Making battles that don't feel same-y?

[Doinathing]

So, I was talking with one of my friends, and I asked if I should just cut out the battles from my game, because they'll just feel like RPG Maker fights, but he said no, because lots of indie/RPG Maker games do that. Off the top of my, Lisa: The First and OneShot.
In a newer RPG Maker engine, I don't think this would be as big of a problem, but I decided to cheap-out.

Mostly just looking for ideas that could work within the confines of 2k3. Any help is appreciated!

 

[estriole]

maybe you can do evented on map battle to make it look different than regular RM battle.

 

[Doinathing]

maybe you can do evented on map battle to make it look different than regular RM battle.

Yeah, I tried something like that a month or two ago, I was worried about getting the battle's item and spell menus to sync up, and get them to work at all. Any ideas?

 

[Doinathing]

Yeah, I tried something like that a month or two ago, I was worried about getting the battle's item and spell menus to sync up, and get them to work at all. Any ideas?

Wait, there's a thread about this.

 

[Doinathing]

Wait, there's a thread about this.

oh god that's a lot of text

 

[Doinathing]

maybe you can do evented on map battle to make it look different than regular RM battle.

I like your idea, but I'm not sure how I should get everything working. If you have any advice, please tell me!

 

[DarkKxng101]

I like your idea, but I'm not sure how I should get everything working. If you have any advice, please tell me!

I think they have a demo of an action battle system for 2k3 somewhere give me a min lemme find it for you. EDITED* here's the link:https://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/859/

 

[Doinathing]

I think they have a demo of an action battle system for 2k3 somewhere give me a min lemme find it for you. EDITED* here's the link:https://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/859/

Thanks for the reply! I saw this thread a little while ago, are you sure this will work?

 

[DarkKxng101]

Thanks for the reply! I saw this thread a little while ago, are you sure this will work?

Just open it in with 2k3 it will ask to update, once you do you should be able to see the coding just copy it and bring it into a new project. I might rework one myself when I have time as well.

 

[Doinathing]

Just open it in with 2k3 it will ask to update, once you do you should be able to see the coding just copy it and bring it into a new project. I might rework one myself when I have time as well.

Thanks a lot! I think this might just work!

 

[DarkKxng101]

Here I converted it for you, so you can just read through the common events and work it out how you want to if you find any bugs let me know, and ill sort it out. Gonna work on my own you might like that one when you see it.

 

[Cherry]

I made a tool called RMEventFactory a long time ago which can help with repetitive eventing tasks of the kind that you need for custom battles and menus, for example "looping" over all your possible skills and checking if the user has learned them, or even maintaining your custom list of skills, items or enemies in Excel and generating event code (or whole events with multiple pages and different graphics) from that. It has a bit of a learning curve but it's worth it because it can save a tremendous amount of time and hassle. There is an extensive explanation included as PDF.

The download is here: http://cherrytree.at/cms/download/2013/01/29/dl-11-rmeventfactory.html?did=11

It hasn't been updated for the official version, but that just means that in the event script preview (and text export) it won't correctly display and recognize new features in events that are exclusive to the official version, but it can still work with them and import, modify and export them.

 

[Doinathing]

I made a tool called RMEventFactory a long time ago which can help with repetitive eventing tasks of the kind that you need for custom battles and menus, for example "looping" over all your possible skills and checking if the user has learned them, or even maintaining your custom list of skills, items or enemies in Excel and generating event code (or whole events with multiple pages and different graphics) from that. It has a bit of a learning curve but it's worth it because it can save a tremendous amount of time and hassle. There is an extensive explanation included as PDF.

The download is here: http://cherrytree.at/cms/download/2013/01/29/dl-11-rmeventfactory.html?did=11

It hasn't been updated for the official version, but that just means that in the event script preview (and text export) it won't correctly display and recognize new features in events that are exclusive to the official version, but it can still work with them and import, modify and export them.

So, let me see if I understand you correctly.
You made an external program for 2k3 that lightens the load of making Event scripts? This is amazing!

 

[Doinathing]

So, let me see if I understand you correctly.
You made an external program for 2k3 that lightens the load of making Event scripts? This is amazing!

yeah, i'm gonna not use this yet the learning curve looks pretty steep, But thanks!