NEW RPG MAKER INCOMING?

If you're going to buy it to make plug-ins, or help people with their projects, I'm not 100% sure if that's really worth a purchase, regardless of what features it has. This was happened with me and MV. I couldn't really help anybody with their coding issues, but, being able to do so wasn't enough, by itself, to justify a purchase.

I mean, if you plan on making games with the thing as well as making plug-ins, by all means, get it. Just don't get it to be able to help others, and do nothing else with it, even if helping others gives you that warm, fuzzy, happy feeling inside.

Fomar0153

Marrend
Just don't get it to be able to help others, and do nothing else with it, even if helping others gives you that warm, fuzzy, happy feeling inside.

Imagine if Yanfly had followed that advice.

is this really the take you want to put out into the world

Being a lifelong RM fan, of course I'm gonna get MZ...eventually. But, this time around, instead of snapping it up on day 1 like with MV, I might wait for the sale.

I really wanted to be excited about this. I mean it's the first new RM in years. Unfortunately, I'm just not, at least from what's shown so far.

The thing is, I think MV and Ace already does a perfect job if one wants to make a retro JRPG. I was hoping the new RM could do things these could not in a major way. A completely new tool for a different type of JRPG, and I can continue using Ace or MV for the more retro games. Maybe incorporate features from the new generation of JRPGs such as smart A.I. team members and animated busts. You know, still 2D focused but superpowered. And something that's not easily done with plug-ins. Heck, I don't think it even has Mode 7.

One good thing I'm hearing is that it will be more optimized than MV. So...it will have MV like features but run at Ace speed on multiple platforms? That would be a good feature.

Personally, I bought every version of RM during the Stay At Home sale in May, mainly to help the community :). I plan to buy RMMZ with the same idea.

You are right :) !

I mean using thoses engines to help people with their daily issues, sorry for the missleading here.

RPG Maker communities have always been filled with selfless individuals who make scripts/plugins, music, graphic resources for the community which they have no intention of using themselves. I'm not going to discourage anyone who wants to do that.

The part of scripting and plugin making I don't like is providing support. Especially when 9 out of 10 times when it gets to the stage of you downloading their project, you discover they lied when you asked about having other scripts/plugins.

Partly why I wasn't that motivated to release public plugins during MV, too many people lied to me about not having other scripts, which I would always inevitably discover when I eventually ran out of ideas and asked them to upload their project for me to check.

I was better with XP and VX Ace where I put out scripts regularly. I am intending to make some public plugins for MZ.

Did someone say "New RPG Maker"?



EDIT: Ignore the trails of sweat, I've been out busting my ass digging up the yard.

Here's today trailer for RMMZ :D (in japanese, sadly).

Trailer on Twitter

although it wasn't really shown in depth in the video i'm very excited for the new animation tab. which is confirmed to involve a particle engine, and touchfuzzy has said that it will be explored in-depth in the next update.