With the new terms of GGG (which includes PGMMV) as long as you own PGMMV, you can use the songs in other engines.
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I would never give up the dream, maybe tutorials will help. Mostly what is going to get you better is just doing things in the engine. I usually don't recommend making your dream game right away though, start with a mini version of the dream. Like a 2 scene ordeal, then you can start seeing what logic is scalable and what isn't. Scalable is a very very important thing or else you will get stuck a lot and that is no fun!
Thank you very much Drifty , I appreciate the feedback and kind words!
I'll try to explain a couple of the points:
- First off, thank you for explaining the reason people wouldn't want it in their C drive. I learned a lot from your explanation (I'm not the most tech savvy guy) and I most likely will never do that again. The only reason I did it for this contest was because of contest rule 13:
13. All files required to play the game MUST be included in the download. If the game exe does not run because of missing files, it will be disqualified.
The problem with just a barebone export with PGM (which is exactly how RM does it with a folder) is some windows might not have the older VC++ Redistributable required to run the game. With the installer I could at least verify they have them all, and if not, install them. This is fairly common issue that gets brought up, so I knew I needed to prevent that from happening to avoid disqualifying. The next thing was I didn't know how to go about the administration issue with the save files. To combat that we made the installer only install on the C drive, which fixed the issue. Granted the only saving we needed was for the day counter, so really it pretty unimportant for us to have. I think in retrospect, this just doesn't work for everyone as you explained. It is very personal preference, for instance I have only received 2 complaints for this method (you and another player). Over all though, I think you are correct, I need to find a better method or just stick with the default export.
- Nova is a character Noobk and I created and use in other games, it was more an easter egg for the PGM community. She is pretty cranky, that's about all anyone needs to know, lol!
Thanks for the feedback. I'll answer your last part 'I'm not sure how complicated the engine is'. Basically everything is made from scratch in PGM. I had to code, so I made a custom plugin, for the message system and all menu systems from scratch (title, pause, shop, hud, and tomb menus). PGM is definitely more action oriented. Most the time I'm looking at game design to NOT have text or a cutscene as much as possible and tell story through minimal means. This game was our try at a Harvest Moon-like (if you go to my page, I've taken a stab at most genres). It may not have connected with you and that's ok! Thanks for playing!
So technically you can rebind with the default PGM method, by pressing F1 during gameplay and you'll get a greenish menu bar that drops down at top of window. If you start clicking into those settings eventually you can rebind keys. The only problem is that I hide the mouse cursor while it's in the game window, lol. So since it requires a mouse to navigate the menus it's going to be very hard to do, oops!
Thank you TheKeeper, appreciate the feedback! I definitely agree with the controls, in a real release controls would be more like Stardew Valley (WASD and mouse). I did however want to make this game feel most comfortable with RM audience as well and after much feedback I got the Arrow Keys, Z, X, Space setup as most common.