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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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Anyone used this or have experience they would like to share with it? ima thinkin a downloadin it.
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Making your own RPG with an easy-to-use RPG maker program sounds like a good idea at first so you throw up a simple RPG with the default rules and tileset and you share it and everyone says it's not bad ... BUT ... it really unoriginal since it doesn't use any custom rules or art so you set off to make your RPG unique and special by programming a slightly more complex rule and every time you increase the complexity you increase the number of bugs in your game and you bang your head in frustration trying to work within the limitations of the software because you can imagine how cool your game could REALLY be if only RPG maker would get out of your way and let you make the game you envision but it won't and that's only half the issue because you still need art and you start with a simple 16 x 16 background tile of maybe a grass motif and you realize you need at last 4 or 5 variations of it so your backgrounds dont look like tiles and then you need corners and edges and transitions and by the time you've drawn 5 dozen tiles for a simple terrain motif if you even get that far you realize you still need to do 20 more biomes plus interiors as would befit an EPIC RPG and character sprites and animation which will look like shit until you get good at it which you wont and 3 years will have passed before you realize that you spent all that time to make a game with one character one cave and one monster encounter before you chuck it all in the bin in despair.
If that sounds like something you'd like to do I'd give it a solid recommendation.