rpg maker

[Bobby Swisha]

any of you use this program?

[Mr Mong]

I used to play rpg maker 2000 in well 2000

[Plopilpy]

The only maker I use is 3D Movie Maker

[Kane]

Always wanted to make my own RPG. I'm good with pixel art and animation, just not game design, coding and such. Maybe one day!

[Dungeon Snake]

Originally Posted by Kane

Always wanted to make my own RPG. I'm good with pixel art and animation, just not game design, coding and such. Maybe one day!

You really don't need to know any coding or technical stuff to use RPG Maker, it's all programmed for you. Pretty much all you really need to do is make the maps, design the fights and write the dialogue. You don't even need to make your own sprites or tiles if you don't want to, it comes with a bunch of default Dragon Warrior-esque ones, then people have uploaded thousands online that you can import. It supports a basic trigger event system where you can have little events take place (Like when the player walks here, an NPC walks up and delivers dialogue then spins in a circle, walks away and disappears), there's also various graphical effects you can add, etc. It's all really simple and uses plain language, but if you want to get into the guts you can also use Ruby to program your own stuff into the game like custom battle mechanics or whatever.

[PizzaLuigi]

I’ve messed around in RPG Maker 2003 it but I’ve never really made anything in it

[Mr Mong]

Originally Posted by Dungeon Snake

You really don't need to know any coding or technical stuff to use RPG Maker, it's all programmed for you. Pretty much all you really need to do is make the maps, design the fights and write the dialogue. You don't even need to make your own sprites or tiles if you don't want to, it comes with a bunch of default Dragon Warrior-esque ones, then people have uploaded thousands online that you can import. It supports a basic trigger event system where you can have little events take place (Like when the player walks here, an NPC walks up and delivers dialogue then spins in a circle, walks away and disappears), there's also various graphical effects you can add, etc. It's all really simple and uses plain language, but if you want to get into the guts you can also use Ruby to program your own stuff into the game like custom battle mechanics or whatever.

Yeah i used to make a lot of stuff in click and play or multimedia fusion and its simular to that.

[Winavilenium]

Originally Posted by Bobby Swisha

any of you use this program?

in fact i used it only for game prototypes, but i switched to doom and goldsoucer (half life engine)

[Lord Blazer]

Originally Posted by Mr Mong

I used to play rpg maker 2000 in well 2000

[Shaun]

with 3dmm you spend 100 hours working on something 100 people will appreciate

with RPG maker you spend 1000 hours working on something 10 people will appreciate

[French Fry]

What if you made a 3DMM game in RPG Maker?

[Bobby Swisha]

Originally Posted by Shaun

with 3dmm you spend 100 hours working on something 100 people will appreciate

with RPG maker you spend 1000 hours working on something 10 people will appreciate

I get what you’re saying but the RPG Maker community is way bigger than the 3dmm one. Although I think the idea that they’ll play your game - yeah, it’s way less likely than hitting play on a YouTube. But the payoff is the fun you have making it.

[Bobby Swisha]

If you don’t want to buy RPG Maker there is also the Hamster Republic RPG engine, which is free and DOS-based I believe. I havent used it in about two decades but I remember really enjoying it. I don’t have time to fiddle with it but I checked out the page of games made with it and it looked like there was some cool stuff.

My favorite thing about it is it’s pixel-based, so the aesthetic is maintained quite well, even though it is quite limited in what you can do (character size and detail, for example.)

http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/Main_Page

[Kane]

I wanna make a 3dmm side scroller now

[Onattienz]

RPG Maker is great, but does anyone remember Adventure Game Studio? Compcat made a 3dmm game made of it and released it on the movie database. https://www.3dmm.com/showthread.php?t=53926

[Plopilpy]

Yeah, I've played it before, it's very cool

[Bobby Swisha]

Whoa whoa whoa. Why is Compcat sending his Advanture Game Studios army to invade my rpg maker thread? Get your own thread guys, this threads for the rpg we’re making.