I’ve wrapped the entire interaction into a Conditional. We want our trainers to greet the player and offer to train them. Once you’re done, let’s look at my Event script here. Go on and take 2 minutes to create your first trainer. If you make any changes, test your game before moving on. But make sure that things like walls and trees are impassable so that the player has to walk around them.

The squiggly = sign means Bush is activated.Įach tileset is already set up by default so you shouldn’t have to edit many. When our character walks onto grassy tiles, we want their feet to become hidden as if the grass is covering them. You can check all that out another time while we skip to the parts that are important for this tutorial. Hovering your mouse above each of these buttons shows a tooltip that explains how they work. But we can do more than that with the tile physics. See those X’s and O’s on the tiles? These determine tile collision. The Passage button is selected by default and it allows you to pick which tiles are passable and which aren’t. In this map, characters will collide with trees, tents, bushes and other characters. Is your character walking through brick walls? Straight over trees? One minor thing we haven’t covered yet is collision, how to make map elements into walls that the player can’t walk through. If it all comes out fine, then let's move on. Those aren’t covered here, but those are all things that RPGM is capable of doing! Don't be afraid to toy around with the settings at this point and just see how it works out. Pictures can be made even more dramatic with zooming, panning and even animations. Notice that once I’ve told a bit of story, I fade the screen again to add a new image. You can put as much or as little here as you want. Next I begin telling the story of the game by adding a Text event. What the player sees is the Title Screen fading to black and then a new picture fading into view. Once that screen is faded I add the first picture I want the player to see next. To transition from that to our intro, I used Fadeout Screen to give it some drama. When the game is turned on the player sees the Title Screen, which has it’s own images and music.

I’ll walk you through what I’ve done here. We’re going to use Events to weave our pictures from the resource manager with a short introduction story. Open up the Events editor when you're done. That way we know which map it is by glancing at the maps list. Leave the defaults in place, but name it Intro. Save that and close the Resource Manager.Import at least 2 pictures that are related to your game.We want to then give the player a quick back story. When the player starts the game, we want the title screen to fade out and another image to fade in. Instead of just a plain ole introduction, let's use some advanced features to spice it up a tad. Leave the database data at the defaults for now. Open up RPG Maker and create a new game! Name it what you want. It's kinda hard to know what I miss so keep me honest. The guides I have are always made better by your feedback. As always, use the comments section if anything here isn't clear. I assume you know how to make switches and conditionals, but that maybe you want to know how to be creative with them. You could use some ideas or inspiration to bring your game to life. You just need to know how to manipulate RPGM to make your game.ģ. You already have your own idea of what kind of game you want to make.Ģ. You won't find nearly as many lists of steps to follow as the previous guide, but more explanations for how to make small changes that lead to big improvements. I'll assume you've followed my previous guide or that you have some working knowledge of how to use RPG Maker. It's the little things that count much more in game design. This guide is about how to design your game, and there will be a lot of map editing and doing tiny things that we overlook when putting bigger things into our games. This isn't a quick guide that will give you a few steps and send you on your way.

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