#Or even Unity if they knew how to plug my Ren’Py script in there

[alexis-royce]

Thoughts on RPG Maker

Good and happy ones! I made a couple RPG Maker games back in high school, nothing that ever left the home computer, but it was very freeing and my first taste of making my own games. I also enjoy that they let folks get really weird with it. Off, OneShot, Ib, the original Corpse Party; I love that they exist, and I love the way you can feel their legacy in bitsy and GB Studio games. I still need to check out some of the RPG Maker games my fellows in the indie VN community have made; I adore adventure games!

Sometime, I’d really like to work with someone making an RPG Maker game. It would be fun to write and do cutscenes for them using sprites. I think I’d quite enjoy the limitation of having existing characters and a general plot, and working it into something polished and consistent. Y’know, if someone was more technically minded, and wanted to focus on dungeon and combat design.

Buuuut it would also be great to work with someone to add some simple map traversal and puzzles to a game I was making, too! I think Serialized Killer/Lead Into Gold would be kinda nice if you were walking around the mansion in between conversations. 🤔 But as always, it’s good to start small, so it would probably be best to work with someone on a game jam game first, and see where it goes from there.

I’ve uh. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.