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Odd. I've thought about doing the same thing before.

You took a picture of an unmodified shop screen with the default, grammar error-ridden items?

Hm... You do have a game with good reviews, so your reputation is sound. However, I think you should work out the kinks in RPG Maker VX for longer (about 10 days of development) and then show a more attractive project. I do like the underlying idea because my game is similar with the board layouts.

I would still want to take a look at the project and see if I could help you, but unfortunately I don't have or will use VX for this sort of thing. Even so, I can help you in other ways if you would like ^^

It took me around 30 minutes to wire my board with events. Are you making direction events push the player in the direction of the arrows? Is the chipset completely impassable except for the events you specify below player? You can have each "mover" turn solid when the number of moves is zero. The player is the currently active player. You use another variable that specifies which player to take from, and then use that variable to unify each event. By this I mean each event calculates the target values to modify based on the currently active player, so depending on where the extra player data in variables goes and how much extra space for more variables you make, you could easily make a 128 player game.

Showing the positions of each player is a different story, but for 4 players you need 3 events that just relocate themselves to one space above the square they are on. And change their graphics to match the players. Each one would not be unified and be watching a specific player's variable stack. This would take a moment to set up with at least the positions. They could also respond to key presses so you could easily add the ability for the active player to interact with other players on the same space they are. (You leave extra variable space for each player so you can add more features without worrying about changing the stack size for each player).

There's just one problem with all this. I've seen RPG Maker VX missing lots of common things like reference by variable. There might be a missing feature that is critical to all this, but I do know you can't add items by reference of variable.

Yeah. It would take a whole tutorial for me to explain it all but I'll at least tell you about stacks.

Here's a variable list:

0032: Player 1 X
0033: Player 1 Y
0034: Player 1 Medals
...
0047: Player 2 X
0048: Player 2 Y
0049: Player 2 Medals
...

Here the stack size is 15. You start at 32 and add 15 to get to the second player and so forth. There's a ton of currently unused variables which you might want to use later. Make a variable defining the stack size

0014: Stack Size (= 15)

If you might increase it later. But that means a ton of resizing and relocating the variable names. But let's say you have a variable

0010: Player Turn (0...3)

Then the correct variable to start reading from would be

32+StackSize*PlayerTurn

That last bit of code isn't an event. It's a series of variable events.

EDIT: Oops. It's not an EVENT COMMAND. It's a series of EVENT COMMANDS. Sorry.

It's not event commands. It's a list of variables.