Description

You have traveled back in time to the 90s! You look around your room and see a massive collection of games. Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Castlevania, Metroid, Sonic, Street Fighter, and more, all waiting to be played. You can listen to your older brother playing Doom in the other room and The Simpsons on the family TV. You see posters of the Ninja Turtles and Transformers, along with countless toys of all kinds. You can even sense the smell of pizza coming from the kitchen! So many great memories are coming back to you!

You go and turn on your computer and see something different. Not only is your computer more advanced than it ever was before. (Heck, you don't even remember having a computer all for you, you always shared the family computer) It now has a brand new program pre-installed: RPG Maker. "Awesome!" you think, "I can make one of those cool Final Fantasy games!". You proceed to spend hours planning how to make your dream game; thinking of sharing it with all your friends at school until you realize something... You only have a single floppy disk to put the game on.

Well, not everything was better in the past.

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The 1.44 Floppy disk event is a way to celebrate the now-obsolete data storage medium and also a way to go back in time and appreciate how valuable space back then; where every single byte was valuable and games were optimized to make the most of each one (Unlike modern games were 50+ GB games has kind of become the norm).

The idea is simple: Make a game that can fit into one floppy disk. While there were lots of different kinds of disks with varying capacities back then, the most standard and well-known was the 1.44 MB one. You are free to do whatever you want as long as it can fit into those 1.44 MB. You are not restricted to the technology of the era either. Any modern game engine is fair game, as long as the compressed game still fits into 1.44 MB.


RULES:
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- Teams are allowed.

- You may use any engine.

- You can use any resources you've made in the past. This includes making resources before the event officially starts.

- The games must be uploaded to the event page.

- There must be at least 10 minutes of gameplay.

- The game size can't be larger than 1.44 MB. (After compression of course)

- RTP is allowed but the game should run without it installed. If you need help here are some tutorials for RPG Maker 2003

- The game should be able to run out of the box with minimal fussing. This ideally means that it should run by just clicking the .exe file. But if the game requires some extra files then those same files should go within the 1.44 MB limit.

- The event begins on Wednesday the 14th of April and ends at 4:00 am Thursday the 29th of April. (14.4 days. Get it?)

- RPG Maker VX / Ace, MV, and MZ are not available for this event. Their projects even stripped down to the bare minimum don't give enough room to fit into 1.44 MB. You can still use them if you somehow manage to make the game fit though. Good luck!

- Any questions? You can send a PM to "El_WaKa" on RMN or "WaKa" in the Discord server.

REWARDS:
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The best overall game will not only receive "The Golden Disk" achievement but it will also get to pick a free steam key from a list of almost 400+ games! All aspects of a game are taken into consideration (graphics, sound, gameplay, etc.) with the extra emphasis on how much unique content is available in the limited space.

There are also some extra achievements and makerscore to be won!:

"Don't copy that Floppy" 14 MS: For releasing a demo.

"The Master Copy" 60 MS: For finishing a game.

"The Golden Disk" 70 MS: For the best overall game.

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The event is over! Check out the results over here!
Congratulations to Unchained by Decky! You won the Golden Disk!

Details

  • 04/14/2021 12:00 AM
  • 04/29/2021 04:00 AM
  • 10

Achievements

Registration

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Teams Members Entry
Looks like I need to try something beside MV
This team has performed an illegal action and will be shut down.
Nostalgia
Everybody do the flop!
Tass Times in RMN
www.eMachinesFloppyDiskSettlement.com
Mirak calls for help! But no one came...
shittyabandonwarez.cn/dos/drekirokr-3540/download/
I miss floppy disks
flop pies
Diskette 0 Drive Seek Failure
Keep on smilin'
Insert the system disk before inserting the game disk.
C:\DOS\Run
It's very interesting
Fflo's Quest inside Naughty Lord's Dungeon, should be "released" on the Nintendo DS
RM1K44(B)
Flippity Flappity Floop
Keep the faith and run away!
RPG Maker 1440
Momekas one man band
Yeah why not
Floppy, but not sloppy
You said we couldn't, so we did.
360kB is enough for anyone
Sandware
I copied that floppy
is it time?
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (sometimes casually referred to as a floppy or diskette) is a type of disk storage composed of
Floppy0153
Floppy Disks were invented by computers to help us
RM_256k
Friends: The JRPG
1998 called. ...Can...Can I stay there for a while? Please? :o
Team Double Density
(A)bort (R)etry (F)ail
Final Fantasy but bigger
GOT 144 PROBLEMS BUT THE DISC AIN'T ONE
Still Loading...
An excuse to use RM 2k again
First time using 2003. Hope this works
Vitrolic Virtue Studio
Floppy Healy
America On-Lion Free Trial Disc
Floppin' on the Floor
Magick SOFT

Posts

author=Ulevo
I have a question. During the development of this project, does the game body need to include RTP content based on Rpg Maker 2K3? Or is it possible to publish only works that do not contain RTP content?


You can totally make a game and not use the RTP at all! The RTP is just there as an option for extra resources. Just remember that the game should run without the RTP
installed. (Follow this link, and yes, this step is required even when you don't use any RTP in your game. RM2k3 is weird that way.)
SunflowerGames
The most beautiful user on RMN!
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author=Soulrain
Why can't the event start alreadyyyyyyy


Yeah, it's a bit strange. All I did was check if it was feasible to get down to that size. Now, it's sit and wait time.
I do like browsers:

"Autoplay is only allowed when approved by the user, the site is activated by the user, or media is muted."

In other words: modern browsers won't autoplay any sounds unless the biological entity in front of the screen explicitly asked them to do it.
author=Ulevo
I have a question. During the development of this project, does the game body need to include RTP content based on Rpg Maker 2K3? Or is it possible to publish only works that do not contain RTP content?

My understanding is that your game doesn't need to include the RTP, but it cannot rely on the RTP being on the player's computer. Assume the user doesn't have the RTP installed basically. You don't have to use it, but you can't use it to try and bypass the 1.44 MB limit of the event.

e: I'm so bad at internet posting I missed there was a 4th page!
iddalai
RPG Maker 2k/2k3 for life, baby!!
1194
author=El_WaKa
Yup! Rips and free resources are 100% allowed.


OK! Thanks!

...now we play the waiting game :P
author=El_WaKa
author=Ulevo
I have a question. During the development of this project, does the game body need to include RTP content based on Rpg Maker 2K3? Or is it possible to publish only works that do not contain RTP content?
You can totally make a game and not use the RTP at all! The RTP is just there as an option for extra resources. Just remember that the game should run without the RTP
installed. (Follow this link, and yes, this step is required even when you don't use any RTP in your game. RM2k3 is weird that way.)
Turns out so, thanks.
author=GreatRedSpirit
author=Ulevo
I have a question. During the development of this project, does the game body need to include RTP content based on Rpg Maker 2K3? Or is it possible to publish only works that do not contain RTP content?
My understanding is that your game doesn't need to include the RTP, but it cannot rely on the RTP being on the player's computer. Assume the user doesn't have the RTP installed basically. You don't have to use it, but you can't use it to try and bypass the 1.44 MB limit of the event.

e: I'm so bad at internet posting I missed there was a 4th page!
When the user is not using RTP, can I not use it to bypass the 1.44 restriction of this rule?
Nevermind what I said, El Waka said it better than I did (and they're running the event too!)
author=GreatRedSpirit
Nevermind what I said, El Waka said it better than I did (and they're running the event too!)
Okey. (Anyway, I will not use self-made image resources, there should be no impact of lack of files)
iddalai
RPG Maker 2k/2k3 for life, baby!!
1194
There's no issue in using a resource from the RTP as long as you include that file in the compressed game AND do that flag thing explained in the link that El_Waka posted ;)
Oops, don't mind the 3 update notifcations, kinda fucked up something and had to revert it. But yeah, The Floppy event is now a competitive event, with the winner getting a free steam key. Best of luck to everyone!
While you're busy updating the event page, you might want to update the Mb to MB as well. It's nitpick, but it's bugging me.
author=Kazesui
While you're busy updating the event page, you might want to update the Mb to MB as well. It's nitpick, but it's bugging me.
And update Floppy DisC to Floppy DisK in the banner
author=Kazesui
While you're busy updating the event page, you might want to update the Mb to MB as well. It's nitpick, but it's bugging me.


Oops, fixed! Also changed some other stuff.
Have we started yet?

AKA: which time zone is it anyway?
Looks as if it started 8 hours ago.
author=Illy
Looks as if it started 8 hours ago.

I thought we'd get an "Event has started" notice automatically.

Also: to me it looks like the event's start time is "Midnight, UTC" that's why I'm asking.
author=iddalai
There's no issue in using a resource from the RTP as long as you include that file in the compressed game AND do that flag thing explained in the link that El_Waka posted ;)
OK
iddalai
RPG Maker 2k/2k3 for life, baby!!
1194
Good luck, people!
I'm excited (and a little freaked out) to be participating in my first event!

But I have a question: How do I list the engine I'm using? I can't edit anything about my "team".

Nevermind I found it!