TURBU

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Description

TURBU is a game system for creating and playing console-style RPGs, designed to be compatible with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003 games. But unlike other projects that aim to create RPG Maker clones, TURBU is its own system with its own file formats. It doesn't play RPG Maker games directly, but rather converts them to TURBU projects via an importer. This leaves the TURBU engine free to add new functionality that's not supported by RPG Maker, such as improved scripting, directly in the game engine instead of having to use patches and hacks to hook the new features in.

The engine is currently in active development, able to display maps, move around on them and move from one map to another, and run event scripts. The majority of script commands are currently supported, and the rest are being worked on. The editor allows maps to be created and worked on, and actually hosts the game engine inside the editor, which means that it's possible to test a game without having to launch an external program.

There is currently no battle engine. There are two planned, (one for RM 2003-style games and one for RM 2000-style games,) which will be added once development of the map engine is finished.

License
MPL 1.1 (Open-source. Source code is available at http://code.google.com/p/turbu/)

Latest Bulletin

Progress Journal: Menus

Mason_Wheeler
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09/05/2013 01:32 AM

I’ve got a good excuse for some of that time. My sister had a baby, and I was visiting with her and her husband. But for the rest of it, I’ve just been working. And I just finished a new TURBU build and put it up waiting on the Downloads page.

After completing The Frozen World, I’ve been working on playing through Love and War. It’s been really good for progress on the game engine, since I keep running into new issues in the scripting system and figuring out how to fix them. Right now, I’ve gotten as far as the second delivery mission, and fixed a ton of bugs.

I’ve also added a new feature since the last update: the menu system. Right now, the main menu will come up as expected, and the Items, Skills and Equipment menus have been implemented. Save and End Game currently do nothing, and I haven’t gotten around to any of the menus introduced in RM 2003 yet.

Next up are the Save menu and the Shop system, which is essentially a menu as well. I plan on following the RPG Maker model pretty closely, except that I’m going to add a feature to the Shop menu that it always bugged me that RPG Maker didn’t have: Equip.

After that, the script system will be pretty much complete, at least for Phase 1: achieving parity with RM2K. In Phase 2, I plan to move a lot of the things that are currently handled by the game engine into scripts, so that developers will be able to customize and extend things a lot more deeply than they’re currently able to. For example, defining custom transitions, new menus, or new character, monster and item attributes. But that will have to wait until after I finish the core feature set.

After I finish the menus, next up will be the battle system, finally. I’ll implement a RM2K battle system, and then I’ll work on menus and then a battle system for RM2K3. When those are done, we’ll have a complete game engine! Then all that will be left will be to finish up the missing features in the editor.

This is an exciting time, being so close to finishing! Hopefully I’ll be able to keep making progress at a good pace!