Gralssland Edition

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>>3784597 (OP)
Name one reason to use rpgmaker instead of a main stream engine

>>3784606
Babby's first vidya

>>3784606
It's quick and easy for certain game genres instead of fucking around with other engines. Making an rpg is tough enough without having to learn to code cause of the metric ton of content you gotta make to make it fun.

And with the horror or story genre of RPG Maker games you can just focus on the art and story, stuff people actually care about rather than other shit.

>>3784606
its fun :)

What's your favorite way of capturing monsters?

>>3784624
Why, my peanus weanus of course :)

>>3784624
with rpgm you dont have many options. the magi nation format is probably the most organic.
monsters drop crystals, you need to collect 5 to get a monster summon ring for that monster or something.

>>3784624
Sex

>>3784606
The limitation makes a better game.

It's over

>no link to the jam in OP
Why?

>>3784606
rpg maker 2k and 2k3 have sovl

>>3784745
what jam?

>>3784766
the newfag jam where the creator straight up linked to 4chan and said "COME TO 4CHAN'S VRPG BOARD"

>>3784610
>>3784612
>>3784621
>>3784751
Valid reasons
>>3784703
Limitations alone don't guarantee quality, unfortunately.

>>3784766
>>3784782
i remember why i stopped posting here, too much gamejam shit.
dont you guys want to make your own thing?

>>3784766
https://itch.io/jam/-yourpgm-jam-20-monster-capture

>>3784793
>dont you guys want to make your own thing?
There is hardly ever a reason to make a shitpost game outside of grouping with other VRPG autists for a shitpost jam.

>>3784793
Jams are a type of resource request now.
https://itch.io/jam/-yourpgm-jam-20-monster-capture

It's all anyone asks for.

Anyone have an archive of free use classic tracks for bgm?

Otherwise I'll just steal them from NTRPG 2

>>3784830
https://vrpgarchive.neocities.org/links
Try looking here for links.

>>3784849
Awesome

>newfags calling coyotecraft a newfag
lol

>>3784858
Just as light years measure distance and not time, newfag is a measure of one's conduct and not of one's tenure.

>>3784867
So you know; but you don't know.

So I have to use a plugin to make enemy health bars visible? That seems strange

>>3785000
The normal show/move picture command doesn't let you input anything other than a number percentage for width and height.

However you can use a script call
$gameScreen.movePicture(); to pass a formula that calculates the width of health bar based on the enemy's health

>>3784815
What does this even mean?

Let's freakin' GO

>>3784815
anyone got that image of the old jam entries?

>>3784814
Wait, people are working on this jam? I thought this jam was bait?

>>3785121
The one posted...*checks*...nine days ago and...every other month for the last 2 years with the same filename?
Nope. Can't help you buddy.

>>3785124
Well yeah, people posted updates on the previous thread too. I'll to cobble something together too after i'm done with construction work.

I "researched" a bunch of rpgs that have large reserve parties for monsters, classes, ect...

I wanted to take notes on their UI for their management systems. But I was disappointed to learn that the majority are just basic, one column, lists.

>>3785121
someone update the damn list... my best game is not even in there but the worst is....

>>3785130
those are from years ago

>>3784606
>Name one reason to use rpgmaker instead of a main stream engine
1. Requires low specs on your PC

2. Pretty fast to load up and work with (this includes copying around and managing assets, since you're dealing with small png files.)

3. Comes with all the necessary assets to make a complete game. Tilesets, music, sound effects, animations and a character generator. And even a face-art generator.

4. So simple, it's like a fun toy. No coding or programming required.

5. Games made in RPG Maker have their own genre. And there are let's players and YouTubers who specifically play RPG Maker games. Bringing RPG Maker games constant visibility. (RPG Maker even has its own thread on 4chan. No other game engine does.)

6. Has been used to make some of the most popular and influential indie games. Yume Nikki, Ao Oni, To the Moon, Fear & Hunger, e.t.c (Games that have then went on to get an anime. Like, Angels of Death.)

7. One-time purchase, and you own it forever. No subscription, no need to connect it to the internet.

8. There are emulators (like EasyRPG & JoiPlay) that run windows RPG Maker games on consoles & android. This expands your playerbase, and helps keep your games preserved.

9. All the RPG Maker assets that have been made & shared for about 20+ years on the internet, are available to you for free. (As long as you take the time to go look for it, download it, and sort it.) 100,000+ files, millions of assets.

10. Can buy cheaper, pre-made assets (from hundreds of DLC) for what you need, instead of relying on expensive artists who may or may not deliver.

11 (kind-of/optional). Default graphics are anime style. And makes you feel like you're making an anime. XD

>>3785178
...and it only covered the first 4 jams.
There's been 20 now. 20 jams. Not games. Granted, some of the jams only had 1 or 2 submission. If we had them every month there'd be a lot more. Which is why there's the neocities link in (almost) every jam description.

Even if someone "updated" the image it would be too big to upload on 4chan.

But you already knew that.

>>3785190
AI post

>>3785201
>AI post
If you want.

>>3785195
no, i'm new here

>>3785210
did you come here because you saw the jam on itch.io?

>>3785253
yes

capture is working, sprites are almost done, still gotta do some bosses and plan out the map and stuff

i'm wondering if i should flip the supplies and recovery bonuses around - supplies being the bonus that draws more cards into the hand and recovery recycling the discard pile
supplies feels essential to keep momentum from the very start whereas recovery is a small thing that only matters late game when the player's deck is running dry because they're drawing too much
maybe recovery could grant any extra points as supplies if the discard is already empty

>>3785345
>i'm wondering if i should flip the supplies and recovery bonuses around
Hard to tell any specifics since I have no Idea how your system works as a whole, but there are 2 principles you can follow - you can either encourage players to spend more cards (limited deck, easier card acquisition) or to play the hand more effectively (unlimited deck, harder card acquisition). The first case is the easiest to implement for you as all the elements are working already, but know that your game will require a casual approach in balancing and will not satisfy those that want complexity. The latter one will require you to add combo mechanics (same race gets bonus to damage/def/heal by a noticeable margin), solo effects (one card triggers unique skills) and some form of reroll in case of bad RNG but I doubt you'll have time to implement and balance all of the interactions, though such complexity will be appreciated as the card game genre is populated bu a zealuos bunch.

>>3785354
I'm not sure what category it would fit into. The player has a fixed deck of 40 cards. 1-10 x 4 (a deck with jack/queen/king removed)

You draw a hand of 8 cards and are presented with an enemy of a certain value. you play a card from that hand and if the value is equal or greater the enemy is defeated. you can't play more than 10 points, but you can play multiple cards of the same value (so up to 4x2, 3x3, 2x4, 2x5). If you can't beat the enemy in one play, it attacks back and removes cards from your hand equal to its attack. If your hand can't take the hit, you lose. Played cards are discarded, but it's better to play the card to hurt the enemy than it is to take the hit and discard it from the hand anyway. Eventually you run out of cards in your hand and can consume a limited resource to redraw. When that's gone it's over.

At the start this is basic because you're trying to beat low numbers. Once the levels get higher, you will sooner or later lose, which is where the capture mechanic comes in. If you beat an enemy with its exact value, you capture the card and it goes into your deck (technically it replaces one of the blank suit cards when you next draw). Captured cards are color coded as part of suits and have bonuses. Bonuses are shared to any other cards played at the same time, so a green 2 (double damage) does 4 damage to the enemy, but a green 2 plus any other 2 card does 8 damage. All the other bonuses spread like this. Blue permanently reduces damage from that enemy, yellow immediately draws new cards to the hand, pink recycles the discard. In the video you can see blue 3 and pink 3 played together for a 6 block/6 recover.

Even when you lose, you keep your deck of captured cards. Once you have at least half the deck replaced with captures you'll be playing constant bonuses and should be able to reach the end of the game. Takes maybe 45 minutes from testing.

>>3785258
Does that explains how you remembered you forgot you never knew.?

>>3785121
>>3785177
>>3785178
>>3785195

I miss isekai.

>>3785369
Aha, so it's not the mainstream deck builder but a number's game kinda deal.

I have a question - does recovery give you one card per 1 point of discard to the immediate deck or does it work in some other way?

>>3785940
Yes, recovery moves one card from discard into deck per point. Cards in the deck can be redrawn into your hand with supplies, but you can't draw any if your deck is empty until you recycle some cards into it with recovery.

It's like a clock, there's about 36 enemies to get through before the bosses and they run the range from 4 to 12 health each, so you will burn through your whole deck before you've cleared them all even if you play very efficiently with double damage and not much overkill.

You need to play at least a few big recoveries to sustain all the way to the end, but you need supplies all the time to keep your hand full to not immediately stall. That's why I think maybe switching recovery and supplies would make more sense.

>>3786006

>maybe recovery could grant any extra points as supplies if the discard is already empty
That approach work perfectly in systems with irrational numbers, but your game is dealing with integers primarily so that mechanic will carry a risk to difficuilty. 1:1 Recovery point to Supply is out of the question as that will make flooding supply numbers way too easy and will remove a big part of the challenge, 2:1 is more rational to use but good RNG will definitely make the run much easier and may encourage exploiting deck rerolls by resetting the run, 3:1 seems to be the borderline between making that mechanic irrelevant and being useful with a good card but there is a high chance that it won't come into play in unlucky runs at all considering that is possible to trigger only with 0 discard. I'd go with 3:1 to have at least some form of a safety mechanism, but I don't know if it's your approach to difficuilty.

>That's why I think maybe switching recovery and supplies would make more sense.
Personally, I think that supply works fine as it is if the recovery metod from above is used. You'll need to have some sort of pity mechanic though, like (assuming your game keeps track of all used/unused cards) drawing you strongest (or at least 7-10 value range) card once per battle if your hand is empty - that both penalises the player and prevents truly bad RNG from ruining the run.

Also, fudge the hand on the lower difficuilty encounters - limit the max possible value of the initial 8 card draw to 1-5, that will keep things a bit more fair and prevent discarding high value cards because of RNG to a degree.

>>3785774
>no descriptions
Low effort.

I still haven't touched the Enemy Tab in the database.

Pretty much done with the first draft of my game.

It's technically playable from start to finish and takes 4 hours to play.

There's probably too many random encounters, need to work on that.
Also the story and dialogue is ass and there needs to be more NPCs and more of a fleshed out world.
Also still need to make a title screen, come up with a cool name and pick and choose better bgms...
(The main battle theme drives me nuts hearing it again and again.)

But still, I don't have to worry about not finishing on time, I could technically submit it now
and it'll be playable. Feels good man.

First time gamedevving
Using RPG Maker 2k3
Please explain to me how to delay the game until a move event is done. I have a character set to walk around and then say something, but after taking one step the character immediately starts talking and only continues moving after I close the dialog box.

>>3786228
Directly below Set Move Route is the Wait for All Movement command. Keep in mind if you have other events moving in the map this won't work since it'll be waiting for everything currently moving to stop, so if that won't work you'll have to time it out yourself by using the Wait command instead.

>>3786229
Thank you very much. Works perfectly now.

>>3785190
>Preftty fast to load up and work with

Recently, developer Singelx on itch io, released an update for his RPG Maker MZ game "data". This update is for the most part the third chapter of his game, but also included VisuStella's Message system.

Thanks to that, and thanks to the game being text heavy (as it essentially is a visual novel), this game lags like nuts.
When you stay in a room, as small as it may be, with just three events for just a moment, you're going to have to wait 15 seconds or so for a simple "Show Message" to pop up, which will start the event.
Sometimes the character graphic and all other assets have already loadedup, just not the message.

Every new event chain with a show message lags thanks to this 100 dollar price tag obfuscated, bloated script. What did they use it for? In chapter 3, they decided to make the text bigger every now and then in some messages (drama).

Yes, by default, RPG Maker will load up pretty fast- but then people break the game engine and with it the game's speed.

Why do people use visustella--- just why?
Your XML with the plugin list needs more presence.

>>3786053
I think for now I'll just reduce the value of all supplies by 1.

Currently the supply card bonus goes from 2-10 (unless you play an ace alone) but can't even draw more than 8 cards because that's the max hand size. Dropping them all so they go from 1-9 will make that suit a bit weaker but probably won't make the game too much more difficult. If it does make it too hard, i can always boost the non-card limited redraw to make up the difference.

>>3786305
>beeping cursor text
>text heavy game
Obnoxious. I couldn't even sit through the video preview.

>>3786305
>Why do people use visustella--- just why?
Comes with the territory of plugins as a feature.
Shit rolls downhill. Having someone else make a tool for you means you're going to be restricted by the quality of that tool. The end-user is limited by the quality of the plugin, and the plugin is limited by the quality of the program it plugs into.
> Plugin is C++
> Badly written C++
> Program that uses the plugin is Javascript
> Javascript programmed by Japanese keyboard office monkeys
Tale as old as time.

If the retarded japs and/or investment firms that continue to decline the RPG Maker brand would actually become COMPETENT developers for once in their miserable existences, they'd:
- Stop knee-capping Eventing scripting by implementing the features that older versions had
- Actually provide tutorials on effective coding practices (stop nesting the fucking IF statements)
- Provide an auditing service for plugins that checks for performance and malware concerns; actually curate the media their program uses to expand function

Minimum.

How does WolfRPG compare to MV?

>>3787336
I see no reason to use WolfRPG over MV. It's proprietary and has a lot fewer resources like tutorials, documentation, plugins, assets, etc. Also the runtime is windows only, while you can run RPG Maker games on all platforms, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and the fucking web browser too.

>>3787469
You don't deploy games until after they're made. The fact that so many responses ignore the actual process of creation, is itself an answer.

https://berrisoft.itch.io/mars-the-cursed-quest
I recently updated my first ever game, updated most CGs. Fixed major bugs a bit.

It's about a kind of dickish guy being isekai'd in an artificial body by a mad scientist and he's tasked with saving the land from a powerful demon. He's very rude and perverted, I hope you can enjoy your time with him.

>>3786305
Visustella plugins are purposefully obfuscated: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/obfuscated-plugins-something-you-should-be-aware-of.149094/
if people wanna rely on plugins so hard they should be using MV instead. Lag spikes aren't worth it

>>3787590
The documentation and support part already tells you the most important part of the story

>>3788052
But who's telling that story?

>>3786305
>Yes, by default, RPG Maker will load up pretty fast- but then people break the game engine and with it the game's speed.
This is just something you learn with experience, by releasing a bunch of games and then listening to feedback.
Realizing you don't just have to 'make a game'. You need to also make sure it runs well and is optimized.
However, when a dev spends hundreds of dollars on a plugin library... and realizes after year(s) worth of work it's causing issues. By that time, they are locked into a system.

At that point, they'll either blame the RPG Maker engine itself. (Potentially losing interest in the engine for their next project.)
or, they'll blame it on the player. For not playing their game on an adequate enough machine. (Thus, losing players.)
Or, they'll complain about the plugins.
When they complain about the plugins- about their obfuscation and issues, they get shot down & ostracized across the RPG Maker community (run by Visustella & their friends). And getting accused of:
>Encouraging theft of code
>Wanting to strip away income from plugin developers
>Told they are ignorant & not know how software works
>Told the plugins or their obfuscation is never the issue (or not significant enough of an issue)
>Their games and their work and post history analyzed to find any dirt on them to throw around and hurt their reputation
>e.t.c

...it's a pretty dirty game. Run by even filthier developers.


>Why do people use visustella--- just why?
1. It's convenient. All the plugins you want, by the same developer, in a package. (You don't need to go around and search a hundred different places, read google translated Japanese, or test for conflicts.)
2. They don't allow comments on their sale page. (A BIG red glad) So people can't know before they buy, about the potential risks.
3. They are endorsed by the official forum, and on Yanfly's blog.
4. Major RPGM communities are run by VisuStella & their friends. Keeping anti-VisuStella sentiments out.

These arent really "games". Theyre effectively mods for final fantasy. Theres no new mechanics, just a thousand rehashed shitty stories by neet losers who think theyre an "ideas guy".
The village holds the power crystal of a million divine souls?! And you leave to go clear a bat cave..... you wont believe what happened to the crystal when you come back! 10/10 game of the year. Everyone will love this

>>3787939
protag is straight out from '90 anime

>>3788663
Anon it takes a billion years to make a real jrpg with slimes and crystals and shit. Everyone who's smart is making narrative puzzle games with no combat instead

>>3788663
For all intensive purposes, RPG Maker walking simulators are, in fact, games, and nothing you say is going to change that.

>>3788676
they are final fantasy mods yes.

>>3788663
>just a thousand rehashed shitty stories by neet losers who think theyre an "ideas guy".
One of my game is about shooting yourself in the head to wake up from a dream... only to end up in another dream. And then find the next way you ought to kill yourself to wake up for real this time. (Game title: False Awakening)


Another one is about infiltrating a game studio and witnessing the corruption in the games industry. How the industry got infiltrated by people who don't care about gamers or games. (Title: False GamerGater)


Another one is about letting go of an imaginary (girl)friend only to find out later she's you're aborted sister. (Title: False Heart)


Another one is about me being banned around / ostracized / cancelled in the RPG Maker community. Boarding on a train full of haters, and the destination it takes us. (Title: False Narrative)

All these games are released and playable.
>>3788671
>Anon it takes a billion years to make a real jrpg with slimes and crystals and shit. Everyone who's smart is making narrative puzzle games with no combat instead
Very true. Succinctly put.


>>3788676
>RPG Maker walking simulators are, in fact, games
I could accept them being called interactive anime as well. XD

I wanna dick around and make a game, but what is the difference between MZ and MV?

>>3788802
>what is the difference between MZ and MV?
MZ is the newer one and hence has more features.

I use MV (because that's what was available when I started), and a lot of MZ's features I can use with MV, by simply opening my MV game with the MZ editor.

>I wanna dick around and make a game
There are a bunch of other new and similar engines that came out recently (enough) you can play with. Like RPG Developer Bakin, Action Game Maker, RPG Architect, Smile Game Builder.

>>3788663
me when ive never played /vrpg/rpg kino
instead of shitposting you should work on yourself

>>3788663
First of all. Idea guys are idea guys because they only have ideas they don't make happen.
It could be simple and cliche, and they still won't follow through. That's what people hold against them.
Innovation and originality is not a goal you can incentivize and reward. And if we're going to praise effort. Then you need to concede that cloning Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy takes just as much effort as going in any other direction.

Which brings me to my second point. Order and structure are not ideas; they're conventions. Of course something is going to happen the crystal of 1000 souls! It's called Chekhov's Gun. If you detail a loaded gun on the mantelpiece, you just know it's going off at some point. Predictable? A little. But the alternative is an asspull. There's a struggle then -boom- wait, they had a gun this whole time? People won't question it if it was preloaded in the scene. They should be processing the emotion of the scene, not the logic.

What if you never mention the crystal? You return from the bat cave and -shatter- wait, they had a sentient god crystal this whole time?

>>3787074
Someone, at some point, might make an open source competitor to the javascript rpg maker editor, which would then do at least the same as MV or MZ, but likely more...

Most developers nowadays only learn javascript and practically for rpg maker mv/mz all you need is javascript. The entire game and the engine are in the end javascript, so- the only thing that they'd need to do is use the bloated Atom framework to make something that can copy paste shit, and read the rpg_objects.js file.
and of course something to render the images and put them here and there.

Unfortunately people are very, rediculously lazy and I am not a programmer myself. I should learn javascript I guess.

At any rate, it is a surprise the RGSS system didn't get an opensource competitor. The easy rpg project is ... still in development and not full fledged rpg maker 2003 yet. Yeah--
but for MV/MZ, it should be doable for people.

>>3788663
lmao, you've got it all wrong, even the neet part is false because during the weekend the thread almost dies

>>3788977
>week
Fix'd.

I was thinking "What's the point of making RPG Maker games if I won't ever sell them?"
Then I realized, you could say "What's the point of drawing if no one will ever see it? What's the point of writing if no one will ever read it?"
It's OK to make art for the sake of making art, if it makes me happy and I enjoy doing it, then that's fine

I haven't seen any progress from coyote for the monster capture jam.

>>3789036
we've got 8 days

>>3789019
Show me your game anon I'll be happy to play it.

>>3788670
yeah, I got heavy inspiration from Maze and Rance I love that shit

>>3789136
I haven't started it since I'm a lazy tranny who only can dream of doing stuff and never putting effort into anything. :)

>>3789151
you probably just need more stimulants

>>3789159
What I need is to not spend 4 hours a day on my phone.

>>3789163
Use one of those blockers which restricts access to your phone for a certain amount of time, like Refocus. And if you find yourself just mindlessly using your pc watching youtube, block internet access with the app Cold Turkey. Personally did wonders for me.

>>3789163
>only 4 hours
Really nigger?

>>3789181
Not bad ideas.
Tbh I find even PC is better than youtube since I don't watch shorts and just rot my attention span on my PC.
>>3789182
kek

>>3789151
it's been 5 games for me and nintendo hasn't contacted me yet. it's so over.

>>3789192
Switch can't run rpgm games bro

>>3789195
>"hello, nintendo representative here. We were impressed with your game and now we're offering you $100 million and all the technical supports to remake the game in better engine, exclusive only in nintendo console.

>>3789195
It is definitely possible to port RPGM to the Switch, but I don't know how it's done. It may be a proprietary method. Omori was made in MV.

My first custom tile. It's a volleyball trophy

>>3789192
post games

>>3789239
develope games.

>>3788676
>For all intensive purposes

>>3789036
I was working on sprites for unrelated projects.

I also wasted valuable time last week giving Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro a test run. I used it to make a new formation screen plugin for MZ. I could use it for my jam entry.
But that's only if I do a proper monster capturing game. The capturing event system is mostly done. But I still got to do the tedious work of creating a faceset for monster as actors.
IIRC the faceset standard doesn't actually have a vertical limit. So I should be able to fit all the monsters on the same sheet, matching the face index to ids. Assigning monsters to blank actors with a script should be easy to automate.

I don't know how much time I'll have to work on anything towards the end of the week. So by wednesday I'll decide if I'll abandon it or not.

>>3789239
Soon.

>>3789291
>it's been 5 games

>>3789296
Just gotta hang in there bro.

Never forget, no amount of clever plugins or pretzeling the engine into something it's not meant to be will ever trump content design and fun dungeons. RPG Maker is just Mario Maker for Dragon Quest, after all.

>>3789381
webm unrelated?

>>3789381
I find it funny because Game Maker lets you do any game that isn't turn-based extremely easily and people refuse to try it out when not even doing RPGs in RPGMaker.

>>3789449
Just make fun content, it's not hard, pal
>>3789457
I know, and it doesn't have any of the deployed-using-HTML5 baggage that hamstrings RPG Maker projects when it comes to stuff like console deployment and distribution

>>3789449
BASED

I want to make some kind of FF1 prequel story but I think it's gonna be a 8 hours game at minimum. Do you guys even play RPG maker game that long.

>>3789483
I'm currently playing 7th Stand User for about 2-3 hours a day and I've been doing so for several weeks already. Why not.

>>3789483
I don't touch rpgmaker games without custom art. It's just too disgusting to use otherwise. If you have custom art and decent music (can be shamelessly stolen), I might give it a go, even for 5-10 hours, if gameplay and level design is OK.

>>3789488
>Why not
if I put too much effort yet only less than 100 people played it I would feel bad.

>>3789492
>100 people
This is a lot of people for most RM games

I download rpg maker games and delete them right after to troll the devs into thinking someone played their games.

>>3789492
Just make your game as easy to start playing as possible. If your game has an in-browser option then it's more likely people will at least start it up. Who knows if they actually play beyond the first few seconds, but it's still not a bad idea.

>>3789381
Why do you always post inflammatory shit like this? This and the dramafagging is annoying as fuck.

Just submitted a game to the monster capture jam, check it out!

https://barako-the-pirate.itch.io/monster-summoner-lisa

It turned out pretty well, considering how long I spent on it... I technically cheated a little, reusing the sprites and rule system from Barako the Pirate, but still a complete game! I'm so proud.

>>3789779
it looks fun, the monsters are charismatic

>>3789783
Thanks man! It's mostly a grind fest though, so if you prefer story it'll kinda shitty. Still pretty proud of how it turned out though!

>>3789700
What's inflammatory about saying 'dont over-rely on plugins, focus on gameplay and make fun content'?

>>3789886
Touting yourself as better than others. The way you word things and present your opinion can change the subtext considerably.
You didn't say
>"don't over-rely on plugins", focus on gameplay and make fun content".
You said this:
>Never forget, no amount of clever plugins or pretzeling the engine into something it's not meant to be will ever trump content design and fun dungeons. RPG Maker is just Mario Maker for Dragon Quest, after all.
With a webm of your own game attached.

>>3789897
If it was inflammatory, I apologise. I'm not better than anyone. I just think it's solid advice and I see a lot of people falling into those exact traps. Do you disagree with the sentiment?

>>3789918
I don't disagree. The only thing I disagree with is the drama you've started in the past with other posters but you don't seem to be doing that anymore. Sorry for jumping to conclusions.

I decide to add-in and test all possible plugins that display information in a new window-scene.
Specifically, so I can use the best one to write & share ChangeLogs.
>Game starts slightly noticeably lagging
>I start turning plugins on/off to test which ones are causing the performance hit
>It ends up being Yanfly's Credit Page plugin

...I'm reminded why I ought to stay away from their plugins as much as possible.

But why is he the Angry Cloud if he's smiling

>>3790056
He's holding in his rage, inside he is seething...

>>3790056

Seriously, I design and name monsters on instinct, not much thought goes into them. I do quantity over quality and keep the best ones, and I just name stuff cause it feels right. I saw a cloud with a smile on it's face, and it just came to me that he looked mad somehow, like it was a forced smile. Hence, Angry Cloud. If it makes you feel better, the ultimate form of his is called Happy Cloud.

>>3789996
is it just a MV/MZ thing? I never had trouble with yanfly stuff for VX/Ace

>>3790056
he looks like he's about to fucking snap

Hot
Also can I evolve my guys? I want to make my Goblin Witch a Goblin Druidess.
>>3790070
>>3790102
>it just came to me that he looked mad somehow, like it was a forced smile
It's the eyebag, without it he looks like a normal happy fella.

>>3790108
Nah, the editor lags too much with the amount of classes and actors I have already, and I'm lazy... They take awhile to make cause of it. Maybe in the next game... Thanks for playing BTW, I'm glad you seem to be enjoying it.

>>3790094
>is it just a MV/MZ thing? I never had trouble with yanfly stuff for VX/Ace
It's a thing with:
>the coder (who doesn't make games)
>the coding philosophy (thinking obfuscation and bloated core plugins don't cause any issues)
and then also,
>the resulting code (when it takes shows its ugly head in cases like this >>3789996 )

I've only ever used MV. And heard from people using MZ. So I can't say specifically for VX Ace.

>>3790113
A woman after my own heart.

>>3790127
Awesome! You win!
Thanks for playing! Really means a lot!

There's not alot to do in the game afterward, except grind in the battle tower in Poolvale. Also no prize for collecting all the monsters, but it's fun to do...

>>3789954
Yeah, I was being a dick. At this point I'm more regret than man. I'm just gonna stick to progress and trying to actually contribute positively. No point in drama, full on waste of time.

>>3789779
I entered second dungeon and got immediately raped

Also don't use snooping, I was expecting pingas.

game is done except for last two bosses, about half the dialogue and a bunch of music and sound effects

on schedule

>>3790094
I routinely need to read through yanfly's code with RPG Maker VX Ace games ...
I can safely say that it isn't optimal. Some points are fine, some are diffidently exaggerated or just outright causing problems. There are also unnessecary checks of code present; checks that force dependancy on his Core plugin for example, despite not using anything from the core plugin, or the core plugin providing only a reroute of something.

A lot of yanfly's code is fine, because it is mostly if not only a copy paste of RPG Maker VX Ace's original code, (don't believe the text walls as such) with minor adjustments.

For their message system; functionally and what it offers is bare-bones. It sounds as if it offers more than what the default engine did; this isn't true. What it offers is neglectable.

This in itself is fine, but the way they wrote it makes it hard to adjust. It makes no sense either; since it seems like they wrote it in a way that prevents others from easily messing with the code, but practically it only changed things for a newly loaded game, and not during gameplay. So a show message, is already adjusted.

Their message system still makes me facepalm, because I know sometimes you just want to make a larger text box, for books for example, and they made it impossible to use their own code to achieve this.

>>3790256
What do you think about ModernAlgebra scripts? His message script works just fine for me.

>>3790256
that ctrl text skip makes choreographing complex move+dialogue scenes so annoying

Everyone wants it but now everything has to be packed with little waits to prevent it all going out of sync and that would never have a problem with normal text delays

>>3790094
To summarize what Yanfly added:
- a name window
- the ability to draw icons in the text box.

You could already do everything else, yes, including changing the font, but you need to read the manual to find out how.

>>3790261
I would need to take a closer look at those, but I do recall that there was actually a problem with the way he automatically formats text boxes- namely that there is a limit to how much text it can handle. Because of that limit, at some point, a sudden unexpected newline would appear. Modern algebra's script is diffidently superior over yanfly's.

This is about as complicated as I'm going to make my game. Just pick some monsters and defeat the dragon. I'm not going to include actual character level up/grinding. I can feel my spirit leaving my body just thinking about adding stats and abilities.

>>3790265
you can draw icons in the text box with stock VXAce message windows, check the documentation for the markup.

>>3790266
they're automatically fighting and damaging/taking damage from the other monster while they're in the pit?

>>3790271
No they're just bouncing around. It's supposed to be a 1-on-1 battle with the dragon. It'll take multiple attempts to bring the dragon's health down. Idk how much HP to give it though.

In theory, I'd make you fight and capture the other monsters first. But...I don't want force full RPG mechanics without an engaging story. So I'll just let you yeet them in like THIS IS SPARTA!!!!

>>3790262
The way that works...
(see image, its easier to show than to explain.)

>>3790268
\I[n] yeah-- I never use it. I guess yanfly only adds a namebox then. lol wow...
Wait, no there is another 'feature'-- it's the placement of text within the text box (pos).
meh-

>>3790268
Forgot:
@show_line_fast is set to true when you use ">"

I have been forgetful lately, sorry.

I do know is that, people don't like waits, especially in text heavy games. Some people already know what is going to happen, yet still have to sit through it. It might be an idea to instead ofusing a text-speed button check to see if they want to skip the whole event.
You'd either need a script for this, or create a common event that would check if a button is pressed and then set a switch to ON;
and then check with every message whether or not the button got pressed- which is where instead you'd insert your "Skip event" option.

It's tedious either way I guess.

What I recommend at least is that you split up the tasks. You have one event control movements, and then once a certain position is reached, they let another event run text boxes.
In case you don't want to use up $game switches, you can use $game_self_switches, of which you have an infinite number. The editor only offers 4, but... you can set them with scripts and check them with scripts as well
$game_self_switch[["switch_name"]] = true
normally the scheme for a self switch is [[map_id, event_id, "selfswitchname"]]
but there is no limitation, so you can do [["event_1_switch_1"]] or something silly.

Rather than using wait (in an event), I recommend using "wait for completion", in parallel- so that, other stuff can happen, but in the end everything waits for switches. That way, even when no more text boxes need to be shown, the characters will keep moving till a certain point before the next text box.

Okay, I have a pretty unusual question. Is there a way to make the gameplay (including player actions) "slow down" for a moment? My game has a stealth section and it works great, but at the moment when a guard sees you it immediately starts a chase. I was hoping there would be a brief moment where things slow down (and maybe the music and colours become muted) upon being spotted, so that the player can prepare. Think of "Reflex Mode" in MGS5. I'm hoping there's an answer asides from "make the engine do a whole mess of dummy calculations so it experiences slowdown," but I admit that this is a pretty niche application.

Thoughts on gimmick sections or sudden and extreme departures from established mechanics and/or aesthetics? I like them, but they're obviously expensive to produce; do you guys think the payoff is worth it?

>>3790365
I like them in small doses. As long as it's a fun gimmick I don't see why not to include it.

>>3790365
>extreme departures from established mechanics and/or aesthetics
I dunno if "the characters are black-and-white now" really qualifies as 'extreme'...

>>3790380
But anon, the characters in the party are always black or white

>>3790242
What difficulty are you playing on? You can use Pandora’s box in your inventory to lower difficulty if you’re having trouble. Also don’t forget to scan monsters and exploit weaknesses, as well as use the formation command to swap monsters when they die or get disabled. I can personally finish it on the hardest difficulty, so it is possible to play…

Also, what do you mean by snooping and pingas?

Is this the enchant farm thread?

>>3790411
Enchant Farm had its own when Goburinbro made the translation.

>>3790256
>sometimes you just want to make a larger text box, but they made it impossible to use their own code to achieve this.
Okay, I fucked up in more ways.
They made this possible, but..... my god, it isn't made clear.

Here's what yanfly writes:
> This variable adjusts the number of visible rows shown in the message window.
They make it sound as if it is the Constant shown; it's not. They're trying to say "Assign a game_variable and use that to determine the number of visible rows". Now the code makes more sense.

That all said, here's a summary (image) of what his code ads so far I can tell.
This also explains why you don't find trouble with his code.
>>3789996
(tagging you because you might be interested lol)

>>3790425
*correction: default font size for a new font object and the one used by default in game is 24. I confused the example with the defaults.
each line is given this height at least, despite the size of the text. Yanfly doesn't change this.
Also the default font is Verdana, not myriad. (same issue happened there)
Default font: ["Verdana", "Arial", "Courier New"].

Any recs for character generator parts for a modern game?

Never use character generator. No matter how ugly, draw it yourself.

never listen to creative advice on the internet
no matter how badly, do it yourself

>>3790665
Great advice bro, I can't draw hair yet but so far so excellent!

>>3790665
I don't want to draw all the NPCs in my city though

>>3790708
Looks legit unique and soulful.

>>3790396
>Also, what do you mean by snooping and pingas?
it's over... I'm now officially too old.

>>3790745
I’m pretty old myself and have no idea what you’re talking about. Thought you were speaking in some newfangled zoom zoom lingo…

>>3790760
nta but you really only have to google pingas to find out what it is. It's prime early 2000s YTP slop, back when "lol, internet" was relatively fresh

is there a way to change individual tileset with eventing or script? Making each tile an event is probably a bad idea

nevermind, I fix'd it

>>3790723
just don't use the face one

Why is the "without rpg maker" thread gone?
And why are the threads split in "with" and "without" rpg maker to begin with?

Nevermind, somehow I didn't see it.

I've got an itch page ready.
I've given my enemies more rounded stats and an assortment of skills. I don't know why, but even just assigning the default skills to enemies is mental anguish.
>Medusa: Petrify.
It's a no brainer. Right? But it's still a 3-5 click process I had to repeat 50+ times. I needed a separate document to keep track of what skills were going to what monsters. It's a lot of switching windows and tabs.
After a while my brain just checks out.

>>3790898
I highly recommend the writing software obsidian for keeping track of stuff in your game. You’re able to keep track of how often things are used by using back links, like say if you wanna have an equal amount of monsters weak vs fire and ice. You simply create pages for fire and ice, and pages for each of your monsters, and you enable back links. Extremely useful program, it how I was able to make Monster Summoner Lisa so quickly. It’s also nice to have all your shit organised as well.

>>3790898
I like some good old xls planning.

>>3790984
It's kind of surprising RM doesn't have it's own spreadsheets.

I had ChatGPT make me a script that prints out a list of skills assigned to what classes and enemies.

That was maybe a year ago. I forgot where I put it. Probably in my "Project1" somewhere.

Played your game Coyotecraft. It wasn't very good, although it has a lot of potential, you should fix it, you have at least 5 days left!
I'll explain what was wrong...

Fighting a dragon with 10000 hp while your monsters deal around 50 - 100 damage each is really bad,
that's at least 20+ plus rounds, way too long. You need to amp up the damage a bit, adjust the stats
of the monsters, so as to make it less tedious to play.

Also make some monsters healers/supporters. I get you probably want healing and by extension hp a
limited resource, which is good, unlimited healing sucks, but it's kinda boring just pressing attack and disabling the enemy
over and over again. Have healing use MP or something if you want to prevent unlimited healing.

I did manage to win against the dragon, but I cheesed it by poisoning it and dealing 1000 hp damage per
turn. And considering the low damage output of even monsters who specialise in attack having a really
low DPS, its the only viable way of defeating it. You should adjust the damage of poison, or consider
using a plugin to have poison damage tied to M.Attack or something.

Also consider having some weaker mobs to fight against, preferably against multiple opponents. The
mage characters who use AOE attacks are completely useless...

Also don't delete it like you did to your game last jam! It looked fun... Fix it!
Your game Overshadowed wasn't too bad either, you should re-release it on your page (unless of course if it was against itch.io TOS... but if it wasn't...).

Anyone got royalty-free Japanese vocal songs?

I used to keep this website where a Japanese band just made a bunch of free music videos, and you can use them freely. But I lost the link. It’s not dova. Think youfulca but a bunch of j-pop songs.

>>3791369
I agree with everything you said. But I have a long weekend ahead. I don't think I'll have time to do more than a few minor updates. Which is why I submitted it early.

Of course, I intended the player to level up their monsters to overcome the dragon, like a traditional rpg. But as you realized, status effects like poison is a cheese strategy at lv1. Combined with paralyze or sleep, you can win in minutes. Plus there's that other instant "win".
A little trial and error shouldn't hurt, but I don't blame anyone that closes the game after a few minutes. It's a trash game. You're not missing anything.

I mean, I love RPGs. But I don't think jam entries should be a time sink. Which is part of the reason I didn't want people playing my "One Screen RPG". I had included a cheat weapon, but even with that it still takes time to complete. For no real reward. If I had more story content, I would allow it.
I basically just made it as content for these threads; an excuse to talk shop.

Since I hosted this one, I'll leave it up...for a while.

>>3791396
Found it. It was maou.audio. Needed to check Astlibra's ost one by one to find it.

Still need to come up with a title and do the title screen, final score tracker, some more sound effects, figure out that last bug with the damage reduction overflowing that seems to have gone away, put some tighter rails on user input, also add the hints and fluff dialog at the camp

I want to do shadows for everyone but I don't think I can stand to fix up graphics for 50+ enemies

I hate this part

>>3791417
>Still need to come up with a title
"Deck of Unity: We Stand as One!" or smth like that

>I want to do shadows for everyone but I don't think I can stand to fix up graphics for 50+ enemies
Don't bother, just attach a "blob shadow" effect.

>>3791421
Crappy blob shadows it is

>>3791404
I don't mean to assume anything about you, but you seem to be a perfectionist. It seems to be crippling you.
You should have more confidence in yourself dude, it's getting in the way of your skill as a developer.
A lot of other Jam games are quite long as well with plenty of grinding, you should've put in a quick dungeon,
it would've vastly improved the experience, don't think you're wasting peoples time with a quick 30 minute dungeon.
Also, it's not like you're releasing a game with a price tag man, again, just keep it uploaded this time.

I used to struggle with perfectionism as well, but when I finally just said, fuck it, I'll just release something even though I think it's shit,
whether it was my artwork or my comics or my games, and not just delete it immediately after, I found I enjoyed myself more,
even though what I released was sub-par quality and got negative feedback. I also improved greatly as an artist, and found what I
thought was shit wasn't shit at all, and the things I did obsess over and thought were good were shit and needed work. You need other people looking
at your art, it's very difficult to determine your strengths and weaknesses accurately without them.

>>3791493
>Continued...
You seem to assume that people won't like certain things, and it you may be right, but the only way you're gonna know is release stuff and keep it
released. A one screen RPG is a high concept idea, even if it was grindy, remember that a lot of other jam games are also grindy as well, and
they were pretty fun. I would've liked to play through it, and as far as I remembered, you just removed the page without really asking people what
they thought of it first.

By the way, I did a let's play of your game Overshadowed, in case you didn't know. I couldn't inform you on your page so I'll tell you here...
You should watch, if you haven't already...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFeaCzIkQs

I won't lie, it wasn't exactly amazing, but it wasn't too bad either. The story itself was pretty good, but the combat and first dungeon really
brought it down. But despite that, it's still a shame that you deleted it (or set it to private or whatever), it was a pretty competent game.
Again, unless it broke itch.io TOS, which, nevermind... And I also would've liked to play One Screen RPG as well, I generally don't mind grindy games.

found this in steam sales.

>>3791554
battlers?

>>3791555
the original script creator(moghunter?) used leon's sprites from tales of destiny(ps2) to showcase his tales battle system then this guy 100% traced over it and sell it on steam.

>>3791496
Overshadowed was maybe a fluke. It was part of a 2 week jam, so it definitely represents the most I could possibly pull off by myself in that short amount of time. I don't think I could do that again unless I had a lot of free time and no responsibilities. Or a very clear vision.

Compare it to the current jam, I didn't do any mapping or story telling. I just scraped together a battle. 1 battle! Behind the scenes there's this whole capture system that's more of a conversation piece. For people that just want to play games, it's dumb.
I could have achieve the end result much simpler.

My One Screen RPG was the same way. I made it so I can talk about making it. And to see how quickly something like it can be put together.
The inspiration came from the games "One Screen Hero 1 & 2".
I recommend playing those over my jam entry.
https://www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/22331
https://www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/32887

Or, you can try making one yourself.

>>3791778
Okay, I understand. I suppose I was kinda being obnoxious trying to talk you out of not uploading your games and
thinking you want the same thing out of game dev as me... Sorry about that.
If your happy doing it the way you are, I suppose it's fine. I personally wouldn't delete my stuff after uploading,
but we both want different things out of it I suppose...

Finally done with all the assets for all 6 areas. The perspective is about as consistent as donkey's ass but I'm long behind the schedule already to spend any more time on it.

>>3791936
holy sovl

only the ending scene and score tracker left to do

the title is lame but all the writing is lame so it doesn't matter

>>3789779
It's got some weird issues with targeting enemies. Like, my arrow keys wouldn't work, so I had to switch to mouse. There's be 2 enemies remaining, but only 1 would be listed. Maybe because there were different "rows", I'm not sure.

One time I tried to used an Ether on a character, but it would only select a K.O.ed member. So I said "whatever". Used it. And then the K.O.ed character was replaced with a reserve party member, who then got 1 HP recovery. I don't know what happened.

>>3791936
looks sick

wtf

>>3792113
Oh yeah, it’s because of the mouse. If you have the mouse cursor on the enemy or an ally it’ll proritize the mouse and will effectively lock your selection. As for the ether thing I think it selected angel feather instead, also due to the mouse. The mouse is friggin annoying, just keep it off the screen and you should be good. Next update I’ll disable the mouse.

>>3792113
Also, I forgot to mention, taunting enemies take prority with targeting when you use melee attacks. I mention it in the tutorial house in Singlet. And you taunt whenever you use melee attacks or use advance defense, so your dudes can only target the back row if you use special attacks, or you’re fast enough to attack first before they taunt. I should’ve put a tutorial somewhere aside from just in the tutorial house…

>saw nice looking rpgm game on steam
>20 reviews
sad

>>3789779
I like your art style. It's cute and ugly at the same time.

>>3792483
Thanks! I've gotten a lot better over this past year due to maintaining a comic so I make less mistakes now and I'm less shakey in drawing straight lines, making it a lot more appealing.

I still got a long way to go yet though... A lot of my art still has anatomy errors.

Itch.io is down.

I'm down to clown.

>>3792491
Deadly curious what a hyper busty 'waifu' character would look like in your style.

>>3792512
There's a few monsters in Monster Summoner Lisa which are girls.. (Top Row)

And a few which I've designed for another game on the back burner (Bottom Row).

>>3792518
why the bald ones?

>>3791554
terraria straight up uses slightly edited ff battle sprites and it's on actual consoles and shit

>>3792573
Lol I dunno... Makes them look more evil I guess. Bald is beautiful.
They're supposed to be succubuses, so I guess they're kinda monsters.

I'm fixing and revamping my old game, should I post it as new game or version 2.0 or something?

okay, we're done

should I publish and try to fix the inevitable bugs before the deadline or wait?

>>3792672
>still 2 days left
Playtest it, fix the bugs, then publish.

>>3791936
Good stuff.

>>3791936
did you steal this from abaddon/sweet home?

new jam when?

We've had Summer Isekai and Summer Horror jams. What should the next summer jam be about?

Coyote, why don't you draw anymore?

>>3792975
The Akiko sprite and the corner greywall texture pattern (at 45 degree angle instead of 60 degree angle as in the original) from NES Sweet Home, yes. Used them as basis for reference when making other character/tile sprites. The rest are made from memory but I trained a lot on redrawing NES texture patterns so I might be unconciosly referencing samething as well.

Anyone tried to use AI to make plugins?

>>3793084
its fine if you do it one class and method at a time, you'll still need to plan and design what you want because context length will cause problems

3rd game has dropped!

Better turnout than I was expecting. I thought everyone would be jammed out. I think itch hit a new high with 200 some concurrent jams.

>>3793084
>Anyone tried to use AI to make plugins?
Yes. I've been exploring that since the past few days. (Specifically, using Google's Gemini)

You don't always have to use it make plugins.
You can also drop it a plugin file and tell it to add more features to it. Or to resolve conflicts between plugins.

Adding features and resolving conflicts in already-made plugins has worked quite well for me.
Creating a new plugin, (at-least with free resource) seems to be quite the work. Having to report errors, guiding it on what to do, suggesting solutions e.t.c. Something perfect doesn't seem to come out. (At-least for the features I'm going for.)
Yesterday I attempted to have Gemini make a plugin (for MV) to add gradient tint on screen. While it was able to get the effect to work, it kept failing to make the effect persist after a scene change or after returning from the menu.

Today I'm having Gemini create a plugin that would allow me to log value of a variable (like text) as a show text event command inside an event in a map.json file. (It got me something working, somewhat. Still working on it with the AI.)

>>3793561
i think you should skip the please and thank you and other polite stuff with these instruction models, especially for code. It probably doesn't help and pads the context with extra emotionally weighted tokens unrelated to the problem. Try writing your prompt like an exam or assignment question, because that's the kind of stuff it's trained on (along with all of stack overflow and other places where people aren't very polite)

>Here is a script in language A that does X to Y. Modify the script to include new thing - new thing does this this and this to Z
etc

it will get the hint

>>3793693
>i think you should skip the please and thank you and other polite stuff with these instruction models, especially for code.
Well... ummm... I also tend to put additional wording to prompt the AI to respond as if (examples) it's a crass-rude gamer girl, or a doting anime mother. And it makes reading more fun, digestible and encouraging for me. XD
Though yeah, I suspect it does come at a cost of it not performing the best, as it's burdened to perform these other instructions along. (>_<)

>>3793693
I think you should train AI and not let AI train you.

>doting mother ai and gamer gf ai
this has to be the most pathetic thing i have seen in a while

>>3793913
welcome to 4chan, faggot

>>3793913
>this has to be the most pathetic thing i have seen in a while
The gamer girl persona makes very fun gaming references in its responses. You gotta hand it to Gemini.

>>3793913
It's worlds better than the standardized reddit/corporate voice it uses. I've instructed mine to speak like an おてんばお嬢様

>HE has fallen to the dark side
Grim

>he can't even be bothered to write his own games anymore
jesus christ FUCK OFF

>>3793973
I don't get it honestly. If you can't write for shit just make a dungeon crawler or some other genre in some other engine that lets you have no words. Why make a story focused RPG if you don't want to write it? It's the most fun part after making maps, for fuck's sake.

>9 hours left
>Still no dialogues written
>Still no enemy sprites
I love making games in 6 days...

>>3794030
... and I'm not gonna make it in time at all. Again. Well, better luck next time, I guess.

New jam? For me it's coca-cola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnaClmuna78

>>3794030
For me, it's music.
I just can't into sound design... The rtp definitely makes that much easier on me.

Currently playing MonCard.
Summoner Lisa was nice.

>>3784597 (OP)
Wanted to make a concept art about how i would make the combat screen in a hypothetical rpg made by me (obviously is not perfect, and i forgot to add the hp bar for the enemies but i had fun making it)

>>3794127

>>3794249
holy sovl

Why isn't there an RTP for text? There's stock music and sounds and enemy graphics and even maps but there's no premade text for npcs you can just paste in

Like you should be able to just paste the king's introduction where he says you need to rescue his daughter and kill the demon king or the childhood friend talking about the promise made to her when you were kids etc

All that standard stuff should be in the RTP not just graphics and sounds

This is what I managed to capture in my playthrough. Is there an "end"?
I kept accidently hitting 'esc' instead of '1' or just instinctively pressing 'esc' to cancel when I select the wrong unit; resetting the battle.

>>3794319
There's one more area to clear after the kitsune, then a save point and bosses. For a strategy hint, play a big pink right before a big yellow and you'll redraw most of the recovered units, or a play a small yellow/pink to shuffle weak cards away from the top of the deck. Good timing of those colors helps a lot.

>>3794278
It's kind of trivial with today's AI. But a random name generator would be useful. As well as autocorrect.

You really are expected to do all your writing and planning in another software and just paste it in. And without word wrap, you still have to format it to fit.

>>3794278
just how lazy are you?

>>3794358
I wouldn't use it, but I would love to see how other people use it. Discovering different interpretation of the generic story beats that come with the editor would be cool. A dev still has to make the stuff the npcs are talking about and fill in the gaps. Haven't you ever played a rpg adventurer module?

>>3794278
>Why isn't there an RTP for text? There's stock music and sounds and enemy graphics and even maps but there's no premade text for npcs you can just paste in
>>3794363
>I would love to see how other people use it. Discovering different interpretation of the generic story beats that come with the editor would be cool.
They have attempted to do something like that with RPG Maker Unite, through ISEKAI CREATORS.
>Link
https://ggg.rpgmakerofficial.com/en/isekaicreators

...as I understand, it's a world they've created with characters and tilesets and written material they've prepared for you. That the community can use and build upon, narratively.

>>3793973
>jesus christ
Peace be upon him.

>>3794367
cool I didn't know about this

>you get isekai'd to Brazil

oh shit

What now?

>>3794556
Post progress

>>3794573
I'm half happy about how the graphics are looking in this. I'm using Moghunter's animated actors and enemies and it just spiced up the game quite a lot but every battle sprite is actually 5 so I have to use fewer enemies overall...

>>3794587
Cool

Oh, there was a last minute entry.

I haven't played the linux game yet.

>>3794671
I took 3rd place. Died in a shack, happy, with my girlfriend.

Writing is the easiest part of an RPG. Just open whatever text editor and type it out. It's not hard. Everyone can speak, thus, everyone can write. I believe in you.

Cringe.

>4 participants
>4 entries
Holy cow a full turnout. Based af

>>3794680
but I is esl

>>3794806
So write an RPG in your language.

retard using javascript for the first time here for MV, I created a custom menu that basically shows some stats that are variables, all good there, but I added an option you click and switches to show the same thing for another character, the problem is it freezes the game there, I have no idea what to do at this point because I dont even know what's wrong since it definetly should work. Is this a known issue with custom menus?

>>3793561
Got Gemini to make this performance monitor for me, that pops up along with the FPS when pressing F2 key.

I intend to have this available for the player as well. In case they may want to monitor performance, or report any issue.
Any suggestion for any relevant element that I might be missing? Something else I could be monitoring here?

>>3794977
Number of homosexuals detected

>>3794965
nvm I was missing a line in the code to reactivate the menu when switching

>>3794977
this is handy
>Something else I could be monitoring here?

Maybe how many event commands are currently running? I don't know if they're a performance hit though

>>3795403
move event commands i mean

Probably going to be another slow weekend while Americans celebrate independence.

I made a simple Action RPG/Hack N Slash/Sidescroller recently
You can shoot Tornados and shit also use flamethrowers
Also has a small MacGuyver item combination systtem in the game

https://cyanideangelstudio.itch.io/cyanide-angel

Just recently release a demo for my game Barako the Pirate. I know before I said I'd given up on it, but I had a change of heart and released it anyways...

I submitted it to AGDG demo day 63, but it'll really mean a lot if a few of you from here will give it a play and tell me what you think...

>>3796431
Whoops, forgot the link...

https://barako-the-pirate.itch.io/barako-the-pirate

What do you guys do when you are tired and don't have the motivation/discipline/mental fortitude to keep working on the game?

>>3797011
I do (1) push up.

>>3797011
>What do you guys do when you are tired
Sleep, wake up, then back to game making!

>and don't have the motivation/discipline/mental fortitude to keep working on the game?
Don't think of it like that. Don't wake up with the goal that you have to make a skyscraper today.
Instead- Just tell yourself, that you just gotta place one brick today. Just one brick, that's it. This 'brick' can be:
>placing a few tiles on the map
>Writing up a few dialogues in a scene
>adding a sound effect in
>Setting up an event command inside an event
...just the smallest bit of thing.
Focus on placing one small brick, every single day.
As long as you keep placing brick after brick, day after day, eventually... the building is going to be complete. And the game is going to come out.


So don't focus on the game. That's a tall skyscraper- making you question yourself every time you look up at it.
Just focus on the placing the next brick, and once you're done, the next brick after that. And then the next one, and then the next one.

Brick by brick, a game is built.
And anyone and everyone can muster up the discipline, the mental fortitude and motivation, to place just brick one a day.


>>3795404
>move event commands i mean
Hmmm... I might eventually need to monitor that down the line. Thank you thank you.

>>3797011
I procastinate 5 hours watching youtube videos and then go to sleep .

>>3797173
How do you market your games, Sigma? Your games have many reviews on itch io.

>>3797284
20 is considered a lot?

>>3797284
>How do you market your games, Sigma?
1. Making daily update posts (that must involve an image, gif or video), of anything I've done in the day, onto all possible social medias. (Facebook, twitter, itch.io, YouTube, reddit, e.t.c)
Then I see in analytics how this directly contributes and brings new downloads on my games, every single day (that I post).
-

2. Subscribing to YouTube channels that plays any RPG Maker related games and has less than 1000 subs. (As subscribing to them sends them a notification that 'SigmaSuccour' subscribed to them. When they click on that notification, it leads them to my channel with trailers for my games featured upfront.)
I started to do this initially just to show support for these types of channels. But when some of them played my game(s) immediately after I subscribed, it made me realize I've been unintentionally marketing my games to them.
-

3. Similarly, I like huge number of tweets and posts from let's players and Vtubers on twitter. Especially with low likes, as that sends them a notification which reads "SigmaSucccour - Solo Indie Game Dev liked your tweet".
And should they click on my name, it would lead them to my profile. Where they see a download link to my games, and my recent update posts.
(I used to like any and all posts on twitter that mentioned 'RPG Maker'. But that would not translate to a SINGLE DOWNLOAD in my analytics! When I switched to liking tweets from Vtubers, I actually saw more engagement back.)
-


4. Hanging around in a purely gamer community.
One of the only, decently sized gamer communities I've come across that allows self-promotion (as long as you participate in the community) is r/KotakuInAction:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1lqdizi/comment/n124guf/?context=3
-

5. Alone moderating/hosting a discord server.
I have built one with about 1000 members. Though it's geared towards and mostly full of game devs... a few of them play my games and kindly review them.

>>3797374
More than most of us get on our games.

>>3797284
By being an annoying and ever-present thorn in the side of everyone in every RPG Maker adjacent community.

>>3797636
Respect that grindset. Most people would have chickened out of embarassment

>>3797512
Great post. One of the most valuable information ever posted on rpgm jam dev threads.

I hate that I've spent every day watching my favorite thread lose its soul like this. It's finally time for me to move on. I'm even downloading unity and deleting MV.

>>3797512
>Promoting your game on gamergate sub
don’t know if it’s a wise choice

>>3797636
Yet the dude has like 20 reviews on his games. Just face it dude, people like him.
I seriously doubt it's many people who actually hate him, it's probably like a few lunatics like you who obsess and seethe over him, trying desperately to make it appear as if everyone hates him. How sad...

How do we make the jams fun again?

Hmm
I was kind of hoping to make a sort of Gundamfan game in RPG Maker. But then I realized, I've only seen the original 3 shows and CCA. So, it feels like I don't know enough to do it justice or have it fit in the series.

I could try to make my own mecha story with similar themes as Gundam, but I don't know what I'd do about the assets. I was thinking of just using assets from a Gundam game (this is basically just a project for myself to learn RPG Maker), but then it'd feel out of place with the story and RTP.

Anyone have an idea of where I can get some mecha assets for RPG Maker MV?

>>3797716
>How do we make the jams fun again?
Shall I start hosting these VRPG jams from now on?
I may not participate in adding my own game to the jam, or playing the entries. However, I can set the jam page up (that looks fun, using my characters) with a unique theme every month (or whatever is the frequency you'd like). And encourage the people here to participate and make game for it as I'm here.
And announce updates about the jam, and so forth.

I've co-hosted one (or two?) small game jams (on itch.io) before. Though I haven't participated in the ones that happen here, so I would want to ask questions how things usually go, if it's all well with you guys to let me host them.


>>3797652
>Respect that grindset.
Thank you thank you!

>>3797660
>Great post.
Happy to hear!

>>3797672
>don’t know if it’s a wise choice
It can get you blacklisted and banned from across the games industry and game dev communities. (I already am, so... beats me. XD )
However, the point still stands. Hang out around gamers instead of game devs. And that'll help market your game.


>>3797702
>I seriously doubt it's many people who actually hate him
It's more like... when my topic is brought up in front of some people. They feel a religious obligation to say something that would suggest they denounce me (through insult or a direct statement). If they don't, they know their own people will begin to suspect their fealty, and eventually start to eat them.
It's less that they hate me, and more so they are cowards, who can't survive independent of the cult they are in.
One of the only things that can get them out of it, is coming to Islam. Where you only depend on your creator and your maker (i.e, the developer that designed you), who has control of everyone's heart. And has the key to all treasures under the Earth and in the heavens (to provide for you and protect you).

>>3797755
Making the jam page isn't the issue, and offering to put your characters in there wouldn't do it any favors when it's clear an action like that si to make yourself more identifiable. Please respect the nature of anonymity a little more.

>>3797512
>YouTube channels that plays any RPG Maker related games and has less than 1000 subs
>let's players and Vtubers on twitter
how to find them?

>>3797755
>Shall I start hosting these VRPG jams from now on?
Not needed. Sharing your knowledge with us is enough.

since the thread hasnt died yet i wanna ask something stupid
is it conceivable to make hd2d games on rpg maker? something that looks like the final fantasy pixel remasters or maybe pokemon black & white

>>3797730
I'm actually retarded
There are assets in the DLC folder and also on the RPG Maker website that are kind of mecha/scifi-y

https://rpgmakerofficial.com/product/mv/special/1-million-memorials.html

>>3797793
Pixel remasters? Probably if you draw fancy enough tiles.
"RPG Developer Bakin" seems more tailored to that 2D-sprites in 3D world with shaders style

>>3797755
From what I’ve seen and read of you, you seem like a nice guy, I personally wouldn’t mind you hosting jams.
Maybe not put your own characters in the jam though, that’ll be kinda weird.
We should put up a poll or something to see if everyone is cool with it first.
Also to see people seethe about it would be hilarious.

Encouraging literal redditor namefag behavior is truly wretched

>>3797512
>r/KotakuInAction
Why not r/jrpg

>>3797793
yes. but it's japanese autism deliberately bending the engine into something it wasn't meant to do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHi_Lxrvbh0

Honestly if you want to go this far just move onto Unity, it's dead easy to do 3d with non-filtered low res textures. For your characters write a controller for the animator that uses a flipbook shader to animate between the frames of a flat sprite as it walks/runs/jumps etc could have a demo scene of the character movement and stuff going in an afternoon compared to weeks and weeks of work to get rpgmaker to move and look that way

Just use Unity if you're going for this please save yourself so much pain

>>3797561
Lol I have over 100, only posted on xitter

>>3797772
>how to find them?
Go to Youtube,
>type in 'rpg maker' then hit search
>Go into filters
>Select 'Upload Date' under 'Sort by'
>And select 'Today' under 'Upload Date'
...this way, you'll get the most results for recently uploaded videos.
I do this daily (i.e, every 24 hours). As many small or less SEO optimized videos vanish from search after 24-36 hours.
>Link:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rpg+maker&sp=CAISBAgCEAE%253D


~ If you want even more results, you can do the same on Google search, select video, and filter by all videos in the past 24 hours.
>Link
https://www.google.com/search?q=rpg+maker&sca_esv=2dee1d6b047c2499&udm=7&tbs=qdr:d,srcf:H4sIAAAAAAAAANOuzC8tKU1K1UvOz1Urycwuyc8GM4tSU1IyS8DMzLziksT0osRcMC8tMTk1KR-qqgJMAgAE9ONlRAAAAA&source=lnt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgjbjS3qqOAxXo_7sIHQYIGV4QpwV6BAgFECQ&biw=1536&bih=872&dpr=1.25


~ For Vtubers on twitter, I search the '#vtuberen' hashtag (since 'Vtuber' itself will have mostly non-english results over there) and then select 'Latest' for posts.
>Link
https://x.com/hashtag/vtuberen?src=hashtag_click&f=live


>Note:
You can of course make more engagements with relevant channels and people, as that can increase the chances of them playing your games. Comment on their videos/posts, engage with their content, or directly ask them to play your games too. (I don't personally do all that. However, the option for you is there.)


>>3798002
>Why not r/jrpg
Hmmm... r/jrpg has similar rules for self promotion like KiA. My games may not be a good fit for the community, but yours might be.


>>3798113
>Lol I have over 100, only posted on xitter
Share thee wisdom, kudasai.

>>3798435
>seeks out vtubers
of course youre a pedo

>>3798506
Sounds pretty based to me!

>>3798113
20 replies on the game's page is more solid than 100 random posts scattered over twitter desu famalam.

I already have RPG Maker MZ but MV is on sale right now for $12. Does MV have any benefits over MZ or is it basically the same thing?

>>3798591
> Does MV have any benefits over MZ or is it basically the same thing?
MZ is fine, it's the latest with more features. (You get the assets when you buy the previous version.)

By the time you figure out MZ, probably the next mainline version of RPG Maker would have come out. (As it has been 5 years since MZ released. And 10 years since MV.)
Since you're new to this (and don't have baggage or a W.I.P project like us), you might want to switch to the latest one whenever it comes out, instead of getting too comfortable with any of the current versions.

Consider 'Action Game Maker', a recent new release by the developer-company of RPG Maker.
>Link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2987180/ACTION_GAME_MAKER/


>>3797841
>From what I’ve seen and read of you, you seem like a nice guy, I personally wouldn’t mind you hosting jams.
Thank you for your kind words. (T_T)

Post penis -- I mean, progress. Post progress!

Anyone else feel like people are accomplishing less with AI?

>>3799637
What do you mean? What are people using AI for that is causing them to accomplish less?

>>3799637
Anyone who uses AI to "accomplish" anything has accomplished nothing.

>>3799637
Still new gives it two years

I made a sidescroller/action rpg recently

https://cyanideangelstudio.itch.io/cyanide-angel

sex with echo607

>>3799928
>you can hear her daughter in the background
I feel old.

>>3796431
>>3796436
jim is swole as fuck for a 10 year old

>>3799928
>Last vid was 2 years ago

>>3797758
>Please respect the nature of anonymity a little more.
the last "/vrpg/ jam" had a bunch of "HEY GUYS WE'RE FROM 4CHAN IF YOU FIND THIS JAM JUST JOIN IT ANYWAY PLEASE WE DONT CARE JUST JOIN LOL" plastered all over it.

>>3799971
there is a guy making a game with a black protagonist here, it can't go any worse than that

>>3799972
t. never played a jam game or even looked at a screenshot of one

>>3799972
Game is full of representation of all kinds

>>3799972
We've had multiple darkskin BABES as main characters over the past 5 years of jams.

>browsing sound and voice pack on steam
>no sample
fuck off

is there any way to do rubytext in rpgmaker 2003?

>>3799665
I think it's just the fact that they have AI that they put off any time commitment.

>>3799637
>Anyone else feel like people are accomplishing less with AI?
If you mean people in artistic field who dislike AI, or feel demoralized by it. Then yes, perhaps.
It's not the people using AI that are accomplishing less. Rather, it would be the people who dislike it that are. (I assume.)

Though people figuring out AI and exploring it as a new tool, would of course be seen as accomplishing less for some time, until they get a good handle on it. (Which can be difficult considering how it's been evolving.)


>>3799683
>Anyone who uses AI to "accomplish" anything has accomplished nothing.
That sounds about what this guy working in (I think) cloud-service told me recently, (while discussing about the Stop Killing Games initiative) when I showed him that my experience with game dev was in RPG maker. And he basically dismissed it as nothing.

So... don't an injustice to another, as it was done to you.

>>3799966
Lol, I tend to draw everyone stole, even the women…

>ugh i dont want to learn to draw, i'll just generate art...
>ugh i dont want to learn to write, i'll just generate dialogue...
>ugh i dont want to come up with a story, i'll just generate a plot...
>ugh i dont want to learn to program, i'll just generate a code...
how about you generate some bitches

>>3800246
t.seethe art tranny

>>3799977
>>3800011
exactly, bringing newfags will make no difference

>>3800246
Based
>>3800250
Cringe

i kind of want to try to do Ys style bump combat next jam

Is pixel movement very hard to implement? What about collision off the grid? I know there's plugin scripts that do it but I'd like an idea of the challenge before i'm stuck attempting it on a deadline.

>>3800271
implementation usually involves selecting the plugin from the plugin manager and making sure it's checked 'ON'
It's a very big commitment, even if you know it exists. You still have to download it and add it to your project folder.
You might also have to read instructions. If it's in a different language you might have to copy and paste it into Google Translate. Exhausting.

>>3800479
kek

>>3800246
Generate a jam.

>>3800229
I’ve personally used ai, and I see little use for it. It’s way, way too inconsistent for anything aside from hot memes and one off drawings.

Tried to use it for coding, and it’s usually filled with mistakes and is hard to read, and takes more time to check for bugs, rather than just code myself.

Tried using it to generate characters and artwork. Which works, but I have my own style I wanna do which ai can’t replicate consistently.

Tried using it for story, but the ai generates absolute dogshit for story.

I think the only things I will concede that ai is brilliant at is for music, it’s generally amazing. But even then, there’s tons of copyright free music out there also…

I have used ai for coming up with ideas for character designs, but never actually using the actual artwork for my games. Generally ai is good for brainstorming ideas, both in text and images, but trying to directly use it just gives it a boring uncanny feeling to your art… it’s hard to explain, but there’s usually no personality to it, and because you can’t replicate it consistantly it’s kinda useless for unique animation which isn’t a simple walk cycle.

I’m curious Sigma. What do you personally use ai for? Cause again, my personal experience has been mostly negative with it. I’m not against the idea of ai, but my experience has kinda been ass with it…

>>3800617
>I think the only things I will concede that ai is brilliant at is for music, it’s generally amazing. But even then, there’s tons of copyright free music out there also…
I have no skin in the AI war but AI music is pretty generic. AI art CAN look good, but it looks good in a very specific way. Same with AI music sounding good in a specific way.
Unless you use your own Lora but at that point it's probably better to just hone a skill instead of letting the AI do it for you. It's more fun that way.

>>3800620
I dunno, some of my most favourite songs now have ai implemented in them, or at the very least I heavily suspect they do anyways. Ai is dogshit at coming up with lyrics, but combine it with a person actually doing lyrics while the ai does the instruments, a lot of times it sounds amazing imo.
Although I’m not really a music guy, maybe I just have shit taste…

>>3800617
>I’m curious Sigma. What do you personally use ai for?
For coding:
Case #1. I had a compatibility issue between two plugins. So I gave Gemini both the plugins, told it about the error. And it gave me an if-statement to place over a line of code in one of the plugins.
And the compatibility issue was resolved.

Case #2: I gave DeepSeek Mog's Weather plugin, and told it the plugin had about 36 weather types, and I'd like it to add more. And so it did.
Now I have more weather types.

Case #3: I got it to make a plugin that would add a text code (\F[n]) for show-text command, that would allow me to change font to any size I want, in a dialogue box.


>Generated Images:
Case #1: In False GamerGater, an artist tells the protagonist how management forces her to uglify her characters. And this is just expressed in words.
Then afterwards, I got AI to generate two images of the same character, to actually show the player an example of the before & after. How the character initially looked like, versus how the character looks uglified.
So little instances that are just spoken, I can generate an image to visualize them.

Case #2: I'm generating images of my characters as a hobby. When I don't have any in-game screenshot to show in my update posts (or don't want to because of spoilers), I post a generated image of my character instead.
Making sure the post still attracts and garners attention.

Case #3: I added a booru like imageboard gallery in my game. Where I can keep adding and displaying AI-generated images of my characters for player's viewing.
So, it's now just additional content.


> For Music:
I just generated lyrical-songs about the game I'm working on, so I can listen to them while working on the game. Which motivates me to keep at it.
Then I simply placed these songs in a music player in the game. (As extra content.)
These songs have lyrics about specific scenes in the game. So they can work to help player recall the events of a story.

>>3800658 (continued) for >>3800617
...for Writing:
There are instances where I feed AI a dialogue or scene, and ask it what it understands from it.
To confirm if my dialogue or scene is having the desired effect. And if the AI's explanation & interpretation matches what I'm going for.
(So I'm using AI as a playtester or a first screener at parts.)


>rather than just code myself.
>I have my own style I wanna do
I don't code or draw. So that's why it's useful for me in those aspects.
I can write and create decent stories, and so I don't go to AI for that.
Since you code and draw yourself, then yeah- I can understand you not having as much use for AI-gen.

anyone got a site to get a good crack of MZ 1.9

>>3798435
>Share thee wisdom, kudasai.
Not using shitty RTPs is a good start

>>3800682
Do you know what year it is?

>>3800500
im gonna generate my cock in your mouth if you keep talking bitch

>>3800658
>how the character looks uglified.
You can't present me with this absolute hunk of a man and tell me he's ugly. Built to have his ass bred by superior men.

>>3800682
They are still updating MZ?

>>3800190
For most of those people, any time commitment would amount to looking through the internet for art, music or code samples they can steal (or maybe that's just me)

>>3800229
RPG Maker is a toy. He should dismiss your experience with it as nothing. It's like claiming to be an architect because you like Lego - you can make cool stuff with Lego, but you're still a child dunning-krugered into a world you know nothing about.

>>3800688
>Not using shitty RTPs is a good start
While... yes. (T_T)
My games still do get praised quite often for their graphics. (Even though I use mostly RTP Edits & DLC assets)
Though I imagine, it may not come across in screenshots. As it has to do with atmosphere and animations on screen.


>>3800718
>They are still updating MZ?
They did till April this year. Not sure if there will be any more.


>>3800755
>He should dismiss your experience with it as nothing. It's like claiming to be an architect because you like Lego - you can make cool stuff with Lego, but-
"They strike an example for you only to argue. Rather, they are a quarrelsome people.” (Quran 43:58)

>>3800689
Why are you being so belittling I was asking for a 1.9 crack since the one on igg seems to be just 1.8

>>3800658
>>3800664
Wow, that's all really creative uses of ai.
Never really thought about using it like that.

Especially feeding AI a scene or dialogue, and asking for it's opinion, I might start doing that also...
Also uglifying the character sounds cool as well...

I thought of the perfect jam theme... Pro-India Jam! (つ≧▽≦)つ

>>3800783
>Also uglifying the character sounds cool as well...
We do not need more ugly, woke, DEI characters, make beautiful characters instead! o(≧▽≦)o

>>3800781
check cs.rin.ru forum, otherwise idk

>>3800773
I'm not inviting you to argue. I'm telling you, RPG maker is a toy and that person was correct to dismiss you. You cannot argue against that because it is true.

>>3799683
While this statement isn't any wrong but imagine if one guy came up with a game on the same level of quality as BG3/FF7/Skyrim/Dark Souls .. then they tell you they used AI alot. It's indistinguishable from a game without AI art or writing, but the creator still claimed they had to credit AI for helping them alot to make them.

I know this is whataboutism but still something I thought about. Care to voice your opinion/disdain about it?

best place to get VisuStella plugins for free ?

>>3800783
>Also uglifying the character sounds cool as well...
WTF, why?! That shit is naturally unappealing.

>>3800005
God that looks like shit

>>3800985
anyone ?

Post the moderator emails.

the moderator emails.

>>3800985
I found this
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ksci4b8ZrlKAayiSWVRrsPNDY_Mms0At/view

>>3800920
Spoken like a true casual. There are many amazing rpgmaker games out there. Go back to Skyrim and Fortnite you filthy normie. You’re too mentally challenged to play and appreciate rpgs.
You’re also wrong about rpg maker being easy to make a game with. Although it has a simple interface and there’s barely any coding, it still requires a ton of other skills to make a good game out of.
Programming isn’t the only skill involved with game dev. There’s also art, writing and game design, all stuff involved in making a game with the engine, and all skills which are difficult to master on their own.
If you don’t understand that, I seriously doubt you’ve made any good games, if any games at all.

>>3800985
>best place to get VisuStella plugins for free ?
Eww, why would you go for bloated and obfuscated plugins? That will cause you issues down the line.
You can find loads of free, open source plugins here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xbevw96IUblD_OUsnoX7OqQIb7qRX8FW7NWR-Cw8s9c/edit?gid=0#gid=0


>>3800809
>I thought of the perfect jam theme... Pro-India Jam! (つ≧▽≦)つ
I would have suggested something along the lines of:
>Theme: A scientific discovery has been made that has a a group of individuals of a particular field (like public, scientists, organizations, politicians e.t.c) up in arms to crucify the one(s) who made the discovery.


>>3800783
>Wow, that's all really creative uses of ai.
>Never really thought about using it like that.
Happy to hear!
It is simply a tool. We figure out what it's good at. And then we make use of it.


>>3801010
>WTF, why?! That shit is naturally unappealing.
I think the good fella meant, that my application of AI in making a character unappealing is cool. (And not that making character unappealing is desirable.)


>>3801102
BUAHAHAHAHAHA! XD

>>3801126
mind explaining how and why are visustella plugins bad ?

>>3801142
Do you see support threads for any other plugin?

>>3801144
huh ?? they break easily ??

>>3801126
>Theme: A scientific discovery has been made that has a a group of individuals of a particular field (like public, scientists, organizations, pakistanis e.t.c) up in arms to crucify the innocent indian(s) who made the discovery.*
Damn autocorrect (T_T)

>>3801142
>mind explaining how and why are visustella plugins bad ?
Bloated and obfuscated, makes for a bloated and obfuscated game. It is good, to make sure you have a product unbloated and unobfuscated.

>>3801144
>Do you see support threads for any other plugin?
A good plugin requires no support, yes. I couldn't say it better myself XD

>>3801145
huh ?? 4chan is a place for racist filipino pirates ??

>>3801152
the fuck does "bloated and obfuscated" mean for a plugin, use more words faggot

>>3801157
>the fuck does "bloated and obfuscated" mean for a plugin, use more words faggot
It means, anti-gamer, and even more heinous, anti-India. Too much code can make your game too big, for the average gamer.

>>3801159
>Too much code can make your game too big, for the average gamer.

The absolute state of these threads...
>>3800972
>imagine if one guy came up with a game on the same level of quality as BG3/FF7/Skyrim/Dark Souls
>>3801121
>normie

>>3801142
>mind explaining how and why are visustella plugins bad ?
It's explained in this very thread. Refer to:
>>3786305
>>3788446
Basically;
1. they obfuscate their plugins, making it take longer for PC to read their data, causing performance issues.
2. Many of their plugins are bloated with too many features crammed into them, that you won't all use. And so with this 'bloat' of unnecessary features comes more performance issues.
3. Because of the bloat and use of 'cores' (which has code inside them for plugins you may not even be using), they conflict with plugins outside their library often. So it's either you pick visustella (200 plugins), or plugins of all the rest of the community (2000) plugins. You're not going to be able to (comfortably) have both.
4. You can't edit or customize VisuStella plugins as easily. Since again, they are obfuscated. While most other plugins released are open to be edited.

A lot of this you won't think matters much to you. But that's only right now. As you enter later stages of developing your game, these elements will hit you hard.
Slow down your development, because each time you launch playtest it takes longer for it to load up.
Reduce your playerbase due to performance issues.
e.t.c e.t.c,

>>3801168
What did you mean by "too big for the average gamer"?

>>3801171
>What did you mean by "too big for the average gamer"?
Are you new to 4chan? You want to follow speech/post patterns, not username.
That wasn't me who said it.

(Side note, I'd prefer if all of you changed your username to 'SigmaSuccour' XD Pretty please.)

>>3801178
Trying to deflect isn't going to help.

>>3801121
>art, writing and game design
This guy gets it. Only the compelling storytelling part is a nightmare to come up with something, every story has already been told.

>>3801167
>non-argument

>>3800682
bumping this

>>3801121
And there are cool Lego models out there. Nobody's saying they're not. RPG Maker is not a competitive engine. You are embarrassing yourself.

>>3801315
It's meant to be a competition?

>>3800972
If "one guy" told me they made a game to the same level as BG3, FF7, Skyrim, or Dark Souls and then revealed that they used AI "alot" [sic.] then there are two things: 1. That wasn't one guy, that was one guy, and the culmination of a lot of other people's work. And 2. That would never happen, as AI users would never be able to make something at that level. Your example, which as you point out is full whataboutism, doesn't play out, or make sense.

>>3801316
To be competitive is not to imply that something is "a competition", merely that the engines are functionally anywhere near parity. RPG Maker is not. The existence of good things made in it does not make the engine competitive. Serious developers are right to write off experience with it. It's like someone saying that they're a level designer because they have a thousand hours in Little Big Planet, it's not nothing, but it's certainly not actual development experience.

>>3801319
>The existence of good things made in it does not make the engine competitive
Wait so it IS a competition?

>>3801320
ESL detected. Everything is in competition with everything else. That doesn't mean that there is a competition, everything in the world is just relative in terms of quality and output. That's just a fact of life, it doesn't mean there's "a competition".

>>3801321
>Everything is in competition
>That doesn't mean that there is a competition
Hmm, contradictory... so it's a competition with no competing? Cool! I'm gonna win.

>>3801322
>Doesn't understand relative quality being called competitiveness doesn't imply the existence of an explicit competition but rather that competitiveness is a facet of any entity when placed in context with other entities
Go to bed, Salik.

>>3801325
Sounds to me like you're afraid to lose. It's my non-competitive competition now!

>>3801326
The point isn't that things are or are not competitive, it's that it's not necessarily a competition. Jesus Christ.

>>3801327
I know, like I said, non-competitive competition. I won't be losing now!

These threads are so fucked man

this place needs to be put out of its misery

>>3801339
Keep posting your captivating on-topic progress.

>>3801317
Just food for thought. If you just can't entertain such hypothetical scenario, OK then
>>3801338
Yeah because there is one arrogant schizo who thinks he is all that shit (hint: not SigmaSuccour) lurking here. Not discounting you too

>>3801362
Care to tell the class who this 'arrogant schizo' is? Do you seriously think it's one person who's fed up with the quality of the thread declining because of the third worlder ESL namefag and various other schizos infesting it?

>>3800972
>>3801317
FFVII was one of the most expensive games ever made - something like $60 million on just development costs before even getting to marketing and a dev team of 150 people.

Is this some zoomer thing where they assume old game = cheap or small? ID Software and Doom blew up with only a small team and budget because Carmack is a literal genius.

it's unreasonable to expect something like that from one person even with AI and it will probably remain unreasonable for decades.

>>3801183
>Trying to deflect isn't going to help.
"In their hearts is disease, so God has increased their disease; and for them is a painful punishment because they [habitually] used to lie." (Quran 2:10)

>>3801196
>every story has already been told.
But not every one has heard every story. Especially, not 'your' story.


>>3801316
>It's meant to be a competition?
Ask KnightShift/Iron Brew. (Years ago he brought up how) The game dev company he works in restricted him from working on his RPG Maker Game due to non-compete. (No competition, huh?)
That's why he pulled the demo off the itch.io page, and hasn't made public release.


>>3801322
>Hmm, contradictory... so it's a competition with no competing?
Speaking in incoherent contradictions is a symptom of the disease they incur on themselves due to habitual lying.


>>3801327
>Jesus Christ.
Peace and blessings be upon him.

Meanwhile...

>>3801319
hey faggot just so you know the crab bucket nodev thread is that way >>>/vg/agdg
we make video games here, faggot

(Wake me up) Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up) Wake me up inside
(Save me) Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up) Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up) Before I come undone
(Save me) Save me from the nothing I've become

>>3801167
Yes, the guy is a normie. Most retards don't dig that deep into RPG Maker games on account of them having a surface level of knowledge about video games.

>>3801315
To The Moon. Omori. Oneshot. Black Souls. Hat World.
There's lots of games made in RPG Maker which are main stream and are great games and have mass appeal, you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Not to mention, have you actually seen and played games from a regular game jam vs an RPG Maker game jam? The RPG Maker games kick the absolute shit out of games from normal game jams. At least RPG Maker games actually work, and aren't buggy pieces of unfun shit, the quality is far, far higher...

When are we doing another jam?

Really wanna do another one, last one was fun.

Or is everyone jammed out?

Cause if you want a suggestion, what about the theme being Ninjas this time?!

Ninjas are cool, and black people are also sometimes called ninjas as well, which are also cool...
So that's like two cool themes right there, tons of inspiration for you folks!
I know how much you love the N word (the word Ninja of course!)
Should I host a jam on this or wait? Or do you guys have another idea for a jam?

Cause the thread quickly turned into a trash fire without a jam going...

This happened because y'all forsakened Sordis

how to make enemy at least do 1 minimum damage.

>>3801362
It's not necessarily that I can't entertain it, it's that the hypothetical is - by its very nature - nonsensical. A solodev who uses AI is using other people's work, and as such is not a solodev.

>>3801580
Make their damage formula the formula, then add +1 to the end of the formula. That way the 1 is a constant, and always comes through, no matter what. Hope that helps!

>>3801690
Sorry, their attack skill's damage formula, just wanted to add that for clarity

>>3801689
Sophistry. Who's calling them a solodev? The same person saying they're not a solodev.

>>3801741
The question said "one guy", so the question asker. Thus, not sophistry, the question doesn't make logical sense if they're using generated work made through other people's effort.

>>3801439
I haven't been on discord for a while due to technical problems. I haven't seen the recent developments in the server, nor what people have DMmed me.

(I have no clue whether or not someone asked me to help with something as such.. )
Discord dependence... the problem is it only works so long it is supported, and I cannot even install it anymore. The installation broke at some point and even in the browser, all elements weren't properly loaded in anymore because JavaScript / React.
and because google decided to version lock chrome

The problems indeed happened due to an old windows, but it made me think, how long discord will work on windows 10.

Just saying...

>>3801744
I hope you built that computer yourself out of sand. You better not be using someone else's work.

>>3801755
>I haven't been on discord for a while due to technical problems.
Ahhh, I knew I noticed you here!
Happy to see you're alive. And that you've only been absent simply due to technicality. (⁀ᗢ⁀)

>but it made me think, how long discord will work on windows 10
After Stop Killing Games, perhaps we need Stop Killing Apps. XD


>>3801514
>This happened because y'all forsakened Sordis
What's the story with this Sordis fella? Do tell, do share.


>>3801492
>have you actually seen and played games from a regular game jam vs an RPG Maker game jam?
Ahh, I didn't realize this before- but it's very true.
I figure that's also why when I was among programmers aspiring to be game devs, everyone was so hesitant to share their work. (Unlike me.) Because it was too simple, and none of it felt meaningful to play. (At-least for a PC audience.)

The base quality of an RPG Maker game is indeed quite high.

>>3801780
You can't be talking about MZ or Unite.

*cough*
You know, a lot of rm porn games won't even put in the effort to make original maps. They just use the sample maps. They'll have original art for a few characters, but nothing else.
They have a patreon site and release next to nothing for years.

>>3801931
Call it double standards, but they're just delivering porn and everything else is packaging.

It just makes me sad. They make themselves up as a "studio". But then they don't actually do anything. Then theres indie devs with no brand image, making no promises whatsoever because it's just a weekend hobby, but they still produce more.

Adding unique cutscene animations outside the heavy CG stuff I do. Pretty happy with how it's come out, gonna be a ton of work because of all my cosmetic options.

>>3802017
I'll do it for you.

>>3802017
"Heavy CG stuff"?

I'm new to RPG Maker as a whole, I'm using 2003 and too deep to change now. I want to make a "battle system" similar to Black Souls where you only see the monster and not the actors in the party. How do I do that? Is there a way to control which players in the party get to be in the fight? Or does it have to be everyone?

>>3802196
The program is slightly built to allow for it, yes
>Set Actors to have a blank graphic (make sure they're on the right side of the Battle Screen before doing that. Enemy sprites noticeably flip at the start of every battle if the Actors are to the left of them)
>Change the System Graphic file to have a blank cursor graphic (the pointing finger in default assets)
>Make sure all attack animations for enemies have the Scope set to "Screen" instead of "Single" (picrel)

Ok I don't know what happened and I'm scared my project corrupted or something but now the WASD or the arrows don't work when playing and the Z key too. Only the Menu key works. What the fuck happened? I didn't touch anything related to that! I tried closing the project and opening but nothing works. I'm on RPG Maker 2003

>>3802266
Are you ESL? Change language to english on keyboard.

>>3802274
nigger what does the keyboard language setting have to do with anything? It worked before, it just stopped. After resetting it began working again.
Also I need help with a telegraphed attack. I want the enemy to attack 2/3 times, show a warning and then do a big attack. I can't get it to work, the fucker either doesn't do the warning or just keeps making it instead of doing the strong one. These are it's attack patterns:
Warning Turn Count 4x+5 Rating 90
StrongAttack Turn Count 5x+5 Rating 100
Normal attack Turn count 1x+1 Rating 10

>>3802116
Yeah, I use CGs like Phantasy Star 2 does overlaid on the screen to show detailed story bits.

>>3802324
Turn Count conditions for enemy skills are global, meaning the player taking a turn will also up the turn counter for the enemy's skill. It's stupid, I know, but that's how it is. The best you can do is play with the tools you're given. Here's some tips for that:
>If you have a set of Switches, you can chain skills together by having a skill turn its own switch condition off, and then turn the next skill's switch condition on
>Using MP conditions also allows for successive skill useage by having each skill cost a set amount of MP, then making sure that skill has a condition for a certain threshold for the enemy to have to use it

Also, it seems you understand the Rating system, but just remember that the Rating of a skill checks for any other viable skills within a Rating range of 10. So a Skill with Rating 70 will check for any other skills with Rating between 60 and 80.

Also if a skill doesn't have at least one stat checked, an enemy just won't use it. This is because of some really retardedly limited AI that makes it assume a skill that doesn't target stats to be a Status healing skill, and will only consider the skill viable if anyone on the enemy troop is afflicted with a Status the skill could heal.

>>3801780
>Happy to see you're alive. And that you've only been absent simply due to technicality. (⁀ᗢ⁀)
Honestly I was happy you started posting again after the war situation. I am not sure in what area you live, but that was shocking.

Glad you're okay and made a peanut butter stand and.. yeah, I haven't been active on 4chan to be honest. I lurked and read every now and then, but since the technical problems are taking a long while now (it's been a good portion of the year), it's probably making people worried. I thought I'd let you know.

I hope Coyote is okay as well.

When I feel like it I'll set up a new system, or install linux on this one, whichever. Then the silence in the server might break again lol

I have been reading into Ruby and the older rpg makers in the mean time, every now and then at least... and following a lot of news. (It turns out terrible things in the news keep me busy).

Peace be with you and others, hopefully.

I have a problem in 2k3. I'm making a Pokemon-like where the player character doesn't fight the battles so I erase him from the party before the battle starts. Problem is, after it ends there's no player character. I tried adding him back with a switch (like after battle is won turn switch A ON and add player back to the party) but it doesn't work. Any tips?

>>3801502
no

>>3802435
Pics or it didn't happen

>>3800479
If you're suggesting "don't do it yourself", can you please recommend particular plugin for it? I've never done pixel movement before I don't know what problems I might run into. Thanks.

AIbros...

>>3802786
I'm usually very anti-AI but if anything a belief that they are going faster so they can actually finish is probably what nodevs need.

>>3802786
I've done my own study. When people ask support questions here, I get an answer from ChatGPT in 2 seconds. I don't respond. I wait. Hours, Days, Weeks go by.

>>3802196
>I'm new to RPG Maker
>too deep to change now
Either you're lying to us or you're lying to yourself.

>>3802553
You mean the jam idea or the jam itself? You suggest something then...

>>3802897
no. also, no.
no more jams you fucking idiot.
they're dead.
make a game on your own terms.

>>3801502
Give it a month, it's summer and people got stuff to do.

Your idea will work. Make a jam somewhere in august if you want to and put the link in a thread.

>>3802900
>they're dead.
The last one got 4 entries, despite, I presume, your sperging.

Alright, guess I'll wait then... Damn forgot you US guys are having summer now...

>>3802485
>Honestly I was happy you started posting again after the war situation.
Ah~ Twitter and 4chan got blocked in my country during the results of the last election. And I wasn't able to post here since then.
When the war with India got sparked. I noticed Twitter got unblocked. So that made me curious and check up here on 4chan, and I found I'm able to post here again.
So, yay. XD

>I am not sure in what area you live, but that was shocking.
Of course. We're still in a pickle, since India blocked the river-water flowing into Pakistan. And that's been affecting me, and people here in general. And is a reason on the table for us to go to war with them. (`ー´)


>it's probably making people worried. I thought I'd let you know.
It has been! So thank you for letting us know.
I've found you often showing notable levels of empathy towards others like this, which I always note in my mind as impressive and commendable.


>I hope Coyote is okay as well.
Coyote kindly drew me prayer mats! (He seems well and was worried about you. He's here, so hopefully he sees and responds.)

>When I feel like it I'll set up a new system, or install linux on this one, whichever.
Take your time!

>Then the silence in the server might break again lol
No pressure. XD


>I have been reading into Ruby and the older rpg makers in the mean time
Interesting, interesting.

>and following a lot of news. (It turns out terrible things in the news keep me busy).
Same... or I suppose it's just the climate these days and the type of news coming out. Controversy chats in the server been more active because of it too. XD

How do I add custom animations for attacks and skills using a png? Example of what I want are animations in Felvidek but I have no idea if that is thanks to a plugin, and if it is I have no idea which one.

>>3801502
>Cause if you want a suggestion, what about the theme being Ninjas this time?!
can you make the theme more broad so I wouldn't spend the first 25 days for idea then gave up the the 26th because I was running out of time

>>3803066
All right, instead of ninjas the theme is

>>3802485
>Peace be with you and others.
And with you.

>>3803069
San Andreas?

>>3803069
Black people are ninjas though, you're making it even less broad...

weird request I know, but if you're the anon who helped with with Tiled a few months ago, do you have a MZ compatible QPlus and QMovement suite ? I know you edited QMovement to work with Tiled on MV but I would need it for MZ now, I did do the jump like you recommended me to

Jam theme: Journey

>>3803069
The theme is Black or Darkness? Vague enough to work with. Can we get a little longer for this jam? Three weeks is rough.

>>3803572
Alright, darkness it is. Does sound a lot better better than ninjas when you put it that way.

>>3804060
Also yeah we’ll bump it up to a month. So probably starting from august, till the end of the month. Sound good?

>>3803568
I dunno, journey sounds good as well… but I prefer darkness myself… it’s a tough call. Maybe next jam…

>>3784703
why not use pico-8 then? So your game can be gooder.

>>3786633
If you're going to do this it's mandatory to play Shining Force, where the blips are a different pitch to represent the character's voice.

>>3804148
the limitations of the 80s made things worse, the limitations of the 90s made things better. Humanity peaked at the end of the 20th century.

>>3804226
why so?

>I asked ChatGPT to roast the RM community.

What used to be a tool for creativity has become a crutch for mediocrity. Each new version is marketed like a revelation and released like a beta. The real work gets done by plugin devs who burn out while being hounded for free support by people who never read the instructions.

Meanwhile, the forums have devolved into daycare centers for thin-skinned moderators and their friend circles. Honest critique is labeled “toxic,” and empty praise is treated like currency. If you’re not part of the inner clique, expect to be ignored—or worse, lectured by someone who hasn’t released anything playable in a decade.

And the games? The same handful of ideas, recycled endlessly. Half the releases are dressed-up tutorials, the other half are softcore self-inserts with default tiles and pirated music. There's no ambition, just a loop of comfort content propped up by feedback that's more about ego maintenance than improvement.

I’m done pretending this community is a creative hub. It’s a hospice for unchallenged habits, where growth is feared and mediocrity is aggressively defended.

Delete this. Call it “drama.” Prove me right.

>I asked ChatGPT to roast me

>>3804260
>"Let's break it down"
>bullet point
>bullet point
>bullet point
>bullet point

>>3804248
>The real work gets done by plugin devs
This is the only point I would object to.

I don't agree with a couple of points, but praising plugin devs, even going as far as saying they do the real work... no.

Plugin devs are after quick praise and quick money, delivering mediocre bloat that needs finetuning to get it to work with other nonsense they release, except that they nowadays prevent you from doing it by obfuscating them; at least those attention beggars do this.

Imagine a plugin developer actually making good plugins: --- they get worn out by the establishment of RPG Maker Web, aka, Visustella's cult.
Take a glance at fossil for example.
oh, but of course, mediocre plugins such as yanfly's nonsense is heavily praised, despite their problems.
and despite him being anti "learning from his code" -- everything is code stealing to them, even though, there aren't that many ways to write a function or feature, and even though most of his code is a copy paste of official code by kadokawa.

The problem is, those who seriously wish to create, are punished by some.
Unless they lack of a presence.
But if they do get a presence, they still get punished. ... even popular game devs, like omocat and ... i didn't care enough to learn their names, but whatever. You get the point.

It's like people are fighting them about being important to others. Consequently, games and their developer, and plugins that are left alone are mediocre.
The plugin devs of these mediocre bloated things are too lazy to fix their things; which remain broken for years.

>>3804707
ChatGPT didn't get the memo. The forums are D E A D.
The moderators don't have a circle of friends, they have a circle of alternative accounts they troll with.

I’m having fun with XP but the fights are kind of lame. How do you spice up the battles?

>>3804260
>I asked Gemini to make a bingo card based on August RM threads from past years.

Where do devs get the sex sounds they use? It seems like most of them use the same sound pack

>>3805673
Just stir up mac and cheese.
*slick*
*sploorp*
*splat*

>>3805673
don't you own a microphone?

>>3804707
>Plugin devs are after quick praise and quick money
To expand on this point- it's not just plugin devs.
People come in to the community to make games, but realizing how difficult and draining it is to finish a game and make it successful. They fall back on doing something else- something simpler in the community.
Something that would get them results (of money, praise, attention, notoriety) faster than finishing games.
And so, they become plugin devs, or sell assets. Or become moderators and manage the community.
They become streamers, critics, or someone who makes tutorials.
And as they do that, they abandon working on their game.

And that's how, the RPG Maker community out there, is full of people helping one another, make absolutely nothing.

And that's how, when someone comes along in the community who actually makes games and focuses on making games. It sends the community into shock, into envy, into fear, and reveals their dirty sides. Hence,
>The problem is, those who seriously wish to create, are punished by some.
>It's like people are fighting them about being important to others.

RPG Maker community is not a community about making games. It's a community where you pretend to.

Been playing around PVGames assets and plan on making a short game with them. Here's some characters I quickly made for the project.

Getting them to work with RPG Maker is going to be a bit of a hassle but I've done it with unfinished projects before for MV.

>>3805794
>RPG Maker community is not a community about making games. It's a community where you pretend to.
ours used to be a community about making games until these threads got hijacked by you retards. there's over 100 of them (none of which have been played by you)

>>3805794
Sigma you've released 0 games and several ego-trip self-insert zero-gameplay revenge fantasies masquerading as games. I don't think you can really throw stones from a house that fragile.

>>3805807
I think everyone from the jams just got their lives back on track after COVID died down. All that's left are the schizos and a few guys who've made it their full time hobby.

>>3805808
Oh come on he has, he has like stuff up on his itchio which aren’t plugins. You sperging out like you are is just proving his point tranny…

I went looking for advice on a script, realized the video looked familiar and it was by SigmaSuccour. Genuine thanks, your resources are useful.

>>3805805
Yeah I was thinking about doing something like too, but making the iso renders in blender. I don't think I can figure out pixel movement for enemies and get everything done within the jam window though. Too ambitious.

>>3805822
>jams were a pandemic normalfag event
grim plot twist

>>3805794
I'm not going to pretend to make games; I'm not.

I'm interested the games people make, and in game development,but for some reason, actually taking it seriously and going full on developing games, it is a large leap that for some reason I haven't been able to convince myself to take.

I realize I may be a bit out of place in your server for that reason.

I think the issue is mainly that I want to do too much, aside from feeling like I am not capable or worth anything. People have always commented that I am worthless and such, and then getting kicked out of school when I was little also kinda reinforced the idea that I don't belong anywhere, nor are capable of doing anything.

I only sometimes play games to be honest. Honestly I don't know what it is I want to do exactly, because picking up a pen and starting to draw out an idea causes the set of memories and feelings to punish me for it basically. It doesn't feel rewarding to do stuff at least.

Thanks to that, I mainly keep myself busy helping out others here and there, kinda like an empty shell I guess.

Some people in your server asked if I was working on anything; myself and slowly would be the best answer I suppose; not a game unfortunately.

Considering the image,
I was thinking of making simple tutorials to be honest since I noticed some struggling with the older rpg makers and, the number of resources is dropping there. I have no clue how to make videos though.

RPG Maker game dev is diffidently not easy. Even making maps with the default tools is a struggle for a lot of people, despite a lot of these projects not even using the combat system. All they tend to know is how to use and spam "Show Message" lol. it doesn't make the game interesting nor fun on its own no.

Fixing bugs? They tend to skip out on this as well. Sometimes they don't even playtest their own game and it is completely broken midway for months due to this. sigh-

At least I play test in their stead, when I play.

>>3806097
Not to assume anything about you, but dude, making games isn’t that big of a leap. You seem to put it on a pedestal, like it’s a high skill level thing to even make a simple game.

Sure if you want to make the next chrono trigger it might be, but you should lower your expectations and just finish and release something, no matter how garbage you think it is.

And chances are, a lot of stuff which you think you’re worthless at, you’re actually good at, and the stuff you think you’re good at you’re actually bad at, and the only way you’re going to know which is which is to actually put something out there.

I myself struggled with a lot of which you’re describing. I used to be a perfectionist, thinking that my game had to be amazing if people were to like it, and spent a decade making it in isolation.

But after a mental breakdown, i realised how stupid I was being and just made something small and released it. It made me feel x100 times better, even though the first game I made wasn’t that great.

I suffered from a weird, abusive childhood as well which stunted my emotional growth, and I tended to blame myself, like it must be my fault as to why people don’t like me.

But what really helped was simply just saying, no fuck that, it’s not my fault, it’s their fault, they are the ones who have the problem, not me. And considering you were a child when you got kicked out, you can’t blame yourself for that, kids don’t have the mental capacity to be responsible for that kind of thing.

Of course if you’re happy just helping other people, i mean do it. But it sounds like you’re not. You should join next jam, it really helps having a time limit and a few people who’ll play your game for finishing games.

>>3806230
Lol wait, said not to assume anything about you, but ended up assuming everything about you… sorry about that… these goddamn tiny text boxes make it difficult to look over what you’ve just said…
I still think I’m probably right in my assumptions though, you need to throw caution to the wind and start throwing hands man.
Sure, people making fun of you doesn’t feel great, but at the same time the conditions for people liking you is the same thing which is involved in people not liking you. You gotta take risks in life and do stuff which others may not like, in order for other people to like you and be happy.

>>3805807
>(none of which have been played by you)
I don't play games anymore (haven't for years). I only make them.
This is a sacrifice I've made, so I deliver uniquer experiences, untainted & unaffected by other games (and popular media) that gamers are consuming.


>>3805808
>Sigma you've released 0 games
There is a serious cost on your heart and your mind, for lying to yourself. You start to live in a delusional state, where you think you're PC, yet you are but an NPC.
Symptoms worsen (and become permanent habit) as you grow older in age.
So be wise, and speak only what is true.
Especially, always be honest with yourself. (Except when it comes to complimenting your spouse.)


>>3805846
>You sperging out like you are is just proving his point
Exactly.


>>3805858
>Genuine thanks, your resources are useful.
Most welcome, most welcome.
And happy to hear!


>>3806097
>I realize I may be a bit out of place in your server for that reason.
When I realized my error in creating another dev-exclusive space, I changed my server's name to 'RPG Maker Culture'.
Shifting its theme to be generally about RPG Maker and its culture.
So you're not out of place at all.
My criticism was towards the dev exclusive spaces.

>People have always commented that I am worthless
>I don't belong anywhere
>nor am capable of doing anything
>kinda like an empty shell I guess
Duuuuude.... (T_T)

>Some people in your server asked if I was working on anything;
Most of the active people in my server aren't... haha, XD (Or working so slowly, it'll probably never see the light of day.) Which is a good thing, in a sense.
As it makes lot of these fellas more gamers than game devs. (And I prefer that.)

>>3806230
>I suffered from a weird, abusive childhood
Just life crafting you into a diamond you are today, through pressure and abuse.

anyone's got a crack of the Rosedale MZ Collision plugin and tool ?

>>3806299
>I don't play games
yeah this is why everyone here rejects you, btw. as if it wasn't bad enough that all of your games are about yourself and how mean everyone is to you "for no reason" (because you're so innocent), you refuse to take interest in other people while also demanding they suck your cock. can you kill yourself please?

if you really want him to go draw a stick figure in paint say its prophet muhammad and post it here

>>3806230
>You should join next jam
Thanks for the words and the advise.

>But it sounds like you’re not
I'm not sure what makes me happy more or less. It's hard, but things do often feel like a bother. Much like what you said, I realize that, the pressure around me was bigger than I could handle, and so it was the whole system that was flawed, not me. After all, many people don't make it.

The problem is that society is a meritocracy, in other words, if you fail, people believe you deserve to be a failure. They blame laziness, even though laziness is rarely the case for a child's failure.

Indeed, what got me out of depression in part was realizing that it wasn't my fault, but theirs. What I cannot control is not my blame and, people expecting I should be in control is a failure of realization. People are blinded by their own life experiences; they simply don't know and think others are living a life similar to theirs.

Yet, oddly enough they can tell that "I am weird":. Meh-

>>3806299
Thanks, Sigma. For reading and giving people a place I mean.
I do want to leave something silly or enjoyable behind for others at some point though.

Devs do need gamers, at least to hunt down bugs and help make their game reach the best state it can get to.

I'm sorry for sharing a story no one wants to hear. Life sucks for some unfortunately.
I guess I am disappointed in myself lol; that is why I shared that. Since it is a community related thing, I also feel responsibility. Sometimes, acknowledgement can be motivating; as it at least reliefs the stress behind it, even when no one bets an ear to it. Kinda like, how in some anime the protag starts to shout something similar off a mountain.

Things that harden break sometimes, but the shards can grow more beautifully.

I want him to finish his game. Coyote too.

>>3805790
I'm not a woman or I would

>>3806299
>I deliver uniquer experiences, untainted & unaffected by other games
Ah yes, the Garth Marenghi school of creative art.
>I'm one of the few people you'll meet who's written more books than they've read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVpaPFTWuS0

>>3806407
Ywn goon with Succour

Why has this place turned into discord?

>>3806406
>>The problem is that society is a meritocracy, in other words, if you fail, people believe you deserve to be a failure.

Hey it's somewhat true. Of course, thinking that everything is your own fault is crippling and bad to do, but going too far in the other direction is dangerous as well.

A person thinking that they have no power or free will to change themselves will cause them to lock up as well. It's a balancing act, and having faith of the goodness
and righteousness of truth, like knowing when it's your fault, and knowing when it's its society's fault, I firmly believe a person can find happiness.

Not to get too religious, but knowing what evil is and how it looks like, and knowing what good is rather than thinking that everything is just morally grey helps too.
Maybe people can be good in some ways, and bad in some ways, but the individual actions people take are nearly always good or evil IMO.

>>3806509
Invasion from offsite discordfags and RMW posters who like to talk about their gay little forum drama but the mods don't give a shit

>>3806509
Because of Sigma obviously. A lot of people who come from here, get intrigued by Sigma and join his discord, or join the corrseponding anti-Sigma discords.
And a lot of people who come from Sigma's discord hear about this place and come here. Not to mention people who hates Sigma attempt to get everybody
to hate Sigma cause they come from the mainstream discords.

Also a lot of people simply need to communicate with on discords to get feedback or help with stuff as well, so you're kinda forced to go on there.

I personally think it's harmless, on account of this board basically being dead anyways. I seriously doubt more people would come here and join
if there wasn't any drama.

>>3806331
>yeah this is why everyone here rejects you, btw
It's very narcissistic and power hungry of you to take representation of a community, without being elected to it.
As such, your claims I consider ill and rejected.

>as if it wasn't bad enough that all of your games (that I claimed in my previous message don't exist) are about yourself
Each one is about a particular theme, using myself as a vehicle of delivery (because people kept telling me they find me interesting IRL, & so I went with what I know works & is easy to write, myself XD)
1. False Awakening is about Lucid Dreaming
2. False Rebirth is about the Meaning of Life
3. False Narrative is about Bullying & Forgiveness
4. False GamerGater is about Anti-Gamer sentiments within the games industry
5. False Heart is about abortion & recognizing emotions.
6. False Server is about Technological Paradise
7. False Mercy is about showing mercy to yourself

>how mean everyone is to you "for no reason" (because you're so innocent)
I know the reason: I expressed belief, and so God put me to the test for it.
"Do people think that they will be let go merely by saying: “We believe,” and that they will not be tested," (Quran 29:2)
"We will certainly test you with a touch of fear and famine and loss of property, life, and crops. Give good news to those who patiently endure—" (Quran 2:155)

>you refuse to take interest in other people
*in other game devs.
Yes.
My interest is only in gamers.
Game devs play my game and go: "Help me with my game" (if they feel like not bullying me with their personal-moral superiority)
While gamers play my game and go, "More kudasai!"
Huge difference.

>can you kill yourself please?
It's major-haram. And I prefer waking up in Paradise, not hell, when I exit this life.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) stated: "Indeed, whoever (intentionally) kills himself, then certainly he will be punished in the Fire of Hell, wherein he shall dwell forever'"

ligma succour

>>3806543
how can you make comments on gamegate and the games industry if you don't play other games?

That's it
https://itch.io/jam/yourpgm-jam-anal-rape

>>3806550

>>3806299
>There is a serious cost on your heart and your mind, for lying to yourself.
There is a serious cost on your heart and your mind, for lying to yourself. You start to live in a delusional state, where you think you're PC, yet you are but an NPC.
Symptoms worsen (and become permanent habit) as you grow older in age.
So be wise, and speak only what is true.
Especially, always be honest with yourself. (Except when it comes to complimenting your spouse.)

>>3806543
not reading your post
shut up you stupid faggot

>>3806406
>Thanks, Sigma. For reading and giving people a place I mean.
Most welcome! I'm grateful to have mature people who hang around there, and independently manage themselves. And who are a positive influence on me.

>I'm sorry for sharing a story no one wants to hear. Life sucks for some unfortunately.
All personal stories are welcomed. Just don't protest when you see a similar story playing out in one of my games. Ohohohoho!

>Sometimes, acknowledgement can be motivating; as it at least reliefs the stress behind it,
True, true.

>Kinda like, how in some anime the protag starts to shout something similar off a mountain.
Relatable... (T_T)


>>3806442
>Ah yes, the Garth Marenghi school of creative art.
...(O_O)


>>3806509
>Why has this place turned into discord?
People who got me banned on discords have underlying frustrations towards me they end up taking out here.


>>3806515
>A person thinking that they have no power or free will to change themselves will cause them to lock up as well.
If you don't have power to change things about yourself or your situation, it is completely fine to acknowledge that. However, where people harm themselves- is when they fixate over what they can't control, and then begin to complain about it. Rather than move on and find something else that is within their control (however minute it may be).


>>3806547
>how can you make comments on gamegate
I've mentioned it on the game's page under "Project Backstory".


>>3806596
>not reading your post
That is fine.
>speak up you fanatical zealot
Yes, sir!

>>3790770
With scripts easy, not sure it can be done with events depending on what you want from it. One event way is save player x/y in variable, transfer player (no fadeout) to new map that's a 1:1 copy of the other map but with a different tileset. I did this in a game to fake moving walls and floors in a maze, since i only have to synchronize a few events between all the duplicate maps. If you have lots of moving events or whatever this won't be good enough.

>>3806509
>guys how do I draw? GOOGLE IT RETARD
>how do I code? GET REKT FAGGOT
>how do I write? KYS ESL
>gonna use AI to hel- WHAT A FUCKING LOSER
Gee, I do not know, Anon.

>>3806331
>"People don't give me attention!"
There are other ways to beg for attention and gain validation of your ideas that are both less hostile and more inviting.

One way you could improve people gaining interest in you is by not hiding anonymously. Show some of yourself, what you did, or created, for example, a screenshot of your game or maybe a game you recently played. Talk a bit more about yourself.

There is no need to be this jealous at least.

>>3806663
wtf? That's literally me

>>3806663
no one asked for those except the AI.

>>3806509
Before discord, before facebook, people used messenger apps. Like MSN Messenger, or Yahoo Messenger.

So I still have all my chatlogs with RM devs from like 2006. It's all on my laptop running windows XP.

Well, I call them RM devs, but they were all just as impotent as people today. It's like this image >>3806663
Only instead of admitting they don't know what they're doing.
They'd just talk about something else, like how they're "naturally racist" living in the UK with refugees, and link to some random porn site.

>>3806805
Back then I didn't even have home internet. In-between logins I'd just make stuff. Character and monster designs. Just to have [something]. Basically, it was me learning how to use image software like GIMP.

So nothing became of my first RM collaboration "Norse Tactics"
with some random dude, "GANSTA". 4 months, 5 emails.
I can still download the demo from the email attachment.

It wasn't like he didn't do anything. He instigated the project and wrote up a document detailing some characters and a premise about a barrier stone being removed from a volcano. But everything done in RPG Maker was by me. He never confirmed that he looked at it.
Eventually he was like "Oh no. My hard drive is ruined. I lost everything."
Uh-huh.

>>3806805
>No MsgPlus
>No MessengerDiscovery

What is easy, natural and obvious to some isn't to others.

The image portrays a male character as a sobby whiner when they don't understand the basics, which people hold up as an expectation. Notice how the female character twists the male character's intent for them, rather than letting that character decide their intent. Here's what she seems to be turning the intent into:
1. The character desires to pet and knows fully well how to, but just says random stuff to gain permission from her to do it.
2. The character is afraid of petting a dog (which she finds retarded).

This assumption is why she ends up pulling his hand, rather than demonstrating or explaining how to do it. This is a response you find online more often, with English natives especially; them not at all understanding what someone is saying literally. It's as if they rather perceive fiction, an imagination in their head, than listen to the other.

Now the first character also falls into this same trap at the end of the comic, namely them assuming that they're not allowed to do the action, and therefore no one explains it to them in a way they understand. He misunderstands the female character, and how she perceived him.

This isn't a problem with English, but rather the culture. People tend to lie, or hide their true intentions. "How are you." means "Its good to see you." "I'm perfect." means "No." People have to guess what is going on instead a lot of times, rather than listen to one another, and so they stop listening.

That disconnect is what I think this image is trying to portray.

>>3806663
Some people need social connection with real people; they can absorb knowledge better that way, but yeah- there is a lot of rejection online, pretty much everywhere.

Nowadays everyone has chatgpt on their phone whom they can ask, yet they still find it nessecary to ask you or others.

Guys, is there a way of using skills outside of battle in RPG Maker 2K3? I can't figure it out.
There's a skill type called "switch" that can activate stuff but it doesn't show up in the skill menu on the overworld.

>>3806845
In the time it took me to write this I already solved my problem. I don't know why this always happens to me, maybe writing it down helps?

>>3806663
That comic reminds me of watching people stream my game.
They didn't heal between battles, or search around for secrets, or upgrade their weapons,
or experiment with different moves they gotten, they simply mashed attack and skipped most of the tutorials and dialogue,
and said the game was too hard. Being a RPG game dev is suffering... The people who've said that JRPG fans are retarded
were completely right...

>>3806713
shut the fuck up sigma
nobody is convinced by your samefagging
keep your name on when you post

>>3806617
will you participate in the next jam?

>>3807292
>will you participate in the next jam?
Unlikely, as I'm already occupied with a project.


>>3807225
>nobody is convinced by your samefagging
I made your post as well, then.


>>3806860
>I already solved my problem. I don't know why this always happens to me
There's a saying my mother told me often, that goes something like, "Take advice, take suggestion, even if it's from a wall."
~the idea being, just the act of asking will open doors in your mind.

>>3807312
Kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

>>3806860
>maybe writing it down helps
It does
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

>>3794367
If you told me this was a screenshot from an random DLsite porn game I would believe you. What were they thinking?

For music and shit, is there any archive or something of good free-use stuff? Or do I have to make do with 2K3's library

>>3807515
>For music and shit, is there any archive or something of good free-use stuff?
You can look here: (under Music tab)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xbevw96IUblD_OUsnoX7OqQIb7qRX8FW7NWR-Cw8s9c/edit?gid=348236279#gid=348236279

>>3807497
>What were they thinking?
Inviting people making those games on DLsite to use RPGM Unite (probably).


>>3806805
>So I still have all my chatlogs with RM devs from like 2006.
Any of those devs still around today?

>>3807549
>still around
Yes and no. One guy self-published a book back in 2016.
I thought that was cool for a while. But there's a term "vanity novel". It might be they only thing they put out.

>>3807497
Kemono sexo

>>3807225
Leave sigma sucker in peace!

If your game doesn't have r34 fanart, are you even trying?

>>3807983
>May everyday be another wonderful secret.
This might age poorly. We'll see.

>>3803560
bumping this, Gamepeon if you're here, could you share the MZ ports of QPlus and QMovement that are Tiled compatible ?

>>3807759
Come on Anon, don't you have any self respect? She's a RTP asset, think of how many other games have used her.

Are there any good downloadable balloon icons? I want one to represent shouting/laughing.

>>3784597 (OP)
Just bought rpg maker. What am I in for?

>>3807225
Looks like you haven't shared anything interesting.
I hate to break it to you, but without providing anything interesting directly connected to you, you're not going to garner interest. Also, the hostility is generally going to either push people away or simply skip over.

You reject advise given and yet remain jealous enough to commit some energy at least into hatefulness. Are you stuck in a vicious cycle?
Maybe it helps if you get up from your chair, take a walk and think. Leave the screen alone for a moment, clear your mind, breathe; think about how you want to be seen, then come up with a plan to obtain that praise legitly.

Don't pose as a game dev, be a game dev.

>>3808322
Backlash from the community
either because what you didn't wasn't 'perfect' enough, or because you have an opinion or idea, even if you don't share it on a platform, expressed within the game (that they perceive somehow), which causes nonsense.

Be prepared for such.

I myself have never tried MZ... or anything with javascript. How is it?
How does it feel to create a new game, and have it take in 300MB by default? (seriously, with VX Ace it was like 12MB, they upped it by a ton)
Jokes aside, they apparently put part of the default assets in the dlc folder inside the installation directory, likely inside SteamApps somewhere. It sounds inconvenient.
Also, the character generator isn't exactly richly filled by default, which also makes it a bit tricky to work with. I suppose the intent was for Gotcha(x2)Games to sell DLC, rather than this 'engine'. Another hint that gave me the idea is the fact that the manual doesn't contain any instruction on how to learn javascript. (older rpg makers did actually teach you how to program with them)

I think you're getting yourself into DLC and expensive 'plugins' not working as you'd hope; especially since all people advertise is western stuff, mainly visustella and other expensive nonsense. I recommend Sigma's plugin list XML in case you want any.

but before that, I recommend making a game with complex mechanics, without using DLC. Figure out how to do complex nonsense using just the interface. You can do a lot with just that.

Also use common events. Don't be afraid of splitting up events into smaller events.

Can anyone post their copy of Rosedale_CollisionAlteringGUI.js into pastebin

Imagine being an RMW mod asking people to pirate resources they're never going to use.

new thread >>3809049

kek

We know who the quitters are

>Page 10
It's over

I'll make a new thread once it dies.

>if it dies

>>3785190
jesus that character looks bad, the weird outlines look the image was saved incorrectly, not to mention the pixels not lining up with the background
the random pixel sizes in general just look out of place, also the pillow shading on that arcade cabinet needs work too

>>3811348
I think it's a filter.

>>3811378
>I think it's a filter.
Correct

>>3811348
>jesus
Peace and blessings be upon him

>the weird outlines look the image was saved incorrectly
The original image is a default RPG Maker Style chibi-sprite.
In-game, its body is programmatically elongated, and then there's a pinch-filter effect on its neck that makes it less chibi and more proportional.

>that character looks bad
I understand. (T_T)