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All the way back when I was a kid in Elementary School, I enjoyed making games. I even made a 'game' with Stat Sheets via pieces of papers and me and my friends would pretend to walk around and get into battles and we'd level up with the stat sheets. Cut to middle school/early high school I heard another classmate mention something called "RPG Maker" and me being me loved that from the first mention. I asked my mom about it and she eventually ended up buying me RPG Maker 3 for the PS2.
I played this a ton. Finally, I was able to put all my ideas and thoughts into a tangible system. Granted, RPG Maker 3 isn't great or anything, but as my first foray into game creation, I was in love. I never actually made anything from the game, more so just played around with the ideas and effects. Overtime my interested in the game just faded, and I stopped playing to move onto other things, but my love of making games never died, just put aside.
In 2014 I was in a very bad state, and as I often do it bad times, I think back to the past. I thought of RPG Maker 3. So on some day, I searched it up and found RPG Maker VX Ace. It cost a fair bit for me at that time, but there was a free trial for a week. I tried it out, and instantly fell in love again. Everything was just so much better than my past experience. I got started right away making a game. It lifted my mood, it gave me joy, and it let me create something that was truly me. A year later, in early-mid 2015, my hard drive broke and I lost all my progress because I never thought to have a back up.
I was distraught, but I didn't let it get to me. In June 2015 I decided I was going to start again. I was going to make another game. And to this day I'm still working on it.
Long story short: I found out about RPG Maker because some kid in my class mentioned the name and my mom bought me whatever version she found.
I played this a ton. Finally, I was able to put all my ideas and thoughts into a tangible system. Granted, RPG Maker 3 isn't great or anything, but as my first foray into game creation, I was in love. I never actually made anything from the game, more so just played around with the ideas and effects. Overtime my interested in the game just faded, and I stopped playing to move onto other things, but my love of making games never died, just put aside.
In 2014 I was in a very bad state, and as I often do it bad times, I think back to the past. I thought of RPG Maker 3. So on some day, I searched it up and found RPG Maker VX Ace. It cost a fair bit for me at that time, but there was a free trial for a week. I tried it out, and instantly fell in love again. Everything was just so much better than my past experience. I got started right away making a game. It lifted my mood, it gave me joy, and it let me create something that was truly me. A year later, in early-mid 2015, my hard drive broke and I lost all my progress because I never thought to have a back up.
I was distraught, but I didn't let it get to me. In June 2015 I decided I was going to start again. I was going to make another game. And to this day I'm still working on it.
Long story short: I found out about RPG Maker because some kid in my class mentioned the name and my mom bought me whatever version she found.