UNITY'S PROFILE

This may be a silly question, but as I haven't used it in this way before, I wanted to make sure.

I'm considering a farming-type RPG where I use the amount of steps the player takes to measure how fast things grow. Here's how I planed to use it: I use Control Variables and set one variable to "Other: Steps" when a crop is planted, and, when the player returns, set a different variable also to "Other: Steps" and subtract the first variable from the second, and if the number is high enough, put a fully-grown crop where the seeds were.

Would this method work? Does the Steps counter keep going up and never resets?

Thanks :DDD

Aside from some of the animations on LexusX's deviantart page, I'm having a hard time finding futuristic animations for Ace, like gunfire, missiles, lasers, etc. Does anyone know where to find some?

Thanks a lot! :DDDD

Hello everyone! I wanted to make a thread to talk about games in our past that we worked on, intending to make a full game, but for whatever reason, the game got left by the wayside, and now will most likely never be completed.

I'll start with one from my RPG Maker 2000 days.

Game Name: Elemental Clash
Engine: RPG Maker 2000
Intended Length: 80 Hours (>.<;; the hell was I thinking!?)
Actual Completed Length: About 40 Hours

This was, at one time, going to be my big, epic fantasy RPG masterpiece. Eight characters, representing eight elements, each with their own story. Then after that, those eight characters move into four groups with a new story. And then all the characters join one massive group to complete the game. Needless to say, I never got that far.

I wanted this game to be massive, and even in its incomplete stage, it is. 893 Maps. 48 possible party members (though only eight were permanent), several years in the making. But after all that work, I looked back and realized "I'm only about half way done!" And then it died. I lost all interest in it.

I suppose I could take each character's story and make a separate game out of it. But I'd want to redo it to make it all polished anyway, so... not likely XD

In hindsight, this was an important learning experience for me about game scope and planning. I learned that shoveling in more and more characters and plotlines without a good unified story was a big mistake. This all seems obvious now, but back then, it wasn't.

Screenshots below the hide tag!


Do you have a game that'll never be finished? This can be its memorial. Share it with us, and tell us about your experience, and what you learned from it. :D

I have a question about re-purposing stats in VX Ace. Say I wanted to replace one of the existing stats, like maybe Magic Defense, and turn it into Aim, a stat that determines the damage of ranged weapons.

To make this work, I'm guessing what I need to do is just make sure that skill damage formulas of ranged skills use the Aim stat and that no skills use it as Magic Defense anymore. Is there more to it than that? (This is my first time messing around with redoing stats like this)

Thanks! :D

Hello! :D

I wanted to make skills that the heroes gain via equipping certain equipment, but instead of using MP, they have a set number of uses and then they cannot be used again until you rest at an inn.

I had something similar in a XP project, but given that I knew zero scripting, I just made multiple copies of the same skill, with a different one for each number of uses left, and one that couldn't be used for when uses = zero, and checked it all with common events.

That seems a bit cumbersome, so I'm hoping to find a script or something similar that'll do the same thing. Yanfly's Skill Restrictions, using the <limited uses: x> tag, does basically what I want, except that it refreshes the uses after battle, and I want them to specifically refresh when the party rests.

Does anyone have any ideas how to do this? Could it be done by modifying the Yanfly script or is there a somewhat simple method that could make it work?

Thanks very much in advance! :DDD