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Hello everyone! I'm working on a big MZ project and I wanted to add some custom difficulty options to the game. Using the VisuStella Options Core menu I was able to add a new tab called "Difficulty" but when it comes to adding the options themselves:



...I get a lot of javascript prompts and I'm completely clueless as how to go about setting up what I want with them >.<;;;

The things I'm looking for are:
An option that adjusts a variable, with a bar the player increases/decreases if possible, with a range of 1 to 5.

An option that is just a switch off or on.

If anyone can instruct me on how to set these up or knows of a place where I could learn, please let me know.

Thanks so much! :D

I believe what you want is a technique called shift mapping or shift-click mapping, depending on who you ask. I'm not great at explaining how it works, so here's a couple of tutorials for it:

https://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/1053/

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/shift-click-mapping.14387/

Hope this helps! :D

This was a really good read! :DDD Games always have a lot of hurdles, and it feels like sequels add a lot of additional headaches, so seeing how you handled the situation has been very illuminating!

I think Soma Union is your best game yet and I feel like your dungeon design is still pretty solid, as the pace and feel of the dungeon still feels pretty great. Really excited to hear that you're working on prototyping something new, can't wait to find out what it is! ^_^

author=KrimsonKatt
I get that. I should probably fix the game then and play though the entire thing. Problem is is that I'm working on a 2.0 patch right now, so if I fix the stuff in the old MV version I'll have to playtest the entire game again for the new version to find all the bugs. I just need a quick fix, as if I fix the glitches in the MV version I'll have to fix them in the MZ version all over again. I really don't want to do that. Maybe I can just port over the maps after fixing the bugs in the MV version? Maybe that will work? IDK. I just really want to get the 2.0 MZ out but I keep having to go back to MV to fix things.

So you're making a definitive version for RPG Maker MZ? In that case, you have some options. If you don't want to support the MV version anymore, you can put a notice, maybe above the trigger warning, announcing that you are retiring this version and that the MZ version is coming soon, and please wait for that one.

That may upset some people who are in the middle of the MV version, but it may be for the best overall, as it's better to have one version with all the fixes and you might not have the time to make two complete versions. Just make sure you thoroughly test the MZ version before you release it so people don't run into problems so much.

Alternatively you could bugfix both versions, but that might be too big of a headache.

I'm glad the difficulty level was to your liking :DDDDDD

As for the chess pieces, in hindsight, I like the idea of how I executed them less and less as I think about it so I'll probably do stuff like that differently in the future.

author=Dyhalto
I prefer pre-ending uber-dungeons personally. It's more satisfying to bust butt all the way through, then set the controller down as the final boss disintegrates and watch the best ending.
Maybe you could compromise by having the end of the uber-dungeon make the final boss stronger as a consequence? Just throwing ideas out there :P

Be sure to include Dumbass Ghost and Smartass Ghost as enemies in LA2. They made me laugh xD

Interesting. Yeah my only worry is that they make the final dungeon and last boss too easy but I can do like you said and make it harder if the player has already cleared the bonus dungeon.

I do have one other worry though. I was planning on possibly (small spoiler)
and I feel like you'd be a little weird to do that before the final boss instead of after. But I'll keep thinking about it and maybe I can find something that works.

Edit: and yeah sure maybe I'll edit in those ghosts and put them in the game too. They aren't the only call-backs and references I'll be making XDXD