I'm about to start working on my own RPG with RPG maker, but the part that intimidates me isn't any of the graphical stuff or even programming anything. It's math. How did you find a good progression of exp and stat boosts?
Here's my dark secret with SLARPG: I didn't do any proper math to determine the stat stuff. I didn't use any spreadsheets. It's aaaallllllllll vibes-based, baby. I'd just put numbers and basic stat curves into RPG Maker that seemed okay, and then I tweaked them back and forth through playtesting to get everything feeling how I wanted it to.
The party's stat growths have a somewhat convex slope—they're more significant early on and then slow down later. This way you're noticeably stronger against the lowest tier enemies after your first few levels, but the late game bosses won't vary wildly in difficulty if you're only level 27 instead of 30. (I did manually make sure the party's max HP and MP values would always be multiples of 5, though, just to keep the numbers nice and tidy.)
New areas will give the player new gear with noticeable stat boosts over their old stuff, and then enemies are balanced around that. I'd do battle tests and tweak the enemies for each area so that they felt like they were about as tough as I wanted them to be when pitted against a party with average gear for that part of the game. Feels too easy? Then I make the numbers bigger. And vice versa. And I'd keep making further tweaks after having other people playtest the game. But the further I got in development the better my balancing instincts got, so I had to make fewer balance adjustments than you might think.
The EXP curve, on the other hand... I'm pretty sure I just left default? I adjusted the pace of leveling more via enemy EXP than via the party's EXP requirements. There's a noticeable bump in the EXP enemies give in each new area, so if the player is underleveled when they hit a new area they'll catch up quickly. And of course bosses tend to give enough EXP to guarantee a level if you can beat them.
Hello Ghost Eyes Community, I would like to convince you to give me clout and fame to convince/bribe you into giving me clout and fame and bring you an AU of my own
Ghost Eyes Magical Girl AU
They follow the same rules as in Madoka Magica and I haven’t decided what they wished for (except for Tobias, his wish was for his dad to love him). I will draw Emilio and their witch forms on a later date. Tell me what you think they would wish for.
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the world's most gaymer, rainbow dash, manages to survive the plague by being too epic
All characters in GE are both poorly written and well written. Okay bye
The only better than one sided toxic yaoi is MUTAL TOXIC YAOI, it’s been so long since I’ve made an animatic that’s almost a minute long and I feel good about posting lol, also self callout I haven’t finished episode 7 but it’s fiiiiine
Song: Me and Mr Wolf by The Real Tuesday Weld
I’m sorry for not having posted in so long 😭 not to start venting but
life been hectic. i don’t wanna reveal my age but i am going off to college extremely soon like less than a week 💀 and life’s been so extremely stressful. this constant anxiety that suffocates me. but i’ll stop it there 😅
more ghost eyes art by me hehe ^w^ ! as an apology
Been thinking a lot about @cryptidmickle 's amnesia au
Sage of Truth is a cutiepie I'm sad we won't have any story sprite for him.
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Hey, so I had a cool idea for a Ghost Eyes AU but I have to explain my thinking for how I got there and it’s fucking wild.
So was playing Minecraft and listening music like the quirked up white girl goated with the sauce I am when I starting thinking about how I listen to angry music to avoid feeling sad and crying and all that and then I thought about how Rudy always pretending to be happy so he doesn’t cry. Then I thought about a version of Rudy where instead of hurting himself what if he starts hurting other people and being violent to make the hurt go away.
So I thought It was a pretty cool idea, I have zero intention of using it but it could used in a swap au, bully Rudy au, or another idea that I loving like to call the “Carmelo gets the shit beat out of him by everyone” where Bully Rudy and the Tobias that was raised by Luther team up to beat the homophobia out of Carmelo (Emilio may or may not be included)