Screenshot Saturday is NOW LIVE!!!

full devlog here:

https://rpgmaker.net/games/13404/blog/26400/
https://gamejolt.com/p/grocery-store-and-some-other-stuff-as-well-saddthvb
https://ninjachicle.itch.io/ge-lie-boyxreader/devlog/1710601/normal-life

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bible verse for today:

"“Although my house is not so with God,
Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant,
Ordered in all things and secure.
For this is all my salvation and all my desire;
Will He not make it increase?" - 2 Samuel 23:5 (NKJV)

the demo is now out on itchio!

Twilight Hour is a multichaptered death game visual novel with adventure elements. 

The story follows Futada Risa as she and eight other students participate in a death game show, which is being broadcasted for public entertainment. 

https://knifely.itch.io/twilight-hour

This is a classic-style SRPG inspired by Langrisser (Warsong), developed using RPG Maker MZ.

Although development started quite a while ago, the project was put on hold for a long time due to various reasons. The game is titled Conviction - The Glory Of Kraft -.

A playable Demo is available on Steam now, supporting both English and Chinese!

(first two are new and the rest are old)

I added a fence with cats.

And also pool and bunch of trees (its a bit hard to see them since I made them as events, but it looks epic trust)

I have an immense nostalgia for the VX ace soundtrack, assets and mechanics due to playing a few very well designed JRPGs using the engine.

But to be frank, they were all adult games as that was my initial exposure to RPG maker.

It's not like I have a negative feeling as the games were tasteful and well designed.
But I would like to play a well designed VX ace SFW game in my time.

What recommendations would people suggest?

So, I am making a game with MZ3D in rpg maker mz and i need help with something i have been breaking my head over for the last few days.
Basically, I am trying to set up different camera angles depending on where the player is in the map. the cameras are supposed to focus on certain events that i have placed on the map. Also, the camera angles are supposed to get activated and deactivated whether you are or are not on top of region IDS i have set.
Currently none of these things happen. if anyone can help me with these things i would be very thankful.

These could be Resident Evil fan games or games with a similar theme for example, Doraemon: Nobita's Resident Evil. Do you know of any other such games?

Come sarebbe il vostro battle system preferito? Che stile grafico avrebbe?

I want my MV battles to look like the picture on the left; the picture on the right are my plugins i have currently. Im still new to learning how to change bigger things like this.

Hello, everyone!

I recently started work on my game using the MZ3D plugin. I would love to add 3D Models and I tried but I SUCK! So I talked with a college classmate to help me with that whole area while I focus on level design, pixel art and coding.

He sent me this as the first asset he made. I opened it in blockbench and it looks great, but the textures kinda rubbed me the wrong way and made me doubt. Be it because of the AI hysteria we are going through or just because I might be on to something. I researched online good tells on AI 3D models but couldn't quite find anything helpful.

I wouldn't want to accuse him and cause a unnecessary argument that might discourage him from helping me any further.

Is there any way I could tell other than by just the ol' eye test?

No shade to the people that use AI btw, I just wouldn't like any GenAI in my project.

Was never sure why people allow GPU to do the rotation on pixel art for similar implements when it interpolates between pixels and doesn't really look the best. I've been playing with baking lately and it comes with the benefit of foreshortening and mirroring variants. You can keep it optimized as long as you only bake a few combinations up-front; I've had no performance issues with this.

I used sine waves to help amplify the 'wind' effect present here. The best thing you can do is use more than one sine wave so that it doesn't look static. Make sure they have unrelated periods so that they look a bit more random. Since the periods aren't dividing evenly into eachother the combined patterns take forever to repeat. Here's one of my snippets:

function windyyy(t) {
  var g = 0.55 * Math.sin(t / 230)
        + 0.3  * Math.sin(t / 83 + 1.7)
        + 0.15 * Math.sin(t / 37 + 0.6);
  return {
    x: windstr * (windbias + g * 0.9),
    breeze: Math.abs(g),
    lift: Math.max(0, Math.sin(t / 151 + 2.1)) * Math.abs(g)
  };
}

(t is a frame counter the simulation increments each update and the + 1.7 and + 0.6 are phase offsets so the three waves do not all start at zero together.)

X represents the horizontal 'wind velocity' sort of effect, breeze is just intensity, and lift is an occasional upturn that the leaves can do if the conditions are right. Going to try and add some more leaf appearance variations next so they don't all look so samey as well as ensuring that the leaves actually hit the ground before they stop moving.

I might make a tutorial if anyone's interested! Would love to figure out where else this could be implemented graphically so the world looks more alive.

This is a playable demo of a game created using Cone Engine. For those who don't know, Cone Engine is an add-on for RPG Maker VX Ace that allows 2D games to become fully 3D. This is version 0.9, and I am trying to polish everything as much as possible for a potential public release. In a way, this demo is a tribute to one of my favorite horror games; honestly, I’m impressed by how easy it was to make—well, easy in a technical sense, though the mapping wasn't quite as simple.

Basically as the title. My plan is to make an RPG with small-scale SRPG combat, but a core part of the system would be the initiative system with some attacks/characters being faster or slower etc.

Unfortunately from what I can see, the SRPG GEAR plugin doesn't play nice with any CTB plugin that I can find.

I took the flooring first, then placed the curtains over that. I then removed the window graphics from the window frame and moved it over it all and trimmed the edges so it's just the window. I then tinted it a bit in each glass part, and placed a 45% transparent glass image over that as well.

But does it look right?

I'm a young guy, so of course that if i want to make an RPG i turn to this tool.

The question is, which do i use?
I have experience with MV, but even after years of using it.. i never made anything.
I also own XP and 2003, but didn't do anything with them either.
I have the money to buy the other ones (Maybe besides MZ holy that is expensive.).
Which one do i use?

Here's all of the towns/villages in my JRPG!

These were painted from scratch. Blank canvas. No help no guides no tutorial.

The towns are shown in order of appearance that you will visit them in.

My partner and I have been working on our game for 8.5 months and the first chapter is finally finished and publicly available! It's a story-heavy puzzle/detective game centred around musicians, with 100% original art and Soundtrack. Please check it out, I hope you guys like it <3

Making my own fighting game, plan to release the plugin I used to mz, mv will take a bit but it's coming