Making a Platformer

[The Baekin' Company]

I'm a total noob to RPG Maker, but I'd like to try making a platformer with the engine with the use of Arc Engine. However, I am very lost and I'm unsure of how to incorporate the engine into my game project so I'd like to know and expand my knowledge of the RPG Maker engine in gneeral and learn how to make a platformer.

[The Void]

Making a platformer out of RPG Engine is going to be a very complex and potentially difficult task. You will need dozens of scripts to cover all kinds of things. Say you want to jump (a pretty typical thing for a platformer, yeah?), you'll need a script to detect the input for this, then a script to start the character's upward ascent, a script to check to see if the character has reached the top of their jump, a script to move the character back down to the ground, a script to stop the character's fall when they contact the ground.. And this has nothing to do with say jumping in a direction or landing on another elevation.

You'll need plenty of variables, etc. RPG Maker is POTENTIALLY ABLE to create an action RPG, but it was designed to create games like Final Fantasy 1 or Dragon Quest. You might want to consider using something like Game Maker instead, otherwise it could take you a lot longer to accomplish what you want (and you might not think it's working to your liking in the end anyway) using RPG Maker.

[kittylitterproduction]

Originally posted by Vivian James:

Making a platformer out of RPG Engine is going to be a very complex and potentially difficult task.

Re-read the original post again. The OP is trying to use the Arc Engine, which provides all that. And comes with a handy demo project.