Recently I have been playing around with RPG Maker MZ. It’s a cool intermediate tool to get into game programming and design. I have been using the RPG maker forums, youtube videos, and lots and lots of goddamn books. Even real printed books. Books on game design and computer programming. A lot of things go into making a game. It’s kinda like a modern day puppet show. I mean really most stories are kinda like a puppet show. Comics show the reader a character doing the things that character does. As well as how the character interacts with another character. You know, basic story stuff. Puppet A says this. Puppet B does that. It’s making the show where I find myself struggling.
I could start writing a movie or a TV script to get the important plot points out of my mind and into my extended mind. An extended mind is like a notebook or a text document. It extends the space of my mind even if it takes a little bit of labor to do so. Another thing is I have dyslexia, so writing and reading are not my strongest skills. I was a special Ed kid who though she was smart like the fucking mean girl in her class. Nope, the only books I felt like I could ever access were picture books, comics and graphic novels. Even to this day I feel like heavy textbooks can be replaced with, like, a zine or something that has what “gamers” call “quality of life.” Which is their way of saying ACCESSIBILITY.
ANYWAYS Rpg Maker is cool. I’m using the default assets but I will be making my own music when the time comes. My goal is to make a puppet show with RPG Maker. As of right now it’s like a puppet show made with paper bags and masking tape. Like everything is being held together with masking tape. Like some sort of bullshit diorama made for a class project. Like I’m putting all of my love into this project. If I wasn’t making a Role Playing Game with RPG Maker. I think I might’ve put this energy into making a tabletop role playing campaign. In a lot of ways I am kinda doing just that. Making encounter tables, designing important places the party will spend their time in: Taverns, Inns, dungeons, castles, I could name more. Like what is a Dungeon and Draogn’s Campainge then an interactive story book? I had plans to make this website interactive and I think I’m just going to make this silly RPG. I’ll have a demo out by early next year since it’s almost the end of December. I want it to be for all ages, but I just love saying swears like a goddamn sailor. Like fuck is my favoret word in the english language, so I guess it’ll be for people like me. Twenty-something-year-olds who are Queer. I don't know really I am just making it for myself and for the people I love.