/jp/ - Otaku Culture

No, too lazy.

I tried to make a Rurouni Kenshin RPG, but gave up on it.

I did but then I realized I had no one to share it with. (console version)

I want to try the PC ones but I have no artistic skills nor the necessary japanese reading ability.

>>3247386
You should have finished it. I would have played it.

I made a short five minutes shitty one just to try it out.
It's pretty easy.

A little one, yeah. It was better in the early days when there was a tight community which shared around scripts and assets.

Nowadays you gotta make all your own shit. All I can do is write ;_;

After playing a few really good Japanese ones I've thought of making one. Never bothered though, I think maybe I should just translate one of those Japanese ones.

>>3247388
Just get a rpg maker in english?

>>3247407
Do they even offer the computer ones in english? I heard they stopped selling them because of piracy of the 95 or 2000 version. Or do you mean some fan-translated patch?

Me and my friend in high school were making a game together and we got a lot done and then it sorta fell apart.

I tried for a while. Got pretty far, too. Then I decided I couldn't be bothered.

I tried to make a Mr. T RPG.
This was YEARS ago, of course.

>>3247428
RPG Maker XP is what I always used. It's in english.

No, because I have zero creativity.

I've always wanted to make an RPG. Where can I get my hands on this?

I started one. I even had the generic protagonist leaving his village only to find out it's been burned when he returned

I've been thinking of making an RPG where a young boy from a small village in a large and mostly unexplored continent sets out on a quest to win the girl and save the world.

What do you guys think?

>>3247458

I don't know, a game like that is just begging for a wacky sidekick, and a bad guy with long, silver hair. Can't go wrong with that.

>>3247458
I think that sounds great.

You should make a generic RPG to the point that it's so generic that it's hilarious.

>>3247464

And mid-way through the game, the bad guy KILLS THE GIRL. Goddamn that would be good.

I made an RPG with RPG Maker 2000 before, did enough to make it playable for an hour or so, one town, overworld map, storyline stuff in that town, and a dungeon with a boss in the end.

Also, you recruit someone by giving them loliporn.

How funny, I was watching a /v/ stream where a person was trying to use RPG Maker.

Hey, /jp/, wanna make an RPG?

no but i'm waiting for Violated Heroine to be finished

>>3247545
Go ask /tg/.

http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100606

>>3247458
The girl should be a slut that willingly fucks the villain.

I started a dating sim RPG once. It was fairly standard with meeting up with a mage girl and then have her disappear before you run into the next girl and then give you the option to look for the first girl or just move on with the new one.

It had a nice system of affection points to determine story progress.

I believe as far as I got it was starting cave with bats -> tower with books -> unexpected warp portal -> succubus town -> cemetery catacombs -> your own ship!

You can't get more original than that.

>>3247465
So generic it's hilarious and set in Gensokyo.

By the end, you kill Reimu.

Yes, and it never passed the demo/beta version.

>>3249100
You really should check this out...

It was fun to mess around in, but I never did anything serious. For me it was kind of like playing with legos.

Making an RPG works only if you do it in a group, and instead of planning to make a massive game, just stick to doing like 30 minute chapters at a time. The chapters can pretty much stand on their own, but can be expanded as interest in the project renewed

Made a sort-of detective game.

>>3249110
That actually sounds interesting.

I tried with RM2K and then XP when it came out. Spend a great deal of time in both, but never really did anything.

By the way, has anyone played The Way RM2K series?

I wish I had someone to do the graphical stuff for me so I could focus on 'programming' the rest of the game. I suck at designing.

>>3249150
Don't try to be too original. Just rip off sprites from your favourite video game. It's an amateur RPG you are making, don't try to be so serious about it.

>>3249150
There are tons of free resources for this sort of thing.

Some of them even look decent.

I made a game in which you had to avoid a rock while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pURJDToKA0k played in the background.

2000 was the first version that worked correctly, but there was a lot missing.

2003 had the most raw potential, but it required a fuckton of sprite work to get battles to look nice.

XP was easy modo, but you still had to know Ruby to change anything important.

VX is a hastle, they keep trying to simplify things, but it only makes more work for anyone who wants to change the system.

>>3249204

So, 2003 if you want to do a lot of drawing, XP if you want to make a basic game or know Ruby?

Thanks.

I used to spend a lot of time in the RPGM communities, but somehow I lost interest in using that shitty engine when I could just code it myself. Some things are really easy with it, but trying to do other things is like purposefully cutting off your legs, it only gets more difficult.

There are millions of websites with ready made graphics, hell, if you guys want to make a game just use REFMAP/FSM stuff, they all have battle character sets 2k3 style floating around too if you want that.

http://www.tekepon.net/fsm/

They're pretty overused though, if you dig around you can find plenty of cool shit Japanese people have drawn. Or just get some rips from a good looking game.

I think a /jp/ RPG could actually be good with some coordination.

I did, had the battle system ready and shit but then lost interest and deleted everything.

I've always wanted to play an anti-RPG. You play as an evil villain set to destroy the entire universe and you happen to be ugly, weak, unwanted, virgin and have no friends.

You must kill tripfags to save /jp/.

>>3249242
FFTA?

This thread reminds me that Velsarbor will probably never be finished (only demo available)
Here's a trailer.
http://dl1.rpg-atelier.net/trailer/vsb_natotrailer_net.zip

>>3249182
I was talking about the maps. They all look boring and not even I could play my games because everything looks the same everywhere.

>>3249267
There should be an organic, fleshy tileset so you can make a level where you go inside a vagina and it looks horrific.

I used Ren'py for some short game about helminth parasites (Nematodes, tapeworms and flatworms, briefly considered acanthocephalans but they've got nothing interesting going for them save their phallic, spiky proboscis with which they tear apart human intestines, causing internal bleeding and worse) and have some work done on a board game where you play as a species of jellyfish (or other cnidarians like sea pens, anemones and hydrozoans) and try to take over the ecosystem, but I haven't polished the system for that yet.

I know shit for coding though.

>>3249317
You have the best ideas for games.

With just a little bit of effort it's really not too hard to make edits of existing sprites and make them look fairly different for your purposes.

>>3249281
>There should be an organic, fleshy tileset so you can make a level where you go inside a vagina and it looks horrific.

I think there's a stage in SRW OG2 where you escape from Stern Regisseur's guts. The stage is quite organic and squishy.

whats the latest rpgmaker? vx?

I remember this... I actually played this with a few friends (as in, a few of my friends and myself went to another friend's house) way back when.

It was pretty much a generic, shitty rpg with an infinite potion cow. We gave up after messing around with the overworld map a ton.

>>3249144
>>3249242

That was actually my second RPG design. Though it didn't get very far when I tried to think of a reasonable reason for you to be evil.

>>3249281

There's one RPGmaker game where a girl shrinks and eats you and you have to fight through her intestines to get out. It's all drippy and squishy and you take damage from her stomach acid when you walk through it.

Yeah, I had made an awesome 16 hour one, but fucker got corrupted on me for no fucking reason. I had done all custom sprites for maps, characters, stories, powers, levels, weapons,enemies, stats, spells, with their own custom animations and all,each, also custom scripts and shit. I raged so fucking hard.

'sup?

I helped out in making one for this game-dev group back in University. Well, though I only did a few maps and MIDI files.

>>3247376
I saw this earlier today on here...
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шшш.аиоитаㄥк.сом

I really wish that I could think up good and interesting ideas for RPGs.

I also wish there were modern day tilesets. Do any RPG makers have them by default?

>>3247382
>>3247382
>>3247382

I could never properly figure out how to use RPG Maker and had no desire to learn how. Otherwise I'd make something.

I used to make MMORPGs for BYOND when I was younger. I made a .hack// based game with Gauntlet-like gameplay.

I guess I should run the server again.

so what are good /jp/ related RPG maker games, not yume nikki?

Yeah when I was twelve

>>3252444
Ao Oni

I made some games with the RPG maker for the PS1.
Took me at least a month to figure out how to use it properly, so I never did spend the time to try to learn how to use another one.

I made a joke game for a school game design contest (any dev platform was allowed). The original concept was a Pokemon-esque game but with coffee, called Javamon.

We were rather short on time though, so it turned into a two minute long RPG spoof. It's nothing too special but it's kinda amusing.

Unfortunately the school-hosted page isn't up anymore, so I'll have to RS it if anyone actually wants to play it.

>>3252583
RS it, I'll play it

>>3252583
do it

Mkay then, here's Javamon. Enjoy, and don't pay attention to our names at the end. Unless you know who we are, in which case go ahead and give us cookies.

Note: The beginning is a sound clip with timed wait, so keep it focused for proper timing. Also the victory music never played properly for some reason.

http://rapidshare.com/files/272822680/javamons.exe.html

javamons.exe < incidentally, this is the name of a virus.

>>3252688
Drat! My plan has been foiled!
I'll get you next time, /jp/!

Y'know, I saw that while I was seeing if my partner uploaded it anywhere else. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

...Or IS is?

Can't someone make a Touhou RPG with the Scarlet Mansion and all that in it?

>>3253321
I'm sure they could, but what would it be about?

Only reason this fails is due to the shitty battle systems.

>>3253473
It could be about the daily happenings of the Scarlet Mansion, and pretty much every Touhou character comes by and does various stuff over there then leaves.

>>3253482
I remember seeing a script to replace the original shit battle system with a FF6 style battle system. I never did figure out how to use it though

>>3253482
rm2k3 has a standard rpg battle system, and it's the best of the rm series imo.
I'm not sure what you're complaining about.

Making a good game in RPG maker is like painting the Mona Lisa with shit.

>>3253501
I don't like it, I want customizable battle systems, Jones.

Fuck Touhou RPG, I want some more Touhou roguelikes. Choose a race [Human, Youkai, Fairy, Ghost...] and class [Miko, Witch, Maid, Baka...], and fight through randomly generated dungeons filled with randomly generated fairies that fire randomly generated bullet patterns in order to hunt down a randomly generated Level 6 Boss with randomly generated dresses and hats.

>>3253508
It's possible, but it will still smell like shit.

>>3253508
People eat it up?

>>3253482
>>3253492
XP and the newer shitty one (Don't remember the name) have scripting so you can basically have any kind of battle system. 2k and 2k3 can do this, its just so time consuming anyone who does it never finished their project.

>>3253501
Honestly I'd say XP is the most functional, not like 2k3 can do anything it can't.

>>3253492
Well, if it's possible, then maybe we could really work on a touhou game.

>>3253511
Also, Yukari takes the place of Dungeon Crawl's Xom.

>>3253511
I hate that kind of games

>>3253510
You could make your own, but you'd be spending more time "scripting" your battles than making dungeons and towns and all that fun stuff.
Scripting of any kind with rm95, 2k, and 2k3 was horrible. I don't know how well they fixed that with rmxp.

>>3253508
No, it's like putting together a Mona Lisa from cutouts from an art magazine. Each individual piece looks better than you would be able to make it without putting in considerable effort, but the whole doesn't mesh together very well.

RPG Maker is the Instant.exe of games.

>>3253519
An RPG project from /jp/ would be pretty cool, but everyone here is lazy and it would probably not work out.

Well actually, I was thinking about this earlier, one of the RPGM communities used to do this thing called Alex's Game (or something like that) and everyone used to contribute one map made over the course of a week, then the one guy doing the project would compile them into one long adventure.

The maps couldn't use any database stuff, because it isn't saved in the map files, so people had to make custom battles or just puzzles or whatever. You could even just turn in a blank map, the whole idea was community involvement.

Something like that, with Touhou/other /jp/ themes could actually work quite well.

>>3253511
>roguelike
>that fire randomly generated bullet patterns
What?

>>3253551
I don't consider myself lazy, I'm willing to take part in a /jp/ project if it proves to be serious.

>>3253551
Prepare for a lot of blank maps.

>>3253551
I consider myself lazy and unreliable. I also consider myself fairly bored.

If this survives the thread, I might help.

>>3253556
You could probably do it with the DoomRL engine

PatchCon sprites fit extremely well on RPG Maker VX sprite sheets. Just get rid of the shadows.

Translated half of one. Got sick of pasting to a mojibake translator line by line. Probably got deleted at some point.

Hm, well we could probably do something simple, if enough people were interested (really, we'd only need like 10 or so people, I'm sure we can get at least that much.)

Alright, lets see, who would be up for a little /jp/ project? You could probably make something in half an hour, or a few hours depending on how much effort you put into it.

>>3253615
Oh wow, those do fit well.

>>3253648
Well, I got classes til Saturday, but always got some time at night, about 4 hours, which I usually spend drawing.

>>3252444

>>3253648
>>3253551

Explain how this will work. Every map has it's own type of game or it's one character going through a bunch of different maps, like the elona moongates?

So when are we making a game?

I used to do a lot of spritework for the OHR and BYOND in the late 90s-early 00s, but now I just take it easy.

>>3253707
One character goes through different maps with whatever the person who made the map wants to put in it. Only real restriction is that you use only one map, there has to be an entry and exit point, and you can't do anything involving the database.

>>3253712
We have to discuss it thoroughly first.

decide which version of rpgmaker to use, and set up a meeting point already

>>3253800
Maybe Bunbunmaru is the right place to discuss it, isn't it?

>>3253800
I'm thinking either 2K3 or XP, they're probably the most functional, though I'm yet to use that newer one (when it came out, lots of people said it was just simplified XP.)

Which version do most /jp/ers have experience
with is the question?

>>3253763
I'd need to prepare some Touhou character sets at least, not many on /jp/ have the patience to arrange that themselves.

>>3253811
If/when Aya is on tomorrow, I could ask him for a sub forum to discuss this.

>>3253827
I've worked with all of them.

Well, this probably isn't the best time to be asking, I might make a thread to see who is interesting tomorrow when more people are on.

Piggybacking on this thread dosen't exactly make it noticeable either.

How's that?

Sword white haired guy and his magician little sister travel around with an eyepatch girl to find their lost parents. It turns out that their parents' life force was being used by the villain to maintain some ancient age mass destruction weapon with 500+ missing people. The villain is some kind of evil twin of the sword guy and wears a shining purple armor. He became the new king after killing the old one after a coup.
Side characters would be a perverted body-morphing witch girl with loli and adult forms and an incest fetish, eyepatch girl male childhood friend, fairy girl, two robots from the ancient age and a middle aged general with a bad sense of humor.

>>3253894
I don't even know what that game is.

>>3253894

How's that for what?

When /jp/ wants to make a Touhou version of Genso Suikoden (I and II style.) I'd join the project.
Fuck yeah recruiting every Touhou ever to wage a humongous war on the moon as they personally lead packs of demons, youkai, etc.

>>3253909
I'm just asking what do you guys think about that.

>>3253894

Doesn't sound interesting or worthwhile.

>>3253919
sucks

>>3253919
Needs more cliches.

>>3253919
Sounds like a JRPG I guess.

Well, yes, i like JRPGs and some of their cliches.

>>3253913
I'm listening

>>3253913
I think some doujin circle or Japs on Futaba/2ch could do this.

Us? Never.

>>3253979
Why not? we got good drawfags, programmers, etc. We just need to organize an appealing and serious project to attract them.

Someone rapidshare and not megaupload or mediafire the program(s), and make some sort of copypasta of the necessary info to make it look like there is some sort of plan and direction.

>>3253987
I've been around the communities awhile, this stuff always falls through. A small team with say, a programmer, artist, writer, and musician probably couldn't stay together, let alone the whole community.

>>3253988
I was thinking of doing something like that, yeah. I'll probably have to upload them tonight and make the post tomorrow, or just find some already uploaded links.

Vocaloids visiting various popular settings to pick fights and scout for backup dancers to put on the world's greatest tour. Saving the world's been done enough.

>>3253987
We don't have any sense of community.

Anon lives to shit on one another, and isn't dependable in any case. Any type of projects, in order to succeed, have to move beyond 4chan, but they they become like KS.

If not, they they'll be shat on anyway until the makers give up or drama happens.

>>3254023
Fuck the vocaloids. Pretentious videos are bad enough. We don't need pretentious games about them too.

>>3254030
That's why I thought Bunbunmaru would be a good place to start discussing it and gather/select anons.

When someone with direction wants to take charge of a project that doesn't revolve around adding a weird gimmick, such as disabilities or viruses, or making a fangame, I'll be supportive. I've yet to see anything with an original and interesting vision get started.

>>3254074
I'm usually ashamed of proposing things to /jp/, don't know if that happens to everyone, but it seems like a reason on why only things "So bad it's obviously a joke" seem to come out.

So, does anyone with both programs installed know what the install size difference 2k3 and XP is? Going with the smaller one would be easier.

>>3254074
What is original and interesting if not a weird gimmick?

I think the idea about lots of maps compiled into one game is good, but I don't think it should be touhou related.

>>3254122
I think XP has a bigger RTP

I would like to see something that resembles those rouge-like games.
You would have to eat and drink or your character/party would die.
I think the old Wizardry games did that.

>>3254125
Nothing is original, everything is a gimmick.

Some ideas here

http://jpproject.2ksite.com/jrpg-games-project-f7.html

>>3254074
Expecting someone's first game to be a masterpiece? Good luck waiting on that.

>>3254125
Its /jp/ related, Touhou isn't the only thing in it. Want to put in some Dawson, Japanese Bird, Type Moon, Peter Payne heads, etc. you can do that.

Main character will probably just be AVERAGE FACELESS VN PROTAGONIST.

>>3254122
If XP's scripting isn't complete shit, please go with it regardless of file sizes.

>>3254125
>>What is original and interesting if not a weird gimmick?

A story that has been well thought out instead of "let's make a love game where all the characters are personified bugs." I'm not against anything being weird by any means, but the story should be the first idea, not a justification for having whatever crazy fetish.

>>3254154
Main character will be Shiki. We will put various characters or challenges on our map and see if Shiki can or cannot kill them.

You know, I kindda think an SRPG would be quite awesome, like FFT or Disgaea, but that's out of our reach.

>>3254166
So you want it to go against the normal process of making a game?

>>3254154
Please go away

>>3254165
XP does have a lot more pros than 2k3, I was just concerned it would be REALLY HUGE, I never checked the install size (I need to download it now, actually.) The scripting is negligible, only problem being if the game would use any scripts they'd have to be agreed on, because scripts don't get stored in the map files. You could throw in the script in the word document, but if it conflicts with another script it'd cause problems.

>>3254192
>So you want it to go against the normal process of making a game?
I don't understand.
Am I too old?

>>3254166
I think what you're looking for are books. There are plenty out there that are written exactly how you describe. You may be wasting your time with games.

>>3254192
>>So you want it to go against the normal process of making a game?

If that can put out a half-decent script, then yes. Most games have absolutely terrible stories. Even if it winds up being a flop, atleast someone will be bold enough to try actually writing something.

Also: RMXP zipped is about 30mb, I don't think this will be much of a problem.

This project will fail just like all the other "/jp/ projects". Stop wasting your time, fags.

>>3254246
Its either this, or fap.

And my dick is hurting

>>3254246
Well, I'd say its worth a try. I mean, a person only really has to put in ~30 minutes of work to get something done and they don't really need any talent.

If this does fail though, I'll give up on /jp/ anything forever.

I know /jp/ usally has too much damn time on their hands but a rpg? Please, /jp/ couldn't finish one let alone know how to write a decent story that isn't smothered in cliches

>>3254281
Someone needs to do the art and coding though, and that's the biggest problem.

>>3254281
Do you happen to be a tripfag that forgot to put on their trip and is posting as anonymous?

>>3254301
Nope, I've never had a trip.

Yes, and I scripted some really neat events and minigames too (chinchirorin for example). But ultimately I got too caught up with harvesting sprites and other resources from the various rpgm sites and forgot about it. It's really fun shit.

If this project actually happens, I'll be glad to help out in my spare time. I do have some experience in game design, programming, and event/storyline writing and scripting.

Well, I'm going to bed /jp/. I'll make a post about this tomorrow to get an idea of who is interested, and then go from there.

Oh boy, a Japanese bird RPG. I can hardly wait.

>>3254660
I see your reading comprehension is on par.

>>3254660
Shit, those days, I can't even tell Suigintou from Byakuren on the thumbnails...

>>3254692
Hair color is key.

>>3254663

All I do is joke around Jonesy. If it actually were a JBCS RPG this thread wouldn't have died!

>>3254692

It's Maya from WA3 transformed into Suigintou! That's exactly the kind of stuff this /jp/ RPG needs: lots of goth lolis. The more, the better. Maybe some vampire ones as well.

>>3254660
Suigintou as a ranged-weapon user? Surely she's got to be the most inaccurate doll; so many of her feathers never hit their target.

>>3254869

Was Maya the girl who was Virginia's rival or something? Didn't she have a gatling gun?

i have no life and am good at programing, i think this could really soar if we just try instead of being negative, for now we need an official forum.

I used to play RPG Maker 2 all the time. I always planned a huge RPG, then only got halfway finished until I decided to start all over. I have about four or five incomplete RPGs under my belt.

Over 15,000 hours in RPG maker.

i did a RPG with my bro and some cousin before, we did Ben Laden as a boss, there where no goal, only stupid things everywhere, prostitute who give you aids while having sex, T&P from south park making a hugh dump in a toilet and you can contribute and can walk on their shit and you can buy paper for your ass after or condom before having sex, it was totally a shitty game

>>3249189
ROKKU MUST BE STOPPED

>>3256648
Growing up feels good, doesn't it?

>>3254383
>If this project actually happens, I'll be glad to help out in my spare time. I do have some experience in game design, programming, and event/storyline writing and scripting.

Do you know what a Grammarian is?

Bleh, as usual.
Was fun playing around with Rmk, but baddest community (french) ever, so i gave up.

>>3256718
yeah so much

>>3256759
>yeah so much

Do you not want to be an unaging little girl, tripfag? Shame on you.

>>3256778
it was a possibility like the thread said, it wasn't so serious

spent too much time writing scripts but never actually made a game.

Rather than trying to make your own game with RPG Maker, why doesn't someone translate this superior game.
>>3249100

fuck
Rpgmaker XP doesnt want to work on my vista
just "stopped working" message

>>3257170
That's why it's called XP.

>>3257170

Have you installed it into your User directory rather than Program Files?

Also, under Properties, have you tried Compatability Moder under Windows XP.

>>3257292
User directory?
I got UAC turned off

Hmmmm, /jp/ made games.

Did that VN about Anon ever get finished? I still remember the demo.

>>3257303

C:\Users\"your username"\"whatever folder"

UAC might not matter, in anycase "Run as administrator".

I would play a Touhou RPG game. As long as it has good characters.

>>3257580
Even Defiant of Shrine Maiden? It's a Touhou RPG, though it's hard as fuck. Good music, if you live long enough to hear it.

>>3257580

Touhou Mother?

I never really made one, but a long time ago before Touhou took over Comiket, I remember playing a Kanon RPG that was made with it.

It had really hilarious enemies like water molecules, the bosses were ridiculously hard (screw you Mishio) and the music was awesome.

So when will /jp/ start it's own rm2k3 project?