Description

This has been a big year for the RPG Maker series, with the release of RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker 2003, as well as the news of RPG Maker MV coming in the future! As such, we've held a fair amount of RM-only events. But what about the other engines out there? There's a lot of them and with the recent Humble Bundle packs and new releases, they haven't seen much time in the spotlight in the site.

Thus, this time we're going to even the score - No RPG Maker event is a go!



Make a game during the month of October in an engine that is not part of the RPG Maker series.



- Make and release a project with-in the month of October, 2015.
- Only non-RM engines are allowed.
- No teams. (Though you can get people to help you, there's only a single prize and divvying it up would be quite difficult.)
- Only one per person.
- RM-clone engines are not allowed. It's a challenge people! Embrace it!
- You may release a demo or full game, but you an only win first prize with a full game. (Other prizes can be won with demos, though.)
- Games must have at least 10-20 minutes of game time.
- You cannot use an old game as a base, though you can certainly remake a game in a different engine. And pre-made resources are fine.
- Rips, edits, RTP and custom are all good.


All games must be submitted to the event page by the 31st of October, 11:59 GMT.

You may start brainstorming but nothing else until the 1st of October.

There will be NO extensions so plan your time wisely and make prayers to the Gods of Fate.




The First Place prize will be a 3D printed coin with the RMN logo on one side and your username on the other. The winner will also receive a badge and 80MS. Only a full game can win this prize.

2nd Place will receive a badge and 60MS.

3rd Place will receive a badge and 40MS.

All others will receive a badge and 25MS.



Placings will be picked by vote, but only votes by those who have been on the site before the competition started will count, so calling on tumblr or reddit to swing you to win won't work.


For those who don't recall (or know) we do have an engines page in case you've no idea where to start. You can also start checking out the different engines right away. Dive on in!


To sumbit:
Create a game page for your game, abiding by the rules of the site. It is highly recommended that you do this at least a few days before the end of the event!

Upload your game to the gamepage and then click the Submit button at the top of this page. From there you can choose the download you mean to submit.

This must all be done before the end date of the competition.



FAQ

Is RPG Toolkit taken as a clone engine?
I'm gonna go with yes and say 'Go challenge yourself, mate'. There's a lot of engines out there. We have a huge list of them on the engines page and a bunch of them are free.

Does it have to cooperate with Windows 7?
Make it compatible with at least Windows XP and 7. If people can't play your game they can't vote for it after all. Also, yes, PC Master race.

Will there be any theme or more guidelines given?
There might be additions to the guidelines depending on questions asked, though that will be more clarification. No theme.

So I can start working on ma gam right now?
Is it October yet? The start and end dates are shown in the top-right corner of the page, under the submit and management buttons. You can mess around to get used to an engine, but no actually making a start on your game. Brainstorming is fine, though. No concrete work!


Details

  • 10/01/2015 12:00 AM
  • 10/31/2015 11:59 PM

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Posts

slash
APATHY IS FOR COWARDS
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author=charblar
*falls right behind slash*
UNITY!


Yuss! o/

I'm so excited to use Unity again! I've been in RM-land for way too long~
author=unity
author=Liberty
author=Mirak
Also woah liberty so many tabs
are you watching three animes at the same time?
I tend to have tabs open when I've been checking on them for a while. This is actually pretty damn tame. My record is 56 and that was for about a month or so, so... yeah.

Yay, I'm not the only one! XD ...Sooz makes fun of me for how many tabs I have open all the time :P

Once you start you can never stop.

Also: Good luck, everyone!
Ratty524
The 524 is for 524 Stone Crabs
12986
I've decided to make a platformer game similar to Donkey Kong or Solomon's Key in that it has a bit more of a focus on simple puzzle solving. That might help with lowering the scope considering all the other shit I need to take care of at the moment + my inexperience with other engines besides RPG Maker.
Frogge
I wanna marry ALL the boys!! And Donna is a meanc
18536
I'm still trying to decide what to make. I have many ideas but I wanted to do them in rpg maker 2003(with REFMAP graphics obviously it's the only reason I'm even using 2003 anymore).
I'll probably do a sound novel without sound. Hopefully in a similar style to this.

*Edit*
Oh wow the links are actually really hard to spot Libby. You might want to change them into another color like blue or yellow to make them easier to see.
I really wanna do something with AGS for once. Damn you contests making me actually work for something.
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
I think i'll end up using game maker for this. I don't have time to learn how to use a new engine from scratch and i have a tiny little bit of experience with GM.
My game is going to be crap but at least it'll be playable.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
I'm going to try my hand at Unity. A little shooter with no plot and randomly spawning enemies...
I gave the following engines a quick try:
-Renpy
-Zelda Classic
-OHRRPGCE
-Stencyl

Renpy definitely seems to be the easiest to work with for a beginner. The others didn't seem as user-friendly.

And TyranoBuilder sounds interesting. It's affordable and seems to be really easy to use like eventing in any RM. No scripting knowledge required.

I guess I'll start looking for background and character images and will make a short visual novel for the event.
:3
I made a small Metroidvania game called BREAK once for Ludum Dare using Clickteam Fusion. The main gimmick was that you had to collect powerups that increase the size of the game window in order to access more of the game map.

My plan is to make a sequel for this event which still uses the concept of resizing the window, but in a different way. I'll also upload the first game here.

But first I'll try to change the first game's music because currently there's only a short loop that plays for the entire game, which can get annoying.
Now it makes me wish I put more time learning how to use Construct. XD
Weee I'm in :)

I'm gonna go with Renpy for this one.
Though if making the graphics start seeming too much for me, I'll fall back to cpp.
Frogge
I wanna marry ALL the boys!! And Donna is a meanc
18536
author=Avee
And TyranoBuilder sounds interesting. It's affordable and seems to be really easy to use like eventing in any RM. No scripting knowledge required.

Yup it's really easy, although some parts I'm still trying to figure out. A sound novel seems to be the easiest thing it can do, and all I will need is backgrounds not characters.
Yey, whatta great contest we have, Im in :D

This is gonna AWESOMMMMMMMMEEEE!!!! :DDDDD

I think Renpy is my choice,but gonna try other game engines too.
Mirak
Stand back. Artist at work. I paint with enthusiasm if not with talent.
9300
Who'll break down first!? O_O
SO MANY RENPY GAMES, YAAAAY!
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
This is going to be fun, and I'll probably be back to being able to play games again by the time this finishes.
Frogge
I wanna marry ALL the boys!! And Donna is a meanc
18536
I might actually try something else other then tyrano builder since I have almost no ideas for a plot and obviously a visual novel should have a good story.
author=Frogge
I might actually try something else other then tyrano builder since I have almost no ideas for a plot and obviously a visual novel should have a good story.
It doesn't really have to be good. Just interesting (or controversial) is enough :)
Question: would a fangame be any good? I'm considering entering the event, even just for fun, but I'm not sure if it would stand any chance of picking anyone's interest. (And it wouldn't be a Final Fantasy fangame, different franchise. ;) ) The rules doesn't say anything about it, but I prefer to know in advance.
SunflowerGames
The most beautiful user on RMN!
13323

If you can use Rips or RPG Maker RTP then I would say you can do whatever you want to as long as you can pass the bare minimum requirements for submitting a game page.

Though you couldn't sell your game.

The winner is decided by a vote. So it would really be up to the voters if your game is good or not.