CONCEPT: ADVANCED RPG MAKER - AN EZINE

i'd feature it.

people here have been clamouring for more snews.

I dunno about contributing to it, but I can certainly see myself reading it.

I read the ezine15.pdf, I hope you don't mind feedback <:3c

Hey, no, sit your ass down, Mister Clown.
Firstly, fuck that noise about 95. 95 was a decent engine. It had a lot of great pieces that keep coming back each time and some that could stand to come back into even today's engines. Pop-out, movable, re-sizable mapping window? Fuck yes! Easy to change stat curves (just plonk a point and drag. Insta-curves with more than just one point of change). Did it have problems? Yes, it did. Did that make it bad? No, it did not. Your lazy-ass writer needs to do their research, homie.
- You could right-mouse click a tile and choose what terrain it was set to.
- You could give starting items to each character. Not armour, items. You could have someone bring 20 potions to your team when they joined, automatically set up on their creation.
- You could change walk speed without scripts.
- You could set window to transparent.
- You could change the Max amount of items up to 2,000,000 if you wanted. Again, no scripts. Just a default part of the engine.
- You could create an automatic opening event without assigning it to a map.
- You could create a game-wide custom death event, too, as part of default game. No common events necessary.
- You could adjust Chip/chara/monster palette in-game. Not just a recolour, but actually import pictures above the 256 colours and adjust their palette to the restrictions, and even have them merged with the palette of another picture.
- IN-BUILT MOUSE SUPPORT
Yeah...

And I know you did not just diss the 2K/3 RTP. I know you didn't. Because that shit is tight. It is tighter than XP and Ace RTP. I love Ace RTP, but 2k/3 RTP is the tightest of shit. It uses squares. It breaks the squares. It doesn't look like a rainy, dreary day. It's fucking top notch stuff.

No, the RTP is great. It's puerile mappers that make it look shit, just like they make Mack look shit. Just like they make Ace look shit. Sit your asses down and do some proper writing if you're gonna go all diss up in this place.

Yeah, you got a woody for Ace and XP, we get that, but don't be dissing the older/other makers just because you like scripting shit and non-pixel graphics. That shit is wrong.

If you're adding humour and boldness, don't do it during articles that are supposed to inform. If something doesn't work for you, do some homework and checking with others who it did work for instead of just writing it off as 'oh, it doesn't work lol'. It's childish and comes across as just dissing whatever it is you're 'reporting' on.

You also need to work a bit on grammar and the way you word things.

Also? Those pretty screenshots for the 95 page? Not 95 RTP.

From what I read it seems like it could work, but it needs more stuff behind it first. You could do what Game Informer does and have a review staff create a compendium of review scores for popular games.

As it stands now, there's about 4 pages of announcements across 20 pages. I think it would be better to put that stuff at the beginning and comprise the rest of it with just straight information.

This deserves a poll, but yes, I'd definitely dl something like this. Not sure if people are thinking of what to add for each issue, but I like the tutorial thing.

If they are looking for suggestions, I'd encourage more event-related (non script) tutorials to show that you don't always need fancy scripts to make great game mechanics.

I read through the article and really didn't see anything too negative. Maybe people are a bit more sensitive with all things RM?

I mean, I understood the author's complaint about RM95, because they couldn't get it to work. Naturally, they incorrectly assumed this was completely dead and didn't do all the research it warranted, but it was based on an assumption it doesn't work for newere computers rather than an attempt to bash the product. It does emphasize the need for getting opinions from multiple people over multiple communities, of course, and any of them could have tried to help with getting 95 to work, but I don't believe it was a biased attempt to criticize the product.

While VX is severely limited, it could have left without the comment that nobody uses it. Like Archeia, I got my start with VX. I can pretty much use any maker I want to now, but it was thanks to the simplicity of VX that got me going and helped me to understand the core mechanics, not to mention the Benko/Kelsper guide. Once I learned VX, I could apply that knowledge everywhere.

However, there have been really good games that came out of VX, and I find I enjoy more games from VX than I do XP. Not because VX is more powerful. It may be, but it's limitations cripple the program. It really boils down to the fact that these programs cater to two different types of users and gamers: VX caters more to an old school 2D look, whereas XP caters more to a newer gen 2D look. Both programs have their uses, and must be used correctly. The problem, however, is that prior to Ace you got a lot of newer people who would pick up XP without learning how to properly map and use the layers, creating very bland games that somehow look uglier than some of the amateur games I've seen in VX.

Still, I don't think I've seen very many RM games that could hold a candle to the classic RM2K and 2K3 games. It really goes to show what can be accomplished when limits are set (no scripting, for example).

I remember someone doing this during GWs heyday . It was a Spanish rm2k site. Back when jkb and that were still around producing crazy things. It's an awesome idea if done correctly.