/rpgmg/ - RPG Maker General #177

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First for character portraits

>>162332964
>Can't let you do that Starfox

I like it.

>>162332964

I like the art. But then, I strongly dislike furries. Sorry anon, but you gotta go back.

Post progress Anons.
Tell us what you are working on.

>>162333451
>talking shit about Leo
No, you go back

>>162334363
I'm making the hub area of my exploration game.
I still don't know if there should even be a hub but I'm making one anyways.

Today's Song of the Day:

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahmzAj3k2KQ

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>>162335892
>Infected Mushroom
Eugh... electro sh-
>J.Davis
fuck yea.

>>162334363
I've been working on the combat system for my game. Instead of trying to put in a movement based combat system in the actual battle system I'm doing it as an turn based deal.

I would provide a webm but I just built a new pc and haven't moved my files over yet. But right now I got combat done, you can move one spot forward or back and get a dodge buff to simulate you moving during the enemy's turn. If the spot is next to cover you get a cover buff.

The attacking mechanics I'm working through. The forumla right now is:

Base 50
+Attacker's skill
vs
-Defender's skill
-Distance

Then a number between 1 to 100 is rolled and if the difference of the above formula is above the rolled number it hits. Cover plays a roll where it can completely block the shot instead. I may change that last bit to instead make cover affect the to hit rate and reduce the range penalty.

For damage the player at the start can take 3 hits, enemies have different amounts of HP. The player can earn extra HP through side quests, vests that can protect against a shot, and of course whisky and smokes to restore an HP.

>>162336440
>Shootout game
Sweet

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Good night bump

>>162337470
>dem thighs
Nice

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>>162334572
Snuggled up in bed without my tripcode.

>>162333451
All are welcome, as long as you are working on your game... You ARE working on your game, aren't you?

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Who else /cookie cutter button sequence puzzle/ here?

>>162338459
Interesting do you play as a cave man?

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>>162334363
Working on the opening sequence and messing with damage formulas. It's all starting to come together!

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>>162338916
Indeed, you are Otak the smartass caveman

>>162337801

I am working on my game. Can't use anything you offer, I'm using mostly MV stuff, slightly edited so it's a bit darker. Thinking I'll mix and match with Town of Beginnings' wall tiles.

N-no

>>162339148
>I slurpose

I am a grown man squeeing so fucking hard right now.

>>162331192
>Remove gold
That's a bad idea, you'll have no way of knowing if you have killed enough enemies to afford that new sword you saw in the shop. I don't want to go all the way from the forest of grinding to the shop in the center of town just to find out actually I needed to kill a few more bats.

>remove game end
This is a terrible idea. You never want to design any program without a way to shut it off within the program. That is design 101 level stuff.

>>162338459
My puzzles so far are rock pushing and chasing an enemy from the right direction so he doesn't run in circles.

>>162334363

Now, I'm drawing some additional sprites for animations that will be used for a pre-boss scene, then I'll be working on the scene itself and after that, finally, a boss fight.

It shouldn't take more than two days to finish and when it's done - if my calculations are correct - I'll be halfway through in the development of the whole game. Feels good.

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Might as well ask in the new thread. Anyone know how to put in a "wait" in a plugin? I can't seem to get it to work. I made pic related to create a snapping kind of movement from one tile to another, and it works in all but one respect, that their is no pause between player steps. Monsters/npcs have to obey a frequency of movement setting, but players don't and just move as fast as the time it takes to get from one tile to another.

So I figure I need to put some kind of "Wait 40 frames after every movement" line into the plugin, but nothing I try seems to work.

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The animation for this is going to be a pain in the ass, but how spoopied would you be if you approached a tree where this creature is sitting around and it suddenly jumped down when you approached?

>>162352335
Probably the same reaction as seeing it now, I'd be wondering if that's a squid or what the hell it's supposed to be. I do like it though.

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Progress! Common District of Rathsbane. Need to add an Arena and a few more houses in. Then I need to make the inside of that run down old church, weapons&armor shop and item shop.

Will possibly widen the map more, so that I can add another tavern/inn. I doubt all the people would keep going back to the whorehouse in Dock district.

Honestly, I could make the district twice this size and I might only get close to describing how big the area is. Instead, I think I'll settle for the area Party will move around. Later on, I might add in other districts of the city too.

Hey guys, been lurking around these RPG threads for awhile and have been super fucking digging them, never knew anyone else wanted to waste their time on something as much as I am heh.

But anyways here's a gay trailer for my shitty RPG for gay retards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRblmci0CJk

(Pic related: its the only art asset I drew myself. Mouse and Keyboard rip)

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>>162356623
oops

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One of those ideas that looked better in my head.

>>162360919
I think it's a good enough idea, but personally I'd try and make the stem of the umbrella mushroom thicker and maybe have it grow out of her back instead of her tit

>>162356623
Neat concept, breath of fresh air among the usual fallen angel / ancient evil awakening / historical setting where entirety of research is reading wikipedia a bit / generic anime 2 color eye bullshit.

That said
>Plugging your youtube channel
C'mon now, Brandon.

>Adeline, Keanu
Are people actually called this? Kinda spoils the otherwise down-to-earth setting

>Describing your own character as a loveable idiot
Write a character who is actually loveable and demonstrably stupid so you won't need to say that.

>Self-insert character
C'mon now, Brandon.

>Dyslexia-tier spelling
C'onm now Barndon

>Sister is a horse
Actually funny as fuck

Seems like you've put a bunch of work into this. I'd advise you to replace the default visuals with something more distinctive and suitable for your theme, you could really have something here.

>>162361819
It is meant to grow from her hip.

Does this work better?

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>>162356623
also
>CWC boss
Funny for about a second, but then makes me want to not really play.

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>>162365328
Oops.

>>162365586
Yeah, I like that better. It bothered me at first because there's no way that thin-ass stem would be able to support the mushroom head, and it still kind of does but less so now.

>>162365114

Ey, don't diss on Keanu. Keanu is real!

That being said, I'm in agreement with most of those points.

Also, is gathering a party to do low level quests for an advanturer's guild, where characters grown and uncover things about themselves and their motivations a popular storyline around here? I promise, the party sure as hell won't be killing an ancient evil or a fallen angel. Might help put a sentient bit of a god to sleep, but that's in the air yet.

>>162355216
Looking good so far, although it looks a little confusing to navigate. I'm sure you'll get the "flow" of the streets ironed out though.

>>162356623
I can dig it. I look forward to the demo.

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Should I add a secret frog NPC that you can feed with frog food to make it follow you around?
Thinking of making a couple of pets like that in case the player gets lonely

>>162367051
Sounds like a cute idea.

>>162366467
Yeah man, I just think it'd be a good idea to stay true to the relatively down-to-earth setting.

While it might be tempting to go off the track to explore characters, I'd recommend caution when using tropes from regular fantasy like guilds. I think the strength of your setting is its being grounded in something people will recognise.
The more departures into fantastical elements, the more that events rely on knowledge of other existing games or media, the less impact these departures will ultimately have.

Take Harry Potter for example, it's a mainstream example of a "weird school" setting, but a lot of what makes it compelling is that it's grounded in something familiar- people doing a lot of mundane school stuff.

If the reason for a school setting is the familiarity and memories of the great people and times you had in school, and wanting to capture that in a game, I can totally dig it- try to stay true to the setting and use weird shit as punctuation when no day-to-day equivalent can convey the same thing, for the greatest effect.

If the reason is because "can you imagine if instead of a regular shitty school, it was like..."
It's more often gonna stray into anime-junkie faggot retard wish fulfillment or reference memes and interbutts humor, which will date and harm the game tbqhfampai.

I'm not the authority on anything, so feel free to disregard me. Looking forward to playing this though.

>>162367051

Only if you call it Pepe.

>>162367783

Sorry man, I ain't the guy who posted the demo. Just thought I'd fish for thoughts. I'm sure he'll appreciate your kind words tho'.

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>>162367391
>>162367978
The froggening begins then

>>162365114
Never really thought of that actually.
When it came to not using a typical fantasy setting I actually just enjoy the concept of an everyday setting that melts into like this weird pseudo rpg landscape.

Also my youtube channel is where im hosting the video and I am what you call a HUGE INSUFFERABLE DOUCHEBAG.

Some if not most of the characters in the RPG are actual people I met in real life *this* semester. Keanu is a good friend I met in college english and we where joking "Dude keanu you're like the perfect anime rpg protagonist. Black hair brown eyes you like anime as it is. Wait holy fuck this could be like a real thing." As for Adeline, it's a cute name imo. You can change it if you want in the game.

True true, but loveable idiot is alot nicer sounding than alcoholic druggie retard.

Early in the RPG I wanted my character to play a giant support role. But as far as where the project is now, Brandon in the rpg is a separate entity from my ACTUAL secret self insert if that makes any decent moral sense. But yeah you're right.

Funny you mention it my fucking friend called me out for variety a couple hours ago.

You wont believe the fucking story behind the sister horse...

Thanks man, right now what I wanna do is actually, release roughly 1/3 of the rpg right now in this somewhat demo, then finish it with the rpg maker art style and copyrighted music. THEN redo all the art and music from scratch adding my vibes and gay shit. Then finally, because again I am a huge prick, release that shit on steam and make a million dollars.

>>162365575
If you guys make my face a fucking meme I will be forever grateful/resentful.

Also please dont worry, the CWC boss functions as the /joke end point of the demo/part-one of the rpg./ It's (probably) not going to be a long term thing.

Also it's not the actual CWC it's technically my friend AJ that's super into Chris Chan. Hence Aj-Chan

>>162366467
Yeah! Keanu is a real boy!

Yeah uh... It's moreso gonna follow a favorite game of mine LISA the Painful RPG. You gather alot of people and you work together to a goal. The goal of the RPG is to defeat the remaining 5 teachers and then take on the principals office and then education itself. All in the hopes of getting free college for LIFE.

>>162366710
Thank u

>>162367783
Oh no thank you v much for the words broski.
There will be no gay magic system and no cute antagonists dating girls with large boobers. I mean the protagonist Keanu granted lives with his sister is relatively passive in the events happening and has a underlying druggie prob but eh.
The RPG takes place at a college on a island where they hold a student vs staff competition. The main MEAT of the story however, is interactions in meeting and talking to people and learning by these interactions where to go next. I like a good RPG with f l a v o r t e x t that isn't lousy.

And as far as retardation goes, it's a good retardation I feel I can and have captured.

>>162367978
R u trying to imperson8ing me boi. I will program ur mom succing a penis.

>>162368575
If you plan to make a gorillion bucks on steam, check out the other RPGMaker games that did well.

They almost unilaterally buck every single JRPG trend and I think this is a big reason for their success. Leave power crystal anime faggotry to the traditional forum dwellers, make something for the undercunt audience.I'd normally hate to suggest selling out, but in this case it's just distancing yourself from 1000 poorly-socialised bronies with embarrassingy trite ideas and they're investment-fallacied up to the point they legitimately believe their terrible story made up of pieces of other people's stories need to be told 99% of them don't need to be told and will only ever be played by other faggot losers on the forumssorry, 2real4me

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I think it turned out better than before.

>>162366710
You were right. I was so focused on getting it done I forgot something basic. Thus, I retooled it into something that looks better and has proper streets.

>>162369163
This could be a fun topic if enough folks aren't triggered by it:
Signs your game is going to end up in the autism/ignore pile instead of being a celebrated classic?

>Any variation on the theme of: "I've had 2 or 3 stories rolling around in my head for like 7 years now"
>Any reference to "being bored" or "might as well make a game" as a motivation
>References to basing a game on a short story they wrote in high school
>Author references still being in highschool
>Setting refers to elder gods / demigods ./ creationist race
>Setting takes paragraphs to explain to another human who has played an RPG
>Author actually writes out these paragraphs for others to judge


Fellow assholes tired of seeing the same shit, please feel free to add to this.

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PROGRESS

>>162365586
Fungal a cute. CUTE

>>162370119
Church abbey looks comfy as fuck.

>>162373279
>3h axe
Oh shi-

There we go, fixed it.

Of course, now the equip menu doesn't work until I figure out how to make it choose a character across multiple windows instead of within a single Window_Selectable.

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>>162374817
Forgot pic!

>>162369163
>power crystal anime faggotry
I'm a huge unabashed fan of this trope. However, I think what sets the classics apart from attempts by modern devs is that the setting was properly built around them. For example, in FF1, the unstable Crystals were causing direct harm to the places you visited. I assume most games these days just have Air Crystal/Earth Crystal/etc. because they're pracitcally required if you want Crystals.

Secret of Mana took it one step further: Healing the Mana Seeds was an important bookend to every dungeon. Having one stolen completely upended your routine, and made things more exciting.

The people who grew up playing these games think Magical Crystals are important (and they were) but as devs they fail to explain to their players why they should care about the crystals in their brand new RPG "Tales of Infringia: Copyright Quest XVI"

>>162374989
Can I suggest you to move the mottos a bit more down?
Also not being able to see HP in the menu seems a bit unpractical

>>162375416
HP is fully recovered after each battle, so it's not really necessary. I see what you mean after the mottos, though.

>>162373841

Thanks

That's 'cause it's special. First church of Leliel in the northern lands, built on the ground local godess of fertility and growth gifted to them.

There's is a cathedral in the city now and the significance of this old church is kinda forgotten, but I think I'll probably play into it during the storyline.

>>162375078
Oh, that's another one, thanks mang
>Elemental shit
>Snorefest elemental RPS mechanics
>Settings where every person has some sort of magic, making people essentially elementals
>Setting where everybody has an ability, yet it's otherwise the middle ages or people are separated totally arbitrarily into factions based on their element, because the setting is written by somebody in the console war catchment stage of maturity

A lot of my criticisms are people applying tropes without engaging their brains.

I used to love fantasy, but it's most often just a cheap shortcut to avoid having any sort of internal consistency in the world.

Raise Dead

>>162375893
>Bioshock Inifinite
>Vigors are cheap and available everywhere
>People insist on using lighters

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>>162365114
>Dyslexia-tier spelling
>C'onm now Barndon

>>162375893
Fantasy (and by extension, science fiction) allow us to explore questions that would otherwise be too contentious. Dr Seuss is a master of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories

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Man... just some stores left. Then I can finally work on the Prologue storyline. This is the end result of the Commons' district.

Minus shadows&doodads. I wish there was a way to take a full map picture with doodads in.

>>162382886
Why did you cover the entire ground with stone as opposed to making streets with some grass and trees 'n stuff between them? I suppose if it's a huge city it makes sense that it's got a more 'urban' feel to it

>>162381894
I understand that, my entire problem is that a lot of the time these genres are just vehicles for mediocre output that picks and chooses which rules from established works they'll follow- sort of like the approach to RTP graphics use, except nobody calls others out on the literary side of it.

There's nothing interesting being explored that can't find equivalents in biblical, historical, future or contemporary settings, just a bunch of anime girls hitting on the devs idealised version of their 16 year old self, and maybe their space high school for ninjas with powers gets exploded by the demon king because he's the new principal and my mum never told me I'm the real heir to the head office.

I don't know what I'm hoping to achieve by pointing out the faggotry that surrounds this engine fanbase. Maybe I'm just mad because I'm not smart enough for a real engine, and hate the stigma that comes with this one.

Work on your game

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>>162387629
I have worked on it the whole damn day,
and tomorrow I will work on it again.

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Post your old shitty projects

>>162391770
>those buildings on the right that are just single walls with doors on them

>>162391770

I wish I still had my old projects from RPG Maker for PS1

The stories and graphics were absolute disasters but I'd give anything to play them again.

Why haven't you released your lewd game yet?

>>162399157
Because I don't want to jump right into making lewd scenes but I have no idea how to naturally escalate a situation into lewd.

>>162399338
It doesn't need to be realistic, just let it happen.
>Oh no I fell and know my knee hurts
>I know how to cheer you up *unzips dick*
See? Pretty easy

>>162399157
>develop AI
>plan it out, sequence it, divide it into separate dialogue pools so farmers don't share lines with nobles
>...
>can't figure out how I want it to greet people
What the fuck, anon? I can't decide if I want a generic greeting, a description of what the NPC is doing with choices on how to interact with it, or something else. I'm tempted to add a learning mechanic so that it may greet you by name or by a common interest once it has learned that about you, but it's creating a hiccup that has stopped my whole progress.

Could be lewd.

>>162401161
lel

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>>162391770
>That MS Paint body drawn on top of the RTP head

Now I wish I had someway to recover my Windows 98/Playstation maker adventures. I can barely remember them now.

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How's this look? Keep in mind, this isn't how I want the finished product to look. I'll show you what I want it to be like in my next post.

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>>162402008
I mocked this up in Photoshop. This is how I want it to be like ideally. Any idea how I can get the field to show up in the background? The whole black area in the background is transparent so if I can make the field show in the background somehow, it should show up like this.

>>162402210
Dare I say, it looks comfy? I like the Dragon Quest aesthetic. Take that as you will.

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>>162402668
That's actually precisely what I was going for.

>>162402210
That's easy, just set battle back to none.

>>162404350
The little battle window IS the battleback. All that black area around it is just transparent.

Also setting it to no battleback would just make it have that weird swirly pattern.

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>>162391770
Sure. My history of projects here.

>>162383749
I just want to add onto this list:

You might have the best RPG maker game in the world, and maybe I would love to play it. But the chances of that happening go down dramatically if I have to sit through a 20 minute cutscene right at the start. Some prologue is fine, but if I wanted to read a VN I wouldn't be playing an RPG. The developer MUST surrender control to the player as quickly as feasible.

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>>162391770
There's still some of them I'd like to go back to someday, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

>>162404704
Use it as the right side battle back and set the left side to none.

>>162407973
Nope, doesn't work. Still gives me the black background.

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>>162387629
I'm scouring the internet for obscure tracks to put in my game, does that count?

>>162408420
My friend, I just found the solution. Use this script:

http://pastebin.com/KSZaSEca

And set the little battle window as the right side Battleback. It works flawlessly.

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>>162408920
IT WORKS!
I love you so much I could kiss you!
But only if you're a hot anime waifu.
Otherwise it'd just be kinda weird.

Who wrote the script? What are their terms?

>>162409469
I found it there http://www.rpgmakercentral.com/topic/22611-snapshot-background-as-battleback/?p=156765
I just edited out a small part to make the right battleback stay. No terms specified unfortunately.

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>>162408420
weird, it works just fine for me.

>>162409965
Is that MV? That might be the difference. It doesn't work on Ace

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>>162334363
I finished the gameplay mechanics, now I need to finish the story

>>162410125
Ah, that would be it. I'm on MV.

>>162407461
Tell me about your games, Anon.

>>162408865
Only if you include Miku songs.

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It works? It works!

On-screen buttons are a go.

>tfw haven't opened my project in nearly a full week

Kind of frustrating that steam keeps track of this shit.

ARISE MY MINIONS

For god fucking nipples' sake, I need both Star AND 4-directional collision in a single tile for 90% of my game (MV), what do

Would having a shit-ton of maps bloat my game? And I mean minimum-size maps for various battle scenes to take place on.

>>162408420
Maps in my project range from 5 kB to 700 kb depending on size and complexity. At the small end, that would mean 200 maps is a megabyte.

>>162420601

I'm pretty sure that was meant for me, so thanks anon, that helps me out kind of a lot. I'm not fully ready to start my battle system yet, but I'm getting there, and I think that this will help me.

>>162422087
Ah yeah, had the wrong post number sitting in my reply box from a different message I never sent.

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>tfw trying to come up with an interesting core mechanic because you're under no delusion that your story is good enough to carry the game

>>162424170
Combat encounters based on texas hold 'em.

>testing fails completely

I'll scrap this for now and redo it more cleanly tomorrow. Nighty night, thread.

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>>162334363
started working on my project last monday, it's going pretty well.
doing shitty ms paint art for it.

>>162426312
10/10 censoring of the naughty parts

>>162426312
Hot, I'll probably fap to it later

>>162406763
Game Boy and SNES RPGs I believe struck this balance beautifully. The intro was around a minute or so, and then swept you into the game.

*However,* they also had this handy thing called a 'manual' where, if you cared about the lore, it was waiting for you to read at your leisure and not shoved down your throat at the start.

>>162426824
I wonder if normal artists see this as an insult or as a compliment. With all the time spend on 4chan I honestly can't tell anymore.

>>162427267
As an artist, I would feel honored to receive such a comment

>>162402008
I really like this so far anon!
Where did you get those monster graphics? I swear I used to have this set, but I can't remember what it was called

>>162427727
I guess I would feel the same, man I really need to get back into drawing.

>>162383702

Yep, its a big city, hence paved streets.

>>162428326
Try holding shift while filling the street with the cobblestone tile. That'll get rid of the raised border on the edges. It might look better.

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>>162399338
It's pretty easy. Look at this example.

Can't seem to add the season 4 content to the generator. IE, the kid generator isn't showing up.

What am I doing wrong?

>>162432191
Did you update your maker?

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>>162426312
10/10
Fucking hot bro, keep up the good work.

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Good night bump
I'm feeling good

>>162432327
What's the current version?

>>162399338
Maybe that's why there are so many non-consensual encounter games; the choice comes down to

>No story, initiate sex immediately, or
>Cringey unbelievable story written by somebody who has never convinced something else to sleep with them and that ultimately won't satisfy.

Tell me about your setting and the type of scenes you want to write and we'll hash this shit out and come up with some good lead ins.

>>162407461
>One Screen RPG

Fantastic idea, would be fun to see presented as if it were a stage show, subtly changing set pieces etc, but essentially the same room.

Might get a bit Theseus, but if the game played out in 20 mins or so it'd be cool.

>>162433860
>would be fun to see presented as if it were a stage show

Stealing this shamelessly now

>>162433960
Do it, post a demo later.

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Post progress, give us screenshots, current development % and elevator pitch.

Game is a office worker sim with minigames, needs management, fairly open-ended structure that allows you to chase a promotion, get people fired or make lewd advances on coworkers.

You play through a single day in the life of Anon, a typical 20-something blank slate employee in not!Japan.

Game plays out in around 20 minutes, lots of variables determined on startup, everything from coworker opinion of you to workload, schedules and office layout ensures some replayability or rare events that present opportunities.

About 20% done: art + music basically complete, basic framework in place, just adding content now.
Hoping to have a demo ready for mid-January for all 3 people online who would play something like this.
Sometimes worry I'll run out of steam with this. It was meant to be a 4 week project to try out some script ideas.

https://mrtrivelrpg.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/gain-stats-on-level-up/

I need a bit of help anons. Maybe it's my lack of knowledge when it comes to these things, but I've followed the instruction he gave and it's not working.

For testings' sake, I put down each of the stats and set simple v[3] in. However, when I level up, it follows the normal route of leveling up by the graph set in class.

How do I get this to work?

>>162436114
>Post progress
I open my project and close it again because my game doesn't use a custom combat.
It looks like another RPG Maker game.

>>162441541

People really get hung up over stupid shit like that? So what if it does not reinvent the wheel? It's an rpg, so long as it has a good enough story and does not bog me down with stupid shit, I'd play it.

>>162441541
>>162441541
So your combat isn't gimmicky, so what? It can stand out in a ton of other ways. Tell me about your project anon.

>>162412257
>>162433860
Sorry, was sleeping. Sure, I'll tell you about them.

First off, since it was mentioned by someone else, One Screen RPG is something I've posted about here before. It is in fact a game that takes place entirely in that one room. I wanted to make it really combat-focused, but the problem was, I couldn't figure out a way to make the game more engaging outside of the combat and the little story bits. Like, I couldn't figure out a good way to incorporate puzzles and the like. It was just a big skinner box where you would hit a button to fight an enemy over and over until you were strong enough to beat the next boss.

As for the others...

>Treasures of Il'moria
Demo here: http://pastebin.com/LjDpbACm

I think 4chan detects blog links as spam (or it used to) so I posted a pastebin link of a link to the blog.

It was my first "Dream Project", with a ton of shit to do. It's a big, fairly open-world JRPG focused on treasure hunting. I spent 9 months working on it, but the fact is, I was a terrible mapper and nobody really gave a shit about the game so it went completely unnoticed, and the few that did notice it didn't really like it. Don't make your big projects your first project, friends. If you wanna check it out, there's actually a shitload of content, and doing everything in this demo can take upwards of 8 hours.

>Crossed Hearts
Demo here: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/22784-crossed-hearts-demo/

My attempt at making a yuri RPG. Was criticized for bad mapping and overly wordy writing.

More next post. Damn character limits...

>>162442219
>Bushido: Way of the Samurai
It was going to be a story about a samurai-in-training who wanted to prove himself to his lord, that he was strong enough to be part of the main samurai forces, by taking the head of an enemy commander on his own. But by doing this, he triggers events that bring his own homeland to ruin and sets the entire country on a path to a fiery war. Thus, begins his journey to right what he did wrong in his own arrogance.

>Sci Fi RPG
Never had a name for it. The plot was basically that a space station gets overrun by aliens and you have to defeat them using a secret robot weapon that was being built on board the station, and of course, find out what attracted them to the station in the first place.

>Scout's Honor
It was going to be a pseudo-action-RPG/roguelike/puzzle game, in a way. The idea was that you are just a Scout, exploring dungeons and the like, so that the REAL heroes and treasure hunters can come back later and reap the rewards for your guild. The objective was to "mark" enemies and objects of interest whilst avoiding conflict as much as possible.

>Valkyrie
You are the Valkyrie, chosen by the Goddess to slay the demons who invade the holy kingdom. You venture around the city and it's neighboring areas to find the fiends that threaten your lands and bring them to divine justice. In reality, the big plot twist is that you're actually delusional. You live in the real world and you're actually a serial killer.

Fucking character limits...

>>162442650
>I Wanna Be The Hero
This was the first thing I tried to make on VX Ace (I had used 2k3 back in the day, but I no longer have any pictures of my work from back then). My plan was to make a sort of RPG take on the game "I Wanna Be The Guy". Not actually related to IWBTG, but rather, an RPG that is unfairly hard and toys with your expectations of an RPG. For example, getting killed by someone for attempting to raid the chests in their house. I kind of did this in my short game Modern RPG (which you can find on my blog at the Treasures of Il'moria link above), but not to the full extent I had planned on I Wanna Be The Hero.

>Snowind
It was a stupid temporary title. Anyway, the game would have been exploration based with little to no combat. You awaken in an empty snowfield with amnesia. You explore the world around you to try and figure out just where you are, who you are, what happened to all the people, and why are all the cities in ruins? Turns out the world has experienced nuclear war and is in a state of nuclear winter. And as it turns out, YOU are one of the guys who started the war - a member of the Illuminati who wanted to reduce the population, but things got out of hand and this is the result.

>Tale of Four Heroes
At the start of the game, the princess is kidnapped and the king calls upon the four heroes to save her... but they're off on some journey and can't help. So the king ends up having to go on the journey to save her himself. But as you progress, the king eventually gets killed and the princess takes his place as the main character, and as you progress even further, you will find yourself taking control of four different heroes on a progressive quest to defeat the ultimate evil. Turns out the Four Heroes mentioned at the start are actually the villains behind everything.

One more post?

>>162443006
>Mahou Shoujo PureBeat
The Magical Girl RPG. Pretty much the only reasons why I didn't work on this more was because A) I have no fitting music for the setting B) It would require me to do a lot of work with animations and I super duper fucking suck with animations.

It's basically a ripoff of Precure, with some other magical girl shows thrown in. The main plot is that the main girl (the pink one) transfers to a new school and is attacked by monsters, but the three legendary heroes PureBeat try and save her... and end up failing, but she awakens to the powers of PureBeat and joins their group to fight the evils of the world of darkness.

>Tears of the Auracle
This is the one I'm most upset about not having the drive to work on. To me, this is my master work in terms of plot. The plot has so many twists and turns that honestly, I can't believe an idiot like me actually came up with all of it. What begins as a seemingly generic story to escort the chosen one (the titular Auracle) on her pilgrimage to make a prayer to the Gods to end a seemingly endless war, ends up becoming a total mindscrew of a plot where the fate of all of existence hangs in the balance, and where you will question everything you thought you knew about the story and it's characters.

>>162442219
>>162442650
>>162443006

LITTLEPAW!
I thought you died.
I liked the Crossed Hearts demo from like a year ago or something.

>>162436212

Any ideas?

>>162443364
I'm not dead yet.

I actually did release some stuff since then.

Slay the Dragon
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/35525-slay-the-dragon/

Pretty much the only thing I've made that's had a generally positive reception.

Demon Hunters
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/46335-demon-hunters/

Made this with the MV beta. It's just a quick little thing that takes ~15 minutes to beat.

Champion's Challenge
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qorasqgibfpxopi/Champion%27s+Challenge.zip

It's a short 5 minute joke game I made for a friend of mine. You might get a laugh out of it though.

How many different kinds of enemies are in your game?

How many different enemies do you expect from an RPG?

>made an rpg maker image folder for ideas
>one week later it's like 90% porn and lewd cosplays

fuck why does it always end up like this...

>>162446643
I like to see around 20 different base types of monsters (with subclasses within those). That's why it's easier to just not make a fantasy RPG and have every enemy be a human, you can reskin those faster
there are no enemies at all in my game

>>162441695
I think it depresses people whose focus is having a custom different combat, the same way some users place their focus on having great maps, or the way someone would place their energy on their story. Devs have different goals.

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>>162448231
Stop being a perv, anon.

>>162448231
Post it

>>162426734
>>162426824
>>162432583
thank you!

Are artists in the scene reliable?
I need a couple of comissions but I'm not sure which artist will actually deliver and not be a pain to work with. Plus realistic rates. Not people charging $15 per hour while producing deviant art output at best.

tl;dr which artists know what they are doing and can be comissioned in your experience anons?

I had two small ideas for some games that I am making. They're on the back burner right now though because I'm learning Unity and Blender right now. I have to admit that the 3D stuff has more possibility but I really like actually making a game in RPG Maker MV. I got a little discouraged because a lot of people were turned off by seeing a game made with RPG Maker. Of course if you use your own assets and use scripts, you can make it very unique. Seeing this thread made me want to keep up those games, maybe to completion.

The first idea is about a homeless man(the main character) who finds a book. Initially he wants to sell it for some quick cash but decides to read it as the title says "The Way of Success". The mechanics of the game revolve around implementing(or not) the things read in the book. Dialogue is the main focus and player choices even more so. I want the player to be able to choose ~90% of what the main character says with multiple choices for each instance. The plot is about the homeless learning lessons that change his life around; a rags to riches story essentially.

The other game I have not much plot details but also revolves around dialogue and choices, though I have a different system I plan on using for that. Still choice based but.... more unpredictable. Kind of how Fallout 4 does their dialogue. That is going to be a challenge though, especially since the main level is a simple room. I was planning on creating segways to other rooms/maps via memories or something like that.

>>162455334

I second that question anon. If you know an artist that can emulate or does something close to Tactics Ogre/FFT style of portraits, let me know. I want to commission them for portrait work.

>>162446643

I'm still not sure what kind of enemies it's going to have. I've only really thought about bosses.

>>162455339
>The plot is about the homeless learning lessons that change his life around; a rags to riches story essentially.
You'd have to be careful. If you don't know anything about homeless life and mindset, this is going to be seen by any interested audience as insulting and disconnected bluesky indie wank.

>I was planning on creating segways to other rooms/maps via memories or something like that.
I'd like to add "Muh Feelings and Memories" to the top of the list above.

I'm not saying you have bad ideas, but these sorts of things - exploring abstract, subjective things or telling a story about something you haven't much real understanding of- is really popular and the results are never good.

>>162455334
>Not people charging $15 per hour while producing deviant art output
You get what you pay for. $15/hr is peanuts. Any decent, professional quality artists are going to charge a lot more than that.

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this may sound stupid, but I'll ask anyways
so it's not good to rip shit, or steal tunes and what not

But what about the "parody" laws? if I use popular memeshit but I'm just adding silly stuff here and there saying it's a parody?

I'm specially concerned since I'm not from the US, but selling my game on steam means I'll be working under US laws? but if I'm "parodying/stealing" Japaneese content, and I'm from Kazakhstan, I can do shit like pic related or parody tunes and I shouldn't have any issues right? you know like Al Yankovic, or that Trump "MAGA" game and what not.

>>162458026
Are you saying you would make your own version of an already existing song? Or how would you make it a "parody"? Either way I'm pretty sure you need some sort of license to be able to sell that unless you make major changes to the original.

>>162457412

>this is going to be seen by any interested audience as insulting and disconnected bluesky indie wank.

Well not every game is sad or full of feelings. I don't plan on being Tumblr famous, being the champion of trans rights, or anything like that.

I just chose the homeless man theme as an analogy to try and explain some lessons that I have learned throughout life that have brought me success. I suppose you could say it's a self-help book in video game form. I know that sounds preachy so to balance it out, I want to give the player other options to accomplish their objective as they see fit. Ultimately it's about the main character pulling themselves out of their situation by their own deeds.

As for the second game, I haven't fleshed out much story or plot ideas, just a loose outline of how it would be played. The memories/segway would more than likely be some small battle scenes or just a way to advance the plot. Really not trying to make a game of misery and depression.

>>162457456
Yeah well for me $15 is overpriced as shit for something of terrible quality. Didn't imply that $15 was the ceiling to what I expect a professional artist will expect.

>>162458501
Let's say I take any popular song or theme song, like justin bieber's "baby baby baby wooo" or the simpsons theme song, and add burps and farts at the end of every chorus and I put that in my game. Or doing the same but with popular anime/j-pop songs. Would that be targeted?

Obsiously my intention is not to tip a song, or to add burps and farts to them, but it's the equivalent of using enough of the song that it would be recognized, and enough arrangements that they would be different, and protect myself via "parody" law.

Same for logos or something, like making a popular character fat, like "fat goku" or some shit. Specially since I would be ripping japaneese content, I wonder if the american "parody law" still would apply. Obviously it would be kinda hard to even reach the eyes of a japaneese, let alone the owners of the copyright, but still... if It makes some people angry they can flag the game or something.

Thinking about that last statement, what happens if I sell a game, and at a later date it gets removed for stuff like that? copyright infringement and what not, people keep the game, but I'm just no longer able to sell it?

>>162458689
what kind of artwork do you need?

you need sprite shit? or artwork like promo drawings etc?

I've seen some not bad at all DA spaniards and latinos comissioning shit for as low as $5-15 for a complete drawing, depending on complexity/coloring etc. But pixel shit might be a bit harder to find, but definitely there's some poor third worlders on there with talent, murikans and nips are spoiled as fuck with their rates.

>>162459531
Fucking lol, you'd have to make those burps and farts loud enough to completely obscure the song that's playing for that to be legal. Even if you remade the original song (your own recording or recreating it in a DAW) you'd need a license. The best thing to do would be to make your own song that sounds similar to the one you want to parody. Same for characters. Make them similar enough that people get the reference, but different enough that you don't get sued for copyright infringement.

>>162459807
Well I should clear up that by realistic rates I just meant I wanted those artists to charge accordingly to their skill level, not that I am expecting to pay dirt cheap for super professional output.

As for the work itself I was hoping to get a couple of custom made battlers but nothing like MV rtp, something closer to Magellan´s stuff but more cartoony

>>162458026
>>162459531

Well after doing some searching I found this as it pertains to US law:

17 U.S.C. § 101:
>A “derivative work” is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a “derivative work”.

Your parody could qualify as a "derivative work". The keyword being "could"

US Copyright Office Circular 14: Derivative Works published this qualification:

>A typical example of a derivative work received for registration in the Copyright Office is one that is primarily a new work but incorporates some previously published material. This previously published material makes the work a derivative work under the copyright law. To be copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a "new work" or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself. Titles, short phrases, and format, for example, are not copyrightable.

Note the most important part:
> must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a "new work"
>Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright purposes
>Titles, short phrases, and format, for example, are not copyrightable

So you MUST make it different enough that people know it's a parody AND make a commentary about that work for it to be copyrightable, which you may need if you sell your game.

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>>162409469
Here.
What do you think of these guys as the main characters of this game?

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>>162460536
would fugg Witch

>>162460536
Looks generic as fuck but nice art, did you make them?

>>162460536
I need porn to judge if a game is good or not.

>>162460704
Nah, it's the DS resource pack.

>>162460659
That's why I picked her.

>>162460808
They look cute at least, I'm sure if you flesh out their personalities they can be very cool. By generic I just meant all anime people look the same to me

>>162460808
>That's why I picked her

patrician taste my friend.

>>162460253
Yeah I get that, but as my example posted "dumb starbucks" that's a very minor change... I could call my characters dumb goku or dumb sonic.... easily and make them cross eyed if needed. Or using popular figures like that "trump game"

http://store.steampowered.com/app/515040/

I doubt he has any sort of license from Mr. President Donal Trump.

So I could use Elijah Wood in sprite form? or some chink uguu super star and not get in trouble because "it's funny"?

Honestly i wouldn't even be ripping something that popular, I want to rip a somewhat obscure meme character from Japanese manga, just adding a wizard hat or bunny ears.

>>162460997
I actually have no fucking clue what the game will be about just yet.

>>162461262
Well the difference you're talking about is sort of significant.

>Sonic
>Goku

Those are already copyrighted materials. So they have legal binding to them and owners. That's not to say that you can't use them with a "Dumb" moniker attatched but you will have to make changes that are more than just googly eyes. Maybe how they function or what they do is different enough to distinguish them from the real things.

>Donald Trump
>Elijah Wood

That's different because people aren't copyrighted. That means they can be used because there aren't laws that make them materials owned by companies. Although it's possible that someone copyrighted their name but I highly doubt that.

As long as you make something easly discernible from the real thing and people KNOW it's a parody, than you're good But err on the side of caution do make them different enough.

I assume you saw that Nathan For You episode and got the idea from that? Hilarious show btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KrdjAPohc

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>>162443364
>A year ago
I've got bad news, anon...

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>>162463897
>That feel when somebody still has your game downloaded after all this time.

You shall live

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Ah man. I have finally properly settled the classes to my liking. Linked up all the skill that can be learned via notetags, made sure all the skills have appropriate tags. So far as JP cost, it's mostly set to 100/200/300 and I'll set it so that each level up brings in 150 JP, so player'll have to play it smart and consider if they want to spend their hard earned JP immediately or maybe hoard it another three levels to see what else will be unlocked.

Unsure if I'll implement yanfly's barrier plugin, that'd add another fun aspect to battles, but for now I think I'll leave things as is and work on what's left to do, namely some more interior maps and plotline.

There'll hopefully be a demo up by Christmas.

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>tfw start working on designing a new area in my game and can finally forget about the horrors of dialogue writing and quests for a while
>decide it would be nice to have an animated waterfall here
>my face two hours later in photoshop

Please accept my bump

>>162460536

You need a big beefy dude in the party imo, maybe wearing armor and a cool helmet.

Wonder if someone made a Ultima Weapon-like monster battler in VX Ace battlers artstyle
I wanted to make a FF reference by having it as a optional boss

Y'all making your own monsters? I'm just using Akashics'

>>162476868
I haven't even begun to think about monsters. I don't know WTF I'm going to do...

I've always liked how most RPGs work where you're generally just fighting other humans that look just like your own party. So I might try to throw together some kind of "the enemy party is just another party of animated human battlers just like yours" deal.

>>162476868
>>162477556
>most RPGs
I meant most SRPGs. I could swear I threw that S in there.

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Give me some fun ideas for equipment effects

>>162478231
Make weapon types have different "elements" and make every armor have different rates against any weapon type.

Armor A could take less damage from Slashing, but more from Piercing and Ranged while Armor B has less overall defense, but halves Piercing and Ranged

>>162478231
A shitty armor that you get at the start of the game, it has lower defense than anything else and every player would pretty much sell it or toss it away super early after seeing how bad is it. But a boss near the eeeeeeeeeend of the game can't basically put any dent in this one armor. Nothing but a small hint through the game suggests so.

>>162477556

I think I'll just stick with Akashics' and maybe put in some SV battlers for human enemies. Thing is, I don't want human enemies to come into play too soon.

Guilds in the story are supposed to deal with little things that plague normal folk, like creatures on the roads, in sewers, etc. Clearing out old ruins of them, mapping old places, helping out. While occassionally, they get called to kill off some bandits and such, there is a clear difference between being in a guild and being in a mercenary company.

Could say it's a plot point. Mentor does not want the four newbies to be dropped into deep end like he was, to kill people, so he the enemies are mostly of various animal&creature types, with occassional demon wearing a human mask. Demons don't count as people.

>>162478231
>Sharpened Candy Cane
Decent weapon, or can be used as an item for some healing. It has a random chance of being completely consumed if used as an item too many times.

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>>162473437
This is really the only sort of character like that in the DS pack. Well, there's 3 palette swaps of him, but yeah.

But I don't think I really need more characters.
The hero is going to be kind of like a Red Mage, able to do a little bit of everything.
The warrior is an overall physically powerful class with offensive and defensive skills. Probably no magic.
Wizard is gonna be mostly white magic (which includes a few offensive spells)
Witch is gonna be all black magic.

So... why do I need anything else?

Live

Is it shamefur to use the character generator as long as you're adding shading/editing hair/add a body?

>>162486776
The only people who will know are other rpgmakers, so I wouldn't worry about it. You can always redo all the art later when the actual game is done.

>>162481173
Maybe a long range physical character. You have two characters that are long range but they are magic. Something like an archer or a gunman(depending on your game) might be something to look into.

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So I made a song for my game. It's for the very last boss. The song takes places in "stages", reminiscent of Dancing Mad. Each time you beat a phase, the song progresses to the next stage.

So far, I'm not finished. I've made stages one and two. You can prolly tell when one progresses to the next. Anyway, I'd like some feedback.

https://soundcloud.com/iwilldevouryourkittens/the-creation-wip

Please listen and gib thoughts

test

>>162488402
Well what I was planning on doing was having it sort of like Dragon Quest VIII where you can specialize in different weapon masteries, which will in turn change what kind of skills you get.

So for example, I could give my Warrior character a Bow if I wanted.

>>162490728
Oh I see. Well that makes more sense then. Will that work for magic as well? I've never played a Dragon Quest game. I bought one for the PS2 but let my friend borrow it and never saw it again...

What you're talking about reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics, sort of. In that game you could move any character to any class and create new classes based on previous ones. And that let you use certain skills/magic(s) from other classes you previously leveled up in. That's a neat concept.

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>>162489660
That sudden lowering of the drum volume was a bit jarring at 0:35.
...I'm not very good at critiquing music.

>>162489969
Did it work?

>>162491290
I think that's what he meant by
>You can prolly tell when one progresses to the next

>>162489660
Did you use a DAW to make this? If so, which one? Instruments?

>>162491492
I thought the second part began at 4:30.

>>162491553
>>162489660 here. That's correct. I guess the drum change was supposed to be dramatic? Idk. I'll fix things.

>>162491492
Mixcraft 7, my man. I used the default instruments, no plugins.

>>162491750
Never heard of Mixcraft but obviously it works. I like it. It has a sort of retro vibe to it at the beginning. I've always loved the march rhythm, especially in games. But it eventually gets to be more EDM-ish. Also enough variation that it's not at all boring.

What kind of theory do you know? I know a bit of theory but not proficient enough in my DAW to get good sounding songs. I especially need rhythm theory.

>>162492356
I never studied theory desu. I have no idea where or how I got my talent.

Thanks for the feedback, tho!

>>162491248
Sort of. In most DQ games, you gain spells as you level up, but you can also supplement those with other spells learned by taking mastery in certain weapons or traits.

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You can do it, /rpgmg/. I believe in you.

bump

>>162495010
T-thank you Anon.

>>162489660
Well, to be honest, I pretty much liked everything except for your username.

are you a girl?

>>162496323
No, sorry. I made the username in sixth grade cuz I thought it was funny. I still regret that choice to this day.

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How the heckie did this option end up here? Is kid character generator a DLC?

>>162498195
part of the season pass, yes.

>>162356623
CCARPG anon here again.

Dumb question I think I know where to put this but what is the best place to put this rpg file?
Itch.io? Game Jolt?

Like, i'd be down to buy my own website or something and use square space or something.

Of course if push comes to shit on my lawn i can just slop it on pastebin.

>>162498195
RMMV Seasons Pass DLC

How Christmas is your game?

>>162489660
I have the same comment I always seem to with your stuff: I like it over all (melody kicking in at 0:52 is niiice), but there are parts where the main melody is very short and loops a lot, where it feels repetitive (the 1:25-1:55ish stretch could definitely stand to be 5-10 seconds shorter). There's enough additional stuff going on that it's generally not a big issue though, it's nice and dramatic for a final boss fight and t kind of makes me want to play the game.

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Progress.

Remember kids: placeholder assets are still assets!

>>162504916
Why Abe, specifically?

>>162505062
Really easy to type while still a recognizable name. Gotta work within fraps limited timelimit.

>>162505185
use OBS instead, it's free and good

>>162505537
I probably will. Thank you.

Take my hand!

>>162505537
I'm going to keep playing around with it, but my conclusion so far is it's shit.

>Use Game Capture, it doesn't register the game's playtest window.
>Use Window Capture: Specific Window: Game's playtest window, it instead just captures whatever is on the screen regardless of windows at all.

>>162510092
Try recording the whole screen, not windows or game capture. That's usually what I do. Then go full screen with the game, or play it in windowed. Sometimes full screen will not let OBS see what's in the window.

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>>162510613
Am I crazy or is there no way of making a video the size of a window either? It's got one size, and it's either going to add black space or it's going to shop off part of the video.

I'm very confused right now.

work on your fucking game

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>>162510890
That looks like the new OBS studio. I don't know anything about that one, I use the older one, which is now called OBS Classic.

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>>162511476
Huh. Well, I'm going to assume they didn't regress anything in the updated version, so it's probably around here somewhere.

One thing I found is that I can output recordings through ffmpeg, which is my webm converter. It doesn't output to webm, but it gave me a moment of hope.

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Does /rpgmg/ have a mascot? Is it this guy?

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>>162512776
We don't have or need one.

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>>162510890
This is what I did to capture my RPG Maker

i'll see if I can make a webm too

>>162512863
Don't worry, you don't need to. I get that process. I can do that as well as I can the window capture. Right now I'm just trying to figure out why "sometimes" Window Capture captures just the intended window (with the aforementioned extra/cut space, which is fine for now), but also "sometimes" decides it is going to capture the program in addition to the intended window with no degree of consistency. Also, "capture foreground window on hotkey" is bafflingly inconsistent as well.

In the meanwhile, I'm going through youtube videos and such to see what and if I'm missing something.

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>>162513324
I don't know. this is what I did.
If you don't want the cursor in there, you can go into settings to not record the cursor.

load your save

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>>162517645
Now I lost 2 hours of progress

>>162512776
Well whynot.
I made Eric appear as a major NPC and a guest party member in 2 mandatory quests

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>>162512776
>>162521041
Hello

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>>162521527
>>162512776
I was always fund of this smug fuck. For some reason, he immediately struck me as the perfect "mayor" archetype, so that became his name, and he became the mayor of every town I ever created. Even in the same world, you'll go from one town to the next and see this smug shit grinning at you from behind the desk. You can question him about it too, but he'll deny everything.

>>162521685
fond*

>>162521685
kek. What's his name?

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>>162524009
"Mayor."

In every game I've ever made.

>>162521527
Eric > Alexus/Arshes/whatever she's called > Zack(2003) > Alex > Ralph

>>162524724
Whoops, forgot Harold
He's under Zack

>>162524724
>Ralph at the bottom

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Finally started messing with stat distributions and working out skills. This is the last thing I have to tune before I get a demo out, which I'm hoping will have about half an hour of play time.

>>162524724
No way, Alex >>>>>>> all

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Good night bump

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Aniki, wake up!

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Good morning, anons! I did some progress with my game and now it has a battlehud, thanks to Moghunter's plugins. I would like to know if anyone know how to fix this green selection thing? It keeps flashing and it's green, I would like to change it somehow, but I can't even find the code for this in MV.

>>162533849
Get your mixels under control bro.

>>162534371
Yeah, I'm still adjusting it all. Her face will be in pixel art as well. I tried and make the star in pixel but I couldn't, it's aparently impossible.

>>162535172
I'm sure you can find that star's img file and replace it, but that's not your only issue, the stars in the background have a different size than your character art. Same with the clouds and text. You need to pick a scale and apply it to everything uniformly.

>>162535591
I did this bg for another area and thought it could work in battle, but you're right. I'll try and do it in a bigger pixel size. The text is a bit more tricky, I think if I did it bigger it would look awkward.

>>162535882
You could always change the scale of the battlers. The text and background star size look to be x2, while the battlers are x3. You could scale them down, then if you want them to be larger you could re draw them with x2 scale in mind back to their current x3 size, which would allow you to have a bit more detail in them.

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>>162536849
Does it look better now? I've made the clouds fit the same size as the battlers.

Still, the star isn't the problem, I just needed the selection box thing to stop flashing so violently, in all menus anyway.
I've found plenty of scripts to remove this thing for VX Ace but nothing for MV. It just looks so out of place.

>>162436212

Some nigga help me out here.

>>162538395
That looks better, tho I would look into using dithering for the gradient instead of that gradual one that goes against the whole "limited use of color" thing, then you just gotta fix the border, backgrounds, and bars of the status and combat windows.

I hate the flashing thing they use too. Try GALV_Cursorimage plugin for the menus and SOUL_MV Destication Cursor plugin for the one that happens during mouse movement. That's what I use.

Ok, i'm really retard and trying to play tower kingdom conquest.

What version of RPG maker is needed to download?

>>162535591
what´s wrong with the background stars?

>>162539217
Soul's did work for movement but Galv's doesn't remove the flashing, just adds another cursor.

>>162540834
They were is X2 scale, while the monster and hero were in x3 scale.

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>>162541001
Right right, I forgot a step. Sorry bout that. Go tot he window.png file in the img>system folder, you will notice in the center, to the lower right side is the ugly greenish thing. Just edit that to be transparent and it won't show up any more.

While you are at it you can edit the border to be the right pixel scale if you want to use that one, or make a new border style. You can also change the colors in the bottom right to fit your pallet. Pic related is what I use for one of my games. I blacked out the MP and HP colors so they would match the background of the menu and leave me with just the numbers.

Once upon a time, there was an anon that would bump the thread when it was most needed.

Any good scripts for showing player battler picture in battles?

This is the closest one to what I want, but firstly I can't find the script he says he uses, and secondly it would be better if the battler was shown at all times, since I only have one party member.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPk8R6UiawI

"Bump" was all he said. But that was all it took.

>>162545837
And he was great

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Currently re-learning math for some eventual games to be. Right now I'm going through high school algebra. It's all fairly easy but I want to know how far I should go? In high school I got up to calculus and did okay. I didn't pay much attention and never did the homework but I could still figure out problems. What level of math should I continue going to? Algebra is the foundation, what should the progression be next?

tl;dr Learning algebra, what other maths to move onto after that?

>>162542626
Oh god damn, I never thought it would be an image!
Thank you so much, this REALLY helps!

My life is a lot happier now.

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I could not leave the well enough alone. I had sat down today, thinking I'd make the stores for the district. I ended up working on it more. Now I am really happy how it turned out. I just need some more generic houses to fill out the holes and I can say that Commons is properly done.

>>162559015
I don't even understand what you're doing. If you are preparing for something in advance that means you already have a solid idea of what you are going to need, either from classes or research. Here you are randomly studying random things because you think it might be useful eventually? If you aren't doing any sort of structured approach, why not actually work on the games and then go study what you need when it comes up?

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>>162559015
If you're into programming you should learn about logic, not math. I mean math helps obviously, but unless you're making your own engine or designing some sort of physics behavior you don't need it. If you're going to program movable things yourself you need basic knowledge of coordinate mechanics and all sorts of basic geometry and trigonometry. Like I remember watching a 30 minute tutorial on how to make ice floor so the characters slip, and a 1 hour tutorial on how to make a fucking twomp, and the guy failed, if you want to do that kind of stuff maybe keep doing math, but focus and what you're trying to achieve or you'll be overwhelmed and lose interest, do a very little project an try to solve it.

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>>162512776
It should be a hunky aged-up Aluxes. With a short beard and chest hair. A Six-pack. A smolder.
And a 2-handed sword with a pommel he polishes every night. But he let's you hold it 'cause you're bros. And since it's so heavy he has to stand behind you and reach around to help you.
>This is how you thrust for proper penetration.

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Current list of shit to do...

>>162563856
Also this.

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>>162566330

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>>162565229
But then Thief walks in on you and says you'd be better at "duel wielding"
He offers one of his daggers, but he makes you pull it out of the sheath.
And the next thing you know Aluxes and The Thief are basting a split roast by the fire. If you know what I mean.

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>>162512776
This guy is our mascot

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Been working on portraits again.
This one is for the second main boss, one of the villain's henchmen.
A fishy water alien mage gal thingy named Galene, who's fun-loving and speaks with an australian accent.

>>162567203
My dick hungers

>>162567203
You bastard... Give us the lewds!

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>>162570080
i dunno what youre on about anon
i dont draw lewd.

>>162572029
Steel zeroes is a porn game?
I never played the demo yet.

>>162442219
>>162442650
>>162443006
>>162443307
>>162445586
wow so many games
how do you stay motivated? you said you even released a few of them but only got a positive reaction for one. at this point i would have already stopped

>>162572029
That's clearly a boy

>>162577087
Even better

>Buy OneShot
>Can't figure out how to leave the first room
>Feel dumb

Really not sure what I need to do, I found two items but can't seem to use them.

>>162576516
I don't stay motivated. I haven't seriously worked on anything in months. :(

Pathetic! This is too pathetic to see! Get those brains working! Get that blood pumping! Even if you make just a single room, just a random event or just five spells, items or whatevers, it's still progress!

Seeing these disheartened comments makes me want to vomit. Get out there and do stuff. Just do it, damn you!

Probably a long shot, but does anyone have the Humble Bundle 2 DLC? Link in Pastebin has been down forever.

>>162567203
>who's fun-loving and speaks with an australian accent
Here's some study material for you, m8.

https://exhentai.org/g/743731/f3caa5ff16/

>>162583653
I love that translation.

>>162581217

The holiday season gets me down every time, anon. I'm just gonna laze around till next year. Of course, spring in Texas is too hot to develop, too, so...

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>>162489660 here!

I finished the full song.

https://soundcloud.com/iwilldevouryourkittens/the-creation

Gimme some feedback!

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Baa?

>>162587040
2nd theme is the most memorable

>>162562760
What I meant was I am getting better at math for a specific reason, mainly using algebraic equations to calculate damage or buffs or other things like that. I know the game can do stuff like that but I want to understand how to do that on paper or come up with new equations for new times of games. Also outside of battle. And being good at math comes in handy outside of making video games.

>>162563856
I think you're absolutely right. I went for a walk today and was thinking about hypothetical situations for using the math I'm learning. And it dawned on me that what I need to learn is not solving problems but rather framing and structuring game logic. I'm learning C# for Unity at the moment and it is actually helping me understand RPG Maker better. Knowing functions, if/else statements helped me so much when trying to make more complicated dialogue trees and conversations that only happen if the player has a certain item or if a variable is with a certain range. Do you have any recommendations for logic as it pertains to games?

"bump... Now that's what I'm talking about!"
"Bump, huh... I could get behind that."
"Did you hear about 'bump?' no? Well you should!"

>Team is falling away due to real life obligations
>Can barely find the motivation to work because of other projects
>Struggling to get basic things like battlers working

How can I escape this pit of despair?

>>162594661

Read a book called "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind". I'm about 3/4 of the way through it and it has improved my mindset incredibly. It sounds like hogwash at first but the more you read it and try the simple exercises, it really begins to make your mindset and eventually your life better.

>>162594661
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ufRnf2Exc

>>162594661
Buy an onahole

What do you listen to while you're working on your project? I've been letting different podcasts and podcast-like YT vids play in the background lately. Before that, I'd play music. Does anyone prefer silence? Or just something else?

On a more project-related question, how do you guys handle pacing in your scenes? I find myself having to abuse Wait very often in order to ensure it doesn't all feel too rushed... are there any other strategies to deal with that issue? Or does anyone even care about things like that in a game with no voicing...

>>162596150
Having no voices makes it even more important to pace your scenes. I stole a few pages out of Golden Sun and SNES RPGs and used things like emoticons and character movement to pace scenes, so I wouldn't just be relying on Wait.

Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xyMd6HwugM

Not just in this special episode, either, but in the whole series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO4lI8slqv8

My tips:

Golden Sun uses emoticon expressions. They're cheap, but they work.

Character and camera movement are useful. The camera can be panned to change the dynamic of the scene, and characters can move to express emotion, begin an action, or just keep the scene from being flat for five straight minutes. Stepping towards (or backing away from) a person is a powerful response. One simple command adds so much.

In short, yeah, you're gonna be using Wait a whole awful lot. Sometimes, you can replace Wait with on-screen action like a movement or emoticon.

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>>162583653

>>162596150
>listen to
my parents telling me to get a job

>pacing
if you treat your game like a movie, it will come out like a movie. That's not a bad thing. It's all about feeling and you'll know when it's right, my man.

>>162596150
I usually sit in silence.
I can only listen to music while drawing - different parts of the brain, see?
If I'm typing, I just block out the music anyways. I have to concentrate or else I get to typing fast and the lyrics go in my ear and out my -- nigga bitch fuck nigga

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How do you feel about rhetorical questions that are ostensibly intended to spark constructive debate but are in reality just intended to bump a near-dead thread?

>>162601737
I usually engage in it for only a few reasons:
>self interest
>self improvement

Self interest first because I hope that someone will look at my post and deem it worthy enough a response for feedback. It exists in all posters who make a post in an attempt to create a dialogue and bring attention to themselves. The post, for some, is a way to validate themselves in a way that is satisfying and, perhaps, only available here.

Secondly, for self improvement. Sometimes by posting ideas or posing questions, another person will challenge or embolden my ideas in a way that helps me grow. Whether it be a scathing critic of an idea I have or an affirmation that my efforts are worth more than I know, I have a chance to become better than I was before.

>>162601737
Way better than shitposting or causing drama, which are also free bumps

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anyone else just instantly lose all motivation and hope making their game when they see someone else's game and how amazing it looks and you know you'll never achieve that level of game making?

>>162605247
Think about this though:

Did those people who made those amazing games have the mindset that they will never make a good game? NO WAY.

Just believe in yourself, anon. It sounds cliche but it's true. The best people care about if they are doing the best they can do and work to be even better. It's all about focus. If you focus on how much better other people are than you, you will always be beneath them. Instead focus on making the best of what you can do. It's not about talent, it's about work ethic.

>>162605247
Always

>>162601737
At least you posted best girl.

>>162605560
I doubt as of now I can do anything good with RTP tiles and a storyline that makes Final Fantasy seem basic

>>162607267
Maybe not now. Also if it's just you, it may be hard. There was a team working on Final Fantasy. But people have made games by themselves that were successful. Lisa and Undertale were made in RPG Maker. Anything is possible.

What I'm doing is making some small games that focus on few mechanics. Like one game where you have to bring one guy some ramen. All you do is go up to a stove and trigger an event that brings up some text, lets you choose what to cook and adds it to your inventory. But I decided that was too easy to code so I tried to make it more interesting. So that event will check if you have a certain type of ramen and it will not allow you to cook that ramen again. It doesn't change the main mission but it's a neat little aspect that took me a while to figure out but it makes players who are into checking every little thing happy.

I'm just a beginner when it comes to RPG maker though. I like making things as varied as possible. Like trying to code conversations that change. For example you ask someone where to find a certain person. The first time they tell you to ask someone else. The second time they say that you're annoying them. The third time they refuse to talk to you. And the fourth time they will battle you or something. That might be an entire game that you make based on that little experience. It is a good exercise in game logic and working with the program. A game doesn't have to be an epic adventure with 700 hours of game play. It CAN be that complicated but it can also be as simple as rock paper scissors.

Today's Song of the Day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C90C-Te6n9A

>>162605247
Nah, m8. I may never produce good/decent/passable/low quality art assets, but my gameplay is fun enough that I have no problems comparing.

>>162605247

For every great work an artist posts online, there's a hundred shitty ones that made them wonder if they should give up.

>>162605247
I get that feeling all the time, there are some real wizards out there that can make RPGMaker do things I had no idea it was capable of. I try not to dwell on it however, I'm sure they started making super basic games of their own at some point.

>>162605247
That reminds me of the Ancient Greek's model of the mind and theories about motivation.
Imagine a Charioteer(Logos|Reason) reigning in 2 horses that pull in opposite directions but together move you forward. One is Eros a.k.a desire or appetite. It'll lead you in circles seeking pleasure; but that's not to say you can't form an appetite to help others.
The other horse is Thumos, which is hard to translate because it can be broken down into a lot of English words with loaded connotations. It's like your self-respect. The part of you that wants to be recognized. It's pulling you in order to prove yourself.

Naturally on an anonymous board you'd expect Reason to reign in Thumos because it's meaningless for (you) to prove anything. And why should you? If you're compelled to boast or tell strangers on 4chan that you're offended -- despite being a faceless, nameless, nobody -- you're stupid and letting your Thumos overpower your reason.

But in your case, the charioteer has pulled back the reigns believing it's not worth the trip. Your Thumos obviously wants you to be great at it but it's being held back. That just leaves Eros to drive you, maybe if it's a porn game. But with Thumos going nowhere and acting as an anchor, Eros is going in circles around it, throwing a pity party.

The more I apply the chariot analogy to things, the more I see the genius of it.

>>162615674
>Socrates walks into a thread
Get the fucking hemlock, bros. We've got a dweeb to deal with.

>tfw still can't decide between a game riffing on Golden Sun, BoF3, or just smut, so much smut

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>>162615674
>>162616531
It only took me 30 minutes, but I fucking found it.

Neat analogy, broseph.

>>162617018
Do it, anon. Make the next The Last Sovereign.

>>162617018
You know what you have to do.
Listen to your inner Eros.