ARCMAGIK'S PROFILE

author=Darken
A side note: it's worth mentioning that porting is expensive and insane. I can tell you've never personally ported a game before if you think it's just a single button press.

I never said it was a single button press. Just like it isn't a single button press to make RMMV games work on Android too. The ability to export to Android made it easier though. Unity is used in quite a few games on consoles. It is far easier to port a unity game to a console then say a RM, note that I am not saying it is easy, just easier. It is cheaper when the engine is already supported by the console.

I have not personal ported one, no. I have spoken with Matt/Kamau about his Switch-N-Shoot port, and followed the port of Ara Fell. I don't know all the intricate and technical details, just the surface stuff.

author=unity
Yeah, I'm playing the Switch port of Ara Fell and it must have taken a ton of work, and you really notice all the changes. It was clear that a lot of love was put into the port and that there wasn't some easy method to translate a RPG Maker 2k3 game into a game for Switch.

If I am remembering the Twitter posts correctly... They had to rebuild the game from the ground up in Unity to make the port to console possible. They got permission to use the RM resources much like the few other special cases that have come before them.

Of course, I could just be remembering that incorrectly too. I am getting old now that I am a couple years on the other side of 35.

Marrend...

Nope. You were just the one to notice it. Looks like the event didn't copy out for some reason. Fun times.

author=Marrend
Marrend said things

Oh. My bad. That part totally got lost in my mind during the later parts. I wanted to directly make reference to the part about Zack. I figured you hadn't played it based on what you said there, but I wanted to make sure. There is some things about Zack in the FF7R, but you have to play it to see them.

Smile Game Builder just seems like a 3D version of rm2k but with such limited resource support that unless you are going to make your own assets or pay someone to make 3D assets you are kind of stuck to very limited resources.

One thing I have done often in every new engine that I try is remake a map from Legion Saga. And the asset limitation was very trying... and maybe it is just me, but it seems pretty hard to find 3D rips.

On the other hand they created a Smile Game Builder to Unity system and that alone had me interested in the engine which is why I hope that the new RM will have such a thing.

There are a few new places. It isn't just a 1:1 remake. I took some original ideas of mine, plus some things that I thought would tie things better to LS2 & 3.

Some of the areas like Port Medillan came from LSR.

I also took some ideas from Kamau/Matt that he gave me from what he remembered of his plans. There were some areas that he wanted to add for LSR that were new or helped tie LSR to LS3, and there was some areas that he thought should have been accessible earlier than he original had them.

For example, the farm that was accessible once you entered the Dragon's Knight Domain was moved to Garalas near Darp. Garalas was supposed to have ample farming land so it helps to suggest that. The original location of Zidora's tent has become an entire tent city of refugees. There must have been enough suggestion for it in the fluff considering that Legion Saga Arcade had the same idea and were developed completely independently of each other.