No matter how many times I try, I can't figure out what it is everything I need to make a playable game. Can someone please give me a tutorial on how to make a simple game with all the basics from scratch?
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Re: I need a beginner's tutorial!
Yeah, RPGM2 is pretty overwhelming. If you can find it, I'd recommend Prima's RPGM2 strategy guide. (Here it is at Amazon.) It goes into detail of how to create a few things, particularily maps and dungeons.
One thing that's worth noting. All the submenus are listed in the order that you'd be using them. So like for events, it's Scripts, which are used in Events, which are used in Event Placement.
Everything ultimately ends in World Organization. That's what the game loads up to run, and are the locations that you choose to teleport to. Create the map to put in there. Create the object placements to go in there. Create the event placements to go in there. Create the enemy parties to put in there. Otherwise, none of it will work. The reason it's done this way is so you could re-use any individual set of data over again without having to create an entirely new map.
Don't be fooled by the name "Dungeon Editor". It is used for interiors in general, and can be used to create small outdoor areas, as well. The "Building Editor" is mainly for the building exteriors you would put on a town map, although you could also put them inside dungeon maps.
Overall, the best thing to do is to take an "ooh, what does this button do" approach. Rather than intentionally create something, fiddle around with what's there and see what each thing does itself. I would recommend setting the editor to "Normal" or "Medium" mode (I forget which term is used). "Easy" barely lets you create a thing, and "Hard" opens up a bunch of options that will just baffle you to no end unless you already figured out how to work everything else."What if like...there was an exact copy of you somewhere, except they're the opposite gender, like you guys could literally have a freaky friday moment and nothing would change. Imagine the best friendship that could be found there." -
Re: I need a beginner's tutorial!
Yeah, when I first got the game, I screwed around with a lot of different things. What I do when starting a new game is this: Start a game on either beginner or normal (depending on how much preset data you want. Beginner mode has more) and then switch it to hard mode. This opens up a lot of extra stuff you can use and mess with, but you're saved game will still retain all of the preset data from the other difficulty. That way you don't have to script EVERYTHING yourself. I once thought that it'd still have some data on in hard mode, but alas, it only had like 20 scripts that you either can't or don't want to mess with. It sucks cuz if you want some of the preset stuff but not a lot of the other things (items and abilities namely) it's a real pain to delete them because you also have to delete it from everything that it's used in.
The in-game help is really useful (Start button i think?) and can direct you to do a lot of stuff (though i'm sure you already discovered that) but sometimes you might need to read and re-read up to 10 times
I'd also invest in the Prima guide, the link that dude gave is pretty good. I just ordered it
it came to just under $10 (American) after shipping.
Good Luck!Last edited by Zanzetuken; 01-11-2010, 01:02 AM.Comment
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