Is your RPG Maker game interactive? Quick Tip

In this video: Is your Game interactive? Learn some Quick Tips to improve how interactive your RPG Maker Game is.

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[GalacticGod]

The more interactive items in one's game, the better.

[ccl]

Good old "Turn Left, Turn Right, Turn Up.." When I first started RPG Maker, I was so confused. I had no idea why static objects were being made to turn around 3 times in place... Now the sequence is like an old friend.. :D

[kaedeshirtoto]

Hey man. I'm sure you may not hear it enough, but for those of us that learn visually...Thank you!!

[candycandy]

If you want to slow the movement down. I recommend adding around five frames of wait time. After left and right. I find this lets the movement play and have it a bit more visable. Without it feeling slow.

Thank you LvL Up Design for the vid.

[dilatory]

I spent like two hours reading through and trying to understand the written self-help guide on how to do this before giving up, and you managed to explain it 100x better in 2 minutes. 10/10 thank you so much

[marcelaeroka]

This is exactly the content I want to see on an RPG Maker YT channel!

[nimnom]

While I'm currently still in the process of building my game's story and base, all of these videos already have me start to put things down that I'll want to add or improve upon.
So thanks for giving so much inspirations and ideas! Love your videos so far :D

[savagersd]

Sensational. Absolutly amazing. This is the kind of things i love to see on youtube, straight to the point, its the same feeling than drinking a cold drink in a hot day. Refreshing! You got another subscriber and a thumbs up!!

[IAmTheEagleHTM]

This encourages exploration. Very good if you hide items behind there, not just inside chests

[exxe]

Yea, in a loot economy game where your party either contains treasure hunters/explorers or thieves this makes sense. Those type of characters check everything.

Traditional heroes on a mission tend to only loot what's obvious/right in front of them, in which case 99% of objects shouldn't be intractable. But it should have some kind of built in mechanic to show what can be checked to save players time.

Game preferences aside this is still good advice for 90% games based around exploration.

[KingMickey]

I'm really happy I'm not the only one that's made the "Turn Down for what" joke. :D

[dexteradao]

Hey I was just binging all your vids a couple of days ago. Can't believe I did not sub then so I subbed now. I just recently started my own project and your vids are a lot of help.
Thanks man and keep 'em coming.

[sage]

1:20 im glad im not the only one who hears that song every time i read that button 😂

[SadTown]

I’m surprised I’ve yet to find any other video covering this idea, even after all these years.. Very important feature imo

[UnknownDad]

Recently found your channel as I'm just starting with rpg maker. Just wanted to say absolutely love your video style and sense of humour. Thank you for all the hard work!

[taylorboren]

So helpful! and to the point! Thank you x10000

[zephyrias]

Whoaaa!! Its visually impressive to the player that you raided some poor sap’a home.

*que the quest where the player hero chara is kicked out of town by a hidden variable that counted for each raid*

[RafaelLoki]

I use a small glow on everything that can be "used".

Before that I used a "!" mark in objects within 4 tales range to show they can be used.

I think it's a nice QoL in these kind of games. It's better than click in everything like a lunatic to see if something happens.

Btw if you are going to do more puzzle, could you do the mirror one? It's a very common puzzle in RPG, but I never managed to do it right in MZ. (You need to guide the light to a specific place to open a door).

[arkdum]

its mind blowing how many things you can do in this software and yet i haven't played a game that would implement more then a few basic concepts such as puzzle and maaaaybe movong a book shelf

[ivandelamorte]

I subscribed to your channel years ago, never regreted it. Epic content. TYVM, bro.