Mixing and matching is also possible, with different types of equipment being divided in different ways. You can also have categories of equipment, such as Character A and Character B can use Swords, while Character B and Character C can use Daggers. How do you determine who can use what? There are multiple ways to handle this, from having each character have their own unique equipment, to having every character be capable of using any equipment. Player choice is almost always a good idea.Īnother thing that is a good to look at is different ways to distribute equipment among your characters. If you wanted a bit of extra oomph to your spells, or were going into an area where you knew a lot of magic attacks would come your way, the Cloak would be better, if you just needed Defense, the Leather Armor is better. If you had a character who could equip both of these, which would be better to choose? It would depend on the situation and what the player wanted the character could do. To explain this use of equipment, let’s look at two pieces of equipment from a similar tier of power.Ĭloak: +8 Defense, +5 M. This requires a bit more thought on the part of the game designer and on the player as well as it is not linear growth. You get to a new town and the first thing you do is check the Weapon and Armor shops for the newest biggest beat stick/armor you can buy.Ĭharacter Customization: The second use is to customize characters. This is the part of equipment that most players are most familiar with. This is usually very easy to accomplish, a Basic Sword may give you +20 Attack, while a Great Sword gives you +25 Attack. Stat Growth: The first is just to help the character become more powerful in the game. Equipment has two major purposes in RPGs:
To understand designing equipment, let’s first look at what Equipment is generally used for in RPGs.
Rpg maker vx ace tutorial series#
No progress updates on the Siliconera RPG this week, but we promise to have something to show soon! In the meantime, here’s the next chapter in our continuing series of RPG Maker VX Ace tutorials.
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