RPG Game Maker Resources

RPG Maker VX Mapping Tutorials Set 1

After a few days of uploading videos to youtube set one of these mapping tutorials are now complete! You may find some of these maps are better then others and depending on your taste you may prefer certain maps to others but overall these should help give you a rough idea on how to be more creative with your RPG Maker VX maps and help boost them look amazing!

To watch a mapping tutorial, look at the blue headings to decide on the tutorial you would like to watch and hit the arrow button on the video. (Play button). If you double click the video you can watch them straight from youtube.

I really hope these mapping tutorials will help you all out! I would do some for RPG Maker XP, but unfortunately I do not own this software.

Ice Cave

This is a quick and simple tutorial showing you how to map the entrance of an ice cave.

Small Town

This is a quick and simple tutorial showing you how to map a small town for your RPG Maker VX game.

Small Town Ruined

This is a quick and simple tutorial showing you how to map a town looked ruined using the small town created and mapped in the previous tutorial
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Igloo

Alright, the first of the mapping tutorials are here. You can watch this video below. If you double click it you can watch this video directly from youtube.  Hope it helps.

Boos405

Hello Video Games Design. This is boos405 here. I have been the one updating this blog since it has begun, but I am no longer the main admin the blog so from now on this will be the account I’ll use to bring you tutorials, articles and resources relating to the subject of RPG. =)

These should all help you with your own projects and could save a lot of time of researching. Well that’s all for now. I look forward to adding new content to this blog in the near future.

Ps Beware. I have been making a lot of RPG Maker VX Mapping Tutorials which will soon be flooding this blog for the next few days. ^^;

We’re Back

At last after the war of busyness we are pleased to announce the return of the Video Games Design blog. Over the next few days you can expect to find a lot of mapping tutorials for RPG Maker VX and hopefully some other nifty resources that can help boost up your games. =)

These mapping tutorials will cover how to build towns, castles, islands, volcanoes, caves, dungeons, beaches, laboratories, mountains, cliffs, beautiful landscape, indoor mapping and everything else. We also take requests if you would like to leave a comment below.

These tutorials will be posted as videos so you can see exactly step by step how everything is done. The goal is to help you so your games can have fantastic maps in them.

What else can you expect from the blog over the next few months? Well a lot of useful writing tutorials and maybe some resources for your RPG video games.

Finally, if you would like to help out and make some mapping tutorials feel free to contact boos405 on youtube.

The RPG Class Survey Poll

As most of you know I am making a game called Castle Oblivion VX. (Using the RPG Maker VX game engine.) However, I need you to decide which classes I should include in this game. If you could spare a moment to vote on the poll below it will help improve the game dramatically and make it more fun for you to play once it is released.

Many thanks in advance. If you would like to discuss this further you may leave a comment below. =)

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Apologises…

I would like to apologise for the lack of updates on the blog. Unfortunately I have been extremely busy with my studies. I’m sure you’ve experienced the same condition some point in your life when you just have too much work (or studies) and no free time at all. A solution I found would be to create a time management chart where you list out the next few weeks and write down what work you are going to do and when. It’s a really useful method to get organised.

I do plan to give the blog some new updates soon. The blog will be focusing on RPG Maker VX for the rest of the year. If I get requests by enough users I may decide to add some other content to the blog too.

RPG Maker VX Tutorials, Tips and Ideas

The good news for you guys is that I plan to add the following blog posts over the next few weeks of July.

• A town mapping tutorial
• A cave mapping tutorial
• A indoor house mapping tutorial
• The basics of the text box events in RPG Maker VX
• Some information on faceset resources
• Every piece of content from my pervious blog

Hooray! I believe the mapping tutorials will turn out to be really helpful. They will all be screenshot and text based tutorials and if I succeed you should find them really useful.

RPG Maker Projects

I also have three different RPG Maker projects which I have worked on in secret of the last few months. I will be releasing publically information about the first project soon. I believe it has a huge chance of succeeding and failing. This project isn’t for everyone but if it succeeds many people will love it. I have given it some of the elements and themes which are most famous for being used in the Kingdom Hearts series.

My main focus with this project is to create a game which will grab attention and curiosity to the player that they want to keep finding out what happens next. I will be using the side view battle system and I believe if everything else fails the battles and bosses will be a blast to play through.

I always think it is a good idea to have a main focus when creating a project. It also helps to analyse other projects before creating your own. The difference between a game that analyses the concept and themes for creating a successful RPG game and the ones that don’t are amazing.

The demo version of this project will be an open file so you all can see what works I have done and use that to help practice for your games.

I am afraid I have currently stopped working on the other two projects for now as I am too busy. I believe concentrating on one project at a time is always the best thing anyway, otherwise the ideas can sometimes get a little muddily.

All three of my game projects are different but will take place in the same universe having a few connections. If this project becomes successful their will eventually be a sequel. I can’t take full credit for this project though. More will be explained soon.

Final Notes

The forum is planning to go live in July unless there are further delays. With the forum you will be able to have your own thread, blogs, image hosting and download page with your own information about your game projects.

On top, members that post regularly will have the chance of their projects being advertised here!

The wiki will end up going live, but it may not be for a few more months.

Thank you for reading this, good luck with your projects and hope to keep seeing you around.

Need good names for your video game characters?

No matter what game engine you use whether it’ll be RPG Maker VX or Game Maker, you’ll eventually want to create a video game character that sounds good. It is usually a good idea to use generators for your game characters unless you are going with the name meaning approach. I know a lot of people get stuck at this point, especially when creating an RPG. Therefore it’s useful to use random generators to get inspiration and ideas. Below are three of the top generators I recommend to beginners with a little information on what each one does. Click the links to go to them.

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Custom window skins in RPG Maker VX!

Ever wanted to figure out how the custom window skins work in RPG Maker VX? Well now you can!

Alright, so many of you may be wondering exactly how can you create a custom window skin? Well, it gets really easy once you know what you are doing so here’s a quick guide to get you understanding!

First, your windowskin would need to be sized to 128 x 128 pixels. To get the best quality from them you’ll want a 32-bit PNG format.

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Hey, it’s FireComet here!

I am happy to announce the release of the video games design blog! I’ll be working on this over the next few months adding useful resources, polls, games and a few fun activates.

E.g. Ultimate resources, tutorials and writing guides on RPG Maker and Game Maker softwares (tools you can use for creating your own projects).

If you’ll like to join the community please vist http://www.video-games-design.com/rpgforums =)