitty default tile-placing system.

I'd love to give it another round but I have a shitload going on and I want to know if it's worth the time now. Any significant improvements in the past few months?

>>152892716
I lost my data because of the same problem. This script basically backs up your entire project and zips it each time you run your game from the editor. use it, trust me, even if you turned off steam syncing!

>>152892809
i was planning to drop the engine after the current project, but after the 1.3 patch, i'm sticking to it for one more project.

plugins.. feels like there are too many actually. unless you're complaining about not having a tactical battle system or action battle system made for you.

>I have a shitload going on
if you're busy, then i don't think you should be gamedeving. i'd certainly have done better in school if i hadn't.

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>>152893935
It was really the tile system that killed my motivation more than anything. I've always been a special snowflake and was never satisfied with the default graphics, so installing my own assets (tiles in particular) was a must.

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How do I work around having no artistic talent? Can I just make MS scribbles and play it off as art that simply can't be understood?

>>152896010
just draw, man

>>152896010
Learn.

Or pretend that you can art and try to pass it off as misunderstood (that's what we all do anyway).

>>152894251
In what way is the tiles system a problem? The multiple images (ABC etc)? The layers (or lack thereof)? Something else?
If it bothers you that much, you could always try parallax mapping.

>>152896010
If you want to. Or use a graphics pack. Or find stuff on Open Game Art.

Don't let the thread die!

>>152896010
just trace/copy/steal from other people. it's how you learn.

a lot of people that don't draw/write don't know that.

>>152896010
Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC_6y7Hjit4

New T&T by Yanfly teaches how to create a mechanic to gain bonus damage stacks with normal attacks. They're also used as a resource for unique skills. Neat! Of course, you need the Buffs & States Core Plugin to do this.

>>152892310
I should probably start using that rather than being lazy and assuming it'll be fine.

...once I get around to starting a game anyway. Also bump.

This heat is killing me.
Please avenge me.

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>>152875116
It's a nameless game still, anon, sorry!
But we're accepting suggestions. It's about a weather doll (like those ones that people hang to bring the sun back in rainy days in Japan) that was abandoned and rescued by a cat (your first companion in the party).

This is a sample of our first dungeon-thingy:

>>152896108
I don't know how :^(

>>152902769
its not an instant thing, you just need to start somewhere which is up to you

if you dont know where to start, just google the thing you wanna draw and try to draw it as close as you can, and if you dont like it, try again and keep drawing

>>152902058
As a title I'd suggest Teru Teru Bozu, which is the name of those things. It sounds cute!

>>152903460
I second this, Seems like the obvious choice.

>>152902058
This dog is FABULOUS

I have this character. He's a knight, and he thinks he's hot shit - the best knight in the land who everyone TOTALLY loves. He's actually a total loser though and everyone thinks he's lame and annoying.

I've been thinking of a name for him, and the theme is "Something that an idiot would think sounds like a cool knightly name but is actually silly or strange."

What do you guys think of the name Galavant for this character?

>>152906203
Name him after one of your idiot friends who thinks they're hot shit.

>>152906203
That sounds like the name he'd want

>>152906367
Seconding this. And I say name him Neil

>>152906203
Give him a long name which he thinks is cool but let everyone else use an abbreviation of it.

>>152906203
don't forget to add esquire at the end of his name

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Show me your burly shirtless men, /rpgmg/!

Nobody's noticed so I'm linking again.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=09636722874546877672

p-pls try out my combat and tell me what you think

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You guys didn't plan on letting this thread die, did you?

>>152909726
Well, pineapple on pizza IS delicious.
I think I found a bug.
I could use a chain attack even though I am in a new fight. Something didn't reset properly I guess.
Generally speaking I like the system but maybe you want to make a custom menu for using skills so it's easier to see which skills are linked in a chain.

>>152785640
This anon here. Do you mean how do I type it on the metadata? Like LOOPLENGTH 0 with a space?

>>152911912
Odd, I checked and the game always resets chain data when you're out of a battle. Do you remember what move you used?
Yeah I've been trying to figure out how to clearly what chain you can use but currently I'm not sure how without making a switch clusterfuck out of currently available scripts.

>>152912631
*clearly show
It's morning and I haven't had any stimulants.

>>152912631
It was that sword attack which hits multiple enemies and killed them with it.
The next battle was against a lone leader.
Either way I think it has potential and you should continue working on your game!

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>>152908479
He's not shirtless, but have a concept art of one of the main party members of my game.
The only one I've bothered to draw and paint properly

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>>152912375
uh, you're asking how to do that, right?

Also, switching to "samples" instead of "minutes:seconds" is done down at the bottom.