Slime Salad

Don't go trying to give me the benefit of the doubt, TMC! I literally had no idea that "set music volume" and "get music volume" now existed! I really cannot believe that I either missed this, or totally forgot about it! So, um, tempo is still unalterable, I think...? This is mak...

I also enjoy making a world. Characters are less fun to me than trying to give the world a history and mythology. I love making various NPCs talk about the world itself, especially when the information will be important for the player at a later time (for example, an NPC already in Tales 2 mentions ...

Using a blank walkabout is a possibility, but then he will still act as a wall. This is easy to override, but then the NPCs would be able to walk through each other as well, I think. Plus, if the player has more than one character in the group they will all need to be invisible. Most people just pos...

It seems to me that all of your opening scene is possible, and not too difficult to pull off. But it will require several plotscripts, and careful use of tags to distinguish when the player has performed all of the necessary actions before he is allowed to move on. You should know that the default f...

I agree with Pepsi in one sense. The sooner you start messing with plotscripts (simple ones, at least), the better. I disagree on 'drawing' being all there is to learning custom, though. If you just want to tell a story with graphics, then yes that is the meat of it. But if you plan on making a game...

The help files included are not much use as a guide, in my opinion. They're more helpful for quick references within custom when you need to know how to accomplish a specific task in a specific editor. I'm not sure if there are other guides out there, but I felt that the HowTo was enough for startin...

There are a handful of graphics floating around, but in general most people here just make their own. Also, I'm pretty certain that all of the graphics in Vikings of Midgard are free to use. You can open that up in custom to get a glimpse of how that game is 'pixeled', and it's considered one of the...

Hello! Custom can seem daunting at first, but the HowTo's work well for basics. Also, every menu in custom has a built-in help menu accessibly with the F1 key, so there's usually SOME method of telling where you are, if not where you want to go. In general, making a game in the OHR begins with a few...

My arguments against randomized dungeons have nothing to do with storylines at all. But I must admit I DID assume RPG-style dungeons in the context of the question (fighting using commands rather than 'real-time' fighting, and death being a real threat). If this means "normal JRPG like FF"...

This thread interests me. A long while ago I had a thread to discuss 'random' elements in RPG battles, and many people seemed to feel that randomness of things like aiming, and enemy actions, is a necessary evil because it just wouldn't be worth it to take into account actual deterministic factors t...

Just commenting that I agree on getting rid of the horizontal white lines. As a matter of taste, I'm not a big fan of the doorway looking so huge now. In fact, usually the place where I end up disagreeing with others on graphics is precisely this - the enlarging of 'significant' details (the old 2pi...

I believe this should be a Hamsterspeak article (or series of articles).

I haven't thought about this too carefully yet, but for what its worth, I know that in Dragon Warrior 2 and I think 3 and 4, enemies showed up with variable HP amounts. As in, one slime might start with 8HP, while the same one next to him started with 7HP. In addition, Final Fantasy games have monst...

Hm, Pepsi's method might be best. If you have the map set to remember its state (a relatively new addition that I always forget about), you probably don't need the global variable either. If you calculate the landing spot similarly to how I described in my method, you won't need doors, tags, NPCs, o...

No need for the double NPC in JSH's setup. Just have the door on the hole tile, but have it set to work only if the 'floor is broken' tag is on. However, it can be a pain making all of the necessary doors if there are LOTS of crumbly floors. If it helps you at all, in my Tales games I had a separate...