#devhelps

[rainofdauwuand0w0]

by the amazing powers, I have found this when I have needed it, yessssss

RPG Maker 2003/2000 Masterpost

Since there’s been a spike in people asking me 2003 related questions lately and I know a lot of different tutorials out there, I made this beginner’s masterpost to help some newbies out.  This is the engine that OFF, Yume Nikki, Ib, & Pom Gets Wifi were made on, feel free to purchase it on Steam or the official RPG Maker website for 20$ (or for like 4-5$ on a steam or humble bundle sale).

NOTE: Most of these tutorials and all of these resources should work on RPG Maker 2000 as well.

The basics of game design

 a nice collection of articles here on RPGMaker.net.

how the hell do i get this program to work

Ebeth’s RPG Maker 2003 Guide for Complete Newbies (Reblogable Version)

an introduction guide to the old translation of RPG Maker 2003

understanding how events work

switches as explained by bleet

understanding switches and variables

how to use switches

understanding conditional branches

changing the “Start, Load, Quit” options on the menu screen

making a treasure chest

making a door

how to make a locked & unlocked door

how to give your characters footstep sounds

copy and pasting events at the speed of light

create an easy password puzzle

implement a game of rock, paper, scissors

making a boulder puzzle

how to appear smaller on the world map

making a repeating/endless hallway or road

how to create diagonal stairs (and moving backgrounds on maps!)

make your game work WITHOUT RTP

make a sidescrolling map

visualizing your map

my parallax map isn’t showing up

Making a seamless map transition

understanding pointers

activating events by proximity

implementing weather

double tap to dash!

hold shift to speed up

How to change the font (and a followup!)

create a condition to know that the game has been loaded (for new game + and other stuff)

have NPCs follow behind you, aka a caterpillar system (this): tutorial one | two | three | four | five

making an action battle system (like the 2D legend of zelda games)

custom menu tutorials: one | two | three

how to make images fade in and out of your custom menu

one way of debugging your game

more tutorials here

Fangame Specific Stuff

The Pokemon Resource Kit - a nice big collection of graphics and such to use for a generation 3 (firered/leafgreen & ruby/sapphire/emerald) type game!

How to Start your own Yume Nikki Fangame

How to create effects in Yume Nikki: Tutorial 1 

How to create endless hallways for Yume Nikki Fangames

How to make a “wake up” key for Yume Nikki Fangames

My tag for Yume Nikki Fangame Help

YumeResource was a blog created specifically for Yume Nikki Fangames

huge list of OFF spinoff/fangame resources

Creating battle sprites in the Mortis Ghost/OFF style

Check The Spriter’s Resource for any sprites you need to use from any game

sample games that were made for you to open up in the editor and see how events and such are done

A Sample Game for the Old RPG Maker 2003 (don’t worry, you can import games made in the old engine into the new 2003)

Mystic Sunrise, a sample game for the new RPG Maker 2003

graphics

Basic tips & links to some pixel art tutorials

my graphic resource masterpost

A base sprite you can use in 2003

how do I get a talksprite/portrait/full body sprite to work (these)? one | two | three 

how do i make a message box with more details on it?

how do I get the correct coordinates for a picture i’m importing in?

how do these chipsets/tilesets even work?

can i change the sizes of characters or tiles?  short answer: no 

Do you have any templates?  Heck yeah I do.  Check this site out too!

how to fix the invalid color depth error

how do I fix this weird color around my character?? The proper way to import graphics & a reblogable post about importing graphics.

Menu error you might get in the New 2003 and how to fix it

Panorama/Parallax mapping for 2003, aka making your maps in another art program then importing them in as a backdrop

why not try and hand draw your own maps 

how do i water tile??? 

map making: a set of guidelines

elevation made easy

make custom lighting for your game

If I want to create a room full of eyes that follow the player, how would I do it?

music

my stupidly big music masterpost

My First Game Jam’s Resource list

footprint sounds

You can search for stuff on soundcloud that’s free to use - click on tracks -> filter -> then click on “to listen to” and change it to “to use commercially.”  There’s a lot of free video game music and other types of music on there, so check it out.

nightmargin’s music maker suggestion

list of free and open source music programs

famitracker - for your NES chiptune style music

Pulseboy - an online chiptune maker

as3sfxr - an online sound effects maker (coins, jumps, explosions, level ups, etc)

online .wav converter to convert music files into the .wav format

online .mp3 converter to convert music files into the .mp3 format

Other

Sharing your game once it’s done.  Make sure to check everything!

So, you want to translate an RPG Maker 2000/2003 game?

Common Problems when trying to open up games and how to fix them

Yumeresouce can answer ALL your questions about 2003 and more, no matter what game you’re making

I’m most familiar with 2003 since that’s my engine of choice, so until I start doing more research on the other RPG Makers, I can only do 2000/2003 for now.  If you want to do your own masterpost on any of the others though, I encourage it! :)

Feel free to add on anything you think is helpful. :)

[moth-yknowtheartist]

okay here you guys go here is the result of me putting my highest highest interests into a mixing pot for my own self indulgence and serving it as a meal to you. this is kinda just to get the concept out there but if you guys like it let me know I might make more content for it!! (if I did do anything with it I'd probably do ask blog format storytelling because y2kvr is one of my greatest inspirations and it informs a lot of my ideas for this au)

presenting:

myProfessor: Your new desktop pal!

myProfessor is ready to become your new virtual assistant, tutor, and friend!

-Use his essay-assistance features for help with spelling, punctuation, grammar, and avoiding plagiarism!

-Learn something new every day with his fun fact feature!

-Ask him to tell you a joke!

-Sit back and relax as he manages your emails and downloads and helps you navigate the web!

All of this FREE to download NOW!

At the expense of a few potentially unwanted programs, a bit of malware, and no peace ever again.

Premise: Ryan Bergara downloads myProfessor, a helpful virtual assistant... ish. This program is unfortunately a dropper for several PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) and malicious programs ranging from annoying to downright sinister. Also the programs are a little bit sentient like a little bit don't worry about it.

Attempts to get an antivirus and rid himself of these programs is... Unsuccessful. Hey who knew downloading supposed free antivirus programs from untrustworthy sources is how you get trojan horses and such on your computer hahaha ha.

Our major players:

myProfessor (aliases: Professor): Virtual Assistant, Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), Trojan (Persistent Dropper)

(inspirations: Clippit, BonziBuddy)

myProfessor, while not actively malicious software, acts as both a dropper for other malware and is generally annoying on a user experience level. His daily "fun facts" are closer to lectures, detailing sometimes horrific historical events in excessive detail; he routinely blocks important parts of the screen at a rate that comes off as intentional; and while he CAN be helpful, he and the programs that come with him are a nightmare to remove, with files scattered across the system and self-healing capabilities.

DevSec AntiVirus (aliases: Devkit, Devware): Trojan (Persistent Dropper), Rootkit (Kernel-mode)

(inspirations: BakaSoftware, ZeroAccess)

Advertised as a free antivirus/antimalware, DevSec is unfortunately exactly what it claims to protect against. Upon installation and launch, DevSec buries and cloaks itself in the Windows kernel and infects the computer with other malicious software (particularly serving as a host/dropper for the Genie and Asmodeus viruses).

Asmodeus (aliases: DevHelper): Virus

As part of DevSec's payload, the Asmodeus virus is introduced to the system. It immediately begins infecting files on the computer, specifically targeting self-healing files associated with the myProfessor program (ie parts of the program or its associated programs meant to detect if parts of myProfessor is removed and reinstate them). Once it infects all known self-healing files, it triggers logic in the Genie virus for it to begin its payload.

Genie (aliases: ProfeSeek): Virus

(inspirations: Reaper)

As part of DevSec's payload, the Genie virus is introduced to the system, working seemingly in tandem with the Asmodeus virus. The Genie virus, as it infects files, will remove any files it recognizes as part of the myProfessor program or associated with it (ie, the malware it acts as a dropper for). Because of the earlier work of the Asmodeus virus, Genie is able to fully remove myProfessor and all associated programs, which seems to be its primary payload.

Also to be added in the au once I have the time to put more thought into them/we get the rest of puppet history season 5: All the puppet musical guests (ALL of them... pray for me), NotProfessor

The stuff above may also be subject to change depending on how the rest of s5 plays out and if I learn more computer stuff that happens to inspires changes! All content will be tagged with #puppetware including this post!

Feel free to ask any questions (either on this or shoot me an ask, inbox is open) and lmk if you like it!! If not don't feel bad I am content enough sharing this as an act of pure self indulgence this stuff makes me happy :]]

[steinfeldofrph]

This is my little love message to the rpc. With so many anon hate messages, I feel we need to spread a little bit more love. Remember that no matter what mistakes you may have made in your past, I think you’re important and deserve some happiness, even if it’s a message as small as this. If you get this message, I encourage you to send this to rph/rpt blogs and even rps, themselves. Spread a little love.

this is actually something that we all need even if you don’t get this message so thank you for taking the time to send this!

[confessions-ofaroleplayadmin]

❝✨💛 This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and outside 💛✨❞

I have no idea why i am just seeing this now, but thank you so much darling, it means a lot! And of course you are getting it sent right back at you!!

[britshits]

omfg your last post killed me

rip in pepe, friend ! ( also stream A Present for Everyone on spotify xox )

[lilyresources]

This is my little love message to the rpc. With so many anon hate messages, I feel we need to spread a little bit more love. Remember that no matter what mistakes you may have made in your past, I think you’re important and deserve some happiness, even if it’s a message as small as this. If you get this message, I encourage you to send this to rph/rpt blogs and even rps, themselves. Spread a little love.

This is so cute && agree that we all deserve love and happiness. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love and who we love and who loves us back! To anyone and everyone!, if you’re struggling or feeling down, just know someone cares. I care. If you need to talk, come to me. If you need some space from things, find it. You deserve to see the light at the end of this dark tunnel!!

[positivityrpt]

This is my little love message to the rpc. With so many anon hate messages, I feel we need to spread a little bit more love. Remember that no matter what mistakes you may have made in your past, I think you’re important and deserve some happiness, even if it’s a message as small as this. If you get this message, I encourage you to send this to rph/rpt blogs and even rps, themselves. Spread a little love.

this is sO cute && hnstly we’ve been #blessed ? ? rpc should take a page outta this angel’s book && send a ‘lil nice message to those whom need it ! !  remember , we all have some issues of our own && some come here to escape them ! ! SPREAD POSITIVITY NOT HATE ! !

[vortex-parallax]

How to Fight Procrastination in Gamedev: Advice from an Expert Procrastinator

Last winter I wrote a post about motivation on my Russian dev blog. I decided to translate it now, since I think it was pretty good. Also, it's about time I make some devhelp content for this blog, rather than just reblogging from other people.

I have a lot of trouble with procrastination and unmotivation when it comes to gam mak, as someone with ADHD and a busy university schedule as well. These are things I personally do to try and fight it. 

✍️ Advice from a superhuman gamedev friend: try to identify the problem and act accordingly. Don't know what to do with Location X? Brainstorm it, sketch out some ideas, make concept art. No time/energy/motivation to make graphics right now? You can go write out dialogues or event something. Don't like Location Y, or maybe it seems redundant? Go ahead and delete it without mercy. :D

✍️ Make a list of everything you need to do. The more detailed, the better - at least for me. Subheadings help. You won't jump on top of a mountain in one push, but little steps will slowly bring you to the top c: Here’s a piece of my demo checklist. Crossing things out has never felt so good.

✍️ Another thing that is useful to do is to write out your progress. It may be hard to estimate, but useful to track how you're doing! I can't seem to do an overall estimate for my game, so I just wrote it out by level like this. (Also 2/5 is 40%, I know. I’m bad at maths, okay?)

✍️ Get inspired! Play some other games; watch, read or listen to something new. Some people prefer to take everything from their own head (which isn't even quite true), but I am more inclined to absorbing as much information as possible. I live off inspiration from all kinds of things. 

✍️ Share your work! Getting feedback from players is incredibly motivating. All those likes, comments, impressions, fanart even... It makes me really happy and makes me want to keep going, because it's not just for me anymore, someone actually enjoys it! (So for fans: don't be afraid to give feedback to authors, feed us~)  ✍️ Oversharing isn't good, however. It's a psychological thing - if you talk about your plans too much, your brain may feel like they have already been fulfilled and you don't need to do much else. So I am careful about what I share. That's why I don't post too much about my game's plot besides the demo.

✍️ Take a break! Seriously, just put it aside for a day. Don't think about your project, do anything you want. It might clear your mind and bring the inspiration back.

✍️ Watch a cute anime about Overcoming Hardships and Achieving Goals, or just listen to some music from it... Yes, this is the final point of my post because it really does help me. My favourites for this are Love Live! and Little Witch Academia. You might have something else that motivates you. (Please do share, or give recs for similar cute things as well :>)

And this concludes my advice. Feel free to add to this post if there's anything that helps you!

[wastelandbvby]

pass the happy! 🌻🌈 when you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications!

ohh this is cute

my dog

the el gee bee tee community skjdhskj ( when it’s not being gross )

love babey

music! 

having a good conversation

[simulacrahelps]

🖕 + celeb

*Lucy Hale

I don’t like the fact that there is no different ships with a Lucy fc. I only see Lucy x Ian Harding ships and tbh i’m growing tired of it. even on the Ian side. wish people would ship those fc’s with other fc’s aswell. Instead of only what happend on a show.

Send me ���🖕’ or ‘🖕 + celeb’ for an unpopular opinion.        

[pinkuboa]

The Yume Nikki Fangame Inspiration Folder 2 is here! 

(+ the 2015 original version!)

Apparently the original Yume Nikki Screenshot folder was more useful than I thought.  So, I ended up making another one & reuploading the first one for some help to all those out there looking to make a fangame (or just like looking at other people’s pixel art).

What this is is just a giant folder with a bunch of little folders filled with screenshots of various fangames, sorted by world type.  Most of these aren’t the entire fangame as that’s a bit hard to capture, but instead a taste of a few different worlds.  There’s also some gifs from @yumegifi in addition to stillshots of games!  The quality varies from fangame to fangame, but even the fangames that aren’t the best are good to know about so you don’t make the same mapping mistakes as they did.   Fangames in this pack include:

Minus 1/Minus Ichi/-1

.flow

Akuma

Corallo

Debris

Dream Syndrome

Farewell

Gem Planet

Gnosis

June Exhibit

Lcd Dem

The Looking Glass

Lull Away

Me

Mong Jung Mon/Dream in Dream

Mortalis

Our Crazy Dream

NostAlgic

Outotsu Yume

Tsukumono Yume

Ultra Violet

Umbra

UnRequited

Uotamusosu

Withers

Veins

Yume Doodle

Yuque (v.02)

All of these games are at their most recent version as of 1/30/19, except Yuque as I took screenshots of it before 0.03 was released.  Feel free to reupload the screenshots to the wiki or use them on your blog or what have you as well c:

[nyssavexhelps]

❝✨💛 This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and outside 💛✨❞ (sending one back to you cause you deserve it

awwww, thank you, lovebug!! ^.^ xx!!

[forgetme]

❝✨💛 This is the Amazing Person Award! Once you are given this award you are supposed to paste it in the ask of eight different people, who, in your opinion, deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're amazing inside and outside 💛✨❞

ya’ll are so freaking sweet, thank you! 

[pinkuboa]

Bless u

Dream Origins: Stuff You Can Use for the Dream Diary Jam

Don’t forget: I’ve released some FOG assets that are free to use, edit, and remix for the Dream Diary Jam.

Dream Origins (graphics): Various basic sprites and tilesets from FOG. Licensed under both Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License and the MIT License. Learn more.

Dream Origins 2 (music): New ambient/music tracks which were used in the latest version of FOG. Licensed under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License. Download link.

For Dream Origins 1, give credit to me: “Naylan” or “Anais Pomeroy”

For Dream Origins 2, give credit to Naylan/Anais Pomeroy AND Finn Jacobs (who provided the samples I used to make the music).

[confessions-ofaroleplayadmin]

Hey, hun! Just dropping by to say that you are the blog that every admin and roleplayer needs to see. I'm making it a personal goal of mine to make sure you receive the attention you deserve! Keep on spilling that T!

You are an absolute darling, thank you so much for this message! It truly has made my day coming online to see this in my inbox!!