Storyteller-Hero

A small prequel in the same setting, with location mapping, lore, and mechanics that will be expanded upon and featured in the big game. The stories won't be connected directly, but I could have the hidden character in the big game be the main character of the prequel...

That could work depending on how well the image editing software scales stuff down. Gimp and Kirita seem to work well for that.

it definitely works. i've used that technique for expanding world map options (and for getting the world map to actually correspond with the "normal" maps)

I went to the Plugin's help/settings window and deleted the default class ID numbers in the setting entry. I then used the plugin's Actor Notetags to individually unlock classes for my characters, who are using different classes and subclasses in the game.

More is more as long as the more doesn't hurt the less. Sitting with 90 different items in the inventory, of which only 2 are useful, is not too nice.

I'm including a few item sinks in my game to mitigate inventory bloat malaise, and will be drawing upon my memories of Final Fantasy inventory bloat to balance items. Healing potions for example will be % based instead of flat values, to avoid becoming dead weight during late game.

That's @Storyteller-Hero, always thinking about the little guy

I think I'm just going to make a simple yes-no choice at the start of the game to see a tutorial, and have the option in the game menu afterwards, maybe as a key item in the inventory.

Or you could make it so the player has to enter a unique combination of buttons to skip the scene. And by unique, I mean unique to them. Obviously it'll have to be at least 30 inputs. Like a 30 input Quick-Time-Event, and then if the tutorial is still going you can just skip it. Actually, I'm just gonna PM you.

None of the characters will have the same class or subclasses as any of the other characters. A hopefully fun aspect of late game tactics will be figuring out which combinations work best in the more challenging, more complex battles of the game.

Of food items that is. Not icons.

I've been watching a bunch of "Let's Play" videos, and the quality of the language used seems to have a correlation to the number of problems that a game has.

800+ MB

See I had the same problem with family photo albums. Just too many pictures, so I threw them all away.

Well, since this flipbook(s) is potentially going to be used for multiple projects, it's supposed to have everything. Individual games will have their own flipbooks that I surgically copy paste off of the "master flipbooks".

A lot of my friends and relatives use Macs so now I know they probably won't have trouble playing my game when it's at least ready for test play. That makes me happy.

On the bright side, I was thinking of dropping it anyway to stay graphically consistent with cutscenes I might include that involve multiple vehicles on the map, like in Final Fantasy IV.

3d airship plugin? You mean Mode7?

No - Tomy's 3D Airship plugin. It was a long shot to begin with though, since it was only tested with PC and Android.

And I still have to go through the RPG Maker Web forum resources since the computer death interrupted me before I could properly go through the forums. This could take a while.

Last day I mean. I'll need to catch up on sleep too heheheh.

A change of pace once in a while can be good for writing. I had a flash of inspiration today for my game's story as well, to address an important plot hole.

Check the licence, just to be sure.

Humble Bundle blog says there's an extended license included in the bundle allowing commercial use. https://blog.humblebundle.com/post/188091267547/the-humble-make-your-card-game-bundle-play-your

This site seems to have the licenses explained, after a quick search for one of the products by Rexard. https://graphicriver.net/licenses/standard?license=regular

There was a bit of annoyance in trying to remove certain unwanted classes from selection in Yanfly's Class-change plugin until I learned that the way to remove them is to make different unique skill types and assign them to class skills.

I was thinking of going a step further and making a random party member speak a text based on their actor ID, but I might have to stick with basing it on the leader of the current party.

Huh well I managed to at least make the leader mechanic work.

The little things in a game can have a profound effect on how it feels to play it.

gstv87 - by that logic, nobody using RPGMaker should be calling their game theirs.

Well, it ended more around 160 in my first draft after I saw a bunch of redundancies in the remaining plugins that I collected.

oops 180 - miscounted number of screenshots

Hmm the image isn't showing. I've seen other people post pictures though.

I realized what I did wrong. Have to add ".png" the first time posting, when embedding a picture. Can't believe I forgot that. Ah well.

oh wait forgot about the [/*]