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Anonymous04/13/26, 07:11No.3964515My little brothers making an RPG and its actually agonizing
/vrpg/ give me advice. My little brother is autistic and he’s been obsessed with making his own RPG game for about 4 years now. Literally 4 years of him tinkering in RPG Maker MZ or whatever version it is.
The problem is, he’s genuinely getting aggressive and defensive over it whenever I try to give him basic criticism, and on top of that, I’m basically forced by my parents to draw the concepts for him because "you're good at art”. I can’t even get good pictures of it. And he unironically believes this game is going to be the next Undertale or Omori.
The writing is agonizing. How the fuck do I tell someone who has spent 4 years on a project that a protagonist who speaks in the third person like a toddler completely ruins any chance of taking the game's "serious emotional moments" seriously?
/vrpg/ Is this what all solo dev RPG Maker projects look like? Just mashed together tropes from popular games? Tell me I'm not crazy for thinking this is gonna be a massive flop if he ever actually finishes it? How do I deal with this without causing a war in the house?
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Anon04/13/26, 07:35No.3964523
upload it somewhere and let us play it, i'm sure we'll get a good laugh from it
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Anon04/13/26, 07:43No.3964525
bro he's like 14 and so are you
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Anon04/13/26, 08:43No.3964538
OP let him upload it somewhere and see how it does. If it fails, hopefully he'll learn a lesson. If it does well, you can claim some credit for art assets.
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Anon04/13/26, 08:52No.3964541
move out from your parent's home faggot
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Anon04/13/26, 13:39No.3964633
i think that you shouldnt crush your little brothers idea
could you give us some information about the game? maybe some lore or something like that?
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Anon04/14/26, 02:55No.3965087
how do you expect us to give any advice if we cant see the project for ourselves to provide an unbiased opinion on what the flaws are?
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Anon04/14/26, 02:58No.3965090
Genuinely I wish I had this kind of drive. I've never been this motivated about anything. I admire your bro, even if it sucks, tell him to keep at it.
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Anon04/14/26, 05:50No.3965180
When your little brother is kicking a football, he thinks he's going to be a pro one day tooJust let him have fun
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Anon04/14/26, 05:54No.3965183
>Just mashed together tropes from popular games?
Don't even pretend that the successes aren't exactly this.
It's just luck of the draw. There's 100,000 timelines where something like Undertale goes completely under the radar since you could make the exact same argument about it as you're making now.
The difference is luck. If people just magically decide they like your crappy art and your cringe writing, that's all that matters.
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Anon04/14/26, 11:37No.3965245
You should encourage him to finish, the nihilistic and lethargic "intelligent criticism" energy from this place are what ultimately powers cucks, simps, and leftists in general into their bitter futures of poverty, loneliness, and a filled grave containing an unfulfilled corpse. Sticking to something for 4 years is something most kids don't do which shows the opposite of all that.Even if it is pretty cringeworthy there will come an age where he will look back on it and want to make a better one, and he's probably learning SOMETHING even if it is just a -maker package. Maybe get him started on Unity on the side.
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Anon04/14/26, 13:20No.3965268
>How the fuck do I tell someone who has spent 4 years on a project that a protagonist who speaks in the third person like a toddler completely ruins any chance of taking the game's "serious emotional moments" seriously?
Try it with probabilty theory or explain what a reality check is.
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Anon04/14/26, 13:47No.3965281
RPG maker dev here, best i'd say you can do is let the kid release it. Alot of devs start out thinking they'll make the next Final Fantasy or Undertale when they won't. Kid's gonna have a reality check when others actually play his game and criticize the game. Thats probably how alot of devs start out. Eventually he may look back and go: "Damn, this sucks ass. Maybe i could try to make something better than the cringy shit i made when i was a retarded 14 year old"
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Anon04/14/26, 14:01No.3965290
The only issue here is that you've let yourself be pressured into doing something you don't want to do
You shouldn't be doing that
Also, you shouldn't be making art before the games finishedIf you need an excuse, you should probably start your own art project and insist you need to spend your time on that. It will sound better then choosing to do nothing
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Anon04/14/26, 16:55No.3965345
feed his autism bucks. and if he gets mad enuff when it fails, call CPS on him. profit.
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Anon04/14/26, 19:47No.3965380
>Is this what all solo dev RPG Maker projects look like? Just mashed together tropes from popular games?
I follow unique and enlightened path of forever dev where instead of actually working on my project I think about how to work on my project.
It is more elegant way than crude working on it. However progress is slow as after years I am not a little bit closer to finish than before.
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Anon04/15/26, 03:26No.3965499
I don't know how you're gonna tell him his game is bad, but you can't crush his soul.My little brother used to genuinely think he was going to be in a famous band one day. He'd play guitar all the time, he even got a drum set that was super fucking annoying to listen to and I'm pretty sure the entire neighborhood hated it so I'm glad that stopped at least, but one day my brother came home with a cassette tape of him and another kid in the neighborhood "jamming", and keep in mind he's like 12 years old at the time, and he comes home and he's all excited and he wants us all to listen to it. That's when my mom, like, got upset at him and told him that he's never going to be in a band and I don't know what other kind of shit, I wasn't there I was in my room, but from that day forward he was never excited about anything ever again. I never heard him play guitar ever again. He never went to another kid's house to jam ever again. My own mom destroyed my little brother. Really, she destroyed all of us in different ways, but I remember when she destroyed my brother. And you can't do that, man. You can't kill your own family member like that. So don't just lay it out and tell him it sucks and he'll never be anything, try to frame it more positively or tell him to read more books so that he can write a better game or something, I don't know. But don't rip his soul out of his body like that, he'll never ever be the same.
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Anon04/22/26, 10:33No.3970855
If you're seriously trying to say that luck is all it takes to get your game popular, I urge you to get a reality check.
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Anon04/26/26, 01:11No.3973681
Also shut stop it with muh hard work, everybody works hard for a long time for a finished product, thats the minimum requirement of the art form. Its not a merit on its own, thats commie logic. Esp with THOSE type of games. OP's lil bro isn't making the next noita. Shut up
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Anon04/26/26, 01:24No.3973693
I also made a goofy RPG Maker game when I was 12, throwing together stuff I liked. Let him have fun with it. If anything, encourage him to plan it out a bit more and decide a set ending. He'll be happy to have finished something.In my case, I had a place where the game sort of ended, but then a second world where I was totally making it up as I went. I liked adding to it with whatever popped into my head, the same way people play around in Minecraft or something. It was so fun I kept wanting to add more and never finished (though the first half was basically a complete short game).It's very unlikely this will become the next Undertale, but keep in mind that Toby Fox started the same way as your brother. Making RPG Maker games with his brothers. You can read about his experiences here:
https://chartcarr.neocities.org/secretbase_5
This part in particular:
>But even that game my older brother made was never finished. In total it had around 3 or 4 hours of content, it was going to be a long game and took years to make. As a result, I lost confidence in my work and ended up quitting game development altogether too. In the end, only one of my older brothers was able to complete his own game.
This is why you should encourage him to finish it one way or another. I remember being really disappointed that I never truly finished mine. Completing something will give him confidence and inspire him for future projects. So you won't even have to worry about this one being perfect or not.
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Anon04/26/26, 16:23No.3973945
Copy the game files and post it here so we can decide if its good or not
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Anon04/26/26, 19:53No.3974274
upload the files somewhere
let an anon take them and publish it in an unfinished state
he loses all credit, his 4 years of work are lost
you no longer have to do shit for it
he'll hate you forever though
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Anon04/26/26, 20:29No.3974311
dont criticize him, have him release crap and he'll improve from it
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Anon04/27/26, 15:30No.3974649
well pussy aren't you going to drop the game files somewhere?
you came on here, complained for a few posts, then fucked off into the aether.
The fuck man.
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Anon04/29/26, 03:40No.3975897
Orgack did nothing wrong.
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Anon05/08/26, 14:01No.3981079
I'm guessing this is less about the game itself and more about your living situation. Are you actually being "forced"? Are your parents becoming aggressive toward you? If not, maybe start a conversation about how you don't share his passion for the project and that you don't enjoy working on it. You could use your own studies or projects as a reason why you'd rather do something else. As for your brother, keep encouraging his creativity. Even if you don't think the game will perform well, it's not worth creating an argument. Sometimes it's better to just blindly nod and go along with it.
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Anon05/08/26, 15:25No.3981106
SON
IT IS I, YOUR PARENTS
You're deadline is coming up for the Orgock impregnation scene. Stop posting on 4chan or you're going back to the goblin basement for at least a week
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Anon05/09/26, 00:51No.3981424
The more I think about this project, the more soulful I think it is. Remember, the fear of cringe is the death of kino.
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Anon05/09/26, 03:33No.3981544
dont expose your family business to strangers on the internet, woman behavior
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Anon05/09/26, 10:17No.3981660
can you give us the name of his game?
im getting impatient it's been almost a month.
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Anon05/12/26, 09:50No.3983094
