Hi, folks!
I am working on my first RPG now and red a few of your tips and concerns in other threads.
But due to its closure I want to open a new one.
Can you give me some feedback or tips what to avoid and what to do in my first RPG?
What to do, what to avoid and other tips for making better maps. =)
I read a lot, that normal walking speed (or for a few people it's slow) is bad.
But is normal walking really that bad?
I rather enjoy a dungeon instead of dashing through.
But I agree on dashing in cities and the worldmap. :)
~Wasserteufel~
My first game - Any tips and tricks? =)
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The bottom two are very interesting!
Cause I use RPG Maker VX Ace. =)
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I suggest that you should play some great games out there :) learn from them, why not
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I suggest that you should play some great games out there :) learn from them, why not
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This is TeamUnpro and a good one for all makers. The first too have some good tips even if you don't use MV. Also on the running or walking question would depend in my mind, is there stuff to find? If so maybe walking is better than dashing. :kaohi:The bottom two are very interesting!
Cause I use RPG Maker VX Ace. =)
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This is TeamUnpro and a good one for all makers. The first too have some good tips even if you don't use MV. Also on the running or walking question would depend in my mind, is there stuff to find? If so maybe walking is better than dashing. :kaohi:
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What do you guys and girls think?
I gave every character NPC, important-, non-important, EVERY character a face..
But many guards look the same now, cause lack of faces..
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Should I rather only give faces to important characters and important NPCs?
I love when all have faces, but in my game I am building I have given each character a unique icon of their sprite faces, personally I think if they don't have faces sometimes the player may wonder who just spoke if they aren't paying close attention. -
I love when all have faces, but in my game I am building I have given each character a unique icon of their sprite faces, personally I think if they don't have faces sometimes the player may wonder who just spoke if they aren't paying close attention.
So do you think it's better when eg. guards only have 2 types of faces in a certain city than none? =)
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Yeah, I do. I'm sure some don't, but I agree with you on that. It really makes you feel like your having a conversation.So do you think it's better when eg. guards only have 2 types of faces in a certain city than none?
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@Wasserteufel You can't delete a post, only a mod can do that.
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Just know that if you accidentally double post you can always report it and ask us to merge it with the other post.
As for the topic at hand, here is my advice. Start small, or plan to be at it a really long time. We get many users who want to make the next Final Fantasy for their first game, not realizing it will take them 3 - 5 years easily to do that. So, they proceed, then quit about 6 months into it due to the amount of work that it takes. So maybe start small, like Eric Quest to kill the King of Slimes in the Sewers.
And granted, I didn't do that myself, though I did eventually stop and make a small game to test out my battle system. It had almost no cutscenes, and very small dungeons (I think the largest was 40 x 30 tiles), but what I did was I put a lot of battles on each map (using visual battles) with the goal being fight through all of them so you can get to the next map and save. Sure, it sounds awful as a game (hence why I never released it), but I was able to make a little 6 hour game that way and got to test and find flaws in my battle system as well. -
Just know that if you accidentally double post you can always report it and ask us to merge it with the other post.
As for the topic at hand, here is my advice. Start small, or plan to be at it a really long time. We get many users who want to make the next Final Fantasy for their first game, not realizing it will take them 3 - 5 years easily to do that. So, they proceed, then quit about 6 months into it due to the amount of work that it takes. So maybe start small, like Eric Quest to kill the King of Slimes in the Sewers.
And granted, I didn't do that myself, though I did eventually stop and make a small game to test out my battle system. It had almost no cutscenes, and very small dungeons (I think the largest was 40 x 30 tiles), but what I did was I put a lot of battles on each map (using visual battles) with the goal being fight through all of them so you can get to the next map and save. Sure, it sounds awful as a game (hence why I never released it), but I was able to make a little 6 hour game that way and got to test and find flaws in my battle system as well.
Thank you very much.
I am aware that I won't do a Final Fantasy but I do have very high ambitions.. xD
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Keep your maps as small as possible and don't decorate them until you are pretty much done with everything else in your game. Nothing wastes more time than having to redo entire maps because you want to change the floor or walls. This might not be an issue in some versions of RPG Maker. It definitely is in MV, though.
But yeah, watch a bunch of tutorial videos and play around with the options as you learn on a test project. It's best to start with learning what can be don't with the base engine before trying to implement a specific design that requires tons of plug-ins and custom scripts that don't even exist yet. A lot of times, you'll find that what can be done is close enough to what you want if you know it's there.
Also, search these forums on a technic called shift-click mapping. When it's time to decorate your maps, this will come in handy. -
My suggestion, based on the limited experience I've gathered in my own project, is to make a focused storyline, but at the same time allow for some flexibility: You don't want to end up writing yourself into a corner because of a feature you couldn't implement with the Maker, so learn to accept you may need to sacrifice or change some aspects of your project in order to overcome a hurdle. Good luck!