So you want to make a battle where the boss shapeshifts into his true form halfway through? Or the villain loses a piece of their gloriously ostentatious armor in the middle of the fight? We can transform enemies right in the middle of the battle, and we don’t need a plugin. (Although there’s a glittering […]
When RPG Maker MV came out, with it came the possibility to make RPG Maker games that, well, had a window size bigger than a postage stamp. These days, for new games, you probably don’t need to resize RPG Maker windows by default. But what about older, pre-MV games? Even now, game makers are developing […]
Today I’ll show you a way to show a player character or event using custom poses. If you haven’t already done something like this, it’s great for showing characters who are… sleeping fighting hugging shocked casting a spell hair blowing in the wind dramatically any other pose that will fit on your sprite sheet. Sadly, […]
Let’s say you’re in the middle of a cutscene and you need to change an event’s behavior. Maybe you want to make a bad guy suddenly turn and chase the player instead of standing still. Maybe you want to make a door lead to a new location after something happens. Or, maybe you want to […]
Timers in RPG Maker are weird. There’s nothing right on the can that explains how to make them work. So, I’m writing this up to hopefully help people get a better understanding of them and implement them successfully in their own games. NOTE: The method is exactly the same in both Ace and MV. This […]
