Game Jam Submission

The 30 Day RPG Maker Themed Game Jam #10 finished today, and I finally got my project into a playable state. The biggest addition was creating an entire tutorial hunt last night, which started as a way to introduce the controls to players who are unfamiliar with RPG Maker games and finished as a legitimate hunt in its own right.

There was a ton of bug-hunting and event rewriting throughout the month, but the creation of the tutorial proved to me that all that effort was worth it. This project was some very complicated events in it (those basic rodent events have 11 pages!), and writing them in a way where I can just copy and paste them despite them referencing their position on the map significantly cuts down on development time for making new maps. Unfortunately, that's as far as I got in the month, so there aren't actually a lot of hunts yet. There's also no story yet, and the other playable characters that I had planned also didn't make it into the project (although the mechanics behind how their weapons will work has already been planned out and should be compatible with my current work.)

Now that the game jam is over I plan on taking a break for a few days, but I definitely want to get back to this game project. I think there's a lot of potential here for a fun game, and from the development side of things, I've just finished up all the tedious and technical stuff and now get to play around with it! I expect hunt creation to be pretty smooth going forward, and hope to make this project into my first full-length RPG Maker title.