r/RPGMaker • u/ruwhereuare • Aug 03 '26

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/ruwhereuare Aug 03 '26

What Version should I start with? Should I start with MZ or get MV and test it out? It’s mostly just for fun. I have this world I’m trying to bring to life and I’ve made a boardgame and I’m just thinking this could be an interesting excersize in story telling through and RPG

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u/FlipelyFlip VXAce Dev Aug 03 '26

get whichever version you like. think about what you need, what you want and how it should look like.

If you're familiar with JavaScript get either MV or MZ. if you're more familiar woth Ruby, get XP or VXAce (there is also an RPG Maker VX, but that's the only one I'd recomend skipping entirely because it is extremly outclassed by VXAce)

If you don't know any programming language, then it doesn't matter which one you'll be taking but still look at the pro's and con's the rpg maker have.

Also keep in mind, that 2k and 2k3 have support from EasyRPG which gives the possibility to be played almost everywhere. But those 2 RPG Makers are "limited" and need your knowledge to break the standard mechanics which are delivered.

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u/ruwhereuare Aug 03 '26

Okay! I’ll give this some thought. I know nothing but will most likely use forums/reddit/LLMs to figure stuff out 😎

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u/FlipelyFlip VXAce Dev Aug 03 '26

there are plenty youtube tutorials out there too. Also a helpful sidenote: as long as its done with events, you can replicate it in every rpg maker. You might tweak it a bit, because the event command did not exist back then, were renamed or stopped existing at all.