Zitro's "RPG Maker"' showing off

RPG Maker is a software that makes programming easy for people who did not study much of programming language. This is what I did when I was very bored in 2004-2005. As you can see from the screenshots and plot summary, it's a silly game with parodies aplenty (especially jabs at final fantasy), tho I put loads of effort into a battle system that is quite deep.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=144302325&blogID=395256162

check the 'yes' references :P




Edited by Zitro - June 16 2008 at 18:47

use RPG Maker 2003, not 2000. 2003 is much much better in terms of the battle system. 2000's battle system is basically "everyone plays once every turn" EDIT: having the characters on the side (did u realize one of them is the guy from the game Doom?) is a rpg maker 2003 feature.

to download, do what I said at the beginning of the blog post. On the upper right, type the 3 letters given, then wait 45 seconds (don't click on the 'download link') then click on a download button (a gray "free download" where originally it said "please wait xx seconds) and that's it.


Edited by Zitro - June 16 2008 at 21:02

if u didn't read the whole blog:

_If the screen just doesn't look right (you'll notice if it happens, it would look AWFUL), press "alt+enter" to view the game through a window. It fixes the problem.

_it's unlikely, but maybe there could be an error of a "missing a file". If it happens it says what file, and I'll give it. I'm very sure I got every single file/graphic but from this pc I can't check.


Edited by Zitro - June 17 2008 at 08:11

Mookid wrote: Yeah its quite nice, I used to toy around with RPG Maker 2 on the PS2. Sadly there are no Mac versions as far as I know, and making RPGs on a console with a controller is insanely tiring...

it must be tiring. For instance, you won't be able to get all graphics/sounds you want from the internet. I couldn't have done my game if it wasn't for that.

EDIT: not to mention writing conversations without a keyboard.


Edited by Zitro - June 18 2008 at 14:23

N Ellingworth wrote: If anyone is interested the latest version is RPG Maker VX and was released in February, I'm downloading the trial version at the moment and I'll have a quick go with it to see how good it is. I've been wanting to start mucking around with making games over the summer and this looks like a good way to start, although ideally I'd like to be making vertical scrolling shooters as I really love that genre of games but 2d RPGs are just as good.

After screenshots and details, it looks quite good. As long as there is a 'speed' attribute which dictates how often one acts when compared to the others (very significant feature in my game), I would recommend it over RPG2003 (the one I use). The 640 X 400 resolution is a big improvement too.