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

Looking forward to what everyone does.

Still struggling what to do for my project. I didn't come in with a concept that's feasible with RPG Maker 2k.
Backwards_Cowboy
owned a Vita and WiiU. I know failure
1737
author=MacShift
I'm excited (and a little freaked out) to be participating in my first event!


That's okay, several years ago I was in an event and forgot to submit my final version through the event page at the end.
author=Backwards_Cowboy
That's okay, several years ago I was in an event and forgot to submit my final version through the event page at the end.


Yes I'm definitely worried I'll do something wrong!
author=Backwards_Cowboy
author=MacShift
I'm excited (and a little freaked out) to be participating in my first event!
That's okay, several years ago I was in an event and forgot to submit my final version through the event page at the end.

That happened to me last month.
author=WolfCoder
1.44mb is a LOT of space

Yeah, I'm doing Gameboy and it seems inconceivable I will have to bump the ROM size up from 64 KB for this game. Even if you include the BGB emulator with that, it's only just over 500 KB.
This is 64 kilobytes, about 22 to 23 of them would fit on the floppy.

SunflowerGames
The most beautiful user on RMN!
13323

Picks engine that looks easy, spends hours trying to figure out how to give a cat a jellyfish. Looks at 10 minutes of gameplay and wonders if its possible.
author=kory_toombs
Picks engine that looks easy, spends hours trying to figure out how to give a cat a jellyfish. Looks at 10 minutes of gameplay and wonders if its possible.
If it helps you: I just asked my cat and her opinion on jellyfish is "Meh."
(Translated: "Give this
SunflowerGames
The most beautiful user on RMN!
13323

I found the solution.

I couldn't just give or giving, I had to giving to.
I just assumed since I could take or taking, but nope.

Luckily there's a forum with smart people for this stuff.
Well, I might use a few homemade images to make sure it fits the theme of this event.
author=AlaskanEmily
Yeah, I'm doing Gameboy and it seems inconceivable I will have to bump the ROM size up from 64 KB for this game. Even if you include the BGB emulator with that, it's only just over 500 KB.


You could increase your game portability by adding a version of the emulator that runs your game on Linux!
author=Irog
author=AlaskanEmily
Yeah, I'm doing Gameboy and it seems inconceivable I will have to bump the ROM size up from 64 KB for this game. Even if you include the BGB emulator with that, it's only just over 500 KB.
You could increase your game portability by adding a version of the emulator that runs your game on Linux!


None of the emulators I tried (gambette and SameBoy in particular) compile to be nearly small enough to do this. I figure it shouldn't be a huge ask for non-Windows folks to supply their own emulator anyway.
author=WolfCoder
BGB works just fine in WINE
Yep, that's what I plan on including.
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
If anybody watching is still looking to join a team as pixel artist pls let me know, I'm doing a gameboy thing and basically I need help dressing up a base to make a couple charas.

Thanks guys, Avee has offered to lend me a hand!


Got the second screen of the game working :)
author=AlaskanEmily
Got the second screen of the game working :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iB-xy0u4A

Also: YAY!
iddalai
RPG Maker 2k/2k3 for life, baby!!
1194
author=Mirak
If anybody watching is still looking to join a team as pixel artist pls let me know, I'm doing a gameboy thing and basically I need help dressing up a base to make a couple charas.

Try asking Avee.

Edit: lol nevermind, I just noticed you're already on the same team :P
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
I should edit the post haha