Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

[Ivillios]

I'm about to get rpg maker, and would like to know if theres anything i need to know about it. I want to ve ready for any surprises that may come. Information is welcome friends.

[Biggie]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

Now that I am looking back, the music makes me wanna stab my ears, not exactly as good as the tunes from 2 and 3. But I will always have a special place in my heart for the first RPG Maker. Anyways I say be ready for having fun making custom sprites, monsters, title screens, etc.

[Hedrum]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

Welcome back my friend!

Eh, do some research. I'm pretty sure by searching the in the workshop forum, maybe read some walkthroughs at Gamefaqs.com, and/or doing a Google search, you should get all the information you need.

[Ivillios]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

Thanks guys, thats real helpful!

[Valkysas]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

make sure you buy a dex drive (pretty much only available on Ebay now), or you wont be able to play anyone's games, and you'll never get to share yours.

[Biggie]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

I managed to find a dex drive used at gamestop. But never tried out anyones RPG's yet, never felt the need to.

[Hedrum]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

Oh trust me, you must play other peoples' games. This is just to get some ideas on how you should make your game. I suggest you should play the more popular games here (yet you should still play Patrick's Journey got darn it!).

If you had played some games and you find a special one you like (and it's not Patrick's Journey). Go ahead, feel free to take it off your favorite RPG Maker game. You're still cool.

[Biggie]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

Oh I agree with ya Hedrum, but I am more of a RPGM2 kinda guy.

[Hedrum]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

Actually that was more toward Ivillios.

[lilwilddude]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...games&n=507846

There's an Amazon.com Dexdrive. Also, you should try my game, Forever Darkness. It's not very popular, or long, So far i've gotten nothing but good feedback though. Although they may have not wanted me to feel sad..

[Dragonsbrethren]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

RPG Maker... 2 missed the point (In my opinion, of course)... 3 is great... but the first keeps pulling me back.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: Hey, I am about to get Rpg Maker 1

No variables in RPGM1, aside from money. You can fake variables by making an item and increasing/decreasing how many of those you have, though you can't have the game check how many of an item you have; you either have the item or you don't.

There's no if/then commands. You have a Yes/No option, a custom 2/3-way choice, and can have it randomly choose from 2 or 3 paths, but that's as far as you can go as far as branching off in the middle of an event. Everything else is checked at the start of the event. The things that can be checked are whether a switch is turned on, if you have an item, how full your party is, if you have more than or less than a certain amount of gold, and some other thing regarding your party size, though I can't remember what it is. You can only have six conditions per event, and up to 90 pages.

If you want to have a big crowd moving around as part of an event, forget it. You can't have more than one object or person moving at the same time, unless they were exact duplicates of each other.

Automatic movement of townspeople are side-to-side, chase player, run away from player, random movement, step in place, and appear and disappear repeatedly. In terms of movement, townspeople always move by taking one step, pausing, taking another step and so forth. The only time they don't make pauses while moving is if you tell them to in an event.

The world map is like a tactical RPG, in which you have like a drawn map and you choose a location to go to by using a pointer.

Up to 15 party members, and 15 classes.

You cannot have class-only equipment.

And I'll stop there. Still, despite its limitations, I've always found RPGM1 to be pretty fun to use.