Description

RPG Maker VX Ace is OUT and we want to see what RMN can do with this new tool! The Nugget Crash Course is a competition for new Ace users to make a game to try and win a copy of RPG Maker VX Ace, courtesy of our friends at Degica (the company that markets and distributes RPG Maker outside of Japan)!

RPG Maker VX Ace is aptly named as it is RPG Maker VX {Insert Incremental Reference Here}. Imagine your regular VX with various changes and upgrades all over the place to make it a better tool all-round. The best way to see what the changes are is to download the Ace trial and give it a spin! You might even get your own copy out of it!

This is a fast and loose competition with a new tool and so will the theme. Simply make a game with RPG Maker VX Ace! It must be a new Ace game started with the English version so no carry overs from the Japanese release / trial. You can use any resources for Ace such as graphics, music, and scripts but I don't want to see any Ace-rized versions of your VX game.

Ace can handle any graphic, sound, or music VX can and more so all resources for VX are available. Ace also has a new feature of being able to create character and face graphics through putting premade templates together directly in the program. One critical difference between VX and Ace is the script backend got rewritten Ace which means a large majority of scripts for VX won't work for Ace. You can check the script repository on RMN for several scripts made to work with Ace.

Having trouble with Ace? There's a few places where you can try to get some help. Posting on the event itself is allowed but it's easy to lose track of such questions. You can post questions in RMN's Help & Request forum as long as you read the forum rules. You can also head onto RMN's IRC channel to try and get some real time assistance there too.

Judging will be handled by GreatRedSpirit, Archeia_Nessiah, Liberty, and Deckiller. After all the judges have played the games they will rank the games by their own preference. When a game is listed as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd the game gets 7, 5, or 3 points respectively. The game with the most points wins!

The dev lead for the game that scored the most points will be awarded a new Ace product key! We only have one key so teams will have to fight to the death against each other decide who gets the key. We'll also have achievements: The top prize achievement for the 1st place team, runner up achievements for the 2nd and 3rd teams, and participation achievements for everybody who participated.

Important Update! Our prize has been donated to us from our friends at Degica and RPG Maker Web:
author=Touchfuzzy
I wanted to tell Kentona first, but the dude totally JUMPED OUT THE WINDOW WHEN I WAS TRYING TO TALK TO HIM. (Ok, not really, he just left the irc channel), but I'm just too happy not to want to announce it myself.

For people who don't know, I'm Nick Palmer, I work managing the official RPG Maker English site's(RPGMakerWeb.com) blog, Facebook, Twitter, Forum, and well, a billion other hats involved in RM Marketing.

Anyway, we at Degica (the company that markets and distributes RPG Maker outside of Japan) want to show appreciation to RMN for being such a great fan community for our products. As such, we will be supplying the Medal of Honor prize copy of RPG Maker VX Ace.
This is a great boon to RMN! Thank you Touchfuzzy, and thanks Degica! Your support of RMN is apprciated.

You get half a month starting when Ace is released until the end of April 1st giving two weeks and a weekend to create your game. There is some leeway in situations where game breaking bugs are found by the judges after the 1st and the devs will be allowed to fix these bugs.

Registration

You must be logged in to sign up for RPG Maker VX Ace - Nugget Crash Course.

Teams Members Entry
Honorary Entry of Mystery
Danger, danger! High voltage!
The Best Kind of Witchcraft
AwesomeTeamOfAwesomeIsAwesomeAlsoWeLikeCamelCaseAndLongNames
C# - - - - Maker of "Silent Eyes"
Team 'Who the Hell is That?'
Indy Jones and the VXAce Contest of DOOM
Never's Start
Team Youjustwastedtimereadingthislol
Let the Games Begin. . .Lady's and Gentlemen!?
Bludgeon of Inspiration
The Four Spirits
Fuck it! I want a snoopy badge but I won't get judged. XP
The Labs of Chrono
New game, come and join me!!!
Team Who Gives A Sh-
What is with all these team names?
jomarcenter studio "future helper and the seven tower"
HKOz Assal
Late Night Studio
Ace Hunters
Singing Deerhead Productions
Following the sun
For Snoopy~
oh yeah
Lovely Charmer
OOstudios
Team Wind-Up Bird
Vulkinshii productions
Attempting to complete the impossible...finishing a game
GENERIQUEST 2012: Where doing this man. Where MAKING THIS HAPEN.
QuietLife
Winter's Sorrow Announced!
Gourd Clae: Ace VxAcer
Black Skull Insignia
Team HUNGER GAMES ARE AWESOME!
Trying to not copy from the tutorial.
Ralph's Party
IDK
The Last Minute "Team" of Glory
Eternallight's Team

Posts

author=Liberty
What new things have you learned in these past two weeks of playing with VXA?


I love the different options one can use for manipulating character stats. As I explored the back end and front end manipulations I discovered a level of depth I had never before thought of, next only to programming a game outright myself. I knew for my first game I would only familiarize myself with the interface, but even interacting with that was a billion times easier than 2k3.

I enjoyed the "self-switch" feature greatly. Once I began using that, I started thinking of much more efficient ways to use and organize my main switches.

I even enjoyed it's compression tool. It organized everything into a neat little executable that I could just throw up on a site and call good.

RPG Maker 2k3 seems abnormally primitive now, by comparison.
Decky
I'm a dog pirate
19645
Since mine's not official, I'll just push out a demo at some point tonight...and finish working on it as I judge, heh.
author=Deckiller
Since mine's not official, I'll just push out a demo at some point tonight...and finish working on it as I judge, heh.


Wouldn't that mean you weren't qualified for the badge then?

Although I think judges should be okay with the basic badge, or get their own special one, since judging is a lot of work too.
K-hos
whoa You guys are hi-chaining without me? That's just not right. :<
721
author=Anaryu
author=Deckiller
Since mine's not official, I'll just push out a demo at some point tonight...and finish working on it as I judge, heh.
Wouldn't that mean you weren't qualified for the badge then?

Although I think judges should be okay with the basic badge, or get their own special one, since judging is a lot of work too.


'I judged a contest and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.'
Just submitted my entry! Good luck to everyone that entered!
We can get a badge for taking part, but we can't get any other prizes.

Another thing I learned was that just because you can make skills that hurt as well as heal, doesn't mean it'll be the BEST POSSIBLE THING!!!

Monsters can glow in the dark if you do the colouring right. :D
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
Waiting for my download to be accepted so I can submit. WOOOOOO

(no idea how I wrapped this up)

EDIT: AND SUBMITED

gurd lurk evvyburdy
Well that was mighty close to the deadline.

Yeah to anyone wondering why I was completing ignoring everything on the site and #rpgmaker.net for the past 10 days, it was this.
Wasn't that an hour past? (not that it matters much.)
author=Anaryu
Wasn't that an hour past? (not that it matters much.)
The contest ended about 7 mins ago. (Did you adjust your RMN account for the recent DST time change?)
Nope mine said it was an hour earlier then. :(
I am confused since it tells me that the event ends at 8:59 am april 2 and I tried to submit mine at 8:56 am and it...won't let me?!

http://i.imgur.com/hWuQi.jpg
Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
http://rpgmaker.net/games/3956/
There's that game anyway and I can confirm it was done before then.
Is anybody else having submission issues? I can push back the end date a few hours to make sure everybody gets their submission added properly.
Decky
I'm a dog pirate
19645
You might want to do that anyway - I know someone who can't get to their computer right now.
There goes the snoopy badge. *stares over the horizon*
Please push it back a few hours.
So that Ocean&Ness, Dec, and Dudes (and anybody else who had some last minute troubles) can submit their entry properly I pushed back the deadline three hours from the original time (so there's another hour and a half as of this post).