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in reply to @mcdonalds's post:
I see you also have Nostalgia Brain and therefore an inclination to use a version of RPG Maker that doesn't have any scripting
I have a slight urge to make an EasyRPG fork where the map editor and event editor and such have the RM2k interface but you can do arbitrary scripting in it. This would be cursed, but,
Hm!!! That's a good point to consider. The problem is I haven't used C++ extensively since 2012ish, to be honest. I've been using Rust and Java and a little bit of C, but no C++. I guess it helps that I've still been using low-level/compiled languages, but apparently C++ has a bunch of new shit.
back in the day I knew a guy who was attempting to make a tile based tactical game in RPGM2k. He actually got really far and even released the project file. It was a mess of if statements.
i learned to code from rm2k and for many years i would say "i can make anything i imagine, as long as i have access to if statements"
it's not a wrong thing. Like it was a long time before I learned about for loops and before that all my code was just if statements...
you can imagine how blown my mind was when after 10 years of this being The Only Programming I Know i was introduced to the concept of "objects"
i wonder why do people use very outdated versions of rpg maker?
i'm not a game dev who has dealt with that kind of stuff... or a game dev at all (at least currently, i did try in the past... see my reply to your reply) so this is a genuine question
a couple reasons, some my own and some observed:
- cute default assets, particularly in 2k, or otherwise preferring the 16-bit look
- fun to work with limitations
- nostalgia (i think a lot of folks played with rm2k casually growing up)
- resulting games have smaller filesizes
- novelty factor because it's uncommonly done or perceived as "worse"
oh i see.
i wanna revisit older versions of GameMaker, way back when it was a Yoyo Games thing before it got bought by two different companies entirely. It's also these versions i feel nostalgic with, since I tried to do gamedev attempts when I was much younger on these..... only to fail miserably.
To prove I can.
(The game isn't all this, just one section of it, which just emphasises my point honestly.)
HELL yeah that looks incredible. i've seen some cool first person stuff in 2k3 but it's even wilder to see it in 2k, very impressive and tons of fun
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