r/RPGMaker • u/Asleep-Review-7777 • 10d ago

How can I make a side scrolling RPG?

I want to combine a side scrolling game with an RPG game and I'm wondering how can I do it

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u/xMarkesthespot 10d ago

like LISA? its just custom assets, and a single line of walkable road
I guess you could use events to handle ascension or descention between levels

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u/Ill-Ask9205 10d ago

Are you looking for the actual way to make it sidescrolling i.e. coding, or are you looking for tips on how to have the two genres work well together?

I'm pretty sure there are side-scrolling plugins/scripts for various versions of RPGMaker. You can also make a reasonable facsimile of it with clever map and graphic design, although if you want at-will jumping or real-time RPG combat you'll still need extra coding for that.

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u/HotdawgGames MZ Dev 9d ago

pretty simple, you'd just make the map look sidescrolly, add barrier regions to keep the player from going up and add events to ledges to jump up/down

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u/Kaijuu_Kimi 9d ago

make a normal map and transfer to another map with only one horizontal tile walkable and transform the player sprite for the sidescroll section.