Description

Holy hello! It's been 10 years already of the current site being up and around so it's time to celebrate!


Wow, 10 years... A lot of us weren't here ten years ago (myself included) and in that time we've seen so many faces come and go. So much talent, drive, initiative and invention. An incredible amount of dreams coming true, people pulling through and crafting, creation and positivity.

We've all grown as people, all helped craft a community where being open and friendly is the goal, and shared our hopes and dreams with each other, no matter where we come from or how old we are. And some of us are pretty damn old. ;p

Which brings us to the crux of this event - RMN is getting old, so let's reflect a while on where we came from and what inspired us to become game developers in the first place - whether it be hobbyist, professional or somewhere in-between. It's time to put on those nostalgia glasses and go back to where it all began. It's time to go...



A I M
The aim of this event is to create a simple retro-styled game over 10 days in celebration of RMN's 10th birthday!

Retro-styled can include either the gameplay, sound/music design, graphics or plot/story design. There are many games out there that count as retro, in different genres and with different visuals, so don't think you need to make a FF1 look-alike in order to hit the theme. Early Sonic, Mario, Leisure Suit Larry, Tetris, Zelda, Contra, Kirby, Megaman, Donkey Kong, Pong, Bomberman, Castlevania, Carmen Sandiago, Street Fighter, Alex the Kidd, Pacman... these are all games that hit the mark for retro. So don't feel as though you're limited to just jRPGs in this.

Here's a few sites where you can get a good idea of what Retro may mean:
Play Retro Games
Emulator Online
Retro Games


R U L E S
- You may start making your game on Saturday 3rd of June.
- Games must be completed before Monday the 12th of June.
- You may start collecting ideas, graphics, etc before the starting date, but no actually starting the game itself (in engine).
- Open to any engine, genre, etc as long as it abides by site rules.
- You may create a game page for the game, but to submit you will need to upload the file itself to the event page. Check FAQ for a how-to guide on submitting to the event.
- The game must abide by the theme of the event.

B O N U S
If you'd like to, there's a bonus challenge of making a game in 10 hours instead of 10 days. What this means is you must create the game within 10 hours over the course of the 10 day period, but that you can only use 10 hours of game development to make the game in. Again, it should abide by the theme of the event, and site rules regarding games. If you do take part in this challenge, make sure to note in the title of your game download that it's a 10 hour game by using the 10H tag.


Here's a Playlist of the gamepages that have been created for games from this event: https://rpgmaker.net/users/Liberty/playlists/72180/


F A Q
Only one gam?
Nope! You can go for more than one game, or be part of a team in one game and make your own personal game too. Hell, make a 10 day game and a 10 hour game! Go for gold!


How does resource???


How do I submit my game to the event?
Make sure that you have the game folder compressed in some way. You can do this a few ways. If the engine you use has an auto-compiler, that is one way. If it does not, download a free program like 7zip and right-mouse click on the folder the game is in, choosing the Compress Folder/Create Self-Extractor choice.

Ultimately you need a single file that holds all of your game's data, resources and misc to upload. Then on this page hit Submit in the top-right. Choose Browse to find your file and then submit it for upload. Leave the page open until it redirects to another page. Your game is now accepted to this event.

Details

  • 06/03/2017 12:00 AM
  • 06/12/2017 02:59 AM
  • 07/24/2017 12:00 AM
  • 10

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Teams Members Entry Votes
We all know she's not gonna make anything. :/
  • 0
Perren Storytellers
  • 0
Team of One
  • 2
RETRO IS DOOMED
  • 0
Oldschool startup sound!
  • 2
Might actually be Magic this time (YAH, RIIIIIIIGHT!)
  • 0
I can't believe it's not Kloe
  • 0
TEAM SEA SLUG- I MEAN, FAXANADOG!
  • 4
Retro? What's retro again? XD no idea how this will turn out but still I'm going to make my best :)
  • 0
Veronica Cucamonga would like to battle!excepteveryaneweventmakes2k3staysat60FPSeventhoughIhave600+eventson1map
  • 0
Breath of Poke Survivor
  • 0
Let's make another detective game
  • 0
  • 0
No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to Dy.
  • 5
Uncle Hexatona's Old Games for Old People
  • 0
Seiro's Lost Levels
  • 0
Take me to the back alley, i got pixels
  • 1
VAERY GOUD GAM
  • 0
RANDOM ALL CAPS TOWNSPERSON!
  • 1
hello all :) enjoy the event !!
  • 0
0x0A-foot Pole
  • 0
Team Oceans Dream
  • 1
Antique Retrotica
  • 0
No idea what to make... Guess I'll remake my previous birthday gam
  • 0
RIP GOOGLE BLOBS ILL MISS YOU
  • 0
JK It's too hard for 10 hours
  • 0
Team Silly Jam Game Somehow Turned Into My Magnum Opus
  • 2
RavenBlueindigo's Team
  • 0
Team Retro Infiltrator
  • 0
No Good (Start the Dance)
  • 0
TRYING SOMETHIN'
  • 0
god is dead
  • 2
Slowpoke
  • 0
Cafe Heart Team
  • 0
10H
  • 1
Amazing Title Screen and that's IT!
  • 0
Donald Trump be like ''I'll grope nes I see''
  • 0
5 Levels, 2½ Minutes, 1 Demo
  • 1
Ps3 is retro,right? J/K
64 flights of stairs
Ben 10-bit
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHAHA
My Shitty Little Game
÷C AS H M ER E÷ ÷C AT H O DE÷ ÷R AY÷ ÷TU B E÷
LockeZ Designs A Retro Boss Battle For You
In retrospect, I'm retroactively retrodicting a retrocession.
I got three quarters of the way through one map in 4 days...
Pata Team
Team This Is My Wheelhouse
Retro Metro (i'm not good at team names)
RetrorteR
Team Won't Submit Anything For This Event
No pulse, no breath, cold as a cod.
I Built This Site, I Can Tear It Down
A VERY GOURD GAME
Something SMBX-y
¯\_(?)_/¯
Mark will try to make a horrible game again.
I am not going to submit a game due to sadness. Spoonz will never see light of day. Waiting for hate mail.
Team WHY AM I NOT MAKING MY MAIN GAME
Hazelsoft Presents Retrosoft
Two-Sided Team

Posts

Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
Thanks for accepting our hot mess, liberty ~

11 hours let's do this

*sobbing*
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
author=Ebeth
I thought about making autotiles for this game and then went nah fuck that. You are truly a brave soul.


TBH autotiles aren't that much worse than regular tiles once you grasp the way they tile. Though I still have to use the cheat uni taught me of "Import into editor, draw a cross, screenshot, then use the screenshot to draw the inner corners." Mostly it's just tedious.
ESPECIALLY ANIMATED TILES ARGH ARGH ARGH
OzzyTheOne
Future Ruler of Gam Mak
4676
Oh well, I couldn't come up with anything to make in the end, so I'll just fail this event, just like the last few events.

Hope all you can finish your games in time! >_<)b
Ebeth
always up for cute art and spicy gay romance
4390
author=Sooz
TBH autotiles aren't that much worse than regular tiles once you grasp the way they tile. Though I still have to use the cheat uni taught me of "Import into editor, draw a cross, screenshot, then use the screenshot to draw the inner corners." Mostly it's just tedious.
ESPECIALLY ANIMATED TILES ARGH ARGH ARGH


I still have a hard time comprehending how they work D: I'm sure if I sat down and made an attempt to learn I could get it but I REFUSE!

Also screenshots!!! :D

CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
I almost definitely won't finish this in time but I still plan to finish the game. I am sleep-deprived, it's 3.51am and I start work at 9am. I have to wake up at 7.30am to bus into work. So I better be wise and at least get some sleep so that the caffeine will do its job tomorrow instead of just reinforcing my mania.
I'll be done in time, I'm sure.

...However...ahh...Do any of you happen to know how to name an actor the same as another actor?

I tried Name Change -> \N but that doesn't work, and the only script call I can find for that online is for MV, and so it's useless for VX Ace.

It's not SUPER important, but it'd be nice to have. If I can't get it in time for the event, that's fine, it'll just go in the finished version that I'll make a gamepage for after the event is over.
I'm pretty positive I won't be done in time. So I mighty ass well show what I have.



The Dragon is a gang lord, not an actual dragon. I wanted to play on old NES game tropes a bit.



That was the only dungeon map I had. Due to time restraints, I went for old NES game RPG style. Yet, I just can't find myself to be happy with it knowing I can do so much better. ):



My three main characters.

The game would have been a ten floor dungeon crawler based off a ghetto setting where gangs ruled the land. The main character would have been a ten year old girl who had the power to turn bullets into punches. By that I mean if someone shoots her or allies with a gun, the impact of the bullet would lessen greatly to something similar to a punch.

It's a compelling enough setting, but the gameplay would be bare bones turn based combat with polish here and there. It'd be a lot of work to rush this out for something I don't think would leave much of an impact. I thought I'd share what I have at least. I also made three songs for this.


For the rest of you, best of luck with finishing this!


Edit: ebeth your screens are so good that I feel better about NOT going through with this
Ah damn, that's a shame zds, your game looks delightful :(
author=Aegix_Drakan
I'll be done in time, I'm sure.

...However...ahh...Do any of you happen to know how to name an actor the same as another actor?

I tried Name Change -> \N but that doesn't work, and the only script call I can find for that online is for MV, and so it's useless for VX Ace.

It's not SUPER important, but it'd be nice to have. If I can't get it in time for the event, that's fine, it'll just go in the finished version that I'll make a gamepage for after the event is over.

$game_actors[2].name = $game_actors[1].name
Replace 2 and 1 with the Actor ID that you want to set the name of and whose name you want to copy.
Ebeth
always up for cute art and spicy gay romance
4390
author=zDS
Edit: ebeth your screens are so good that I feel better about NOT going through with this

D: Thank you but I dont want our stuff to be discouraging! Your stuff looks really cool! I hope you return to it one day!!

Being able to only focus on art and let Unity handle everything else made it so we both got extra time to work in our areas so that helped a lot.

Also I've played about 30 mins of the game and the battle system's good y'all..Unity did a killer job! I can't wait to share our work with you!
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
author=Ebeth
I still have a hard time comprehending how they work D: I'm sure if I sat down and made an attempt to learn I could get it but I REFUSE!


This guide was the one that made it all make sense to me:
author=GreatRedSpirit
$game_actors[2].name = $game_actors[1].name
Replace 2 and 1 with the Actor ID that you want to set the name of and whose name you want to copy.

You amazing person, you! Thank you!

EDIT: Ending is 100% done and it's AWESOME, now for decorating the town and adding some more dialogue there, and seeding chests.

Alchemy system will be added in the "full" version of the game after the event, alongside new game+.

:D I'm really super happy with this project.
I submitted our game page while working on game. ;_;
Finished. Phew~ Gamepage is up too because I'm a terrible person: https://rpgmaker.net/games/9851/
author=Ebeth
author=zDS
Edit: ebeth your screens are so good that I feel better about NOT going through with this
D: Thank you but I dont want our stuff to be discouraging! Your stuff looks really cool! I hope you return to it one day!!

Being able to only focus on art and let Unity handle everything else made it so we both got extra time to work in our areas so that helped a lot.

Also I've played about 30 mins of the game and the battle system's good y'all..Unity did a killer job! I can't wait to share our work with you!


Not discouraging! More like, I could do something cool like that if I had more time and would rather not rush something haha.
Just need to add the various endings and I'm done. Got my game page in early this time!
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
Gamepage has been added for my project.

Now you can get some context as to why the main character is so pissy!
Thanks for accepting it Liberty!
Welp, might as well make my gamepage them...

AAAAAND submitted it. :D
LouisCyphre
can't make a bad game if you don't finish any games
4523
author=Anaryu
Just need to add the various endings and I'm done. Got my game page in early this time!


You can't submit anything. Think of your quads!

Ebeth
always up for cute art and spicy gay romance
4390
author=Sooz
This guide was the one that made it all make sense to me:


Oh that looks super helpful thank you!!

author=zDS
Not discouraging! More like, I could do something cool like that if I had more time and would rather not rush something haha.


Oh! That totally makes sense. And hey - you've got a base for the game if you want to continue it now!