But what if games?

Combat Design in RPGMaker 2003 — A Technical Rundown of Facets’ Bosses I've heard a few friends ask about how to program complex enemy behaviors in RPGMaker. There are lots of conceptual resources on this,...

John's tips on RPG Maker 2003 development is an incredible resource for anyone looking to make games with that engine: farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2019/07/comb...

Their coverage of jam games, design practices and even reviews of bigger titles from an indie lens is great as well.

Screenshot from the game “Mario is Missing”. Luigi is speaking to a woman, “Where am I? Where’s the nearest koopa? What is this?”

Twin Peaks: The Return, Episode 18

i don't care how fun meteos is, it's not worth letting tellah die for

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A screengrab of Poe Damoran from Star Wars episode 9 quoting "Somehow, Palpatine returned" except it is captioned "Somehow, RMN Bros returned"

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Skill issue

I was proud of this one

If you aren't monetizing your hobby, are you even grindmaxxing bro?

Me: aw yeah time to relax

Me: opens up game dev shit

Screenshot from Chrono Trigger where the party is facing Flea, the genderfluid miniboss and henchperson of Magus. Flea is saying "Male... female... what's the difference? Power is beautiful, and I've got the power!"

Happy Trans Visibility Day 🏳️‍⚧️

♻️Steam Spring Sale♻️
Janitor friendly pricing is here!

Grab Kingdoms of the Dump for 20% off!

Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 by Kenney Includes 60,000+ game assets including 2D sprites, 3D models and more!

What do you think the largest bundle of game assets in the world costs?

$30 million?
$500,000?
7 kidneys?
$30,000,000 again?

How about $19.95! 🤑

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Screenshot of Dragon Quest 3 where the Hero is speaking to a cat and the cat is saying "Sigh...."

Me too, cat. Me too.

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I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Crescent Prism Chapter 1 Any%

Wild to see that Crescent Prism Chapter 1 will be showcased on RPG Limit Break in May. I'm honestly floored, and very honored!

(And I should probably finish the game! Eventually™️)

Hey! Have you heard of Indiepocalypse?

The monthly anthology of alternative games started in 2020?

Born from a love of small press publishers and desire to provide more opportunities for people making games outside the industry, each issue is a collection of 10 games.

itch.io/c/689872/ind...

Fiya
Fiyara
Fiyaga

(Fiya 1, Fiya 2, Fiya 3 on the SNES)

That's my secret to remaining unbothered

Metal Babble from Dragon Warrior games

unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.

"This guy is a rock"

Over 5000 games earned Makerscore on RMN.

The only metric that matters

I try not to do ranty threads anymore, but man, this Valve GDC graph has just rubbed me up unbelievably badly

This was presented as a good thing - "more games are finding success!" -- when actually the data has just been presented in a tricksy way to make it look like everything is fine

None of this is real and this is all a simulation, to manipulate you, Sgt M, specifically

Mario Lemieux, the real super Mario

Happy MAR10 Day to all who celebrate!

Remember that guy who SAVED rmn? @bennymakesgames.bsky.social

He made a game for rmn A New Start event. AND I HELPED HIM MAKE IT BY DOING MOST OF THE GRAPHICS

And it's damn good! PLAY IT! It's a free heartfelt story that takes about an hour to beat

bennymakesgames.itch.io/prayer-on-a-...

New Starter Kits for @godotengine.org are coming! Once the two new ones are released I'll start updating older ones from Godot 4.5 to 4.6! ✨ #gamedev

kenney.nl/starter-kits

I've always felt like AI-driven games have that same energy as folks who post those massive, 1000x1000 tile world maps in the RMN Mapping thread, where it might be cool on a scope level but completely impractical in a game.

A Tribe called Sidequest