RPG Maker MV

This is somehow one of the best and worst game engines. The good: - Everything is templated out for you. There are default maps, characters, events, etc that you can use to help you learn. - You don't need to learn how to code at all - the built-in functions can be used to easily make a basic game. - If you do code manually, it uses Javascript, a well-understood language that's been around for ages. - Tons of resources online to do almost anything you want. The bad: - If you do want to be a smarty-pants and manually code, the box where you enter your code is like 320x240 and can't be expanded, and is limited to 12 lines. It is basically a text box with no IDE functions. That is horrible. - In fact, none of the editor's windows can be resized, and they were designed around 720p screens. If you have a higher resolution than that, everything will be tiny and there's nothing you can do about it. - Almost all documentation of script calls for functions is in Japanese. - Want to write a method or an object? Too bad - on top of having no space to do it, these are stripped and discarded when the game is saved/loaded. This is one of the worst decisions I've seen from a game engine, ever. MZ has the same problem as far as I can tell. - There are no protections for your game. If someone wants to steal your code, assets, etc, it will take less than 5 minutes. You can """"encrypt"""" your image/audio files when deploying, but there are tools online to decrypt them easily. TL;DR - if you're a normal user that knows nothing about code and doesn't want to do anything interesting, this is the way to go. If you want to level up your game, grow up and use Godot, Unity, Unreal, anything else. It's gonna be hard, but it'll take you much further.

插件生态最好的新手入门引擎，可是论实用性与MZ比还是差点意思。所以MZ啥时候像MV一样打折力度这么大😡 另外新手小白可千万别被网上诸如“10分钟入门快速做OC小游戏”忽悠的入坑了，这类视频是非常不负责任的宣传！🥀 任何引擎都具有上手门槛，创作前一定要三思,,,我真的想要做一款属于我自己的游戏吗？为此我愿意付出时间精力无论如何都要做出来吗？得到肯定后再把心态放平，没关系，放轻松，完全可视化的页面与用户友好操作逻辑其实学起来没那么困难的www✨ 最后祝愿每一个老师都开发出独属于自己的游戏🎉

作为一个专业游戏设计师,还是推荐想要做游戏设计师的新人从MV做起的.会对游戏是怎么做出来的有个基本的理解. 在这个基础上扩展美术和技术能力很快就能独当一面了. 不过希望厂商能够优化愚蠢的引擎内脚本存储方式,只能横着扩展,很难竖着扩展.(难道做一个收起很难吗?)

I absolutely cannot recommend RPG Maker if you are a serious game developer looking to create something unique in terms of GAMEPLAY, it's better to use any other game engine and never consider using RPG Maker, because it will limit you in every possible way. BUT, if you are an artist, or story writer, or musician like me, and you don't care much about gameplay, you can create a very simple game, like a walking simulator or the most simple JRPG. If your art is unique, no one will care about boring or simple gameplay. If you are a serious game developer: never use RPG Maker. If you are an artist who just wants to create a world or make your art interactive and doesn't want to break your brains over creating unique gameplay: RPG Maker is your best choice. RPG Maker isn't made for games, it's made for art. Think of Yume Nikki, Mogeko Castle, Black Souls, Demons Roots, Ib, Cradle of Nightmares, Fear & Hunger, Omori, Ao Oni, what are they best at? Art, atmosphere, world, music, characters, everything, but gameplay? It's on the second plan, just exist to make the art interactive. Don't repeat my mistakes! Use this engine to create interactive art, not games, because unique gameplay will be VERY limited by bugs and engine errors that simply can't be fixed without coding and headaches.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Playtesting only. ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☑ There's literally no audio (It's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game engine) ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Block Coding ☑ Don't have to write a single line ☐ Some coding experience needed ☐ Experienced programmers only ☐ It'll take you a long while to make anything playable ☐ Assembly Programming Language ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Keep working until it's "Finished" ---{ Story }--- ☑ Make your own story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ A few weeks, months, years depending on the scope of your game ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale (If you like making games) ☐ If u have some spare money left ☑ Not recommended (If you DON'T like making games) ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

このソフトで心理ホラーRPGのデモを2本作った経験から、少し感想を書きます。 正直、エンジン自体の機能は限られていますが、プラグインやスクリプトを組み合わせれば、自分のやりたい演出は作れます。 また、UIやイベント作成が直感的で、プログラミングができなくても、簡単なゲームをすぐ作れるのが便利です。 絵が描けなくても、プログラミングができなくても、ゲーム制作をやってみたい方にはおすすめです。 ただ、グラフィックにこだわるなら、公式素材だけではイメージ通りにならないこともあります。 ここからは、個人的な制作経験の話です。 初めてRPGを作ったときは、頭の中で思いついたことが本当に作れるかとか、イベントやマップ、シナリオのボリュームやゲームのテンポも、あんまり気にしていませんでした。 ビジュアルノベルを作った経験があったので、ストーリー中心でしか考えられず、プレイヤーが自由に探索できる要素はほとんど入れられませんでした。探索要素はほぼゼロで、テキストばかりのゲームになっちゃいました。 それでも、この制作を通して、自分のダメなところや課題がだいぶ見えてきました。 このソフトの操作がちょっとややこしかったり、覚えることが多かったら、 途中で投げ出して問題に気づけなかったと思います。 バグ直しや素材の調整、イベントのロジック作り、テストプレイの繰り返し、ストーリー作りとか、どれもつまんない作業で時間がかかりました。完成までの道のりは長くて、周りの反応も少しプレッシャーになりました。 それでも、人生で一番楽しかった時間は、間違いなくこの制作期間でした。 このソフトのおかげで、自分が本当に夢中になれるものを見つけられて、良かったなと思います。

The software is completely unusable on macOS. It crashes constantly (every couple minutes) just when I am clicking “OK” on a window or without any apparent reason. My game either won’t load, crashes after 20 seconds, or boots to a crash report screen. Most recently, my player character became unresponsive and won’t move (this isn’t due to my code or events). I know now that Kadokawa and Degica dropped Mac support in 2021, shortly after MZ launched. There were no warnings before buying and downloading MV that I saw. These issues are known and reproducible, especially the crash-on-start and movement/input failures. I would not have purchased this if I’d known that it no longer runs reliably on Mac.