/rpgmg/ - RPG Maker General #174

Reposting from last thread:

Does anybody have RPG Maker 2000? Can you do me a favor and upload all the graphics files from the 2k RTP and post them here?

>>160449273
What did you do?
Can't you just download and install the 2k RTP again?

>>160449665
I don't have it. I wanted to use the graphical assets for something.

>>160452225
The RTP is free to download

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>The OP has /rpgmg/ in it and finally pins to the top of the catalog
Thanks OP.

>>160453398
Link?

>>160455991
http://2drpg.com/2000.php
Open wide Anon-chan

Today's Song of the Day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Pt7M0weUI

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Is your game A E S T H E T I C ?

>>160459578
As in visually pleasing? I hope so
As in being vaporware? I hope not

It's that time again Anons
Post progress

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>>160462360
Got a new temporary title screen going on, a system ready to import saves from the demo, and learned enough from it I might be able to make the New Game + script of my dreams.

>>160462360
I've been looking into some resources and scripts I might need for my new project, so I guess I've technically started even if I haven't opened MV yet.

Still the most progress I've made in months.

>>160463420
I can appreciate this minimalistic approach for the title screen. But I guess it won't represent your game.

>>160463701
Great that you are trying to get back into the action. Keep it up!

>>160462360

>mfw my store broke street date on Pokemon

Sorry guys, my game is delayed until 2019.

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>>160462360
The enemy now has their own cursor! Took me a lot longer to get going than I thought it should mostly cause I'm a dweeb who forgot to adjust LoS to see through the enemy cursor. Any time they tried to attack something it returned as LoS blocked and confused the hell out of me, haha. But we are now operational!

Also, some side-note progress that isn't shown in the webm: crossbows now need to reload between shots, all ranged weapons now stun enemies if they hit, and, for some bug fixing, enemies that are dead or not part of the battle no longer "guard" at the end of their turn. I don't know how that one happened.

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>>160467524
And, for what it's worth, "Stunned" is a cumulative effect that reduces Movement by 1 (to a minimum of 0) and Attacks by 1 (to a minimum of 1) for each stack. Every turn reduces your stun by 1. So if you are hit by 3 bolts in one turn, you'll be at Stun 3. Next turn, if you aren't hit again, you'll be at Stun 2, then next turn Stun 1, until you're normal again.

That makes them pretty utilitarian. The drawback of ranged weapons is that they can only attack once per turn, no matter how high your CBT. Also, crossbows are especially unique. In addition to the usual Stun for ranged, they have the trait Armor Punch which means they completely ignore Defence (but not Glancing Armor Saves), and their damage is always fixed to one number that cannot increase by CBT or Weapon Skill (though WS still increases accuracy). But they must reload between each shot, which wastes a turn. Conceptually, they are meant to be a strong choice for characters with low CBT so that a party of all hulk stronk barbarians isn't mandatory for the greater game outside of combat.

Also, one common type of soldier is the Switcher (or, by their proper name, a soldier of the Order of the White Rose), an all-female legion of crossbow users, whom were one of the first concepts for the game.

>>160467524
>>160470096
Any way to defend against Arrows/Bolts? Maybe a large shield or something?

>>160470556
You still get all of your usual saves: dodge, shield, glanced off armor, faith, and luck.

A knight covered 90% in iron armor might be moving a bit slow in the first place due to encumbrance, but the chance of an arrow actually hitting him (instead of glancing off) is pretty low. If he's carrying a 80% block fortress shield on top of that, the chance of being hit (from the front) is laughable.

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>>160462360
I've made a few faces for the party

>>160470821
>>160470556
Should mention, full iron (or rhetine, which is the much lighter equivalent) armor with a fort shield is the end game of protection. If you squeeze out all of the extra additions to it (groin cover, gamberson under armor, throat guard, full pauldrons), that's a 99% chance an attack will hit your armor. From there, iron and rhetine is a 3+ glancing armor save on a D6. Or maybe 2.5+ with the gamberson (I'm still deciding on how I want to do that).

Maces, which ignore Glancing Armor Saves, become one of the better choices against opponents like that. 2H axes or 2H maces also have a chance to shatter shields.

>>160471690
Sounds like a deep combat system, I like it.
It sounds kinda confusing, though.

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>>160472537
>It sounds kinda confusing, though.
It is. And frankly I still don't know the best way to explain it. In use, you just click "attack" on some guy and it tells you if you hit him or not (and if not, what stopped you). But the actual damage formula itself makes up about 50% of my sRPG event.

Pic related is still the best short-hand explanation for it, but that doesn't give the actual numeric guts of what's going on. Games like this are why Manuals were included back in the 90's.

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>>160462360

>>160475179
>that Queen Bee
Cute. Cute!

>Look in Docs folder for DnD handbooks
>Find old psyops stuff from my tinfoil hat days
Time to work on my FFT successor. We're gonna get political as *fuck*

>>160478302
As long as it's not modern politics I'm game.

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>>160478390
Have a sample!

Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.

1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it didn't happen.

2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the "How dare you?" gambit.

3. Characterize the charges as "rumors" or, better yet, "wild rumors." If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through "rumors." (If they tend to believe the "rumors" it must be because they are simply "paranoid" or "hysterical.")

4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.

5. Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist," "nutcase," "ranter," "kook," "crackpot," and, of course, "rumor monger." Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the "more reasonable" government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own "skeptics" to shoot down.

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>>160455778
c:

>>160462360
working on one of the big plot twists of my story

>>160479194
Oh boy, I remember this list.
How nostalgic.
Some things on there would be perfect for a guide for shitposting on /v/

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>>160480048
>Some things on there would be perfect for a guide for shitposting on /v/

>>160470992
Nice!

So guys, what's your preferred cloud storage service?

I've scrapped/remade my game so many fucking times it's getting sickening.

>>160480605
Call me paranoid but I don't trust these sites.
I have access to a friend's server where I upload back ups from time to time.

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>>160480618
Don't be discouraged. I have scrapped and abandoned over 20 projects. I learned something new from each one, and the one after was always better. The sRPG system I'm working on right now has been scrapped and rebuilt over 12 times since I've started this project. I spent 2 weeks straight working and reworking and rereworking Line of Sight alone. I built, rebuilt, stripped and rebuilt, and finally deleted and started from scratch the inventory system.

It's frustrating, but it's all part of progress. Don't settle for mediocracy. Only greatness.

>>160480837
Afraid of some megacorps stealing your game ideas?

>>160481254
No
Yes

>>160462360
Minimizing as much as possible, if everyone is a static class should the MC be able to pick classes or be static?

>>160482834
Would the player be able to pick classes the other partymembers have or would he have a choice between some unique classes?

>>160482834
If your mc is self insertion bait, you may as well go all the way.

If not, a set class that makes sense for the character's backstory and personality.

>>160483569
I guess he leans towards self insert although I've been thinking about giving him a specific line and back story.

>>160483306
Half and half, he'd fit the archetypes but would have a different skill set.

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>>160459578
1981 PC Aesthetic as fuck.

>>160467524
How advanced are you looking to make the enemy A.I., and will you be releasing this battle system for others to use?

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>>160484438
>How advanced are you looking to make the enemy A.I?
"Workable."

>will you be releasing this battle system for others to use?
I don't see why not. It's... ehh, a little specialized for exactly what it's doing, but if someone else wants to trawl through and modify it to what they want instead, then I'm all for it. We're a long ways away from that though.

>>160480956
>Don't settle for mediocracy. Only greatness.

Wisdom.

>>160484242
>filename says it's not yours
>google reverse search says it is
Source? I'm jelly as fuark.

>>160462360
I added this awesome plugin to my project.
https://atelierrgss.wordpress.com/rmv-pick-up-and-throw/

>>160486424
Filename is just the random shit Gyazo spits out when you do a screen capture. It is one of the projects I've been working on, but I scrap the story every week or two so I don't make a ton of progress. It has run the gamut from "God of Wisdom, source of all magic, is struck down and must make his way through the mortal world where magic is fading away on a quest to be reborn into godhood" to "Caravan guards get fired and run afoul of a witch while doing odd jobs around town to make ends meet".

>>160486948
>Filename is just the random shit Gyazo spits out when you do a screen capture.
Huh. It even has the system-added "[1]" at the end like when you Copy Image Address, as seen in >>160470096's pic.

Anyways, looks neat. Actors are very easily read, which is important. I'm looking forward to whatever you spit out eventually.

>>160487362
>Copy Image Address
Yeah, that's what I did. the program auto uploads the screen capture to the web so you can share it, and I was just too lazy to download it from there just to reupload it on 4chan.

>Anyways, looks neat. Actors are very easily read, which is important. I'm looking forward to whatever you spit out eventually.

/rpgmg/ will be the first to know of any progress. Which I will make once I find a story I don't convince myself is terrible days after I outline it.

>>160487727
Go full meta and make a game where you search for the missing plot.

>>160487850
Nah, I really hate meta-plots and meta-humor. It is rampant in modern indy games and in my opinion is a shit excuse for lacking a proper narratively coherent experience.

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Making progress feels so good.

Is the new GCH worth it?

>tfw you're going through all the music to make it as good with all the musical resources possible
>find places where the rtp track you put in fits better than anything else
you know what, I'm ok with that. I have a beach town and Town7 at pitch 90 sounds great with it.

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>>160489102

But then having to redo the progress due of not noticing your own fuck ups early enough..

Anyone else having posting issues?

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Test post.

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So I conclude I can post anything but webms at instant speed. I don't understand, but I'll accept it.

>>160493548
4chan is having some problems at this time of the day as of late.

>>160493175
Some of the dynamic IP are blocked.
I always have posting issues.

>>160493479
Are you that guy making that first person dungeon crawler?
How is your progress?

fuck it's cold

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>>160497128
No, no. That was just a test post with the closest file I could find. I saved that image from the guy who made it; I'm not him.

If that's who I think it is though, he moved over to /weg/ on /aco/.

If that's not who I think it is, everything I said applies to pic related's guy instead.

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>>160497140
We can keep each other warm while we sleep.
Good night bump

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>>160499534
>Sleepposter is lewd

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>>160462360
Added stuff like "breathing" effect, blinking animation and made it so that it shows how much damage you do, on screen. Also refactoring of code, as well as drew some new clothing. Not much, but it's still progress.

https://atelierrgss.wordpress.com/rmv-battle-hud/

Any of you guys use any of these and can say if they're good or not?

RIP

I really want to work on my game but I'm so busy trying to figure out scripting and I still got a ways to go.

Maybe I could just work on some mapping or something inbetween.

>>160493548
>>160493821
If you look closely, you'll see many of 4chan's large files are now hosted on is.4chan.org, instead of i.4cdn.org. It's a much slower server, which exemplifies Hiro's thriftiness.

>>160503921
How do you draw things?
Draw it on a paper first and scan it or draw it directly in drawing program?

>>160510243
I draw directly in program. I use Paint Tool SAI, if you're wondering.

When is your game (demo) supposed to come out?

>>160466235
I was hoping the minimalism would be good for the title at least, since it's the first thing people see. So I made simple and to the point.
Although I figured out a way to change title screens if people have save files or not, so I might go ahead and do that, too.

>>160508290

>>160521704
PIP

I'm bored.

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Any suggestions for robit enemies?
Lewdy stuff is fine, actually opens up some options for amusing dialogue.
Kinda asked this before but I lost the .doc file with suggestions, whooops

>>160530994
Harpy rescue robot

theres any plugin to do the same movement of mistery dungeons games?
for example when i move the enemies moves at the same time

>>160530994
something small and cute like BB-8

>>160530994
Uh, Domina with an electric whip´?

My game I'm thinking will have 4 extra-special boss encounters against mysterious, history-themed fiends who are actually fragments of this one character's soul. There's gonna be a cowboy, a roman emperor, and a warmongering, modern-day politician. I'm thinking that the fourth guy would either continue the trend, or be some kind of innocent, weeping baby that has one of those anti-climactic almost-battles.

Anyway. Here are their battle themes so far. I tried incorporating some of the same motifs into them. I'd like some feedback.

Cowboy guy: https://soundcloud.com/iwilldevouryourkittens/restless-soul-vs-arbiter
Emperor guy: https://soundcloud.com/iwilldevouryourkittens/vengeful-soul-vs-enforcer
Politician guy: https://soundcloud.com/iwilldevouryourkittens/blazing-soul-vs-atoner

>>160531230
Seconding this.

>>160530994
High HP masochist bot. "Ah! Yes! Use the X spell I'm weak against that!" Hardmode; it reflects a % of the damage back at you.

>>160533161
>Cowboy
I definitively get the feeling of a battle somewhere in either a desert or a small abandoned town. I'm not so found of the very hectic guitar in parts like in 1:06 - 1:16, that is a little grating I would say. Maybe try reducing the length of these parts just a little? But in general I like it!

>Emperor
I very much like the last 20 seconds but the song before feels a little let's say samey, not much of a distinction to your other songs. Not really getting an emperor type of vibe outside of the ending, I'm sorry!

>Politician guy
I expected something different but if the scenery is done right in game I can see it working. Kinda makes me wanna dance.

I'm sorry if this is not very useful but I like your music and always look forward to listening to your stuff.

>>160530994
Firemen robot, that likes it hot. And like wet t-shirt contests.

>>160538323
Thanks for your feedback! I agree on most fronts.

I figure I don't wanna be "corny", so I don't wanna make the motifs in the themes TOO obvious.

The emperor battle is mostly spent in a gladiatorial arena fighting against minions, so yeah. The politician battle takes place, you guessed it, on a sort of whack-ass techno dance floor. It's more supposed to be a "high-tech" kind of theme; the politician part of the character is basically just because I couldn't figure out any other positions of power that fit the "modern" theme.

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>>160530994

Are you happy?
I hope you are.

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>>160547414
I'm never happy, anon. Just in varying states of "fulfilled."

>>160530994
A catgirl pest control robot.

Have you guys ever gone into someone else's game files to see how they did something?

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>>160548684
Then I hope you are very fulfilled.

>>160547414
Chimps are happy. Strive for greatness

Does your game include a stageplay of some sort?

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>>160497523
Nah, didn't go there, and I ain't that guy either.
>>160497128
I did put out a demo of the first area a while back http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/download.php?id=4519, but I'm putting it to the side until I get around to learning a program that's better at 3d stuff than what I've been using. Putting together the 2d stuff like I'd been doing for this is a bit too painful for my liking, plus making things 3d will make some of the stuff I want to accomplish a lot easier.

>>160558379
I really, really like the colors you use

>>160558379
I got so lost playing that demo. I have no sense of direction so it was pretty much hopeless for me.

Rpg maker 2003 is like $5 on humble bundle right now, but I already own game maker...

I have zero experience with both programs, but have an idea for an RPG game and some basic java coding experience. Should I try to do it in game maker or just use RPG maker?

>>160563832
I have limited experience with Game Maker, but making an RPG in that engine always seemed more trouble than it was worth to me. If the tutorials I've seen are any indication, you have to put a lot of work into basic things like text boxes and menu screens before you can even start, where RPG Maker has those all set to go by default.

But then, my coding knowledge is very basic, and I'm sure it's easier once you know what you're doing. And if you stray too far from the default systems in RPG Maker, you can eventually end up in a position where it would just be easier to use Game Maker anyway.

What do you want to make? If it's not too far off a standard JRPG in gameplay, I'd recommend picking up RPG Maker. If you're planning an action RPG or something, you're probably better off sticking with what you know.

>>160565583
The gist of the idea is you're a kid at summer camp, and discover pokemon knockoffs in the forest.
Gameplay wise it's a split between traditional jrpg fights in the forest, and doing kid activities to unlock gear/benefits in the camp.

>>160568950
That sounds easy to do in RPG Maker, for the most part. The only problem I can see is if you want to let the player catch the monsters like in Pokemon, with each one being treated as a separate character with its own stats; it might be technically possible in the default system, but it sounds like a pain without coding (which isn't supported in RPG Maker 2003). In later versions that let you edit the code, it's been done; I think someone even put together a prepackaged Pokemon maker thing for XP.

If the monsters are created as predesigned characters and the player can only get the individual ones you've made in the editor, that would be a lot easier.

>>160570430
The idea I have right now is early on you get to find one of three monsters to befriend, and then from there...I want them to chime in during cutscenes, so I guess they'll be something like parameter 1/2/3, and then all events will have if parameter 1 say thing 1, else if parameter 2 say thing 2, etc.

And then yeah I wanna use as many default assets as possible but jesus christ them palletes for the first 2 layers are limited, I had to mix shit from both to make cabins and already the player can just walk through walls.

Anyone ever try an Action Battle System?

When can I play your game?

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Been a while, not dead yet though. Here's a map in progress

How's everyone's games going?

>>160576260
I'm making progress slow but steady. Need to create art soon and I'm not very good at this.
I mean I can create placeholders quickly but as for creating something good? That will take some time.
But on a more positive note I have found someone who can write some scripts for me!

/rpgmg/ what am I doing wrong? I'm trying to set up a skill that detects a state, and then changes it while dealing additional damage - but the damage doesn't ever work.
I've got this currently -

b.isStateAffected(19) ? (b.addState(47) + b.removeState(19)) : 10

- but no matter where I put the damage formula, it just gives me a zero.

>>160530994
Maybe some liveguard or flotation ring bots? Or some tentacle kelp robutts.

Also a vending machine. Always a classic.

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Good night bump

How much do you guys hate the 2000 RTP graphics?

Because I really like them (they remind me of old Dragon Quest, which I guess is the point) and I'm thinking of making a small game in MV with them.

Do you like this idea, or would you rather stab your eyes out with a fork than look at the 2000 RTP ever again?

>>160484242
YES

Atari-puke dev here, I love seeing your project progressing. Keep it up!

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>>160582063
spend the time to make your own, it's what, 16px-squared each?

You can literally sit down with references, tutorials and a program like pyxel and come up with something better in an afternoon, then it's both yours AND people won't pre-hate it for being RTP.

If you can make the time to script a wee game, you can spend a day to create something close to pic related, without any artistic ability, I don't want to hear it.

TL;DR - RTP is just saying "I don't give a shit, nobody will play it anyway"

Which font are you using?
How does it look?

>he uses the default font
>laughing touhous.webm

>>160582763
Pixel Operator, and it looks absolutely perfect with the art style of my game

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That feel when you find an art style that you love to bits

I've done it, lads. Now to work on some character sprites.

>>160584861
Very nice

>>160584861
Nice, but watch your light direction (logs differ from the rest) and maybe condense the palette a little if you want better overall visual cohesion- you have something like 8 different green shades in this picture that don't necessarily go together

The house looks to be a completely different art style from the rest and the colors on it look sick, artifacted and washed out compared to the vibrant surroundings, which gives the impression you've ripped and recolored it from another texture pack and it doesn't fit.

I mean, compare the colors on the brickwork to the boxes and tree trunks- either you've taken this from somewhere else or it's not adhering to everything else.

>>160585354
Huh, all the art came from the same asset pack.
I didn't notice any of the stuff you mentioned until you pointed it out tho. Now that you mentioned it, the different shades of green on all the plants is annoying.

>>160582063
I'd say I don't hate it, and in fact would prefer the rtp over another mis-matched mess of resources or golden age Squaresoft rips, but at the same time there's something offputting about it. Like >160582623 says, it feels uncaring. Which means you'd have to give me a pretty convincing reason to play the game, something that really sticks out and grabs me by the balls.

>>160585614
It's not too bad at all, just wanted to offer some fresh-eye perspective, because I know it's difficult to look at something objectively after it's been in your eyes for 7 hours.

It's not necessary to bounce it down to fewer colours- since all of these exist in the world, but if you want a visual style that's memorable and you're working in a visibly pixel style, it really helps to have a stronger, smaller set. Something that people can look at and think "That's definitely a screenshot from PIXEL DEMO"

I need inspiration of the sword and sorcery type to get me fired up about my game again. What recommendations do you have /rpgmg/?

>>160589676
Read Conan or Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

Tell us about your game and setting.

I'm bored

If I resize some VX Ace assets for use in MV, would it look weird?

What's your favorite resolution per tile for MV? 48x48 feels too big for me.

>>160596067
I stick with 16x16 and upscale it.

noob here. Is there any way to change tile sizes to 32 x 32, or will that fuck up collisions?

>>160599324
Yeah, but it is going to look real ugly in the editor view. Search for plugins that do it.

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Oh what I would do to be able to make an RPG with these characters. Anyone feel like drawing sprites of these lovely ladies?

(SEVERELY FUCKING NSFW)

>>160599939
You aren't going to find anyone to just do free work for you. Either make them yourself or open up that wallet.

>>160599939
I'd do that Mage If you know what I mean

>>160582063
2000's RTP is one of my favorites, actually. I definitely like it better than the style RPG Maker has used since VX.

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>>160599939
>sample
>(SEVERELY FUCKING NSFW)
The fuck are you doing?

>>160599939
>(SEVERELY FUCKING NSFW)

That's not what I was expecting.

>>160600106
You used to. The RM community was actually a community at one time. You could ask for a drawing and if people liked your idea you would have your pick of attempts by three artists who spent their free time doing this crap for fun, not money.

>>160602647
I posted the sample because the full res version was too large to be uploaded to 4chan. Here's the full res version: https://cs.sankakucomplex.com/data/10/70/1070806dc6e28977d91e949172f4f64d.jpg?5338767

Also uh, yeah, it's severely NSFW.

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>>160605557
>I posted the sample because the full res version was too large to be uploaded to 4chan.
If you check the resolutions of the pic of the post you're quoting and the one you linked, they have the same resolution. Nothing a bit of magic can't fix.

>Also uh, yeah, it's severely NSFW.
Oh stop being such a little whiny baby. Shit just shows off a bit of skin, you can't even see any nipples or vulvas.

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>>160599939
>Freaking out over clothed loli
Welcome to 4chan

>>160596067
+1 for 16 x 16 upscaled.
It's a pain to have to remember to upscale before export, but I like the end result.

>>160605907
>>160606972
Oh, *I* don't care of it's got scantily clad lolis.
I was just worried that the mods might care.

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Work on your game

>>160613485

Which is better, RotSprite or Waifu2x?

What you should be working on
What you are working on


>What you should be working on
Shops and world economy
>What you are working on
Sokoban-style event movement with position saving

>>160613485
Youa re not my mother, don't tell me what to do

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>>160613485
>think of a perverted mechanic or fantasy weave
>"oh yes, the inspiration has found me"
>realize how much effort it would take me
>look at the internet for plugins and other "inspiration" stuff
>some artist just created some character or romance you'd want in the game
Yea, thank you asshole. Now I have to steal or copy it, just to scrap it later.

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Trying to make a simple melee skill, but when I get into game it's always greyed out, and earlier it never hit anything.
What do?

>>160599939
>>160602647
You know, this makes me think.
I wish RPG Maker would release a DLC pack including sprites, face graphics, busts and sideview battle sprites featuring sexualized characters (not necessarily lolis mind you). It would be neat to have a lewd RPG DLC pack.

>>160615665
Never replace the first few skills or states in RPG Maker. They're used for default commands like Attack and Guard. Copy all of them from a new project.

>>160616804
damn, alright ty

found some shitty rpgmaker game, let's poke fun at it
http://gamejolt.com/games/the-fuqbois-party-all-night/109383

>>160616659
Cool idea, but their demographic is 13.
Sexualised content should always be the work of 3rd parties.

Now, if somebody came up with such a pack to match or surpass the existing standard artwork and decided to sell it online, that'd be another thing.

I actually think the above already exists.

>>160617484
Are you trying to make us play your game?

>>160618063
fuck no, I'd take no pride in that.

>>160617484
>Stumble around a bit on gamejolt
>check out HOT section
>download bullshit MUH FEELINGS game
>wander around the Earthbound-themed brain wank of some effeminate dickhead in his 20s who thinks he has something to teach us about life, love, memories and other redditor shite
>find game-breaking bug in the first few minutes

Jesus christ I had no idea the scene was so terrible.
I hope nobody here is doing this.

>>160618639
wait, that scene was in the game I linked? I must have missed it.

>>160616932
Ok I replaced the skills and adjusted the physical rate, but it's still gray in the battles.
What do?

>>160617484
>literally just a shitty copy of Five Nights at Fuckboy's with different sprites

>>160618639
Sounds like the creator is a massive faggot

>>160617484
>cringe jokes
>enemies that make no sense
>stolen music

yep, it's a faggot.

>>160617484
>run into three enemies
>die

gg

>>160613954
Who is this semen demon?

>>160618639
delete this

>>160618908
To recap: I've made a custom skill that can't be selected in combat, in RM 2003. Should I avoid using the nature/magic/ninpou shit and just use "skill" for everything?

How do you feel about finding stolen music in games? I'm drawing all the graphics but the music part is troubling me, so I'm not sure whether I should into music and learn to make my own or just use other people's assets

>>160620858
Make your own

>>160620858
as someone who grew up playing rpg maker games when the "big ones" weren't heavily shilled commerical horror games on early access but rather fun games filled with final fantasy and dragonball rips with legend of zelda music, i couldn't care less what kind of music you use as long as you aren't trying to make money using established series music (and thats for your own legal sake, not mine)

>>160620858
Go for royalty-free music if going commercial.

>>160620858
found some music you might be able to use
https://soundcloud.com/amnail

lots of game related music here.

>>160620858
Absolutely fine if you are non-commercial

>>160621934
No, it's never fine.

>>160616659
I'd be all for it, but >>160617645 is probably right. They'd get a lot of flak for that. Fortunately, we have unofficial resources.

Not enough, though. I'll have to learn to art myself one of these days.

Honestly it would be a good skill to learn, even apart from the lewds. I'd love to make a game with the style of those old PC and CD JRPGs, with their pixellated 90s artwork, animated cutscenes, and low-quality but memorable voice acting and songs. Fanservice being a common part of that is just a bonus.

>>160620858
Search Royalty free if you have to
Kevin Macleod, and I think Purple Planet has some royalty free?

http://drawabox.com/
For anyone who wants to get into art.

>>160622026
oh yeah? prove it dork

>>160620858
Keep in mind that if you use copyrighted tracks, people on youtube might be given copyright strikes on any gameplay videos they make of your game. If you don't mind that though and you are not commercial then go for it.

>>160613765
>What you should be working on
My game.
>What you are working on
My base in Fortnite.

>>160630084
Oh shit, didn't think of that. I'll definitely have to use free assets.

What's a good website for free music and sound effects?

>>160630084
Who cares about YouTube.

>>160632391
Anyone with any sense involved with the gaming industry.

>>160632391
Well I don't particularly care too much about it but I know some devs find it a good source of free advertising.

Rate this basic plot I have going:

In the year 5176, over 3000 years since nuclear war ended civilisation, a man named George of Washington must journey to the ancient city of Mit Bostan to find a cure to the plague ravaging the Kingdom of Columbia. However, the chaos of the war thousands of years ago reawakened the demons and angels that guided and terrorised humanity during its infancy, causing monsters and magic to take over the land, and the city of Mit Bostan is said to be the capital of a cult known as the Red Coat Imperium, who demand that the Thirteen Kingdoms of Old America submit to "taxation" or face "representation" in the form of being sacrificed to their leader, King Victoria.

Along the way George meets Thom of Jefferson, an adventurer from a place called California, John the Hancock, a bandit leader, and Alex Hamilton, a rich feudal lord in the Kingdom of York

And so, they form a group called the Congress of Patriots, who are determined to overthrow the Imperium and liberate the Thirteen Kingdoms from their control, and cure the plague before it wipes out the last few remnants of human civilisation.

Yes, it's basically a massively bastardised retelling of the American Revolution.

>>160634060
I'm not from the land of the free so I don't think it would interest me much.

How does your game start?

What is your favorite start to a game?

>>160632714
Internet popularity doesn't convert to sales.

>>160635797
I agree with you in principle, but a game with no exposure is much worse off than a game featured by Let's Players (ie literally anyone at all). The band OK Go found a way to make money eventually after their treadmill music video went viral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA

>>160635797
I would say that it certainly helps

>>160635797
Popularity increases the amount of potential buyers, because your game gets to be known by more people. If your game is known only by 100 people, then there would be only 100 potential buyers, which in the absolute best case, will net you a mere 100 sales, no matter how good your game is. Now, if your game was known by millions of people, then there would be millions of potential buyers, and given how fun it is, a lot of those people would buy it, netting you exponentially more sales than in the first case.

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>>160617484
>let's poke fun at it
Crap, you're determined. That guy used to post in this thread until /rpgmg/ ran him off. I feel like you genuinely followed him off cite just so you could still make fun of him here.

I'm not defending his shit, but just let bygones be bygones, m80.

>>160635380
Create your own backstory!

Which changes everything, really. Where you start, if you have imperial citizenship, what kind of allies you have, your relation with subhumans, etc. Theoretically. I haven't actually done anything beyond the combat yet.

>>160635380
Dialogue based character creation.
The actual beginning is that your character awakes in a train, though.

>>160638708
Wait, really?
When did that happen?

>>160620858
bty stolen music do you mean stuff taken from legit games (like if I stole the FF6 battle music) or using the assets in the resources in the OP?

also i probably fucked up saying this but im drunk lol

>>160644023
The first one, drunk fella

>>160630879
Someone answer, please. There are tons of websites but I want your recommendations

>>160644926
ph shit swwwweeeeeeeeeet cause there's some good music in the assets but also some real shit like all of JBD's stuff

>>160603594
It's still perfectly possible to get people to make you shit for free, they just have standards these days. You'll need to have a promising project to put said shit in rather than a ~great idea~ that will most likely never even get to the demo stage, much less get finished. No one likes to see their work wasted.

What's the secret to making a good atmosphere?

>>160645192
Graffix, Music

>>160620570
Does the character actually have the MP to use it?

Is the "special" skill type properly set as either skill or skill subset? Does the skill suddenly start working if you just set it to the generic "skill" type?

Does it actually do damage or inflict an ailment? From your pic, it seems like it's supposed to do damage, but you don't have the stat decrease: HP box checked.

>>160620858
As long as it's a free game, I don't care. Original music is better, but as long as it fits, whatever.

(If you charge for it, obviously, that's a different matter.)

>>160641893
You don't remember the Fuqbois guy? In his own words, it was "a shitty meme game," and he'd post like 10 minute youtube clips of it every so often.

I checked the archive, found >>118672616 & >>125010031.

He hasn't posted or at least, hasn't posted about it since the last shitshow in December 2015.

Ah shit, I forgot my song of the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4VeFDehD08

>>160616804
Not in 2k3. Anything in the skill list is something you access through a skill menu, so you can freely edit any and all of them as much as you like. I think XP was the first time you could edit those commands?

>>160647298
>we wuz kungs

>>160470992
ooo sexy, any way I can follow this shit?

>/rpgmg/
>page 10

Take two

alright guys, help me out. I'm trying to use Shaz's tile change plugin to change the default tile size from 48 to 32. The instructions say you need to have two tile set folders, one for the map editor and one for the actual game. When I resize the duplicate tile set folder do I have to alter the size of the canvas itself to deal with the new tile size?

>>160635797
So what else would you rely on? Literal word of mouth?

>>160652756
Best way to find out would be to run a sample game with both altered and unaltered spritesheets, and see what happens. Whichever one isn't broken is your answer

>>160620390
E.C.M 3
>http://www.dlsite.com/maniax/circle/profile/=/maker_id/RG05868.html
from this circle

>>160645192
>>160645409
...and writing.

>>160654441
A game with shitty music and writing but a certain distinctive artstyle can still have good atmosphere. A lot of early 90s games come to mind.

A game with shitty graphics and writing can still have a good atmosphere through very distinctive and fitting music. Crush Your Enemies does it pretty well.

But a game with shitty graphics and shitty music but absolutely amazing writing will be many things, but "atmospheric" will not be one of them.

Writing contributes to atmosphere, but it is not the "secret" to a good one. Artstyle is paramount, first and foremost.

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>>160654983
>>160654441
Forgot muh pic.

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So I got started making my first map today, was using one of the dlc tilesets plus default stuff, this is what it looks like so far.

Are the default trees bad to use? They look alright to me honestly but I'm not sure.

Also waterfalls are a bit difficult to make.

>>160656181
>Are the default trees bad to use?
They're a little bright against the rest of the map.

>>160656273
Yea I think so too. I'll have to find some darker trees.

Also my prologue is supposed to take place at night so I bet they'll stick out real bad in the dark.

>>160656917
Instead of searching for new ones you could take these and edit them.

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Good night bump

Bumping from 10th page

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>>160656181
Cool map, found some slight mistakes but they can be easily fixed.

First song posted for Tomb of Friends

https://soundcloud.com/prutte-1/entrance-theme

What do you think?

>>160666924
More than "main entrance" it sounds like "music that plays after you open the game and it's presenting the Credits/developer then the Opening Scene".

>>160666924
Not bad, but any sort of tomb would be about the last thing it makes me think of.

Okay so I finally got that skill working and put together the first of three class change scenes I wanted to do, but once I started working on the second all the player touch triggers on my map stopped working? What do?

>>160670851
Wait no, somehow all the events are being fucking deleted once I get into the map?

>>160664949
Thanks for the input, nice to know what I'm doing wrong so I can get better at map creation.

>>160670851
>>160671265
Fuck this, i'm shelling out for VX ace.
I can easily see 2003 as being useful, but...ugh, I need more stuff.

>>160672347
Good call.

Is it possible to make "enemy eats other enemies to power itself up"?

>>160672882
Maybe have it be an event like
enemy with lowest HP dies
enemy with highest HP gets healed?

>>160670528
You didn't play Tomb of Friends 1 did you?

Should I bother looking for extra VX ace resources elsewhere if I can just get stuff off the steam workshop?

>>160674367
Nope.

Anyone got the VX Ace crack? The link in the getting started is dead.

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Hello! I'm currently working on a project in RPG Maker MV and wanted to make some small character creation for the player character. (3 hairs and some stuff)

The thing is: I want to make visual novel like sprites which appear behind the text box. The characters looks also change on the CGs.

What's the best way to approach this? The only thing I can do is draw and the basics on RPG Maker. I had some idea how to do this, but I'd probably make it unneccessarily complicated and it'd probably not work. Any ideas?

Pic related, sketch of the visual novel-like sprites.

>>160678434
>I want to make visual novel like sprites which appear behind the text box
You might need a plugin/script for that

>The characters looks also change on the CGs.
There is/was a slav working on a loli game that used multiple image 'parts' that combined into an image the hair/face/outfits were seperate images laid over the base body. Kind of like those old-school Newgrounds dress-up games

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>>160678727
Oh really? I thought I could just show it as a picture instead of using facesets, thanks for the info.

I see! I was thinking about doing it this way, too. It's kind of "cluttered" code-wise in a way, but I think it's the best method even a noob like me can work out.

Yanfly Repel and Lure encounters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMyhTTbob9c

>>160678905
>I thought I could just show it as a picture instead of using facesets, thanks for the info.
Not an MV user, but you can probably do it by tweaking one of the default scripts a bit or just download an existing one already.

>It's kind of "cluttered" code-wise in a way, but I think it's the best method even a noob like me can work out.
Again, I don't have MV, but the basic idea is that each picture is a separate sprite object that you create, change graphic of or delete depending on your choices. You just pass the needed parameters to the object and it loads them. In VX Ace I do it in the Scene_Map since it's the file that deals with the on scene graphics.

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Hey guys!! The demo for Tomb of Friends (2) is almost finished (even though I said this almost a month ago)!! Look forward to playing it!!

>>160682365
So far, MV doesn't seem too different for that. Any idea how to set up the character creation menu? I've never done something like that.

>>160683867
Well, you probably need to edit or make a new Window file or maybe more, depending on how you want the character creation menu to look and then create a Scene file and use the new Window files that you've made/edited in that Scene. Then you have to make it so that when you start a new game it would first load the character creation scene and after that actual game scene.

>>160683867
Having hair, eyes, etc as separate images is how I'd do it. Make sure the image height and width is the same to make placement easier, though. Means a lot of transparent space on the eyes 'layer' but... it'll make your life easier.

As for actual character creation, I'd tie a variable to the hairstyle/eyes/changeable parts. I'm not a programmer so I'd use Yanfly's picture common event plugin, and just have left and right arrow pictures onscreen that add or subtract to the variable, then change the image to fit as you click through.

>>160685138
That sounds like a really good idea! I'm looking into Yanfly's picture common event plugin now, this'll probably look better than making choice branches with "Hair 1" etc, especially when I want to make different colors as well.

I'm still learning the way around, but I've a question for MV users. I can make an npc well enough and give him a few lines of text with a simple choice.

How would I go about making it so that first conversation is not repeated? I'd like to give the npc something to say, but not immediately after the first talk is finished. Something like "Ah, still here? Nothing but peace here." That line would be repeated if player were to try and talk to the npc again.

>>160687107
You'll need to use switches and event pages for that. There are global switches that can be used anywhere, but there are also "self switches" tied to each event, so it might be better to use those for this purpose. As far as I know, they work pretty much the same.

Create a new event page for the NPC (remember to set the sprite and other options), and under conditions, check Self Switch and leave it on A. This second page will be the one with dialogue when the player has already talked to the NPC. Then, go back to the original page, and add an event to turn self switch A on (it doesn't matter where).

That should work. I think the pages are checked in descending order, so the game will see if the conditions are met for page 2 to be active, and if not, it will go to page 1.

Let me know if you need any more help. I don't have time to test things just yet, so I might be missing something.

>>160686314
Maybe you should look into this plug-in: http://sumrndm.site/character-creator/

>>160649339
Glad you like them, I'll make a blog or a twitter when I have more to show

>>160687935

Thanks mate, it works as you described. I had suspected switches had something to do with it, but my fiddling was with switch, not self-switch.

>>160688358
Switches should work too, and in the same way. Self switches just make more sense to use for things like treasure chests and non-repeatable dialogue, since they're tied to the event itself and whether or not the player has opened that chest only matters when they're interacting with it.

If you need to know later whether the player talked to that NPC (say, if they have to talk to the farmer before getting a quest from the mayor), you'll want to use one of the standard switches and give it an appropriate name so you remember what it's used for. That way you can have other events check whether it's on or off.

>>160688207
Holy shit, this looks like something to suit my needs. Thanks!!

>>160681132
And here I thought you could already adjust encounter rates through events. Good to know it's actually possible now.

How do you guys feel about randomly-generated dungeons?

>>160682621
That's awesome!
Really looking forward to playing GOTY

>>160696394
>Randomly-generated
Eh
> x number of well-made pieces selected at random from a pool, creating a unique layout
YES

Probably being a pedant, but RNG backing pre-made assets is better than rooms generated by computer imo.

>>160486501
Why must Moghunter be such a fucking weeaboo? I mean, they're excellent at making RPG Maker scripts and have been for like, 12 years, but whenever I go to their website it feels like the government's gonna burst through my door and seize my computer for having loli porn on it.

>>160697691
The word you're looking for is "chunking," which is a type of randomly-generated mapping.

>>160696394
I think they work well for games like Diablo (where the focus is on fighting hordes of enemies and getting cool loot) and Roguelikes (where the gameplay is about exploring and surviving a hostile and unpredictable environment).

Anything else... not so much. I guess random dungeons are okay if you want an infinite-length bonus dungeon as an optional challenge or something, but overall, good, deliberate design is too important to leave up to randomization.

>>160689035

I'll keep that in mind.

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>>160697693
>2016
>Not fapping to loli porn

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Another map.
I probably won't have anything else but maps to show for a while, I'm currently designing dungeons and making maps for them.

>>160701597
Hey, every bit of progress counts.

I just got RPG maker and I'm confused on the tileset system. I wan't to add my own custom tiles but I don't know why there is a B section and a A section.

Bamp

>>160702826
I think that's just so you have multiple tilesets to work with when making a map, and you can pick anything for each, but there might be some details I'm forgetting. Which RPG Maker are you using?

Your game could inspire other people.
Why isn't it finished yet?

>>160707042
MV. After looking it up it seems I have to follow a specific template.

>>160711753
because I just got rpg maker a couple days ago so I dont know shit, and can't even make an event properly

>>160714313
What are you struggling with?

>>160715208
Switches

I watched some videos and it makes sense, but when I'm actually trying to make some cut scenes or quests I lose track of the switches and my events repeat when I re-enter the area, or the npc disappears.

For a new project, I'm thinking of making a small game in which you travel around an island recruiting Slimes- the more you have, the more powerful you are (as a team) in battle. There will be lots to recruit (mage slime, warrior slime, etc) and each one you find will add to your stats and skills.

Would you play my slimy game, /rpgmg/?

>>160711753
too many ideas, less time

>>160715429
This reminds me of my starting days.
You probably made some very minor mistakes, if you post your event pages we can help you.
You should give your switches proper names, though.

>>160715682
Slime girls are a fetish of mine so yes, I would.

>>160715429
Switches take some getting used to, but they're not too hard once you get the hang of them. They're a common thing to trip over when you're new to RPG Maker, though.

If you're having trouble with anything specific, you can always ask here. In general, name them so you can remember how they're used, and double-check your events to make sure they're turned on and off at the right times and all event pages are set up properly. It's easy for small mistakes to stop everything from working.

>>160715915
Oh, they wouldn't be sexualised or anything- think more along the lines of Dragon Quest slimes. Unless you find those sexy.

>>160715682
yes, I would. Slimes are the shit

For the guys who have made or are planning to make multiple games: Will they be set in the same world or multiverse?

>>160715915
>>160715967
Yeah, I give switches proper names to identify them easily. I think it's a matter of practice. Sadly, I deleted those events that I worked on for 3 hours out of confusion, I felt it was a mess so decided to scratch it, but I'll be posting them next time I struggle.

>>160711753
I'm struggling with motivation and I also almost committed suicide last night so I guess my plate's a little full. I am trying though.

>>160717549
catch-22, suicide requires motivation

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http://yanfly.moe/2016/11/20/plugin-updates-207-2/

Yanfly made a massive update that's worth checking out especially if your game uses a lot of script calls and lunatic mode stuff from his tips and tricks.

tl;dr version:

If you use bad code for script calls or tips and tricks, MV will no longer crash. It will continue running and display the error in the console instead of forcing you out of the game.

>>160717549
Go to walmart or other local store. Buy a bottle of 5-HTP from the supplement section. Take a few before you go to bed.

>>160721925
>TL;DR is longer

This is really helpful, though. Yanfly is a godsend.

Make way for the bump

>>160717549
Glad to hear you made it through, and you're still trying. Even a little bit a day will add up to a lot, if you can manage it.

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Slime recruiter game guy here.

Still messing with ideas, but in the mean time here's some rough slime sprites I threw together.

>>160730534
Cute

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>>160730534
kawaii

>>160730882
I absolutely miss RO.
This game was pretty much my youth.

>>160701597
Looks nice, but the gate confuses my eyes. It looks like it's trying to do a different perspective thing than the wall it's attached to.

So I have an event that autoruns when you enter a map, but when I loaded in a save from that map...obviously, the event auto-ran, despite already being finished and erased before I saved.

What do?

>>160732363
If you mean it was erased through an event command, I'm pretty sure that only lasts as long as the player is on the map. If they exit and enter, even by loading a save, the event will reappear. You need to use a switch to disable it permanently.

If you mean it ran after being deleted in the editor, I have no idea.

>>160732363
Post your event

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Where do you guys get the motivation to work on your game?

>>160736686
Having a routine helps. Instead of waiting for a muse to bless me I decided to make her mine.
Set yourself a time to start working and even if you just make a little progress, it will be better than making no progress at all.

Anyone have Celianna's Ancient Dungeons: Jungle and Fantastic Buildings: Modern packs?

What's your opinion on silent protagonists?

Has any one here bought the new MV First Seed Material tile set?

>>160738675
I think they are okay, sadly they lack the option to have different dialogue choices and such.

>>160738675
Great for customization and player immersion. Though, your character won't be unique.

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Sup yall

2k3 project.

>>160743724
That looks great, anon.

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>>160743746
Thank you.

Heres more if anyones interested

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Good night bump

Staying alive.

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Why no one told me how hard it is to create a living inn and keep the atmosphere?

what do the devs of /rpgmg/ do to keep the internet on and not starve?

>>160721925
Still MV and MV is still buggy.

>>160743724
>>160744187
That looks really nice, sucks that the resolution is so tiny, though.

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>>160752031
YMMV

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So I'm trying to use switches in a "scene"/map that lets the player choose which class they want to be. When the players teleport into the map the event that does it states all 3 switches are OFF.
I then have the 3 separate events running parallel processes like pic related, and if the player walks into one of the events and chooses yes, then the yes loop says the switches for the other two events are ON.

When I get onto the map though, the events the player is supposed to walk into are being deleted automatically?
Should I remove the earlier declaration that all switches are OFF?

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>>160753269
Already tried reversing the switch setup(I.E they delete themselves when their switch is turned OFF), but problem persists.
Here's page 1 of one of the events

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>>160754263
and here's page 2.

I'm actually assuming pages are separate chunks of code that apply to the same event...am I wrong?
If I am, how can I have an event run both a parallel to check for switch/variable changes, and be triggerable by the player in a normal manner?

>>160743724
>>160744187
Playable yet?

>>160753269
>>160754263
>>160754368
Nevermind I found a workaround.
The first event that locks you into a class just teleports you to another map.

Which is better GCH or this?
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/56569-rpg-maker-mv-extended-generator-version-alpha-006c-update-on-the-31st-august-2016/&page=1

>>160738675
I think it's an awful practice that should have died out like four generations of home consoles ago.

(Unless your protagonist is actually mute. That might be interesting.)

Is it better to use MVFU to upscale VXA assets; or downscale MV assets and use Shaz's Change Tile Size plugin?

>>160721925
Hell yeah! I hope Yanfly doesn't die horribly from overwork.

>>160736686
Have a minimum, regular amount of work you do. You can schedule times to work like >>160737082 says. Or you could make yourself say, talk about what you've done that week in a weekly blog post. And if you've done nothing? You must post anyway and explain why, then wear the cone of shame.

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>>160763571
IMO it's better to scale upward than to force everything else in the game to work towards that particular tile size. My experience with Shaz's script is even if your assets will look fine, you still need to make a version to use with the editor. If you're going to go that far, just do the extra work to make it scale up.

The screen size for MV is quite bigger compared to Ace. This means way more of the map is seen on screen at a time. This can give the player too much info and hurt the exploration process.

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>>160756046
Unfortunately no. Rescrapped this project about 4 times just going for it now.

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Would anyone be in support of a new forum for our /rpgmg/ threads? These threads usually blow up, and I understand that its mostly all WIPs but thats the point.

I have plenty of resources that I've been meaning to get out to the community. I'd be really happy to see them used but I also want them to be able to stick around somewhere.

And I hate when these threads 404.

>>160765029
Sure, why not?

>>160765029
I'd be down

>>160765029
Why a new one? Could just migrate to one of the 86 gazillion existing places...

>>160730534
Did you change the colors? It looks better than I remember. Good job!

>Creating Hentai game
>Come up with really great idea
>Too great
>Afterward, no will to continue working

This is not like my chinese cartoons.

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i am working in a gbc like games i made this but something its seems off i use limited colors trying to mimic gameboy color sprites but still feel something wrong here can anyone help me

>>160767230
Can't tell if you're serious or not.

>>160738675
They can be okay, but I generally prefer protagonists that are actual characters. I assume the point of silent protagonists is usually to let the player insert themselves in a story, but I've never been one to do that. I find it more interesting (and better for escapism and immersion) to put myself in someone else's shoes, but if the protagonist is just meant to be a player avatar rather than have an active role in a story, I don't necessarily mind.

>>160754368
>I'm actually assuming pages are separate chunks of code that apply to the same event...am I wrong?
Pages are, essentially, completely separate events that occupy the same space on the map. RPG Maker determines which page is active by checking the Conditions tab in descending order; the first one to have its conditions met will be the active page.

For example, say you have a chest with two pages: the first has no conditions and can be examined to give the player 100 GP and turn Self Switch A on. The second page has the open chest sprite and displays the message "This chest is empty." when examined. When the player first sees the chest, it will be closed and they can get the gold. Afterwards, page 2 will be the active page, the chest will stay open, and the player won't be able to get anything more from it.

Looking at your events, you haven't set any conditions for the pages, so the last one is always active. That means the player will never see page 1.

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Don't die thred

Here; have some enemies from my game

>>160767230
Gameboy Color sprites were tiny and had an even more limited palette. If you want to mimic that style more closely, try limiting yourself to two colors + black and 16x16 tiles. If you can, maybe upscale your game's resolution so that the pixels look larger.

Looking at Gameboy Color sprites for comparison would be helpful too, to see how they managed with those limitations.

>Another DashBored patch
I think it's great that you are still working on DashBored. This dedication kinda inspires me.

How do I learn to make music? What books do I read?

I just made the song for my game's final dungeon

https://soundcloud.com/iwilldevouryourkittens/cave-of-souls

It's supposed to be real atmospheric

>>160776405
Getting a really heavy pokemon vibe

>>160787437
The atmosphere certainly is sinister and unsettling.
The mood is lightened every now and then but in general it's rather tense and I would try to reach the boss as soon as possible.
The parts where you went for complete silence are interesting, the song feels kinda disrupted/disconnected by this, was this your intention?

>>160765029
>And I hate when these threads 404.
Same here brother.

>>160721925

Yanfly is one of bigshots out there with all those nifty plugins, right? Are there any plugins that are absolutely must have? What would you more experienced folk reccomend?

Do most of you guys use MV or what?
Kinda feel like I'm the only one using VXAce sometimes.

>>160789634
Imo, they're rudimentary things like guages and menu extensions that anyone can do.

Text displays are usually the most useful. But it's like back with RMXP everyone used Ccoa's Universal Message System. And it's not like she was a Coding Wizard or anything. After someone makes it there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.

Haven't used RPGMaker since '04 or so. Don't remember any of it.

I want to make a simple RPG that takes place in a movie theater for the sake of comedy among some co-workers who are really into older RPG's.

What would be the best version of to get/what has the most assets available? I know this is probably a common question, but I figure if I find one that's got a decent enough learning curve, I can adapt it later on to make myself some sort've Dragon Ball RPG, too.