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Anonymous02/03/26, 13:34No.3920498Dev Thread without RPG Maker - Lazy Edition.
What engine are you using?
Or are you making your own?
Do you miss RPG Maker if you used it before?
Post progress BTW.
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Anon02/04/26, 15:48No.3921113
Shame, seems like these threads don't work on this board. Making a re clone and am thinking about the injury system. Want an armor and health system with semi permanent injuries. Armor works rather as damage negate, think of a plate and a knife. You won't do shit against a breast plate with a knife, except for well placed or ciritcal hits. Injuries reduce max health and have further debuff. Tedious or fun?
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Anon02/04/26, 16:25No.3921123
Yay, you're back!
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Anon02/04/26, 18:41No.3921200
I'd post my game here, but /vrpg/ won't let me because I used AI voice acting in it.
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Anon02/04/26, 19:32No.3921235
really rough so far
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Anon02/05/26, 05:52No.3921555
Mongol update. Fully switched to Unity. 2D turn based. Localizing it in romanian ( română).
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Anon02/05/26, 16:07No.3921719
For someone wanting to heavily mod Quake 1, how do I approach QuakeC but starting with easier 2d projects? I was thinking of Raylib, are there others?
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Anon02/05/26, 20:36No.3921801
Today I had my biggest scare in a while
>Decide to configure steam cloud saves because why not
>test in my dev account before publishing
>test goes okay, it saves and then brings them back if they are moved
>publish
>go into my player account to verify
>saves gone
>FUCK
>disable cloud saves
>go back to dev account
>saves are there again
>huh
>turn on cloud saves again. Go back and forth, it seems the OG saves were bound to dev account and steam detects it and cleans the saves from the save path when the other account is logged.
>boot up my spare laptop with a third 3 account and yeah it's working fine.
Never attempting this on a live game again.
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Anon02/08/26, 22:41No.3923626
Recently converted my text-based RPG "Aura Clash" from ChoiceScript to a new engine I had to build off Tweego, calling it the Aurillian Framework.https://www.auraclash.com#gamedevThe game's going well so far, the 1m word translation went smoothly and I'm 150k words into writing chapter 9. Hoping for a March/April release. Still didn't finish Tian Fang's quest (pic related) so my fans will continue to call a fatwa upon me.
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Anon02/10/26, 15:38No.3924831
I have the urge to make a TES-like or Fallout-like from scratch in a custom engine
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Anon02/11/26, 00:35No.3925055
What's the best engine to use if I want to make a battle system like in MMBN?
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Anon02/11/26, 18:52No.3925496
Considering makinga fallout fangame
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Anon02/11/26, 19:13No.3925506
>Want to make a Bethesda-style RPG
>Look online
>Apparently everyone hates Bethesda RPGs now
>My game will probably either suck or no one will play it, or both
Damn
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Anon02/11/26, 22:42No.3925633
>my wagie full corpo job pays way more than my attempts at making a game ever could
>arrive home late, tired, depressed and barely have any willpower left to work on game
anons, I feel like I'm not gonna make it
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Anon02/12/26, 02:04No.3925714
If I'm making something in Pico8 and desire to make it bigger with less constraints, any particular framework you recommend? Something with Lua?
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Anon02/12/26, 15:47No.3925935
How lovely is to see the comeback. Sadly, my project is at a standstill because life is being rough at me.
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Anon02/13/26, 00:41No.3926130
An rpg where you go full luigi on epstein, corrupt politicians and corpos would surely sell a lot on steam.
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Anon02/13/26, 20:34No.3926941
Are there any sites where devs actually discuss game(s design)? Seems like there's almost nothing done form a scientific standpoint.
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Anon02/14/26, 17:28No.3927741
Is a KOTOR-style CRPG even doable solo?
A FONV-style CRPG, either?
Classic Fallout CRPG even?
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Anon02/15/26, 22:29No.3928432
is designing story before gameplay a valid approach
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Anon02/16/26, 11:11No.3928658
I have an idea for a game and I want opinions on it, because maybe it's trash, but if it's good and somebody steals it I will kms.
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Anon02/17/26, 21:41No.3929636
I just had a wacky idea for a CRPG or TTRPG system
>Every session, your character will chase their Goal (what they want). They’ll also be tempted to act on their Personality (defining aspects of who they are). When they act on their personality, they risk triggering their Flaw (weakness that gets in the way of their goal).
>When a player does anything that pushes them towards their goal, they're resolved using a regular d20 check against a relevant stat. If the roll is successful, they gain XP. Normal.
>BUT, when their Personality urges them to do something, they are presented with whether or not to do that. If they do it and the roll is successful, they gain a short-term buff they can use once. Their stress also decreases by 2 (more on that in a moment).
>BUT, if the roll is a failure, their flaw takes over and they gain a short-term debuff that, when (immediately) activated, causes them to act in accordance to their character flaw. Their stress will decrease by 1, because at least they tried.
>If they suppress it, nothing happens... but their stress increases by 1. Every time their stress reaches 10, it resets to 0, but their character hits a breaking point, where they AUTO-FAIL the next in-character action and their flaw activates.
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Anon02/18/26, 18:45No.3930486
do we accept action-adventure games in here or nah? there's sword and monsters
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Anon02/18/26, 19:12No.3930506
cozy
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Anon02/19/26, 19:32No.3931401
How do RPG's track the player's progress through the story?
is it a series of boolean like hasBeatenXDungeon, hasXItem and then these booleans just turn on and off different events and dialogue across the map?
Or is there a better way to go about this?
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Anon02/19/26, 21:00No.3931446
Man
I want to make a game that's like JRPG and CRPG had hot babymaking sex
something like FF5 with mechanics from BG or FONV
Or something like DQ9 with shit from TES
But such a combo would probably either be a content nightmare or total tonal dissonance
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Anon02/21/26, 14:28No.3932819
new here. I was looking for the rpg maker thread. Is this the right board? I remember that I visited the thread once years ago and got inspired by the amount of rpg maker games.
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Anon02/23/26, 11:02No.3933675
"Quirky Earthbound-inspired indie RPG secretly about depression" is overdone at this point. What about an inverse?
"Final Fantasy-inspired rpg secretly about... [idk]"?
One idea is to do what Live A Live went for with its final chapters.
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Anon02/25/26, 13:20No.3934748
It's really hell being a solodev, you have a ton of blindspots and no one to help you see them, a demo can help get feedback but even then it's still lackluster help. I do have recurrent thoughts pop up in my head on how to polish or make a certain feature more cool for the player. I.e. there's a npc that fast travels you from X to Y using an airship, well currently its fade out/fade in, but a small cutscene of the airship riding the clouds would make it somewhat cooler.
So everyone would tell you polish comes at the end right? So i usually write these ideas on a document and keep going, but at the same time these little things are pretty cool to sell the game so it comes down to how to optimize the development to keep people interested.
What is your experience with this anons?
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Anon02/26/26, 22:30No.3935692
Should I make my RPG systems-focused (CRPG-ish), or should I make it world/narrative-focused (JRPG-ish)?
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Anon02/27/26, 09:23No.3936086
Hironobu Sakaguchi's first game was a text adventure (with graphical supplements).
This was his GDD for it
https://x.com/auuo/status/1995504635000635845
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Anon02/27/26, 15:36No.3936186
Are there trpg where both teams move simultaneously? Trying to design a system, but no matter what you do, action economy trumps everything. Another idea I have is to improve counters and reactions, but especially the latter leads to rounds being constantly interrupted by said abilities. What do? Is the genre doomed?
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Anon02/28/26, 17:43No.3937001
Should my game be NES-styled 2D pixel art, SNES/GBA-styled 2D pixel art, PS1/NDS-styled 3D low poly, or just 2.5D (i.e DOOM)?
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Anon03/02/26, 10:48No.3937894
Maybe we should create a pastebin with resources or links to share. I dunno if it has ever been created.
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Anon03/03/26, 18:33No.3938598
I'm trying to make a first person RPG in a similar style of Daggerfall.
What size would you say the average sprite for an NPC is, pixel wise?
For the moment, I'm using a standard 64x64 for everything, but I don't want it to seem like I'm trying too hard to be low res.
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Anon03/04/26, 00:18No.3938708
I just spent an entire hour arguing with and seething at a chatbot
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Anon03/04/26, 00:26No.3938710
Reworking a buncha anims before I commit to the pace of each turn in combat.
It was too slow before.
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Anon03/04/26, 09:45No.3938913
making an engine for multiplayer rpg with this stackLanguages: Typescript
Runtime: Bun
Graphics: 2D with PixiJS
ECS: BitECS
Physics / Collisions: SAT.js
Networking: Bun Websockets
Binary Protocol: Protobuf
Desktop: Electrobun
Storage (Server): PostgresStarted yesterday and its going well. Wish me luck bros
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Anon03/05/26, 20:36No.3939672
Using Twine to make a text RPG and have the prologue just about finished with Harlowe but considering switching to Sugar Cube, is the code pretty much all the same or do I have to change some things around regarding the Variables and Events? If there's any other engines that are better suited for this I'm all ears, I'd love it if there was something like Legendary Tales from the early 00's to manage aspects within the game like races, classes, stats ect but I can't even get that to run properly anymore on Win10.
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Anon03/07/26, 05:18No.3940301
Top screenshot is a fucking atrocity I made 3 years ago; it's a macro to apply Status Effects to a target.The bottom is a macro I made this evening that does the same thing.
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Anon03/07/26, 18:46No.3940498
Back working on this project again, I had a whole turn-based battle system made, but I couldn't come up with any original ideas to make it fun. Anyone else here struggle with those thoughts?
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Anon03/10/26, 17:44No.3942056
Remodeled a Player Character again 'cus I'm figuring out the body proportions I want.
Longer legs, smaller head. Also, for some reason, he was an inch and a half taller than he was supposed to be.Gotta finalize the second party member, too.Everything in my power to do everything BUT make the first fucking dungeon.
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Anon03/13/26, 06:27No.3943950
AI won
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Anon03/13/26, 17:58No.3944342
I've added some more areas to the first town, and also a material system for the ground tile map. I want to add dynamic footstep sounds, Silent Hill 2 is really rubbing off on me. Hopefully people like ambient tracks, they seem easier to make than actual music, haha.
