Shelves stuffed with potion bottles, scientific equipment modified with magic, and scattered candles greet your heroes as they slowly creep through the doorway, revealing towering crystals of green, blue, and purple surrounding an intricate dais and a small bedroom area shoved into the corner. Send your heroes into a cave where patches of grasses and moss slowly fade away as they go deeper and deeper, until only mushrooms and small shards of crystals sprout out from the ground and a worn path appears to lead to an arch topped with a large green and blue gem. A2, A4, and B tiles cover stone cave walls and floors, interior walls made of gray stone and decorated with shimmering crystal pillars, and all sorts of bits and bobs to fill a room with an air of magic. (Just no selling.Sneak away from the hustle and bustle of cities and dungeons for a short break to practice magic with the KR Wizard's Hideout Tileset! Kokoro Reflections has put on their wizard hat for this tileset pack, offering up mystical crystals and furniture to turn any room into a wizard’s home. You're apparently fine releasing any games made in it. I wish I had about 2 months of summer vacation.Īctually, I feel like I said that same thing last year.Īnyway, the Lite version is free for anyone to download, so try it if you're interested. I would kind of like try to making something in VX Ace. I do also have the option of connecting four tiles to make one. Character sprites would be no problem, though. If I'm going to make a map entirely by myself, it would be quite trying to do so with a resolution greater than 2000's. I didn't try anything with scripts, but it appears you can edit even the most fundamental bits if you wish. Though it may not be the best example since this background isn't made of tiles, it can be displayed practically without degradation.Īdditionally, I can use masks to have nice-looking portraits of the characters. Garry's face sprite and the background look like they're blurred. Game-wise, I personally feel this is the best size to play at. The screen is 320x240 scaled up to 640x480, so the resolution is somewhat coarse. Though I do feel that pixelly pixels have a unique flavor to them. It would no doubt take a long time to create all the graphics myself.īut its beauty is in an entirely different league from 2000. I thought I might make some of my own graphics, but the map tiles are four times the size. When you put Ib's sprite in there, she looks so very small. Though there's certainly more than that.įirst things first, it looks very pretty.Įvery little one of the premade graphics is so detailed.
The biggest difference from 2000 seems to be the ability to use scripts. My first thought when I first saw VX Ace was "Wow, what a high resolution." I have to say, it's rather interesting to work with. Ib and Mary in the character creation tool. I went to the RPG Maker site for the first time in a while and saw "RPG Maker VX Ace Lite," so I gave it a download.Īpparently it was created for some kind of independent game festival, but since it's fine to use for anything if you follow the rules, I played around with it. My soybeans have grown a fair bit, so I was going to post pictures, but I've been posting nothing but food and plants lately, so I'm finally going to talk about games again. (Toggle Theme) (Size Up) (Size Down) RPG Maker VX Ace (from kouri's blog)