Is a Harvest Moon style game possible?

[GodsOfDeath]

I want to make a game very similar to the old Harvest Moon games, they were my favourite games growing up (and the ones they make now are dreadful) so I wanted to make my own in the style of the first DS ones.

What I mostly want to know is could this be possible?

Mostly my concern is over growing crops- is it possible to make things grow overtime?

Also, can things be randomised in the game too? Like occasional weather changes? Random event occurrences?

I would be really interested in discussing this more with someone who is familiar with harvest moon and this rpg maker software

 

[Andar]

yes to all, but the exact solution needs scripts or plugins (for timers) depending on which maker you use, and you didn't specify which Maker you want to use.

 

[GodsOfDeath]

Oh I'm sorry, its for MV. I currently have XP though.

 

[Andar]

[move]MV Support[/move]

In MV, most of this is pure eventing (for example a random number generator is inside the control variable command), the only plugin you'll need is Shaz timer plugin for the events pretending to be crops.
But you'll need a good knowledge of events to implements this, that will take you one or two months of reading through tutorials.

 

[GodsOfDeath]

Alright thank you