Out of curiosity, I did a test to see if the editor will run in WINE. It generally does and does fast. By comparison, RPG Maker 2003 runs incredibly slow when you try to scroll and map edit, and the font is always messed up (when running the game).

I did find a bug when trying to set the system font (it crashes) but I can probably fix that. So if you're on Linux, then run the editor in WINE.

The engine may or may not be ported to Linux- it's not a high priority. It kind of needs to be able to make RPGs first!

I will reveal parts of my plan for RPG 20XX so you know what the future might bring.

The main motivator behind this project is the legacy of RPG Maker 2003, yet it is also a response to how poorly RPG Maker 2003 was designed. This is why RPG 20XX now exists. RPG 20XX will be a completed project once it renders RPG Maker 2003 obsolete. This condition drives all the software requirements, specs, etc. I come up with. If you think I am not properly working towards this goal, you should speak up. I may not agree with you entirely or in part, but if I put you all together as a whole, you become the final judge on whether or not RPG 20XX has been completed.

RPG 20XX is not entirely a commercial project. The project accepts donations, will eventually offer dual licensing, and may be supported by future crowd funding efforts for specific advanced features. These will be done to support RPG 20XX, this only includes me during the little time I get to develop it. Therefore, it is not my goal to advertise this everywhere yet or to even convince everyone to use it. I want RPG 20XX to stand on its own merits. Popularity might actually hurt RPG 20XX at this stage.

The game I will develop with it will be a commercial project, but you would get your money's worth in indie game. That's been pushed far back in the future, RPG 20XX is more important right now.

RPG 20XX will let people create RPGs free of illegal software and neglect of support. Don't forget this English copy of RPG Maker 2003 floating around is illegal, and so is publishing games made with it. It is still illegal if you bought an official copy and patched it for English (includes RPG_RT.EXE). Enterbrain has simply not gone on a DMCA spree for whatever reason, but it is within their rights to do so. This is only commentary and not legal advice.

RPG 20XX's software license gives you the right to obtain the source code, make changes, and distribute these changes (in accordance to the license) freely. I don't expect you'll actually do that since my target user base assumes no software engineering knowledge.

When you create a 2XG file with this program, assuming you created all the material that goes into it, this file itself actually belongs to you and you can release it however you want. The program used to execute it is different and is a part of RPG 20XX. I designed it this way to decouple the engine from content making it easy to hold whatever artistic rights you want over the 2XG file.

There's even a space for you to put the author name, and I will have a author attribution protection scheme designed later which causes the 2XG file to fail verification in an official RPG 20XX engine (all done without DRM, by the way). This part will be difficult and is more in the realm of computer science vs. software engineering, but hey I'm one of those too.

This is only a summary, you'll need to read the actual GPL.

RPG 20XX's default resource set I'll be drawing will be released with a separate non-commercial license, but I'll let you use it in non-commercial hobby projects that aren't RPG 20XX. Specific license to be announced later whenever I release the first part of the materials. I can do an OK job, and it won't be as demanding as when I drew textures, models and characters for the 3D volumetric LandTraveller prototype.

It will give RPG 20XX a look and feel of its own. If RPG 20XX kept using the RPG Maker 2000/3 set, it sort of blends in along with RPG Maker 2003 itself, EasyRPG, and Open RPG Maker. When I or another user release screenshots of RPG 20XX in the future, it can be seen that it belongs to RPG 20XX at a glance.

You can always adapt existing resources to RPG 20XX. I'll be releasing a more detailed material spec as I draw the materials.

The going will be slow because I do have lots of other work to do first, but I've made assured progress every week. Keep in mind I don't always post these, but the project won't and never will stall. I'll have to thank you in advance for your patience.

There's the flash effect argument editor dialog. OK. Good.

Seems like kind of a silly thing to have a log entry about, but this next version will have a working? animation editor. Animations in RPG 20XX are slightly more important to the gameplay than you might think.

Each frame can be a "hit frame" which has an additional sound that plays if the target is actually hit. A skill's actual effect number (healing, damage) is divided by the total number of hit frames in the skill's animation, but the chances for things (hit/miss/critical/inflict/etc.) are calculated individually per hit. So if you have a skill that has an animation with 80 rapid hit frames, it'll be quite a spammy attack.

Far down the future, these hit frames will be used to calculate collision detection for the action battling system.

I've released the next version with items and skills in. There's no access to them in the engine yet. I've updated the event selector (when picking Event Target in move commands, for example) and the way you can change events that use tiles as their body. And then there are the handful of fixes, of course. The button up there is now updated to version ALPHA 0.13.

This is what it looks like to create and edit skills. Everything a character does to something is a skill, even basic attacks (like above). You are given familiar values for rating, variance, and critical bonus. Replicate makes the user spawn that many copies of the skill's effect. Then you can make a skill that attacks enemies randomly 3 times or something (random enemy and random ally are options for targeting). You can put in the applied elements and conditions (if any). If a skill cures a condition/buff, it removes all stacks of it. Finally, you can have a common event run after the basic damage derived statistic is run.

Lots of options aren't needed here as you can add any sort of additional behavior or effect through the derived statistic, or the common event if you'd rather not clutter up your derived calculation.