EL_WAKA'S PROFILE

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Can you tell us more about the game?

- It will be made on RPG Maker VX Ace.
- Inspired by Fire Emblem, but trying to adapt some of its mechanics into turn-based battles. Specifically: A large cast of characters to recruit, permadeath, random stats at level up, resource and risk management, and a few surprises here and there.
- Medium-short length, divided into 15 chapters of 5-10 mins of duration each one.
- It’ll use mainly the RTP, so it’s easier to set up and to integrate community resources, such as:
- It’ll use the RMN Music Pack!
- It takes a semi-serious tone, the story is important but there’s space for comic relief.
- Estimated release date: Hopefully before the end of the year.
- Signs ups are closed. Sorry!


Name: (You can choose between using your username or even create a new one)

Portrait: (Pick the character you want from the grid at the end of the post. As a bonus, I’m up for changing colors around to give a little more flavor to the graphics. Stuff like changing the eye, hair and clothes color. There’s also the option of uploading your own custom portrait, just bear in mind that the art style must be somewhat similar to the VX/Ace style so it won’t feel too out of place.)

Personality: (Describe the personality of your character in 3 words.)

Team: (Pick between team the following teams, this determines where in the story you will roughly appear and affect certain events)

- Team 95
- Team 2K (2000 + 2003)
- Team XP
- Team VX (VX and VX Ace)
- Team MX (MV and MZ)

Class: (A battle draws near! What weapon will you use to defend yourself? This determines your base class)

- Sword
- Spear
- Axe
- Knives
- Bow
- Magic Tome
- Support Staff
- Nothing, I’ll use my mind
- Nothing, I’ll use my body

Stats: (Distribute 20 points between these stats, with a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 10. These determine your growths and bases)

- Strength: 5/10
- Intelligence: 5/10
- Vitality: 5/10
- Agility: 5/10

Rock, Papers, Scissors: (Lastly, pick one of the three, this will have a small effect in your final stats)

(Your final class, stats and growths will be revealed through pm, giving you a chance to reroll once in case you don’t like the final result.)

(Here’s a chart of all the RTP heroes in case you have trouble picking a Portrait.)



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One thing that I really love about this place are the events, they really help you to be motivated to work on your game, collaborate with the community, or try new things! After checking the past events page, I've seen a few events that I would love see again in some way or another, here are a few ideas for new events:

- Bring back Befuddled Quest, in one way or another: I really love the idea behind this event, reminds me of the various Super RMN Bros. events of the past, but with something we all are more familiar with, RPG Maker, I don't know why Befuddled Quest events stopped, lack of interest? Nobody wants to take the lead and organize the event? Is harder to do it in VX Ace (the last engine used for the event) than in RPG Maker 2k3? But anyway, I would be interesting to do something like this again, even if we change the name to make it disconnected from the "Befuddled Quest" series, I know the quality can vary a lot between rooms but is fun to see what everyone contributes to the game

- Make a short game with an engine you've never used before: I feel like this was done once in the past? I can't remember, but basically, forget about RPG maker for a second, you see this engines list? How about trying one of them, especially if you've never heard or used it before, and try to make a short game with it? This could be a lot of fun and a perfect way to get out of your comfort zone for a while, but the quality of the games will probably be very poor, and some people could get frustrated with this, though I still think that it is worth a try

- The Battle Arena: This would be probably the hardest to do due to how RPG Maker works, but you know what is one of the things that is most common among all the RPGs? That's right, the battles, I was thinking of something like an arena, where you send your party to fight any of the boss battles designed by the community, the problem with this idea is how to organize everything, not only how to merge all the databases of every participant (afaik, you can't just copy and paste the sections of the database that you want) or how to add scripts or events mid-battle that make the battles a lot more engaging and interesting, but even if we could find a solution for this, what makes a boss battle fun is when it is perfectly balanced between challenging and fun, something really hard to do with a community event like this

Tell me what you think, and if you also have any other idea, feel free to share them!

So I was trying to use yanfly's script for showing only 3 characters at a time in the menu, it's just what I was looking for, but when I put it on my game...



It shows only the MP and not the HP (and it shows the wrong amount, but that's caused by another script)

So I thought that maybe it was caused by another script, so I tried it with a empty project and...



It looks worse

Is there any solution for this? Or at least there are other alternatives that let me change the party size / show 3 characters at a time in the menu?

I can't say too much about this game I´m working on, but it will be shown in a local event and hopefully we will have people to try the game and if the game is popular or at least receives positive feedback then the game will be sold in local stores

The thing is, people will play around 5 - 15 mins and I want to leave a good impression, leave the player wanting more, any tips on how to do that?

Some details: The game will be made in RPG Maker Vx Ace, the main theme is zombies (yeah, not too original, but everybody loves zombies, right?) the atmosphere is kinda like Resident Evil, action with some good touches of horror, you go through levels fighting zombies, level up, solve the occasional puzzle, etc. it will have 6 classes, tons of items and most important: It will have bosses that can destroy you in seconds

So yeah, any tips to make a demo as fun as possible? I mean, I want people wanting more, make them impressed by the game...

Thanks! And sorry for my english...

I don't know if this question is in the right place...

Is there any way to prevent the player from buying multiple copies of the same item? I want to create a shop where if you buy one item you can't buy it again (to be more specific, think of it like this, you buy one house through a shop and "activate" it trough the item menu, now I want to prevent the player from buying the same house)

I have thought of doing everything with conditional branches or make the shop with events, but for the amount of items planned it won't be possible...

So, anyone knows how I can fix this? (As always, sorry for my bad english)