RPG MAKER MV ANNOUNCED FOR PC AND MAC

Those RTP portraits, battlers and monsters seem to be nice. The map graphics and charsets seem like they don't fit together very well though- looks (to me) like there's a couple different styles going on there.

EDIT:

Re: Scans

Are those portraits on the side RTP? The don't match the style of anything else (not even the in game face), so it's hard to tell. The fairy is the only clue that they might be. Regardless, they're extremely nice looking, although perhaps some of them may be weirdly specific concepts for a "general toolset" like RM, like the... Goldfish monster in a robot suit?

816x624 sounds like a weird resolution, but then again, so did 544x416. I don't know a whole lot about standard resolutions though.

Tons of games have weird bugfuck internal resolutions. The last console generation was hilarious for all the weird shit they ran at internally before passing it to an upscaling filter to hit the target HD 720/1080 resolutions.


I don't see why it's surprising to have ios capabilities. ios users are a huge customer base. Anybody interested in making a commercial mobile game would want to tap into that market. Ignoring that would be an absolutely boneheaded move on any dev's part. Mac support though, I was surprised to see that and good for the devs to try and support them.

That RTP actually looks quite boss. I hope the side-view sprites animate!

Looking at the promotional poster, though... Why does that witch's breasts look like balloons?

Ah. Quite interesting.

It would seem that the sprites are larger this time around, maybe 48x48 this time.

So that faceset I was talking about in the iphone example seems to indeed be part of the new RTP.

I was completely off on the characters in the sideview battles, so I guess I lose my clairvoyance skill.

But I partially regain it with being right about the front view showcasing new RTP battlers.

The new tiles look like buffed up versions of Ace's, they look pretty rad.

Yanfly confirmed for scripting!?!?!?!? *explodes from hype*

He means buying them in the first place. They currently require you to own VX Ace, since they're VX Ace DLC as far as Steam is concerned.

Man, the tiles are trash again.

author=WIP
Man, the tiles are trash again.

To be fair, we don't see much more than a few of them. They might be the worst of the lot?

author=MarkusT
Ugh... no one should get too excited about the layering system, it's not changing in MV.
It's the same way layers are done in VX/Ace.
Will Enterbrain EVER listen?

I thought it was going back to how it was in XP and that's why they're pushing "3 layers!?!?!" in the famitsu article?

author=Liberty

author=WIP
Man, the tiles are trash again.

To be fair, we don't see much more than a few of them. They might be the worst of the lot?

In which case they should probably fire their entire marketing team because jfc.

You're supposed to make it look hawt to rope people in.

Erilex

Nonetheless I'm already sold.

ALSO

FUCKING ALSO

ROUNDED NUMBERS???

PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A THING, THAT LEVELLING UP ISN'T BORDERLINE RETARDED ANYMORE.

THAT WOULD SATE MY ETERNAL RAGE WITH EB FOR PROBABLY A GOOD SPAN OF FIVE MINUTES!

Okay sorry, caps off.

Welp, I'll like usual try out the trial first, then buy it if my anticipation is sated, which, hell you'd have to make it a downgrade to VX for me not to.

author=MarkusT
From what i been reading, it's the same as Ace.. Automatic 3 layers.. as in you have no control.. I been seeing bits of information that are contrary to that.

And being raised on VX, I stone-cold don't give a damn about that.

Control is asserted via ingenuity, not a complex mapping system. Some of the best looking games are in the VX Ace Era, Trial by Trial-Jin comes to mind.

That said, appearance is subjective. And a game that plays well is worth far more than a game that looks good, if they add tools for more gameplay and updated nothing graphically at all, I'll be so literally uncaring my apathy will become a a new Australian state.