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New RPG Maker (RPG Maker MV) revealed by Famitsu
- Thread starter kuroneko0509
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TheSlySoul
Member
Depends on knowing about coding, VX has made some impessive games.
Starless Umbra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjdOGqk2v8
VX used Ruby, no clue what MV will use.
The12thGripper
Member
Yo, there's iOS support? That's pretty sick.
EDIT: NATIVE MAC SUPPORT? I'm in.
EDIT: NATIVE MAC SUPPORT? I'm in.
There is a guy making a FF6 SDK for RPG Maker XP
I used to chat with him on IRC years ago, really cool guy. He's been working on it for years and it's pretty impressive!
lordfroakie
Member
I wonder if gamepad support is coming too 
I wonder if gamepad support is coming too
You mean for mobile?
RPG Maker on PC supports gamepads.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Is it only classic RPGs or can you make SRPG maps too?
With heavy scripting you can make SRPGs, yeah. In any of the engines AFAIK. You can even do non-RPG games in them with scripting.
I doubt they'll jump from Ruby since Ruby seems to be a close "plain English" coding language for people to pick up.
http://rpgmaker.net/scripts/302/
http://srpgstudio.com/ this engine is more fire-emblem like instead (japanese only)
AlphaDragoon
Member
Finally, the side-view battles are back. I loved 2003 because of that, worked out so many tricks back in the day to make the sprites animate more like Breath of Fire 2. Good times.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
What is exactly a side view battle; like the SNES and NES Final Fantasy's?
lordfroakie
Member
PC version
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Didnt know RPG maker was full on product you pay for, I thought it was similar to the tool software you would download for mario hacks and what not like lunar.
Nah you can make full games, there are a bunch of shitty ones and lisa on Steam.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
"Stanima" lol
Candescence
Member
I wish there were a lot more options for the way battles are handled, such as on-map battles like in Chrono Trigger.
RPG Maker in general is nice, but I've always been slightly put off by the inherent limitations, and I'm not sure if having to trove and implement various scripts might be worth it, not to mention generally being locked into a single style.
RPG Maker in general is nice, but I've always been slightly put off by the inherent limitations, and I'm not sure if having to trove and implement various scripts might be worth it, not to mention generally being locked into a single style.
Dead Prince
Banned
If there's any interest i plan to create a contest thread once this hits the west.
I'm positive there will be a trial version so everyone can try so basically. 30 day contest sounds good right? suggestions (theme? Prizes? rules? etc.) would be good Also, for prize obviously one of the prizes would be winning a copy of the program ;P
I'm positive there will be a trial version so everyone can try so basically. 30 day contest sounds good right? suggestions (theme? Prizes? rules? etc.) would be good Also, for prize obviously one of the prizes would be winning a copy of the program ;P
kuroneko0509
Member
Should be early next year then, considering the JP version is this winter
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Not surprising, but good to have confirmed. Due to RPG Maker gaining a lot of popularity in the West within the last three and a half years, it's sensible.
That recently only? Damn I remember making shitty maps with boss fights and an overpowered party in RPG Maker 2003 back in 2006 or 2007 with a (shame on young me lol) pirated version. Even got simple stuff like changing maps down.
Also remember trying to make a Pokemon fangame in RPG Maker XP and failing because I had no idea how transparency worked, so I saved all sprites in .jpg and wondered why I always ended up with the Pokemon being surrounded by a white box lol
Good times
The Finest Brew
Neo Member
...Huh. Lord knows I haven't worked on anything substantial since I was like 16, buuuut...well, I could see myself getting into this again. Side view battles too? Hoo damn.
Stereogatari
Banned
I didn't know it was Japanese.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
That recently only? Damn I remember making shitty maps with boss fights and an overpowered party in RPG Maker 2003 back in 2006 or 2007 with a (shame on young me lol) pirated version. Even got simple stuff like changing maps down.
Also remember trying to make a Pokemon fangame in RPG Maker XP and failing because I had no idea how transparency worked, so I saved all sprites in .jpg and wondered why I always ended up with the Pokemon being surrounded by a white box lol
Good times
It's been around much longer and hasn't had no attention, but it's become a lot more popular recently in the West because of the rise of indie games, YouTubers playing games from it, and a few games rising in popularity made or originally from the engine.
PdotMichael
Banned
Embrace the limits of the tool. If people really want to make things outside of the capacities of the RPG maker then they should just learn java.
Lunchbillion
Member
I always loved playing around with this software. Looking forward to the release!
Dead Prince
Banned
ah. very nice to know. now we just need more information on this.
Outside of file structures, I don't think there's anything OS specific for the engine to need.
Technically there should be no issues. But RPG Maker is an odd beast, it's always two steps forward, one step back with each iteration. Can never be quite sure what oddball decisions they'll make.
Official website has been updated with more information.
http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/products/programs/rpg-maker-mv
Resolution bit has me worried. We should be able to specify any resolution we want without scripts or tinkering with files. Android and iOS support is obviously huge.
http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/products/programs/rpg-maker-mv
Resolution bit has me worried. We should be able to specify any resolution we want without scripts or tinkering with files. Android and iOS support is obviously huge.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Side-view battle... Thank you based god.
kuroneko0509
Member
Only Mac build can make iOS game. Weird they didn't mention it on English site.
http://tkool.jp/mv/new_function//index.html
Thought so. I'm sure iOS developers saw it coming. Really hope that it's cross buy.
Trailer and details here:
http://gematsu.com/2015/08/rpg-maker-mv-first-details-trailer-screenshots
816x624? 48x48? 2000 limit for all the items, skills, equipment, monsters, characters, groups etc?
Seriously guys am i the only one to find this EXTREMELY disappointing? We are approaching the 4k resolution and this is still 624k with a sort of 4:3 aspect ratio? Games require dozens of gigabytes and this has a 2000 limit for everything?!?!
http://gematsu.com/2015/08/rpg-maker-mv-first-details-trailer-screenshots
816x624? 48x48? 2000 limit for all the items, skills, equipment, monsters, characters, groups etc?
Seriously guys am i the only one to find this EXTREMELY disappointing? We are approaching the 4k resolution and this is still 624k with a sort of 4:3 aspect ratio? Games require dozens of gigabytes and this has a 2000 limit for everything?!?!
Sigh ): that's a Lil disappointing ):
Seeing as the mobile photos are showing the game in native phone resolution, there's probably going to be different resolutions and aspect ratios. But the series has been like this for over two decades. It's kind of to be expected at this point.
The 2000 limit doesn't mean much to me, I've never used anything close to that many. I can't think of a game that does.
AFAIK you need a Mac to compile for iOS for every engine.
kuroneko0509
Member
KojiKnight
Member
That's okay, the awesome game in my head that was never going to be finished or released would be too good for IOS anyways!
When rpg maker 95 was released jrpgs looked like these:
Now i don't expect rpg maker games to look like ffxv but this new version of rpg maker should have been released at least 10 years ago to be generous.
Very interesting. Javascript was the first language that I learned seriously, and I'm actually learning Ruby now. I wonder how the community will react to having to learn a new language since Javascript is quite different than Ruby.
When rpg maker 95 was released jrpgs looked like these:
Now i don't expect rpg maker games to look like ffxv but this new version of rpg maker should have been released at least 10 years ago to be generous.
iOS and Android didn't exist 10 years ago, and that's clearly the biggest draw for this release.
Graphically the engine hasn't changed. In fact it's regressed in places between iterations, VX's original release notably. They clearly don't intend to move forward too far. It's why it hasn't changed. And we also don't know if that resolution and aspect ratio can be changed, it could be slightly in VX ACE and there's evidence that 16:9 at the very least will be supported too.
OminoMichelin
Member
Looking at the features, it looks more like it should have been a free patch, or a 5 bucks expansion at best. They made what seem to be minor adjustments to the engine and called it a day. Seems like a moneygrab to me.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I'm in the camp where I'm tentatively excited, but also agree that this is looking like a bare minimum upgrade. We're a long, long, long way from 16 bit RPGs. They could at least be matching the possible resolutions to modern expectations. I dunno. I'm hoping more features are announced between now and release.