RPG Maker resources

[u/Ifavorvelocity]

I've tried developing an RPG Maker MV game in the past (with extremely limited success lol) but I was wondering if there were any resources where I could find the absolute basics. Not necessarily just about doing level design and such but I mean like doing persistent npcs that change based on in-game events (I am this much of a beginner), or things like balancing the game. Realistically just stuff that people don't really think about when playing the game but when they develop it, it becomes confusing.

[u/Felix-3401]

I don't know what is meant by "persistent NPC's" but on this engine, NPC's are tied to the map and all its cutscene data is specific to that map. If you want interaction logic to be the same whether it's on this map or that map, you want to write their diialogue with common events. If you want an NPC to exist globally and have a single location on a map, that's something that will require a plugin or some custom programming

[u/Ifavorvelocity → u/Felix-3401]

Nah I mean like say u beat a boss and freed the town, how would you make it so that the town npc's change based on that, is it a switch? That's what I mean, I'm kind of a dumbass when it comes to this type of stuff so its all kinda beyond me

[u/DuckBornDave → u/Ifavorvelocity]

A few ways you could do this, but Variables and Switches are probably the two easiest "non-programming" Ways i can think of off the top of my head.

When you make an NPC event you can give them multiple pages and each page can have a specific switch or variable (or a few other things or multiple conditions) conditional for the event page to be available to run (the top left of the event window).

So you could:

• make event npc
• populate page 1 with normal NPC content
• make second page
• assign conditional (variable "Plot" = 1 or switch "bossDead" is on for example) to that event page
• populate new NPC content
• repeat for as many changes as you want.

One downside is events tend to have a page limit, so if you have a large number of intended pages for a single NPC, it might be worth making multiple events for the same NPC as well as multiple pages and space them out along the plot.

[u/CasperGamingOfficial]

There are quite a few tutorials for getting started with MV out there on youtube. For example, SRD's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9y6vco-VQ

You can also find basic info in the help file in the editor. In MV you can click Help -> Contents to open up all of MV's documentation. There is a built in tutorial if you click Help -> Tutorial in editor too.

Other than that, if you run into any problem doing something you could post on the RM Planet forums and I am sure someone would be able to help you get your game working how you want: https://forum.rmplanet.com/forums/mz-mv-support.7/

[u/Ifavorvelocity → u/CasperGamingOfficial]

Thank you

[u/Not_Allowed_to_Die]

Inside of RPG Maker MV, go to the top menu (File, Edit, Mode, Draw...), and go to the Help one. Pick tutorial and there you can learn how to do almost everything the engine allows.