Description

RPG Maker VX Ace is OUT and we want to see what RMN can do with this new tool! The Nugget Crash Course is a competition for new Ace users to make a game to try and win a copy of RPG Maker VX Ace, courtesy of our friends at Degica (the company that markets and distributes RPG Maker outside of Japan)!

RPG Maker VX Ace is aptly named as it is RPG Maker VX {Insert Incremental Reference Here}. Imagine your regular VX with various changes and upgrades all over the place to make it a better tool all-round. The best way to see what the changes are is to download the Ace trial and give it a spin! You might even get your own copy out of it!

This is a fast and loose competition with a new tool and so will the theme. Simply make a game with RPG Maker VX Ace! It must be a new Ace game started with the English version so no carry overs from the Japanese release / trial. You can use any resources for Ace such as graphics, music, and scripts but I don't want to see any Ace-rized versions of your VX game.

Ace can handle any graphic, sound, or music VX can and more so all resources for VX are available. Ace also has a new feature of being able to create character and face graphics through putting premade templates together directly in the program. One critical difference between VX and Ace is the script backend got rewritten Ace which means a large majority of scripts for VX won't work for Ace. You can check the script repository on RMN for several scripts made to work with Ace.

Having trouble with Ace? There's a few places where you can try to get some help. Posting on the event itself is allowed but it's easy to lose track of such questions. You can post questions in RMN's Help & Request forum as long as you read the forum rules. You can also head onto RMN's IRC channel to try and get some real time assistance there too.

Judging will be handled by GreatRedSpirit, Archeia_Nessiah, Liberty, and Deckiller. After all the judges have played the games they will rank the games by their own preference. When a game is listed as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd the game gets 7, 5, or 3 points respectively. The game with the most points wins!

The dev lead for the game that scored the most points will be awarded a new Ace product key! We only have one key so teams will have to fight to the death against each other decide who gets the key. We'll also have achievements: The top prize achievement for the 1st place team, runner up achievements for the 2nd and 3rd teams, and participation achievements for everybody who participated.

Important Update! Our prize has been donated to us from our friends at Degica and RPG Maker Web:
author=Touchfuzzy
I wanted to tell Kentona first, but the dude totally JUMPED OUT THE WINDOW WHEN I WAS TRYING TO TALK TO HIM. (Ok, not really, he just left the irc channel), but I'm just too happy not to want to announce it myself.

For people who don't know, I'm Nick Palmer, I work managing the official RPG Maker English site's(RPGMakerWeb.com) blog, Facebook, Twitter, Forum, and well, a billion other hats involved in RM Marketing.

Anyway, we at Degica (the company that markets and distributes RPG Maker outside of Japan) want to show appreciation to RMN for being such a great fan community for our products. As such, we will be supplying the Medal of Honor prize copy of RPG Maker VX Ace.
This is a great boon to RMN! Thank you Touchfuzzy, and thanks Degica! Your support of RMN is apprciated.

You get half a month starting when Ace is released until the end of April 1st giving two weeks and a weekend to create your game. There is some leeway in situations where game breaking bugs are found by the judges after the 1st and the devs will be allowed to fix these bugs.

Registration

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Teams Members Entry
Honorary Entry of Mystery
Danger, danger! High voltage!
The Best Kind of Witchcraft
AwesomeTeamOfAwesomeIsAwesomeAlsoWeLikeCamelCaseAndLongNames
C# - - - - Maker of "Silent Eyes"
Team 'Who the Hell is That?'
Indy Jones and the VXAce Contest of DOOM
Never's Start
Team Youjustwastedtimereadingthislol
Let the Games Begin. . .Lady's and Gentlemen!?
Bludgeon of Inspiration
The Four Spirits
Fuck it! I want a snoopy badge but I won't get judged. XP
The Labs of Chrono
New game, come and join me!!!
Team Who Gives A Sh-
What is with all these team names?
jomarcenter studio "future helper and the seven tower"
HKOz Assal
Late Night Studio
Ace Hunters
Singing Deerhead Productions
Following the sun
For Snoopy~
oh yeah
Lovely Charmer
OOstudios
Team Wind-Up Bird
Vulkinshii productions
Attempting to complete the impossible...finishing a game
GENERIQUEST 2012: Where doing this man. Where MAKING THIS HAPEN.
QuietLife
Winter's Sorrow Announced!
Gourd Clae: Ace VxAcer
Black Skull Insignia
Team HUNGER GAMES ARE AWESOME!
Trying to not copy from the tutorial.
Ralph's Party
IDK
The Last Minute "Team" of Glory
Eternallight's Team

Posts

author=anepicrtpmapper
Can we submit a demo? Because this is the perfect opportunity to showcase the VXA version of A Twist of Fate.


It can be incomplete, the important thing is that the game was made for this contest!
LEECH
who am i and how did i get in here
2599
Im getting a "Your trial version has expired" error whenver i try to activate ace... >.>
Adon237
if i had an allowance, i would give it to rmn
1743
author=ldida1
Im getting a "Your trial version has expired" error whenver i try to activate ace... >.>

if you have a key, re download ACE, and try activating it. I dunno why it's doing that.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
All I can say right now is: The Bludgeon Hath Not Spake.
Cannot run with less than 1024 x 768... Okay, Notebooks aren't usefull fot this kind of things u.u'
LEECH
who am i and how did i get in here
2599
author=Adon237
author=ldida1
Im getting a "Your trial version has expired" error whenver i try to activate ace... >.>
if you have a key, re download ACE, and try activating it. I dunno why it's doing that.


Im trying to activate the trial.. so yeah, i dont have a key or anything..
Just to be sporting, I gave the rest of you a day's headstart, and am only downloading the trial right now.

I hope you used your time wisely.
author=kentona
Just to be sporting, I gave the rest of you a day's headstart, and am only downloading the trial right now.

I hope you used your time wisely.


I thought you weren't going to finish anyway? (which seems to be a plan for a lot of the entries...)
author=Anaryu
author=kentona
Just to be sporting, I gave the rest of you a day's headstart, and am only downloading the trial right now.

I hope you used your time wisely.
I thought you weren't going to finish anyway? (which seems to be a plan for a lot of the entries...)


Wait, Anaryu is competing? Fuck.

I'm at a crossroads... abandon ship or step it the fuck up?
author=Anaryu
author=kentona
Just to be sporting, I gave the rest of you a day's headstart, and am only downloading the trial right now.

I hope you used your time wisely.
I thought you weren't going to finish anyway? (which seems to be a plan for a lot of the entries...)
This was to lull you into a false sense of security
Adon237
if i had an allowance, i would give it to rmn
1743
author=kentona
author=Anaryu
author=kentona
Just to be sporting, I gave the rest of you a day's headstart, and am only downloading the trial right now.

I hope you used your time wisely.
I thought you weren't going to finish anyway? (which seems to be a plan for a lot of the entries...)
This was to lull you into a false sense of security
kentona, you dastardly villain, you've done it again!
author=prexus
author=Anaryu
author=kentona
Just to be sporting, I gave the rest of you a day's headstart, and am only downloading the trial right now.

I hope you used your time wisely.
I thought you weren't going to finish anyway? (which seems to be a plan for a lot of the entries...)
Wait, Anaryu is competing? Fuck.

I'm at a crossroads... abandon ship or step it the fuck up?


Who said I'm competing? And if I were, I lost the last two anyway!
author=Anaryu
author=prexus
Wait, Anaryu is competing? Fuck.

I'm at a crossroads... abandon ship or step it the fuck up?
Who said I'm competing? And if I were, I lost the last two anyway!


Was just kidding, mah man.
Puddor
if squallbutts was a misao category i'd win every damn year
5702
Working on some graphics tests. The game has two styles because of dream vs. reality (dream is VXA default and you spend most of your time like that).

Reality is this:




Tiles by cyangmou
Sprites by me~
Indra
YOU ARE BEING TOO AGGRO
11514
Derp, fail team names for the fail. It's 4 am and I'm clinically retarded by now.
If anyone doesnt like it, it was LIBBY'S IDEA I SWEAR! XD
Well, I'm fairly new to the whole VX series (played around with unfinished stuff in previous RPG makers) and this sounded interesting enough to try. I probably won't finish, the story won't be amazing, there isn't going to be much of anything (because the shorter I keep it, the better chance I have of actually finishing), and it will probably lack every major point of game development, but meh I might as well give it a shot.
Tau
RMN sex symbol
3293
I'm in.. Now I just need an idea for a simple game.
author=Indra
Derp, fail team names for the fail. It's 4 am and I'm clinically retarded by now.
If anyone doesnt like it, it was LIBBY'S IDEA I SWEAR! XD

I'll cop to that. :D

I'm definitely liking all the competition I'm seeing! If we only get half the current entries, I'll be happy. (Happier if you all finish, though ^.^ )


Now, for more motivation - The top three will receive not only the prizes, bu~t a review by yours truly. Yes, free reviews~ You don't have ta pay or nothin'! ^.~

GoGoGo!
Welp, 7DRL made me late. If anyone wants me on their team, I event/map stuff and put unreasonable hours into time-limited games.