author=WolfCoder
If you're on Windows 7 and above, delete C:\Users\<Your Name>\AppData\Roaming\rpg20xx for a "factory" reset. This folder is somewhere else in Windows XP.

The editor will start blank and you'll have to open existing project/start new project. None of your game projects get deleted by doing the above.

If you open a previous project back up and the editor breaks again, ZIP up and send me that project. Sometimes you have to do a specific thing for the editor to break. If so, try to recreate your steps.

The editor does this if reopened after an internal fault.

That worked. Thanks.

I can't run the editor. When I run it, the icon appears on the taskbar, but does nothing. If I try to run a second instance of it without closing the first one, i get an error saying "Could not find any engine files, check your installation of RPG 20XX".

The default battle system isn't quite finished. You'll notice the enemy AI isn't active either.

You know what? I'm going to dust off the old XP virtual machine here and see if I can fix it, out of principle. Having a tiny global usage stat was always my reason for making Linux a low priority, so this is instead entirely out of honor rather than reason. My older stuff worked on Windows XP just fine, you see.

Will games made with RPG 20XX allow the developer to reroute the games controls to other buttons on the keyboard?

Yes, but the player will have this ability, not the developer. The player will configure the controls to their liking.

For complex controls (I do not recommend complex controls, but specific game types require them), I'll later add a system that lets you set aliases and defaults. You give an input a "name" and then a default binding(s). Games that re-use the same names can re-use the same player preferences. Altogether this will let players configure once and play always.

Using Ruby Wolf as an example, can we change the "okay" button to something other than "enter", open the menu with something other than the "esc" button, or cancel with something besides "backspace"?

You can also press Z for "okay", TAB for "menu", one of the letter keys also does "menu", X can "cancel".


PS: The website is very slow, but you only click submit once. It will post every time you click submit. They never fixed this bug, its been this way for years.

Is there some way to get it to forget that there was a game file made?

Delete:
C:\Users\<Your Name>\AppData\Roaming\rpg20xx

And also delete the project you did that in- it will re-crash the editor if you open it.

I thought it would be interesting to see what maximum was hardcoded into the system, but 999999 was available

There actually is a lower limit than that, but if you don't have enough RAM it will crash you anyways. If you have more than about 3GB in your system, you have enough RAM so if it crashes, it must be something else. I'd rather not set low limits just to fix problems- that's the Enterbrain route. The true solution is for the engine to accept insane limits (which are being developed one by one and raised slowly).

I'll make sure to not be so excessive next time =p

If you're not hard and cruel on the software, how will its weaknesses be found?

More references for variables, such as monster stats or item equipped.

Those are already implemented. Look under the "game" category when writing event scripts (it's the purple crystal icon). For future database items, there will be matching "game" commands so it will include enemies whenever they are implemented... well, enemies are identical to players.

To make an enemy, you need to have made a player for it. That future section in the database will sets its drop lists, habitats, AI, etc. Yes, that means you can also modify enemy types in the middle of the game if you wanted.

An event that forces a specific skill to take place.

This one is actually much closer since I had been working on animations. Animations are much more important gameplay-wise in RPG20XX.

and and event that can add data to the database. So a player can create custom items through crafting, or even make it a quest generator if one is crafty.

These a much further down the road and belong with the geo-mod. Geo-mod lets you edit maps during the game in persistent ways. Both these features can easily make save files huge, way past the original design. They're features I want myself too, but they'll have to wait after the first completion of RPG20XX.