KOONSOLO'S PROFILE

author=Dustsoft
What is your email? How can I use your maker? I want to make an adventure platformer (metroid-vania), and an RPG MAKER styled version of that sounds good.

A metroidvania is on my list, but now still out of my reach. I first want to focus on something that is simple enough to implement myself, but good enough to compete with the current Maker applications. So for me that means an action-adventure, with big focus on fast paced action (so bullet hell combat is also possible). You can try it online at https://rpgplayground.com . I'm now finishing up the combat (release this or next week), but people are already making adventure games with it.

author=MarkusT
I was hoping they would make more genre specific makers.. Platformer maker.. Beatemup maker.. so on and so forth.
But instead, they keep trying to make an all in one maker and lumping different genres together into one genre as "action" .. noooooooooo
I even went to their facebook page, AND their website to let them know this was tried before with IG Maker (also known as the first Action Game Maker) and told them why it failed..
I would hope kadokawa would learn, but I guess not..

I've been working on my own product for some time now, to compete with the 'Makers'. (But since this is my first post here, I'm not going to self-promote too much an put links here, unless you ask. Also sorry if I sound too pretentious, because I know I haven't proven myself yet)

You are absolutely right that the maker needs to be genre specific. Only then can you have a really easy to use maker. When you allow anything to be customized, this doesn't even put real limits of what you can make in the end.

Since I'm going to compete with RPG Maker and the likes, I'm always following their new releases closely. And to be honest, this Pixel Game Maker announcement makes me very happy (probably in the wrong sense ;)).

First of all this is Windows only. It's 2018, so why the hell is this Windows only? It's nowadays so easy to make programs multiplatform, so why would you technically limit yourself to Windows only? Great news for me! ;)

They are using flowcharts, which look nice at first sight, but when you actually want to do sometime practical with them, you end up with this:



Good luck with that!

So yeah, I see this as a continuation of their IG Maker path, which is nothing really special.

In my opinion they have a nice product with RPG Maker, but they continue to drop the ball on the rest, and even on taking RPG Maker to its full potential.

post=150977
Flash performs poorly, is full of security exploits, and unreliably prone to crashing.

On windows I don't have much issues with Flash. But I also work in Linux, and indeed the Linux Flash player is not so great. But the cool thing about Flash games is that you don't need to install anything to play a game. You just go online and play it :). And there are a lot of people who like to play Flash games, so why not Flash RPG's.

post=150995
I would suggest resources like REFMAP/Mac & Blue if you're looking for free resources to use.

Whow that's a fantastic resource! Those graphics are amazing, and the license terms are also fine :). Thanks for the link!