/ig/ - RPGMaker / Gamedev

>>148
is pic related what you worked on?

>>148
Then how about getting gud, practice and then working on it again? Just that room looks better than most modern rpgmaker shis

>>148
Discarded ideas are fine to post too. Forgot to include them in the op.
For the story, if you can’t come up with anything satisfying, you could always recreate an already existing mystery story and adapt it to your game’s gameplay. You could pick up a story from a book, or even mix many different ones, or use one as a base and add on it other things that you want.
For the music, I don’t know how to help as I’m also having some problems with that, but there are tons of cool music free to use if you opt for not creating your own. As for the art, I don’t see any problem with it, that map in your image looks pretty good.

>>146
That’s one of my bad ideas too. I bet almost half of uboachan could say the same.

>>143
The gif is tiny but from it and the description your idea looks more fun to play than most “rpgmaker horror” games.

>>151
>I bet almost half of uboachan could say the same.
>only half
You are being generous.

>>149
Yes. I was testing perspective and sizes to learn what felt more natural, so some colors/shadings are bleeding a bit and it things look wonky here and there.

>>150
>Then how about getting gud, practice and then working on it again?
Well, first of all, I don't have enough time to put into anything related to the project itself as of late, or to practice and improve. The second problem is motivation, I already lost most of it.
As I said, at the very least I don't have plans on working on it soon, but there are chances that I will change my opinion in the future. I honestly don't want to lie and say that if I will work on it or not because not even I am sure about it, plus this whole "hey, I may or not may work on it!" thing makes me feel like an attention whore.

>Just that room looks better than most modern rpgmaker shis
I'm glad you liked it, even when it's a rough sketch full of dicks.

>>151
>For the story, if you can’t come up with anything satisfying, you could always recreate an already existing mystery story and adapt it to your game’s gameplay. You could pick up a story from a book, or even mix many different ones, or use one as a base and add on it other things that you want.
I thought about doing this too, but things didn't blend exactly as I wanted. My major fear was basically that the game may not have sounded bad but the development of the story was going to feel completely uninteresting, since I couldn't connect the dots between the scenes. You know, like, there are games that sound pretty good and the mechanics look nice, but when you play them you realize that the story lacks a lot of stuff or that it wasn't well planned, so it just doesn't work. And that's exactly what I was feeling when I was planning the story. No matter what I tried, I felt I was lacking something, or the pieces would simply not fit together, or it felt highly unnatural.

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This might not be what you're looking for, but I really think that you as the game developer should choose the tool. VX Ace is a tool, 2k3 is a tool, Game Maker is a tool, programming languages are tools. They all have different things they are good at and different weaknesses, so most of the decision is influenced by what type of game you want to make and how you want it to play. This is similar to drawing supplies: tablets are tools, pencils are tools, pens are tools, markers are tools.

From my experience all these enterbrain things are pretty much the same in tools and difficultly, except for the built-in scripts editor in Ace, which gives space to some imagination, from editing the menus to changing some in-game mechanics, and some minor stuff.

I learned to use it without touching tutorials, by making a test game and exploring all the features, that's just easier to me.

>>108
True! I've talked to a few ynfg devs and since most of them have used 2k3 I figure it may be easier to find help for this specific project. I do like VX Ace, though.

>>109
The main concern of mine would be tileset creation. I don't understand the tileset creation process and layout for VX Ace and I've heard 2k3's tilesets are easier to understand. Is this true? I've been looking into it and it seems to be that way.

RPG Maker XP for life! It's not lo-fi like 2k3, and it's mapping system isn't constrained like VX Ace. It's the best of both worlds.

FYI the eventing system is nearly the same, so any tutorials you find about that can carry over. Are you looking for Yume Nikki tutorials only? Because VX Ace is/was way more popular that 2k3 ever was, if only because it never had an official translation until last year.

But VXA's tile stuff should be easy enough to learn if you read tutorials (like http://blog.rpgmakerweb.com/category/tutorials/ ) and read the help manual.

>>112
Dude you may have just solved my problems with the tutorials. I'll also look into XP though, I'm open to staying with or leaving my current program!

UAB was great

3- Now this one will require yet another common event, switches that should tell us whether the Character has gotten the effect or not and some patience.

First off, whenever an effect giver gives an effect, turn on a switch associated to the effect (We'll call it "Effect 1" for ease of association.)

Moving onto the common events, you will do two. One for taking/changing effects to their non-functional counterparts, and another to give the effects back.

All of those function the same way: The switch "Effect 1" will give/take away the corresponding effect, pictures related.

Where to put, is basically this: The "Take" event will be called whenever you wake up from dreaming/ come back to your room from whatever is going on. The "Receive" event is called whenever you start dreaming/hallucinating/you get the drill.

Also here is a base template for an autotile in VX Ace. Useful even to make animated autotiles such as water/lava/blood/slime.

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This is all so helpful!! Thank you so much! I'm going to test all of this out soon.

I'm such a noob haha

>>16
You're welcome. We all had to start somewhere.

>>17
If I have any more questions I'll be sure to ask again, this was very helpful (I'm sure I'll have more questions very soon cause it's all so new to me)