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So I want to make PG Maker...

Program itself WILL be free. There are other means of getting money, though I won't reveal details, because I don't want to someone steal my idea.

[Plug-in] [rm2k3] Animated Monsters Plugin

No, gcc won't create any compatibility issues.

Could someone make chiptune music for my game?

I know I could do my own music, but I suck at it. Like, royally. So, rather not, unless you want to throw your speakers outta window when starting my game.

Want to edit your game's entire text all at once? Simple + Easy -- DreaMaker (RM2k/3/XP Text extractor tool)

Yeah, but it should be just matter of reverse engineering Ace's save format (rvdata2) and then writing tool that can read it and save.

I can't do this myself, but I know what it takes.

RIP Neil Armstrong

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Should NASA launch the coffin to Moon?


Only if it is what Neil wanted.

Could someone make chiptune music for my game?

Sorry, guitar music is not what I'm looking for. But I'll keep your offer in mind for future projects.

RIP Neil Armstrong

I'm so shocked. I mean he was old man and would die sooner or later, but...

Such great man left us...

So I want to make PG Maker...

Sorry, mistyped thread name :).

Also I am making this maker mainly for me, but want to have some design tips from devs who are experienced with making engines/editors, so it'll be also usable for others.

Also 1. is rather that someone would be able to open map in tiled (or in notepad, as it is XML), then steal it and edit it. With custom format this is harder, especially if format is binary. I'm sure someone would reverse engineer it, especially with open-sourced code, but even if format will be known, it will be hard to make sense out of it, as maps will be AES-encrypted with key generated by maker based on specific elements of game (and you'll have control over which part of game are counted for key calculation).

So I want to make PG Maker...

1. I want to roll my own solution, so users won't be able to modify maps if they won't know how game was made and what soft was used. I don't think my userbase would want to let any idiot with Tiled (or notepad, as Tiled maps seems to be XML-based) to modify game and release really glitchy version of it to make bad publicity (some people are mean...). Yes, it is extreme case, but it also possible one.

2. Another reason is that I'll know my code and how exactly it works. With copy-pasting foreign code, I wouldn't without wasting hours to analyze it.

3. I want editor to be GPL'd and since it would use Tiled code, there may be some hurdles relating to licenses. Runtime will be set as MIT license, to allow selling games, though.

4. I want to embed events (lua code, though encrypted with AES) directly in map files.

So I want to make PG Maker...

Well, editor will be written in Lazarus (free pascal) and runtime in Java (reason is to provide multiplatform support at no cost - game will be able to play on any OS that support java, and editor will be compiled for main systems (Windows, Mac, and Linux)). So there won't be any C involved. And from my experience (I've worked with Lua in Java before), LuaJava is easy to use.