Aslanemperor

So, from what I know of Warlocks, each patron effectively changes the class's primary benefits to a large degree. This is actually a really easy fix. You can change a character's class through an event. Depending on how you want to do this, you simply give the player a choice when the time comes of which patron they want. When they choose, activate the change class event to the chosen version of the Warlock. Each version you choose will have the perks and skills you want, and your player gets to make the choice of which version they want like you're thinking. (Edit: Forgot to clarify: The "Change Class" is on the third page under the "Actor" category)

((Edit: I feel really stupid. Apparently I was misunderstanding the "Span." I was thinking "Moment" meant it would only be running for the specific moment, but apparently that means it runs once every moment (or indefinitely). Guess it's fixed now?)) I find myself having a really annoying problem. I have designed the first battle for my new game which is effectively a quick intro to the character. The bad guy throws out an insult, the character states that he'll use his "quickdraw" skill to get the first attack and put down the enemy with a single shot. Seems simple, right? Apparently not. This text displays, but the event never ends. It loops indefinitely! I know it's possible to have speech in these games without an infinite loop, but I can't figure out how to end the speech event! Usually when I make an event that "speaks" it ends when the speech ends. I've tried switches and the "exit event processing" so far, but I'm at a loss for what else to do. If you know what I'm doing wrong, please tell me. I've included a screenshot of the event. The switch is SUPPOSED to activate a black event page the same way I would if I wanted to have a one time event like a treasure chest. I've tried changing the span to all three options. So far, nothing works.

Hey there! I'm busy working on monsters for my game, and I'm wanting some input on damage calculations. In my old game, I ended up with a lot of feedback that the damage was FAR to high. I had certain random encounter monsters one-shotting party members, bosses doing spells that would wipe the entire party if they didn't grind, and doing just a ton otherwise. I've decided to give these characters more HP, but I still want my game to be a challenge to the players. I'm hoping that some of the more experienced developers have some insight into what works best in terms of damage rates to HP and defense and such. If it's relevant, the game I'm making has four main archetypes: The gunslinger who is fast, with medium damage, the Marshal who specializes in shotguns that fire for weak damage that hit all enemies, The sniper who is slow, but has a high crit rate and high damage against single targets, and the caster who is the mage archetype. Any ideas on making a consistent battle system would be appreciated. I'll try my best, but since I've only ever made one game and it was only middling successful, I feel I'm a long way from being sure of myself.

If you're willing to do a bit of simple scripting, there are some youtube tutorials (including the necessary scripts) on sliding ice puzzles. The item collection is much easier than it sounds to implement as it just recalls simple eventing (Conditional Branch> Item "Item name" in inventory = activate whatever your goal is). I used it for two different puzzles in my little gamejam game, one for collecting insects to feed to monster flowers, and another where the character needed several keys (I think it was 5, but I'm to lazy to go check, and it's irrelevant). Personally, I found these to be way to complicated when I made my last game because of time restraints, but I've been thinking of finding a place for them in the game I'm working on now. While it's a bit complicated, there is always the puzzle where you have to move several rocks onto the proper switches that is quite a bit more complicated than the really simple moving rock puzzles (and tedious on the part of the developer.) I had some fun with a pretty simple puzzle that was all eventing in which the character had to jump from platform to platform to get to their final destination. I added in a key element and it made it a complex maze that was far more difficult than it looked on first glance. The same sort of eventing that created this could also be used to create teleport mazes (like the Saffron City gym in Pokemon Red/Blue). Traps can make a maze more interesting and can also be done 100% with events with a wide variety of potential consequences for players activating them. Adding layered switches can bring a twist to the traditional "Find switch to open door, enter door" puzzles. I set up a puzzle with events only where switches opened doors of the correlating colors and closed other doors of a different color. This meant that players had to spend time figuring out the right order to open various doors if they wanted to move forward, and especially if they wanted to get the juicier treasures. Finally, a fun puzzle that has been used but is a great puzzle built into mazes is the "identical room" maze. All of this, of course, takes a lot of extra work because you're creating dozens of maps instead of a single one, but it's so easy to copy/paste maps and then just edit the transport events that it's not as much extra work as it seems. Now, there's a bit of a cheat as well, as a puzzle can seem different to the player in spite of being essentially the same puzzle simply by messing around with the look and lore of it. Instead of boulders that need to be moved, maybe animals and the movements are more extreme. This idea is fun because you can also include trick puzzle pieces that throw players into a battle. I hope this helped!

YAY!!!! Thanks!

Honestly, so far I like the original Clarence with the hat best. I felt like that one looks perfect even without the ribbons (when is the character sprite ever THAT perfectly detailed anyway, right?) I love that I can see Roy's badge peaking out from the coat! It's a little detail, but it tickles me that it stands out! Nice work on making that detail pop! Not sure how I feel about the poncho on Gustave. I feel like it kinda makes the bandolier hard to see when he's facing the camera.

So, they're just supposed to be ribbons. (He adds one every year) Shouldn't be to hard to line draw it, though I guess it would be pretty tedious to do that for each figure.

The problem with those is I'm really not wanting to have that sort of combat system. I like a turn based battle system(Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, etc), and both of those are more of a ARPG battle system(Zelda, Legend of Mana, etc). Sadly, I didn't really think it was going to be so hard just to get assets. It seems amazing that no one else has asked for these resources before. Maybe I'll see if I can get one or two made through resource requests.

I love them! Definitely puts a fire in me to work harder on the game! Thanks so much! Edit: Okay, so I wanted to mention that I'm gonna need some new battlers. Specifically I need some gunslinger types. I was shocked to find that this is something I'm missing!

Ah! Character customization? I've seen one do that in a limited capacity, but that is a unique thing! I thought you were saying that you'd drawn a bunch of stuff, not that you were allowing players to choose their gender. It wouldn't be difficult to do. Start the game with a choice and create identical actors, one male and one female (and further customization depending on their selections. ((Edit: I've tried to find the game I mentioned that included some pretty extensive character customization, but I can't find it. It's to bad, because it would possibly be a source of info. I'll keep searching and get a link when I can figure it out.)

That's a good goal, and is a selling point. Make sure you put something in there that makes your game special to the player. Most players just assume that the art is custom because they don't make games themselves. You need something that makes your game really stand out, otherwise it will be difficult to get people to even try playing it. It doesn't even have to be a lot, just some little thing. An example, I'm working on a game right now which is pretty basic. The special thing about it is that it's a western, which as far as I can tell no one else has done with RPG Maker. It's not a lot, as you will notice, but it does set the game apart from other short titles.

What will make your game unique? Is this just a chance to tell a story? Playtime is fine. Some games need to be long, but not everything has to be a grand epic.

Ok, so this idea is just being fleshed out, but I'd love to get some feedback about how these things could be accomplished. I have RPG Maker VX Ace, but there's no reason to limit discussion to a single path. This is, after all, just for figuring out how the idea would work. Here's the basics of my idea: The player takes the position of someone looking to be a gladiator. Of course, they have to train and grow stronger, but I don't want training to be just a bunch of boring mini-games (especially since that's been done, and I want more for the player.) I'd like for there to be various areas on the world map that they can go to grind for experience, with things like quests available to earn gold for equipment or class benefits. There would be a few different storylines running through the game besides the central story of just wanting to become the tournament champ. To make this happen, though, I'd need SO MUCH figured out that it's actually a bit overwhelming, but the game would be SO MUCH FUN TO PLAY!!!!! So, here is what I've thought of that I'd be interested in seeing: ~A multi-class system kinda like the one featured in SierraLee's Once Ever After. I recommend checking the game out (and all their games, their stuff is amazing, especially Ouroboros and The Last Sovereign!). Essentially, you complete quests to earn a class, and then you equip the classes to earn permanent bonuses from them. While equipping the class, you get certain benefits and drawbacks. It's such a unique way of approaching the job system that games like Final Fantasy Tactics introduced, it would work perfectly for the system I'm imagining. ~A timed open world that changes over time. Certain enemies grow stronger, certain quests become available or are lost over time, ranking in the tournament series changes. One of the more complicated things I want to do with this is set up monsters in certain areas to only reproduce a certain number of times per day. In other words, if you go on day 5 and clear out an area, returning to that area will be fruitless on day 6 since only one monster will be there. Not only that, leaving certain areas for to long will make the monsters there stronger. At a certain point, you may even go to an area to find that it became to threating and some sort of NPC hunters cleared it out (resetting everything so that it's empty again.) This may be the most complicated thing of all to work into the game, and I really haven't the slightest clue for how to do it. I'm guessing this is going to need some serious custom coding to make it work right. ~A romance/relationship system that allows you to make friends that will open up opportunities for special quests and classes. ~Maybe a multiplayer system to be implemented once the game is completed? People will be able to customize their character completely, making their gladiators unique! Players can see how their build measures up to others! ~Fully customizable character appearance with the option to use a built in avatar maker or upload a custom picture for your fighter. This is what I've thought of so far, but I'm not nearly skilled enough to do all of this. If you want to just pick up this idea and roll with it, please do so with my blessing. Otherwise, any input for how to implement this, or other cool features which would make such a game even better are welcome!

Actually, I was inspired by several sources. Firstly, the "NPCs" series by Drew Hayes (a great read!), which is based on a group of NPCs who must pretend to be heroes to protect their village from the wrath of a fickle king. Most recently, a scene from "Lawmage Academy" inspired me (Such a great game, which I'm super excited to see develop!), in which the main characters (you) loot a few chests and are later seen by the villagers as thieves. Funny enough, it wasn't until after I finished the post and was doing some dishes and contemplating the idea that Free Guy came to mind, though I think the premise is only passingly similar. I love the idea you put forward! It's cool how there are so many ways to approach this!

Sorry this took so long. Apparently you replied just after I got really sick. I've been in bed recovering for the past few days and am only just now able to sit upright for longer than a minute without the room spinning! Yay for recovery! (also, I can have my tea back... I love my tea... I missed it...) I'm okay with messaging either way. If you don't care about the discussion being public, that's fine. If I'm writing stuff for your game specifically, it's probably going to come down to sending messages eventually, though. Either way, whatever makes you comfortable!

I'm a little confused. Mother and Earthbound are the same series, but Undertale is VERY different than those games...

I love it! Great work! I can hardly wait to see the rest!

I've checked out your site, but while it has plenty of samples, there's no mention of the cost of any of your services. As for the sound, it's VERY retro, which is great for people looking for that sound, but is that the extent of what you can do? Do you work with other instruments besides synth and piano?

Welcome! I've got VX Ace as well. Lots of resources and tutorials on this site!

Can I ask a minor change? He should only have the scales on one side of his face and no facial hair. He's 1/16 dragon, and the markings on his face are actually the bits of scales that come through. Still pretty darn good, though!