/rpgmg/ - RPG Maker General #176

Thank you Gandalf for making a new thread

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Yo, can someone try out my demo? I want some feedback for my project.

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=125839#125839

Every time. Every fucking time I start working on my game you fucks die

Alright anons, I need a bit of assistance here. I've had this action sequence set up, where characters hop over to enemies to attack them if they're melee. Ranged would stay back and shoot. I've gone and made my planned five tiers of regular old weaponry(sword,axe,bow,spear,staff).

Only now, ever since I did so, the sequence isn't working anymore. The bowman hops up and shoots point blank at the enemy now. Any ideas why?

Here's the thing.

<setup action>
display action
immortal: targets, true
</setup action>

<target action>
if user.attackMotion() !== 'missile'
move user: targets, front, 20
else
perform start
end
wait for movement
motion attack: user
wait: 10
attack animation: target
wait for animation
action effect
</target action>

>>161680142
Sure, I'll check it out a little bit later.
What can we expect?

>>161681376

Actually, never mind. I had figured it out. My messing with database needed me to go back to system and switch up the weapon animations for SV properly.

So simple.

>>161681501
A slightly Earthbound-inspired RPG with an original soundtrack. There's only about 10 minutes of gameplay so far, but I just wanna gleam first impressions.

>>161680142

Looks super cute, I'll play when I get home from work.

>>161683291
Thanks anon! Tell me what ya think.

It's time to post progress Anons.

>>161680142
>Start game
>Screen goes white after loading

Huh, do I need to install something?

>>161684627
Naah, that's just the title screen. I haven't drawn it yet. Press enter and the game will start.

>>161685028
Now I feel like a dum dum

>>161684627
>>161685028
deja vu

Why doesn't your game use full width characters?

Considering not having exp in my game at all, since it's so short. Just one set of equipment upgrades available toward the end.

Are you willing to forgive a game having a shitty story if the worldbuilding is great?

>>161686352
Hylics did this just fine.

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>>161680142
Is it supposed to end at that thing that one shots me?
Also the controls are a bit awkward, why use enter+arrow keys? Threw me off since you could use Z to start the game but Z didn't do anything after that.
I found the font a bit taxing on the eyes but maybe it's just me. I think you should slow the text down instead of it appearing all at once.
I enjoyed the battle much more than I expected, I think you nailed the pacing/feel and it looked nice. It just needs more depth now.
What was the tent about? I couldn't enter it or anything.
Not really sure what the point of the dialogue options are, reminds me of how golden sun handled it.
Great work overall, keep adding more content.

>>161687792
Not the guy you're replying to, but my favorite way to control RPG maker games is arrow keys, enter, and numpad-0 for cancel. Lets you play entirely one-handed. If you don't have a numpad, the right-click-menu button on the keyboard (next to ctrl) works too.

>>161688052
You have to hit esc in this game to bring up the menu which is a bit far from the other keys, though. Not really the best one-handed setup.

>>161688169
Numpad-0 or the right-click button on the keyboard don't work?

>>161688395
Nope, but I just realized this game has a neat little map by accidentally hitting the F keys.

>>161687792
>Is it supposed to end at that thing that one shots me?
Yeah. It's gonna continue the story after he KO's you, but I haven't built past there yet.
>Also the controls are a bit awkward, why use enter+arrow keys? Threw me off since you could use Z to start the game but Z didn't do anything after that.
Huh. I may change that, actually. Good point.
>I found the font a bit taxing on the eyes but maybe it's just me. I think you should slow the text down instead of it appearing all at once.
I'm not sure I'm able to do that, but I'll try. I may change the font in the final game.
>What was the tent about? I couldn't enter it or anything.
That's cuz I haven't made that part yet. It's gonna come into play real soon, though.
>Not really sure what the point of the dialogue options are, reminds me of how golden sun handled it.
Mostly just comedic effect.
>Great work overall, keep adding more content.
Thank you! I will.

>>161688052
>>161688568
I got you senpai.

In the game folder, go to www>js>plugins

Save this script into that folder. Call it "customControls.js".

http://pastebin.com/e9RYsyd8

Now go up a level in the folder hierarchy, and edit plugins.js. Add this line among the other lines. Put it near the bottom, but not after the "];" at the end.

{"name":"customControls","status":true,"description":"Enables alternate controls","parameters":{}},

I think I'm getting a sore throat.

>making an erotic game
>tfw if I put a lot of effort into making it much more than just fap material and adding good gameplay mechanics, etc. I will never get the credit I truly deserve because I would be anonymous
>and if I do put my name on it, I will be branded as a pervert for making such a game even though I put a lot of effort into it to make it not just for fapping

It's not like I can get away with it like The Witcher because the game is Incest porn.

>>161695281
Through dick, unity.

>>161695281
Embrace your pervertedness! Or make up an alias so you can at least get some recognition and credit.
Hell call yourself Incest Porn Dev.

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I got some expansion pack DLCs for enemy portraits, but they never show up when I'm making the enemies; it's just the regular old portraits the software came with. Any help please? I'm using MV.

>>161698313
Still I would be anonymous. I won't have a name like Hideo Kojima or John Carmack if I remain anonymous.

Here's my idea:
>decades before the events of the game, a twin brother and sister were executed in their own house because they were fucking
>present day, a large family buys this same house which is haunted by the spirits of the twins that were executed
>you play as these two twins
>in order to be reincarnated, the twins must convince the entire family to have a bisexual incestuous orgy within the house, in which they will be concieved in
>the ghosts can't possess people, but they can manifest in their conciousnesses and convince them to act on their desires
>they can also manipulate their dreams so that they can unconciously desire their family members

What do you guys think? I'm thinking of having a big family for this one. A mother and father are given but what would you guys like the kids to be? Can be as old or young as you guys want.

>>161699962
needs a trap

>>161701134
That was the plan. A hot milf, an alpha male dad, a hot elsest daughter, a trap, a mid-teen male, a shota. Who else should I add?

>>161701559
Why stop there? Make it a huge family. One of every conceivable type there is. Add a loli, a reverse trap/tomboy, etc...

>>161695281
You could use your real name and you'd still be just a nobody.
Reputations have to be build. Even 1-hit wonders had to release a few duds before anyone noticed them.

>>161680142
I think this could be a promising game, I liked it even if it was very short.
Only thing I dislike are the pretty harsh sounds effects you used.
Keep up the good work!

>>161695281
I think I know the feeling. There are both lewd and non-lewd games I want to make, and I'd be too nervous to release the former under anything but an anonymous pseudonym. I don't want to be a big name or anything, but if I ever want to make money off of my work, it would be an obstacle. If I put a lot of work into a lewd game (and I'd want to, because my biggest fetish is good game design), I worry I'd regret it when I start something else.

I suppose "b-but what if I finish a game and it's good?" is a silly thing to worry about. Still. Not like I'm working on a game anyway. Yet.

Could always go the Japanese route, make all my work varying degrees of lewd, and keep the same general audience that way, I guess.

>>161699962
Might be interesting, depending on the writing and how you design the mechanics. Not sure it's my kind of thing, but I'll try anything posted here.

>>161706046

Hm, seems interesting. I like the fact that the dude in the panel just immediately hit yes.

Here's a question... if $gameParty._targetActorId references the battler being targeted (or at least I presume it does, based on that name), what's the variable for the one who's targeting them?

Ha
>dying

>>161707901
Nevermind, found what I was looking for. I was close, but not quite there...

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>>161711727
>Nevermind fixed it

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two new enemies.

i really hate that im nearly late game with all my party being level 65 at only 3 hours and 40 minutes in, but i cannot for the life of me come up with a story to tie the stream of battles together.

>>161712662
Sorry, I usually post the answer when I find them (which is what I'm assuming you're talking about), but this time I neglected to do so.

It's "subject._actorId". So now I have the ability to play a specific cast animation depending on the character casting it. It does, however, use a bunch of if statements... but it works!

>>161712871
Oh, are you the guy who wanted to have different cast animations depending on the class?
Great that you found a solution!

>>161713145
Yes, thank you. I can now begin my not-a-Persona-fan-game-but-it-may-as-well-be project properly.

>>161712860
>3:40 hours
>LV.65
Wow, you sure love to give EXP.

Is it a giant boss rush or what? Your map makes it look like it

>>161713382

yeah, random encounters are boring to me. I'm basically making a game that I would like to play without too much thought into how RPGs usually work

>>161713472
You must have very good bosses to make that interesting

>>161713737

I'm not using the traditional turn based battle system. I wouldnt even begin to know how to make that shit interesting

>>161713791
I think the best way to make bosses interesting in turn based is to work on the party abilities.
If your party can't do anything but attack and heal, no matter how complex a boss can be, you will be doing that.

>>161714446
If I remember correctly he is making a rhythm based game like the theatrhythm games.

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>Finish a really good game
>Feel empty afterwards because it's over

>>161699404

You have to find the dlc in your install folder and copy them from there

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Good night bump

Season Pass is literally shit. How do they keep getting away with it?

>>161720604
Same way theyy got away with making VX, VX Ace and MV all the same program

>>161721505

I like MV. Hell, I haven't felt this motivated about making something in a long while. But the prices for DLC and various addons are insultingly high. Here's to hoping there'll be a discount for the winter, so that I can grab Town of Beginnings at least to ensure that nobody can ascertain if I was using a pirate version or not when I release the game one day.

Is the MV on the OP cracked?

I find Yanfly's Equip Plugin neat. I'll leave the variance to be 5 I think, you whenever you turn up a weapon outside of a shop, even if it's the same as the one you already have, it might better. Or it might be a touch worse. Uniques will have fixed stats, 'course.

For a game that ought last about 20 hours at least, five tiers of weapons is enough, y'think?

>>161723378

Yea.

>>161703438
Thanks anon! I may change the sound effects desu.

>>161723710
I have exactly 6(including ultimate equipment) tiers of weapons/armors as well, and play time is around 25~

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Friend Stranding will completely change the way you view ropes, sticks, and friends. A blideo blojima game.

>>161723710
No cracked MV 1.3.4?

alive

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Post progress lads

>>161737143
damn that art looks nice
did you do it all by hand?

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Working on maps and assets, fleshing out npcs anc cutscenes will go next, I think I can start commissioning the soundtrack for some areas now.

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And another one.

>>161737767
Nope. All those assets can be purchased in the rpbmakerweb store. All I did was do a little recoloring in GIMP for the helmet. The map was done via the doodads plugin.

Is there anyone here that's particulary good with setting up scripts and shit? I don't want to go through trouble of posting on the rpgmaker forum only to have some chucklefuck give me a one liner response that points me to some other thread or gives vague solution. It's like they don't want to help people out. Shit, one of the resource section's rules is literally not to ask people how to implement the resources found.

Anyhow, my question, if someone can help me out. I like this for the poison, I'd like to to be more potent, after all, but I dislike the idea of putting down a round number like the 100 it is set on by default. I'd much rather it be 5% of affected actor's HP. If you stack it 5 times, that'll do some damage. Only, I have no idea how to put that in. Here's yanfly's original.

<Custom Apply Effect>
// Make sure the stack count exists.
target._stackingPoison = target._stackingPoison || 0;
// Increase the stack count.
target._stackingPoison += 1;
</Custom Apply Effect>

<Custom Remove Effect>
// Reset the stack count.
target._stackingPoison = 0;
</Custom Remove Effect>

<Custom Regenerate Effect>
// Make sure the stack count exists.
target._stackingPoison = target._stackingPoison || 1;
// Sets the maximum amount of stacks to 5.
var stacks = Math.min(5, target._stackingPoison);
// The damage formula used per tick.
var damage = stacks * 100;
// Play poison animation on the target.
target.startAnimation(59);
// Target takes HP damage.
target.gainHp(-damage);
// Play the popup.
target.startDamagePopup();
// Clear the results.
target.clearResult();
// Check if the target is dead.
if (target.isDead()) {
// If the target is dead, make it collapse.
target.performCollapse();
}
</Custom Regenerate Effect>

Tfw jobbing

Have you ever wanted to take your project in multiple possible directions, but you couldn't decide on one? It sucks.

>tfw you made a thread for your game elsewhere and there wasn't much interest
;_;

>>161750126
What game?

>>161729826
TOMB OF FRIENDS 2 WHEN???

>>161756385
The demo is almost finished, I just need to touch up a few things!!

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Free login campaign for FFXIV, so I guess I'm not going to be making much progress for the next month or so.

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Now this is what I really want.
You start off with a puny fire spirit and train him into an idealize muscle version
Sprites were from Ragnarok online, I think.
I just need to find someone who'll draw front-view battler for MV.

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>>161737143
Now I have this little baphomet in a suit, he's a denizen in Capricorn's tower.

>>161763169
Nice, I like the artstyle.

>>161763736
Thank you! It's way easier than what I was doing before in tilesets! Less detailed and zoomed.

I just had to sneeze 3 times, someone was thinking of me!
Was it perhaps you, Anon-chan?

>>161766173
Yes, I was thinking "anon is such a nodev, why don't they post progress?"

Bumpu

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Played a demo on here called Culling of nightmares, is anon still working on it?

>>161747927

Yes, I've gone back and forth on game, vn, and comic for a long time, and then even on genre I took a while settle on one thing.

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Will your game make me happy?

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>>161775916
I hope so!

What kind of audience do you want to appeal to?

>>161778831
me

>>161775916

Only if youre interested in homo harems

>>161775916
Considering it/they will never be finished, probably not.

Incestdev here. So here's the characters so far:
>a milf mom
>an alpha male dad
>a hot cheerleader 17-year-old daughter
>a 14-year-old nerdish boy
>a 12-year-old trap
>a loli

Who else should I add to the cast of this incestuous fuckfest?

>>161782946
twin or something similar that's the shonen kid for the nerd boy. i.e. the kid that shows up in all the doujins where the kid fucks the milfs.

>>161782946
Ara Ara~ aunt
If you are including a trap why not include a tomboy or a reverse trap maybe?

>>161783289
I'll add a twin brother for the boy
>>161783392
I'm probably going to add a 13-year-old tomboy

Who else should I add in my incest game?

>>161785092
A developer self-insert

>>161785092
I think it's important to have a running system before you plan 50+ scenes.
If you are going to draw everything by yourself then you already have a lot of work.

>>161782946
You could also potentially add in an Ace as the sort of 'final boss' of sorts. Probably 15-16?

Dunno, without getting into tumblrshit of genderfluid and that sort of thing, need some sort of other variance as you've got most of the bases covered there.

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Portrait WIPs for a few NPCs at headquarters.

>>161738648
>>161740160
Jesus fuck man these look great, did you make the sprites etc. yourself? I'm just getting started and that's the exact kind of 'art style' I guess I've been looking for. If you have any kind of a demo or any advice I'd love to see/hear it!

>>161787735
It's in the OP. Steel Zeroes.

>>161787735
Yeah, the scenery and sprites are mostly made by me, I've recently got someone on board to help me animate some sprites though.
Regarding a demo, there's one in the OP, the SteelZeroes one.

>>161788105
That's crazy man, kudos. I'm downloading the demo now! Have you been involved a lot in art/pixel art stuff before developing games? I'm a great musician and programmer looking to work on a game as a hobby but I can't do visual art for shit haha

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Mappin'

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>>161789545
Any idea what the puzzle will be?

>>161788105
I found some graphic bugs in the demo, its at the forums though.

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>>161791414
Yeah, the puzzle boils down to "get both party members across the room separately, but you can't step on any tile more than once."

Pic related is an old version of the puzzle, before I decided I wanted to redo this dungeon.

I want to at least have a battle system and dungeon test demo finished by the end of the month!

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>>161794349
Will this be my Christmas present, Anon?
I'm looking forward to it.

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>>161794580

Uwah, I guess I better hurry up and actually work on my game then...

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>>161761978
It could also work out like a Grow ability. Like Final Fantasy's Bombs.

Or maybe a special ability, instead of absorbing fire damage as HP, it boosts Attack power.
Idk, what the formula for that would be.

I'm not the one that usually posts this, but good night /rpgmg/. Let's make progress again tomorrow.

A collection of combat design decisions are all coming together to suggest that my game should have no random battles/trash fights.

>Characters have to build up to full strength over a few turns by getting into fighting stances, applying buffs, etc. This suggests that fights should generally be long, in order to make it worth the effort.
>Infinite access to healing magic, because I did away with MP. This means that the party never has to worry about being worn down over the course of several fights.
>I'm considering doing away with levels/stat boosting equipment. Equipment would be for interesting effects like "chance of counter attack".

All in all, I think the only option is to have every fight be a unique, planned scene.

omg I'm the anon who hasn't worked on anything cause Pokemon Sun, but I'm finally making progress wooooooooo

>>161800689
I guess a system like this could work, maybe it would feel like some sort of puzzle though. But as long as the battles feel special/intense then you will be fine.

>>161801010
That's great Anon. Keep up the good work!

>>161800689
You might consider looking at Radical Dreamers if that's the case. It's very... unique. It may not work well as it's done in that game, but you might be able to take ideas from that and piece them into what else you've got somehow.

If you play that game, though, be prepared to pretty much spend the entire time reading. It's an almost literal text adventure. A good one, but still...

>>161797681
You could include an if statement in all Fire-based moves if you want to avoid custom scripting.

b.id == [actor ID] ? b.add_buff(2, [number of turns]) : [regular damage formula]

>>161681203
We should die more often then.

Happy making, anon.

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Does the game freak out when I put a ton of conditional branches in an event? I wanna use a single common event for my movement system, I activate a trigger so the event will use the proper series of events, then of course constant conditional checks to show where the player is to give distance + cover modifiers.

>Boss is charging
>Boss is charging
>Boss unleashes Special Move
>Party fainted

>>161699962
Reminds me a bit of Demon On A Starship (the gameplay, that is). I always thought that was an underused mechanic, so I say go for it.

>>161803235
Nope, why would the game misbehave?

>>161803289
You have 2 turns, apply at least one defensive buff on the party member you need alive(typically the healer) and then guard

>>161803235
I don't get it. Is there any observer or not? and why you didn't cover that part with additional self-switches from that Yanfly plugin?

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>>161803389
>why would the game misbehave?

I tend to assume things never work out the way I hope they'll work.

>>161803430
>and why you didn't cover that part with additional self-switches from that Yanfly plugin?

I'm... not using anything from yanfly. The man is going to fucking die before my game is made and then who'll help me work things out?

>>161776186
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FF15 actually being good and the free login campaign for FF14 are KILLING my progress on Super Slime Quest.

There will be a demo soon, I swear!

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>>161737143
Worked on a new social AI mockup (left), and a strange tangent led me on a 6 hour journey to discover what medieval farmer peasants did all year when not harvesting/planting, as well as what they ate to survive when they only harvested twice a year. For some reason, that journey inspired everything starting with "Book of the Law" (right) down to the bottom.

>>161803863
I remember my classes on that whole social needs stuff, was kinda boring. I remember not agreeing with any theory fully.

What is desire to I? Self-realization?

>>161782946
CHUB GIRL

>>161782946
seconding chubby girl

>>161805047
>I remember my classes on that whole social needs stuff
Maslov's hierarchy of needs. I made a note to not just default to that, but it has merits as a reference, just like The Sims.

It's funny though. I've never played The Sims in my life (until a couple of days ago, when I picked it up in the Steam Sale). Project Medusa was a social AI (originally meant to be a IUI) built around the concept "She just wants to be happy." Happiness was its basic modifier, and everything else influenced or had the potential to modify happiness. It gave her a fun sort of lifelike personality. Anyways, since I'm adapting Medusa into an overly simplified template for multiple, successive AI's in RPGM, I've been considering ways of self-interaction and variation.

First came inspiration by Maslov - the idea of certain needs, each of which has a certain priority and weight over those below it, like Maslov's hierarchy. That would make NPCs of low wealth and high wealth vary greatly in their schedules and responses. Then I tried Sims for the first time, completely blind on what kind of game it was, and the AI in it really impressed me. It's not exactly what I'm looking for, but having multiple internal meters which build towards the happiness meter was a perfectly simple way of implementing the hierarchy.

I know you didn't ask or care. I just like organizing my thoughts on paper.

>What is desire to I?
Desire to Intimacy, or more specifically to fugg. The space separates physical desires from vague, amorphous ideas of desires. I do all my work on a laptop in very public places, where people glance over my shoulder often, so euphemisms, acronyms, and abbreviations are a must.

>>161805883
It's not like I don't care, I always find it interesting what fellow (no)devs from here are working on. With it was boring I meant the classes themselves, you know these teachers which hardly care and simply pump out papers?
The concept of Maslov's hierarchy of needs or the Engel curve were interesting enough to remember them.

Good call to conceal these things, people always sneak a peak.

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Good night bump

>>161799475
Yes! Let us make lots of progress tomorrow.

I'm glad you're dead

>>161810903
No, you aren't

How's the collab going? Is it still dead?

>>161816610
someone else picked it up, last i saw.

>>161803810
So it's not just me who's been sucked back into ff14 then?

Why is it so ded around here?

>>161818728
Not yet, it just has low HP.

>Anon used Heal III
>/rpgm/ recovers 8 pages!

>>161817157

I've been sucked back in too.

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One portrair down, 3 to go, next party member's portraits will be worked on next

>>161803810
I LOVE this font.
If you don't mind me asking, how are you handling these dialogue boxes? They're much more comfortable than the big rectangles aligned with the screen bottom.

>>161821973

I finished faces of my 4 main characters+some side. I really wish I had some skill at art and such, editing their expressions just a touch to be better would have been nice. Alas, I've got what I have to work with, namely a lot of stuff I've gathered and imported into expanded generator. It gives me more options than the basic character generator at least.

How do I make an actor with fixed equipment actually swap it?
I tried to change their classes back and forth with a class that hasn't fixed equipment, but it doesn't work.

Have to just make 2 versions of the same actor?

>>161825401

If you mean that you want to change the appearance of weapons, Yanfly's Weapon Animation is your go to for that.

Can't help you if you want to change the outfits.

>>161825610
I have this
>guest actor(you can't change their equipment) leaves the party
>stuff happens
>guest actor joins the party again, still as guest, but now should use a different equip

It's a guest, so I don't mind making 2 different versions with 2 different intial equipments, but I would prefer to avoid that.

I'm using rename prompts for an invisible 2nd character as part of a password puzzle. Because of this though, my character has an invisible 2nd character following him the entire game.

Not visibly impacting performance, but still a spooky pain in the ass when I have collisions toggled on. Any solution to this?

>>161826141
Why is said character even in the party to being with?

>>161826216
I don't want them to be, I just have 2 characters set as the maximum allowed in the party so that I can use one as a text input for this password minigame (If character 02 name is: STARS, win, else lose).

When you have 2 characters allowed in the party, by default it seems you have a collision-less empty space following your main character.
So like I say it's not a massive deal, doesn't seem to impact performance, just wondering if I can have a second char slot for use in text entry with retention and not have a space follow me around.

>>161826141
You don't have to have them in the party for renames, for any engine. I got actor number 10 set aside for just that.

>>161826858
nvm fixed it

I can just turn followers off.

>>161826959
Or >>161826913, you don't need to add that character in your party at all if you only need it for a password minigame

>>161827074
I'm not adding anybody to anything, this is exactly what I'm trying to say. There is no character.

If I have collisions showing in test, there is clearly an entity drawn in a line behind me for every extra character allowed in the party, the solution is to turn off followers.

>>161827814
If the "character" isn't in the party, then it shouldn't show there at all
By character, I mean the empty slot, "it" should be in the party to be a follower.

>>161827932
I keep telling you that by creating a 2nd slot, i've created a 2nd slot for a follower on the map, and this is my problem.

There is no follower, there is no character sprite following me around, I'm just saying the engine draws the slot whether there is a character in it or not, and that with collision toggled on, I can see the small (ultimately non-functioning) collision box for the 2nd slot.

I regret bringing this up at all, jesus fuck my blood pressure.

>>161828860
In >>161826858, you said you are allowing a max of 2 characters in the party, why?
If the 2nd slot actually doesn't contain any character, but it's only used to rename instead, then you should be allowing only one.

Or is the engine automatically changing it to 2 as long you have 2 actors in the database?

There's gonna be a big twist in my game. I figure I'll say what it is since I'm not saying what my game is and nobody goes here anyway.

Halfway through the game at the confrontation with the main villain, all the people who've helped you come to your aid...and then it turns out they were all just incarnations of the villain himself, who were luring you into his trap the whole time.

So. I figure I may allude to this near the beginning of the game. The second battle in the game is an unwinnable fight with a cloaked figure. After he strikes you down you wake up in the hut of an old woman, who says she nursed you back to health and then asks if you have anyone else with you.

If you say "yes" (which is the truth) then she temporarily joins you and you take her back to your crew. If you say "no" then she leaves abruptly, and the game continues the same way if you go back to where your crew is. But if you say "no" and then go back to where the cloaked dude is, he'll still be there, and say "...you lied" before killing you, triggering a game over.

Is this too obvious a clue?

>>161830891
Not painfully obvious, but it clearly hints that the villain is watching you somehow.
I wouldn't doubt the party members as first thing though, I could imagine there is a spy or something that follows you around without being noticed

>>161831231
Coolio. Guess I'll stick with that then.

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Ehhhh, really?! Anon is making a jrpg with a fantasy setting, but there isn't a single character in the party that isn't a human, elf, or dwarf? That can't be right, anon knows better than that!

I'll just ask him myself.

Hey, anon! What they're saying about your game... It's not true, is it...?

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Alright. Tell me where I can get these tilted heads? I keep seeing face sets like these, but looking is turning up a big fat nothing.

>>161832351

What do you want, a catgirl? Stuff that. Elves&Humans party for my jrpg.

>>161829919
The check I'm doing on the character name to resolve my puzzle will only check the name of a character in the current party, I believe.

Since i don't plan to have characters (1 player game, not really a JRPG) I should just be able to keep my PC and one slot for a utility

I'll look into it a bit more, it's been a week since I even opened my project. The puzzle isn't even that good, so perhaps not worth the pain.

>>161833868

M-maybe like a fishman or a golem or something like that...

>>161830891
Why is the evil dude luring you?

>>161834383
By default, the standard RPG Maker Conditional Branch checks the actor's name whether they are in the party or not.
Same with the renaming, it's never required to take a party slot.

>>161832530
Unique characters won't appear as the gen parts. May be if you buy Seasons Pass which is pretty pricy.

>>161834656
When you first test any new project in MV, you have the caterpillar of 4 characters, but it seems like if you delete all of these and then add a new one, it's auto-added to your party too when testing.

>>161835235
>>161834656

okay okay okay okay,

After some googling I'm a moron, and you can set the starting party members in the System tab of the Database.

Marked as solved, please delete etc.

>>161830891
I think it's fine.

>>161834535
He wants to find out information about you and your world so he can successfully invade it. That's why he doesn't just kill you right away.

>>161834464

Do you have sprites that can be added and generator parts? Fuck, lore wise, in the setting I'm making my game in, there are orcs and lizardmen and even golem like constructs. It's not really a matter of not wanting to put something more in, but not being able to. Oh, I've seen plenty of those crappy 'parts' that add tails and shit, but those are mostly for yiffs and there are no yiffs in my game. Parts I saw for lizard type character looked like fuckin' Pepe with a snout. I don't want to put that shit in.

Elves and Humans will have to do. Dwarves too, if I figure out how to make a dwarf face with the generator that does not look like ass.

Working on a script that will call common events at key points in battle. So far I've planned for:

>On battle start
>On battle win
>On battle flee
>On party wipe
>On turn start
>On turn end

Is this enough? Do you think I should add action start/end triggers as well?

>>161837883
>Do you think I should add action start/end triggers as well?
Yes

>>161837883

What do you guys use common events for? I keep meaning to make some, but I can't honestly think of a use.

>>161839319
I use parallel common events to handle NPC schedules, things I need global checks against times or other conditions for but can't have tied to any one map.

I also use it to save me writing out complex sections again. For example I have sections where you talk through a computer to another character, and I like to have a small degree of RNG for the time it takes them to start responding and the time it takes them to type a response, and I can keep all this grisly shit in a common event and just call it every time I do a conversation instead of manually entering all the random times.

I'm pretty new to this though so not sure if this is efficient.

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>>161839319

>Skills and items with unique effects (E.g. showing a message when you read a note).

>Keeping code consistent among a ton of events which all need to do the same thing (pic related, each boulder calls this event)

>Calling the same event at the start of each battle, without having to add it to every troop's events (that's why I'm working on this script: >>161837883 )

>>161839319
Used them for
>Teaching skills to specific character only via items
>Item that teleports you in a certain place but doesn't work in some maps
>Character skill that allows her to change moveset completely
>Battle event that requires the player to use a determined skill to progress
>Boss fight that requires the player to use a certain item to make the boss winnable and set a timer
>Some skills that are based on variables that should be always changing
>Debug mode, to allow me to save/change party members where you typically can't for testing purposes

>>161839832
>>161840154
>>161840227

Something to keep in mind then. I've really not touched the common events much. I made one, where I can just put it in to call a sound effect when the party recieves an item, to save me the hassle of looking up the SE all the time.

When you say showing a message when you read a note, you mean like pulling up an image of a message?

>>161841335
You could use an image or simply call a text message with the contents of the note

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>>161841335
Right now I just use regular message windows. See about 20 seconds into this webm for an example.

>>161841667
Whoops, wrong webm. I'll upload the correct one in a few minutes.

>>161841629

It's some commonly found note then, since it brings up the same text all the time? So far I've been giving all the pieces you can pick up and read unique stuff.

>>161841802

I was beginning to wonder. I keep rewinding to 20 seconds to check, but it's just a pig orc getting whammed.

>>161841938
Not that anon, but I guess he only has one note that shows one specific text

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>>161841938

>>161842438

Ah, I see. Very useful.

BAMP

Been using doodads to add shadows in my dungeon. I'm starting to think I'll forgo them for the simplicity of what I can already use. While it certainly seems a nice idea, I wonder if having 500+ shadow doodads on medium sized maps is even worth the hassle. Plus, occassionally when I playtest, there a moments where there are lines on the walls, which is none too appealing.

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>>161837883
So far so good on the script. The triggers i've been able to implement are:

>On battle start
>On win (triggers after returning to map)
>On flee (triggers after returning to map)
>On wipe (triggers after returning to map)
>On turn start
>On turn end (doesn't trigger on the last turn of the fight)
>On action end (doesn't trigger on the last action of the fight)

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Does your game also have such exciting skill names?

You are working hard, correct?

>>161852428
I'm still stuck on the same part of my story since like 2 weeks ago

>>161852428

I finished shadowing and propping the sewer. Lucky it's a sewer, so I need not prop much. Also decided to switch things up story wise. The flashback I made already will be fourth. Instead, at the beginning, there'll be short opening crawl and a training session with your dad that will serve as a tutorial. Already made the neat little tutorial map. Now I just have to figure out how would I go about implementing the tutorial. A worry for tomorrow though, since I'm beat.

>>161847715

Why do you need those? I mean, how many fights are you going to have where characters are actually talking during the fight?

>>161852428

I'm at my job right now, daydreaming about what I'm gonna do in my game when I get home.

>>161852857
>Why do you need those? I mean, how many fights are you going to have where characters are actually talking during the fight?

It's not just for talking. It's for a lot of stuff:

>Sabas casts Attune:Life at the start of each battle
>The party is fully healed after each battle
>The phoenix ring checks if the wearer has died at the start of each turn

Which is best, VX Ace or MV?

>>161855601
MV is better for lewd games. VX Ace is better for farm life sims.

babamp

>>161824472
Thanks! And it's using Yanflys Message Core plugin!

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If you die, the phoenix ring will shatter and revive you next turn. Very convenient.

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What do you think of Mud Puppy?

>>161863157
I think he should have brown drips coming off of his tongue, unless you want his muddiness to be subtle

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>>161863393
Like this?

>>161864563
Not him but now he looks like a polished chocolate pupper.

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>>161864691
Maybe less shinyness?

>>161865242
The problem is I'm not really feeling it, if you say in game that it is a puppy made out of mud it will be fine but otherwise I would simply see a brown dog I guess.

>>161867503
I guess the salamander traits will have to be more visible from the side.

>>161867690
You could show a bit of his tail coming from the back

So what kind of rewards would you offer kickstarter backers if you were to do that?

>>161870902
Naming/designing npcs (few minor and one major)
Designing quests (up to 5 or so)
Designing monsters (a few normal ones and one boss)
Maybe the soundtrack as a download
Every design would need to fit within the world though, if I would get a genderfluid furry with dyed hipster hair then I wouldn't accept that and change it to something that would fit

>>161870902
Optional bosses. Everyone loves optional hardmode bullshit, right?

>>161863157
He's pretty cute, but the name sounds like something that would get thrown around on /pol a lot.

>>161865242
Try to make the whole body sort of dripping and liquid-y.

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>>161874884
>but the name sounds like something that would get thrown around on /pol a lot

This is your nightly reminder to back up your project to your remote repository.

>>161877064
No way. Nothing's going to happen to MY project.

>>161877204
I've seen a lot of posts where people said that they lost their game/a lot of progress.
It's more likely than you think.

Is travelling to the Earth's core a believable plot element?

>>161878675
Why does it have to be believable?

>>161878675
It's been done a few times in literature and movies.

Are you going for scientifically accurate? Or are you going for something like "it turns out the Earth is hollow and there's aliens living in it"?

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I accidentally ate some spoiled food and now I don't feel so well.
Please do not forget me.

>>161839319
Line of Sight calculations, my custom inventory (so it can be accessed from any map), similarly the equipper, the NPC generator for when recruiting a new party member or an enemy, and several more.

Generally it's for the core systems of the game which need to be referenced multiple times from more than 1 map.

>>161855758
What if I want to make a lewd game in a life sim?

>>161880338
That's where RPG Maker 2003 comes in

I wanted to make progress today but I didn't.
Gomenasai

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So on Dashbored am i supposed to be able to go into those generators in the subway, gas room? Sorry no pics of it i saved over it.

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Good night bump

Anon casts Heal III!
/rpgm/ recovered 8 pages!

I finished FF15! Not enough slimes, but it was pretty fun.

Anyway, back to work!

>>161888398
Good job!

I cleared Pokemon Sun's Pokemon League.

...but the ride never ends, does it?
I'm such a shitter for trying to do competitive breeding.

>>161878698
For the same reason I want to make characters with a believable personality, I want to include realistic elements in my game to make the plot feel more familiar and plausible
>>161878831
Scientifically accurate, I was thinking of giving the characters some sort of magic protection that helps them adapt to the high pressure and temperatures

My plan so far:

-Write
Rough Story Outline
Rough Character Roles

-Implement
Map & Puzzles
Battle System
Character
Main Event
Monster
Bosses
Sidequests

Anything missing here?

>>161893703
Have you prepared all the needed resources?

BGM, SFX, Tilesets, sprites, etc.

>>161895014
Oh right. Thank you anon.
Maybe I'll try drawing something.

>>161879028
But... I don't know who you are, anon. You don't have a name.

Tfw no progress

Tfw still no tomb of friends 2 demo

i really loved the first one, ok

Alright, I'm gonna ask here because I'm pretty much out of ideas.

I'm a total scrub at RPGMaker, so bear with me.
I'm trying to find a way to display a picture during a battle, that changes depending on things like states and what armor is equipped.
Preferably I'd like to just paste some transparent images over eachother (like a helmet pasted on the characters head if he has it equipped).

My question is, how do I display an image during the entire battle and how do I tell it to change pictures when certain states are applied?

I've looked around and nowhere can I find a script or something

>>161903628
Which version of RPG Maker are you using? I know jack shit about VX Ace, but Yanfly made a plugin for MV, Visual State Effects Core, that handles some of what you want. http://yanfly.moe/2016/08/20/yep-114-visual-state-effects-rpg-maker-mv/

>>161904294
Dang, I'm using VX Ace.

>>161904452
In that case I have nothing. Sorry.

>>161903628
You can make checks for equipment and states just fine with Common Events, I think. The issue is moving the picture along with your character part. You'd have to program the movement yourself. Personally, I'd say just make different pictures for different equipment. At least until you learn to code in Ruby.

Alternatively, I believe Yanfly has a Script for Visible Equipment in SV for MV.

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>>161905285
For the record (I should have specified this),
I just want a static image, like a character portrait.
My party only has 1 member, and the idea is that said image is displayed to the right of the screen at all times. For lack of a better example, something like this, where the expression would change when below a certain amount of health or something.

What /vg/'s opinion on having vocals in the bgm?

I remade my spell system. It is now much nicer. I'd say it's somewhat in vein of Devil Survivor. There are 4 basic element attack spells (5 in each). Light/Dark have their own 3, each a heavy hitter.

Then you have a ton of passives. There are also standard buffs&debuffs. Now I just have to list out all the Special abilities, for TP users and I'll be done.

I think it'll work good. I'll use Yanfly's Skill Equip system and set it in a way that there are Common/Rare/Legendary tiers and only 4 skill slots at first, which'll raise to 6 later in story(Or perhaps you'll get to buy skills that unlock them. I'll decide later, thus far, just trying to set things up so they work with the prologue section which'll be in the demo). With just ultimately 6 slots, people'll have to think about what they want and what they do not want to use. Will they specialize or go wide?

'course, not all party members will be able to learn all the spells at the same rate or at all. MC for instance, will not get to learn heavy hitting Fire spell till lv.35, while the Mage will get it at 25-30. Since party members earn JP only on leveling up, always the same set amount, that'll mean being smart about what you want.

>>161907482
They've gotta be faint. Having actual lyrics highlights the msuic, which is bad if it often repeats. The lyrics will get annoying. Choral sounds are much more plalatable over multiple listenings

>>161907482
If well utilized
Vocals can be effective
If not... don't go there.

>>161907482
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcoLNTG1tTo

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>>161821973
More finished!

Hey guys, does anyone know how to make rooms view able only when you get close to them, kind of like the rooms are only able to be seen dependent on what the character would be able to see from 1st person.

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>>161910234
To clarify, I'm looking to darken parts of the map, dependent on perspective and location.

What inspires you to work on your project?

>finish work
>eager to get home and work on my 2D Hentai game
>public transport is an insane sardine can
>thicc butterface milf pressing me into a corner, ass on crotch, for nearly an hour
>actively leans into corners
>apologises with a smirk when leaving

I am so fucking ready for progress

>>161910632

i just want to make the sort of game I wish existed already.

d-don't lewd

>>161910550

Terrax lightning system might help with that

>>161910632

"I want to show all my friends at /rpgmg/ what I'm capable of!"

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>>161870902

Hmm, maybe something like this.

>>161870902

Soundtrack, Game Art, Walkthrough Guide, Hidden easter egg area created in the game specifically for backers with names and such and maybe names in the credits of the game.

>>161910632
I had a dream the other night that I thought would be a fun idea for a chapter of my game, and I'm working towards trying to make it as accurate as I can remember

>>161912371

Friends? I don't know you anon.

>>161870902

That implies actually going out of your way to advertise your game. Jesus. If anything, I dread that shit. I want to put my game on Steam Greenlight one day, but if I'll be doing it solo, who knows when it might get noticed.

>>161909810
>green armor
I'd prefer some other color like black or gray. Green armor on spess muhreenes sort of reminds me of "Doom". I noticed late that there's camouflage too. I say... I hope you work on coloring more.
May be make camouflage a bit more noticeable with other shades of green or go for black-gray or brown-ivory combination for other types.

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>>161909810

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>>161915662

>I don't know you anon

You will when I post a demo eventually, and then we can bond over rpg maker, helping each other with bug fixing and coming up with story ideas and one day, after a long night of staring at pixels and scripts and plugins and events and maps until five or six in the morning, it'll all swirl together and you'll look into my eyes and realize that you're what I've been looking for and I'm what you've needed and there will be this mutual understanding that rpg maker can connect us, it can connect us all, and do you want three kids or four? I'm good with however many as long as you're there too, testing my game and letting me try yours. Anyway, sign this, please.

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>trying to do a quasi ancient-Greek game
>spend so much time doing "historical research" on Wikipedia that I've barely worked on the game

ALIVE

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>>161917987
>You will never get married with a fellow Anon from /rpgmg/

>>161917987
bride groom? is that like, bride (male)?

>>161922532
Yes.
But you can choose between a suit or a dress.

>>161917987

Post proof that you are a girl and I might.

Do you guys make sections in your spell lists? Like, I put down Light Magic, skip a number and then start filling out the spells for the category. Kinda like to have it neatly organized.

>>161912509
Glad to know I'm not the only one who draws lewds of his own characters

>>161926261
I can't because i have yet to add 90% of my skills and spells.

>>161870902
Definitely an art-book, since art is my thing. Besides, then I can show off new stuff, old designs, concepts I tossed, but also add some new and nicely cleaned up art.

>>161926261
I separate enemy and player skills is all- at least 4-6 per player character, then block it off with a skill called '----'. Mostly because then enemies will have a lot more and a weirder variety, or will have variations to what they can do.

>>161928453
>>161928967

I see. I'm building a core of the spells first. Mapping shit out and making characters is nice and all, but skills/items/weapons&armor are like, the critical infrastructure.

Speaking of that, I've hit upon a snag. I mentioned before that I'm using Yanfly's skill equip to limit what players can pick and force them to think.

I want to make a passive skill that'll increase HP by 15%. However, I'm unable to do so. Via the plugin, I can increase HP by +amount, but when I put in precentage, it's not working. Yanfly's video has some pretty clear shots of passives with precentages, so it's not impossible. Any ideas?

>>161907482
STEP INTO THE RAINBOW
FIND ANOTHER VIEW

I realized something today. Rats don't live in caves.

Now my first dungeon doesn't make sense.

>>161930380
Doesn't matter it's a rpg, goblins aren't real either.

>>161930380

That's why you have sewers! Rats live where humans do.

>>161931193
The first dungeon is a cave or mine, can't really change that. The party cuts through it to cross a mountain. Now I'm trying to decide on a reason why rats might happen to be there.

My thinking is that perhaps rats somehow stowed away among the miners' supplies, and got loose in the cave. They then got exposed to some kind of magic or something (weird cave fungi?), and and became monstrous. Now they've become adapted to cave life.

>>161930380
Make them into Brats or Cave Rats.

Or make a joke about it later.

>>161930380
they're just cave rats. (they eat rocks)

Oh no! Thread-chan fell and is on page 10.
Please stand up again!

Are you working hard Anon?

>>161937242

Nope

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>>161938050

>>161937242
Rough day. Can barely stay awake.
I'll try tomorrow, for your sake

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>>161939195
That would make me really happy Anon.

>>161938780

My backlog of games is too big so I've been trying to reduce it some. Recently bought that EA access thing for the Xbone so it gave me all 3 Mass Effect games, Need for Speed, Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline and i also bought the new Pokemon Sun and Final Fantasy 15. I bought pretty much every resident evil game on Xbone. I bought Counter Strike and Payday The Heist on steam. Pretty much I'm loaded on games.

Tell me your game's story in up to 5 sentences.

>>161944996
>Game 1: Ancient not!Greek prince or maybe princess, not sure if I'll include gender options wanders not!Greece, encountering all manner of monsters and tyrants. Really an excuse to use Pathfinder's Summoner/"eidolon" mechanics.
>Game 2: Future military fire teams fight an escaped penal legion, an anti-civilization terrorist group, and other baddies. Full Spectrum Warrior IN THE FUTURE!
>Game 3: 16th-17th century not!Central Europe is being menaced by a cabal themed after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Enter the hero.
>Game 4: Something with golems. I honestly haven't gotten much more beyond that.

>>161944996
Antagonists and Monsters were brought to the world from another dimension.
Antagonists were experimented on and then sealed after world was mostly destroyed.
They woke up when humanity has become stable with the whole monster situation.
They hate humans and want to go home, so they try to rebuild the portal that may or may not possibly let more monsters into the world.
Heroes gotta stop them because they're criminals, plus the world will probably not survive another wave of monsters at humanity's current technology level.

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if i wanted to make an ABS in this day in age (zelda style combat) should i use RMXP with scripts or use 2K3? I really like the feel of 2k3 and been using the old ones all my life. I'm not the greatest programmer though.

>>161946746
Roll with whatever you are more comfortable with.

>>161946746
Please don't call it an Action Battle System. People are already confused enough about game genres.

Zelda is an Action game. It uses Action Mechanics. You can do action mechanics in rpg maker with common events.
Ask, "How do I make an Action game"

Action Battle System, are what rpgs use like the "Tales of..." series. You move the character around freely and skills are mapped to hotkeys. It's "Action" mechanics within a "Battle System", because the battle plays out in a different game state. a different screen. Hints the name ABS.

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>>161949439
forgot my image.

Imagining a waifu who gives you moral support is completely normal and healthy, right?
Right?

So Anons
What is the main motivation of your main character?

Where do you guys get your background music?

>>161956462
I'll probably commission someone to make some music for me.
No idea how expensive this will be, though.

>>161952583
Normal people don't finish games. Why would you want to be one of them?

>>161958312
Alright random stranger on the Internet. I shall embrace this and use the powers of schizophrenia to finish my game.

Anyone here interested in making a fanmade re-cut of Xenogears? It's a great Story that just needs to be streamlined and cut, and adapted to better English.

>>161959928
I never played it but do you think it could be done with the RPG Maker?

>>161960372
maybe a sort of de-make

>>161960771
Uh.
Would that be a "loose" remake or something?
I'm not familiar with that term.

Revival bump!

Also, nobody can help me out with this passive thing? >>161929531

>>161961983
I think the default one can do % by itself? Should be in the same way you can make Attack Buffs on the default system.

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How do you guys stay motivated?

>>161926261
I would love to, but that would require me to plan all my skills beforehand, reorganizing them means having to change a lot of stuff, so nope

>>161962517
To be honest I struggle with that too.
Sometimes I don't work for a few days and then regret it.
I feel like forcing yourself to work at least one hour on your game each day would be a good way to handling it.

Does anyone know a good way to reduce PNGs in size? I have a few from a map capturing plugin but it saves the maps in big sizes. A size of a map is like 20mbs.

>>161963225
Are you gonna parallax all your maps?

This engine would be complete trash without Yanfly's stuff. Let that sink in.

>>161907482
Can make for amazing OSTs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2lwFiIaMAE&list=PL8DDD2D047A076DC8

>>161963769
No. It's for the mini-map.
I would use Huddel's but his plugin doesn't capture doodads on the map.

>>161963225
You can reduce the filesize by deleting metadata or something but I never tested that.

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>>161875081
Why's he such a cheeky breeky?

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Good night bump

>>161963225
I open them in Photoshop then export them using the File > Save for Web option, it can reduce the size by fuckloads, try that

>>161961312
Well a remake is typically a polished-up thing that takes advantage of newer, stronger systems to do things that weren't possible the first time around.

So a demake is when you go the other way and port say a PSX game to a SNES-style engine, making everything look shittier in the progress because MUH PIXELS! ...I guess.

Bzwip!

>>161963225
Like file size or picture dimensions? Cause you can scale it in Paint no problem.

Is there something I have to do to trick

Conditional branch>Button OK is pressed down

to work? If I set the condition of a parallel event as pressing any button, it automatically completes without pressing anything, it's a pain in the cunt.

Why the fuck would they enter a feature if it doesn't work?

>>161903213
Patience is a virtue my friend

>>161962132

I tried making a State that gives you 10% more HP, but it's not visible when I equip it via the equip skill. Even if it works during battles, I'd like it to be visible at all times.

Would also kill to know how to make it so that when you equip it, it says Passive instead of cost. Yanfly makes great plugins, but I wish he'd sometimes expand a bit more with more than just one example on what can be done.

>>161963225
https://psydk.org/pngoptimizer
for future reference

>>161980725
Are these optimizers good for pixel art? I always assumed they'd fuck things up.

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>>161985847
They work fine for any kind of png. It's a lossless format, not like jpg compression. But if your images are good to begin with, it won't necessarily do anything for you.

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I've found a weakness in my d20-based weapon math. All of the weapons I've chosen have very similar damage values (either 1d6 or 1d8, average of 4 and 5 respectively), so there's little incentive to specialize in any given one, disregarding special abilities or materials.

>>161988283
This is how original D&D was, too.

It's pretty modern thinking that everything in games has to be some elaborate rock, paper, scissors, but just do what you want to do.

If the game doesn't change the damage I do depending on shortsword or longsword, I'm not going to notice or lose sleep.

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>>161975286
It works fine.
t. Someone who uses over 100 such button inputs

However, you likely aren't accounting for its ridiculous lack of buffering. For example, if you have that parallel process on the starting map, it will run when you hit "Enter" on new game (because for the very first microsecond that the game starts up, your finger is still on "Ok," so it runs.

Ditto for hitting "Ok" or "Confirm" when transferring between maps, and so on. This is a huge problem for me when I disabled the menu to create my own "Conditional Branch: IF Cancel is pressed." Just hitting Cancel on a Choices branch ended up running the damn thing, making it thoroughly frustrating. You need a Wait command for 7-11 frames to buffer the input read, or you can try one of these script calls (on the last page of the Conditional Branch options). Either Triggered or Pressed, one of those resolves the problem, iirc.

Now, if you discover that the very common problem above is not your problem, then there is likely another culprit of your own accidental making in the works here, like a higher page autorunning or a repeated code outside the conditional or some other shennanigan, because the feature itself works fine.

>>161988283
On the other hand, that means the player can use freely a weapon they think is cool and not have to worry about how doing anything other than Generic Hero Build 1A gimps them because swords are objectively better than everything else.

>>161988283
It's not a major issue, brohemoth. While not on a d-system, I tried to ground my weapons in real life (determined by how many times an armored and unarmored person could take a hit from it), and most weapons are coming out to about the same damage.

I tried to circumvent it with weapon traits, certain ones having a small influence in certain situations, but ultimately it's asking if you want your ice cream in vanilla bean flavor or chocolate fudge flavor. Like >>161991217 said, it gives people more freedom of choice.

>>161991963
>I tried to ground my weapons in real life
So it takes one decent hit to kill or permanently cripple any unarmoured target?

>>161993362
Correct. While a sword is also nigh useless against a man entirely covered in full plate.

Alright, I figured out how to make that passive that I wanted. Now I hit upon a different snag.

After a character coughs up 100 JP to learn the skill, it's auto equipped, yeah? So, when you unequip it, it is no longer present. Which is weird, as I've done all the set up for it. I've added the state, the learn cost and the tier in skill notetag and I added it so that character can learn it in the class tag.

Also, if I set it so the character learns it as he levels up, there is no such problem. You can equip and unequip it at will. But I don't want them to learn it at level up, I want them to pay JP for it.

Anyone got ideas?

Replacing all the sound effects and menu blips with non-RTP is the greatest feeling in the world. Holy shit. Talk about motivation.

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>>161995857
I'm happy for you.