One day...

He makes this sound when he’s chasing things and can’t quite get to them, bugs and birds mostly.

The Creative Act of Listening to a Talking Frog

scientists are still scrambling to figure out what “zigazig ahh” is so that they can give the spice girls what they really really want

the spice girls are getting impatient

“N… No Mr. President.”

So the only thing I could do was have it end in tragedy. That way I wouldn’t have to break up with the guy and I could adopt his daughter to stay close to her. He passed away peacefully on fire in the kitchen. Now in previous games, when a kid is taken away by CPS, the next kid you adopt is the same kid. Welp that didn’t carry over into sims 4 so the daughter ended up being taken away and erased from the game by the great sims deity.

I’m a sentimental man, so I kept neighbor mans tombstone around. I’d occasionally chat with his ghost, but he seemed cold to me. I can’t help but thinking he was a bit mad his daughter no longer existed. But this escalated once I started seeing Mike. His ethereal visits became more frequent and more hostile, usually breaking my electronics or creating a mess. But he went overboard when he started the fire.

Being a sim the died in a fire, his ghost had certain abilities specific to his death (setting fires). He got pissed because I kissed Mike so he set my couch on fire that ended up barricading us in the bedroom. Now I couldn’t find the fire alarm in buy mode and I hadn’t had the foresight to predict my spiteful ghost died-in-a-fire ex boyfriend would be an afterlife arsonist to care about it that much so a lot of the house had burned by the time I could get the FD there.

After having almost nothing covered by insurance (thanks Obama), Mike sat me down to have a talk with me. While I couldn’t understand him, I imagine he said “What the fuck you need to deal with your crazy ass ex boyfriend ghost. This never would have happened if you weren’t a thirst little sim bitch and dated me first.”

I approached the grave. It was time to release him. He was waiting for me. He knew this was the end. That after this, there was no coming back from the afterlife. I know he tried to kill me, and he knows I got his daughter deleted, but at that moment, it was just like old times. Telling each other jokes 27 times in a row until he would have sex with me.

authorx submitted:

A humble request to read the names at the bottom of this post like a commercial announcing a new product:

http://zaptap.tumblr.com/post/108516213010/konkeydongcountry-new3ds

Upcoming titles include Xenoblade Chronicles and uh…

and..

uh….

jokes aside, figuring out everything from zero for MV is a royal pain in the ass;

Some reasons:

48x48 tiles are not easy to process for computers compared to power-of-two tiles (32x32, which Ace uses, *is* a power-of-two tile size). I don’t know if MV allows custom tile sizes, but if it does, 48x48 is not a smart size to pick as it’s way more prone to lagging.

Hardly any existing graphical tiles or characters out there fit the (default) tiles size without resizing them.

More pixels you need to fill if you’re making your own graphics. This might be doable for artists who make vector or digital painting art for their games, but for pixel artists this tends to be more cumbersome.

Compiling your game to mobile is not possible using MV itself and has to be done using external means.

Many of the official MV music packs that are sold on RMWeb can’t be used in browser/web games, because those can’t encrypt music.

JavaScript, which tends to lag.

It’s more expensive than any other RPG Maker version.

Event page cap of 20 pages per event (which isn’t present in Ace or any other maker, as far as I know).

Currently, MV uses an outdated version of the Pixi graphics engine. I have no idea if that’ll change, but the fact they chose to use an outdated version doesn’t really give me much confidence.

jokes aside, figuring out everything from zero for MV is a royal pain in the ass;

Some reasons:

48x48 tiles are not easy to process for computers compared to power-of-two tiles (32x32, which Ace uses, *is* a power-of-two tile size). I don’t know if MV allows custom tile sizes, but if it does, 48x48 is not a smart size to pick as it’s way more prone to lagging.

Hardly any existing graphical tiles or characters out there fit the (default) tiles size without resizing them.

More pixels you need to fill if you’re making your own graphics. This might be doable for artists who make vector or digital painting art for their games, but for pixel artists this tends to be more cumbersome.

Compiling your game to mobile is not possible using MV itself and has to be done using external means.

Many of the official MV music packs that are sold on RMWeb can’t be used in browser/web games, because those can’t encrypt music.

JavaScript, which tends to lag.

It’s more expensive than any other RPG Maker version.

Event page cap of 20 pages per event (which isn’t present in Ace or any other maker, as far as I know).

Currently, MV uses an outdated version of the Pixi graphics engine. I have no idea if that’ll change, but the fact they chose to use an outdated version doesn’t really give me much confidence.

“Easy to Pleasey” - Stardew Valley

I stopped playing this game to draw a comic and realized three days of my actual life had gone by on accident. This game is so charming and polished.

Some of the townspeople can only be pleased through rare minerals or hard-to-get recipes. Some like beer.

Ren’py and VX Ace are both obvs different in retrospect, that’s for sure. but here’s how you pick out which engine you’d wanna use with your game:

use RPGMaker VX Ace if…

you want to make the player explore areas and collect items rather than going through text-based/point-click exploration

your game has chasers/puzzles/item-collecting puzzles

your game has some amount of cutscenes (AND THEY ARE SHORT, TOO)

you want to add action in your game (RPG battle system optional; what i mean is like Yume Nikki’s, where you can allow the player to equip weapons and use them in the maps)

use Ren’Py if…

your game is like a novel. except with visuals. lots of them. (although one JP game dev, Charon, used RPGMaker several times to make VNs)

you want the player to change the name of the MC (optional)

your game is very lengthy (text-wise)

you want to add animation to your game (not like RPGMaker’s— as in like moving images/animation. although big downside: GIFS WON’T WORK IN THEM).

you’re making a game like Dangan Ronpa (‘nuff said).

things you could do in both engines:

cutscenes/multiple endings (tbh RPGMaker makes coding endings easier imo because of the whole ‘triggering keys/events’ coding)

make demos (optional)

things you’d need for using either engine:

a lot of art (especially for RPGMaker imo, bc of the charsets/chipsets/maps/portraits/sprites/blah blah. some of those are optional tho)

wide knowledge of coding

patience and motivation (pls don’t try to finish a game all in a few days if it’s super long. i suggest pacing yourself. it gets frustrating sometimes when coding so take it easy and take a breather)

music and sound effects (THAT IS FREE TO USE AND MAY OR MAY NOT REQUIRE CREDIT DEPENDING ON SITE U GET IT FROM)

a team (totally optional depending on what kind of game you’re aiming to make. some tumblr users out there have made games entirely by themselves)

a place to upload them after rendering the finished product.

i’d also like to say that both have A LOT of coding in them. you’ll need to learn some basic coding and such for either of them, whichever engine you decide to go with. it’s kinda hard at first if you’re a beginner, but it gets really easy fast!!! lucky for you, if you go with Ren’Py, it has a tutorial game in its menu! RPGMaker has a very handy forum (as well as Ren’Py) where a lot of game devs talk about codes and stuff, so check those out too.

in my experiences w/ using both i really like using RPGMaker for some reason?? it’s probably because instead of having to open up a folder w/ all your sprites and art when coding in Ren’Py, RPGMaker has a database where you can upload all your game material into its engine, so when you code stuff it’s really easy to find the stuff you need. not only that, but you can be really creative with RPGMaker??? like, you can add all these fancy doodads and stuff like how some game devs do (ie: my favorites mogeko, brownsugar, shintaro and buriki clock). i’d also like to point out that you can see your maps/areas and make em all pretty in RPGMaker, whereas in Ren’Py you have to have your art folder opened up to view all your images. 

so yeah, i’d just say your game and how it all plays out will decide on what engine you’ll go with! using either engine can make your game awesome!

Some corrections:

You do NOT need to know coding to use RPG Maker. At all. The only thing you need to understand is how to correctly order event commands, if-then statements and how to use switches and variables. That’s ALL YOU NEED. 

You can change names of characters in RPG Maker really easily - this is not a Ren’py only thing at all!