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

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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

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/293-small-script-fix/

There is a small script fix for RMVXAce, detailed in this thread. It's a really easy fix. As such, they have updated download to v1.01

In case any of you didn't know...
Are there really restrictions in the trial such as amount of events and switches? I'm asking cause I don't see these on my trial, but I've heard about them being on it. I'm close to 20 switches now and I'm worried I'm not seeing this limit.
There was only a limit on the Japanese trial. It had all kinds of dumb restrictions like limited switches and variables and no saving or loading projects. The only restriction to the English trial is you have 30 free days to play with it before you must activate it.
author=Despite
k, got my team deleted.

Add me and lemme know watchu need.

You were speaking to me right?
author=Tau
I got a name now!

How did you get the awesome logo?
Tau
RMN sex symbol
3293
I made it. I'm not sure if I should get that fix because I'm not using any scripts, not enough time to devote to this thing. Hell I'm probably not going to have a title screen haha.
Despite
When the going gets tough, go fuck yourself.
1340
I was talking to craze, his rapper name is crazy locc.
author=GreatRedSpirit
author=HanzouMasta
Um, I need explanation. Does this mean that I have to put a character saying "Hello this adventure is brought to you for the NCC Competition at RMN" or something that would indicate it?
No. This rule is to prevent people from trying to submit notAce->Ace ports and submitting games they have started in the Japanese Ace to the contest which would give them an unfair advantage. Resources like graphics, music, and scripts are allowed even if they were made for other games. There is no need for any sort of in-game notice indicating that the game was made for this contest.


OK, thanks. Oh, one more question; is it allowed to solo the project?
Puddor
if squallbutts was a misao category i'd win every damn year
5702
HanzouMasta: Yeah you're allowed to go solo. Teams are optional~

Anyway, game page is UP. (well pending). http://rpgmaker.net/games/3906/

I'm working on Level 1 at the moment. Once level one is done I'll finish the final levels and boss, and then spend the next few days building extra levels.

I still have a tiny bit of the intro to do plus level transitions but I'll see how that goes.
author=SorceressKyrsty
HanzouMasta: Yeah you're allowed to go solo. Teams are optional~


Nice, cool!
It's not like I don't want to team up, but I just want to try my aptitudes first ^^;
Well... time to build~
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
WOOOOO

Despite, I will get back to you soon, I am on two hours of sleep but will be on break in five minutes holy shit what is this feeling ahhhhhhhhh
Despite
When the going gets tough, go fuck yourself.
1340
Take your time mate, I'm on spring break now!

Lots of alcohol is in my near future.

Just send me a list of what you need when you organize your game plan, I'll get it done.
Damn, my project has gotten too ambitious to finish within that time frame. What to do, what to do...
author=Methera
Damn, my project has gotten too ambitious to finish within that time frame. What to do, what to do...


Pick a good chapter break, then add a "To Be Continued", or some other such plot device.
author=Studio Zytharros
author=Methera
Damn, my project has gotten too ambitious to finish within that time frame. What to do, what to do...
Pick a good chapter break, then add a "To Be Continued", or some other such plot device.


This exactly. Scale back, leave some features as 'to be added' and bring the story to a close earlier.

Get people excited for the continuation. : )
Yeah I have consulted with my team, and that'll be the route we'll take for now.
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
Do we have to include the RTP with our game?

EDIT: SO MUCH CODING ZOMG I really should have started sooner (I guess I technically did since I'm using the battle engine I've been working on for a month, but uuuuuugh). At least I can actually start doing ze gam mak tomorrow, as in playable content.

hooray for having no life
author=Studio Zytharros
Submitted! ;)


With almost a whole week left? I'd use that time for testing and improving, maybe adding some new features...
LEECH
who am i and how did i get in here
2599
OK, finally got the trial working... Now i have to make a game in a week dammit.


*Hopes for extension*
author=ldida1
OK, finally got the trial working... Now i have to make a game in a week dammit.


*Hopes for extension*

I don't think there'll be an extension in this one for a few reasons:
1 - there's a lot of people in this competition and it's not fair on those who did get it in on time
2 - even a demo is considered a viable entry
3 - it's more... official, I guess?

Though I guess if enough people ask... But still, I don't think there will be one.

(Mind you, I'd probably benefit with one as well, considering I started about three or four days ago.) Welp~