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

Man! I feel totally inclined to join this event, and not only because I love free stuff, but because I absolutely adore the Snoopy theme and I have the perfect idea for a game featuring an lovely beagle ever since the valedictorian game drive... But, damn! Two weeks is no reasonable period of time to finish a game. Not even a month is! And if I need to buy my own copy of Ace to finish the game, then what's the point of even joining this contest! Argh! I can't stand it! I just can't stand it anymore!

May as well join just for the free Snoopy badge... >_>;

Edit: I could always submit something crappy and then delete it afterwards. Assuming the badge stays... >_>;
Edit: Of course I won't! I have my principles, you know? But I'm a sucker for all things 'Peanuts', though... >_>;
author=alterego
May as well join just for the free Snoopy badge... >_>;
You have to submit an entry to get the badge.
I somehow want to pop in only because of a snoopy badge.
Hesufo
I am pretty interested in hooking up sometime. Screw me.
1199
I'll join for the Snoopy badge, as well~
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.
Cool, hi Nick!
I think I'll join too! I have a few ideas floating around in my head, and if I win, cool I get to actually show off my ideas. If not, I got a gome done AND I got that cool Snoopy badge. Win-Win situation!
So is there anyway to run ace on a lower screen resolution? If not I've already lost and the plot I started working on is wasted.
author=Justicelord
So is there anyway to run ace on a lower screen resolution? If not I've already lost and the plot I started working on is wasted.


If your screen can't exceed 1024x780 resolution, unfortunately you are running severely outdated hardware. I know you can't make the vxAce software run on a lower resolution, but there may be a work around. TouchFuzzy might know more about it.
author=Justicelord
My computer is only a few years old...


I'd check and make sure your video drivers are installed and up to date, and then check your monitor specifications. I think only the first or second generation of LCD monitors didn't support higher than 1024x780, and every monitor afterwards has.

If you are on something like a netbook, I could imagine it not supporting those resolutions but those kind of computers aren't designed for this sort of thing. They are designed for checking emails and stuff.
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.


Sweet!

(Also, free Snoopy badge is mildly tempting.)
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.
hey, I always leave around 5pm! Clyve sets his watch to it.

Anywho, this is a great boon to RMN! Thank you Touchfuzzy, and thanks Degica!

I will update the event page to reflect this donation.
I figured out a fix to my problem. Hopefully I can finish in time for the contest.
LEECH
who am i and how did i get in here
2599
author=Justicelord
I figured out a fix to my problem. Hopefully I can finish in time for the contest.

Maybe i can start in time for the contest...
author=ldida1
author=Justicelord
I figured out a fix to my problem. Hopefully I can finish in time for the contest.
Maybe i can start in time for the contest...

Never give up and trust your instincts
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
Yo' coderiffic people: Despite has his own team, but we've actually decided to merge... how can we edit our teams to reflect this? When I try to move Despite to my team, he says that he's already on Never's Start although, uh, clearly he isn't.

Halp?
So. I may or may not be able to participate...

I own a netbook, you see.
Do you have an external monitor you can plug into? If you can increase your resolution when you open Ace and then unplug the monitor and revert to your netbook's resolution you should still be able to use it decently. The Okay/Cancel/Apply buttons might be offscreen though but you could probably move the window so it appears on screen.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
Forget it, I'm in. I don't even care that I already own a copy of VX Ace. It's not like I'm going to win the top prize anyway!
author=GreatRedSpirit
Do you have an external monitor you can plug into? If you can increase your resolution when you open Ace and then unplug the monitor and revert to your netbook's resolution you should still be able to use it decently. The Okay/Cancel/Apply buttons might be offscreen though but you could probably move the window so it appears on screen.


Yup! Just dug it out.