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Hey everyone, I'm planning on making a series of tutorials on how to make puzzles. It's pretty much the only thing I'm a little good at in RPG Maker, and I love to help people. So without further ado, here's the first tutorial!
Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles.
There are infinite possibilities. They are either annoying, a waste of time or 'good'.
You are the one who has the ability to create one such puzzle. And you'll want to make a good one, right?
With puzzle, I don't mean something like this:
"There is a red button in the middle of the room, and once you step on it, the door to the next room opens, no strings attached."
Sure, it's not that boring, and you ask of the player to do something specifically. But that's not something I call a puzzle. You're not letting the player really think.
This is, however, where we will start. Because making a simple button is cool and yields some cool eventing knowledge we're going to use later on.
Step 1: Create a room, you can always make it bigger if you want to. I like to start small. I recommend making the room fit in the editor without needing to scroll to view everything.
Step 2: Think! What do you want to create? And how are you going to do it? For button pressing, you could use the 'Action Button' trigger on the button event, making the player press c, enter or the spacebar for anything to happen. We're going to make it slightly complex for us, though, making the button be activated merely by stepping on it.
Step 3: Let's create it! This should be pretty simple, creating some variables and set them to the X and Y coordinates of both the player and the button, and checking if they match.
Step 4: TEST IT! Test every once in a while, this is a must. If there is something wrong, you can fix it right away. If you make lots of events and don't test until the end, you're gonna have some trouble finding exactly what's wrong (I can tell you, that's not cool).
Step 5: You're getting a message as you step on the button? Good. Now let's spice this up a little bit by adding a boulder to the map, which can be pushed on the button. To do this, we'll have to make a boulder, and edit the button to record the boulder's coordinates.
Step 6: Test to see if it works.
Step 7: So it actually did something different, huh? We can also create a door, which will open when something is on the button, whether it's the player or the boulder, but close again when nothing is on it. To do that, we'll have to add some event commands to the button and add a door. First create the door, which'll only go open when a certain switch is on. 'Left-click > New Quick Event > Door' is great to use as a base. Edit it like this (note that there's two pages):
Step 8: Edit the button. Pay close attention to the lines I've used in this event, and make sure to copy them in this order.
That's it. You've done it. You have created a 'Push the boulder on the button' system, and even made possible for the player to stand on the button, with another effect.
If there's something you did wrong, or if you simply want the project file, download it here: http://www.mediafire...k769gfrs8gi59c3
If there's anything you don't understand, you're free to ask any questions here!
The next tutorial will be about making your life (and this simple system) easier.
Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles.
There are infinite possibilities. They are either annoying, a waste of time or 'good'.
You are the one who has the ability to create one such puzzle. And you'll want to make a good one, right?
With puzzle, I don't mean something like this:
"There is a red button in the middle of the room, and once you step on it, the door to the next room opens, no strings attached."
Sure, it's not that boring, and you ask of the player to do something specifically. But that's not something I call a puzzle. You're not letting the player really think.
This is, however, where we will start. Because making a simple button is cool and yields some cool eventing knowledge we're going to use later on.
Step 1: Create a room, you can always make it bigger if you want to. I like to start small. I recommend making the room fit in the editor without needing to scroll to view everything.
Step 2: Think! What do you want to create? And how are you going to do it? For button pressing, you could use the 'Action Button' trigger on the button event, making the player press c, enter or the spacebar for anything to happen. We're going to make it slightly complex for us, though, making the button be activated merely by stepping on it.
Step 3: Let's create it! This should be pretty simple, creating some variables and set them to the X and Y coordinates of both the player and the button, and checking if they match.
Step 4: TEST IT! Test every once in a while, this is a must. If there is something wrong, you can fix it right away. If you make lots of events and don't test until the end, you're gonna have some trouble finding exactly what's wrong (I can tell you, that's not cool).
Step 5: You're getting a message as you step on the button? Good. Now let's spice this up a little bit by adding a boulder to the map, which can be pushed on the button. To do this, we'll have to make a boulder, and edit the button to record the boulder's coordinates.
Step 6: Test to see if it works.
Step 7: So it actually did something different, huh? We can also create a door, which will open when something is on the button, whether it's the player or the boulder, but close again when nothing is on it. To do that, we'll have to add some event commands to the button and add a door. First create the door, which'll only go open when a certain switch is on. 'Left-click > New Quick Event > Door' is great to use as a base. Edit it like this (note that there's two pages):
Step 8: Edit the button. Pay close attention to the lines I've used in this event, and make sure to copy them in this order.
That's it. You've done it. You have created a 'Push the boulder on the button' system, and even made possible for the player to stand on the button, with another effect.
If there's something you did wrong, or if you simply want the project file, download it here: http://www.mediafire...k769gfrs8gi59c3
If there's anything you don't understand, you're free to ask any questions here!
The next tutorial will be about making your life (and this simple system) easier.
