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Ok I AM SO SLOW YOU GUYS ORZ I just got to the point where I can test this.

So I hit a snag. The map music continues smoothly into battle but then when we go back out to the map the victory ME is playing instead of the map music.

If you want to skip the victory jingle when the map and battle BGMs match, simply add "return if $game_system.battle_bgm.name == @map_bgm.name" to Play Battle End ME, the same way you see it in Play Battle BGM.

I will try doing this but if there is a way that the victory music could play briefly after the battle, and then the map music resume, that would be more ideal.

Edit: I added that snippet of code and the Victory ME continues to play after the battle is over and we've returned to the map instead of the map BGM. D'oh.

Random guess: something to do with Yanfly Engine Ace - Victory Aftermath v1.03?

Today I Learned: Unity has lots of cool ideas.

I gotta say I'm a fan of threads like this in general. I think RMN needs more "take a penny, leave a penny" trays of game ideas. Quite often I want to mak a gam but don't have a strong idea , or I have an idea I like but know I can't gamify it so I want to gift it to someone who can. Either like everyone should do one of these threads or there should be a big central repository 'island of broken toys' idea thread.

Vague Placeholder Name: Space Adventure Mecha Game

Setting/Genre: Sci-Fi RPG

This game will center around the crew of a spaceship in a Xenosaga-esce adventure (but with less plot XD) and would be episodic, with each episode featuring a different crew-member as the protagonist. While originally planned to be another romance-heavy game, I may tone down or eliminate that aspect to focus on a game that everyone can enjoy.

This seems really cool tell me more about it. Less plot than Xenosaga still leaves room for more plot than like ANYTHING ELSE. Do you know anything about the universe it is set in or the technology level? Is there are going to be an overarching story of some kind around the crew's mission (yaaay!) or is it going to be disconnected "planet of the week" episodes a la Star Trek (booo!).

You say Mecha game, will all of the combat in the game be on board mechs? Or are you planning on including personal or (:DDD) starship combat too? I know that broadening it out from mechs is difficult to program but making sure that all combats take place in mech-appropriate arenas and that characters have time to get into and board their mechs seems like it would be tough to write.

Had you thought at all about the resources you wanted to use for this?

Vague Placeholder Name: Choose Your Party!

Setting/Genre: Fantasy RPG

A boiling-down of an idea I had to "remake of Final Fantasy 1 where you can assign personalities to your party members and they now respond to everything in the game and maybe argue with each other," this is a game where you choose a party of three characters, from a pool of five available characters. You choose which character is the leader as well, and this all alters how dialog and interaction goes. The leader also gets a few additional benefits in combat that the character wouldn't get if they were just a normal party member.

(I have started gathering resources and such for this XD as it seems like a short and fun project I can do in the future)

The branching options for dialogue based on the characters' personalities and combinations and who's the leader and the glaven and the OY VEY sounds like a fucking nightmare to event/program to me, but if you were handling that I'd love to tackle the mechanical character creation/customization/battle balance side of things. Games where you can choose all of the characters' classes at the beginning are kind of an ongoing obsession of mine (both versions of Mage Duel, Everything Turns Gray, etcetera).

Vague Placeholder Name: Weird Horrific Urban Exploration Game

Setting/Genre: Modern-Day RPG

While this won't be a horror game, this is going to have some horror themes to it, but is going to be more quirky than scary. It's set in the modern day, and is about some higher beings fighting over a town that they've somehow separated from the rest of the world. The higher beings can't do things without a human host, however, and your characters will have to make pacts with some of them to have the power to save the town.

A lot of the town will have been abandoned or destroyed, so a lot of the game will be exploring the urban wasteland, finding pockets of people, and perhaps entering otherworldly dungeons created by the hostile higher beings in order to stop them. I think an Earthbound-ish aesthetic might be fun to contrast the warped and strange way I envision the higher-beings looking like. In that vein, I kinda really want to make the protag a lady with a baseball bat XD

This is freaking awesome. It reminds me a little bit of Persona but I've never actually PLAYED a Persona/SMS game so take that with a grain of salt. The higher beings sound like Lovecraft's old ones/outer gods and that fills me with <3s.

I would really like to see it skew more horrific rather than less. Not to the point of being putatively 'in the horror genre', just you know...not soft! Not soft by a mile.

The graphics for this would be REALLY challenging but you know like the one person who could totally do it? SnowOwl. Let's do this. Let's you me and SnowOwl make this game.

Vague Placeholder Name: Alien World Exploration Game

Setting/Genre: Sci-Fi RPG

Growing up, I found the Metroid games for the Nintendo, Game Boy, and Super Nintendo to be really awesome, and the sense of exploration has fascinated me ever since. I've wanted to attempt a game that captures that, but in an RPG format rather than a platforming one.

A portal is found that leads to a vast alien landscape. A team of five is sent in to explore, when a robot probe sent in is destroyed. With a three-party team of a weapons expert, a gadgeteer, and a (maybe psychic) biologist, (with the other two characters being support-NPCs) and a vehicle base where you can return to rest, upgrade equipment, do research, etc, and must find out the truth of the weird alien landscape and the hostile creatures hidden within.

(I've already started some character-building and looking for character art for this idea XD)

Man, this sounds super awesome too!!!!! I could really dig this. I would love to be on board with something like this just to tinker with the research/crafting system (because the weapons expert, gadgeteer and biologist could all have their own crafting to do and it could interlock in cool ways).

Here's something else cool. This idea could TOTALLY be combined with your first idea Space Adventure Mecha Game or, and this excites me even more, with your second idea Choose Your Party!. We could set up the science fiction equivalent of Final Fantasy I's core character classes from expanding on the concepts you listed and have the players choose their combination of classes--and gender and personality and names and who's the leader--whoa. Three playable characters seems like the right amount for that too.

But even without the combinating and the whatnot this idea is probably my favorite.

Where did those character sets come from? Based on everything I'm hearing I'm guessing they're not custom.

cracked top 10 MS life is complete

anyway just popped in to say that 'Penguins of STATagascar' flows much better.

In spite of the RMN Plays event, I still don't feel like I've played enough of enough games released in 2014 to really have an informed opinion on this. And the sad thing is I'm pretty sure I've played more than most. Anyway, I've refrained from voting on the Misaos this year for the same reason.