Storyteller-Hero

You sound like a true gamedev: too many ideas.

Just 3?

Pacing myself since I'm used to writing large projects for work.

As such, I'm thankful for RPG Maker MV making this route more accessible by being the first RPG Maker that can be used on a Mac.

Before I got back to RPG Maker I drew and wrote comics. It helped me structure a story, write characters and most importantly helped me keep my drawing skills sharp.

Yeah, knowing how to structure a scene and write a story can be very useful when developing games nowadays. You can do so much more games, though. I also think more abstract storytelling works really well in games.

On the plugin setting that is.

That said, music change test for changing Battle BGM in special encounters has been successfully run, and Battle BGM has been chosen for my first game. More items checked off my test project bucket list and a step closer to my official debut as a videogame director/writer.

I hope you find things you want on Black Friday. Are you going to shop online or go to the store?

I'm planning to line up at my local BestBuy. I really like the physical experience of being in the store on Black Friday. There's a kind of palpable mood among the frantically stampeding shoppers that shopping online just can't duplicate.

I hope you post it when that happens.

I can see why I don't see them used in a huge number of projects, as it takes a bit of extra work to get them just right, and though other people might have made custom sheets, I'd rather have my own arrangements to work with in case I want to customize them further.

In the final build of my game, there will be two battler sheets per actor among the generics I'm using from Vibrato's site, since he made so many different graphics for each generic battler. I'm going to alternate the sheets during action sequences for skills. When I build the skills, it's going to be a lot of fun having extra options for the graphics used.

https://i.imgur.com/AgZNABF.png

If I have an alternate battler sheet for each actor, that increases the number of graphics I can choose from when creating action sequences for skills. I'm so glad I learned about this before I started making the more complicated skills that will be in my game.

I'm keeping it in my notes for now. I probably won't put up a thread for it until I'm at least halfway through completing the build.

Makes sense. Well, I wish you luck with the project building

Thanks.

I also learned that an art program that I have has default anti-aliasing, which can blur out sprites if not turned off.

Pfft! Who needs workflow when you have spunk, inspiration, determination and every other ation?

Don't forget the dreaded PROCRASTIN-ation.

Oh indeed. That's the worst of them all!

Spacing between the nodes as well as for chamber areas eats up a lot of the map and I need space for decorations and whatnot as well, so I'll probably still be well under the max events per map.

I think that I'm also going to limit myself to 5 maps per actor on this for the smaller game and maybe raise it for the larger game. Or maybe I'll stick with a single map per actor.

I've tested the mechanics for grid so that's fine. This prototype (131 x 131 test size) will give me an idea of the scale I need, whether to shrink it or enlarge it. I may be making like 9 maps per actor because I want to add some other things like treasure chests and art pieces and puzzle areas to make skill learning into a full-blown mini-game.

General walking movement. Click action button over node while on top of it. I'm thinking of making it like a maze with special bonus nodes in various sections as they get unlocked.

Oh, yeah, maze-like structure makes a lot of sense.

I've done this sort of thing by pure eventing in my current project. It's in Ace, so that plugin is no good to me.

Yanfly' Main Menu Actor Events is also needed to do this from menu. If I can make this work, I think that I'll use it instead of changing classes.

Holy guacamole this might actually work. I've got to test this when I've got time.

Nice. Grids are fun. I thought about eventing a skill tree once.

Far from a new idea, actually, but it works really well for games with larger parties and no reserve-character exp.

I think all rpg games should do that sort of thing anyway. :3

@standardplayer Glad to hear there's a lot more freedom. I may only be an eventer but since I began eventing custom menu's and battle systems I really started to hate how rigid and limiting RM's event system is.

That's how it started for me. Don't get me wrong, I use both. There are times where I like using events, but knowing both helps. It's never a bad time to dig in and learn XD PM me if you ever want help getting started

Thanks I'll definitely take you up on that offer.

Apparently with a registered mark, one can sue and get an extra amount of damages (statutory) that does not require evidence of how much they lost from a pirate/thief. This could potentially be much, much larger than they would be compensated as an unregistered plaintiff.

Ai yai yai. And it costs so much to register...

For the second series of games that I'm planning (for a different setting) however, I'll probably go wild with class and subclass due to the nature of the story. I probably won't even get to that for a couple of years though.

I'm debating on this myself, as to whether I want to do all these subclasses or not, with a set primary.

I turned on window masking in Olivia's Octobattle plugin as the new windowskin is rather translucent and words became hard to read when choice windows overlapped.

The order turn display might be better at the bottom since the bar for displaying action names is already at the top, and it looks cluttered having both of them at the top. The order turn bar could also look awkward when overlapped over certain enemy graphics in the future.

Yes, a message log and skip/fast forward option is a must!

I'm hoping that my use of Galv's Choice Pictures and Irina's Visual Novel Busts along with some animation plugins will be well-received by those who play my game when it's ready.

The window frame for messages is going to be a tough choice since I'm probably not sticking with default.

Presentation is very important. I also think that animation is important. Seeing nothing but text might be okay for some people, but others might enjoy seeing characters move around, or other things happening on the screen. I think we forget that games are a visual medium, and that we can convey things through images and actions rather than just plain text.

This opens up a potentially important location for my storytelling - the inside of the airship while in flight. Final Fantasy games have explored this in interesting ways so I'm super happy right now as a writer.