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CloseWhat is ARC?
So many of you may have some questions regarding exactly what ARC is. ARC is an acronym which stands for Advanced RPG Creator. It is exactly that, a new and powerful tool that can be used to design and play 2-dimensional games. Although it will be primarily designed for RPG creation, other genres are very possible to make other than role-playing games, it will be held back only by the imagination of the user. ARC is being built from the ground up in C++, with Ruby 1.9.2 embedded, which is about 30 times faster than the Ruby 1.8.1 RMXP uses. What does this mean for you? Far less lag and a higher frame-rate, resulting in smoother gameplay. In fact, ARC's default frame-rate will be 60 FPS, as opposed to RMXP's 40 FPS. You can get a feel for what 60 FPS feels like by trying out the current development build, which you can find here.
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More or so to say a small summary of our new engine. I am one of the 4 developers working on this engine and I'd like to aware some people of it as its first public release should be coming soon! The project lives on a site called Chaos Project which some of you may already know. You can access the forums for it here. http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/board,68.0.html
I'd also like to ask if ARC could be listed as an engine. ARC will be a very powerful and unique engine. ARC is meant to replace RMXP, like 20XX is to replace RPG 2000/3. And its already surpassed RMXP with updated Ruby engine and a faster frame rate and we already have ARC's engine running an RMXP game which is great. As for the icon you can grab it here.
I understand if you'd choose not to list ARC as an engine right this moment since ARC isn't even done yet but I'm just trying to get the word out. Doesn't hurt to ask though. :3
So this is basically an RMXP hack, right?
Sounds fascinating, although I'm pretty satisfied with VX. Never liked XP much.
Sounds fascinating, although I'm pretty satisfied with VX. Never liked XP much.
You could create a gameprofile for the engine like Wolfcoder did. Once the engine was in a state of practical usability, we added it as an engine. When yours gets to that state we can revisit the engine question.
StarSkipp
2007
I'll give it a twirl, seems abit odd that they're charging people $400 to use it commercially.
I would never use it commercially, RPG Maker Xp even if this is a maybe hacked version,).
Sounds nice! Though it depends on how good it is... I might actually pay for it.
Though wouldn't that be illegal to sell it commercially if it is a hack of an already commercial software? Not saying that it is...
Sounds nice! Though it depends on how good it is... I might actually pay for it.
Though wouldn't that be illegal to sell it commercially if it is a hack of an already commercial software? Not saying that it is...
If it has VX noteboxes I'd totally use it...
As for registering a new engine you'll have to pm a moderator. When I registered Renpy this is what I did
As for registering a new engine you'll have to pm a moderator. When I registered Renpy this is what I did
Website: http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/
Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. Its easy and efficient script language makes it possible for non-programmers to make visual novels, while its Python support allows for complex simulation games. It's created by PyTom around August 24, 2004.
Features:
- Free to use and Free for commercial games.
- Ren'Py supports nearly all features that a visual novel might reasonably be expected to have, including branching stories, saving and loading of games, rollback to previous points in the story, a variety of scene transitions and so on.
- Cross Platforming: Allows games to be played on Linux, Mac and Windows.
- Ren'Py uses a simple text-based script language to write games in. It uses Python.
- Allows easy customization such as present things in NVL-mode, which shows more than one block of text on the screen at once. Change Themes and Layouts to change the look and feel of the various menus.
- Easier to distribute in different languages.
- Images: JPEG/JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF
- Audio: OGG, WAV (uncompressed PCM only), Mp3, Mp2.
- Movie Formats: Theora, Mpeg4, Mpeg2, mpeg1
Ren'Py itself is covered by the terms of the following (MIT) license. More information can be found here: http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/License
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Its not a hacked version. We're coding the engine and editor completely from scratch. This engine is meant to replace RMXP as in get RMXP users to use ARC instead.
@Kentona: Alrighty then. When we get the first public release out I'll create a game profile for it. Thanks. :)
@Archeia_Nessiah: We're adding noteboxes <3
@Kentona: Alrighty then. When we get the first public release out I'll create a game profile for it. Thanks. :)
@Archeia_Nessiah: We're adding noteboxes <3
StarSkipp
2007
Well I had a testplay, it was confusing at first. I would recommend having instructions bundled with the download. But other than that it looks good.
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Its not a hacked version. We're coding the engine and editor completely from scratch. This engine is meant to replace RMXP as in get RMXP users to use ARC instead.
Really? OMFG! I am sooo downloading this.
So I tried it out. It's definitely smoother and faster but it seems to have an ugly display for the HUD so far (the text is unreadable ish)
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I know the engine may seem really confusing. Here are some links that may help.
Community Feedback
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,8842.0.html
What is ARC?
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,9653.0.html
To clear a couple of things up, ARC supports RMXP projects which is why when you ran the dev build it seemed like it was RMXP. The Game.exe you ran was completely coded in C++ with embedded Ruby 1.9 to continue the support of RMXP scripts.
@Archeia: The font problem is being worked on. The HUD isn't the engine itself, its the scripts default HUD. Its a script for RMXP called Blizz-ABS http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,106.0.html
Community Feedback
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,8842.0.html
What is ARC?
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,9653.0.html
To clear a couple of things up, ARC supports RMXP projects which is why when you ran the dev build it seemed like it was RMXP. The Game.exe you ran was completely coded in C++ with embedded Ruby 1.9 to continue the support of RMXP scripts.
@Archeia: The font problem is being worked on. The HUD isn't the engine itself, its the scripts default HUD. Its a script for RMXP called Blizz-ABS http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,106.0.html
author=GameGuysProjects
I know the engine may seem really confusing. Here are some links that may help.
Community Feedback
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,8842.0.html
What is ARC?
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,9653.0.html
To clear a couple of things up, ARC supports RMXP projects which is why when you ran the dev build it seemed like it was RMXP. The Game.exe you ran was completely coded in C++ with embedded Ruby 1.9 to continue the support of RMXP scripts.
Where do you download it? Can I have a direct link?
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@Adon: The engine isn't complete yet. You can download a demo so to speak. http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,9058.0.html There is no editor download yet. Our first public release will be soon.
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No. Its how the game was made. ARC is running this RMXP project. http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,75.0.html
author=GameGuysProjects
No. Its how the game was made. ARC is running this RMXP project. http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,75.0.html
Sorry for my immense stupidity, but this is like a default project, whenever you make a new one?
Still looks awesome though.
Sounds awesome. XP is a lot better than VX save the lack of noteboxes, so this is great. Does it use RGSS?
EDIT: Also, will it be cross platform?
EDIT: Also, will it be cross platform?
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Yes. We plan on having a working version for Mac and Linux. The editor is built in python which is cross platform. The engine is in C++ but it should still run on any other OS. We just haven't built the engine for another OS yet.
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author=Adon237author=GameGuysProjectsSorry for my immense stupidity, but this is like a default project, whenever you make a new one?
No. Its how the game was made. ARC is running this RMXP project. http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,75.0.html
Still looks awesome though.
No its not a default project. Its a demo of the engine. Its not ready to be used yet. When you create a new project it'll be much like the one created in RMXP.
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