Returning to My Roots with RPG Maker

Seemingly a lifetime ago, I was an illiterate homeschooler with a lot of free time on my hands and a love of video games. Just about the only thing I could ever think about was wanting to or trying to create video games. Not being able to read, however, usually put a stop to that. I did my fair share of copying Atari 400 command lines just to watch the river or the fireworks animations but that wasn’t really learning how to code. I was just copying symbols from a book. That all changed when my brothers “acquired” a copy of RPG Maker ’95.

Pictured: RPG Maker 2000 cause I didn’t find a good ’95 picture. Maybe it wasn’t RM95, I just remember it was the late ’90s when I used it.

When DMing Goes Bad

So I had an AWESOME idea for a dungeon. I planned it for over a month and when the day came to play it, I totally and utterly did really really not good at playing with it. I was a bad DM but I think I have some ideas to do better the next time we play.

This ‘Purr-fect’ DM has of course never had a bad hair day. However, he plays favorites to whoever gives him treats.

Letters to Myself

Hey y’all,

The last six months have been a blur. I started working at a library overseeing a makerspace and tried getting my health back on track. Things are looking up in most everything. Except for my creative output but I’ve been working towards getting that fixed too. I’ve been striving to strike a balance between work, play, and family. I did make a mini-game jam RPG though called Letters to Myself.

SteamWorld Heist Thoughts

A long time ago, I picked up a copy of SteamWorld HEIST in a bundle. Thought it looked like something I’d like but never tried. Then I saw a cartoonist I like talking about the series. I had just finished Humans Fall Flat so I was looking for something to play next anyway.

I was hooked pretty much immediately.

RPG Library

Hey! I finally posted a version of my incomplete thesis project on itch.io for anyone to check it out. I wanted to finish it but I had to keep moving on learning to code. This project got sidelined by my independent studies into Unity. The project is still buggy but you can try out the skeleton of it on my page here: https://gywair.itch.io/rpg-library

It was made using a Yoyo Games asset for GameMaker 1.4 (so I don’t know if it is for sale anymore). You can see I did a sweet job rebranding it in the demo: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/143/yoyo-rpg