/rpgmg/ - RPG Maker General #197.5

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Post progress Anons.
I know you have made some.

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Posting modest progress to claim first-
>>171435917
fugg

Game can be played through arrow keys or WSAD and the mouse. Hot bar allows for up to 5 abilities at a time, which are keybound to 1-5. Clicking on the icon allows you to change ability or, if locked, uses the ability.

>>171436008
That's pretty cool!
Are you making a game with a real time battle system?

>>171436231
Yes. Oldschool Nexus TK is my inspiration, although I don't mind a more modern interface. Opacity and padding between buttons can be changed by the user in settings, when I get around to drawing it.

>>171436438
I'm not familiar with that game so I looked it up.
I think you are on a good way.

So, what's the status on the new collab?

>>171439408
LeoHeart said he'll get the link up later today.

What skills do you imagine a walking orange ball, featureless besides a hat and sunglasses having?

>>171441396
Uh
What is his personality? Friend or enemy?
Post a picture

>>171441396
Attract, Rollout, Self-healing, and Body Slam

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>>171435917
Nothing to actually post, but I finished my outline for my game. Just in time for bed, too.

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I made a thing so I can randomize NPC colors as a lazy way to avoid towns full of the same dude.

Now I just have to make some original sprites to use with it.

>>171444972
>randomize colors
Like... natively? Because I've been looking for a way to make a sprite flash white for a second without needing extra sprites or something.

How will we celebrate thread 200, anons? A game jam maybe?

>>171446235
By reaching 750 posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HX5L2sf2oI

the latest /rpgmg/ podcast, for anyone who wants to listen!

>>171450126
Nice, I was just looking for a podcast to put in the background while I work.

>>171450492
you're welcome! there are many so you have lots of hours of podcasts to listen to.

>>171441396
Eye lasers

>>171441396
orange juice

Do you have a banter system going on?

Do you guys have your plot fully written out before starting? Or do you have a vague idea / key points and wing it from there?

>>171441396
>Bounce on ground
>Hat flips off
>Demon comes out of hat
>Attacks enemies
>Hat returns to ball

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>>171436008
Slight progress. I spent around 30 minutes trying to figure out why the cooldown display wasn't working before realizing it was on a lower picture number than the ability.

>>171456203
It's always the simple things.

>>171439408
>>171440115
Will be uploading sometime within the next 12 hours.

>>171441396
>walking
>ball

Conjure feet.

>>171446235
Game jam is a great idea! 48 hour jam?

>>171459478
How would that work exactly?
We agree on a theme and after 48 hours all two people would post their stuff?

>>171460043
Maybe we could bust into the discord and convince one or two of them to do it too. We could also make it 24 hours so it's easier.

>>171460175
24 hours seems a bit short, especially considering what kind of people are here.

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Good night bump

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I've been on and off playing with RPGMaker for the past couple of years, only putting true effort in around three of the games I've tried to make, but each one is a pretty shit story that I never finish, and I want to start over.
I think the problem I have is trying to create a game that needs a lot of effort put into it (like having to make my own assets, and an original story that doesn't have many clichés or tropes in it, etc.), so my question is:
Should I just try to make an old fashioned generic RPG for my real first game? Because, honestly, that sounds the easiest at this point, and I'm pretty stuck on everything else.

>>171464070
Yes. Make a supershort game, and then a simple excuse plot for it.

Then make a supershort excuse plot, and then a simple game for it.

That might give you a better feel for which flow you prefer when creating a game, and then you stick with that choice.


sidenote, a story that fits the game's mechanics, themes, and events is more important than an "original" story.

>>171463092

I agree. 24 hours is a little too short, even if the topic of the game jam is easy. 48 hours is optimal though, it gives enough time to came up with the idea and make it work.

>>171464070

Don't be discouraged by not finishing your projects anon! Even if you may consider them a failure, they are not waste of time - by doing them you've got more experience with the program that you can use in next projects.

If you want to make a generic RPG - go for it - but see this as a training. If you get an idea that you will be able to make - dump it into your project and see if it works. If it will - you will have something to use in your future project. And try not to get bored with making it - ideas that require less effort to make tend to be less interesting not only to play but also to create.

Oh, and don't be afraid to use tropes in your story! Personally, I prefer stories that are more interesting and entertaining to follow than those that are completely original.

up

Why are those threads dying so fast lately?

Bump

>>171472780
Probably more stuff being discussed in /vg/. We need to ask for 15 pages, desu.

>>171472780
Because there are a total of six people posting in them and all of those people sometimes have to sleep.

>>171455023
After reading a lot of movie-writing books, my method is getting the big details in place and filling in the minutia as I go

>Princess must be saved
>Write quasi-romantic post-saving dialogue here
>Hero travels to next town
>They're all zombies
>He's unhappy about this
>'Visits' local lich to undo the curse

This way, I have the map, I have the major beats, but I don't need every single joke and line of dialogue to get started

I'd post progress but most of the progress I got done was storytelling concept and setting up variables.

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>>171455023
I try to write the key points first and make up dialogue as I go along.

>>171464070
Are you me?

You should probably make a small simple game, but don't make something you won't be happy to making either.

You'll never finish it that way.

>>171455023
I start with an idea, make a new project, expand on that idea until I have a story I can reasonably create in the engine, then forget about it for months and maybe pick it up again later.

I'm having trouble finding interesting ideas for status effects. What are some unique ones from your game? (or just ideas for some, if they're not in your game)

>Go back to my comfy original RPGMXP
>Resources and scripts are buried in time, links are broken and demos cannot be downloaded
>An entire generation lost under the shadows of VXace and MV

Welp. I am the last autist using XP

>>171480669
Toxin: Does nothing, but at 10 stacks kills you. Some abilities may deal more damage if you have stacks of Toxin.

Dragon Scale: buffs def/res, removed with any successful status ailment.

Phoenix Pact: Convert ALL mp(including allies/enemies) into your hp. Cast abilities from hp. Lose % of current hp every turn.

Glue: Lose speed. Inflict this ailment on any unit that melee attacks you.

>>171476895

>The /rpgmg/ times
>Local lich turns entire village into zombies
>Bug halts local hero progress, dooms world
>Default rpg maker heroes speak up on years of mocking and bullying

dang

>>171481454

Well pokemon games can only really be made in XP so there's always that until MV gets the needed resources there's always people on XP.

>>171483372
Explain this, I've never used XP, started with vx.
What's the difference between XP and newer versions?

>>171484543
Not him, but:
>More map layers
>TALL SPRITES (instead of sqaure ones)
>Mapping tools designed around TALL SPRITES
>The best Pokemon plugin ever made

>>171483372
I hear those have a tendency to run poorly on modern machines, though, and that's probably not going to get any better by the time you actually finish making a game.

>>171486263

It shouldn't be too bad as long as you replace the music in the essentials because the music seems to lag up every time you enter a battle and when designing maps you just gotta be mindful on size. Pokemon games should be fairly small.

>>171459478
I'd love to join a game jam again. Did one recently, but was sad I joined a team that just used me for 3d assets.
I wanted to do a 2d visual novel with rpg maker.

Why is /vg/ moving so fast today? Did something come out?

>>171487269
>the music seems to lag up every time you enter a battle
You mean, lags all the time? Even for sound effects. What happened is modern Windows machines don't give two shits about MIDI, and have to load/drop it every time it's called. They don't keep it in the RAM, because it's viewed as useless. Convert your sounds to MP3 and you're golden

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My progress is drawing faces.
This is the main character as a 10 year old and an 18 year old.

Are there any rpgs where you play as kaiju?

Any way to make different enemies have different death messages in ace?

>>171494496
Cute
Would hug

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Good morning /rpgmg/, what are your plans for the day?

>>171500480
I shall make progress
In a few hours

>>171500480
Recording my dialogue

>>171500480

It's late evening here, but I will devote the rest of today's hours to making additional sprites for a cutscene. Tomorrow - I'll be making the cutscene in question.

>>171502704
Let's see some of those sprites!

How old is your main character?

>>171504978

Sorry - it's a late/end-game story content.

>>171507631

13 - according to my notes, but it's never stated in the actual game.

>>171507631
She begins as a ten year old and grows up throughout the game until she's 18 at the end.
Her name is decided by the player, but I haven't figured out how to let the player determine her birthday yet, or if I should.

Bumpa

Uploading the collab now, will post a link when it's done!

>>171494496
Cute style. Could be pretty charming depending on how you convert it to grafix.

What MV plugins are for making aesthetic changes to a game? I mean like changing windows and menus to pngs instead of the graphic set in systems.

tl;dr: How do I make game prettier?

I really like unorthodox abilities that require combos to be good, like "Caster has its Magical Attack drastically raised but is Muted" and want to make a game built around such skills. Yet, I suspect:
They would be extremely hard to balance correctly.
If the skills are shared with the AI, the AI would be extremely easy to disrupt.
They would require VERY flexible skillsets to serve their purpose of being combo-rific. So I'd need either a huge roster of characters, a job system that requires the player to change jobs constantly or a Materia system.

How would I go about fixing these issues?

Bump?

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Chapter 1 of the Collab has been finished!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhxwolr03gkpnz6/CollabProj.zip?dl=0

BSTAnon is taking over for chapter 2. Play it and let me know what you think!

>>171520340
Downloading
Haven't even played the prologue yet

>>171520340
Downloadan

Forgot to clear out the save folder, feel free to delete all the saves in there, most of them are buggy.

>>171520340
I'm stuck on a black screen after that dialogue between the King and Claymore and whatever his name was, pretty much after the first fight.

>>171522995
Did you start a new game?

>>171523368
Yes

>>171522995
Wow I'm an idiot. I fucked up the map order and messed up one of the prologue teleports. I'll upload a new version overnight that fixes it, my internet is slow as shit.

To fix it manually, go to Chief's House in cutscenes maps and click on arwen. at the bottom of his event list change the transfer from Chapter 1 Complete to Prologue Complete (any x/y really).

sorry.

>>171523634
That fixed it, saw a different cutscene and I can progress now.

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What do you guys think of timed hits/blocks?

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>Do we have something to eat?
>Nah, we starve

I got stuck.

So I'm writing out these characters and hit a wall, I want to write out tragedies for all of them. I already did a lover dying and I am unsure what to do for the other two, without people dying. Because that will have lost its effect. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

>>171526196
Tell me about your characters, anon. What do they do? What are their motivations?

>>171526002
I like them because it actually rewards you if you are playing the game and not simply mashing enter to attack.

>>171520340
I feel dumb, how do augmentations work?
I found a few things but I don't know how to use them.

>>171526196
It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

Make one guy a friendless, kissless virgin social outcast.

>>171526002
almost mandatory for me to enjoy an rpg

>>171526573
you go to the item menu and select either weapon or armor. then select the item you wish to augment and it will show you how many slots it has. some armor has more slots than others, and some stuff can only be socketed in either a weapon or armor.

>>171527505
So you only enjoy, what, Earthbound and Mario?

>>171526354
There is a Ranger, a Knight and an Alchemist. The player picks one and the other two become unplayable. (Unless you start a new save. Ideally, you play all three to see things from other's perspectives.) This is just some ideas I am tossing around until I figure out what I'm doing.

The Ranger, is the only one I am satisfied with. His fairy dies and he goes on a quest to revive her using the local plot device, however the plot device is fucked because of plot reasons and basically monkey paws everyone. So naturally she comes back as a means to the main villain's ends and has to be put down. Fucking him up forever. There is a LOT more too it, but I dont want to post it all here for obvious reasons.

The Knight stars out as a squire living in a great city that fell from grace, she finds a boy around her age who despite that fact natural magic is super rare in the setting, is able to use ice magic. Everyone thinks he's cursed so she takes him in as a brother. Hearing about the plot device, he wants to undo the work of the beings that shaped the world but that would also pretty much mean global extinction. A ghost may or may not be involved and I am trying to go with a clash of ideals. I dont know how to end it on a sad note.

The Alchemist, I have no idea where I am starting, Alchemy is a pretty big thing in the lore, when I said the world was "shaped" I literally mean it. It was made by borderline god-tier wizards who had mastered Alchemy, hence many of the mages and scientists in the world study the remains of their studies. The only thing I have is the Alchemist makes a nifty Glove able to "tear elements" from reality so you can shoot a fireball or whatnot without the use of a polarized staff. However everyone just kinda looks at him like "but why".

>>171527727
Well I guess I was being a little hyperbolic, but the game needs to have some kind of input variation or something. If the entire game is just selecting menus, the game has to stand on other merits like storyline or music/setting. I've been playing rpgs since the original release of DQ1 on nes, after a while menu selecting gets old.

>>171528004
For me menu selecting only gets old when they put no effort into balance or strategy and you can get through everything by mashing auto attack (so 99% of RPG Maker games).

Selecting menus is an intrinsic part of RPGs, that's like saying jumping gets old in platformers or shooting gets old in FPSs.

>>171526196
>Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

They're old and feel like they've lost all their best years, having accomplished little or nothing at all

They're still hurting over a lover they let get away, all those years ago

Way back, they were given a grand opportunity carrying lots of risks (business, travel across the sea, etc.). They regret not taking it. They feel it would have turned out really well.

The one thing they want to be good at- someone else is outstandingly better. The rival might even be younger, too, for extra pain.

A friend or family member is relapsing into drug use.

An abusive ex wants to get back into their life, and they feel torn between inner peace and no longer being alone.

They something stupid a long time ago and ran away from it. Someone has appeared to make them pay.

Helping someone in need goes terribly wrong (ie. you pay off someone's mafia debt, but the mafia demands more and more because they can)

Someone they looked up to as a hero turns out to be a degenerate gambler, gangster, alcoholic, or worse

Their business/farm fails, and they fall in debt

A letter arrives from home asking to come immediately for some reason or another. They can't, because the adventure comes first. They spend the quest agonizing over the conseqeunces

A character has fallen in love with one of the enemy generals, or the Big Bad themselves. Knowing they must die is a heavy cross

A character is an outworlder who will dissapear when the moon turns full again

>>171527961
I ain't reworking this. You're getting it. Maybe I'll make another later

>>171528284
This. Especially if the only abilities you get are "Save this one for the boss because there'll still be six thousand random encounters and it's better to spam attack with everyone and heal with potions that cost 50 gold when every enemy drops 45920"
I'd much rather have focused battles with fewer enemies and actually getting to use my skills and stuff.
A good way to balance everything is to either have cheaply available mana pots, giving a way for characters to recover mana in battle or regenerating mana after every win.

>>171528284
You're very right, I just haven't played very many games where the combat was well done and consisted of only menu selections. I guess the gimmicks of timing/combo inputs and stuff help to make the battles more interesting if the dev can't come up with a way to make it interesting otherwise. That's why I went that way, anyway.

I never really found the combat element of jRPGs fun, it was moreso the storyline and building/customizing stats and equipment that got me going.

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>>171529314
>>171528284
My shitpost game had mechanics and balance. Every boss had a gimmick. Hell even the random encounters had at least one trick or joke. If you weren't on your toes you'd wipe.

My friend hated it. I had a boss that attacked and either set up a counter or magic reflect or used a two-turn heavy hit that you needed to guard. He could not figure it out until I told him.

Another boss I enjoyed making was a double boss (2 on 2, you and a party member named waifu vs two others) if you killed one too soon, the other one goes off. You have to whittle them both down and spread the damage or you'll get hit by the enrage mechanics.

Another one was a boss that had four pods you need to destroy that spam debuffs and status, however every turn your take % damage and the boss also likes poison. When the pods are destroyed the boss does an weak AoE but if your not healed enough from the damage over time its a wipe.

This kinda shit is fun for me I dont understand why most games end up auto attacks vs hp sponge.

>>171530162
I love it when you actually have to switch up your battle plan versus different monsters like that.
Even when it's gimmicky stuff.

I can't remember what game it was, but I remember an /rpgmg/ game years ago where there was a boss that seemed to be invincible, but you had to steal an item from him and then use that item to kill him. I thought it was clever.

>>171526354
The main character is a little girl with powers that you raise to be either a hero, villian, or something in between.
Her personality is not well defined since it changes based on her optional interactions with other characters.

>>171530162
Sadly, I think that most people are too inexperienced to figure things like that out. It's really become a weird situation where games have been appealing to the masses for almost two decades, so mechanics have to reflect that complexity. You can't have that much in-depth mechanics and expect to appeal to a majority of players. Shit, even trying to get them to play a turn based rpg is work enough.

Also, with the exception of my idiocy and that transport event. Is everyone having fun with chap 1? What do you think?

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>>171532530
I hope people are ready to get stuck at the first boss because I'm going to make Lost Odyssey look easy.

>Azulia is full of hedonistic catgirls
GOTY

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>>171533806
I just finished the prologue + chapter 1.
I think you did a fine job, its open enough that other people should have no problems continuing the story.
I found a couple of typos here and there and some minor bugs but nothing game breaking.
Fuck these enemies which could cast blind, they made me a little angry because they kept blinding me.
The underground cave system was a little confusing, I managed to get through just fine but I'm sure I missed some stuff.
The earth spirit was really fun to fight, though! It was balanced just right, it was hard but not unfair.
I genuinely had to laugh at the end, when it was Orihs turn to speak to the council members.
Also that floating eye god was a little spooky, I did not expect that.
Good job my friend.

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well i've been trying to upload a screenshot i took using a script i wrote to allow for in-game screenshots. but i can't upload the image to 4chan. for what matter, i can't upload it to any image uploading site. maybe i coded the bmp header incorrectly, but everything looks fine when i view it on using irfan or firefox

>>171535104
>Screenshot
>Save as PNG
BMPS are stupidly large files, anyhow

>>171535507
png is harder to encode. if i'm just demonstrating a concept to save screenshots, it would make more sense to start in bmp format and then do png after testing to see if the idea works to begin with

>>171535695
What I mean is, use Paint or something to convert it to PNG, so we can see it. I wouldn't be surprised if the BMP's filesize was causing trouble, too

>>171536610
>>171535695
I don't think he cared about posting a screenshot of his game. He wants to prove that his screenshot script works, and is worried that it seemingly isn't.

That said, 4chan doesn't even support bitmaps last I checked, and even if it did, it's filesize would very likely be well beyond 4chan's limits anyways, as you said.

>>171535695
>>171535104
If it's working in irfan and firefox, then it sounds like its working period. Bitmaps aren't really complex things. You should work on the png one now.

got free chips and queso.
today was a good day

>>171435917
Best parasite


Best girl too

>>171540898
I completely agree.

>>171534779
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you liked it!
Do you remember where some typos were, and what bugs you encountered? I gotta reupload to fix the transfer bug so I may as well fix some more bugs.

Quick. Give me ideas for earth temple puzzles.
Nightmare mode: No rock pushing.

>>171544601
breaking pieces of rock to plug holes, changing available pathways.

>>171542910
There was one Your/You're mistake somewhere at the beginning. Maybe it was in the prologue, I'm not sure.
But I remember Dahl saying that he was a botanst instead of botanist.
There was something else in Azulia but I can't remember anyone I'm sorry! I should have taken some screenshots.
I think I was able to walk over the pillars after the Earth Spirit fight. Also when I talked to the glowing orbs in the city they changed their color, I don't think this was intended.
Also one teleport on that map where the entrance to the armory and such is led me to the beginning of the town.

>>171544601
Uh, something with mud monsters?
A statue has broken down and you need to form a duplicate with some peaceful mud monsters or something.

Is there a way to make slash attack and thrust attack separately in-battle?
Not by changing weapon.
I want to implement half-swording as well.

>>171545530
You could make different skills with different attributes to them.

Uploading fixed version of collab while I sleep, also bump!

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>>171526002
Speaking of timed hit and block, any plugin with this capability?

>>171548246
I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at.

>>171548526
You block with Square or Cross when enemy attack but enemy attack several times.
You match your timing with the animation.

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Don't die on me

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>>171550658
I would never leave you

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does this look bathhouse enough

>>171548246
What game is this?

>>171552482
Yes

>>171552483
Ar Tonelico 2

>>171552482
Water tile looks a bit weird, but otherwise yeah

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Good night bump

Good morning bump

B___

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Post maps.

>>171563234
For some reason, this reminds me of Advance Wars

>>171563738
me too

>>171517393
Still no answer from you guys? I mean I know art is subjective, but still.

>>171569514
Look into Moghunter's plugins, they generally let you customize various interfaces

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>>171435917

>>171552482
Where are the lockers (to undress)?
And the showers?

>>171576672

>Wearing clothes

It's clearly a nudist town. Let it all hang out in Dow Nunder. Those rooms are just masturbation/sex rooms for when the native futa girls get frisky.

>>171544601
You become sand to travel across rooms to find rocks to push.

>>171552482
>those crystals you just know someone is going to slip and impale themselves on

>>171552482
Oh sweet I love having a slice of cheese before I get into the giant bath.

Also Anon above me is right
>those slipping hazard crystals

>>171576672
The changing rooms are right there at the right???

>>171581383
>>171582557

GOOD POINT
Crystal be gone will be applied

For VX ace, is there anything like PDR but in reverse?

So it would modify the damage you deal, not what's dealt to you

Link to updated and fixed collab

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7ljbsji7tqgdxa/CollabProj.zip?dl=0

Link this one in the next general!

So I'm thinking about designing a dungeon crawler with 8 characters in battle at once.

What kind of class system should I run with?

>>171589138
Something that doesn't have me go through eight different menus every single battle.

How do I into good city design with narrow alleys?

>>171594346
Seconding this. My game takes place in a city, but I don't know how to make city maps work.

>>171594346
>>171594725
The alleys will be forced to run North-to-South, unless you make good use of overhead tiles or the city's buildings are under three stories tall

>>171596364
I had a grand idea involving yanfly's doodads and area switches, but I can't test it since I'm not home and it'd require art.

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Page 10 bump.

So, tell me about your games.

>>171604336
It's a VN

Sometimes I listen to this and it helps me work on my game.

https://soundcloud.com/mrmichaelgomez/dont-tell-me-what-to-do

>>171606076
Is it lewd?

>>171607591
Maybe at one point if you pick the correct choices.

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>>171604336
A girl tries a demon summoning spell she found on the internet, then her and the MC have to figure out what to do with the little boy they accidentally conjured up. The world almost ends but since the MC and friends were already up and about they decide to nip that in the bud.
There's an evil sorcerer up to mischief mixed up in there somewhere too.

>>171589138
Seconding this question without the 8 character nonsense

What class system works best for a dungeon crawler? (5 party members if that means anything)

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>tfw you finally decide the name of the MC
yay n-now for the other 10+ characters i guess

>>171526196
Happy jolly fun time when suddenly DISASTER causes INTENSE STRUGGLE for SURVIVAL and IMMENSE SUFFERING due to PERMANENT INJURY which over the course of the game leads to the BELOVED CHARACTER it effects eventually LOSING THEIR LIFE in a battle they otherwise COULD HAVE WON in order to SAVE THE REST

>>171552482
>no coal sauna
Or is that what those three rooms are supposed to be?
But they look like changing rooms or something

>>171609243
That sounds like a fun game, I want to play it.

>>171606076
What's it about?

>>171604336
It's a game I posted about before, but then put on hiatus for a while because trying to figure out how to balance it properly was tough.

And then I decided to try reworking it so it's a VN instead.

hello my name is newfag and i don't know how to code
i have rpg maker vx ace and unlimited free time wat do

>>171614060
First and foremost, figure out what kind of game you want to make

(and if RPGM is even the right tool to use)

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>>171614060
>mfw it's 70 fucking dollars
>mfw i bought it for next to nothing during the christmas sale

>>171615562
I want to make a turn-based rpg that's heavy on story, with improvable skills and some simple resource gathering/crafting.
It'd be neat if you unlocked your skills through quests or events in the world rather than just starting out at level 1 in alchemy and being able to do anything from the start.

>>171612043
The MC is a member of the police and after a few years on the streets they get an offer to become an inspector in a different town. The game begins with the MC arriving there. You quickly meet your new partner who is responsible for your further training and you get your first case. Let's say your partner has some unconventional methods of investigating so some unconventional things happen. Gameplay would be similar to Ace Attorney/Danganronpa games but you also run around and do stuff from time to time.
The demo will be the first case and will have 5 or 6 different endings, depending on what you do at certain times. The full game would have 5 to 6 cases.
Progress has been pretty slow, I need to increase my efforts, but I'm almost finished with the story of the first case.

What's a good class system for a dungeon crawler?

>>171615810
That doesn't sound too terribly complicated! You can probably get by with a minimum of coding.

>>171619080
I have no problem with learning how to code at least a little for this, i just have no idea where to jump in, both for learning code and how to use RPGmaker.

I clicked around a bit and found the character generator. It's a little more limited than i expected in terms of presets and freedom of choice regarding colour.

>>171616231
That sounds like my jam.
Hope you work hard on it.

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>the character generator is frustratingly inaccurate regarding what colours it's colours actually are
>also frustratingly hit or miss regarding the colours of clothing actually changing at all when choosing a different colour

I'm sure there's gotta be fanmade expansions for this or something.

>>171619927
I will not let you down. Time to make progress again.

>>171620310
Just open the character sprite sheet in Gimp, paint.net, Photoshop or whatever your preferred editing software is and change the colors yourself.

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>>171604336
it will never be finished

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>>171625680
Yes it will.
Stop running away Anon.

What's a good size for a large map with many events that wont lag mv too much?

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>First item you get is pretty much a useless junk item
>Except you realize how important it is when you want to reach the true ending
I like this idea a lot

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>>171625924
Not song of the day anon, but today's song of the day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDl1pj7eJbA

>>171629179
It would depend a lot on the emphasis placed on the item and the length of the game, imo.

>>171629179
>Lunar
>Ocarina is useless
>Except at the very very end when you play it to not get instantly zapped by your friend, currently possesed by otherwordly powers

There's a fine line between a King's Quest-era 'fuck you' and a reward. Also, would your game have an inventory limit?

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>>171632439
>>171632905
It would be a paper containing a mundane information. The player will most likely look at it two or three times before not needing to look at it anymore. However it contains something else, which seems like meaningless nonsense.
But this meaningless nonsense will make the MC realize something if you look at it at the correct time.

No inventory limit and you wouldn't be able to sell it either.

Any plugin to limit item you bring to battle for each character?
Think of item slot in Kingdom Hearts.

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Stay alive

>Finally got around to testing Chapter 1.
>Lots of stuff.
>Get to the scene at the second campfire.
>OH HAI THERE NECROLITH

Leo, did you do that on purpose or is this just some wild coincidence?

>Originals that used to only have a cooldown have now been nerfed by costing 10 TP as well.

Well, I guess this is fine.

Overall it looks good. I'm taking a break and will continue it some other time. Good job so far.

I was going to post a picture of my map but my computer decided to crash. See yall in the morning.

I'm feeling great
I want to hug your MC
I want to hug your villain
I want to hug you

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Long time no see veegee.

>>171644648
This looks nice

>>171644648
I remember you. How's the game going?

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Good night bump

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>>171647874
Psychic Hearts is awesome.

>>171647858
Long break because wanted to take a good evaluation of the various projects I've either started or been hired to work on. Figured I'd work on it more to see wether game making is more hobby or profession for me. It's complicated really.