KRIMSONKATT'S PROFILE

KrimsonKatt
Gamedev by sunlight, magical girl by moonlight
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Hey, the name's KrimsonKatt and I'm just a random catgirl surfing the interwebs. I am an indie game dev and have been developing games since 2014. I am the creator of the Chronicles of Chronicles Series which features over 50 planned projects made in multiple different media formats. I love playing video games, particularly platformers and RPGs, and my favorite series include Xenoblade, Kingdom Hearts, Hollow Knight, Persona/SMT, Fire Emblem, NieR, Bravely Default, Octopath, Kirby, Zelda, and Castlevania. I also like anime, manga, drawing, writing, comics, animated movies, marvel, music, etc. In other words, I'm a complete nerd. I have many games currently out and in the works. Here is a list of them:

Released Games
-Zero Gear Fighters
-Crypt Challenge
-Meteo Chronicles (Demo Ver)
-Chronicles: The Lost Page
-Elzakalas: Beyond the End (Demo Ver)
-Noel and the Tower of Doom

Games in Development
-Chronicles Meteorfall
-Crypt Challenge DX+

Planned Games
-Yume Nikki: Azure/Vermillion Re:Union (Adventure)
-Spirit Roamer (RPG)
-Lost Anima (RPG. finished ver of SS/DAO)
-Chronicles Genesis (RTS/RPG)
-Chronicles Tactics: Realms of the Unreal (TRPG)
-Chronicles Calamity (RPG, inspired by FF8)
-Chronicles Calamity: Chronosapience (DLC)
-Chronicles: A Buried Tome (SH)
-Chronicles II: Zero Gear Saga (RPG, 1st remake of ZGF)
-Chronicles II: Trail of Blood (DLC)
-Zero Gear Fighters ReBorn (RPG, 2nd remake of ZGF)
-Chronicles III: Ascension (RPG, 1st remake of DA)
-Zero Gear Fighters 2: ReAscension (RPG, 2nd remake of DA)
-Chronicles: The Last Dragon's Elegy (EP/ARPG)
-Chronicles: The Last Dragon's Elegy - Definitive Edition (DLC)
-Chronicles: The Last Dragon's Elegy - Dark God of Destruction (Premium DLC)
-The Last Dragon's Elegy (Movie)
-Chronicles Black (RPG, inspired by SMT)
-Chronicles: Dark Conquest (RPG)
-Chronicles Leigonfall (RPG/SEU)
-Bioplasm (EP/ARPG)
-Generic Quest: A Realm Reborn (RPG)
-Chronicles Rebellion (EP/ARPG, inspired by MMZX)
-Chronicles: Grimoire of the Grail (RPG)
-Reflective Dreams (RPG, inspired by Persona)
-Chronicles VR: Abyssal Song (VRRPG)
-Chronicles VR: Sylvian Melody (VRRPG)
-Chronicles Tactics: Convergence (TRPG)
-Imprisoned Chain (Survival RPG)
-Chronicles: The Memory of Memes (RPG)
-133: Countdown to Destruction (AP)
-THE END OF CHRONICLES (ARPG)

I hope you enjoy playing my games!
Chronicles: The Lost Pag...
A tale lost to the sands...

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[RMMZ] How to make a custom stat?

So in my game along with the normal stats HP, MP, ATK, DEF, MAT, MDF, AGI, and LUK I want to add an additional stat called "Skill" or SKL for short that determines hit rate, critical rate, and evasion. How do I accomplish this? What plugins do I need? What formulas do I use? Thanks.

[RMMZ] Enemies doing way to much damage

So I'm working on my new game Meteo Chronicles Epilogue: Crypt Challenge EX (a remaster of a remake of a 2016/2017 event game) and I've run into a major issue. The enemies do way too much damage! I'm using a large majority of the Visustella plugins which I purchased legitimately, and no matter what I do the enemies do way more damage then they should. Since this is a epoluge for an existing game and one of the major criticisms of the original MV version was that the protagonist was way too weak, so I made him start at Lv.99 and have him grow from there up to Lv.999. (a level cap that no one will ever reach unless they're insane and grind for 100+ hours) Because of this, the enemies and bosses have stats equivalent to endgame bonus dungeon enemies and the superbosses of Meteo Chronicles, but the player should be able to handle them since they're at an endgame level too. Problem is no matter what I do the first and weakest enemy in the game is wrecking me with their basic attack which easily does 8000+ damage to the player. The MC starts with exactly 8999 HP, so with a single attack (that's guarded mind you) they're either insantly killer or left at death's door. This doesn't make any sense, as with the enemy's stats and the MC's stats they should only be doing 500-1000 damage a hit, not 8000+ while you're guarding. It doesn't make any sense. Here are some screenshots of the enemy, the skills they use, and the plugins I'm using for referance.

The plugins I'm using



The enemy in question


The skills in question



Can anyone please help me with this? Thanks!

Is @YanflySucks a troll?

So a while ago during the whole #plugingate fisaco I stumbled across a user called @YanflySucks on twitter. He was offering pirated Yanfly plugins for free "with the old TOS" and constantly ragged on Yanfly and made many allegations against him such as him going after other plugin creators and forcing them to quit the community or get sued in order to secure a monopoly on the plugin industry. He claims that this is why so many plugin devs outside of Yanfly's circle left the community, not because of "toxicity" like they claimed (the RM community is one of the most wholesome communities I know. What toxicity?) but because Yanfly threatened to sue them if they did not quit so Yanfly could achieve a monopoly. A monopoly he currently holds with MZ plugins and Visustella. According to @YanflySucks, everyone is too scared to make competing plugins to visustella in fear of being sued by Yanfly, so plugin devs either stick to MV or outright quit. @YanflySucks also claims that Yanfly has direct ties to KADOKAWA and that's why he was able to not only get MZ extremely early so he could be the first to make plugins so no one could claim that they were first in court, but also why KADOKAWA archived the MV forums and started promoting the heck out of MZ and even going as far as to discontinue service for RM2000, RM2003, RMXP, and RMVXA in order to encourage people to buy MZ. (according to @yanflysucks, they probably would have discontinued discontinued MV as well, but that would make their plan too obvious) In exchange, Yanfly would offer KADOKAWA 40% of all shares in plugin and patreon revenue, which is a lot since Yanfly makes tens of thousands every month from Patreon and Plugin sales alone. Are these allegations true in any way, or is that user just trolling to stur up drama? I think he also got suspended some time back, giving more evidence that this guy was a troll. What do you guys think about this whole situation? Do @yanflysucks' claims hold any water, or is he just a dirty troll trying to make a bad situation even worse? Comment down below.

[RMMZ] JP Levels?

So I'm making my game in MZ but it has come to the point that I can't continue because there is currently no JP levels plugin for MZ. In my game, I need for there to be two types of levels, character levels and class levels. I plan for it to be somewhat similar to the Bravely Default series or Final Fantasy V where JP is basically just EXP but for classes and helps classes level up which gives you new skills and passive buffs.

Problem is is that only one JP levels plugin exists for MV (which works perfectly) but there's absolutely no plugin for MZ yet. I even shilled for the Visuastella MZ plugins with my graduation money so I could get that sweet sweet Bravely Default battle system plugin I've been asking people to make for literally years, and even still after nearly 60 plugins they still haven't ported all the MV ones including ones made by third parties like the JP levels one.

I absolutely NEED a JP levels plugin for my game, my game can't work without one, but even if I knew javascript (I'm beginning to learn) I couldn't make a JP levels plugin for myself even if I wanted to because you now have to get permission from Yanfly to make plugins that are even compatible with his unlike in the golden era when MV was new and plugins were free.

Worse still, the only way to contact the team is through Patreon which is insanely expensive and I already have multiple subscriptions going with limited income and can't invest in another one. Also, I've heard rumors that he is also known to sue anyone who "copies" his code which to him means any plugin that serves the same purpose. Are these true?

If that are, then that means that I either 1: learn Javascript (which could take years) and make my own plugin library for MZ and risk being sued by Yanfly, (he already sued SRD, HimeWorks, and Galv, according to the rumors) or just hope and pray that the Visustella team make a JP Levels plugin before all 10 tiers end.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to help me? Or even better, can anyone get in contact with the Visuastella team so they can make a JP levels plugin like the one they had for MV? Don't get me wrong, I do respect the team as a whole, but strongly disagree with Yanfly's predatory tactics in the plugin-making community.

He's been doing stuff like this ever since some fool stole and resold his and his associates code on his own scammer website, going as far as to "recruit" random RM devs for him to promote their games in exchange for the dev to promote his website which sold stolen plugins and assets. (which were free at the time)

Because of that man, RPG Maker will never be the same and the only hope is some rich guy who knows Javascript and does RPG Maker AND makes plugins who has the money to hire a good lawyer if Yanfly sues them and actually be able to win.

I have one of those things and am working two of the others, but my family can't afford a good copyright lawyer to work on a case for possibly multiple years. Unless someone in my family wins the lottery or my grandma dies (she's super rich but doesn't show it) and my mom gets her inheritance, there's no way I'm risking going against Yanfly who makes thousands a month solely off of patreon and plugin sales.

He'd beat me in court easily, since he has far more money and I'm unemployed and broke. (sorta, I have about $1200 in savings, but that isn't enough for me to last) Sorry this kinda turned into a rant lol. I just really need that plugin, it's late where I live, and I'm tired. I don't want to quit this project because some guy in Portugal or something refuses to listen to feedback, positive or negative, unless you pay him, meaning unless you pay up you have no say in what plugins are chosen and put into a steadily decreasing pool. Please, can someone get in touch with Visuastella and get them to make that JP levels plugin? I really need that and if it's not created soon I might have to take a break from RPG Maker and instead work on my massive backlog.

(P.S. Just to let you know, please don't ban me for this. I recently got banned from the official RPG Maker Forums for making a similar post that went a bit further into conspiracy territory and bordered on libel, but I made sure this time to be vague with my accusations and not say anything idiotic like "KAKOKAWA runs a ST ring." That was so dumb lol.

Once again my autistic brain getting reality confused with my own fiction in my subconscious. Figures. I regret those actions heavily though, regardless of my stupid autism, and I wish to apologize and eventually return to those forums, as I am not 100% sure how long I'm banned for. I know this is important for people to say so I'll say it. I'm sorry, and regret my actions. I was an idiot, and I will try to not do something dumb like this again and think before I post. But hey, at least I didn't groom a minor like all those people did. (You can probably guess who) I'm a degenerate, but I'm not THAT degenerate.)

Who exactly is/was Helaz?

I see this user named "Helaz" constantly talked about in passing mention across this website. Even though I joined in 2015, I know almost nothing about the "history" of this site and all the infamous things that happened in it. Can someone please catch me up on who is "Helaz" person is and any other drama that happened on this site that I should know about? Thanks.

[RMMV] 413 Request Entity Too Large Error

Hello. I'm currently having an error when trying to upload a download file to this site. Whenever I attempt to upload "Meteo Chronicles BETA 0.5" about 60% though uploading the site crashes and it displays the error "413 Request Entity Too Large." Is my game's file size too large? It's only about 490,000 KB. Is that too much for this site to handle? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: What the frick. I just did a bit more searching, and my game is literally over 9.3 GB uncompressed! That's bigger than Zelda Breath of the Wild! How the hecky did my game's files get that large? It's not even complete yet!

Edit 2: Does anyone have any tips for lowering the file size? I have literally no clue how it got this large. I only have about 35 OGG songs, the basic RTP, and some custom battlers... How the heck did my game this large? I don't understand.

Edit 3: Nevermind. The large file size was just a glitch with my computer. The REAL file size is about 350 MB. Nothing to worry about.

[RMMV] I literally just fa**d to a RPG Maker MV Character

Yes, you heard me right, fa**d. I literally got hard over a FREAKING RPG MAKER MV GENERATOR CHARACTER I MADE MYSELF IN ENGINE! I need serious help. Here is the picture for funsies. (SFW, I think)



I'm 100% serious with this. Not joking. Though, this is the funniest thing to happen to me since forever. I can believe this actually happened. I nearly even did phase 3. (You don't want to know about phase 3) Please someone help me! I cant do this I can't it's too funny! XD

When you Learn Touhou Music is Royalty Free



The story behind this is that one day while randomly watching memes on Youtube I stumbled across a fire Emblem meme video called "Awaken My Dedue" by OfficialJugg which had really cool background music from 2:50 - 3:14. I checked the description hoping that there were links to the music used, and sure enough, there was! The video is question is called "Shihori - Day Breaker" and features the song I liked from the video. I added it to my playlist and moved on with my life.

Later on, I decided to use the theme in one of my future games as the theme of the true final boss, and just hoped either the song was royalty free or was obscure enough to not be noticed. However, just today I decided randomly to search for other versions of the song on Youtube. I couldn't find any other similar results when I searched up "Day Breaker Song," leading me only to some obscure rock song and My Little Pony AMVs.

However, going into the comments, I found one particular gem: "I just found out this is a touhou song. The other name for this song is sepetet for the dead princess." - Leslie Siflutez. Upon searching for the actual name of the song, I found a LOT more remixes. However, most of them had a different beat and temo from the "Remix" that was "Shihori Day Breaker," so I couldn't use any of them for my game, including the 8 Bit ones (my game is in a 8 bit style) and the original since it has lyrics.

However, I remembered something I heard online that all Touhou content, including it's excellent music and all it's characters, are 100% allowed by the creator to be used however you like as long as you also let other people use the characters and music for free as well. That's why 99% of Touhou are fan-games. The creator just lets the devs have free reign over his creations and he doesn't care.

This is why in a perfect world, copyright wouldn't exist. The only reason it exists is pure greed, and since in a perfect world everything would be free and people would only make and supply goods and services because they like doing it, copyright is overall pointless and only serves to benefit corporations while hurting the general populace who aren't skilled enough to make their own stuff.

Anyways, since all Touhou content is open-source, I am 100% free to use that song, especially my future remix that I commission, in any of my games, even if said game is commercial. Anyways, enjoy the meme!

What the heck is with the Generic RPG Quest Series?

So you may know, but I have been working on a game called Generic RPG Quest 3 for quite some time. You may also know that a guy named Seiromem has made another game called Generic RPG Quest 2. Originally, Generic RPG Quest 3 was called Generic Quest, but also some digging, I found a game called Generic RPG Quest 2 so I decided, "Hey, maybe I should rename it. Heck, maybe I should make a sequel (not really) to a RPG Maker game I have never played! That should be fun!" However, what ever happened to Generic RPG Quest 1? I searched and searched, but only found a reddit post for "generic RPG side quest ideas" and a youtube let's play for a mysterious game called "Generic RPG Quest 8." What the heck? why did it skip from 2 to 8? And it seems like each game (out of 2, 3, and 8) was made by completely different people? What the heck? Are there actually 7 other generic RPG Quest games not made by Seiromem or me that have been lost to the void. Did Seiromem actually make Generic RPG Quest 8 and simpilly skipped a couple games as a joke? Did Seiromem or someone else create the original Generic RPG Quest and then delete all traces of it from the internet right before or after Seiromem posted 2? This is all so confusing! I hope that someone in this community can solve this mysterious. Someone do something!

-KrimsonKatt

[RMMV] PSA DOWNLOAD THE LIBRARIUM BATTLERS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

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WARNING!!!
THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO ALL USERS OF THE RPG MAKER MV SOFTWARE!!!
liberty OR kentona PLEASE PIN THIS SO MORE PEOPLE CAN BE INFORMED!!!

Breaking news! The popular artist named Aekashics who makes battlers for RPG Maker MV is soon going to make all his battlers Patreon Exclusive, denying hundreds of potential creators of over 1000 amazing high-quality battlers to use in their game which have been completely free since their inception in late 2016. Once he does this, you will be forced to pay him at least 50 dollars every month to be able to access his collection of over 1000 battlers, which would deny the world of one of the last free RPG Maker resources we have for MV. He is doing this solely out of greed, just like Fallen Angel Olivia and the VX Ace Japanese guy before her. If you are ever interested in developing a game, especially for RPG Maker MV and don't want to pay some Russian guy on the internet $50 every month, make sure to download his battlers NOW. As in RIGHT FREAKING NOW!!! A link will be provided below. Also, to be safe, mass download all of Yanfly's plugins for he will probably be the next one to go to the dark side...