RPG MAKER MV ANNOUNCED FOR PC AND MAC

@BizarreMonkey: What do you mean, rounded numbers? You could always keep the HP/MP, at least, relatively rounded, depending on how fast or slow you wanted it to grow.

Also, I just noticed now that the Witch-looking girl is singing. Looks like they're going to be relatively well animated.

I don't get why everyone is saying that the tiles are trash, they look pretty good to me.

VX's biggest problem hasn't been it's training-wheels map layering. It's the really awful autotiling system. It's ridiculous they are sticking with it.

I wonder if EB realizes that if they made a powerful tool, big games could be made with it. They seem more interested in Baby's First RPG.

author=El_WaKa
It looks great, but... It still feels like RPG Maker VX Ace Plus...

While I agree that it feels like it judging just from those screenshots, I'd hold off on that label at least until we see some more of those 60 new features they promised.

Besides, people will be making new public tilesets eventually, so I've never really seen uninspired RTP as an inherently bad thing about the maker.

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author=Ratty524
XP's layering system was about as intuitive to use as photoshop/paint program layers. You just click which layer you want to work in, and you can place your edits, and boom, done. The layers above or below the ones you worked on were completely unaffected, and if there was something you needed to change, you'd just go to that layer and change it without any extra steps.

What? You could just choose which layer to work on? That... that sounds magical! Holy crap if MV does this I swear I'll never touch Ace again.

May we pray for Yanfly, he's got a lot of work to do...

Good point on performance, it'll have to perform a lot more efficiently to have the game play as well on a mobile device compared to a desktop. Or the mobile player will have to run differently, like changing the frame rate to 30 or 15 FPS. If this is the case the scripting backend will have to keep that in mind and can't rely on the assumption that the game's target framerate is 60/40 FPS and run accordingly.

It's not a difficult challenge code-wise nowadays but it could trip up some scripts to run incorrectly on mobile devices. It'll be interesting how it all pans out.

Looks nice, although the 48x48 thing was just theory I had. It's entirely possible that it's not that big. But it would be cool if it was.

It's impossible there not to be a new rtp if they're making the grid size 48x48.

No they aren't. As shown in the images released, while some look familiar, they're not the same graphics as the Ace ones.

author=GreatRedSpirit
Good point on performance, it'll have to perform a lot more efficiently to have the game play as well on a mobile device compared to a desktop. Or the mobile player will have to run differently, like changing the frame rate to 30 or 15 FPS. If this is the case the scripting backend will have to keep that in mind and can't rely on the assumption that the game's target framerate is 60/40 FPS and run accordingly.

It's not a difficult challenge code-wise nowadays but it could trip up some scripts to run incorrectly on mobile devices. It'll be interesting how it all pans out.

Seeing as I actually dropped making a game since it couldn't handle what I needed for the game to work (basically Harvest Moon type farming), this rings especially true for me. That plus it's really sad how they can't optimize a shitty 2D engine to run without lagging, even with 50+ events.