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08/21/2019 02:47 PM

it seems someone isn't too fond of the 3-tile rule...................................................

Is borrowing sprites like this legally okay? :3

08/20/2019 01:57 PM

I cannot speak for the law so I'll just give my 5 cents on the moral end as an artist and player:

I think there's a line between stealing and using something as a base. Well, more like a thick gradient, really. Stealing is bad in every and all circumstances and even moreso when you want to make a commercial game and call it your own. On the other end, pretty much every sprite artist starts out with sprite edits, or at least we did back when I started lol

Naturally, you'll want to release your work even if you're on that stage, and that can lead to some morally murky releases. The thing to keep in mind though is the awareness of what you're doing to that game, and nowadays with all these cool indie titles that didn't exist before there's a lot more to borrow from than Rudra or Sword of Mana. If you made sprites based on an indie artist's work, PM them. You might be surprised at their positive reaction and willingness to help, or at their (likely petty if you're not trying to profit off of their work) anger at you lol.
I say it's worth it.

And the other thing is to have that self awareness. "Am I ready to release this work with the reach I want it to have?", "Is this something I'd be ashamed of promoting?", "Am I hurting something else with this work?"

If you made a prototype for a big game, something that perhaps you want to release commercially or otherwise have have some notoriety, and it uses sprite edits................... Really question yourself whether you want to release it like that, or improve, ya?

to sum it up: edits and even rips are fine when you're just playing with stuff by yourself and learning, less fine when you're releasing the result of your playing around, and absolutely a no if you're actually making something serious.

That's my 5 cents for it anyway. This is not legal advice loldskfhvjshgb

Mapping Is You: Personal Style Philosophy

08/19/2019 04:55 AM

All of you are doing amazing work and shout out to @Blind whose work on Beloved Rapture is absolutely gorgeous, but @Darken
Darken
Darken you in particular

you, especially and specifically you

have reawakened and retaught me what love means.

sincerely, i had already seen most of the stuff you just posted but it just makes me cry with joy with all the awesomesauce and also gets even me more hyped up to work on my 3d pre-rendered maps I've been doing for Records in Blue...

speaking of which, I might as well share a bit of my current stuff?

This is a heavy WIP. Window and door needs more details, there'll be stuff hanging to the walls and etcetera, colors are WIP and such.

I've been doing a lot of pre-rendered work lately. I've ran through the same dilemma about which perspective to use, but eventually I settled on the very convenient sideview perspective, as I can get funky with the camera perspective and still have everything work into the actual in game gameplay. I tried some ortographic topdown for an old project, but it just kind of defeated the point a little? I was quite happy with it though. But yeah, some stuff just looks really bad when it's ortographic and locked to 90¢ rotations. Sad really

I've done a few handdrawn maps before for Resonate and a few other projects but it always ultimately runs into the issue that drawn maps require you to decently build up your perspective and i get lazy on that end and they look shit or lazy. so it doesn't work quite as nice. Eventually I might try a hybrid method of sketching something with blender geometry and drawing on top, I really dig the SaGa Frontier II look.

The SaGa Frontier 1 look though is also amazing, but that requires pixel movement at the bare minimum, with a decent collision map.

As for actual tiles tho... Well, I don't have a lot to say about it other than I enjoy mapping and I like to just make more tiles on the go and busy things up, BUT my level design is often pretty poor and i often get stuck on that phase before actually moving on to the mapping, so...

[Poll] Pick Your Poison (RMN Birthday Pre-Vote)

05/23/2019 11:33 PM

Badoption

RPG Maker Gacha

05/22/2019 06:52 AM

It just crossed thru my mind that an RPG Maker gacha would be super fun, actually. Like FF Brave Exvius/Record Keeper, Fate Grand Order, Fire Emblem Heroes etc.

I don't think we'll ever get this, but I'm making this thread as a Pitch Your RPG Maker Gacha Units thread! The idea is to post characters from RPG Maker games as if they were units for this fictional gacha game. Though... First we kinda need a ruleset, yep?

I was thinking something like:

NAME: Name, CLASS: <that character's role>
Stats: HP MP STR MAG DEF SPI AGI
Overdrive: (that character's signature / strongest ability, mechanics on how to unlock are relevant to discuss)
Skills: Character's active skills.
Passives: Character's passive skills.

With that in mind I made an example:

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Name: Rubi Class: Black Mage
Stats: HP MP STR MAG DEF SPI AGI
Overdrive:
Flaming Wish - Deals Fire damage to all enemies, lowers their Fire resistance, recovers Party's HP by a small amount every turn for 3 turns.
Skills:
Wispy Friend - bestows a Fire Wisp to one ally: While it is active, it will follow up every of that ally's actions vs an enemy with a weak fire attack that scales with Rubi's MAG. When an enemy hits that ally with a physical attack, the damage is mitigated by 50% and the enemy takes damage, equal to 2x the enchanted attack; the wisp is then consumed.
Summer Heat - Damages all enemies and delays their next action.
Passives:
Friend of the Spirits - Auto-casts Wispy Friend on self at battle start. If Wispy Friend is expired, has a 1/3 chance to recast it every turn.
Summer Soul - Deals 25% more damage with Fire abilities and attacks, resists Fire damage by 50%, takes double Ice damage.

IDK if anyone feels like participating, either submitting their own games' chars or someone else's... The only rule is, the character must be from a pre-existing RPG Maker game :PP

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05/22/2019 06:42 AM

oh i didnt ralize this went live

[Poll] Pick Your Poison (RMN Birthday Pre-Vote)

05/22/2019 04:36 AM

What about games with multiple shitty, abrupt endings?

Theme Roulette 2

04/29/2019 10:24 PM

signed up, will try to make at least a proof of concept / something remotely playable... but yall know me...

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i hope i get the Utada theme...

edit 2: holy fuck i dont know how to format shit on this site anymore

edit 3: so pretty much Frogge has high-key forced this into a horror event. i'm not against it

edit 4: in fact half of his name / image picks are making me want to write SCP entries.

edit 5: Unsettling: A tale about how one community decided to undo their settlement due to a series of strange events

edit 6: i actually got unsettling, and i dont actually want to do what i (jokingly) wrote i would so i'll just explore the theme in another way

Return of the Last Era

04/10/2019 02:32 AM

Oooooh!!! This is exciting news! I was worried for a bit, but I'm glad you're going to be able to go back at it! If you have any questions, need help or pointers with the art, I'm all ears!!! <3

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