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After 5 years in development, OpenRPG Maker has been released to the public. Development is still ongoing, but the editor is ~90% feature complete. The game engine will be released in increments over the next few months, and will be designed in a way that allows for easy game distribution. Best of all, it is free (although donations are gratefully accepted).
I found this forum on Google, and thought it would be an appropriate place to seek testers/designers who would be willing to look it over. We are looking for Positive/Constructive feedback. It currently runs in both Linux and Windows. Mac is untested (as we don't have access to one).
The program and source code can be downloaded from here.
Thanks,
Tobin "GrueMaster" Davis
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Oh man, just as I was about to get some sleep, this is posted! I try to keep track of projects like this, I'm definitely checking this out as soon as I get home tonight. Five years? That is quite a commitment!
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Hey, welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing your work! I'll have a look when I have some time.
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Actually, it is my son's project. I am only there for moral (and financial) support.
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That's awesome!!!
Kudos to you, sir!
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well props for being a supportive dad. my parents said i'd never get anywhere trying to make vidja games. NOW LOOK AT ME, i have a couch and an internet connection and FOUR cats!
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Hey, GrueMaster! Tell me, does it support or will ever support scripting in any object oriented programming language?
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The plan (afaik) is to add Python as a scripting engine in a future release. For more info, see feature requests.
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It's a shame there is no engine to it yet, however, I noticed all the data is stored in xml format, so this could potentially be adapted to any scripting language. Just need to understand the layouts of the files first in order to create a proper API. For example, I could easily parse the data with php, and output ( not so easilly ) html5/ajax to play the game in a web browser. So yeah, lot's of unrealized potential here. Parsing data is easy, it's making it do stuff that's hard.
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Well there's only a few more things left to do in the editor before I begin work on the engine. The theory behind the engine is complex though since it'll theoretically be easilly portable to other systems and languages. As far as the object oriented scripting goes I decided against it in the end because I noticed one of the biggest turn off points for a lot of people reguarding RPG Maker XP and Game Maker was the fact that it had the scripting and you couldn't really do anything complex without using it. The idea behind Open RPG Maker is to have an enormous amount of power and complexity in what you can do, while making as insanely simple as humanly possible to do it.
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