BLUEFEATHR42'S PROFILE

I just installed this for the first time. It appears to have worked, I don't get any errors and as far as I can tell the new commands are all there. Are there any game-breaking bugs I should be aware of before I dive into a new project?

Been looking into Godot lately, and a I stumbled across this. It's a tool for creating simple voxel rpgs, and was created with Godot apparently.
https://godotengine.org/showcase/rpg-in-a-box

I'm probably not going to use it, as I prefer 2D, but I figured I'd post it here in case anyone's interested.

author=iddalai

author=Bluefeathr42
Stratego and Soul Blazer in rm2k? I'd love to see those.

I'll PM you in a couple of days.

Thanks again!

For what it's worth, I came to the conclusion that while I can work with the DBS, provided I do some rather awkward number crunching, what I definitely need is a Custom ENCOUNTER system.

Hopefully I'll have something to show for it soon.

author=Soeufans
@Bluefeathr42 yes!! i made a "example game" with a Custom Strategic game, "like" tactics ogre a long time ago, it was a nice experiment for ABS engines also the Soul Blazer engine (old version), they where my firsts atempts of ABS engines, now adays, the Soul Blazer engine, has big upgrades, and its nearly finished, u should check my YT channel to see the making-off videos and progress

Hope my english was better, to share all my knoledge and teachings for RPG maker 2003, but ar least, u can see my videotutorials, and looking forward to do the CBS videotutorial, and going to finish the CMS last video too :)


Anyway, sure its more worth doing the engines with scripts and pluguins and i understand, but with RPGmaker 2003 1.12a was a bit more worth to do them, u cannot disagree whith that, MWahahahha ;)

Oh, and thanks @cherry for all your work!!

You've done some excellent work! I think I'll be sticking with Rm2k3 unless it's a matter of switching engines or not making the game. Even though there's a lot of limitations and drawbacks it's still possible to have fun with it. After all, that's what counts.

author=pianotm
Advice: Always know exactly what you want to accomplish before you start doing it. Don't make a custom system if you have no idea what you want the end goal to look like.

This is where I'm at now. I'm gonna start typing up exactly what I want to do, then work out a plan from there. And/Or just lay down and listen to Kyuss until it comes to me. That helped with the setting, anyway.

Wow, lots of responses! Thanks guys! I meant to reply on my lunch break but my office seems to be in some sort of temporal anomaly, So now to answer some questions and explain myself further.

I'm using the official version, so DynRPG is right out. If I'm going to script, I'm going to use another engine entirely.
I'm also leery of Maniacs. I looked into it last summer and I couldn't really find anything that explains it adequately.
On that note, Cherry, thank you for telling me about the NoRow patch. I'll have to give it a download.

The thing about switching engines is, if I have functionally limitless options, I'm going to be paralyzed. I'll sit there and come up with a bajillion things and then never actually do anything. There's also the fact that whatever I make will have to be built from the ground up while with RM2k3 I have a framework already made that I can do something with. As someone who's working alone, in my spare time, and making the art, the music, writing the dialog, etc. on my own, that's a big plus and not something I want to give up lightly. On the other hand, if EasyRPG fails, I'm definitely jumping ship. To what, I have no idea. I didn't like GMS too much, I'm not sure about Godot...Construct is the front-runner right now. But hopefully it'll be a non-issue.

My other issue, really the cause of my dilemma is that I love both jRPGs (at least early ones) and cRPGs (at least the open world ones) and I've spent a lot of time designing homebrew tabletop stuff, and I have a hard time choosing between them. I'm like Angry-Cliff the Man-Sheep (https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2006/10/14). I guess I could try something like Kentona did with Hellion and add non-combat skills somehow. I dunno. I think it's going to come down to the fact that, like I said before, I'm one guy working in his spare time and doing all the assets myself. I've also seen some really cool stuff done with the DBS, like in ranmaster27's videos. So at least I know the DBS is workable. I'd just need to come up with a spreadsheet to help me calculate stuff.

author=Sidewinder
Making stuff like this is easy, only one enemy at a time, only a handful of actions the players can take and almost no submenus.

But, if you want to recreate something like Chrono Trigger, or Baldur's Gate, then I'd say no. It's not really worth doing.

Dude, that's awesome. Something like that is indeed what I'd be going for.

Thank you guys again for your input. I've enjoyed reading the discussion, and I have a lot to think about.