Don't know if this problem's been addressed by anyone else, already got fixed, or if I'm just being dumb about something. I'm using the most recent version (as of October 9th), running it in Wine if that helps.

It actually measures the pixels in your font to produce the above. You've given the font file, I will be able to try it and see if I can capture the behavior.

How is the average progress of the engine to completion?

As I've said, it has been capable of making games since January as I released a demo for it. It has been about the remaining commands and the default battle system. The default battle system is a requested feature, but I recommend you make your own. Specific commands are in to make it easier.

There are still a few basic commands that might not be in yet, but at this point, nothing critical anymore.

At this stage, there are so few people reporting new bugs, people testing, etc. so the project is slow. This project moves as fast as people are testing it. Because it has been so quiet, I am focusing on LandTraveller in the mean time.

Would it also have a front-view battle system?

There is distant plans to add this option to the default battle systems, but it is recommended you make your own.

Could the windows and the battle windows could be also moved?

There are ways of using the default menus, using only part of the default menus, adding a special command to the default menu, or writing your own. If you implement your own unique RPG system, of course you would have everything to your liking.

RPG20XX was made specifically for those who are used to doing really strange things with RPG Maker 2003's event scripts. In RPG20XX, everything is an event script, even the formulas that control all your stats and battle calculations. I have said the "Derived Statistics" is the most powerful feature of the engine, I recommend practicing by editing the existing scripts and seeing what happens. Mastering this single feature will let you do a whole lot in terms of custom RPG systems within minutes.

Of course, if you feel a specific sort of command or function is missing in the event scripts, let me know. I personally would prefer a few powerful commands, but I've thrown in an additional library of shortcuts, special commands, and more for you.

Dumb question: What is RPG 20XX's equivalent of the "wait" command from other RPG Makers? How do I halt an event's script for a specific duration?

It is still "wait". You'll find it under the control category (gray arrows). Either do 0 for a yield (it doesn't wait any time but it lets all the other events continue for the frame) or it is in 1/10s of a second.

The last thing I want to ask is about portraits. How big are they supposed to be. The ones I want to use are 40x40, but they don't seem to work. Bigger? Smaller?

Faces are 48x48.

These are all strange problems you're having with the font. Adding space to the font shouldn't really work since it measures the letters automatically, and then spaces it itself.

Go ahead and ZIP up the .2xg and the .2xp and the .dat and the .bin folders, and send them to me. I can take a look and debug all your problems in one go.

It seems like the font.2xv is not the same font bitmap you've sent me. I renamed the font you uploaded to font.png, deleted font.2xv in the resource menu, and re-imported it and it seems to work.
However, as you can see, the font is a little off center on the y axis. This isn't the font's problem, the engine wasn't centering it properly. I'll go ahead and fix this.





When you import a resource, RPG20XX will track changes for you. If you go back to the original file and edit it, and then go back to the editor, it was already updated for you and you can just hit play test.
It only says something to you if the original file is missing or moved. If you put a different file in its place, it will import from there instead.
The font inside the .2xg you gave me was some 8x8 character font instead of the one you sent me which was 16x16, but I can't be sure that this how it happened.

Now for the missing armor.2xn thing on the status screen, it is actually using your new icon. It is having a problem because there's a space in the file name.
Instead of EXFONT, you can insert icons into text anywhere (names, labels, anywhere) with \i so it becomes \i.
The engine actually uses this functionality itself and does "\i Clothes" when it attempts to show you your status.
You can import an icon that doesn't have spaces in the file name for now, but I did fix this for the next version.

When I turned off the text styles, the engine does mess up the spaces. I went ahead and fixed this for the next version.
If you want the text a solid color, you can edit the patterns in the system graphic.

I've PM'd you the links to the updated EXEs so you can try them out.

Big whatever to MV right now, 20XX all the way!

I think it not costing 70 bucks is a big plus. It's also entirely my job to make sure RPG20XX gives you the features you actually wanted as opposed to me throwing in a script engine and relying on the community to do my job for me.

Although a professional would still want to edit the source code to their liking. The license in future versions of RPG20XX will have to change to something open source yet compatible with things like Steamworks, etc. At the moment it is LGPL.

Thanks for the bit about the armor thing, I forgot how wacky things can get with those spaces.

The BBS ate all my square brackets and the content inside them, but I think you know what I meant.

If any of this helped with the bug-smashing then I am extremely pleased.

Oh yes, it does. The speed of the project is determined by the amount of incoming bug reports I get. Thanks for your feedback~

BTW, I donated a little bit on PayPal a while ago, I hope it got to you.

It probably did, and thank you.

You can press "back" which is currently X, or Backspace. This suggestion makes sense though, so I'll add it to the list.

Remappable keys are actually already implemented, but what is missing is the menu that lets you change those.

I see it, I've fixed the problem. Thanks for reporting it.

If you can't wait, you can replace the EXE in the /engine folder with the new one and test play will use it:

https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/rpg20xx/bin/engine/rpg20xx.exe