Game Variables

[kyonides]

Game Variables

The Minimal Demo

by Kyonides Arkanthes

Introduction

I made a simple demo that would probably show you how to use variables in a convenient way. Our goal in this first version will be to let some variables help us make an event based menu.

Since I do not know you in real life you will be able to choose your gender before he test play can even begin. So I improvised a little bit here and incorporated a basic picture based menu consisting of 4 pictures. 3 of them are faces plus a sword that is used as your cursor there.

In the demo I will ask you to press buttons. When I say press I actually mean "keep pressing the darn button" instead.  

It seems that specific RPG Maker feature has always sucked hard.

Curiously you do not notice such a behavior in scripts, neither default nor custom ones ever force you to go through such a moronic ordeal.

Learning Points

• Understand how Game Variables can save the day... but not the night!
  
• Let modulo keep your values in check.
  
• Properly load pictures and delete them later on after you stopped needing them. EX-TER-MI-NA-TE!
  
• Use a loop to prevent the event from skipping the selection section
  
• Properly define a perfect excuse to break the loop for all loops should be broken at some point! EX-TER-MI-NA-TE!
  
• Keep track of a player's name at least while you do not need to access a system or custom menu script.
  

I have left some comments in the event to let you get a grasp on how to take advantage of modulo even if you do not understand what the hell that means.

Download DEMO

Disclaimer

In my demo I have included three genders, male and female and undead

That third option is a joke but I just needed an excuse to use more than a Yes or Not formula to "explain" the game variable concept there. This does not and will never endose in any way possible the very existence of undead in any reality.