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    srinny's gamedev diary #1 fr this timeposted 3 months ago by family_staralternate_emaildeathof_rinny

    This post was originally posted on the RPG Maker forums

    Hi RPGmaker forums :33 I'm sano and I've been working a game for the last few weeks. It's still pretty rough around the edges and i only finished like... 45% of the intro so far.

    Just writing this so me or someone else can refer to this in the future.

    I'm using Firealpaca for art and RPG Maker MV for the actual game.

    There's not much to talk about right now, honestly. I'll just yap about character designs for now.

    I'm only going to be talking about the technical parts of this (asset making, events, etc.) and nothing story-related since I don't wanna spoil anything. Feel free to ask me about some stuff about the story, though.

    Things I need to do:

    Complete Intro Cutscenes
Start working on enemy assets and attack animations
Think of new weapon ideas

    Right now, I just finished the first part of the intro, a bit of dialogue with me learning how to use animated sprites.

    Most of my time working on the intro was just tinkering around and animating sprites. I spent a lot of time on Officer White since he's the protagonist, and we're going to see him the most.

    For White's design, I was going for a softer look. I mostly showed this through how rounded the ends of his hair are and how his eyes tend to droop down most of the time. I wanted his appearance to reflect his weak-willed personality.

    I think the first concept art I made of him reflects that. Honestly, I was going for Leon Kennedy but way more pathetic.

    This is a pretty big contrast compared to another character, Chief Magenta, White's boss.

    I wanted her to be this sorta no-nonsense straight-to-the-point character compared to White. I made her design include a lot more sharp edges and made her posture stiffer to show that.

    She's in her mid-30s to 40s, but the stress that comes with her job has aged her a little bit. Despite that, I made sure to make her uniform perfect to show how professional she is.

    Anyhoo I think that's all I wanna share in this post lol. I hope I actually make progress soon so I get to share what's happening behind the scenes. Next time, I might dive into backgrounds and how to use Orange Overlay.

    gamedev
    srinny's game dev diary #1posted 3 months ago by family_staralternate_emaildeathof_rinny

    HEY !!! js letting yall know that im moving my game dev diaries from space.hey to here for archival reasons or smthn... also the usb i use to store the game save got corrupted while i was making the 2nd entry so it'll take a while for the 2nd entry to come out since im learnign how to use orange overlay

    Just writing this so me or someone else can refer to this in the future.

    I'm using Firealpaca for art and RPG Maker MV for the actual game.

    I'm only going to be talking about the technical parts of this (asset making, events, etc.) and nothing story-related since I don't wanna spoil anything. Feel free to ask me about some stuff about the story, though.


    Things I need to do:
    • Complete Intro Cutscenes
    • Start working on enemy assets and attack animations
    • Think of new weapon ideas
    • Ask Neofish or Moon if they can make some music for the game (Once the whole game is finished)

    Complete Intro Cutscenes

    I think I'm about 65% done with the intro, right now I'm working on an outside area that's part of the cutscene.
    A screenshot of a drawing program with rough sketch of a small outside area with a police car.
    The whole thing needs a small facelift, but it's better than drawing tilesets.

    In RPG Maker, you normally have to use tilesets to make maps. When I tried making tilesets for my first game, I realized it took me a while and I wasn't really happy with the results.
    A screenshot showing the many options for tiles in RPG Maker.

    However, I can use my own images as a background using plugins

    I used the TDDP Bind Pictures To Map plugin to do things like this:
    A screenshot of an RPG Maker game but with a custom background that doesn't use any tile sets
    Pretty neat, huh?

    I'd love to explain this in detail, but that would take a while. I'll just focus on making the intro in this blog. Maybe I'll make a detailed RPG Maker guide in the future.

    Oh yeah, I was drawing backgrounds.


    Right now I'm drawing the car the protagonist is going to get into. But I don't really know how to draw police cars, so I just used this model I found on SketchFab as a reference.

    Quick tip:

    Make sure to draw backgrounds with your player sprite as a scale reference. This is so that you don't accidentally make things too big or too small. Take these two pictures as an example, the first one is from this project, while the second image is from a previous project. Notice how big the player's sprite is compared to a 4-storey tall building in the second photo. I had to scale the spritesheet down by 2, losing some detail and making the sprite look messy.



    Now that we're done with the car, It's time for the rest of the background.


    No fancy tricks here, just using thicker outlines for areas that are closer to the camera like in the circled parts.

    Yeahhh I think that's all I'll talk abt today feel free to ask questions idk


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