/rpgmg/ RPG Maker General #216

Can this anon >>182891006 tell me more about his game? Looks neat

How long should we keep stuff in the OP?
Stuff like the Demo links. People using mediafire can update files without changing the links, I don't know about mega.

How many months until we decide something is abandoned?

>>183572826
That is some nice art.

>>183576379
It's a slow moving general, and a slow moving process to make a game, so I feel we can keep things around a pretty good while. It's not as if we have new demos lined up to take the current ones' places!

...That said, the Steel Zeroes demo was uploaded over six months ago, and Long Road is getting up there as well. I certainly wouldn't object to removing them at this point.

Perhaps we could create a page for older demos on the wiki? And move things there after a certain amount of time.

> dying with a single-digit post count

>>183580069
Clearly, everyone is too busy working on their games to check in.

>>183580223
Y-yes... that's what I was doing!
I was playing Smash

anyone do stuff that modifies health bars?

>>183571618
Got drunk after fixing nine maps worth of cliff issues. Now on to ten with a hangover.

>>183571618
Oh dear, you should have told me you would include my demo in the OP, I would have given the updated link...I don't believe I can keep the same link but have a different file with MEGA and if you can I don't know how I would do that, but here's the updated demo for Tempus Ex Machina:

https://mega.nz/#!45swzCgT!G0XeuIfCSJZC9gp7xJSoqKdGGayuhqBSsuX_LkF6pnI

>>183585042
I would have posted the link in the last thread I mean. Anyways, the RTP needs to be downloaded seperately, just in case for whatever reason someone can't get the game to work and hasn't done so. The rest of the updates won't include the RTP either since the file size is so much smaller.

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Make a side quest based on this picture.

How much will constantly running parallel process common events impact game performance? Just simple ones like detecting when a character's level has changed.

>>183590893
A couple here and there generally won't do too much, but the more you have that don't shut off, the more your game will lag. It's a good idea to just not have to many of those in general if you can help it.

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Hey, to the dev of UnknownWorld
the game looks awesome and I'm loving it so far but I get this bug where the font becomes huge right after I hire my first party member

>>183592703
Yeah I made a bunch of fuck ups in the newest build, one of which lets you level up effortlessly cause I'm an idiot. I'll be uploading a fixed version shortly.

>>183583409
With what version? Do you have any specific questions about them?

>>183592703
>>183593160
Ok I just fixed it. A new download is up.

Link for anyone else who wants to try it: https://dewdneym.itch.io/unknownworld

>>183590893
RM has hundreds of checks running in the background every single frame already, so adding your own isn't that bad.

You should still find smarter solutions when you can, though, and your example is a situation where you can use a smarter fix. It'd require only adding a single line of code, too.

Inside the levelUp function for Game Actor, you'd add a line of code that turns on whatever game switch you want. You'd then use that switch as a trigger condition for whatever (common) event you want.

>>183594679
yanfly released that plugin, and it made me think about more ways to play around with the health bar.

Not just changing AI at set percentages, but things like enforcing your own hp boundaries with skills. Dealing weakness or something changes up where the hp boundaries are, making "angry" mode happen faster or even the opposite.

I can't find any good scripts that bring you to a checkpoint after losing a battle. Anyone know of anything?
Using VX Ace.
Honestly, this should be an option supported by the engine by default.

>>183595483
If you're using evented encounters, just turn on "Continue even when loser", and do whatever you want.

If you're using random encounters, you'll have to make a very small change to BattleManager's self.process_defeat function.

When you look inside, the game goes to Scene_Gameover if the @can_lose variable is set to false. For random encounters, it's always false. You'd change this function to whatever you want.

Likely, you'll want to turn on a game switch inside this function so that you can create an event that runs when the party loses an encounter as well.

>>183599119

Cyan's site is still down. Safe to say this might be it. Does anyone have his material in a zip or anything similar?

bemp

Is it me or is this place deader than usual?
Inb4 it's because everyone is 'working hard'

>>183604608
It's because everyone is working really hard!

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>>183604608
I finished my practice demo and started studying and putting concepts together for the real thing. I won't have anything to post for a long while.

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Fuck yeah, intro text crawls!

>>183597494
This helps a lot but now I gotta figure out how to make the player teleport.

I'm assuming what I'd need to do is make a "get location" event on where I want the respawn location to be and make the script teleport me to that variable, right?
I just have no idea how to accomplish that because I don't know anything about ruby syntax.

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>>183606596
I don't want to be rude but this is possibly the worst way to dumb your lore.

>>183606596
Only Star Wars has ever been able to pull off slow text crawl intros.
Don't do this.
It'd be better if each of those paragraphs had an acompanying scene to make it look interesting.

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>>183606776
It's a side project with a focus on gameplay first. No cutscenes other than the opening text crawl, NPC dialog as limited as possible. Trying to call to mind the limitations of FF1.

>>183606596
you use so much orange for emphasis that said emphasis has no meaning. like, a good third of your text has the emphasis color

>>183607147
>Trying to call to mind the limitations of FF1.
Speaking of FF1, it did a small intro like that much better. Or at least the remakes did.

https://youtu.be/e1RxxKfhb-A?t=235

>>183607340
NES Zelda and Metroid had similar crawls if you let the title screen sit long enough

>>183609796
then nes zelda and metroid overused emphasis coloring

>>183610008

maybe, it was an older way to lazily add story to games with none.

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QUICK

POST GAMES THAT HAVE LARGE CHARACTER PORTRAITS

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>>183611013

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>>183611013
Heh

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>>183611013
even mobile games are doing it

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>>183611013
.

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>>183611013
Worth going below the waist?

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>>183611013
artsy backgrounds or just your game behind the busts?

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Trying to make a "fatal attack" kind of thing in MV - the enemy has to sacrifice itself to use it. I'm having some trouble.

I've tried all of these formulas:

a.die(); a.atk * 6 - b.def
a.addState(0); a.atk * 6 - b.def
a.addHp(-9999); a.atk * 6 - b.def

They all seem to have the same effect: the enemy dies but the sprite never gets a death animation. The image of it still stays on the field. How can I force the death animation?

Pic related, the bees are dead but the sprites don't go away.

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>>183611013
Fire Emblems

>>183612540
I use vx ace but if its the same with battles, then there should be a few event commands you can run on the troop events page. You can have one checking for an enemy to have 0% hp, then show animation command, select whatever animation you want on the dead enemy. In the enemy database, make a completely blank enemy with no graphic. Back to the troop event page, have the dead enemy transform in the blank enemy. That's how I would do it.

>>183612540
>>183613074

I came up with a solution after some more experimentation. I created another skill called "die", and used a.forceAction() to force the enemy to cast it on itself.

Alright, the swamp should be 100% done. Here's what it all looks like! Now to make the REAL second dungeon.

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I think I can FINALLY move on from the first few areas of my game. Making NPCs reactive to the events of the world was a mistake.
It's a pain in the ass but it's worth it.

Next up is placing treasure and balancing the monsters of this small cave.

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Which RPG Maker do you primarily use? I'm curious about what everyone here works with.
http://www.strawpoll.me/13514081

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>>183613472
It would help if I attached the pic. Derp.

>>183613859
reminds me heavily of the swamp area in the minish cap

>>183613795
I am loving this map. It's charming as hell.

I tried listening to the podcast and it's kind of... not very rpgmg related? It mostly seems to be chat about non-rpgm games, with the occasional pause to go "oh and Yanfly made a thing".

...I mean, other games are of course relevant to a game maker - as inspiration, as examples of what to do or not do as you make a game - but it doesn't feel like the themes are sufficiently put into a game making context. It's more about the games themselves than the lessons I'm supposed to take away from them - and even from a game making standpoint, it's not very much about rpgm itself.

>>183612563
>>183612357
>>183612126
>>183611914
>>183611729
>>183611487
>>183611357
>>183611179
>>183611013
Must be the podcast gang, because this has fuckall to do with RPG Maker.

Go resurrect the JRPG General or something.

>>183613795
Reminds me of earthbound.

>>183615000
Actually, I've never played minish cap.

>>183613859
The tree tile corners are white.
I dunno why you would do an entire map with a glaring problem like that; now you have to waste time fixing it.

>>183615213
thanks

>>183615792
>Reminds me of earthbound.
Not what I was expecting but I'll take it. The mother series has a good aesthetic even if the first two games are pretty bad from a technical standpoint.

>>183616137
White? What are you talking about?

>>182891006
>>183572826
I KNOW THIS GAME.
Dev anon, you're the best. I love your aesthetics, I hope to support you the moment I'm not a dirty neet.

>>183616480
The tree top corners are white, like the transparency is messed up.
Or possibly, snowtiles underneath?

Is this the season changing developer who wanted to make a jungle using deciduous forest tiles?

>>183617608
Oh I see. Click on the pic to zoom in. Those white spots aren't actually there. 4chan does some weird stuff when resizing large pics. At least for my pics. And any transparent sections actually show up as black in game too.

How can I get a legal RPGM MV cheaper (preferable not the steam version unless I can use it outside steam)? I'm willing to spend my hard earned money but 80 bucks, for fucks sake, that's a bit too much, don't you think?

>>183613795
Nice tilest. Did you make it yourself?

>>183618128
Wait for a sale or humble bundle.

>>183618963
MV was seen in humble bundles? How often are the sales? How much it's usually off?

For anyone looking to do script calls similar to event commands, refer to these bookmark-worthy links:
>vxa
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/script-call-collection-for-vxace.25759/
>mv
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Oa0cRGpjC8L5JO8vdMwOaYMKO75dtfKDOetnvh7OHs/edit#gid=0

>>183606753
Do you know how to teleport the player back to a checkpoint through only eventing?

I specifically mentioned at the very end that you'd want to use a game switch, because that'd let you go back to doing things through eventing immediately. You'd have that death processing function turn on a game switch, then you'd have a map/common event automatically run with that switch as one of its trigger conditions.

>>183618379
Yep, it's 100% original. Thanks.

>>183617931
Did you use a MapScreenshot script?

>>183620248
Yes. Still shows up fine on my end tho if I click on the pic to enlarge it.

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Got some more progress done today.
Act 1 is basically done, and I'll work on Act 2 next.

Once said Act 2 is finished, I'll release another demo, so it'll all be sorted out by the end of the year, hopefully.

>>183622373
That's great!

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I'm using VX Ace and I can't find a script to show mini HP bar on map. Many XP scripts had mini bars, I don't remember to see any battle system with mini bars on map to VX Ace. Is there any?

10

should i post a buggy demo?

>>183624869
Why not just fix the bugs THEN post it?

>>183624869
Post anyway.

>>183625070
Shh.

bumpin

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>>183620418
That's not it.
There should be a ground tile underneath it.
It's not suppose to look like that.

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>>183629412
What, you mean like this?

>>183631659
Thats better.
You should overlap the tree trunks too.

>>183632192
I'm not a spriter. I did the best I could to fix the corners but anything more is beyond my ability.

>>183628135

>>183632478
what? No. Just overlap the tiles you dummy.

>>183620086
Oh damn, that script call is a godsend. For whatever reason I couldn't find the ones for VXA, just XP and MV.
Now I'm able to call a common event and get everything going from there.

>>183613795
this has a nice roundness to it as a thumbnail, enlarged image is pleasantly earthbound. well done

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Bump

>>183634285
Not that guy, but that wouldn't work in VX. The forest roof tile and the grass are both A-layer tiles. You can only have one or the other.

>>183638987
VX mapping is really fucking bad, huh?

I dunno how they fucked it up after getting it right with XP

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Well sheeeeeeit. Anyways, back from getting some food, continuing to dev.

>>183634285
Yeah I was confused as to what you meant but >>183638987 made me realize you were talking about something in a previous engine.

>>183639190
It's pretty bad. I WISH I can have those extra layers. Since we are stuck with what we got in VX Ace, I can't even put tiles of the same tab group behind or in front of others and end up with pic related. It's got some stupid hierarchy to how it decides what can be placed on/in front/behind what.

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boring bugfixing bump

there was a bug where sometimes the menu wouldn't draw any of the faces.
i know that i'm always using the same image file, so i save that bitmap as a local variable, and it's used each time drawFace() is called. normally, drawFace() creates a temporary bitmap to hold the requested face to be drawn.

this fixes the bug, and it alleviates a bit of the performance hit when opening the menu.

>>183625070
because it's boring

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Looking at spritesheets for games like Recettear where you have these large character portraits in dialogues, and trying to condense my main character's feelings into 7 or so main faces or emotions to reuse for the whole game is stressing me out. I feel like it's not enough, and that I'm too stupid to figure out this body language.

Recette has 8 faces total, for all her emotions and suffering. Eight!

>>183643991
What does the 318 mean?

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>>183644380
mana cost. it's being shown with the wrong placeholder icon atm. perhaps it'd make more sense if it weren't being shown next to the tier-9 bard weaponry icon.

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spiffy

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I'm bored. First person to post their protagonist gets a sprite of them from me.

>>183649382
>>183631659
There. have fun.

>>183649952
>RTP
Eh i'd rather do an original design

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>>183649382
Male and Female MC respectively.

ded

>>183650643
Fuck me I was just about done and seconds away from pressing ctrl+s.
And my computer crashes (crappy, dying graphics card).
Sorry dude its gonna have to wait till tomorrow, my mood has been totally ruined.

>>183653814
It's okay Anon, stuff like that happens to all of us.
I'll look forward to it.

Link for the Humble Bundle 2 DLC is down.
Anyone have a new link?

>>183606596
I feel like I'm reading a mad libs story.

>>183606596
Oh I just noticed Krylius is spelled wrong the second time.

>>183658530
Thanks. I changed the spelling from a u to a y because I learned that Krulius was already a name in Doctor Who. Guess I missed one.

Honestly, I don't really care what the villain's name is though. I might as well just call him "The Dark Lord".

>get ahead enough on javascript classes
>remember RMMV uses javascript for plugins
>get excited about making vidya
>download it
>realize I can't do anything worth a shit with standard resources
>uninstall

I wish I was an artfag

>>183660159
I downloaded like 3 Andrew Loomis books for this purpose.

>>183660159
>Be an RM artfag in 2017
>Everyone just wants you to make 'parts' they can assemble themselves.
>Nobody knows what they're doing or how to use things.
>Uncertainty is the new norm; it used to be a barrier of entry.

What's your guys opinion on Fes?

>>183663614
Not gay enough

good night bump

I'm a fan of the OP image. But having read part of the book trilogy, nothing really exciting happens underwater.

One of the main characters was half sea-elf half Sahagin. I vaguely remember some cultural stuff. Like they don't have a written language, but they had this thing with shells and beads on a string that they "read" with extra their extra fish senses. Like shark electroreception or something.

I had wanted to do an underwater rpg, and hoped the book would serve as inspiration. But whenever it was underwater, it was all sensory crap about buoyancy or just introspection for not being a full blooded fish-person.

Live, as opposed to dying
which is what you're doing,
thread

>>183663614
Can I emulate it?/10

bump is life

>>183663614
With no option to create/import custom art it is way too limiting.

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>>183650643
>>183653814
Ok donezo with the male MC

>>183681992
cool dude

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I've learned from school the importance of producing work that immediately works for your employer. When you're given an assignment, the instructor tells you exactly how your submission should be compressed, what input your program should take, and what output it should produce. If it doesn't do all of those, then you fail the assignment instantly.

And here I am, working with a dipshit that give me art that needs to be repositioned to work with RM's specifications, or even where I need to edit the map tiles to even *tile properly*. I'm so fucking livid lately, and I hate anything related to art.

>>183660608
which Loomis books are best? Can you jump into any one in any order, or are certain ones themed for more focused work in a particular area?

>>183686390
>I've learned from school
many hearth keks
I've learned from work that what they teach you in school is the ideal expectation but once actually in the workforce on a project with a deadline, everything goes to shit because someone on the team somewhere is a fuckup and it's to be expected. Case in point, here I am shitposting on a tibetan lewd kinetiscope online-amphitheatre at 11AM because some fuckheads can't resolve their defects over the weekend and my testing work is roadblocked. Still gettin' paid, browsing six tabs of nonsense.

Chillax famzilla, I'd consider yourself lucky you got art worth working with in the first place, repositioning sprites is fairly easy work and I could forgive an artist not knowing the techie shit to align sheets properly as long as they look good once lined up right.

>>183687120
>you got art worth working with
heh

but yeah, i get it's relatively small, trivial shit, but i cannot wait till i actually have money to throw around. i wouldn't hire fuckwads that consistently produced shit that had to be fucked around with every single time they produced something. fuck

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>>183686390
maybe make your own art? Developers used to make their own regardless of how trash it was, and ship it anyways to financial gain.

>>183686475
I don't really know, but I started on Fun With A Pencil, which seems to be the absolute basics and is likely the best starting point. If I had to guess I'd say as long as you do that one first you should be good doing the rest in any order. Maybe. I actually just got these from the /ic/ sticky the other day.

Does anyone know how to draw a picture in a script with JavaScript? It seems really complicated with this loading and tree child stuff and I can't find a good example of a basic draw to build off of.

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>>183688530
>I actually just got these from the /ic/ sticky the other day.
good to know. I've been dabbling with some of the facework and posing off of the normie meme "draw the squad blank" from google and pinterest. A little too Cal Artsy in style, but I think I can un-gay it up enough for my tastes.

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>Scene_Map.prototype.drawTestingSprite = function() {
> testingSprite = new Sprite()
> testingSprite.bitmap = ImageManager.loadPicture('spookyimage')
> this.addChild(testingSprite)
>}
You basically need to do three things at minimum:
1. Create an instance of a Sprite object, and save that as a variable. In this case, it's the variable called "testingSprite".
2. Load an image for that sprite. In this case, it's an image called spookyimage.png located inside img/pictures/.
3. Add this sprite into the scene, so that RM actually draws it. Note that "this" refers to Scene_Map. That's why it makes sense to make the JS function that adds this sprite be a part of Scene_Map.

If you want to know more, you should really just watch one of the random YouTube vids on scripting. Since SRD's not looked at so kindly around here, I'd say someone like soulpour777 is also good to learn from.

>>183690219
What are you specifically intending to do with that sprite?

>>183692035
Damn, thanks a lot looks like I was close but that's a super clean explanation. I think I've seen that channel's videos a few times so I'll try and look through more of those for future reference.

To answer your question it's for portraying an actor picture in battle. The end goal is I want pictures and the ability to change them based on states and actions. The basic example being something like a barbarian has a different picture when he has the rage state.

>>183681992
That's pretty good, I like it a lot.
Thank you Anon.

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>>183673907
THIS BRAVE SOUL, TAKKONGGUY, JUST POSTED PROGRESS IN /AGDG/'S WEEKLY RECAP, AND IS BASICALLY MAKING YOU HIS BITCH

>>183696008
How is the response aside from >RPG MAKER?

> Be me
> Test play game
> Character suddenly runs to the left without any apparent reason
> Not just once, and on EVERY map
> Spend 15 minutes checking events, closing and restarting rpg maker, checking other programs to see if keyboard is shitting itself
> Everything should be working
> Glance to the side
> Something has got on top of my controller and is pushing the stick to the left

Don't be me.

>>183696008
he's got good art. he'll be all right anywhere.

>>183696896
Everyone likes it. Mostly cuz of the art. If I posted mine I bet it would be shit on.

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>>183696896
fair, hating RPG Maker is just a meme. If you can't brush off the engine criticism, then you're not gonna make it anyways

see here >>183680336 he got a lot of response and visibility. and like >>183698018
and >>183697982 say, his art is likable.

>>183697850
>Something has got on top of my controller and is pushing the stick to the left
happens too much, I unplug when not in use. Not an issue with consoles but such a problem with PC

10 drawing again, even though i'm not supposed to be. wrist issues

>>183701109
do it with your dick, you have a tablet right?

*bumps your thread from page 10*
Nothing personell kid

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So a really good friend of mine made a game and it would mean the world to me if you checked it out. It's a really big passion project for them and over 2 years of work is finally getting released

http://blinking4soup.tumblr.com/post/163297014147/blinking4soup-h-e-a-r-t-b-e-a-t-developer

If you have any feedback please let me know! I'm just helping spread the word around but you can contact her directly via the blog posted. Thank you :)

A lot of games will do a one-off rolling boulder/block pushing puzzle, maybe put 3-4 in a dungeon, but it's super underutilized. Would you hate a more puzzle-heavy boulder-roller if it made sense in the world and had story to go with it? Like Adventures of Lolo 3 with some substance behind it

>>183706159
It's fucking gorgeous

>>183706159
cautious, appears to be blantant shilling at first glance. Never seen this game in development on chans. Explain tumblr's shit format to me, because I can't clearly see where to find the later posts about the game as it was developed. I want to see earlier elements and development past

>>183706159
Tell us something about this game.

>>183706159
>check twitter
>31 tweets, 8 followers
tell your friend she's about 18 months late on the social media circuit. You start the outreach IN development, not at the last minute. Jesus Christ

It's lush & pretty for an almost complete RPG Maker game, which are rare enough as it is, but there are some basic unwritten rules being violated here

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>>183706592

It's been pretty internal as far as development goes and the tumblr post was the first time they put it out to the public. If it seems like I'm promoting it in a bad way I can delete the post.

>>183706840

I'm not really sure how to describe it outside of a turn-based RPG adventure with a really diverse cast of characters. I liked the story when I played it for the first time, but what I liked even more was each individual character's uniqueness that they had, as well as their character development later on in the story.

>>183706934

There wasn't any real effort put into advertising since it's their first real game being put out. The only reason I'm actually here is because I got the OK to share it with whomever I wanted, and I figured this would be a good place to share it

Like I said earlier, if it seems like the post is in poor taste I can remove it. A lot of late nights in Skype and eventually Discord went into making the game, and I'm just trying to share the finished work around.

>>183687120
Must be nice to get paid for your time and not actually have to do anything.

>>183706159
>It's a really big passion project for them and over 2 years of work is finally getting released
>on their tumblr "HEARTBEAT has been in development since early January 2016."
>we are planning on a free demo around mid-July, while the full game with be released around the end of August.

some of this just isn't adding up. 12ish people on credits?

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>>183706159
>So a really good friend of mine made a game and it would mean the world to me if you checked it out. It's a really big passion project for them and over 2 years of work is finally getting released
>http://blinking4soup.tumblr.com/post/163297014147/blinking4soup-h-e-a-r-t-b-e-a-t-developer
>If you have any feedback please let me know! I'm just helping spread the word around but you can contact her directly via the blog posted. Thank you :)

No, it's out there now, >>183707584
we are fickle gods

>>183706934
>checking twitter
Who does that?

>>183707876
obviously not you, nodev. Not Gonna Make It™: The Post

>>183707584
basically if you want 4chan support you need to share development from the ground up, including all the embarrassing fuckups while trying to make progress. Posting the finished game is just plain shilling.

You didn't screw up, if the game's actually good and fun then it doesn't matter, but posting the game when you can't play a demo, it hasn't been shared previously in dev, and you aren't even the developer herself are all silly moves.

•convince the dev herself to come post and talk about development issues and Q&A a bit here; it'll liven up the thread and she'll get quality feedback
•get her to release a goddamn demo NOW so we can play the damn thing
•post gifs and images of the game while shilling for her, and be informed enough to answer our questions about it
•don't get offended when we shitpost or call you a shifty jew nigger for shilling incorrectly. If you can win over us and more importantly /v/, you get fat stacks of Risk of Rain-tier money

>>183708851

I understand that much! I'll see if I can organize something with the dev team so they can speak for themselves instead of me saying something incorrectly.

Also, the link I posted -was- the demo, does it not work for you anon?

>>183709045
>Also, the link I posted -was- the demo, does it not work for you anon?
It looks like there's one there, it's just not front and center with the shit layout on that site

>>183710109
Tumblr IS largely an awful site, but... it's a bolded allcaps link with arrows pointing at it. I think that's more on the viewer if they can't find it.

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How sued am I?

>>183703834
I normally do draw with my dick, but I'm not that into big boys. Too thicc for me.

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>>183710805
To be fair, I ALMOST missed the link too as I quickly skimmed the page. A colorful button would prob help with that but whatever.

>>183706159
I'll give it a look later when I'm done devving for the day.

Now, as for everyone else since you guys give me good ideas, what comes to mind when you hear "Abandoned Glade?" That's what this area is, and I'm not sure what aesthetic direction to go with it. I want it to have a nice desolate look, prob with some water again, but not like the swamp. Just some spooky/creepiness but also not too much since I wanna save maximum spooks for a graveyard area later on.
Also keep in mind I need to have space to put a puzzle to open an area inside this map too.

>>183711424
I'd expect an "abandoned glade" to be overgrown as shit unless there are forest spirits tending to it or something. Fallen leaves fucking everywhere, much less cleanly defined than what you have there, and maybe a fallen tree or two if you have the tiles for it. If it used to be civilized (can't be abandoned if no one was ever there, right?) then you could have some minor ruins like a cracked walkway or something.

>>183711424
this is an NES Zelda fairy lake without the lake, feels strange to look at as is

>>183696008
please post here again taggongguy

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>>183711896
>>183712024

I just made this as the framework to give an idea of the size I had to work with. The glade is in an area that has a mountain all around it.
Like pic related but not entirely a lake.

>>183712171
it's definitely more beneficial for him to spam updates in agdg for the larger audience.

the only real gain he gets from rpgmg is that some of us are more familiar with scripting questions he'd have. rm specific answers could be given by us, and agdg would only have general programming solutions that wouldn't even really be useful to him.

https://soundcloud.com/marcus-dewdney-1/unknown-world

Bumping the thread with music I guess. I think I overdid it with the echo.

I should just learn LSDJ and make accurate music but eeehhhh

>>183713508
echo wasn't that noticeable; seems good

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Master of the Wind has been updating it's game for 10 years. Replacing artwork window skins, and I don't know what else.

I'm tempted to download it again to see what's changed. I remember when it was a mixed bag of resources.

Fucking hell I do not understand how I can go from I HATE MAKING PIXEL ART, SOMEONE END MY SUFFERING to loving this shit in no seconds flat but I'll goddamn take it! Now let's make some fucking pixel art!

>>183719689
Pixel art is for rm2k.
Everything that came after it is color indexed low resolution art.
But no one ever listens to me.

Okay guys hear me out. What if no timed hits during the player's turn, but yes timed blocks during the enemy turn?

>>183719689
PIXELART IS AWESOME
IT'S ALMOST LIKE CHEATING

>>183720638
Yes? and?
I'd list out games that have done it. But people shit on the podcasters for doing that, so I don't know what to tell you.

>>183721058
I don't know any that have done it offhand. I think you're supposed to give an analysis or suggest ways to implement or improve it to avoid getting shit on.

>>183721058
>But people shit on the podcasters for doing that
It's only one guy who has a hateboner for the podcast

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Damn it, I can't seem to get this to look decent no matter what I try. This is annoying.

>>183721563
Main thing you should change is that you shouldn't use the same tile for both "on the wall" and "on the ground" purposes. In particular, that means it's that one bush tile.

Other than that, it's good enough.

>>183721315
But it's such a fundamental thing.
There's only so many ways you can do timed blocking.
Key prompts. Spinners. The linear form of spinners.
A combination of key prompts and spinners.

I mean, the podcast kinda did cover this stuff in the last video about critical hits.
This is just critical block.

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>>183720012
Guess who's using rm2k, motherfucker!

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>>183722180
Actually it turns out I'm an idiot. I had an extra tileset for this exact purpose and completely forgot about it. Now it should look MUCH better yes?

>>183721315
It should be a significant difference to damage received, otherwise it just a waste of time.

In digimon world, when ever you use a Special Attack, or are about to be hit by one, you have a timed hit thing to boost your attack or defense.
But it's like, 100 point difference.
That's significant at the rookie level, when your HP is like 1000.
But at Champion, Ultimate, and Mega level, your HP is 6000+, so 100 point difference is negligible.

>>183723515
Not really. You're using rock fissures on a brick wall. And look, a brick wall behind a brick wall!
Floor cracks on wall tiles.

You're trying to use tiles in a way they weren't designed for.

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>>183724429
It's always something...there happy? I don't have any other tiles I can use to make it look caved in and want to have the stone cracked a lot.

>>183661119
Fuck the generator. Seriously.
I miss the time where I can download unique character designs and get inspired for a story. Now it's generator look alikes x90000

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>>183725887
You could always customize it a bit and draw a few more crack variants! It's not that hard.

What bugs me is that the top part is entirely flat - it's missing the edge tiles that the lower one has to show there's a corner.

bumop

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>>183727101
I guess it's comparable to when they started selling cake mix back in the 20's or whenever it was.
The story goes: People didn't like using cake mix because all they did was add water and bake. "It's not my cake."
So they took eggs out of the cake mix, making people mix in their own eggs. And suddenly "This is my cake. I made it" and store bought cake mix was a success after that. People are bias when they put something together themselves. They call that the Ikea effect. The cake isn't any different, but it's somehow "better" when people put enough of it themselves.

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Alright so how's this for aesthetics so far?

>>183730025
And here I'm just like

if I was going to buy cake mix, not wanting to fuck around with eggs would be like 60% of the reason. At least.

>>183731150
Ditch the white rocks.
Your flora is too evenly distributed. It should be clustered from high vegetation leaving paths with low vegetation.
Flowers and trees should be concentrated around the tall shaggy grass. Because it's not a park or well mowed lawn.

I might have missed it, but what is that building suppose to be?
A sunken ruin? Maybe add remnants of raised flower beds, statues, ect...
More water. More trees. More trees in the water it's suppose to be a swamp.
Or get rid of all the trees and make it a bog.
The tree edges framing the map is too ridged, you know? Unnatural. But it there were stone tiles and older structures litered about that would prevent growth, that makes sense. But even still, I'd add a few more trees to make the edges jut out so it doesn't make straight lines.

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>>183733932
Now this...this is the kinda shit I wanna see! Alright bit by bit:

>Ditch the white rocks.
Why that? At the very least I can reduce the number but this place is inside a mountain so the terrain would be interrupted by rock formations jutting out of the ground.

>Your flora is too evenly distributed.
I see what you mean, looking at it. Noted.
>Flowers and trees should be concentrated around the tall shaggy grass.
I'll see what I can do for that cuz this tileset is a bit finnicky when it comes to grass.

>what is that building suppose to be?
An ancient temple.

>Maybe add remnants of raised flower beds, statues, ect...
Not sure how I would add raised flowerbeds and as for statues, I don't have any that look weathered or have moss on them in this tileset...damn. I'll try to add more structures like stone pillars though, that I have at least.

>Swamp or bog?
It's kind of a combination of both actually. This section is inspired by pic related. What do you think I should do to make it look more like that? I don't want to have TOO much water though since the players literally JUST FINISHES leaving an actual swamp right before coming here.

>The tree edges framing the map is too ridged, you know? Unnatural.
I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING. I was actually gonna changed the tree line but I kinda forgot. Anything thanks for all the help so far, I'll see what I can do to change all this stuff.

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Hey /rpgmg/, I got a small visual problem and I dont know how to fix it. Specifically, the cursor outline for a selected choice is too far down, and too close to the next choice. You can see what I'm talking about in pic related.

How do I adjust the cursor select placement for this? I DO NOT want to temporarily workaround this by editing the image file, because this isn't universal for all text boxes, only specific to choice boxes. I'm assuming the solution is hidden in rpg_windows.js, but I don't know. Help, please!

>>183738969
Is the outline offset by 4 pixels?
Put a ! in front of the filename.

>>183742698
its literally the highlight from img/system/Window.png

>>183706159
art looks good. I have to agree that I'm much more comfortable with the rpgmaker page as opposed to tumblr, but in general there could be some improvements in organization for more effective shilling.

>>183746990
What makes you think they're selling?

>>183748724
at this point, I feel that the meaning of shilling has watered down from selling to just plain being aware of something.

>>183748724
It's listed as a commercial on RMN

She joined 5 years ago, but has zero activity until this month. I want to tell her...but her ignorance amuses me.

This gets probably asked a lot, but

what's the best MV-friendly software to work with sprites?

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>>183738969
I found that I could modify the window stuff in rpg_window.js, in the window_choicelist section of the file. I've been fiddling with the variables and this is the best I could fix it so far. Anyone know what else I could do?

>>183749979
MV friendly? I get the feeling you've got some serious misconception.

GIMP. It's free. It does layers. Transparency locking. Custom Brushes. Animation. You can download plug-in's to create spritesheet if you're really inept.
It of course has tons of other features that aren't related to sprites.
But if you're stupid and easily overwhelmed you can buy Game Maker Hub for $25 and still not know what you're doing.
(Don't take advice from places like rpgmakerweb, they want to sell you stuff. And they ban anyone who calls them out on it.)

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How do you do time travel stories without running into the question of "Why doesn't [time traveler] do ___ if he can travel through time?" I don't think I've ever seen a time travel plot done that avoids this issue. The time traveling characters always end up not doing something they easily could/should have that would have made their lives much easier.

>>183752457
involuntary/not completely mastered time travel powers

either that or a device/situation that allows for very specific jumps in time

>>183752457
Setting time nodes to travel to is a costly endeavor, far more than what a single individual can decide on his own.

Time travel is locked to particular timegates or monuments at the destination. Traveling heats up the timegate a great deal, limiting where and how often you can jump. Jumping into an insufficiently cooled will cause a nuclear explosion, and you'll be in the center of it.

Time travel causes a temporary sense of paranoia and readiness over a wide region. It is difficult to catch people by surprise right after an instance of time travel. As such, the mere act of time travel can cause deviations from history.

The characters ARE using smallscale time travel to make things easier, they just didn't bother mentioning the micromanagement.

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>>183752457
The time traveller doesn't get to choose when or where exactly they go. They don't know who anyone's ancestors are. Turns out the villain was still a badass as an infant and his pregnant mom can kick your ass too.

The only way to make people stop asking why x doesn't happen is to make x physically impossible, and that's not a guarantee.

>>183752457
Most time traveling stories I'm familiar with are accidental or experimental.
They're so far in the past that stepping on a butterfly could send ripples of change through the timeline and erase themselves from existence.
Or they're stuck in time and their main concern is to get back home.
Or they're in a groundhog's day loop. And there's nothing convenient about that, but it's entertaining to watch them act omniscient on their 100th+ repeat.

In Doctor Who they mainly steer clear of their own timelines because it gets messy otherwise. And when it does happen, they get their memories wiped.

>>183730025
Since we're doing the analogy that it's the same thing except people made it themselves.

The problem with the generator is that there's no personality beaming out of it. You cannot compare resources like Makapri's which has interesting design and composition to "generic" nondescript poses of the generator faceset. It doesn't help that there's no clear silhouette to distinguish each character from another which is understandable.

And there in lies the problem of a story-oriented RPG. If most RM games were aiming to be Dungeon Crawlers with 0 cast and minimal story, it's one thing, but the problem is most of them do have an "epic plot."

My disdain with the generator is how boring it looks and how forgettable they are. And in turn kills the creative flare to make a game with the assets or even play games using those assets.

>>183749979
But it really doesn't matter as long as you know pixel art and it has transparency support. But here's a list to help you out.

Pixel Art Centric:
- Pyxel Edit
- Piskel
- Graphics Gale
- Cosmigo Pro Motion
- Aseprite

General Digital Art:
- Photoshop
- Paint.net
- GIMP
- Paint Tool SAI

Last spring I played around and started making a game with Ace that I was actually having fun making. But it was with the trial though so once the trial ran out I had to abandon it.

I still have the project file and recently I really been thinking about maybe getting back to working on it, as a hobby.

Really don't feel like paying 70 bucks for it. Did you guys all buy your versions?

I looked online for "other options" but didn't find any links I trusted.

Sorry if I sound like a fag. I checked your wikia and didn't see anything relating to this.

>>183759451
meme spacing

>>183759451
I've bought all of mine, but not at full price. I got MV on a steam sale and the rest through a humble bundle I think.

>>183760191
oh sorry didn't even realize I was doing it until it was posted.

If I do have to buy stuff I might just buy MV instead since it looks better.

>>183761301
Wait for a sale then buy MV. MV is in alot of ways far superior to Ace, especially when it comes to plugins and javascript versus previous rpgmakers. On the flipside, most of the assets are garbage, some copied lazily from ace to mv without format changes making them look like ass. theres some more quirks, but mv also has a great character maker going for it, thats good and customizable, and far better than ace's. Just wait for a sale.

>>183759451
Pretty sure the people who started and managed the wiki are gone.
The podcasters will disappear, if they haven't already (They're overdo for a new video)
Just like the booru board went nowhere. Discord. The collaborators. And so many many pastebins full of dead links that I have stealthfully pruned from the op over the years.

I'm reluctant to add anything to the OP because I know from experience that people will mindlessly copy & paste stuff.

I've tried encouraging /rpgmg/ to discuss actual rpgm games. Rather than people treating the general as their personal development blog.
That didn't work out. And "The game of the week" ended up being the game of 3 months - and no one spoke a word of it.

As they say, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't herd cats in the cradle with a silver spoon." or something like that.

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Good night progress bump. Hope this is satisfactory. I tried. Don't die over-night k?

>>183764540
>The podcasters will disappear, if they haven't already (They're overdo for a new video)
We're on hiatus 'til October. The OP should probably be updated

You are a rare breed - You actually play RPGM games. The majority here are mostly interested in making our own game, but you're like the guy who actively seeks out independent film. I admire that. While I lack the time to help you (or play any games myself atm) I wish you godspeed

>>183765702
More than I could hope to achieve, m8.

>>183757418
I agree. Even if the RTP looked amazing, then everyone would have 'amazing' art, which would then look 'average' because everybody is using it.

I liked the halcyon days of the early 2000's where 13 year-olds would do their own art in a pseudo-anime style and not give a fuck. It may not have been perfect, but it had personality. I think people are scared to be seen as 'imperfect' and would rather hide their personality than show a weakness or blemish. It doesn't help that in [current year] EVERYTHING online is archived FOREVER, so you're always living with the thought of your embarrassing earlier works coming back to haunt you. I do not envy today's youth.

plz live

>>183765918
Most Rpgm games are an hour. 2 tops. I don't play them like a playtester would. Like, I've seen youtubers waste 10minutes in the opening room examining and scrutinizing every detail.
Me: I see a door and go through it. That took 2 seconds. Experience tells me anything on the starting map is inconsequential and I'll never see it again. Chances are too, it'll be the middle of the game before anything in the Opening Text Scroll becomes relevant - if ever.

I guess that's wisdom you only get by playing 100s of rm games and demos over 10 years.

>>183772884
That is something I'm trying to fix with my game. The whole 'first half of the game doesn't mean anything' deal.

10

i've got the opposite problem. i don't have any plot, or even any gameplay introduction/tutorial.

>>183775993
craft one
I'm making a pretty ambitious title myself and I got a general idea of what I want but it never hurts to just sit out and brainstorm the major characters, what happens, and who's personality is who's.

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>>183767915
>Be art graduate
>Replicate the RTP Style
>"Those are convincing edits"
>Moderators move it to a subforum with other edits.

You don't deserve me.

>>183767915
really? What I see on rpgmaker.net is ALL "personality". Except that effort put into portraits and buildings is effort not put into making fights actually look and feel good.

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>>183777382
>rpg devs in charge of making battle systems

>>183777808
>expecting solid battle systems
>can't even make a convincing looking slash attack

>>183776272
>replicate existing style
>expect praise for originality
>act like an autistic for not instantly being recognised as a gift to the community

JUST

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>>183778004
you got a problem, m8

>>183778652
I'm not sure what your point is. That was a real slow fucking slash compared to the particle effect.

>>183778769
joke; calm down

>>183777382
That's because the sort of autist who gets into the JRPG game does it because they think they are super quirky and interesting and can write something super quirky and interesting.

If they could leave out the battle and still call it a JRPG they definitely would. Battles are just padding for their anime aspergers adventure.

>>183778983
You can't? You aren't forced to ever use the battle system if you don't want

>>183781120
>call it a JRPG
no

>>183752104
I use Photoshop CS2. It's also free right off adobe's site because of some weird DRM issue, so they still host it for legacy users on the honor system. For real though, they just don't give a fuck and want people using it so that businesses are pressured by it familiarity in the public to buy licenses. I don't think the latest Photoshop 6 ot 7 or whatever they're up to honestly adds any features the average user will ever utilize anyways

>>183764540
I unironically fapped to this post

>>183778652
excellent Cal Arts friendo. We Bare Bears nao. OK KO!

>>183778853
no, your shitty slash WENT TOO FAR. I am now horribly upset and must be appeased with quality webms.

>>183781120
>>183781268
>You aren't forced to ever use the battle system if you don't want

You are forced to use the battle system through subconscious hobbyist expectations that number grinding and menu navigation constitutes an essential part of the role-playing experience, largely perpetrated by the unintentional absorption of the Wizardry franchise into the japanese game market in the early 80's. While the series had excellent isometric map puzzles, what the japs latched onto was the goddamn party management and number-crunching, and ran with it into Dragon Quest(Warrior), Final Fantasy, and so on.

If an RPG Maker game could float on its own without combat, it would require actual gameplay like meaningful dialogue, exploration and puzzles, and a story to drive these actions. To The Moon seems to be the only game that successfully did this while driving a large number of players(for the engine). At least I assume To The Moon has no combat, I generally don't play modern-setting, touchy-feely things for the nu-indie crowd. If they did something for the swords and sorcery crowd, where you're having a story in a setting that usually relies on combat over a good tale and characters, that might be jarring to some but a big breath of fresh air, having to talk to harpies and beholders and whatnot instead of smashing numbers together over their sprites.

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>>183782714
>must be appeased with quality webms

>>183783621
Not.....what I was expecting.

>>183783621
don't post webms of my autistic senpai.

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>>183783691
this is your last one then

Pay atTENtion to the thread, people!

>>183788534
do you have any progress to share? Not putting you in the hot seat, but what are you working on?

>>183789408
I'm currently working on tilesets in MSPaint. My game takes place on an alien-like world, so the color schemes are weird (example: most plant life is blue). It's a game based on exploration. I'm trying to finish a small demo.

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>>183790265
>It's a game based on exploration
abandoning all notion of combat then? How do you plan on fleshing out exploration? On that note, you know what I don't see often in plugin discussion, are map mods or other navigation add-ons to rpgm. Hmmm...

>>183791701
You think that exploring a dark cave WON'T end with you being attacked by a once-slumbering beast? :)

>>183792017
well what kind of battle system do you have in mind?

Work on your game

>>183803029
You can't make me!

10

i just want to sleep

>>183806002
>i just want to sleep
I want to get out of work and dev
fukkin kids
fukkin sleep
cant get anything done

>>183783452
For all the praise Ultima 4 gets for it's roleplaying, I wish someone would give it a graphical overhaul to make it playable in this day and age. It probably has a lot to teach, but the barrier to entry is rather high

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>>183803029
1-3: Art
4-6: Scripts
7-9: Writing
0: Scripts again
Dubs: Get scripting you fuck

0-5 work
6-9 play

>>183807570
get fucked, nerd. why are you avoiding scripting?

>>183806857
>make it playable in this day and age
combat was clearly an afterthought. Had to talk to Lord British to level, you could overlevel and get stuck fighting things that were way too hard and required buckets of herbs to cast against. It was pretty much Run Away After Level 4: The Game, and you learned enough about cheesing the system to only fight when you were absolutely forced like the last dungeon, or to steal pirate ships.

I replayed it(on NES anyways) multiple times at high level, low level, medium, with all different party compositions, different MCs, and with or without magic, and it was all super un-intuitive.It was forgivable then, because it basically invented tactics grid battles for Fire Emblem, Ogre Battle and FFT to copy(at least earlier ultimas did, #3 as far as I know) but those games didn't do much to fix the cheese mechanics of dancing in and out of position or how long it took.

The game needs a complete combat overhaul for Valor, or it needs to be removed I guess and replaced with RP or something.

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>>183808241
I'm not; shit needs to get done and I've been writing too much anyway.

>>183807570
fuck you batman, I see you on /co/ badgering me about webcomics and I don't even want to do one

>>183806857
The Master System version looks a bit better and is honestly a lot more comfortable to play (if you're used to jrpgs) than the pc version.

(I mean, it still looks like an 8-bit game, of course.)

That said, I... don't think it's that great for roleplaying. You can -technically- do a bunch of evil shit and such, but then you kinda have to grind virtue points to make up for it if you actually want to progress the game.

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>>183808607

boo

ded

We need a cute thread healer

>>183821327
Your RPG has a healer character, right?
Post 'em

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>>183822146
Have one of my abandoned character portraits

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>>183778567
He's got a point though. Artists are an important part of any community. They're like flowers, but you got to water them or they wilt.
Flowers attract the worker bees that make the honey.
No flowers; No honey.
Don't neglect your plants.

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>>183822939
Devs vs NoDev

>>183822939
I dunno. That's true enough on boards with a lot of young members. But I think the older they get, the more distant they become too.
No amount of praise will summon my favorite artists back past the threshold of turning 30.

When should a game opt for maximizing exploration? When should a game opt for making traveling easier? Which one creates more immersion and which one creates more tension?

>>183831314
I'll cut off your dick if you add (mini)map markers.

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>>183831560
i told you it was white and gold.

>>183831560
What sorcery is this?

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>>183831696
Light and shadows.

Alright, so I pretty much put the finishing touches on this map. Now, what kind of puzzles would fit for inside the building? It's not gonna be too big, maybe three small floors max. Switches, Block type puzzles, ect?

>>183833178
>Forest temple
Vine climbing

>>183833178
One of my favorite things done in games is vines blocking doorways that you can burn away with a torch. Dunno if you'd be up to work out something that complex though.

>>183835386
Alright I'll put some climbable vines.

>>183837557
That's actually pretty easy. Unfortunately, the player doesn't have any fire related item like a lamp or fire rod. They will get a fire rod like item later on though so I'll save that idea.

Anyone else got more ideas? I'll begin designing the inside meanwhile.

>>183837557
>Burning vines
>In an overgrown complex
>Surrounded by a forest
>Where the building is not far enough away from the forest by modern safety standards

RIP forest

>>183837913
Mazes. Moving statues to make sunlight hit a thing

>>183839584
It's zelda logic anon, don't think about it too hard.

As for the sunlight thing, I don't think I can do that here, specially since two of the floors are underground, but that did give me another idea I'll try to work with.

>>183622994
Please?

>>183841036
Literally took 5 minutes searching google.

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/shanas-map-hud-v1-20.22668/

http://www.rpgmakercentral.com/blogs/entry/1384-creating-a-hud-beginner-intermediate-using-common-events/

Anything more than that, and you'll have to learn scripting.

Does anybody know the script equivalent to the player's screen x and y position?

>>183841864
its different in each maker.
just google script calls, there's a list somewhere

>>183842791
using VX ACE, thanks for the suggestion, but please do tell us if you know the one for this specific maker.

>>183831314
The opportunity to explore should be after the player knows where they're suppose to go.

You're in a Town, you know you're suppose to go to the church, but you can poke around other places for a bit.

You're on the world map, you know you're suppose to go to the North Cave, but there's a lighthouse on the coast that's not too out of the way.

If the player doesn't know where they're going, they're not exploring, that's called being lost. And you don't want to stumble into an optional cave when you're lost because you might reason this is where the game wants you to be.

>>183843081
>VX ACE
$game_player.x gives the tile coordinate.
$game_player.screen_x give the pixel coordinate.
0,0 being the top left corner.

>>183843081
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vx+ace+script+calls

>>183844532
many thanks my friend, you have saved us some time.

>>183844532
Second dev. of the same game here. We didn't try including an underscore with screen_. Have another (you) as thanks.

>$game_map.need_refresh
>$gameMap._needsRefresh
It's only important to know the version when being spoonfed, but if you're interested in learning how to help yourself, both versions are structured very similarly.

>>183844924
>>183842791
nice meme, but that actually wouldn't necessarily help the guy in this situation.

>>183845214
lots of things are readily available to you in the default scripts, you just have to search for them with ctrl+shift+f if you don't know the exact class you should be looking inside of.

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This is what I have so far for the first floor. Need to run errands now unfortunately but when I come back I'll continue to tweak stuff.

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Anybody have/know where to get a back up of http://cyanyurikago.web.fc2.com/ stuff?, i was making a game using their battlers and now i cant access the site

bump~

alright, let's talk MV maps

I want to make bridges that the player can walk across left to right, but I also want players to be able to walk under said bridge up and down, as well as left to right under the bridge(i.e. free travel under it). What do I do to the tiles in System to make this happen?

Also looking to make tall grass or bushes you can walk through where the sprite sort of covers the player and rustles.

>>183855083
First thing that comes to mind would be eventing.
The bridges would have to be events that, by stepping at a certain point, allow passage over, and once passing to the other side, become passable underneath in all directions. It would be best to have them default to be passable underneath though, less eventing is needed that way.

>>183845792
Here is his pixiv:
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=692252

It doesn't have all of his works from the main site, though. That said, most of his battlers are still hosted, it seems like only the main page went down:
http://cyanyurikago.web.fc2.com/images/kouryuu.png

Some of the editors of this wikia seem to really be fans of his work, so all of his lovecraft-related stuff is here somwhere:
http://cosmic-horror-rp.wikia.com

ded

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NANI?!! What is this perspective sorcery?! How does one move through this?! With clever eventing that's how.

I'll stop posting every map I make though if people want. I don't want it to seem annoying or anything.

>>183863992
I like seeing progress Anon!

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Be sure to bundle up nice and warm!

How would I go about making an attack that increases the user's evasion, but only on the turn it's used

>>183868226
a.addState(stateID); in the damage formula.
Make the state last one turn and add some Evasion Rate

>>183868735
Alright, thanks anon

is it possible in VX to have the player choose all of the targets in a multi-target attack?

This bump is a 2/10 - It exists, but lacks substance or meaning. Merely a filler arc.

>>183871280
I'm sure Yanfly has a script for that, because he made one for MV

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What kind of puzzle should I put in this room so the player can get the important item? I'm gonna go to sleep now and check the responses when I wake up, if there are any. Good night bump!

>>183874773
A 1970s film trivia quiz

>>183874773
Invisible walls

>>183874773
Riddles with some sort of supernatural gate guard

10 back to work after i fap

10 replacing stock sound effects with royalty free, cc0 stuff

>>183890217
cc0?
is that an improvement or is this a shitpost

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>want to make fantasy rpg with some H elements
>dont want pixel art
>no ingame sprite sexing
>3dsmax skill too poor to make own render scenes
>poser\daz is an instant turn off but at least you own rendered images
>hiring 2d artist too expensive
Any ideas? Maybe i will use some games, modd them and snap pictures there.

>>183890856
jfgi

>>183891956
sorry

10 short info dump intro

What other media does your game reference?

>>183898038
A number of spells are named after historical or mythological icons. For example, charm is named "aphrodite" while charm all is named "venus"
I also have a handful of skills that share a name, effect, or similar description to a move from another game, such as
>protect, makes the user take damage in place of an ally
>flurry strike, a multi-hitting spear attack
>steady shot, a particularly strong attack that takes a turn to prepare for, and gets canceled out if you're hit during it
I try not to be too obnoxious.

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>>183898038
I've got one island that consists of a bunch of Edgar Allen Poe references because I find it amusing. The Man Who Was Used Up can't die because he's a Lich who's hidden his Tell Tale Heart under the floorboards, but going there you find yourself in the Pendulum Pit. Don't worry too much, since the ghost of Annabel Lee is there to help you and your undead partner, Lenore, escape. Watch out, though, there's a big Conqueror Worm digging its way through the island and it sometime passes through the dungeon.

I have a Fear status that makes the player want to defend or heal with the afraid character.

To do this I am decreasing the afflicted character's attack and hit rate to 50% for exactly two turns. But it seems like that would make the player want to use magic instead, which isn't that flavourful, imho. I could also decrease mat, but then healing spells are also nerfed.

Should I go the wonky route, decreasing mat, but putting a conditional in the Healing spell formula that doubles its effect if the user is Afraid?

>>183903703
seems like a decent solution; you'd just have to do it for any defensive spells

>>183903703
Some games scale healing to defensive stats

So I want to make a game with a board game mechanic where you roll and. Can only move a limited number of spaces.
How should I go about making this?

>>183907719
You can have a variable generate a random number, but you might have to make the player move automatically with an event based on that variable.

>>183907719
You mean like Itadaki Street and the DQV board minigame?
That could actually be done with just common eventing. I would actually make the player invisible and use Events to move around the screen, though.

>>183908373
>>183908171
What if I have a variable generate a random number (1-6) and have the player invisible and immobile. Then using Yanfly's plugin with the buttons on the screen use the directional to move only the event and use each button click to add a variable to another number and when that number matches the dice roll the mice buttons disappear.
Sound plausible?

>>183909226
Sounds testable. Why not try it?

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>>183859872
Thank you very much!, I found most of his stuff on the Wayback machine.

>>183898038
Similar to >>183899316
Some skill/item names reference other games and the magic types are the same as some FF games(White, Black, Green, Arcane)

Other than that nothing at all

Help me out /rpgmg/, how do I have state succeed chance or skill succeed change based off of a stat like magic defense?

Anyone using the Tiled plugin for MV? I'm checking it out right now; I'd gladly accept the few extra steps in setting up a map in exchange for not having to use MV's map editor, but does anyone who has used it seriously have any thoughts about it?

>>183650643
Absolutely terrible trigger discipline, 0/10. Also the extraction window on the girl's pistol is way too much to the rear.

>>183891829
If you have no plans to improve your art until it's satisfactory or pay someone to do it for you, your remaining options are pretty much either to rip off existing artwork like a motherfucker, or to con someone into helping you for free like an even bigger motherfucker.

Patreon could help you raise money for illustrations if you have something worth showing off and can build some interest, I guess.