WOLFCODER'S PROFILE

Nothing docks or anything yet, it seems to work alright as it is.

A character frame will be 2 x 2 tiles (so 32 x 32 for regular resolution, 64 x 64 for double res like in VXP). Draw your tall sprites in the center, the bottom center 16 x 16 square is the part of the character sprite that will actually be over the tile they stand upon.

If you need anything bigger, use an event made out of multiple tiles, or use no sprite and have the event use commands to draw itself however you want.

This unifies character sprites. Any bigger sprites mean you would have to handle the visual problems yourself anyways (the tile settings were made for 2 tile tall sprites).

I noticed you mentioned something about "non commercial" does that mean a version will cost money?

RPG 20XX comes with 2 engines. One uses FMOD-Ex and requires royalties to Firelight Technologies if you decide to sell your game. This is "Non-Commercial". One doesn't and lets you sell your game without paying royalties to anyone.

Getting a copy of RPG 20XX will not cost money.

You can do like Id software does.."It will be done when it's done, but we are still working on it".

It's actually been going much faster than expected. The first test download is coming real soon and it's barely March. I am ahead of schedule.

Gotta say my favorite is something turn based, yet animated.. yet you can some how adjust where the player is and maybe how they move.. wishful thinking.. just saying.

I'm thinking about that. The old turn based first person battle system required much less artwork. It can maintain the perspective but have player sprites in front of the enemies like Lufia II (SNES) if you want animated players too. Enemies will always have the option of being animated or not.

Kinda hoping i can change out the screen width though.. maybe have a screen size of 425x240..

You ought to read all the blog posts in between to see what I've already gotten to work. This is one of those things I already have written- you can set the game size from project settings. In addition, I might add post filters on image loading that automatically make the game look like its on a NES, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, etc. without actually being a framebuffer filter or shader program (means it would do this and remain exactly as fast as if there were no filter).

LandTraveller has a PSG+FM synthesis system that can make things sound like a GameBoy, a TurboGrafix 16, or a Sega Genesis.. but writing sounds for it is complex and could be an entire editor program in of itself. Engine-wise I could just pull the sound generator out of it since both LandTraveller and RPG 20XX use SDL2 sound.

So i figure it is up to someone in the community.. like maybe yourself.
But i am LOVING everything so far as i read further up.. the layering, the way auto tiles and tiles in general will be handled.. he audio format change up.. all of it.. so awesome!
So thankyou.. thankyou THANKYOU! ^^

I only came back because I feel I still have to finish this.. somehow. So I decided to take my own advice and just make a new standalone RPG creation tool. The advantage of being a one-wolf army is that I can just put LandTraveller on hold and have no financial or legal repercussions.

I'm going to look through my paperwork and hold RPG 20XX as a copyright asset so I can protect it from possible troll lawyers from Enterbrain or elsewhere. I need a better WolfCoder Labs logo too. There should be copyright notices everywhere, I have to double check. The GPL 3 license mentioned is what rights and restrictions I grant all of you when you decide to use the software or source code.

This is much better than the obviously illegal use of the English version of RPG Maker 2003. Even buying the official version and then using RPG Advocate's patch is illegal under the DMCA since within the patch is code that removes the anti-piracy measures in RPG Maker 2003. If you obtained RPG Maker 2003 legally, the license terms prevent you from using your favorite patches or DynRPG legally too. What's funny is that I built the original RPG Maker 20XX without ever actually needing to open up or touch RPG Maker 2003, I was cautious of all this back then as I am now.

So I figure to just fuck it and write something that was designed to ensure your freedom. I'm not here to sell you shit that cost you 50 bucks and then to tell you that you can't modify the tool itself to fit your needs. Makes more sense for a video game itself, but not for a tool you want to rely on. But be wary and read the GPL 3 for it prevents you from doing the same to anyone else with this software.

my only suggestion would be to have user defined variables for most things that could be er... variable?

https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/rpg20xx/doc/spec.txt

This is done regardless of battle system. In the DERIVED tab, you will see which slots effect what.. effect of the battle system. It's simple, but lets you define and balance everything to your liking. A new game project will have these all filled in with default stuff so you don't have to mess with ATTRIBUTE or DERIVED or even better adjust slightly my metrics to balance stuff to your game.

I'm not going to stop you from putting almost any event command under DERIVED...

I feel you should *probably* give an option to let it work as a vanilla ATB or even Turn-Based?

ATB is ATB. It will perform all your ATB needs. I would not give you a broken ATB system for free, let alone 50 bucks. I would not give you a broken RPG Maker for 50 bucks and then make a fixed one for 50 bucks instead of fixing the broken RPG Maker. Enterbrain needs a good fire under their ass. There's lots of default stuff in an editor like this, it needs to remain as easy to use as RPG Maker 2003. However, it lets you add and adjust things to add specific features to make your game unique. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a different game from Borderlands 2 despite both being FPS games.

The next battle system to be added will then be some classic CTB turn based. CTB Charge Time Battle enables agility to actually matter while retaining the turn based feel. The original idea was to do some sort of first person thing. Then the third battle system to be implemented will be either Action or SRPG (kinda like Fire Emblem).

Switching the battle system in the middle of the game is a must. Why? What if you had ATB for normal combat, but used the CTB for combat between vehicles or ships? Or you did something like Bahamut Lagoon and did SRPG where each attack is resolved via ATB (it was turn based in Bahamut Lagoon I think).

It's open source, someone can implement some battle system in the engine and stick that into their editor. They won't have to trudge through my ugly WIN32 editor code to do it, either. I'm here to give you a handful of common yet awesome battle systems to crank it up to 11, though. The whole point is to let you have powerful features without you mashing Ruby scripts together. The software engineering is my job, I want to give power to hobbyists or digital artists who don't know how to write software.