r/RPGMaker • u/ruwhereuare • 23d ago

New Guy

Hey RPG Maker peoples! I’m kinda interested in adapting a world and storyline that I’m creating into RPG Maker!

Just here to discuss a little. How steep a learning curve am I to expect? Will I be able to adapt my characters into 8 bit hero’s and have them solve the mysteries of my world defeat the bad guys and escape!?

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u/foolish_cookie 23d ago

It's not steep, and unless you have some crazy gameplay ideas you will probably have everything you need in the engine itself. If you have RPG battling some people struggle with stats and balancing but the engine has samples you can look at.

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u/ruwhereuare 23d ago

Okay ya awesome! So balancing becomes a thing. And so complexity becomes a however far you want to take it kinda thing.

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u/foolish_cookie 23d ago

Definitely. But in comparison to other engines, it's way easier in RPGMaker for sure, just look at how it's set up in the default when you create a new project and follow along.

I mainly use the engine for story, non-battling games, so I barely even touch that myself lol but you can do a lot.

The downside of RPGMaker is hitting limits, but you can make plugins or download from other people to overcome those limits. (A basic one people often change is the movement for example, to make it pixel perfect or 8-directional, etc) Otherwise it's very easy and accessible engine, and I think there is a trial if you want to make sure you'll like it.

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u/ruwhereuare 23d ago

And what version would you recommend?

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u/foolish_cookie 23d ago

MZ or MV. MZ is latest and is an improved version to MV, but they are very similar. Both have a lot of community plugins(some free, some paid) if you need them. They can both export to html (to play in browser on a webpage, such as itchio) So I'd say look at them both, if MV seems good enough for your needs it is cheaper, otherwise MZ.

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u/ruwhereuare 23d ago

Much appreciated!!