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Featured Game, Featured Dev: Darken
An interview with the creator of Nemoral
03/17/2019 06:48 AM
February Games Roundup
Shinan's Shitty Monthly Game Roundup (ShiShiMoGaRo)
03/04/2019 05:14 PM
Featured Game, Featured Dev: OldPat
An interview with the creator of PSYCHE Locke.
02/03/2019 12:12 PM
January Games Roundup
Shinan's Shitty Monthly Game Roundup (ShiShiMoGaRo)
02/03/2019 09:43 AM
Fallback fonts and font checking
Help out players who didn't install your custom font
01/29/2019 03:48 AM
So you want to upload your RPG Maker MV Game to Newgrounds/Gamejolt?
Hoping my experience helps others...
01/29/2019 02:09 AM
The Five Steps of Player Retention
(and why you should care)
01/24/2019 01:32 PM
RMN Attemptcast, Episode 0
Mapping with Freud, feat. Shinan, OldPat and Fomar0153
01/20/2019 08:41 PM
Featured Game, Featured Dev: Dyluck
An interview with the creator of Legends of Illarion 2.
01/11/2019 10:46 PM
The No BS Guide to: RPG Maker MV
A Video Guide to Diving in to RPG Maker MV for Beginners
11/12/2018 01:52 PM
A Different Approach to Difficulty
A paradigm shift away from the idea that games should find more and more complex ways to serve players with different skill levels. But rather, they should give players with the tools to cook to their own palate, provided it is a meaningful experience.
10/24/2018 06:49 AM
APRIL 2018 MISAO (IM)POSSIBLES
A list of games with downloads for April 2018.
10/06/2018 05:48 PM
In favor of level requirements on gear
Why does equipment in many modern RPGs have level requirements?
09/14/2018 03:38 AM
Visual Novel Maker Basic-Intermediate Non-stacking Inventory System
How to make a Basic-Intermediate Inventory system in Visual Novel maker.
09/01/2018 05:14 AM
Stitched Development Retrospective
The 3 years journey of game development for Stitched
08/28/2018 05:46 AM
File Control - Interdependent Game Files
Tsukuru 2k3 only (it's a DynRPG tutorial about exportable text files
08/26/2018 11:01 PM
Joyfully Rewarding Players' Guts: Winning or losing - are you really the boss in this fight?
How to (not) design (real and fake) unwinnable boss fights
08/06/2018 07:30 PM
Self-Contained Savepoint
How to make savepoint load by location variable WITHIN the savepoint
07/30/2018 03:04 AM
Multi-part songs - jumping to the next loop
This will help you make a song that can continue to a new part within that song, without any complex scripting knowledge required. -Situational-
07/22/2018 06:58 AM
Always display “Scroll Picture With Map“ Pictures at the correct coordinates
How to use variables to display "Scroll Picture With Map" Pictures at the desired coordinates.
06/17/2018 11:41 AM
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This section is a catch-all for anything that doesn't fit in the above categories. It may or may not be related to game making or RMN. It could have stories about pirates.
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