A blog dedicated to Roleplaying Game Maker XP, a game-making engine created by Enterbrain. The goal is to provide you with resources and help for making your own roleplaying game! Feel free to submit any resources.
Here is a collection of RPG Maker forums! These are chock-full of resources, from graphics to tutorials and scripts.
RPG Maker Forums: The official forums! (English)
RPG Maker Net: This site is currently undergoing an overhaul and is only intermittently online right now, but you can sometimes catch it. When you can't, the Discord is still available in the meanwhile. (English)
Chaos Project (English)
RPG Maker Resource Kit: A retired, read-only forum that still has a bunch of resources available.
Mundo Maker (Spanish)
Save-Point: I've had especially good luck finding XP scripts on this site. (English)
As a heads-up, I'll be highlighting specific resources from these forums as well in the future.
I hope it's okay if I add some! Fair warning, they're all French websites.
Oniromancie: tutorials, games and resources;
Le Palais Créatif: Retired/not maintained anymore i think, but you can still find scripts and resources (although some images are broken);
Alex d'Or: RPG Maker project contest. You can find finished games/demos there, sorted by year (or you can head to the "winners" page to look at the games that got the Alex d'Or award) if you want to play 'quality' rm games for free before starting your own project.
AMS Ultimate by Zeus81 and NanakyTim is a compilation of scripts that allow free movement on the map (instead of square by square), up to 7 terrain effects per map (not per tileset, per map) which allows visual footprint effects and different footstep sounds, a depth/relief system on maps, the ability for your character to jump, and many more things that you can look at in the demo (unfortunately for most it's in French but there might be an English version somewhere idk)
Grandma Debs Little Bits is a great graphics resource! It's typically written in English, with some posts in Japanese and other languages.
This website is geared towards RPG Maker VX/Ace, but there's also RPG Maker XP resources on it. (Also, I've used a lot of the VX Ace resources for XP, you just have to own both.)
Here is a collection of RPG Maker forums! These are chock-full of resources, from graphics to tutorials and scripts.
RPG Maker Forums: The official forums! (English)
RPG Maker Net: This site is currently undergoing an overhaul and is only intermittently online right now, but you can sometimes catch it. When you can't, the Discord is still available in the meanwhile. (English)
Chaos Project (English)
RPG Maker Resource Kit: A retired, read-only forum that still has a bunch of resources available.
Mundo Maker (Spanish)
Save-Point: I've had especially good luck finding XP scripts on this site. (English)
As a heads-up, I'll be highlighting specific resources from these forums as well in the future.
Hi tumblr! It's been a while - a literal decade, in fact. But that hasn't stopped people from following this blog and reblogging/liking posts. So... I'm bringing it back!
I don't think I'll create (m)any tutorials myself anymore, but I will make a point to share links to RPG Maker XP resources I find, and invite people to take any specific questions to the ask box to see if I can help. I might also start reblogging/advertising various RPG maker games, if people would be interested in that!
YESS i am back! i've been dealing with some personal stuff so i haven't actually done anything with the blog again yet, but I'm queuing some stuff tonight!
Hi tumblr! It's been a while - a literal decade, in fact. But that hasn't stopped people from following this blog and reblogging/liking posts. So... I'm bringing it back!
I don't think I'll create (m)any tutorials myself anymore, but I will make a point to share links to RPG Maker XP resources I find, and invite people to take any specific questions to the ask box to see if I can help. I might also start reblogging/advertising various RPG maker games, if people would be interested in that!
NOTE: This tutorial assumes you already know how to make enemies in the database, and have done so.
Summary: An easy tutorial explaining how to add singular enemies to walk around your map, remove them once they've been killed, and then respawn once you re-enter the area. The next tutorial will discuss how to add troops / multiple enemy battles to your map.
1. Choose where in your map you want your enemy to go.
2. Open up an event file.
3. Open up Event Commands, then click Battle Processing.
4. Select the troop this enemy is connected to.
This tutorial only covers singular enemies, but I'll start on another one which covers true troops / troops including multiple enemies. Circled here is a drop down box for all the troops (read: groups of enemies, can be actual groups or singular enemies) you've created. Select the one you want this enemy to be.
Can Escape allows the player to attempt escape, Continue Even When Loser continues the game even if you die / prevents the "game over" screen.
Click OK.
5. Ta-da!
You've caused this event to create a battle. Great. Too bad there's a lot more to programming an enemy event than that. The next thing we'll do is give this enemy something to walk around as on the map.
Double click on the Graphic Box and choose from the drop down menu the sprite you want your enemy to have.
6. We're getting there!
Next, we're going to change how the enemy moves around the map and attacks the player. Or maybe you attack it. You're about to decide.
7. Decide how it moves and who attacks.
Autonomous Movement decides how the enemy moves, how fast, and how frequently.
How - There are four options from this menu, and all of them can be useful for enemies. There is Random movement, where the enemy just moves about; Fixed, where the enemy doesn't move - perfect for blocking passageways; Approach, where the enemy follows the player; and the option to design the enemy's exact movements yourself. My example picked Random.
Speed - This determines how fast the enemy moves. Slowest, Slower, Slow, Fast, Faster, And Fastest. The player moves at a Slow speed, so I recommend making the enemies move at Slow or Fast.
Frequency - This determines how often the enemy moves. Lowest, Lower, Low, High, Higher, and Highest. The player moves whenever they choose to, but I suggest using either Higher or Highest. Lowest through Low settings can look awkward, and also don't make your enemy work very often!
Trigger decides how the event (the battle) opens up. I'll discuss the first three.
Action Button - Event opens when player chooses it to, by going up to it and selecting the action button (ie, spacebar.) This is good for plot relevant / boss battles.
Player Touch / Event Touch - These two are similar. Both trigger the event by having the player and the event contact. However, in Player Touch the player must initiate this contact, and in Event Touch the event must initiate the contact. It’s up to you, though Event Touch is, in theory, more effective, especially if the enemy is chasing after the player. Just for example of clicking buttons, I chose Player Touch for this. I recommend trying both out and play-testing to decide which you prefer!
8. Make it so once you kill it, the enemy stays dead.
Open the Event Commands window.
9. Create a new switch for the enemy.
I suggest something like “Enemy Name # Dead” or something like that. Just keep it consistent in your naming! I also suggest making all of your enemy switches around the same time, so they all line up. This makes things much more convenient if you want to make enemies respawn.
10. Turn that switch on!
And create a new event page.
11. Mark the event page with the condition of the enemy being battled and defeated (your just created switch).
Now you have an event set up where after being killed, the enemy disappears!
12. Yeah, okay, great, how do I make respawns when I enter the area again?
I’m so glad you asked!
First, this will go in the event that leads you to the map where the enemies are located. Since I don’t actually have one of those in this project (yet), I’m just using a random empty event. But you want this to happen before you begin the map. Alternatively, if you want to do this as you leave the map, that should work as well.
This is where creating the dead enemy switches in a row will come in handy. Open up the view of all your switches and make note of what numbers the enemies in the area have.
14. Create a Batch of switch changes.
This just means you’re changing multiple switches directly after one another to the same status, on or off. Turn all of the switches for your dead enemies Off. This reverts them back to their original event page, or the one where the battle is possible!
CLOSING NOTES:
THANK YOU for reading! Hopefully this helps! I will try to make an additional add-on tutorial explaining how to do Troop Enemy fights, as they’re a little different. As always, if there’s any questions you have, feel free to ask me!
Also, take this as an apology for not working on this blog at all recently. I haven't been very RPG Maker-oriented as of late. But summer break is fast approaching, and once it does, I'll be working on trying to get new tutorials or find and/or make new resources!
RPG Maker VX Ace is currently Pay What You Want, starting at $1! After paying additional amounts ($6 and $12), you unlock more programs.The $6+ tier includes RPG Maker XP!
The bundle also comes with several RPG Maker DLC Packs, and RPG Maker games, including in the first tier Skyborn. (And if you like the games, make sure to buy additional copies for your friends from the creators themselves - the one shame about this package is money lost by Indie Game developers, and I can't in good conscience recommend that.)
There are four days left! Go forth and make and play games!
heyo, long time no post! well, i owe a friend a skin tone tutorial, and i figured a good way to open that would be with this post - basically the four most common skin tone color palettes i use in my recolors
the real thing will be up sometime this week, probably
(WORK IN PROGRESS) GAME: THE BEYONDS - THE SECOND TIME
Long ago, a group of eight demons (The Octet of Destruction) and their servants attacked the planet where the four universal powers (Life, Death, Space, Time) lived to gain control over the universe. They were defeated and sealed away in the Beyonds, a place full of mystery and where the Universal Spirit lived. Now, they have escaped and plan on trying to take over the world again.
The four universal powers send their warriors/protectors to collect eight ancient artifacts that will reseal the Octet of Destruction in the Beyonds. The warriors are Rietta of Life, Raven of Death, Mercury of Space, and Evangelise of Time.
The group must battle the demons' servants to collect the artifacts that they are hiding and protecting. By defeating the servants, you weaken the head demon's army, though at one point, Evangelise must break off from the group and go on a quest by herself...
In the end, the fate of the world will be decided in a battle between the Octect of Destruction and the warriors.
So, a friend of mine wanted help on mapping walls inside rooms. It can be hard to get things to look right in the beginning, but once you get started and get the hang of it, it's a really easy concept.
With that, let's get started on Part 1: The Back Wall!
Here I am, with an empty map. Everything done in this tutorial will be on the FIRST LAYER.
Outlined in red is one of the wall autotiles, which I've completely filled the map with. I chose the second one specifically.
The next step is flooring. I like to use the rectangle or circle tool to fill in the floor - keep in mind that, if you do it the way i did, leaving hardly any space, you'll have to cover up some of the floor to create the wall.
Alternatively, you could leave yourself with more space at the top. Either way, the end result will be the same.
Back to this version, because I like it more and find it a little simpler. We're going to start simple: the back wall of a room. There are a LOT of different ways you can mess with the back of a wall.
There's Way 1, which includes Way 1A and Way 1B. Way 1A is to completely fill the back wall with the single center piece of your wall options. Way 2B is to use the dark single piece. I've outlined both A and B, and marked them for your convenience. Way 1A is my personal favorite, and the method I typically use.
Next is Way 2, which is visible here. Using Way 2, you use the sided piece of the wall tileset on either farthest side, and the center piece for all parts between it. It's nice and simple, but adds a little more something to a wall. When I use Way 2, it's typically in larger rooms.
Finally is Way 3, in which the possibilities are endless and which I don't particularly care for. However, it can certainly work for some rooms, and can end up looking very nice. The basis is to take either Way 1A or Way 2 and then put in either of the side pieces of the tileset (both outlined in red) at whatever interval/placing you see fit.
You know what frustrates me? The fact that RPG Maker XP's default graphics are all white. So have four recolors I'm using in my own game. I'll probably post another batch soon/eventually.
It's been ages since I've posted, so here's a basic not-quite tutorial about how RPG Maker XP's sprites work.
Here is "Aluxes", aka 001-Fighter01. The graphic is 128 pixels wide, and 192 pixels tall. This is the default sprite size for RPG Maker.
And here is the same sprite, but broken down for your enjoyment. RPG Maker divides the width and height of each sprite sheet by four.
The resulting pieces are each part of the sprite that you'll find yourself able to select in the game maker. If you ever find yourself with a sprite that has a foot moving at the top, or cuts off the head, your best bet is to make a four by four grid and work on placing the sprite inside.
When you finish, simply change the background color all to the same one, and then import it with that as your transparency color.
But so we've got a grid. Great! What do we do with it?
Here I've divided the grid into four different colors.
The red grid is the front-facing sprite. This is the walk cycle that will happen when you move DOWN in any way, whether it's thanks to the arrow key, telling a character to walk or turn down, or talk to an event from above it.
The yellow is the same, only it's for any time you tell a character to move LEFT in any way. Green is the same for RIGHT, and blue for UP.
Now let's break down what each of these pieces are.
Red and green, for most sprites that are going to move, have the same graphic. This is the default "stopped" mode. Red, does, however, have one extra use. When you select a character graphic, the red piece the part that will be chosen to show on the menu.
It is also the part of the character that will show on the save screen.
Green, on the other hand, will act as a "pause" in whatever movement the character is doing - walking or bobbing, etc. Alternatively, green can be a continuation of the action - a chest or door won't revert back to closed in the middle, for example, but it may be halfway open - rather than a repeat of red.
But back to our rainbow front-view of the sprite.
We then have yellow and blue, which play similar roles to each other. These are the moving graphics: typically, they make the same movement in opposite directions. One will take a step forward with the left foot, the other will take a step forward with the right foot. Maybe the graphic is something that bobs up and down: in that case, it will bob up on the yellow part of the graphic, and bob down on the blue part. This isn't always the case, though. Things like doors and chests will typically continue their original movement, rather than do something opposite to it.
The stationary/movement parts of these pieces stay consistent throughout the sprite, only from different angles.
And, that's a quick summary of how RPG Maker XP sprites work! Take into account that you can manipulate the way they do so to suit your purposes.
For example, I needed to give off the impression that a character was climbing down a ladder. However, the down arrow key automatically made my character face forwards. So I created a second version of the sprite where the backwards-facing character took up the first row, giving off the impression of the character climbing down.
You can also change the sizes of the spritesheet, just make sure the sprite is placed as a four by four grid!
Finally, if you're making an object that can't move in the game, there's no reason to fill in the entire spritesheet with the same thing! Combine your spritesheets - think of the bulletin sprites. If you break them up properly on the grid, you can even make one item take up multiple pieces of the sprite grid, and create it in-game by placing the events side by side.
I hope that helped! If a part didn't make sense, or there's something you have a specific question on, send me an ask and I'll clarify!
ATTENTION: LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCED WITH USING RPG MAKER. If you’re not one, please signal boost! I’d really like to find someone to work with!
If you are one, please read!
I (Miikpah) am working on a small indie RPG game, called Pigment. It has a very surreal feeling about it, and is inspired by Off, wreCK, and WEGF music. It won’t be very long, but the story is close to my heart, and I already have a small team for it being made.
Here is some things about the game:
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Plot -
A young student Angeli, Meeka, who is failing her guidance classes is thrown to the task of restoring the worlds color after all of the colors in the world completely desaturated without a trace. With the lack of support from her instructor, and many disadvantages hanging on her shoulders, she tries her best to succeed at the task given to her and Prove her worth.
Meeka - Protagonist (Angeli)
Born black and white, an outcast of her kind. Her wings are upside down and she appears to have no Ingenium. She’s quiet and keeps to herself. Long white hair, black 5 black horns. (one unihorn, two smaller on each side of her head). She wears striped shirt and shorts, and a Mano is seen around her head. She wears a line with Xs for eyes
Some Terminology
Angeli - Protector Race
Winged humanoids with special abilities who reside in the clouds. They live long lives and are usually born in bursts of color. They are guardians over color and the world. Each Angeli are born with an Ingenium of which turns into their later career.
Pallets - Mid Citizen Race
Human-like citizens, they are born with no color and grow into their color. They can choose their professions, though they don’t usually befriend Angli.
Blots - Lower Citizen Race
Animal-like beings with small and simple minds. They are addicted to color and possessions. They have a very short life span and breed like rabbits. They often befriend Pallets. They are born in one color and stay like that their whole life.
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That’s some of the basic information. If you get on the project, you’ll of course get a lot more information on the project.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED; PLEASE SEND ME A FANMAIL OR ASK.
We already have a good amount of artist, pixel and not, However, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN DRAWING OR VOICE ACTING FOR THE PROJECT, YOU SHOULD ALSO SEND ME AN ASK.
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