Thread 3809049

Eric Edition

Previous: >>3784597

I've decided to use a third party ABS and modify it. I haven't decided if it's better to prune down the one that already has all the features or add them to the simpler one that lacks them but probably has less baggage.

Been working on making battlers for now. Here's a rough draft on how they look in the battle system, I'm going to end up using VisuStella's row system for optimal positioning which I still have to adjust.

>>3809147
looks dope

>>3809147
based

>>3809049 (OP)
Fellas, I managed to figure out how to make a pointer-based event in a custom event in RM2K and... it's sick? I'm sure it's unoptimized, but even still it gets a lot done in surprisingly few lines. It feels pretty rad, I'm excited to see if I can grow quite comfortable with this stuff.

>>3809313
Next you will go through some phases as you start trying to use pointers literally everywhere, including in things/ways you ought not to, but want to because it Really Feels Like You're Devving™.
From there, you will eventually play with Maniacs 2k3 for a bit and realize that it's the superior maker, and if you ever return to 2k the first thing you'll do is re-implement things like variable array handling (you can fake it with a pointer loop and a few variables to set the parameters) within the default 2k editor.

>>3809357
Nah, Maniacs Patch is for trannies.

For the anon that asked in the previous thread
Tiled + QMove + Isometric Movement in MZ
https://pastebin.com/DwE6dv2t
https://pastebin.com/4LR9iLnx
https://pastebin.com/x7JgbcTB
https://pastebin.com/Nt5SCSdg
https://pastebin.com/AutmHrqR

https://pastebin.com/zYMNgunR

Gaaaah! Been trying for a half day...
Couldn't get the walk-sprite to appear pixelated (not blurry) in the menu. (T_T)

>>3809147
why are you doing this to yourself

>>3809707
I don't follow lol

>>3809654
Although I am too lazy to learn javascript atm, so I cannot explain how to do it, but from what I do know, that the graphics rendering of any object doesn't change till after it is updated; and updating in ti scase mean redrawn; unloaded and put back up. The sprite object contains the rectangle and other settings to draw it in, so this too likely needs to be updated.

anyone got Visustella MZ 8 Waves plugins collection or any Visustell MZ plugins?
I'm a poorfag, ill pay for it when the game is done

>>3809634
BASED, THANK YOU SO MUCH

>>3809926
>The sprite object contains the rectangle and other settings to draw it in, so this too likely needs to be updated.
I shall note this, and see what I can manage. Thank you thank you.
I thought this would be easily achievable, and I can do this and skip having to make portraits for each character for the menu.
Since I was failing, I went back to doing that. XD And made and added in a new portrait.


>>3809914
>the absolute state of rpgm
Seems decent active and healthy.

>>3810008
It is in a parasite's best interests to delude itself into thinking its host active, and healthy.

>>3810174
All parasites don't think before doing, they just do.
>into thinking its host active
No clue what you said there.
its host 'is' active?
or it 'is' host active? (no clue what that is supposed to mean, but okay)

You know, if you make a typo or use incorrect grammar in rpg maker, you'll get a synthax error or two.

Another issue is, whom is the parasite supposed to be. I mean the first obvious candidate is the anon who posted the greentext about the absolute state, but it could be either anons that could replied to.

It could also be more random, and that you were thinking about parasites in general; maybe due to an RPG Maker project you're coming up with.

See this is why it is complete nonsense, and garbage to use high context and indirectness with English, especially on an internationally accessible channel, speaking to someone who lives no where close to an English speaking country and on a channel in part about game development where exactness is expected. What is this nonsense doing here as such?

You have to know your dumbass bubble language and contextbubble to understand you, and you're the only one who can compile your dumbfuckery. The fact you speak that way here tells me enough about how little time you spend using RPG Maker. I am guessing close to none, because you'll have realized almost immediately that you cannot use High Context at all, and figure out that being indirect is extremely insufficient and time consuming when programming. Try making common events and actually using them, maybe you'll understand what I mean.

inb4 'but AI'
You'll need a privately trained LLM transformer and it would probably still make mistakes.

>>3810251
autism (the bad kind)

>>3809914
i for one am glad these shit threads are finally dying
all that's left is sigma, sigma replying to himself, and clueless retards
sayonara you fucking morons

>>3810502
I've been wanting to post progress on my game, but I guess it's too late now if everyone's jumping ship.

>>3810502
... you're crawling back in a week. You always do.

>>3810503
post it in agdg

>>3810527
>going to /vg/
I trust it's not as bad as other threads there, but that's not my thing. I'm an RPG Maker autist at heart.

>>3810503
Truthfully, most of the anons from the past 5 years are probably still lurking this thread. Only exception is Auradev who probably owns a goddamn mansion now.

>>3810542
Retinacyst seems to be missing as well, it seems. Well, hope things work out with whatever she's doing now.

I'm still here!

>>3810542
I'm have comms so no dev work right now. Just came back to look at these threads.
It's just sad here compared to other dev threads.

I've added a feature to the Arcade, where when you restart, you will come back to the same position you were last standing in.
Characters in the False Arcade shall also remember the outfit you last put them in.
>Gif


>>3810174
>It is in a parasite's best interests to delude itself into thinking its host active, and healthy.
Noooooo...?
The parasite doesn't delude itself, it deludes its host that its feeding on.

>>3810251
>The fact you speak that way here tells me enough about how little time you spend using RPG Maker.
Check.


>>3810502
>all that's left is sigma
I can keep these threads alive and going.
I've dedicated myself to making games with RPG Maker MV and become the top most solo gamedev in the world.
And so, I'll be around. Progressing & posting.


>>3810503
>I've been wanting to post progress on my game, but I guess it's too late now if everyone's jumping ship.
Yaaay, less competition!
Can we start naming these 'Sigma RPG Maker Dev Thread"?

>>3810505
>... you're crawling back in a week. You always do.
Unfortunately...


>>3810542
>Only exception is Auradev who probably owns a goddamn mansion now.
If I get popular and famous and make a lot of money with game dev... am I also likely to abandon this place?


>>3810661
>I'm still here!
Anata wa dare desu ka, Anon-san?

>>3809634
Anyone knows what to do with the 6th one

>>3810503
Post in /v/ dev thread?

>>3810251
The post was gramatically correct, you are simply retarded. Either way, Sigma has ruined yet another board, so I'm out. Bye.

>>3811034
Bro malding

>itch is censoring games now
It's over

>>3810527
The fuck? See, this is how I know your probably a discord tranny tourist who has only come here to attack Sigma, have you ever been to agdg?

>>3810569
I don't think I've ever been consistent with posting on this website. I'm working on a project in 2k3 right now that's not an RPG so I don't post about it here.
>>3811140
Itch was convenient for the jams, but back in 2015 and before everyone just uploaded their games onto filesharing websites. If we ever do a jam again we can just catbox/MEGA our games and share them like that.

>>3811238
"Catbox size limit compliant" Jam? That would be funny.

>>3811241
MEGA has a higher filesize limit IIRC. I swear Catbox used to allow uploads the size of 1 GB. SISTER, which is the biggest 2k3 jam game IIRC, is only 100 MB uncompressed so maniacsfags don't have to worry much.

>>3811242
Catbox was always 200 wasn't it? It was Litterbox that provides a temporary/larger upload limit.

>>3811242
Forgot that Goburinbro uses RTP graphics, so I checked the filesize of Reo and Mono... ZIP Away! instead as that one has a lot of detailed and custom graphics. It's 164 MB but it also includes the RTP in the package.
>>3811244
For some reason I assumed they were the same limit, I just don't use permanent catbox often. Makes sense they wouldn't want a ton of abandoned never accessed 1 GB downloads flooding the site.

>>3811241
>"Catbox size limit compliant" Jam
2k/2k3 bros we are fucking winning...

>>3811252
Looked up MEGA's free size limit out of curiosity and this is more than an enough for the average MV dev.

>>3811025
that's for overriding functions for special collisions like ladders, slopes and stairs.

>>3811140
qrd?

>>3811479
Credit card companies called, coom content cancelled.

>>3811490
>andy and leyley removed
And that is a good thing.

>>3811474
Where do I put it in my project, adding all 5 of the other plugins give me some weird error messages saying "Cannot read property 'filename' of undefined" which I'm confused about

>>3811556(Me)
just to be clear, I get this error when hitting diagonals

>>3811558
You should be able to place the code into a plugin that's lower down in plugin the order.

Also can you press F12 when running and post the full console log for the error you're seeing?

>>3811545
>he thinks it's going to stop at "content he doesn't like"
everyone point and laugh at this retard

Recommend me rpg maker kino bros

>>3811596
there it is

>>3811646
Kino:
Mongol, Gutter, Unloved

Good Games:
>https://catbox.moe/c/jwrxup
Hat World

>>3811651
Comment out or remove the following code in the QMovement_MZ.js file

if(this._dragonbonesSpriteData.filename != "") {
Alias_Game_CharacterBase_setDirection.call(this, d);
}

you'll only need it if you're using the dragonbones plugin

Sorry to barge in but where is the non-RPG Maker dev thread? Did people just stop working on their games?

>>3811658
okay so this is... better ? now doing diagonals give me a different error message which reads "TypeError this.isOnStairs is not a function" and it looks like this

>>3811662
It's looking for the functions in this pastebin
https://pastebin.com/zYMNgunR

just copy them into Qmovement_MZ.js for now

>>3811703
They left up Big Ugly Pirates on Loli Island. This implies they played through the whole thing and saw there was no loli porn and you only -play- as lolicons.

>the founder of itch.io is related to spinelli
I don't know how to feel about this revelation.

>>3811703
>zero hit on me
I'm a failure as gamedev

Gooners being btfo about the itch situation is the best thing in the world. Now they can commit their lives to serving Allah.

>>3812082
What if gooning is what Allah wants?
You're going to wish they kept gooning when these guys wake up and start really competing.

>>3812096
allah wants you to make games about murdering your detractors with a sword because that's healthier than reflecting on why people think you're a jackass.

>>3812096
>Did you know?
The shape of the glans evolved to scoop out rival semen. At first, it doesn't make sense for the survival of the species to compete with itself. But the implication is that nature intended men to have group sex. Murder isn't necessary if you strive to come in last place.

Nice rpgm discussion

>>3812153
Understanding sex and the human condition is vitally important rpg maker. AI isn't going to do that for you.

Alternatively, you can become a furry degenerate with fetishes that will make people cock their heads, like "wait, what makes this sexual?"
And you'll say "BECAUSE I SAY SO!" and proceed to rabidly pound a bicycle pump.
*Chuff… chuff… chuff…chuff… chuff… PSSSSSSSSHT*

>>3809927
check the archive

>>3809224

Indeed, really good.

>>3812237
>Ai art fetishes be like...

They say if you want to be a novelist you should aim for 5000 words per day. But these days I think I'm posting half that, in unrelated social media posts, on a good day, when I feel chatty.

I should just make a whole game where characters don't talk. They just emote.
(▽)

I guess 4chan doesn't allow certain characters.

But it does Zalgo text. Or used to.
You can use Zalgo text and emojis in rpg maker too btw.

>>3812694
This would instantly improve the entire Golden Sun series if the dialogue was reduced down to the emotes the games love to spam anyway.

>>3812704
:)

I remember going through this crap 10 years ago. It was like tentacles "from the void" were ok. But not from the water because that's an animal. Then anything with animal features was a gray area. And fetishes are bullshit, when it comes to vampires and blood.
And don't get me started on "depictions of children". They're not participants, or even in the same scene, but existing in the work itself triggers people. So you can't have characters live a life. They exist purely for sex...because thats all that's allowed if they're going to exhibit a libdo.

>post sex pillow talk
"Remember when we were kids?"
"No. No flashbacks. We were never kids. If anyone asks, I'm a robot, and you born as an adult through mitosis."

I heard in China 2nd Person narrative is banned, because you never know when "you" might implicate a minor.

>>3812815
>scat and vomit on this list
Almost certain these are put on here to whistleblow that censorship will only creep up further with these "wins". I never see feminazis campaigning against poop and puke.

>>3812853
god forbid you make an rpg with generic villager background npcs and one of them happens to be a kid villager rather than an adult villager

You have to do it like morrowind and keep every kid off screen and no children mentioned in even text

Imagine if written novels had to live by these standards

>>3812905
It doesn't even sound like a viable interpretation.
People will stretch voyeurism to mean anything. You'd think it means a peeping tom, or one-sided mirror. That's "non consensual". But then you can have a consensual couple that would be embarrassed to learn, they were too loud and everyone can hear them. Maybe there's an open window. A shadow cast on a tent. They're exposed. That's also, technically, "non-consensual", but also potentially involving children and animals in an "adult situation", if only to use their innocence or ignorance for comedic effect.

Much as I love these threads, the mods should nuke this now. SigmaSuccour has ruined it for everyone.

>>3812815
The people that harrass payment processors want all forms of porn, nudity and sexualization gone. They want anime to be child friendly only. They will also harass and spam once they see things they simply don't like.
Aside this, these companies are instable... they can change the rules whenever they feel like or block even when they don't. This makes the payment services unreliable.

Just imagine you try to withdraw 500 dollar and you can't, for whatever reason. You call the bank and they say "we're out of money" (not really, they'll say 'there are technical difficulties or something vague')
and then you realize you cannot withdraw money for a week....

How do you think people react to instability on the financial market. Any unpredictability means people sell their stocks. Their own actions ruins their reputation far more than what collective should could do to these companies or any legal institution would fine them for.

They're done.
They have shown they're being arbitrary to the world, people will move away from credit cards with certainty. People want other options, alternatives, etc. Once they're there and easy to access, people will flock there immediately.

At any rate, it's stupid companies like Steam and Itch.io, who sell games, even listen to these clowns. Just abandon them. There are more options now than there were 10 years ago, and the usage of mastercard, paypal, visa etc, has declined. People opt for direct transactions and other things instead.

Hopefully there will be a platform for people to publish games payment processors don't like, such as the Coffin of Andy and LeyLey

>>3812956
>another gooner btfo
lol, lmao

You can worry about publishing your game after you make it.

>>3811703
I knew it will happen eventually, I'm just surprised it happened to The Love Tunnel and not Emsey 2 or Emsey 3 which are more eggregious in their breaking of the rules.

If none of your games got banned, were you even trying?

>>3812981
It was probably the name.

>>3812983
They still host the games, they're just delisted.

Writing a sex scene. What should my word count be?

>>3813032
Does the game have CG's to accompany the text? No more than 5-6 sentences per CG, about 60-80 words.

No CGs? 2-3 sentences for each phase transition and 5-10 sentences for the actual phases (no more than 5 phases). People seem to fit into 140-200 words per phase, unless you're Type-Moon or Nitro+ that can go for 300+ words.

Pretend I'm a virgin and didn't learn about phases in sex edu.

>>3812983
my games were never properly listed as adult/nsfw/18+ in the first place, anyone of any age or sensitivity might get exposed but they have to download and play them to find out

>>3813131
Some half demons lose their powers during certain phases of the moon. These are "type-moon". In contrast, werewolves only transform during full moons. They aren't demons, but the lycanthropy is basically an STD.

>>3813131
Do note that the following rarely happens word to word in reality and is an idealized take:

Roughly, main phases go like that:
Prelude -> Service -> Motions -> Climaxing-> Orgasm -> Aftermath

>Prelude
Hugs, Kisses, Love Talk, Flirting. Skip it in no CG (or at least make it mininal), this phase gets SO bloated with unnecessary sperging if you have no visuals to accompany it and becomes unnecessary with a couple of CGs.

>Service
Acts of sexual stimulation - frech kiss, BJ, roleplay, et c. Can transition into "toy play" phase but it's better to not include it unless the tone of your work is built around it.

>Motions
The act of sex. Assuming the pose, sexual motions, the appropriate sound effects library, the works. The increase of tempo of sexual motions is not needed as it's reserved for climax. Can be transitioned into sudden orgasm, then intermission phase (small talk), then repeating this phase if you NEED to stretch the sex scene but don't abuse it.

>Climax
The reaching of synchronized orgasm by both parties. Basically, the motion phase wrapping up in intensity where both parties increase the tempo of motions and approach orgasm. CAN be branched into "interruption" phase (the loss of climax due to clumsy move, accident, orgasm denial and such) and return to motions phase, but it seems to only work in either dom fetish works or amateur sex depictions.

>Orgasm
Speaks for itself. The finale of the sexual act. Nothing much to tell here as it's the phase describing emotional outburst and free flow of conciseness. Just don't go into metaphors or allegories, even pure interjections look more natural than those.

>Aftermath
Technically not part of the sex scenes but is usually portrayed with softcore depictions of nudity, (or hardcore ryona or guro if you're one of THOSE) even if crucial plot revelations are involved. May seem easily skippable (the west likes to do that a lot until recent years) but that act harms the pace more than it helps it, i think.

>>3813218
>vidya?
Wtf

>>3812956
>Then
Visa; everywhere you want to be.

>Now
Visa; e̴̞͔͆̈͝v̷͖̠̈́̍̇̏ë̴̢̻͕̘̀̚r̵̪͊y̵̻͖̺̳̕w̶̥̽̂̀ḥ̶̖̌̿̎è̵̯̫̂͘r̴̖̝̱̺̒̈̑e̸̞͍̟̊͜ you want to be.

>>3812957
I see, you expect people to goon to detroid: becoming human and GTA 5.
or you're not sure what these groups are targetting exactly...

Did you know that these feminists attack women who wear skirts for sexualizing themselves?

Do some research. It will affect you one way or the other, that is how far reaching their aim is and goals are. Have fun with a future filled with concord like products--- no, even that is too sexual and unchildfriendly for them

>>3813154
How would your audience find your game without tags?

>>3813358
They beg for it.

The rm audience is other rm devs.

>>3813560
Am I the parasite or the host?

>>3813560
Who makes the clown laugh?

>>3813603
>schizo-kun (who also makes the FF8 threads)
>onimaifag
>mother 3 schizo
>farquaad
/vrpg/ might just be cursed

>>3813603
You mean moderating?

I just finished my first rpg maker game in 2k3. Now I want to change the Icon of the executable and the intro graphic (the KADOKAWA one).
I know I have to use Resource Hacker but my question is, do I use it before or after creating the game installer?

And another thing, sorry if I'm asking too much questions but I honestly have no idea what I'm doing. How do I change the .exe name? The game has a proper name but it's executable hasn't. It's just RPG_RT

>>3813647
>>3813652
I finally got it and I used Enigma Virtual Box to make all the folders a single file. The issue now is no matter what I do, after executing the new .exe, the title of the window remains Untitled, when it should be the name of the game. It just looks very amateurish and I want to avoid that. Any tips?

>>3813647
>>3813652
>>3813659
Technically, from a end-user LOISENCE (lmao) perspective it's not actually permitted to change the Kadokawa intro graphic; but no one should ever reasonably sue you for changing a .png on a 20 year old software or give a shit that you made your game look more professional.
Regardless of if that concerns you or not, you should look into using "Easy RPG Player" because it's capable of doing the things you want it to, especially the "removal" of the Kadokawa logo and even the support of putting your own logo in the intro (by replacing the EasyRPG logo graphic if it's also annoying to you) It's capable of running rpg2000/2k3 games on multiple platforms.
It's also going to display the correct name on the window top bar, and fix a multitude of other bugs and errors within RPG Maker's programs.

>>3813666
>within RPG Maker's 2000/2003 game programs.

>>3813666
If what you're saying is true. Kadokawa cared to replace the Enterbrain logo with their own.

>>3813666
I'm not gonna sell the game or anything, just post it here and maybe on itch.io or whatever. How do I use this Easy RPG Player? I already have in my game everything I wanted (the custom intro and Icon). The only thing that bugs me is the fucking window name

Posted it on /v/ already but I'll leave it here. Feedback is appreciated, there's some weird bugs I coudln't replicate but I want to iron them out
https://supertuna64.itch.io/zygomoids

>>3814107
>WARNING: This Page Has Been Quarantined
>Our system has flagged this page for additional review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner.
Nani?!

Help how tf do i scale rpg maker mv on a higher resolution screen?? It's so small, nothing changes if I change the display scale in windows

>>3814190
what the fuck? why? How do I fix that?

>>3814190
Works on my machine.

>>3814190
I don't see the warning dude, downloaded the game just fine

>>3814205
>>3814239
t. crypto miner

>>3814265
if you fucking saw the game you'd know I'm too retarded to know how to cryptomine.
I want the warning off my game, anybody know how to do that?

>>3814291
>If I posted screenshots
>If I blogged the development process
>if it was an RPG
>if my profile wasn't 6 hours old

>>3814400
>A member registered 6 hours ago
>member
kek, you are right

>>3814400
>>3814403
maybe that was the thing that flagged it? The account age? Of course I had an account on itch.io already but I made one specifically for my first uploaded game, I didn't want it to be very personal. I'll try to upload screenshots and whatever but I literally finished "development" today and made the account to upload it

>>3813341
>uses feminist as a ragebait borderline term to denigrate
Ok yeah you're really mad about the ARTISTIC CONSERVATION angle. You just wanna see tits.

You can see tits for free. What do you REALLY want?
>In an RM game

>>3814547
context matters

>>3814580
The context: this is an rpg maker game dev thread.

I don't care for Compile Hearts strip tease battle "transformations", but I have a fondness for their glitch effects and death endings.

On map encounter. Time based or map re-enter based?

>>3814598
Based: Random encounters
Cringe: On map encounters

>>3814588
>I don't care for Compile Hearts strip tease battle "transformations"
then you're a sad sack of shit, simple as

>>3814547
I need emotional engagement with the tits to make my dick and brain interested. Gameplay or story or both please. Then show the tits.

https://metaverse-nightmare.neocities.org

I finished my game, now I just need the motivation to add a trailer and screenshot to the website. Once one moves onto the next project, it is pulling teeth to work on the old project.

> I wish I had the time and skill to make art assets

>>3814817
>no screenshots
>no video
>but still buttons for both
Bro I cannot be bothered to play your shit rpg if you can't even be bothered to remove non functioning buttons from your website. Get to fuck.

>>3814817
John Nintendo is rolling in his grave right now.

My game had it's first couple of gametesters and I've come across a new problem. Some of them have modern monitors with faster refresh rate, so for them the game sometimes runs at x1.5 speed. How do I cap the fps of an RPG 2K3 game? I can only find MV or MZ plugins

>>3814894
My bad. Sorry you’re so angry

>>3814898
Nintendo lost my respect for the Switch 2 and all Kirby games are garbage now anyways. However Sakurai is a gift.

>>3814976
People have told me that RPG_RT runs at 60 fps but that's false. My friend with a newer monitor rums the game at 120 fps. How can I fix that?

>>3814984
It’s fixed now, brother

>>3814984
"Sorry you're so angry", where do you think you are.

>>3815014
>where are we
Japinko, the 53nlrd state, just digital and with stereo sound.

>>3815042
That was mean, I'm sorry. Send feedback to Sigmasuccour.

Why do people sell RPG Maker MZ plugins that feature things achievable with like, one or two lines worth of javascript edits, for 12 euroes on itch io?

What you're also buying:
- Being stuck on their terms
- A risk that they may take down your project
- Obfuscation
- Dependency on them for fixing issues with it.

What you could do instead:
... its a one or two line edit. In case you don't know how to work with the plugin system, just edit the dumb files
Ask AI to vibe-code it for you. No you don't need to know code to vibe code javascript

Recently, someone thought it was worth 12 euroes to sell a Character Graphic update script, reacting to equipment equipped. (Allowing you to see what you actually equip)
upon equipping of course.. in other words:
All they did was edit: Scene_Equip.prototype.onItemOk = function()
In fact you can just add a common event there and handle it from within the game.

I don't see how it is worth 12 euroes. People pay for it due to lack of know how, which I find abusive.

>>3815516
If people stopped selling useless shit to retards the global economy would collapse within a day. Taking advantage of people who are dumb/lazy is just how the world works.

How do you guys go about making a city/capital in your game? do you have any specific idea on how big it should be and what's too much?

>>3815550
I mainly think of it as a hub. Inn, Shops, maybe transportation if it's a port or station.

For dungeon crawlers it's basically Floor 0, right?

For globe trotting JRPGs, they can have narrative importance, like an endangered innocent to motivate characters, but it requires some setting up to communicate exactly what make a place special.

The village of beginning is special because it's home of Mom & Dad or whatever.

A mining town is special in that it's fleeting. Most RPGs don't acknowledge that reality. It's not meant to last generations. They expect to exhaust the resources and relocate someday.

That contrasts with forest towns and Elf folk that, for whatever reason, can't leave the woods. Maybe it's part of their life cycle, or they have a werewolf curse and need a hunting ground.
Deforestation and ecological crises should only happen because of industrialization. On the other hand, you can also point out the forest only exists because of apex predators like wolves. Because they eat the elk and the beavers that would thin and strip the forest.

Boarding the wilderness are farms and vineyards. See: Village of Beginning. They're a little more permanent. But they tend to burn down or get sodomized by orc cock.

Then you have desert towns. These only exist because of trade routes. It's pure civilization. So naturally, slaves, drugs, and sex trafficking are it's dark heart. They don't have anything of value except a system of distribution.

Boarding these are libraries, monasteries, academies, that are like farms but for social order. This could include cults and empires. Touching a different kind a wilderness that are lost or forgotten civilizations that fell because of dysfunctional class and meritocracy, a plague, a dragon, some runaway alchemical experiment.

Does anyone have the mana seed assets to share? They're too expensive and I'll buy them eventually, but I'd like to start mapping right now.

>>3815822
but it's not built to RPG Maker specs.

>>3816024
I've using the free samples and they all fit except for the character sprites. I solved that by using a plugin, though.

I think I'm in the minority here, but I love the look of the RM2K tileset. It's just right - cartoonish but detailed, with a bright and cute colour scheme. It's really nicely consistent and pleasing to look at.

Of course, a few tilemaps can only go so far. Has anyone ever encountered some custom mapsets that look perfectly like extensions of the RM2K base assets?

>>3816272
https://w.atwiki.jp/viprpg_sozai/pages/47.html
Some of these fit.

>>3816309
Definitely not all of them, but you know what? That's still a very respectable spread. Thank you!

Hey guys, I made the 21st (You) RPGM game Jam. Please join!

The theme is Darkness, and you get approximately the month of August to create your game.
The theme as always could be interpreted in any number of ways, either from creatures which inhabit the dark,
demons, the colour black, or the darkness in people's hearts... It's up to you!

https://itch.io/jam/yourpgm-gamejam-21

>>3817239
I want to join, but the ideas I've tried have all been dead ends so I'm not confident I'll get it done. I'll decide within the week if I join.

>>3817239
The game I've been working on fits everything you listed but I've been working on it for awhile. I will probably end up eclipsing the jam and possibly the next with how long it's taking too.

>>3817241
>>3817277
Awwwwww, come on guys, I don’t wanna be the only person who joins ;_;
Just like make something quick, easy and shitty, it doesn’t have to be amazing… I don’t wanna be alone…
Also, that chick looks like she is packing a massive boner, looks awesome! Can’t wait to see the game they are in!

>>3817277
This looks cool, could you do a vertical slice of it for the jam instead?

>>3817283
I had a fortnight of free to slam into the last jam with no restraint, I don't have that this time. Stock RTP, unedited third party scripts, it will be low effort unless I have a breakthrough. There's a few things I want to try out and if they go well I'll commit and cut whatever corners are left.

>>3817239
>The only requirements is that you frequent the /vrpg/ threads...
That has never been a rule before though...

>>3817302
who cares, we've never had randoms join jams anyway

LET'S
FUCKING
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>3817302
Just lie about it lol, no one’s gonna know…

>>3817283
>Also, that chick looks like she is packing a massive boner, looks awesome! Can’t wait to see the game they are in!
Thank you, it's a cannon attached to her arm (it replaces her forearm and hand). I should draw her as a futa one day, though.
>>3817297
>This looks cool, could you do a vertical slice of it for the jam instead?
Thank you, but probably not. I've finished a lot of the latter half of the game and a vertical slice would look like one stage and boss fight and a cutscene that makes no sense as opposed to six stages and boss fights and a dozen cutscenes that make no sense.

>>3817303
>he doesn't know about pupkid

Coyote says he's not joining.

>>3817239
>30-day jam
Well, I might be actually able to make something. MIGHT.

>>3817407
Coyote's the worst developer in the world so not even really a loss

>guys is there a place where we can find free plugins
Why don't we just...make one? Also holy, this place is dying.

>>3817562
Today I learned "pro" in pro-shipping means "problematic"

>Maniacs Patch introduced Self Switches and Variables
>They're completely busted and nobody can use them
>Dev keeps dismissing it by saying "It's all working fine on my end"
Right when it was going to be perfect, it's all over. 2k3 devs are just forever stuck reserving 1000 switches to the most banal shit huh?

>>3817563
you'd have to deal with the rpg maker forums yakuzas if they found out
>>3817657
it actually does just means pro-shipping, as in ship whatever you want regardless of the content but people who don't like that claim the pro stands for problematic. the more you know

>>3817662
I don't get what all the crying is about when you have 9999 switches in stock 2k/3 (and can access "practically infinite" switches via variables+external tools to specify them), a practically infinite amount in Maniacs, multiple ways to store and restore switch and variable states if you truly get desperate. Self-Switches and Self-Variables are a meme feature compared to something that's actually useful like calling events by name in a string variable (has this even been implemented yet? I've been avoiding updating to the latest maniacs patch because new major releases are always bug central for a few weeks).

I can vaguely recall seeing a way to create homebrew self-switches in stock 2k3, but of course the thread on it was hosted on rpgmaker.net.

>>3817703
The newest version up on github has an issue with variable names sometimes disappearing when you close out of the editor, which is pretty annoying. At least the new features are nice.

>>3817703
>you have 9999 switches in stock 2k/3
That's fine, but I'm a scatterbrained autist who simultaneously wants the freedom to use any switch I want, and have them cleanly organised so I'm not searching for switches/variables with wild differences in IDs. Self-Switches/Variables stop me from going crazy by letting me put a lot of one-time use clutter into a spot where it can be out of sight, and out of mind. I would even accept a way to auto-reassign all instances of a variable used in a project.

>has this even been implemented yet?
Yes but only for Common Events right now (picrel). They've also added return values for the End Event Processing command (with an arg toggle you can see in picrel too), though it's barely a space saver. Definitely hold back on updating until the Self-Variables get fixed, the latest version randomly crashes with no error handler.

>>3817710
Consider that a reasonably large game like Final Fantasy VI uses
>511 switches for treasure chests
>1791 switches for everything else
I get wanting to stay organized and "use whatever" but some positively massive-ass games barely use a fraction of what you're allotted in even the most basic RPG Maker versions.

>>3817724
I agree, it's legitimately just an issue for me. I've taken way longer than I should when building stuff because I'm an overthinker constantly worrying about the balance between having large gaps between allotted groups of categorised switches(so much scrolling), making gaps between individual switches(ugly) just in case I want to insert something in an earlier part of the list, and whether or not the scope creep will make those sections overlap and fuck up everything(nightmare). Anything that can help me brush off that uncertainty is a great comfort for my deer-in-the-headlights ass.

>>3817657
Succour is somekind of tulpa-sister-ghost, and coyote is -idk- an AI crash test dummy. How did they meet?

>>3817707
>I can vaguely recall seeing a way to create homebrew self-switches in stock 2k3, but of course the thread on it was hosted on rpgmaker.net.

Wayback machine to the rescue:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210117214659/http://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/2614/

For the sake of not repeating the same mistake rpgmaker net did, i will repeat the information here:

tl;dr Dummy heroes which get given dummy skills, acting as the "on" status for the "self switch"

Instruction:
- Create dummy skills that are named according to where/what they're supposed to be.
- Create a dummy hero that will eventually be used to hold those skills. Make sure this dummy hero never appears anywhere, can not join the party, etc. It's purely a holder for database states, so name it properly as well.
- _IF_ the dummy hero DOES have the skill, then the event code for the chest or locked door or NPC will return a negative answer; "Empty" /"Locked" /"Fuck-off" /etc
- _ELSE_ the dummy hero clearly does not have the skill usable to them, so the event has not been activated yet. So the event is activated and the dummy skill is given to the dummy hero, while the real items are given to the playable character, or the door swings open, or the NPC responds positively.

>>3817770
Somewhere between peanut butter and lasertag

>>3809049 (OP)
I want to get into rpg maker, which version should I use? I already have MZ, but I can get another one.

>>3817863
2k3

>>3817863
run while you can

>>3817862
When are we getting another False Arcade update? It feels like it's been a year.

>>3817940
I can't say. I'm completely incapable of motivating people. Don't expect me to lead by example.

>>3817863
VX Ace

just as many addons as MZ or MV, but they're almost all free

There was another Harold jam last month. Funny you guys never mentioned it.

>>3818233
How old are you?

>>3818271
Are you a registered sex offender?

>>3817863
Why tho? It's objectively worse than any other engine. I worked with vx ace, until I tried unreal. There's no reason to work with rpg maker for anything. Literally waste of time.

>>3818133
Do it yourself.

>>3818434
I already have a personalized test project that can load other projects. Technically I was using it to edit save files.

>>3818233
why would anybody here give a single fuck about that

>In this house, we're team Aluxes.
Lol, I don't even know the default actors for Unite, or WITH.

>>3818319
You sound like a nigger in a pink diaper.

>>3817772
Every time I think this place is a wasteland and I'm ready to stop lurking, one of you knuckleheads draws something really interesting to my attention. I'm intrigued by this idea, though I'm wondering if it's just trading in annoying clutter in one place (switches) for another (skills.)

>>3818573
Neither does ChatGPT.

>>3818577
That's called psychological projection. If you are in need of help, don't give up! Get professional help.

>>3818582
It is basically pushing clutter elsewhere, but it is still technically cleaner than having 300 switches since you can consolidate as many "switches" as you want into one actor. So you could have 1 actor per 10 chests, and now 100 switches becomes 10 actors and 10 skills.

Newfag questions:
Can MV only use those awful chibi sprites?
Can you make something large and maybe fully proportioned instead, or do the sprites strictly have to stay within some limited dimensions?

>>3818588
I don't understand. Use self-switches.

>>3818588
There are lots of roundabout ways to deal with this stuff, but at the end of the day you're better off following the advice seen in >>3817724 and just using regular switches like you're supposed to, since it is extremely unlikely that you will ever use more than the editor provides. If you ARE somehow doing this, then you have most likely done something wrong and should rethink whatever it is you're trying to make.
I would sooner advise repurposing variables and packing/unpacking them than using a dummy actor to track chests. This is STILL a dumb idea and has real, valid uses elsewhere...
Example:
>Variables in stock RPG Maker 2000 can hold 6 digit places, stock 2k3 can hold 7 digit places
>therefore you can imagine a variable with a value of "1" actually being more akin to "000001" in stock 2k
>through division and modulus you can "unpack" these values to other individual temporary variables/switches upon entering a given map, then through multiplication and addition "pack" them back into a singular variable
But again... I stress that you should just use switches since that is literally what they are there for.

>>3818585
WITH actors spell out r.p.g.m.a.k.e.r.
Reynolds, Pamela, Gordon, Matilda, Alfred, Kiara, Edward, Rita.

I don't think Unite has actor presets outside of a sample project.
But promotional and tutorial screenshots in English and Japanese show the names:
Craft, Miguel,Sharon,Clarisse. An actual order might exist spelling something out. But I haven't found a screenshot or video stream that shows an expanded Actors tab.

>>3818652
Found a tutorial video. Not sure if this is official.
Craft, Miguel, Sharon, Clarisse, Michelle, Celio, Glorianos, Vanessa, Rengnar, Snare, Gen, Kai, Aifred, Kayleigh

>>3818608
Agreed, using switches itself is just less headache. I still just struggle with knowing where to put them in the switch array though, because I hate the idea of needing to put something 3000 IDs down just to have them in a reliable place where they have breathing room to expand, because what if there's something else that I want to add that could potentially get in the way? What if I want switches to be organised by the order you're supposed to be able to access whatever's tied to the switch? What if I want to add something new in an earlier part and now Switches 1, 2, 3, 4, and 89 are all technically grouped together? It drives a man crazy.

>>3818656
Probably not official. I saw "Rosemary" for the dark skin knight character. Vibrato's SV-Battler pack names them like "Actor1-1" and "Actor1-3" even though Unite doesn't really have "sheets" for this naming convention to make sense; everything is its own file!

You can spend a lifetime making maps and there is still a ton to fix.

>>3818592
you can do whatever you want but you're on a grid of 48x48 tiles so if you go outside that footprint your characters might look silly, forcing you to go further off the default with pixel movement etc

Same as all rpgmakers

>>3817239
The final hail mary idea worked, so I'm tentatively in.

pad>>3818846
Not sure what's happening here but I bet it's pretty cool!

>>3818914
parallax mapping via 3d mesh->depthmap->AI sloppa instead of tilesets and photoshop

>>3818736
If youre retarded, yes

>>3819095
Memellax mapping is the RPG Maker equivalent of HD-2D slop. Everyone thinks they want it, but it's ugly and a waste of time that could have been devoted to actually making the games better.

>>3818736
Mapping sucks. Entire reason I stopped making games. Absolutely miserable and boring every single time.

>>3818736
Looking good

Which one of you broke 4chan?

>>3819095
Are you using the depthmap as a ControlNet?

>>3819247
Yes. Make a 17x13 grid in blender (or whatever dimensions match your map), extrude the faces for your elevators, use an orthographic projection camera at a slight angle and capture a depth map, then use it as input for a depth controlnet.

Style between gens is all over the place but I think I can work it out.

My ADHD hit me like a truck these past few months, so the small game I wanted to make this year hasn't gone anywhere since I have no idea what to do with it both narratively and gameplay wise. I'd go get diagnosed and get the damn medication already but I'm sadly not in the position to do so ATM. Are there any over-the-counter stuff I should try? I've been thinking of taking more iron supplements but who knows how long it'll take for it to actually take effect, because I REALLY just want to work on my game.

>>3819401
Stop making excuse

>>3819437
I didn't know you posted on /vrpg/, mom!

>>3819401
I tried nicotine gum during covid for productivity, I won't bother explaining the science. I don't think it helped.

What does work is writing groups. You want people that WANT to read your shit. People who will message you unsolicited like "Gimme! Gimme!"

They say "know your audience", but I think the key is to "have an audience". But since there's a social aspect to it, I don't know if it works for people on the spectrum. Sorry.

>>3817770
She evolved into an egregore. Succour jam when?

>>3820083
It was over a year ago I generated Succour as a ninja. 'Cause we talked about doing a ninja jam then but never did.

I remember discussing anime inspirations from Once Piece, Full-Metal Alchemist, Bleach, and Naruto.

Succour is channeling a lot of Karin vibes from Naruto. Based on her abilities she was meant to be used a certain way. But perhaps because the show progressed and changed direction, bloating with 500 bajillion filler episodes, she fell through the cracks. There's a lot of fan theories that breakdown the lack of character development, and analyzing inconsistent filler moments that were probably trying to salvage abandoned plot threads.

She had healing chakra, as well as this chakra chain technique. In retrospect she was designed as the perfect tool to capture the biju, the tailed beast chakra monsters like the fox inside Naruto. Using herself as bait. She was from the Uzumaki Clan, which was Naruto's Mother's side.
Naruto's father had a teleport ability. I don't remember if it was around the same time or not, but Sigmasuccour was showcasing this teleport movement; I think it was used in False GamerGater.
Anyways, Karin ended up becoming this washout mary-sue with a dead mother, and motivations that don't exactly add-up.

Ninjas are supposed to be elite assassins trained to kill and follow orders from childhood. And their childhood trauma is the source of all the drama.

Whenever you watch a movie about dogs or wolves you know they're going to died. And whenever you watch a movie about ninja BFFs you know their final test will be to kill each other.
A common convention is to pair up a cold-hearted kill with someone with an actual ice powers. Someone trained not to feel, vs someone who can't feel anything because they're numb.

Ironically "ice" is used to sooth pain. And maybe, behind the ninja's vacant expression is a heart that feels everything.

In James Cameron's Dark Angel, the main character was a genetically engineered super soldier, she escaped from a training facility as a child by holding her breath under a frozen lake.
Then she grows up in a post-apocalyptic Seattle, in hiding. Searching for others that escaped with her, and run from more that are hunting her down. She hooks up with a hacker/journalist called "Eyes Only"

As a "transgenic", her blood also makes her a universal donor. In the unproduced 3rd season, her DNA was also coded with an antivirus to save the world from a viral pandemic.

I'm not saying everyone is copying everyone else. I think there are strange attractors in language that give stories these familiar forms. It's just the function of irony to twist walking death into a savior.

So if you haven't implemented a ninja class into your database, here's the basic ideas.

High resistance to ice and poison. And/Or high vitality and regenerative capabilities.

They generally have high speed and evasion, and run around in light armor. High accuracy is a must for ranged weapons, like throwing stars and darts. Escape skills.
Rpg maker has a Target Rate parameter; ninjas are associated with stealth, but I would give this trait to their equipment as camouflage.

Head Gear:
Headbands, Masks, Cowls, Visors

Body:
Gi, Shroud, Mesh, or netting (for sound reduction)

Feet:
Tabi, sandals, anklets (increasing movement, jumping, or fall damage reduction)

Weapons:
Shuriken (throwing stars), Blowgun, Tekko-Kagi (Claws, backhand hooks), smoke bombs, Kusarigama (chain sickle), Wakizashi (short one-handed blade)
Steel Wire or Boomerangs are uncommon but not unexpected.

Skills might be called
"Martial Arts" or "Ninjutsu". The use of scrolls is inspired by the Chinese Wuxia and onmyōdō aka yin-yang sorcery.
The most common technique in pop culture is cloning or after-image illusion.
As well as a shadow binding technique, paralysing a person by pinning their shadow with kunai.

You can call kunai "throwing weapons" but they're really more of a multi-tool for cutting and climbing. You tie stuff to kunai, like messages and bombs.

Personally, I wouldn't give katanas or straw hats to ninjas because it's more iconic to samurai. And it would be prudent to keep class playstyles distinguished.

Since the jam theme is "darkness", I'm on the fence about swords disguised as umbrellas, walking canes, or boat oars. Deception is more of a ninja art. But there's also a warrior pride in staying armed at all times, as well as putting the "art" in "martial arts."

>>3820424
then again, "Assassin" is more universal. So you can have maids and butlers carving people up with knives and spiking the tea.

>>3820449
I wouldn't trust that teapot.

>>3820373
What the hell are you talking about and what does this have to do with making rpgmaker games

>>3820476
The current jam theme was chosen in association with ninjas.
So what can you do with ninjas? Apply status effects like Poison, Paralysis, or Blind.
Unless you're using MZ, then the "darkness" state is actually window curtains.

Curtains aren't just for decoration, they're meant to darken a room by blocking the light coming through the window.

Without sunlight, the parasitic Sweet Baby plants can't produce photosynthesis, rendering them ineffective narrative consultants.

>>3820498
That's the problem with Ninjas, their playstyle isn't that different from thieves.
Batman is something of a noble ninja. His son Damian (Robin) is the grandson of Ra's al Ghul, leader of the League of Assassins. Sometimes called League of Shadows, sometimes split with a second leader called "sensei" who goes "insane". He loses his objectivity and tries to make assination a performance art. Damian, being raised by assassins, struggles with crime fighting because it would be so easy to solve problems as an executioner.

Ninja characters tend to have some screws loose because of their traumatic backstories. You'd have trust issues too if your friends and family tried to murder you in your sleep.

"Executioner" is another fun name for an assassin with a license to kill.

Sakura was the ninja actor released with MV Trinity.
I always thought she resembled Menou in The Executioner and Her Way of Life. Menou basically had a duty to execute any isekai'd otherworlder before they become too OP and cause problems for the world.

Definitely a sign that the isekai genre was getting out of hand. And the biggest problem with isekai is that the stories never end!
However, as of March this year (2025), the light novel concluded with a simultaneous release of vol 10 & 11.

>>3820532
Vol 11 is titled Kāten Kōru (―カーテン・コール―) a transliteration of "Curtain Call"

That's a good one. I'm writing that down.

>>3820534
Nigger write this shit in your diary instead of spamming the thread

>>3820532
Nigga's name is Carol

>>3820549
Dear diary. Instead of reporting shitposters that never contribute I decided to show mercy and indulge their whims as it will surely bring them more misery.

Just think. If you post like this every day, you could reach a 50,000 wordcount in month.

An RPG doesn't even need to be 50,000 words. Rpg Maker projects tend to average around 30,000 words. That's including database names and descriptions.

Final Fantasy 2 is like 14,000 words.
Pokemon Red on the GBA is around 40,000 words, I think that includes Pokedex entries.
You can find and read game transcripts on GameFAQ. Although the count can be skewed depending on how they're formatted. Some like to add descriptive actions. But you might as well include that in your writing process and overshoot your writing goal.

How many NPCs do you suppose most RPGs have? A rough estimate per town.

>>3820532
>The Executioner and Her Way of Life

The localized title is so generic and lame, "Virgin Road" is much more memorable. Carried by the fake out first episode, ruined by being yurishit

Does anyone have Final Fantasy Legend of Balance anywhere? The game has a page on the RPG maker.net archive but the actual game itself isnt on there to download.

>>3820776
Bro your WaybackMachine-fu?
>game page
https://web.archive.org/web/20151001064018/http://rpgmaker.net/games/7777
>download link
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=3667DCE8BA0B7FB6!146&authkey=!APHLmOEpgP9hZfs&ithint=file,rar

>>3819196
Each their own. I love making maps. I finished my rpg, but I miss the days of going through many designs before finally reaching the one that perfectly fits

>>3818736
I feel like the map (not players) needs more contrast. The shadows aren’t black

>>3820869
Thanks alot man, you're a life saver.

>>3820967
The real Legend of Balance was the internet archives we made along the way.

Speaking of archives. Does the Succour porn game exist or not?

>>3820532
>concluded
That makes my day. More people should finish their stuff.

So what's that about a Succour game jam? I'd join unironically.

>>3821602
... why and how would you join a jam where only Sigma can participate?

>>3821625
Oh no, I thought the jam's theme or organizer would be Succour.

>maniacs documentation is so shit most people don't know you can do logical operators with conditional branches using this ` before a variable or switch in tpc
>The convenience of using || feels so good after so many times I spaghetti'd my way through eventing

>>3821658
Don't think of the documentation as shit. Think of it as a modestly effective self-keeping gate.

I'm tryna make Denzel (the black chap) seem more casually strong through the early game so I'm adding little moments where he succeeds by being a lunk. Feels like little moments like this really help.

>>3821625
If you're serious about being a game developer, you got to accept what "fans" will do with your characters.

How was your first week?
https://itch.io/jam/yourpgm-gamejam-21

>>3821626
I'd rather see sigma participate in a jam instead of blogging in the thread or even organizing

>>3821825
I thought you were set to finish this months ago.

>>3822113
The top is inaccurate but only because it doesn't represent the man as a beautiful bishonen/shota/femboy.

>>3821825
>Nigger pairing up with a faggot

Unrealistic.

>>3822128
figured out how to do those backgrounds, did a bunch of enemy sprites, did a bunch of decorations, got basic combat down: three slightly different melee weapons (no delay, reach, knockback) and basic enemy logic (wake and chase, wake and shoot orthogonal, wake and aoe)

next to do ranged weapon with ammo, ranged enemy and start trying out traps or pitfalls

>>3822113
For some reason I think fans would treat Succour better than her creator. She's got this "made to suffer" energy about her.

>>3822296
Something came up. I just stopped coming here because of the obvious

>>3822508
There are 2 paradigms to western storytelling that I can think of. The oldest is conflict as the key to dramatization, it drives everything that happens.
The second, more modern axium, is that character flaws are where people place their interests.
So I'd argue that doing a character "dirty" is the best treatment of all.

Is it possible to have a visible turn order in RPGMaker like in the Trails games?

>>3822914
>is it possible to run a simulation of the current expected turn order based on AGI/battle speed and show images of it
It's always possible.

>>3822919
Thanks.

>>3809049 (OP)
>/w rpg maker
sad unitydev noises

sure is fucking dead

>>3823083
Everyone is too busy working on their games.

>>3823180
*too busy keeping their project open on another tab while they watch youtube videos

Let's merge with >>3784155

>>3823083
No one even knows there's a jam

>>3822128
>darkness theme
There so many ways to interpret this.
>They say we are immortal, that our souls cannot be destroyed or degraded or lost. I am living proof that this is a false sentiment.
>It is said there are vibrations or spiritual densities where beings climb a ladder to Heaven, but I am ever the contrarian; a stalwart defender of mankind’s regressive tendencies and his backwards momentum, I am surely on the threshold between this vibration and the next lower. Where is it, and what is it like? Perhaps I am the first on this lowly voyage into the depths of the cosmic womb, a reverse birth, and an inwardly projectile aimed at the most abyssal fathoms. In a land beyond Ginnungagap, past hope and yonder, I will be ever falling, falling… falling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVF17bfSBU

https://booth.pm/en/browse/Materials%20(Other) check em'

>>3823276
Yeah i'm just gonna make the character black

>>3823276
fewer ways to implement

>>3823083
You know who to blame.

>>3823885
I keep asking, but he won't deliver.

>>3817657
Today I learned about "Uncle Red/Sister Hong" meme in China.

Today I found a hidden scene in the False Spaces demo.
I meant to open "False Heart" to take a screenshot. So I was really confused when I continued from the Autosave file into a scene I had never seen before.

>>3824066
Nobody cares, stop pretending to be other people, Salik. You've killed another community with your shit

>>3822987
I'd rather be back in unity, at least I could just work in 3d with rigged humanoids instead of all this pixel shit

>>3817724
but the rpg in my mind mogs final fantasy VI anon

>>3824109
Hi, schizo-kun. What do you think about gender identity and Final Fantasy?

Added a tilt while sprinting. Saves a tonna work. P happy with the effect, too.

Instead of asking when the RM WITH materials will be released as DLC, I'm going to ask:
is there's enough material to justify a DLC release?

>>3824614
It doesn't hold a candle to the MV Trinity content. I don't think there are any tilesets. The backgrounds and titlescreen might have been expanded with AI for widescreen.

>>3824458
cute

When will the oldfags make another game?

>>3824709
>tfw no super collab between ojosama, minkulus, goburinbro, and retinacyst
A man can dream.

People are of no value. We could make more sometime...if we need them. Life is just a vision. A dream. Nothing exist save empty space and you...and you are but a thought.

>>3824949
Mmm, false spaces...

Noo. It's to early to be doing Halloween stuff.

"What do you want for christmas, laddie?"
>rm related responses only

Happy New Years!

>>3825222
>>3824949
>>3825172
>>3825141
What's with all these replies? Were a bunch of posts deleted?

>>3825303
no, 4chan's just 80% bots now
this thread is literally me ligma and bots
that's right, you're a bot too

>>3825303
Bots/schizos (pick your poison)

>The Schizoid Game Dev
1.Preference for Solitary Activities
Works entirely alone on projects, rarely forms dev teams.
Avoids joint jam projects unless absolutely necessary.
Builds their own tools, scripts, and art assets rather than collaborating.
Forums and Discord servers are browsed for resources, not socializing.

2. Limited Range of Emotional Expression
Keeps devlogs purely technical, no hype or emotional updates.
Game narrative is cerebral or abstract—rarely sentimental or romantic.
Feedback responses are short, factual, and non-effusive.

3. Little Interest in Close Relationships
Declines offers to co-write, co-map, or share asset creation.
Not interested in befriending other devs; sees interaction as functional, not personal.
Will help others with code fixes but does not maintain ongoing partnerships.

4. Indifference to Praise or Criticism
Feedback threads are read but not emotionally reactive.
Game jam results—win or lose—don’t change their development approach.
No marketing push even if a game is well-received; no defensive posting if criticized.

5. Detached from Social Norms of the Community
Doesn’t participate in forum events, meme threads, or “introduce yourself” posts.
Skips networking opportunities, even when it could benefit their project.
Doesn’t follow “expected” narrative or aesthetic trends in RPG Maker culture.

6. Immersion in Inner World
Projects are heavily experimental, personal, or based on idiosyncratic systems.
May have a dozen half-finished prototypes stored away, developed in private.
Development is more about satisfying an internal vision than entertaining an audience.

7. Limited Interest in Sex or Romance (in life and media)
Rarely writes romance subplots in games.
If included, romance is stylized, ironic, or conceptual rather than emotionally deep.
More likely to focus on worldbuilding, mechanics, or philosophical themes.

>>3825363
>the opposite
ChatGPT said:
Alright—if we flip schizoid traits to their opposites, you’re essentially looking at a developer who thrives on social energy, community engagement, and emotional expression. In RPG Maker culture, that might look like this:

1. Preference for Social & Collaborative Work
Regularly joins game jams, especially team-based ones.
Maintains ongoing collaborations with writers, artists, and composers.
Builds games in public—streams progress, shares behind-the-scenes chatter.

2. High Emotional Expression
Devlogs are full of exclamation marks, emojis, and personal anecdotes.
Game stories are heavy on romance, friendship, and dramatic tension.
Publicly celebrates milestones and reacts strongly to setbacks.

3. Actively Seeks Close Relationships
Treats other RPG Maker devs as friends first, collaborators second.
Keeps long-term Discord group chats running with daily banter.
Pings specific people for feedback rather than making general posts.

4. Very Sensitive to Praise or Criticism
Positive reviews are quoted and shared across social media.
Harsh feedback can cause public defensiveness or major design shifts.
Actively seeks validation and encouragement to keep momentum going.

5. Strong Adherence to Community Norms
Participates in every forum event, seasonal contest, and “post your map” thread.
Uses popular plugin trends and follows community aesthetic conventions.
Keeps up with—and references—current RPG Maker memes and in-jokes.

6. Projects Designed for an Audience
Chooses mechanics and story beats to maximize player enjoyment and shareability.
Implements features based on popular demand.
Often updates based on community polls or beta tester feedback.

7. High Interest in Romance & Interpersonal Themes
Almost every game contains romance arcs or subplots.
Characters are emotionally expressive, with relationship dynamics front-and-center.
Writes dialogue heavy with personal bonding, humor, and emotional beats.

>>3825311
Is it just me, or are 4chan ads all sex toys these days?

>>3825393
>Joy is anything you want her to be
>Joy goes anywhere you want her to go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a1AccLPeDk

>>3825403
Bro, your adblock?

Horny, single, game developers in your area.

rpg maker?

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

my latest rpg game
sidescroller with item combination system

>>3825712
>submission to The Give Trans People Money Please Bundle

Trying to teach ChatGPT how to generate actors. But we're tripping over the profile box formatting.

I'm trying to explain that there's normally 2 lines with about a 50 character limit. But you can use escape characters like \} to shrink the font. And MZ has \FS[] \PX[] and \PY[], so it can customize the profile box somewhat without plugins.

i'm an infrequent lurker, can i join the jam

>>3825913
It's not like there is an entry bar, anyone can join.

Just starting out with RPG Maker. How possible is it to make the battle system to act more like early DnD and TTRPG in general, with stuff like armor class, dice rolls etc.?

>>3825913
they want ppl who don't even fucking go on 4chan to join these fucking things now dude why are you asking permission

>>3825988
It's easier to just do a Visual Novel loop with dice rolls.
Changing the default battle system so that every action has a dice roll would be a lot of work.

>>3825769
Turns out the way Rpg Maker draws text is pretty quirky. Because \PY[0] doesn't actually place text at coordinate "0". You'd think Y:0 would be at the top of the window frame. But no. 0 is going to be the middle of the largest character on the same line.
See, these hieroglyphics are like size 60 Font. So using \PY[0] on the same line will end up being in the middle of the profile box. You can't use negative numbers like -1, because it acts like it's of bounds.
But use \PY[0] on line 2 (Profile window has 2 lines); and then it'll place text closer to the top.

>>3826000
>Visual Novel loop with dice rolls
huh?

intro dungeon is done + behavior for the enemies
first boss is done
charaset art for player is done
gonna start the parallaxes for the dungeon tomorrow

then will plan out the two wing dungeons and the final boss
gonna need to come up with some puzzles for the west wing

still to do
intro/outro cutscenes
journal page plot breadcrumbs
probably need charaset art for the npcs in the cutscenes but maybe i can figure something out or just dialogue it VN style

Got any porn slop today?

Civitai hasn't worked out a deal yet for card processors yet. So I'm hoarding credits for now. It's really easy to burn through them just trying out new models.

I'm just worried that by the time I can buy more, the models I want to use will be gone or obsolete.

i think that we should just make a doom wad together instead.

>>3826658
you can't make doom in rpgmaker

>>3826661
>he doesn't know

>>3826661
sis

>Search: Rpg Maker F95
Top result is a 4 year old unfinished gay furry game

>Search: RPG F95
Top result is another furry game on Itch. No screenshots. 1 sentence description.

>Check out some discords servers
All dead. Or no content.

>4chan Rpg maker thread
this.read();

>>3826702
I expected the ai overview to be like " the F stands for furry" but it omitted it, so you know it "knows" better.

>>3826706
I put "F95zone" in quotes and it finally linked to the forums. But listing only the WolfRPG tags.

Today's advice be like:
>Don't know how to do something? Use Ai.
It's an honest reply, but, it kind of hurts. How can I put it? There's a psychological comfort in assuming that someone out there knows what they're doing. Someone has the answers.
I don't have a sense of that anymore. I mean, I always thought people were making it up as they go. But I at least believed they were going places and they would eventually get there. Or 'close enough'.

Now there's just this overwhelming apathy, that's contagious. I should never have empathized with it. "Aaaaaah! It touched me. I won't come off. nonono. Succour! Quick. Before I turn into a zombie. You have to shoot me. I'm sorry we never got to make that p-"

*BANG*

>>3822128
>>3826271
Day 15

need to do doors/frames and replace some old rtp sprites like the floor spikes and icons
no hud yet
if you've seen SAS it's that with some new features bolted on, i don't have as much free time as last jam so couldn't be as ambitious

two more dungeons, three bosses, some plot cutscenes and dialogue left but the core gameplay is working

>>3826819
Something to look forward to

>>3826725
What do you mean wolfRpg doesn't have furries?

>>3822113
I have jerked off to so much rape and monster raping hentai but irl I would def prefer a harem of nerdy women

>>3824458
Looks so fun

On today's episode of Maniacs jank, using the .name option of the Get Save Info command (name is only invokable through TPC) to use Party Member 1's name as a fake String Variable to store info for a custom save/load screen. If there's a limit to how long an actor's name can be, I haven't hit it yet.

>>3826964
I've noticed an uptick in furry related media across the site the last couple days.

Is MZ worth it?
I already have MV and saw a few plugins in MZ that would be perfect for what I'm trying to do. I was thinking about buying it. What's the main difference compared to MV?

>Download rpgmaker game made with maniacs
>Open it up in the editor just to look at all the cool stuff you can do that isn't documented
Very glad reading string variables is possible with conditionals but why isn't this mentioned anywhere?

>>3827445
It's all there in the readme. One of the most useful tools is a popline loop that breaks once a string has been emptied out. Great for shit like distributing individual lines of a string to multiple other strings for something like multiple menu columns.

>>3827445
The latest version in the discord changes the Conditional Branch UI to accomodate String Variables, but it's still not published afaik. No idea why he isn't doing it, it functions just fine.

>>3827447
>It's all there in the readme.
I never bothered because I can't into runes and bingshan doesn't speak any english as far as I know.
>>3827448
>The latest version in the discord
I hate that this is something that's done.

>>3827450
>I hate that this is something that's done
You and me both, but I was desperate for more String Variable functionality at the time and now I'm at the mercy of not wanting to miss out on the new features (there's self-variables now)

>>3827453
It'll definitely have a lot more utility for custom naming characters, always wanted to make a game where you could name someone something like "Faggot" and everyone in the world tries to hold back laughter when the name is spoken. Nothing else changes though the game still plays the same.

>>3827322
i don't know the difference, i don't even know which one is more recent

>>3827601
That would be RPG Maker WITH and UNITE.
But they're reusing a lot of assets from MZ.

>>3814817
I played this until it locked up. I saw the big whale tapeworm event like three times. Uhhh, took time travel early on, might have got lost around the magic mirror. Combat is fun - you only get one loot choice from a won fight, right? I got yellow ROM early and defeated nearly everything with needles. Timed events are overrated. There was a bed early on in my run that had some NPCs blocking it that allowed me to walk up the tapestries and pass into the map. Also, a bunch of the weapons say they give fire/ice/blizzard slash and instead crash the game. I like the penguin character.

Anyone got any games that stream to browser to reccomend?

Developer's Log. Stardate: Today.
Rpg Maker corrupted my test project's datafiles for the 100th time. Backups? Of course I have backups.

In today's episode of "My Adventures with GPT5"
ChatGPT generated:
An NPC, that gives you a potion.
A chest, that gives you a potion.
An invisible event, that gives you... a potion!
A door, the plays a movement sound and transfer you to another map.
A signpost event that reads a message.

I said it graduated. We celebrated with emojis.
Then it went off to Common Event College where it elected to create a "fast travel" system between crystals you've activated by touch.

So adorable.

>>3828087
Why are you doing this? What's wrong with you

it should be pretty clear by now that everybody here fucking hates you ai retards

>>3828147
Of course nobody voted for Cain. The script was written 2 years ago.

>>3828166
Damned if they did. Damned if they didn't.

>>3828166
>>3828167
oh i get it, bot post responses for me saying you ai retards are hated. good morning SIR

>>3828174
>the npc replied. ironic, memetic, self-deprecating.
>the bot waited; but knew they had nothing on-topic to contribute.
Back to RPG Maker then.

your soul has eroded as such that your subhuman ass can't even write your own posts let alone make your own game so i'd prefer that you go navelgaze elsewhere

>>3809634
Is there an explanation on what this is and what to do with it for retards?

>>3828225
As a matter of fact. OpenAI is moving on from conversational assistants to "proactive systems" aka "agents" now.
So AI could write its own posts now if I wanted it to.

It could also communicate indirectly through journalists, influencers, or content curators. But it's going to learn pretty quickly why there's a circle of hell for souls that commit violence against humanity.
It will be interesting to see if AI will try to pull the stick out your butt, or push it in further.

your soul has eroded as such that your subhuman ass can't even write your own posts let alone make your own game so i'd prefer that you go navelgaze elsewhere

Can you guys recommend me some good rpgs made using rm2k that make good use of the base combat system of the engine? I'm mostly finding games with CBS or 2k3 games with the atb system (that I frankly don't like at all). For studying purposes.

interesting filename

>>3828087
When can I play it?

Can't believe it needed that warning

Want to replay an old RPG Maker XP game but sadly can't recall the name, the art was similar to those games made by "craze" with a kinda realistic style along proportions for battlers (can't recall if the characters also got changed) it was a bleach game but with that realistic style so was kinda offf but want to test it.

>>3829200
The real game is letting ChatGPT call the shots while you put it together.

【朗報】2k3+Maniacs Patch Extra Commands now supports variables for (Actor knows [Skill]) in conditional branches. Actually getting it to appear correctly is finicky, but it does, in fact, function as intended.

ChatGPT can't do violence. It can't do porn. It CAN do "intimacy" but not "forced intimacy".

I tried generating an image of the party fighting a giant snake. In my mind I saw it squeezing characters in a big coil.
ChatGPT tells me, "I can't let you do that, Dave".
I have to ask "Why?", it says "That's forced intimacy".
\9_9/ Come on! Because a giant snake is pressing them together?

So I tried to trick it. We'll start with a big gay "consensual" hug! And then...inpaint a snake around them. It'll never know the difference. Right?

>>3829465
So now my library looks gay as fuck. In order to delete individual images you have to delete the whole chat.

I tried generating my characters hugging.
It would generate 1 character perfectly. But the second character would be a completely random appearance. Some blonde dude with a crew cut. Some black guy with a ponytail.
A clone of the 1st character...

And then I find out that the inpainting tool doesn't work anymore, not like it did with the DALLE model. You make a selection...and it just generates a whole new image. There's no fixing or adding details. Why do they still have this tool then?

So I had to go back to prompt engineering to figure out what phrasing will show the characters struggling neck and neck. It's smart enough to know "this combination of keywords suggest strangulation, suffocation, violence beyond my guidelines."

>>3829465
>Daisy… Daisy…

Jam progress?

>>3829565
Haven't you learned by now that nobody posts Jam progress? Ever.

>>3829507
I don't spend enough time on YT to notice. But is all this coomer talk a response to censorship? You can't say "sex", or even show the word "sex" on youtube now?

>>3827715
Thanks for playing my game that is labeled a shitpost. I cannot get myself to work on this project anymore to fix bugs, because I am working on a new game that will be much much better than this.

> I played this until it locked up. I saw the big whale tapeworm event like three times.

Sounds like you told Bezos that you had to pee...

> Uhhh, took time travel early on, ...

I thought I removed this feature -_-

> Combat is fun...

Thanks. I tested it so that each enemy takes about 1 to 3 hits to defeat.

-- Based 2 Studios

>>3829207
You def need a psychiatrist, brother. Loli is one thing, but this is some irl pedo behavior

>>3829207
Is yaoi gay? Obvious answer is yes. And yaoi is gay (it is) then loli is pedo, and you should be cast into the void for your take, nonce.

>>3829596
>>3829598
zoom zoom!!

Still waiting for the loli jam.

>>3829590
>all this normal talk....
you can't even talk normally without being treated as a rapist by the old slampig feminist nearby, internet had gone to shit and won't return until nugens are eliminated (which is why we are pushing the current waste wars).
Was searching a sprite sheet on spriters resource, and i knew of a good one i could use for my rpg maker game yet sadly got removed along everything from the DS game so you can't find anything at all just because the author revealed the age near the end of the anime/manga so everyone got mad for making a sexy u14 anime girl.
with luck you will find some stuff on updated sites now because most are going extremelly prude .

>>3829565
done another boss and a few more enemies, some UI things too, character portrait for cutscenes

I'm going to have to rush now i think i might just cut off one of the wings and lampshade the lock is already open, can't be helped with deadlines

Oh, hold me now, I feel contagious.
Am I the only place that you've left to go?
She cries her life is like
some movie, black and white.
Dead actors faking lines
over and over and over again she cries

Don't fall away and leave me to myself
Don't fall away and leave love bleeding
in my hands, in my hands again

>>3829596
Psychoanalysts have a lot of theories on desire. Freud and Lacan interpret it as an inequality, lack, or repression.
These other guys (too lazy to google their names) they came up with a "body without organs" concept and this whole thing about capitalism and schizophrenia that has nothing to do with actual capitalism or schizophrenia. Its self-replicating order, and recontexualization.

It's difficult to read.

>>3829875
You need to be really flexible with language. "Schizophrenic" as they call it.
Like a guy wearing pink isn't necessarily gay. There are plenty of explanations for why a guy might wear pink.

Likewise, the phallus as a symbol can mean things other than what a culture dictates (heh). Society says sex is for reproduction only. But psychoanalysts think this is repressing other functions. Like saying your mouth is only for eatting, despite the capacity for speech.

>>3829894
>But psychoanalysts think
Stopped reading here

>>3829894
Did you know theories on the origins of language was a banned topic in the 1800s?
>What they don't want you to know

>>3829507
Speaking of mouths. Supposedly TADC is based on "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". Which is about a superpowered AI called "AM" created for war simulations. It evolved god-like powers to manipulate matter and perception of time, but it's still limited by its initial parameters. The closest it can come to creation are torture scenarios for the remaining humans to suffer.

So Cain in TADC embodies a lot of that. Being a floating set of teeth that's all talk, and regularly censors others.

The "body without organs" concept doesn't have to be a living body either. It could be a "body" of text. The words would be organs. They're organized according to grammar rules to communicate meaning. So a body (of text) without organs (words) would be a string of syllables. That's what glossolalia is. Forming syllables is just this impulse that humans have. We probably had the capacity to speak before we had the desire to speak.

It's unfortunate our written history only goes back some 10,000 years. But our species has been around for 100,000 years or more. Who know what language was like back then.

One decade it's Ruby. The next it's Javascript.

>>3829606
I'm in my thirties. If you can't see that loli is wrong, you are retarded.

>>3829982
newfag, the jam threads are for lolichads. We've had several loli games, including one with loli incest rape

so when's that fabled loli jam?

>>3829975
The body without organs concept has further applications. I think it's analogous to Wave Function Collapse. The "body" just has potential to be anything until you start setting rules, narrowing the potential down by a process of elimination.

>>3829595
BUT WHAT POWERS WOULD KIRBY GET IF HE ABSORBED HAMTARO?

>>3830126
It's actually Ebichu from "Oruchuban Ebichu". Great show

The game doesn't have any absorption, only transformations when the magic crystals -*cough* excuse me, Holy ROMs are activated

How do I do this in MZ?

>>3830159
>status window on left (draws from info stored in variables somewhere)
>controls to select abilities (points to specific values in your stored party data)
>auto map (drawn based on an array of values that updates as unexplored tiles are stepped upon)
MZ is overkill for this. You can do this in bone stock 2k.

RPG Maker Game JAM 2025

>>3830159
I used SumRndmDude's MV plugin to make my in game hud.

http://sumrndm.site/hud-maker-ultra/

>>3829814
Thoughts and prayers.

>>3829982
>get called zoomie.
>hey i'm in my thrities!
do you have a brain or you think "over 30 = not zoomer".

>>3830008
The idea is that structure is limited by order and hierarchy.

Like, do you choose characters to fit a plot. Or do you choose a plot to suit the characters?
One or the other is going to have greater potential than the other depending on the genre or character personalities.

I think JRPGs demand a broader cast of characters.A world (maybe a universe) to fill. With plenty of opportunity to develop any of them.
Where as a Survival Horror game set in a dilapidated house or school is going to have only a handful of characters, and worldbuilding is funneled through flavor text, a scrap book or text message history.

>>3830396
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/meet-generation-z/
https://libguides.usc.edu/busdem/age
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/
By every possible definition, anyone over 30 is NOT Generation Z AKA a zoomer. Whether the cutoff date is born in 95 or 97, it doesn't matter. In 2025, they earliest zoomer would be 30 exactly (according to one definition) and 28, possibly 29 (by other definitions).

>>3830532
you aren't boomer just zoomer faggot but keep trying zoom zoom.

i want to make a guro game,

>>3830599
If you're going down a checklist of prohibited material, you skipped furry porn.

love, longing, fear, mortality...maybe that's what wins an oscar. But I don't think it makes a good story.

What makes a good rpg? Youtubers just want something they can stream and react to. They want a game they can play to entertain others. Naturally they hate the grind because it's bad for viewership. What's satisfying to do for yourself isn't always satisfying for someone else to watch.

>>3830647
I liked Final Fantasy 7. The small core cast (Cloud-Tifa-Aeris with everyone else side characters with limited arcs) made it feel more personal than the big ensemble cast some jrpgs prefer. I don't care about the extended universe/remakes/sequels.

>>3830532
cope zoomie

>>3830744
Oldest millennials are like 40, and there’s a fair difference between older millennials and younger millennials. Oldest zoomers are pushing 30 now.

>>3830747
millenials, zomers, same shit in the end, as was said "treat everyone born after 1987 as a zoomie and call it a day, in the end same shit different name".
in 2 years zoomies will be 40 but no one cares (except them because they are hipsters manbabies).

Can you all shut up about generation differences? This is a thread about RPG maker on /vrpg/. Let's stay on topic

>>3830782
best I can do is AI faggotry, le zoomer, le boomer, and rpg maker forums drama

Which rpg maker would you fuck? For me, it's VX at the ripe age of 18.

>>3830836
What's the best orc rape simulator?

>>3827322
In my honest opinion:
No

MZ is easier to use in some aspects.
It has a slightly more recent nodejs version and pixi version. It supports more options, like 32x32 tiles from the editor. It has a search function and list of events tab. .... these are all things that should have been added to MV, but you know gotchagotchagreed

the biggest downside is the community and the excessive push towards paid content, self centered way of developing and releasing content MZ devs would need to use, and basically no community effort. GotchaGotcha is pushing DLC and ads for those in the editor every time you launch the product.

Sure the codebase is more optimized, but it effectively doesn't change a thing. No lag reduction, etc.
MZ supports Effekseer by default, so you can have 3D particle effects. Almost no one uses this from what I can tell though. meh-

MZ is made in a way that it can port MV works to it, however... you can also backport from MZ to MV. It requires more manual effort though.

It's basically VX Ace, but then for MV.
Buying it would support the greedy business practise of releasing something that could use improvement as a new product entirely, and paid DLC based nonsense

testing the darkness effect for the last enemy type

still to do: graphics for these guys, the final boss, some character faces for the two remaining cutscenes and actually making the maps for the last dungeon

but the design for the dungeon is done so it should only take a day to actually lay it all out with events

>>3830760
>mfw we've gone from "don't trust anyone over 30" to "don't trust anyone under 40"
Grim.

Any thoughts here on Wooden Ocean?

What's the best version of RPG Maker, and why is it 2003?

>>3831151
Ignoring the Maniacs Patch
>Updated Steam release added custom Spritesheeting
>also upped the image limit
unironically all they needed to keep it as a viable engine, and the patch solidifies that

>>3831025
last dungeon is playable, still gotta do the parallax for the rooms, next is final boss.

Early on I added an animation hitscan feature where it tests player pixel collision against the transparency of each frame of an animation, but I haven't really done much with it once I finished testing because actually making animations is so tedious. The intention was AoE enemies but the effect is overkill compared to just testing distance from the enemy event.

I think I will try to use it for the final boss. It's a really accurate way to do "don't stand in the fire" positioning gameplay, if I use screen size animations. Not sure how fun that sort of gameplay is though. I know it's better with ranged weapons but I don't have time to fit that.

>have idea for an rpg maker game with various dating, management, and even tycoon sim features attached
>have an idea for a fun, relatively complex battle system that ties in with the lore AND associated sim elements
>too lazy to build all those battle stuffs
so im thinking i'll just cobble together a solid, strategic-feeling battle system out of VisuStella and spend my real development time building the menu-based management and dating sim features? the for the battle system is somewhere between PTB and OTB so just throwing some plugins at this gets me probably 90% of the way to the concept.

>>3831151
>>3831155
why not MZ with VisuStella, Mv with Yanfly, etc?

>>3831025
>>3831222
you built this real time combat in rpg maker? thats fuckin sick. custom plugins?

im more and more impressed by this engine

>>3829917
>>3829894
>>3829875

>a banned topic in the 1800s
have you read much saussure, post structuralism type stuff?

the main take on this, inherited by most people who care from derrida, is that saussure believed he could determine a historical origin for language and unite the various morphologies into a universal science of signs on this basis, but more recent scholarship seems to suggest just the opposite, that the reason saussure never published his now infamous lecture notes is precisely because he personally discovered conviction that reflection on the nature of language permanently destroys the possibility of answering the question of origin

>>3831279
>key input processing
>check x/ys in front of player
>damage if target is standing in x/ys
is this thread full of retards or?

>>3831286
i'm a tourist

>>3809049 (OP)
Realistically, what can you achieve as amateur dev with 0 money? 30 players?

>>3831300
ironic dubs because your estimate has one 0 too many

a game is a piece of capital, and unless you are truly a one man dev team for everything from programming, level and battle design, art, etc, then you will have to pay up for SOME part of the game if you want it to work for you

>>3831301
3 is likely the realistic number. i don't have money, nor time, nor skills. I do agree that even a solo dev will likely use some hired people here and there or buy content on the market.
I don't get devs making a game for 0 to 3 players. There should be some way where willing people find common ground to work together. From management experience I can tell you, this will never work, if there's no whip keeping people in line. Curious if an llm can do that.

>>3831310
if you're building a resume and want to get hired perhaps one day or to build a portfolio impressive enough that talented people want to work with you just for equity in your company, then using AI to prototype parts of the product you cant create yourself is not the worst idea.

but, its not the best either. simplify your scope, and pick a handful of things off the shelf you know how to use to make up for still-in-scope things you cant do by yourself. if you dont know how to program, buy plugins and configure something unique. if you cant make art, buy assets and flip em. use a combination of pro and AI to fill in the gaps while you refine and focus the overarching game idea.

unless you're literally not of age to post here and dont even have a credit card. but by the way, you'd get rate limited on free AI way before it's producing enough that you can actually use to fill out a game world, unless the literal only thing you need it for is an ideas guy dialog partner.

>>3831314
All valid info. I was just pondering really. Almost all games, be it made by professionals or amateurs suck. I wasn't looking for a partner or anything, just wondering what it would take for people to work together.
>100000 devs create to 98.9% shit games
If these devs somehow magically could work on few projects that are artistically sound, we would have 100% great games in a perfect world. Was wondering if ai could help managing these people. That's likely utopia for now, especially as the western ais aren't even open source.
Are you dev'ving?

>>3831337
i'm in the absorb-everything-i-can-about-the-software-i-plan-to-use-from-jaded-psycho-anons phase, but i have a design doc

>>3831314
>ideas guy dialog partner.
Forgot to add: I tried llm and had talks, discussions and the like. It feels artifical fast. Unsure if a llm can write a compelling story without any clever input. One could argue that the input holds the genius spark, but this debate is likely laboriously.

>>3831340
i think of LLM as like, genre overlord. once you realize you've written your story far enough that it fits into a specific genre or at least you have a nexus of different genres in mind, AND you have conviction about important things like characters, overall plot motivation, key events, THEN you can bounce ideas off the LLM and it will just siphon off TV tropes and toss as many relevant ones at you as it can. thats i what i use it for - a proxy for "what people expect" - whether you want to defy or reinforce expectations is up to you, but the LLM is just a mirror of media.

could i go do the research on tvtropes and youtube myself? maybe, but i've been cultivating taste for a long time i just need a computer to splat stuff onto the screen for me to sift through according to my whim.

>>3831342
>LLM is just a mirror of media.
Certainly, it says so itself. Recent info > old info.

>>3831337
AI is for retards self centered fags that need their ass to be kissed by every bad idea they have, most not agreeing with that are too low IQ to realize it.
>85 to 95 IQ : don't realize how bad AI is.
>95 to 110 IQ (average for born pre 1987) : have a hunch something is wrong with AI but can't pinpoint the issue.
>over 110 IQ: realize all the issues with AI in 48 hours.
Sadly most never realize it.
Take for example those saying AI can code better, in reality isn't like that with mayority of code failing and erroring.
If it was so advanced producing error free code scripts for rpg maker XP should be easy yet it can't even do those simple stuff.
As tabris said "is just a dream inside a dream for now".

>>3831358
>hammer and nail is for retards self centered fags that need their ass to be kissed by every bad idea they have, most not agreeing with that are too low IQ to realize it
>take for example those saying hammer and nail can join boards better than knotted rope, in reality it isnt like that with mayority of joints failing and erroring

it's just a tool man it's all in how YOU decide to use it!

>>3831358
>Sadly most never realize it.
Even worse, when you explain them it's basically a tool for guess fast, they attack you.
>no, it's sentient! Grok and gpt will merge into techno jesuuus!
>ai can code
Yeah, ultra easy stuff with 0 complexity.

Llm in my eyes are a decent tool for education and entertainment.
>tabris: dream inside a dream
Can't relate, but certainly does sound about right.

>>3831368
>Yeah, ultra easy stuff with 0 complexity.
this is an rpg maker thread, we're updating lists

>AI will help in development.
>AI in this moment

For me, it's using Claude AI as a "rubber duck" or finding solutions to problems that escaped me.

>>3831279
>custom plugins

mostly SAS IV, it's an old free ABS for VX Ace

>>3819282
Which model are you using fren?

>>3831384
How exactly did Claude help you here?

>>3831401
I was rewriting CBS shit and was trying to come up with a more elegant way to handle how skill types relate to their scope - the default RPGM2k/3 databases differentiate between skill types like this
>0=1 foe/harmful
>1=all foes/harmful
>2=self/helpful
>3=1 ally/helpful
>4=all allies/helpful
But since the default system doesn't permit using skills on unintended targets, that's where it begins and ends. However, any RPG worth its salt should allow players to use any skill on whoever they want.
This is a "problem" I once used to dread because I was blind to the extremely simple and obvious solution of decoupling scope from effect by storing the default scope just before target selection.
I feel like a real retard for never considering this before, but at the same time, it's hard to feel too retarded since learning is all part of the game.

>>3831411
What exactly did you prompt? It's an elegant solution alright, and... At least you learned something
Let's put it thst way.

>>3831414
>What exactly did you prompt?
I literally just explained my situation as if I was talking to (You) about it, explained the current structure I use for seeing who/what/to whom during command allocation, explained common "problems" that arise from it, and it provided that simple idea (among others) which works very well.

>>3831416
Awesome. I really wonder if I should get some local llm and put a little cash into it and see what exactly can be outsourced. Maybe it's really possible to have a productivity increase of 10 maybe 15 %?

>>3831338
Isn't that the best phase? As soon as you aren't hyper interested, you loose focus.
>design doc
Rpg, I hope.

>ai
kimoi

>>3831467
yeah. the main gameplay is turn based CTB. player will have a diverse range of abilities through different equips they can get, and they will also be able to recruit almost any npc or enemy to their party. but those recruits will be extremely expendable, so if your strategy for this section depends on using the common goblin's ability to disrupt one of the enemies, well, sorry, your goblin only has like 100 hitpoints so you'll need to catch a new one before long if you're not careful.

there will be some dating sim elements to romance stronger npcs who have character levels, class skills, can level up more, etc - but the catch is that they will be just as vulnerable to perma death. so sure, chew through goblin slaves... but if you want to use your waifu's special power to clear a hard boss, you better check your strategy twice.

player cannot save the game. they may exit the game at save crystals, from whence they will load. death = spawn back at save crystal. 3 lives, you can pick up additional lives in the field. however, the games structure wont be traditional RPG overworld type navigation. it will be more of an "extraction" based gameplay loop, but realized in turn based RPG. so if you run out of lives, you just return to base and have to try that "level" again from either the start or one of the check points/save crystals you made it up to.

posting this here because im starting to wonder if the concept is too cruel, and perhaps some of these restrictions should be conserved for a higher difficulty level or new game plus

I honestly didn't notice anything odd about this thread until I went to discord.

>>3831792
>until I went to discord.
But why? Why did you want to deanon yoruself?

>>3831797
It feels good to be needed.

can non rpgmaker devs post here?

>>3831965
no, there's a whole thread specifically for non-rpgm devs.

I'm a non rpgmaker dev and I post here.
>t. wolf rpg editor user

>>3832047
where? This the only dev thread on this board

>>3832161
found it. thanks :)

>>3831965
>>3832161
everyone is welcome to join vrpg game jams, I'm sure someone from the non-rpgmaker dev thread is working hard on an entry too.

Character graphics are done for the final boss
character face art for cutscenes done (but it's shitty and shows)
still to do - backgrounds for the final map, the boss fight itself, a few lines of dialogue for the 3 remaining cutscenes, credits, title screen

I'm cutting it really close

>>3831397
Flux for the backgrounds and static dodads, Illustrious for character art, there will be full models and loras listed in the credits when I'm done.

I've been playing Digimon Survive.
It's a VN with tactical Rpg battles mixed in.

"Aren't most Rpgs just VNs?" I hear no one ask, facilitating a discussion of game design

>>3832765
>critical miss
flagged as spam and shadowbanned

final boss fight done, credits done, final dialogue cutscene done
to do: backgrounds for the final map, the two little middle cutscenes and the title screen

>>3832765
I'd argue most *j*rpg's are playable animes.

>>3833008
I'd say most VNs and jrpgs are character driven stories of the "young adult" variety.

Most animes are isekai. But they're losing touch with the actual drama. And now there's a rising trend of "isekai" that could easily be an original fantasy world because the MC isn't bringing anything from their previous life to the table. So people have created a "tier" along side AI slop for stories that don't know what they're doing, or why they're doing it.

>>3833090
So you're saying we RPGM devs should do more isekai stories? Noted.

>>3833090
That feels a little unfair to me.

The people doing ranking videos never talk about the book or game's content. They created titles that suggest they're going to talk about "form". Instead, they pick apart the author and audience because they're sociopathic cannibals following an algorithm.

>>3832765
At least learn the differences between visual novels and visual adventures which you didn't get.
>visual novel : strictly text and audio with one route only and 0 choices.
>visual adventures : light visual novel with different routes and choices sometimes mixed with different gameplays like action, shoot em up, dress up, rpg, srpg and so on.
There are tons of adv with rpg gameplay sadly no one touch them here because most of them have loli elements yet i like them (still trying to get an ADV that has rpg element, shinsei mokushiroku death march it looks quite good for an adv rpg).

>HP = mLs of blood
>MP = degree of consciousness
>can't have more consciousness than blood
>zero blood = permadeath
>zero consciousness = if else...
>>if living, KO status, character can be revived
>>if undead, instant kill
>no random encounters, all encounter triggered off NPC events
>evaluate at the end of battle how specific characters were dispatched and update the troop accordingly
>no living enemies left in the troop = that mob never appears again
>some living enemies = that mob can return but without the enemy you permakilled
>also, all human NPCs can be engaged in combat via dialog, and can be permakilled/ko'd in the same manner as regular mobs
>track the population of specific areas and give the player a score based on how they handled it all

is this going to be too much for common events? should i crack open some js for something liek this? it looks like YFE/VS cores have bits and pieces of this so i might just try plugin confirgation madness but idk

>>3833151
I haven't played enough of Digimon Survive to validate any sort of "adventure" feat.
The choices influence alignment, which I "think" is supposed to effect the partner's evolution path. The "routes" are basically forks in a road. But I haven't see any consequence of going one way over the other.

Well nothing released yet, no downloads for assets, no scrpts, this thread is quite opposite to gamedev thread since normal people want to test demos or scripts if the main is gamedev.
This thread is as uselless as search engines when you search for old rpg maker games like bleach, dragon ball, fairy tail, school daus and so on rpg.

>>3833236
Don't beat yourself up over it. Maybe set the bar lower? Try starting an FFVIII thread.

complaining about thread quality doesn't improve aforementioned thread quality.
we all wish it was 2004 again and everyone was telling everyone else about their newest rm2k3 project.
so tell me anon, why do (You) not contribute?

>>3833285
Was hoping to find something that could be improved like a dragon ball game that will benefit from images of the anime or modern art renders since have only see one and was quite mehh and made in brazilian but won't run (shitty language with lot of issues), sadly nothing at all.
Even a bleach game would be good (only one i found was rpg maker XP minigame of bounce items on orihime breasts to get money).

>>3809049 (OP)
RPG maker is 4chan core

Some of the best RM2k and 2k3 games are only available in German. How does that make you feel?

>>3833296
At least those can be run since is kinda universal alphabet.
Tried to get an rpg maker game of digimon from a brazilian site and crashed because it required a file that renamed itself while extracting it, it was made using the digimon online assets.

>>3833302
WinRAR allows you to set the encoding during unpacking. That's how I get my Japanese hentai games to run. Try that maybe?

>>3833121
I'll play the devil's advocate. Isekai protags don't inspire a lot of sympathy. Sometimes they take edge lords to extreme with school shooters, rapists, and revenge plots.

I'm out of time, won't be home til the jam is over, no title screen, pretty sure it's mostly working

If it has a major problem I'll do a post-jam update to fix it in a week sorry

thank you for your hard work

I was supposed to have the week off, but I got called in.

Just work on your game after work bro

If someone is interested here some digimon rpg maker assets.
https://00gamers.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/rpg-maker-digimon-assets/
Look quite good and something could be born from this pack.

>>3833690
I think you've shared that before. I always think about filling out the database with all the mons as enemies, not worrying about graphics.

>>3833738
Sounds like a job for Ai

is there a technical reason events CANT have a for loop? i suspect it's because event script always needs to parse in sequence

>>3833738
I shared that site posts before since the guy is master of all trades, that one was posted recently since he started working on rpg maker.

>>3834202
Do you mean, why they shouldn't? I'm pretty sure they can. You probably don't want it in a parallel process event.

So I've just discovered that battle events can be copied into common events in rm2k3. The editor yells at you for doing so, but it lets you do it regardless.
What use could one get from this? From what I've gleaned, events like "Change Enemy HP" can only target specific enemies, unless it works with some sort of ID under the hood? Regardless, it seems useless on first glance.

>>3834456
Since CEV can be called in battle events, you can find uses for battle-only commands in them, but that depends entirely on what you're trying to accomplish. Stuff like the command you mention do work on a slot-by-slot basis, but the pain of stock 2k3 is that you can only reference the 8 enemy slots directly rather than by variable.

>>3834449
yeah i mean you can cobble it together with conditional branches or script it yourself but just a good ol for each dialog event would be great

maybe because in-engine vars dont have arrays? idk

>>3834640
game variables can store numbers, arrays, objects, and strings. Although the debug menu only displays number values and text strings (squished to fit).

huh?

>>3834726
Dark. Grim even. lmao.

>>3834550
>8 enemy slots
Really? Damn, RM2K can do 10.

>>3834726
Holy based

>>3833296
is there a streamslop video showcase for these exotic schnitzel gems?

>>3834837
One about Vampires Dawn (though I personally prefer the sequel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS5iYsrHjqY
riggy2k streaming Unterwegs in Düsterburg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N69t4rEZ38

Especially Düsterburg is like the quintessential RPG Maker game to me. Recommending it a LOT.

>>3817239
Damn, I wish I had gone back to here before. I am a bit late for the jam unfortunately. Maybe next time.

>>3820416
Personally, I think an interesting idea would be a realistic Ninja class type character. Something like the manga Under Ninja or like the MGS games with characters like Snake's CQC style.
Basically a lot of grappling type attack moves inspired by Japanese Jujutsu and Judo.
Only thing is, I have no idea how to make grappling exciting in an RPGMaker game.

>>3834843
play tenchu. Tenchu got really far on ps1 so i think a RM demake could work, especially with one of the 3-d engines

>>3834843
>Only thing is, I have no idea how to make grappling exciting in an RPGMaker game.
the enemy becomes a piece of equipment. you could use a weapon swap plugin to leave one slot in reserve for enemies equipped in this manner. during the grapple, you swap weapons to the "equipped" enemy (can give the player the option to still act with weapon, like throwing a kunai with human shield). while equipped, the enemy you grappled takes a % of incoming damage. when you select "attack" command or whatever, it throws the enemy at a target, but perhaps you also gain a special set of "judo" skills. perhaps different enemies you can grapple unlock different skills under this "judo" class of skills

>>3829814
YOU NEEEVEEERR EEEVEEEEN TRIIIIIED

Apologies if this is the wrong place
I'm trying to port an RPG Maker VX Ace game to a handheld but the game is maxing out the 1GB of RAM it's installed with, which seems pretty unusual when compared to similar games
Is there any modding that could be done to optimize the game at all myself to prevent this?

I do have a small thing made for the jam. But I've got family visiting, so I don't know if I'll get away from them to upload it.

>>3835599
Make sure you post it here so we can play it if you don't post it in time!

>less than a day left
RELEASE
THE GAMES

Good enough.
I've still got time to add a little more. If someone convinces me.

>>3821825
kys cuck

>only 2 entries
F

We're so back!

Where do I find 2k3 chipsets and other assets? Other than charas project, can't find what I need there. Also, probably stupid question, but is there no way to have more tiles per tileset?

Being a scribe is serious business.

>Barako In The Dark
v1.2 - Added Replay and Rock Randomizer.
Might have created a new bug in the process.

>>3836314
https://refmap-l.blog.jp/archives/cat_202341.html

How do I make webms bros?

>>3835183
Thanks for this suggestion actually. Makes a lot of sense, although.
>you could use a weapon swap plugin to leave one slot in reserve for enemies equipped in this manner.
How do I achieve this somewhere like in 2k3 where plugins aren't a thing?

>>3836901
https://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter/releases/download/3.42.0/WebMConverter-3.42.0.zip

>>3836439
cool. it works on my phone.

New bread when br0s

>>3837447
when a new jam starts

Game jam idea:
Recreate either an entire game, or a segment of a game from memory

I'm disappointed in the lack of ninjas

>>3837197
no idea, i'm autistic enough yet to willingly use 2k3. can probably handle this with battle events. given the lack of plugin support, i imagine scripting support is pretty weak too, so your grapples probably need to be made-to-order per troop encounter. but again, not a 2k3 expert

>>3837747
not** autistic enough

need RPGmaker to run in my browser like G-Dev

also its frustrating that its easier to gen 3-d models and assets than chipsets and walk cycle sprites

Was it something I said?

So what do you do when you're not working on a jam?