KRIMSONKATT'S PROFILE

There's no way I can finish the entire game in the next week. However, it is almost garenteed that I'll have a gamepage and a demo going by then. Almost done with the demo!

Changed plans, now I'm just going to make a traditional RPG. Making a platformer is too hard for my current skill set, especially under a time limit. Especially making original assets from scratch. That's honestly the hardest part.

The first video is a full playthrough of Dragon Quest, the original RPG that all RPGs, including most RPG Maker games, are directly spawned from. By analyzing the gameplay, you can see the bare essentials of an RPG and what to build your own RPG off of. It's not an explanation, it's an example of a typical RPG. Dragon Quest was originally made by the company Enix in the mid 80s on the NES. In 2001 a rival company called Square (developer of Final Fantasy) bought Enix and merged the companies, becoming Square Enix.

The second game is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The third game in the Zelda series and the quintessential 2D Zelda that was released in the mid 90s on the Super Nintendo/SNES, developed directly by Nintendo. I showed videos of both games to inform you of the basics of both the RPG genre (for Dragon Quest) and the typical 2D Zelda game, (For A Link to the Past) which I assume the Zelda Classic engine replicates.

Nintendo and Enix/Square Enix are completely different companies with completely different teams behind them. Dragon Quest and Zelda ALTTP are not connected in any way, and are games in completely different genres. Dragon Quest is a traditional RPG, which A Link to the Past is an action adventure game.

If you want to know exactly what an RPG is, this video should help.


As for Zelda, here is a humorous video explaining (and parodying) the basics of the franchise

The Switch Pro/PS5 controller is already peak controller design. It can't get any better from here without the controller being cumbersome. The only thing they could do is add more useless gimmicks like the PS5's "dual sense" or even the PS3's mich older "6th Axis" gimmick. The switch pro controller is the perfect shape, size, and layout. It can't get any better design wise from there, it's perfectly ergonomic and made up of a high enough quality to not feel cheap, unlike the Xbox 360 or PS4 controller. Even the XBO controller lacked in terms of quality compared to the Switch Pro or PS5 controllers.

As for actual hardware tech, the Switch is pretty much the perfect concept. A portable console that can plug into a dock to play on the big screen is genius and basiclly the perfect console concept that appeases both console and handheld gamers. The Switch's only flaw is that it severely lacks power, as it was incredibly underpowered even when it first launched in 2017 and has seen no major hardware updates since then minus a small battery update in 2019.

The Steam Deck seems to solve this issue by having the approximate power of mid-range current gen gaming PCs, but is heavily limited in it's reach by major supply issues (you can only buy the Deck from the Steam Store and it takes a year plus to get your order filled and delivered) and no dock for the foreseeable future, which is half the appeal of the Switch. Also the fact the Steam Deck runs exclusively Linux means that all games must be configured for it, which most devs, especially smaller ones, aren't willing to do especially for older games making a good 80%+ of Steam's library incompatible with the Deck.

So if theoretically Nintendo released the Switch 2 which was as powerful as the PS5 with no load times, a revamped UI, and fully portable gameplay along with a dock it would be the best console of all time, bar none. The Switch is already an easy contender which is only limited by poor performance and a lack of games, especially ports of older PS1/PS2 era games that their IP holders refuse to port or make sequels to. Breath of Fire, Suikoden, Metal Gear, Castlevania, Lunar, SMT, Mana, SaGa, Chrono, Xenogears/Xenosaga, Custom Robo, Chibi Robo, Paper Mario, Golden Sun, Bravely, heck, there hasn't even been a port of all the Trails games to Switch yet despite the Switch having a good half of the games. (They can't port any game before Cold Steel 3 because X-Seed owns the localization rights when the series is currently being localized by Nis)

I could use TP, that's definitely an option especially since otherwise TP isn't used by my game at all. I would have to do some custom tinkering using Yanfly's TP plugin but otherwise that is a solid idea on how to move this concept forward.

Anyways as for the code, I'm very inexperienced with coding but of what I can see the code seems to be accurate. The thing with Yanfly's MV plugins is that they don't alter the base coding, it just adds in shortcuts to making coding things in using lunatic code much easier. So a lot of that coding you have me likely isn't necessary. Everything lunatic code related in Yanfly's plugins is done with script calls which are all in one big excel sheet including Yanfly's exclusive script calls in both MV and MZ. (visustella)

But yeah, I'm definitely just going to use TP for this. With Yanfly's custom TP types this should be relatively simple.