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RPG 20XX Asset Starter Pack

First things first, I'll need to gather stock assets to create RPG 20XX's default asset pack. It's like an RTP except "Run Time Package (RTP)" doesn't make sense here since all required assets get built into .2xg files and players of your game won't have to go download it separately. I'm organizing what I had found before with what I can find off stock asset sites, but I think maybe the RPG creation kit that was born on RMN ought to have assets from the community.

If you have assets you're willing to contribute that have lots of "Generic RPG Energy", let me know. You'll need to license them under a creative commons license so we can all use them. Don't worry about formatting, I'll convert them, just make sure they're drawn to 16x16 pixel tile scale.

The resulting asset pack will have all of the sources cited even when attribution isn't a requirement, so be sure to let me know how you want to be credited and if there's links to something you want to include.

Anything simple and easy to map with but with an appealing retro generic RPG look is great. Here's an example I made using art I found elsewhere:

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Your thoughts?

It has been roughly six years since the time I first uploaded this game page, and it was for the RPG Maker 2003 emulator of the same name. After slowing down and getting bogged down in formats and other various problems, I had cancelled and later revived this project as its own thing and it reached the point where it was "RPG-complete" missing only a default battle system since last year.

But I am curious, how many of you wish I had completed the RPG Maker 2003 emulator/enhancer from long ago instead? In this day and age, is there even any use for something like that anymore?

Please let me know what you think about this.

Announcement

Change to the MIT license

I'm still busy working on LandTraveller, but since I built LandTraveller on top of the RPG20XX engine source code, I think it is fair to change the license for the engine to the MIT license. LandTraveller is your typical closed source as-is game, with all copyrights reserved. Since I was the source code's author, I was allowed to do that.

However, I feel it is fair if I change the license of the engine's source code to the MIT license:

Read the MIT license here

This enables you to do the same thing now: take RPG20XX's source code, build your own game engine out of it, and then release it as your own game without worrying about providing source code or colliding with existing conditions you'll encounter in places like the Steam Store as a creator. Of course, you are still agreeing to the terms of the MIT license if you choose to do so. This isn't a replacement for reading the license (don't worry, it is a very, very short license).

(This license has nothing to do with LandTraveller though, LandTraveller is still a closed sourced product)

Announcement

0.31 Released

I wanted to get more done with this release, but I've made some important fixes. The first ones had already been released a while ago, but there's new ones.

Along with the standard system soundtrack and the perspective mode, you can see a handful of standard event commands also being put in.

You can download this version by clicking the button up there. 

- Added the Perspective Mode command, MODE7, yeah!

- Fixed a rare event that an auto start / parallel event that changes the map freezes the processing of next events on new map

- Added the Change Background comamnd to change current map's background

- Added the Change Tileset command to change current map's tileset

- Added the Recall Music command to recall previously memorized music

- Added the Memorize Music command to memorize current music

- Added the Fade Music command to fade/stop music

- Added the Set System Graphic command to change system graphics

- Editor now ignores odd files inside the .bin and .dat folders during compile

- Editor now warns and guards you from saving projects in the editor's folder, this would cause undesired operation

- Added the Equip command to equip items on players

- Added the Unequip All command to remove all equipment from one player

- Added the Unequip command to remove equipment from player

- Added the Set Level command to directly set a player's level

- Added the Set Common BGM command to change the common system music throughout the game

- Added the Set Common Sound command to change the common system sounds throughout the game

- Fixed an issue with saving NOSAVE players and the game save possibly freezing the engine on load

- Added the Common BGM command to play common music set in the project settings

- Can now set common BGM via the project settings. These play during battle, title screen, victory, game over, etc.

- Battle situations/layouts are now handled (surprised, advantage, pincer and surrounded)

- Fixed a problem where AI tables would decide on an action using skill even if the enemy player doesn't have enough MP for the skill

- Fixed an error when loading single battler images during default battle system

- Fixed inconsistent system sounds when opening and closing the in-game manager menu

- Can now set a default battle background for maps in case terrain background is undefined

Announcement

0.30 Released

I've made so many changes and some fixes that I felt like releasing them. This version includes a lot of action elements you've seen before. They're sorted into new categories Action and Collision in the script editor to prevent them cluttering up normal commands and features.

The ability to query and set character parts/colors is also here. You might have seen a screenshot of a character creator menu I posted earlier. These commands let you do just that.

A couple of things make drawing on the screen easier here. I added an Erase All command as a shortcut to wipe out all drawing objects. You can draw on more than the screen now, the On Map command will make the graphic be placed in map coordinates and will scroll according to camera.

One major change is the addition of a YOU event. This is for the commands that detect events using rays or shot projectiles. If they struck an event, the YOU event is set to that event. Commands to help you test if anyone was hit were added since some commands, like Ray, may hit the level map but not any events.

You can download the new version from the same button up there. 

- Added the Get Angle command to get direct angle (in degrees)

- Added the Thrust command to apply continued force to events

- Added the Halt command to zero out the event's speed due to external forces

- Changed the script editor to have two more categories, Action and Collision. This will un-clutter the list of commands a bit

- Fixed a bug with the flashing effect where once one was played, a new color flash effect would not show up

- Added the Hit Anyone command to check and see if YOU is even valid

- Added the Hit Player command to check and see if the YOU event is actually the player

- Added the Shoot command to shoot events as projectiles. You can set reaction events and everything

- Fixed a bug where the Wait command waits too slowly in some conditions

- Fixed a bug where opening the name/string input dialog doesn't itself lock player controls (if called from parallel event or the like)

- Added the Assign Trait command for changing traits of players

- Added the Get Char Color command to query for character part colors on players

- Fixed a bug where the engine has an exception when moving/manipulating pictures that haven't been shown yet. The engine should simply ignore these

- Added the Get Char Part command to query for character part settings on players

- Added the Set Char Color command to change the color of character parts on players

- Added the Set Char Part command to change the character parts on players

- Added the On Screen command that can return objects to the screen

- Added the On Map command that can place drawing objects on the map

- Added the Show Icon command to use icons as drawing objects

- Added the Erase All command for clearing out all drawing objects

- Added the Ext command for currently undisclosed purposes

- Can now give each terrain type a name

- Fixed a bug where changing the weapon sprite to one with fewer frames than what is referenced in an animation causes editor error

- Fixed a bug where weapon animations that are children weren't loading properly

- Fixed a bug where if you had a weapon animation frame selected and change anim direction, it modifies the frame in the other anim unintentionally

Announcement

0.29 Released

Where to begin?

I've merged Enemy with Player. Now you have to specify that a Player is an enemy and then it lets you set all the Enemy properties right there. It automatically keeps up the "don't save" option, although you can turn that off for enemies that can change over the course of the game. Existing projects should load fine in the editor, but you'll have to edit the Enemy properties for the Players again (under Player this time).

The weapon animations from before are in. They took the old Enemy slot in the database. This simply lets you assign animations to sprites, and then you can assign the set to weapon items. It automatically loads the "right" and "left" animations for right and left handed swings (it uses this to correctly flip the sprite in the opposite direction but to keep the correct weapon hand). The name you give to the animations is important. These can be played on events outside battle, of course. You'll need to add another animation to the set so that it uses Normal Character Sprites too.

Most majorly, the pixel movement system is in. This upgrades the engine so that it has two event modes (character and a bunch of tiles) and two movement modes (step on tile and pixel). All types of events and all movement modes can collide cleanly with one another. The engine saves the pixel movement setting on the Player so you only need to do it once if you plan on the player moving smoothly the entire game. You only need to call the move function once (it has a Go and a Stop option). This is known as locomotion in the engine- the force that the event uses to move itself.

For external forces..

You can use the Force command to shove events around. This will often be done for when you knockback events after they got hit in an action RPG. You can also set a positive value for Z in the Force command to launch the events into the air. You only need to call the command once, if you do it multiple times in a row the effects add up.. if you aren't paying attention and you accidentally have a knockback Force command in a parallel event, the event will shoot off. If the event lands on the ground, it slows down based on a friction setting you can change.

Character physics like this is not as simple as it looks. You can easily lag out any game engine with collision detection. I have tested and adjusted the character physics, but it might still be quite unstable. If you play with the Ray command, but it isn't working at all like you wanted, press F9 when testing the game to see where the ray ended up.

There you go. Pixel movement. A lot of the previous commands and features do work in pixel movement, including all the commands that make a custom battle system easy. Not sure if a complete action RPG is possible, but you can give it a try. Don't go too nuts with the Ray command and try to keep them as short as possible- longer Rays are more intense on the computation.

The download up there should be updated. 

- Added the Friction command to change the world's friction

- Added the Gravity command to change the world's gravity, effects both the jump and force commands

- Added the Force command to give events a bit of a quick push

- Added the Move command to start and stop events using pixel movement

- Fixed a bug where the input number dialog might not work with temporal variables

- Added the Ray command to check ray collision in the map

- Added the Get Position command to get the immediate pixel location of an event (x,y,z)

- Added the Speed command to change an event's movement speed, this time its fine-tuned to a specific % number

- Added the Play Weapon command for playing weapon animations for events

- Adjusted the height of commands in event script editor that have exactly 5 arguments, they had one extra blank line height being added to them for some reason

- Fixed a problem where an event destroying itself doesnt stop execution there (it kept going until a command does not continue)

- Can now create and edit character weapon use animations for all variety of cases (in battle, out of battle, etc.)

- Can now set a character in the character picker to match a player as a handy shortcut

- Fixed a crash in the editor when editing player character sprites where it is not supporting auto battler sets

- Fixed a bug where the editor's drawing crashes if you make an event with undefined full sprite character

- Enemy and Player have now been merged into the same database list

- Can now remove parents from database objects. All fields are applied first before removing parent

- Fixed a bug when changing a list of items in a child database object causing the editor to crash if the parent has a larger list

Progress Report

Weapon Editor



I got this thing to work.

Instead of just pasting the weapon sprite on top of the battler, this lets you customize the use animations to anything you want. Using the same names for Directions / Attacks section lets the engine automatically play the correct animation and use the correct sprite when using equipped weapon, but you can add more if you want something like movement animations outside battle (use normal sprite instead of battler lets you do that).

Often you want the same animations but different sprites for similar weapons (different bladed weapons, etc.). Just use the parent option in the database like before.

Progress Report

Basic Sprite



I got this loose sprite selection working for the next version. Any sprite files you've imported (but never actually used for any reason under composite) will be automatically listed under full sprites you might have used. This was added because existing RPG Maker 2000/2003 resources are all basic full sprites.

However, a lot of existing resources have redundant palette swaps of the same characters. If you're making a serious project, I recommend converting the sprites in parts to composite parts so you can have thousands and thousands of character sprites with little effort.

You can have full sprites that are color mapped. You would need to create them under composite and then set the color map. A common use case for that would be if you have character sprites of enemy monsters that get palette swapped (gels, etc.).

Announcement

0.28 Released

I've replaced the default project with a new one. It now combines materials from LandTraveller (characters and some tiles) with the existing resources. Can have fun making your own kemonomimi now. I also changed all the stats to be similar to RPG Maker 2003's (attack, defense, magic, agility, HP and MP) with support for stat growths per level and the like. You'll have to make a new default project- your existing ones will be unchanged.

This update also includes the mouse functions and angle/rotation functions I mentioned before. Have fun making ring menus!

The equipped items altering character sprites is also here. You can change the clothes on the characters and it will update everywhere. You can also exclude some parts from being used when rolling random sprites. This is handy when you don't want something like underwear or ultra legendaries from showing up on what is supposed to be a random villager NPC or whatever.

If you take a look at the materials, you can see there aren't any battler sheets and the character sheets have additional frames at the bottom. This is the first part of a feature that lets you specify the frames all-in-one for when you're drawing your own sprites. This automatically creates battler character sets for you out of one composite part, making things less cluttered. In the case you are drawing a lot of battler frames and only have time to elaborate on the main characters, this automatic battler sprite sheet feature can be ignored.

Along with the new features, a lot of bug fixes were made. Everything should work a bit better now.

You can download the new version from the button up there as usual. 

- Fixed a bug where an event's saved direction isn't always loaded and initialized properly

- Fixed a bug where the current party order isn't actually being saved

- Fixed a bug that caused errors during targeting of players during battle

- Fixed a bug that caused the defeated sound of an enemy to constantly play, making this annoying sound

- Can now specify if a character sheet has enough additional pose frames to be automatically converted to battler character set (so you only need 1 image instead of 2 for each character)

- Fixed a crash in the engine if an undefined animation is used during battle for an attack

- Fixed a bug where the engine closes on error if a battle is begun with no background defined

- Can exclude character parts from showing up when rolling random characters

- Can now assign character parts to equipped items, and character parts to be associated with base bodies. Equipment can now show up on characters!

- System mouse cursor is now hidden in the engine window (in case the user wants to draw their own, or if it is entirely console style)

- Fixed a crash in the editor on rare systems while setting the font

- Removed the error message when removing a resource that isn't in the file tracker list (it's completly harmless)

- Fixed a crash in the editor if every file in the file tracker cannot be found when opening a project

- Fixed a bug with the size of spaces (for some combinations of words around them) when using bitmapped fonts

- Added the Rotate command which takes a point and rotates it about (0,0) with an angle given in degrees

- Added the Angle command which takes a point and finds its orientation angle with origin (0,0)

- Added mouse buttons to the Input command

- Added the Mouse Event command to get the event ID the mouse is pointing to

- Added the Mouse Tile command to get the current mouse location on map in tiles

- Added the Mouse Location command to get the current mouse location on map

- Added the Mouse Position command to get the current mouse position

- Fixed a bug where the editor crashes if an object ID in a data list no longer exists because it is now out of range (when it did before)

- Fixed a bug where disabling "link to battler part" didn't actually unset this setting

- Fixed a crash in the editor when changing character part type and editing a character who used that part

- Fixed a crash in the editor when making a placeholder character part with undefined image

- Fixed a bug where the engine crashes when an encounter occurs but the enemy list is empty

Progress Report

Equipment Showing



Equipped items can now show up on characters! First you associate the clothes or whatever part with a base body like above.



And then you add all the relevant parts of a particular equipment item (such as "Clothes") in the list for that item. The engine goes to each one, checks the base body, and applies all valid parts. This has the effect where, if you change your equipment, your character sprite changes too.
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