BEREGON'S PROFILE

I made a SHMUP platformer in a week using MZ for the Trials of MZ event, with only about a few months of experience with MV beforehand. I have to say, the expanded Button options in conditional branches really helped.

Since you can also detect if a button has been triggered or repeated instead of only pressed down, it allowed to make me something that wouldn't be as good in MV without plugins. Especially the jumping mechanics. Another thing I really like is the active battle system. It's really nice having that by default. The default UI is also much superior to the MV one. Especially for mouse controls.

The addition of the Last category in Game Data for variables etc. has also proven pretty useful. Like for example, in creating a consumable item that gives XP only to the character that uses it. In MV, the only way I found how to do it by default is by having a weird damage formula with script calls, for MZ, you just fill a variable with the ID of the Last Target Actor ID.

The biggest thing for me was that tab that shows all the events on the current map in a neat list. I don't think I could make that game so fast without it. It's the best addition in MZ by far.

Alright, so Amarok's Howl is now complete!

Nice score, @JustAShyDoge! Just managed to beat it, my new High Score is 15083!

Changing lanes is actually worth the risk, if you are fast enough. You get points for the soldiers too :)

I've decided to scrap my original project for now (didn't really have much time to work on it anyway) and started an entirely new one. If I finish it quickly enough, I might make a shorter version of the first one and submit it too.

author=Gurkengelee
13220. I need to up my game :D

That motorbike minigame is probably the biggest reason for people to lose the score, I only got through it without losing all HP twice :D