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I enjoy playing and creating games (mostly RPGs) and have a love of story and characterisation above graphics. I've been into RM* since '96 and have used all makers - started on the PSX makers, found and used a patched version of the SNES RM, then moved to RM95. When I found RM2K I finally decided to join some forums and I've been a part of the community ever since.

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DOING IT! - WEEK SIX

DOING IT!

Week the omfgsixth.

DOING IT! is a community event ran each week where a prompt is given and those who wish to fulfill it post their work here. It is entirely optional, you may join at any time - even after a week has finished. Feel free to post as many pieces as you like. Feedback is encouraged.

DETAILED EXPLANATION/QUESTIONS/SUGGESTIONS HERE

RULES
- Post your work in the thread, preferably with some small explanation about it. Whether that be about any troubles you had fulfilling the prompt, how you went about it or how you think it turned out is up to you.
- Feedback is highly encouraged, but optional. No flaming please. Constructional critique is preferred. If you see a piece without feedback, consider leaving even a line about it. Keep feedback polite.
- Keep posts on/in topic. Try not to get too off-track, please.
- "Borrowing". As these threads may include both original graphical and musical creations please ask the creators instead of just adding them to your 'collections'. If authors don't mind adding full works, go ahead, but partial works are also encouraged. If someone states in their post that they do not want their work used, please try to refrain yourself from grabbing with your grubby hands. It makes you look like a fool and a thief when others' point it out. People have been given bad reputations and ostracized from communities for doing this.
- You may add to this topic at any time. A link to this and the other weekly topics to come will be added to the main topic each week. Feel free to add new work to any of them at any time.

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for prompts please see the
original thread.


ENJOY YOURSELVES!

PROMPT: PLOT NO JUTSU
Plot - every game should have one. It may be as simple as having a chicken cross a road of busy cars or as elaborate as Final Fantasy XVII: The Returners II - Escape of the Chocobo. This weeks prompt is simple - take a piece of your plot that is still being worked on/is a bit confusing/you're not happy/has problems (continuity, explanatory, etc) and work on it. Post up here your workings (if you want to avoid spoilers give your characters/places false identities. ^.^) Or use spoiler tags.


Go forth and create!

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WEEK SIX: PLOT NO JUTSU

DOING IT! - WEEK FIVE

DOING IT!

Week the fifth.

DOING IT! is a community event ran each week where a prompt is given and those who wish to fulfill it post their work here. It is entirely optional, you may join at any time - even after a week has finished. Feel free to post as many pieces as you like. Feedback is encouraged.

DETAILED EXPLANATION/QUESTIONS/SUGGESTIONS HERE

RULES
- Post your work in the thread, preferably with some small explanation about it. Whether that be about any troubles you had fulfilling the prompt, how you went about it or how you think it turned out is up to you.
- Feedback is highly encouraged, but optional. No flaming please. Constructional critique is preferred. If you see a piece without feedback, consider leaving even a line about it. Keep feedback polite.
- Keep posts on/in topic. Try not to get too off-track, please.
- "Borrowing". As these threads may include both original graphical and musical creations please ask the creators instead of just adding them to your 'collections'. If authors don't mind adding full works, go ahead, but partial works are also encouraged. If someone states in their post that they do not want their work used, please try to refrain yourself from grabbing with your grubby hands. It makes you look like a fool and a thief when others' point it out. People have been given bad reputations and ostracized from communities for doing this.
- You may add to this topic at any time. A link to this and the other weekly topics to come will be added to the main topic each week. Feel free to add new work to any of them at any time.

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for prompts please see the
original thread.


ENJOY YOURSELVES!

PROMPT: CARTOGRAPHY STAGE I
Fifth week is apon us, lads and lassies and we've yet to tackle maps. So let's do so! This week your prompt is this - make a map. Whether it be drawn on paper, reasoned out in your mind or an actual map itself. For those who don't have projects or have finished theirs either post up a screen shot of your favourite map from a game you've played and tell us why, or just discuss what you believe a good map should have or be.


Go forth and create!

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WEEK FIVE: CARTOGRAPHY STAGE I

DOING IT! - WEEK FOUR

DOING IT!

Week the fourth.

DOING IT! is a community event ran each week where a prompt is given and those who wish to fulfill it post their work here. It is entirely optional, you may join at any time - even after a week has finished. Feel free to post as many pieces as you like. Feedback is encouraged.

DETAILED EXPLANATION/QUESTIONS/SUGGESTIONS HERE

RULES
- Post your work in the thread, preferably with some small explanation about it. Whether that be about any troubles you had fulfilling the prompt, how you went about it or how you think it turned out is up to you.
- Feedback is highly encouraged, but optional. No flaming please. Constructional critique is preferred. If you see a piece without feedback, consider leaving even a line about it. Keep feedback polite.
- Keep posts on/in topic. Try not to get too off-track, please.
- "Borrowing". As these threads may include both original graphical and musical creations please ask the creators instead of just adding them to your 'collections'. If authors don't mind adding full works, go ahead, but partial works are also encouraged. If someone states in their post that they do not want their work used, please try to refrain yourself from grabbing with your grubby hands. It makes you look like a fool and a thief when others' point it out. People have been given bad reputations and ostracized from communities for doing this.
- You may add to this topic at any time. A link to this and the other weekly topics to come will be added to the main topic each week. Feel free to add new work to any of them at any time.

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for prompts please see the
original thread.


ENJOY YOURSELVES!

PROMPT: INTO SCRIPTION
For this week, let's talk scripts and codes. Anything about them, whether it's a simple day/night system in RM2K/3, your new battle script for VX and XP or that new C++ script you just wrote up for some other maker. Let's get our scription scripts on!


Go forth and create!

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WEEK FOUR: INTO SCRIPTION

DOING IT ~ WEEK THREE

DOING IT!

Week the third.

DOING IT! is a community event ran each week where a prompt is given and those who wish to fulfill it post their work here. It is entirely optional, you may join at any time - even after a week has finished. Feel free to post as many pieces as you like. Feedback is encouraged.

DETAILED EXPLANATION/QUESTIONS/SUGGESTIONS HERE

RULES
- Post your work in the thread, preferably with some small explanation about it. Whether that be about any troubles you had fulfilling the prompt, how you went about it or how you think it turned out is up to you.
- Feedback is highly encouraged, but optional. No flaming please. Constructional critique is preferred. If you see a piece without feedback, consider leaving even a line about it. Keep feedback polite.
- Keep posts on/in topic. Try not to get too off-track, please.
- "Borrowing". As these threads may include both original graphical and musical creations please ask the creators instead of just adding them to your 'collections'. If authors don't mind adding full works, go ahead, but partial works are also encouraged. If someone states in their post that they do not want their work used, please try to refrain yourself from grabbing with your grubby hands. It makes you look like a fool and a thief when others' point it out. People have been given bad reputations and ostracized from communities for doing this.
- You may add to this topic at any time. A link to this and the other weekly topics to come will be added to the main topic each week. Feel free to add new work to any of them at any time.

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for prompts please see the
original thread.


ENJOY YOURSELVES!

PROMPT: GETTING TO KNOW WHO?
Take five NPCs and give them a back-story. They could be anything: the greeter in a town, the kings second-cousin twice removed, a historic/mythical hero or a block that you have to jump over/push. Their story as elaborate or simple as you wish. Let's get to know the unknown populace - the usually characterless faces that decorate the background of the tale.


Go forth and create!

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WEEK THREE: GETTING TO KNOW WHO?

DOING IT! ~ WEEK TWO

DOING IT!

Week the second.

DOING IT! is a community event ran each week where a prompt is given and those who wish to fulfill it post their work here. It is entirely optional, you may join at any time - even after a week has finished. Feel free to post as many pieces as you like. Feedback is encouraged.

DETAILED EXPLANATION/QUESTIONS/SUGGESTIONS HERE

RULES
- Post your work in the thread, preferably with some small explanation about it. Whether that be about any troubles you had fulfilling the prompt, how you went about it or how you think it turned out is up to you.
- Feedback is highly encouraged, but optional. No flaming please. Constructional critique is preferred. If you see a piece without feedback, consider leaving even a line about it. Keep feedback polite.
- Keep posts on/in topic. Try not to get too off-track, please.
- "Borrowing". As these threads may include both original graphical and musical creations please ask the creators instead of just adding them to your 'collections'. If authors don't mind adding full works, go ahead, but partial works are also encouraged. If someone states in their post that they do not want their work used, please try to refrain yourself from grabbing with your grubby hands. It makes you look like a fool and a thief when others' point it out. People have been given bad reputations and ostracized from communities for doing this.
- You may add to this topic at any time. A link to this and the other weekly topics to come will be added to the main topic each week. Feel free to add new work to any of them at any time.

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for prompts please see the
original thread.


ENJOY YOURSELVES!

PROMPT: A CACOPHONY OF SOUND
Alright, so for week two lets head into newer waters and focus on sounds. Whether this be a sound effect you've found yourself using over and over again, music you've created for your project/for fun, an mp3/midi/wav file you found or some general musical/sound ideas for certain parts of your project that you've been considering.

Remember, ask before 'sampling' others' original work.
And you can always add more to the previous topics whenever you like.


Go forth and create!

WEEK TWO: A CACOPHONY OF SOUND

Water chipset request!

So, does anyone have a chipset of waterspray (you know, for the bottom of a waterfall) that would go well with the 2003 RTP? I'm currently using one but it's a bit ugh! and I desperately need another. Bonus points if it has diagonal parts.

I've had a look through Charas and some other sites but I can't seem to find any good ones. Thanks in advance!

DOING IT! ~ WEEK ONE

DOING IT!

Week the first.

DOING IT! is a community event ran each week where a prompt is given and those who wish to fulfill it post their work here. It is entirely optional, you may join at any time - even after a week has finished. Feel free to post as many pieces as you like. Feedback is encouraged.

DETAILED EXPLANATION/QUESTIONS/SUGGESTIONS HERE

RULES
- Post your work in the thread, preferably with some small explanation about it. Whether that be about any troubles you had fulfilling the prompt, how you went about it or how you think it turned out is up to you.
- Feedback is highly encouraged, but optional. No flaming please. Constructional critique is preferred. If you see a piece without feedback, consider leaving even a line about it. Keep feedback polite.
- Keep posts on/in topic. Try not to get too off-track, please.
- "Borrowing". As these threads may include both original graphical and musical creations please ask the creators instead of just adding them to your 'collections'. If authors don't mind adding full works, go ahead, but partial works are also encouraged. If someone states in their post that they do not want their work used, please try to refrain yourself from grabbing with your grubby hands. It makes you look like a fool and a thief when others' point it out. People have been given bad reputations and ostracized from communities for doing this.
- You may add to this topic at any time. A link to this and the other weekly topics to come will be added to the main topic each week. Feel free to add new work to any of them at any time.

If you have any questions, suggestions or ideas for prompts please see the
original thread.


ENJOY YOURSELVES!

PROMPT: ENEMY CREATION
Let us begin with something simple to get the ball rolling, shall we? Monster/enemy creation. This can mean graphics, statistics, history, ideas, attacks, brainstorming or anything else to do with enemy creation. Whether this is the AI for the cars that try to squash froggie, a side boss in an RPG or even the dog that chases you away from the house you want to enter.

Go forth and create!



WEEK ONE - ENEMY CREATION
WEEK TWO - A CACOPHONY OF SOUND

DOING IT! A community effort.

DOING IT!

A community effort.


What is DOING IT!?
This, my friends, is an idea I've had bouncing around for a while. It's a way to encourage us to do more work on our games and is completely voluntary. DOING IT! is a small ongoing series of prompts that will help us fulfill certain areas of our game-making/hobby enjoying whilst gaining both feedback, a sense of accomplishment and allowing a small look into the design and implementation processes that most of us have when creating. This isn't meant to be something on a grand scale. No. DOING IT! is aimed at the smaller, simpler parts of creating, so as not to get in the way of your main ideas and creations.

How does it work?
Every week I'll put up a prompt in a new topic and throughout the week everyone who wants to can work on completing that prompt. The prompts will be quite simple to fulfill and everyone is encouraged to try to add something, or at least leave feedback on something that has been added. All prompts will be quite different, so there will be things for everyone to be able to try. And keep in mind that though a new one would 'run' each week, there'd be no problems with going back and adding 'entries' or feedback to previous weeks.

Prompts?
As said, there will be many kinds of prompts. This means that not only will there be graphical ones, but written, musical, statistical and any other additional prompts that can be thought of. What types of prompts can be expected? Easy ones! Small ones! Don't-get-in-the-way-of-your-making ones!
Things like:
- make/start a characterset for your game
- give a background to an NPC
- find/make a midi/mp3 for an area in your game
- create a monster
- brainstorm a quest
- sum up your game (if you have one) in 10 words or less
- make a small map (inner/forest/city/cave)
- item creation
- battle character set up/creation
- edit an existing/older map to be at your current mapping standards
Among others!

How can you help?
Well, to begin with I want to see how an idea like this would be received in the community. I'm not asking for sign-ups or commitments. I just want to know if people would like to see something like this happen.

Also, ideas for prompts. All types - from getting into the mind of your main character, to trying to figure out how to get a script idea to work, to showing off a new monster sprite. Any ideas are worthy of consideration as long as they're small, easy to do and be done with and don't distract from the main focus of making. These prompts are meant to inspire work, not detract from it. ^.^

So, thoughts? Questions? Suggestions?


If you can think of some prompts that may help your own projects, post them up. The more choices we have for prompts the better! If we get enough I may be able to have two prompts every now and then to accommodate different types of projects better.


GAMESTORMING

GAMESTORMING!
Games that almost were... and may yet be.


Alright, so we've all got these kickass game ideas that we have collecting dust in the farthest reaches of our brains. Thing is, we're already working on a game/have no idea how to implement said games features/can't be bothered making said game/haven't got the time or inclination to do so. Whatever the reason may be these poor, poor game ideas are slowly dying, fading away into nothing. Well, here's an idea. Why not give someone else the chance to borrow from your ideas to create their own games?

Let's share these wonderful ideas in the hope that others will take from them and make the games we can't. Just post the ideas here.

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GAME NAME: {if there is one}
GENERAL IDEA: {A summary of the game idea}
EXTENSIVE NOTES: {Larger explanation of the idea including character, history, plot, systems and everything in between. Please use HIDE TAGS}
[hide] stuff here [/hide]

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That's all there is to it. Share an idea and maybe pick up a few while you're at it. ^.^

*Only post here ideas that you don't mind others pinching. No whining about having said ideas borrowed. The whole aim of this topic is to promote sharing ideas and inspiration. I'll start off by sharing one of my ideas, just to show how it's done~

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GAME NAME: Unsung Heroes
GENERAL IDEA: A simulation RPG where you have to make a town better through the use of adventurers and diplomacy... the NPC way!
EXTENSIVE NOTES:


It is a well-known fact that the Dark is connected to the Fithorn Lord - a condemned wizard who cursed the lands to eternal darkness. Hundreds of years have passed since the curse was first cas and only the Dakr continent is still touched by the Infernal Darkness.
You are Medal, the mayor of the port city Lystha - the only town on the Dark continent. Newly appointed, you have a dream - to rid the world of the Dark for once and all! Medal fights for the light the only way she knows how - by aiding the adventurers of her town in their quest to defeat the Dark.
- Start with 6 fledgling adventurers and send them on quests to enhance their levels.
As you progress more adventurers flock to town to help defeat the dark. Pair them up with others and send them on quests to defeat monsters, find resources, help townsfolk and investigate the Dark continent.
- recruit businesses from other towns with use of the FAME stat.
The higher your FAME gets the more shops and townsfolk with head to Lystha. Fame is granted when heroes complete quests and beat back the dark.
- build new houses for the grown population
Don't forget to build bars and inns for travellers and heroes to hang out in.
- create guilds for adventurers
Each guild can hold 12 adventurers. Upgrading a guild will increase gold/quest intake and membership amount.
- introduce your heroes to each other (custom teams)
Some heroes will get along well with each other, whilst others won't. A group of four white mages may not be a great idea, except on healing/gathering quests.
- choose which hero teams get which quests
Got a newbie team? Give them a simple errand/gather quest. More experienced teams head for the hunting/exploring quests.
- create new settlements
As you beat back the Dark new areas open up and new settlements will pop up, opening diplomacy quests (which as mayor you can join!)
- walk around your town and listen to suggestions
Walking around the town will let you talk to the people and those heroes not involved in quests at the moment.
- treasures and gold!
Each quest will have at least one item gained and gold/experience. Choose which hero gets the item. 20% of the gold goes to the town coffers to help the town evolve.
- join your heroes on the quests or sit back and relax
Some quests will require Medal to join in, such as diplomacy quests to other towns, but you can choose to join a few other quests to raise goodwill and fame - such as healing, gathering and exploration quests. You don't have to, though.

I hate dogs. A topic for ranting in.

That is all.

Really though, I'm an animal lover as much as the next person but when your brother moves in with a fucking dog that keeps pulling stuff out of the window that you tried to block up so your cat doesn't escape and get killed on the highway, you get a liiiiittle bit anti-dog. Add in that said dog is as dopey as shit, doesn't listen to a word you say (like said brother who doesn't care that said dog is fucking annoying as hell) and keeps pissing on you if you even look in it's general direction, then damn, even the most pro-animal person would be gunning for its blood. Lots and lots of it, preferably.

Nevermind the fact that before they (bro and friend) made the run for the dog that goes outside my window I'd told them that they'd need to fix it so that said mutt wouldn't pull shit out like it has done.

"It's all good. He won't be able to do that."
"Yeah, well, it's not in there solidly, you know? The AC is balancing and the blockage isn't a permanent fix."
"He's a good boy. He won't be able to pull it out anyway."
"I just don't want my cat to get hit by a car. And I swear, if he breaks my AC..."
"It's fine!"
"You'd better hope it is."

I call bullshit.
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So that's my rant for the day. Anyone else have something they want to growl about? Anything pissing you off?