Gamemaker, Game-Maker, make me a game... win RPG Maker VX Ace! *COMPLETED*

something like "beyond oasis",in which the mass of puzzles, and very scary for the game

Soon we will get to see if one of us can and will make an interesting game for us to enjoy. I look forward to it.

This is what I have so far. I didn't want to add too much detail to the plot or to some of the gameplay mechanics since I'm not very familiar with RPG Maker VX yet but basically, the point is to emphasize choice and alternate paths to success.

Premise: Where your actions matter in every way and your decisions will dramatically impact both how the story plays out and the development of each character along the way.

Initial thread: You are a knight, a champion for the people, but you are disillusioned by the suffering of the populace and the corruption of the system. While the realm is peaceful, it is only through the use of force that order is maintained and the wealth keeps flowing to the top.

It is widely known that those who help keep the law, your fellow knights, are also on the take. While you and your partner have never stooped to taking payments for "protection" or bribes to let certain people free, you've also done nothing to prevent such actions, since it's never been your responsibility. While that has made some of your fellow knights nervous at working alongside an honest team, the status quo doesn't really change and the system goes on, regardless of its faults.

However, one day, your partner has been found dead and his home ransacked. There are only a few clues of what happened and you swear to yourself that you will make whoever is responsible pay, regardless of what you might need to do. Your direct superior has assigned you a partner but it's not someone you know well.

How you conduct your investigation and your growth as a character in the process will determine how the story unfolds.

I have RPG maker and do it easy

My proposal titled: The Means

The game would explore the idea of if the means justify the ends. Throughout the game, your goal is to save the physical embodiment of something you love and believe makes the world a better place (I want this to be an ideal the player holds and so ideally it will be nameable by the player in the vein of the Mother games)

To save the thing you love, you must do some despicable things, you might fight innocents and destroy things that the player recognizes as good, all in the name of the ultimate good which remains the end goal of the game.

Gameplay wise, I want to integrate the theme with the combat. In combat, the players attacks on good things cost bits of their conscious/soul (which is linked to health). As you play, you are forced into a more aggressive play-style due to the fact you have less and less health. Party members you start with will leave you as you sacrifice more and more of your ideals and store owners will refuse to serve you because you are a monster.

At the end, if you were strategic with the amount of your conscious you are left with you can still save your embodiment of goodness, but are forced to ask, at what cost? If you loose too much of yourself, your embodiment of goodness might even refuse you, seeing interaction with you as worse than their current fate.

After your first play through, you might decide to ignore the embodiment of goodness, knowing that rescuing it would cost too much. Instead you can wander the world and watch it slowly descend into sub-humanity as the world can't be good with your embodiment of goodness unable to affect the world.

A game where you're part of a family of shadow hunters(?)and explore the Shadow Realm, trying to defeat the evil shadows that are trying to overrun earth. The shadows are (mostly) polar opposites of the real person, and you try to kill each of them to save earth. There'd be bosses which are the shadows of your family, and as you continue through this twisted dimension, you learn about the dark past of the shadows, and your family iself.
(adding some stuff) As for gameplay mechanics, You'd have followers who could do special moves in battles, the overworld and even change what happens in dialogues. You could control them to solve puzzles, and interact with people to learn about the world and such. You'd fight in a style sort of like Link to the Past, but it'd be in enclosed areas. I'll be sure to include plenty of easter eggs! The bosses would be your family's shadows'. You'd have to capture them at the end of each boss fight but, well, let's just the Hunters and their shadows are connected in a way.

One invite sent out via boatswain, there's a thing around here somewhere.

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Nice idea to drop a game-maker this way. I have some thoughts on RPGs I want to make, but I won't share them here, and I definitely won't use the game-maker you're offering. I'll make my own RPG with Unity next year (or at least start on it next year :D)

I used an old version of RPG Maker, I am not entirely sure I would need it, no time :S

I have no ideas but I have bump.

bum

thx

bumping, im to low for making but i can be tester :D

Does this need another bump? Yes.

bump the lump!

Has anyone tried messing around with the demo? I'm actually making a little game so I could test out some concepts.
only 16 more days to go!

Bump!
Sorry I can't think of anything :(
but thank you!

Bump for the good case.

Bump!!!

Bumping as requested for an amazing game.

Hope whoever wins the RPG Maker comes up with a good one too.

I would like to create an RPG / Tower Defense hybrid.

Start waves of enemies when you choose, then in between rounds wander off to a vast open world for adventure and to find new towers, upgrades, and weapons to improve (and survive) future waves.

It will also have a rich and deep story behind the character and base you are defending.

Thanks to the OP for a chance at this awesome game creation tool.

bump for great giveaways

I have no idea how difficult it would be to make with that software, but I was thinking how about having the RPG take place in a western setting. The main character could be a gunfighter of some sort trying to clean up the west. He could gain a team(a native american(perhaps using a bow or tomahawk), somebody using a whip, a fighter of some sort, a drunk, a disgraces lawman trying to reconcile his past, etc). He goes town to town and stops some kind of bandit syndicate that has been terrorizing towns that lack the will or ability to fight back.

Sorry, but currently I have no ambitions to make a game.

Bump!

I have an idea of creating an ultimate game, but I'm still trying to fathom how it will look.
It might be 2D platformer with RPG elements like stats, skills, inventory, loot, some skill-progression mechanics based on skill usage with option to get some skill boosts at training camps. Plus there should be some different ways to solve in-game problems (hack through, throw the bomb, evade etc.) and skillful evasion of the battle should be rewarded with some XP as well.
That's an idea of might-be ultimate game of my taste.