UPRC'S PROFILE

In the previous RPG Makers that I've worked with, we were able to quickly and easily set up a predetermined battle to have conditional branches for whether or not the player won the battle or ran away. I haven't been able to spot anything like this in VX Ace, but I would need it for the game I am working on because:

1. I'm using touch encounters.
2. The game needs to track battles won and/or monsters killed which I want the game to calculate after the battle ends.

So here's what I am wondering... In VX Ace, what happens if you use the escape command against a predetermined encounter? Will the event continue processing past the battle, or will the event reset itself? If the event doesn't reset, how would it differentiate between the battle running from or winning a battle?

(I can't poke around because I'm not at home. Hoping that those who know VX Ace well will be able to provide an answer so that I can get straight to work on battles later rather than trying to figure out how this works.)

I don't think I'll be starting anything soon, but I have a basic premise and setting for what I'd like to use for a project. This is sort of like a rough draft since it's all in point form. I'd just like to know, what do you folks think? I have some character and story ideas in mind, but none of those are a part of what I have here.


1. Humans live underground due to the surface world becoming too polluted.

2. Despite the human race trying to start fresh all over again, qualities such as greed, power, and ruthlessness determine success in life. Those who do not trample over others to get ahead are often left behind in poverty-striken slums.

3. Medical research has become so advanced that immortality is now attainable due to transplants being possible for any part of the body at all, and rejections have become a thing of the past.

4. To avoid the cluttering of garbage or increase in pollution, all human waste (garbage and sewage) is shot to the sun in a very low cost rocket at the start of every month.

5. Electricity is now generated from thermal energy harnessed from the core of the planet. Solar power is also used extensively. Before going underground, the human race set up a vast and complex system of solar panels across the globe, gathering sunlight at all hours of the day and sending it underground.

6. Crime in the slums is almost out of control, but those who live comfortably and outside of the slums ignore the problems of the poor almost entirely. Those in control have adopted a sort of survival of the fittest mantra. They believe that if you can't survive in the slums, then that's just basically too bad for you! If anyone dies in the slums, it is viewed as population control (due to the human race no longer wishing to have such a large global population). However, if deaths occur outside of the slums, it is investigated very thoroughly and anyone found to be guilty of orchestrating a murder will then be murdered themselves.

7. The governments are now all dictatorships, as it is believed that this is the best way to govern the new underground civilization. Warfare between underground nations never really occurs due to some nations being completely cut off from others. All nation basically leave each other alone and they are expected to fend for themselves.

8. There are only five pre-underground nations still in existence. They are Australia, Canada, China, Japan, and Russia (which absorbed Scandinavia, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom). Many nations did not last after transitioning to the underground for various reasons (finances, rebel uprisings, etc.) while others, such as the United States, decided that they didn't need to tough it out underground and stayed above ground.

9. On the subject of nations that stayed above ground, none of them would prosper. The only nations that still go by their original names and are above ground are Alaska (broken off from USA due to inability to travel there safely anymore), Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Mongolia, Spain, and the United States. All of these nations have broken down and are entirely self-governed now. Some are horrific places to live filled with anarchy and cannibalism while others simply tough out the conditions, surviving off of an endless supply of illegal substances, prostitution, and more. The average lifespan above ground is now between 30 and 50, though many people of all ages become terminally ill and die quickly. The population of the surface is in rapid decline.

10. Of the underground nations, Australia and China are the less desirable of the five to live in. The others are all considered quite well off for various reasons. Canadians are the healthiest of the underground dwellers due to having an impressively advanced water filtration system that draws from their massive reserves, and they are reluctant to share any information or secrets regarding their water systems with other nations. Japan on the other hand is the most technologically advanced and harnesses the most electricity (often at half the cost and effort required by other nations). Russia is well off simply because they have immense manpower that is able to guarantee that all of their zones are well administered and maintained.

11. Highly advanced security systems and expertly trained soldiers both protect the underground from the surface dwellers who try to free themselves of the horrors of living above ground. No known intruders from the surface have ever made it into the underground.


Just sniffing around to see if you guys think it sounds decent or not. Points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 11 are all set in stone. For points 8, 9, and 10 I'm a bit on the fence about. If I use real locations then it adds an air of familiarity to the setting, but part of me feels like making up names for the underground nations.

Yes sir.

No I'm not on the verge of finishing my game, but I'd like to get this out of the way so that I don't get delayed later on by not having proper monster graphics in place.

Basically I'm just looking for someone willing to sprite some larger monster graphics (Final Fantasy fangame, so naturally they have to take up a fair amount of the left side of the screen) for me. I only need two, and I can be very specific with the details that I have in mind for them.

If there's anyone here who is willing to do it for free then right on, but I'll also take on anyone who would want to do this as a commissioned project.

If interested, reply or send me a message. Also show me what you're capable of because I don't want to unexpectedly get weird Colecovision quality sprites or something.

Just wondering if this has ever been considered?

We're pretty much all adults here, so I figure we can probably moderate our own posts. The main reason I'm asking is because I accidentally posted twice and I so badly wanted to delete the second post but was unable to.

I thought of something that could actually be ridiculously fun to work on, something that I can try to let my imagination run wild with. I want to be creative and original with a game, and I haven't done that for a long time. I want to make a superhero-cenric RPG, but not based on anything copyrighted or trademarked. No DC, Marvel, etc. I want to make a totally original world of superpowered heroes and such.

I'm already coming up with a big list of potential names of male and female superheroes and what kind of powers they could have, but I want the sheer scope of this to be pretty big. I'm not aiming for epic or anything, I just want diversity so that the player wouldn't be going up against the same ten villains over and over again.

Really all I'm looking for are ideas to use. Nothing really well thought out or descriptive, just little bits I could use to fill out my own little superhero universe. Just random heroes and villains I could use.

Basically, here's all I'm looking for:

Name/Gender/Power. Anything additional would be okay, but isn't really required at all such as whether they're good or evil (the name would probably give it away anyway). As I said, I just want to add a bunch of potential heroes/villains to my growing list that I'm working on now, and it would also give me an opportunity to see what kind of basic ideas people here would churn out which in turn would let me know what kind of heroes/villains various people would find interesting.

Not looking for carbon copies of DC/Marvel characters, but they're great to use as inspiration. One of the hero ideas I've already come up with, Titanium Man, is predictably inspired by Iron Man for example. Titanium Man would be quite different of course, because being too similar would be a bad thing and look really cheap/lazy/whatever.

So! Anyone want to throw any ideas at me?