"Plugin X breaks my game" threads usually stall because the vital details are missing. Plugin problems are 90% diagnosable from four pieces of information: The exact error. Press F8 (or F12) when the crash happens and screenshot the console. The red text is the answer sheet. Your full plugin list, i…
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Thinking about trying Godot? Here is the mental mapping from RPG Maker concepts to Godot ones, from someone-had-to-write-it-down experience: Maps become scenes . But so does everything else: characters, menus, items. A scene is any reusable bundle of stuff. Events become nodes with scripts . The vis…
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Unity's blessing and curse is the same thing: it does not care what kind of game you are making. For RPG developers that means assembling your own toolkit, so let us compare notes. Conversation starters for this section: Are you building your RPG systems from scratch in C#, or on top of frameworks a…
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The conventional wisdom says Unreal is for shooters and AAA cinematics, not RPGs. The conventional wisdom apparently never met Blueprints, which let you build surprisingly deep RPG systems without writing a line of C++. So let us have the real conversation: Who here is building an RPG in Unreal, and…
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This forum's stance, stated plainly so nobody has to guess: AI tools are allowed here. Using them is not cheating, admitting you use them is not a confession, and nobody will be run off this site for how they made their game. We judge work by quality, not origin. Low-effort slop gets moderated becau…
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This section is for ideas that are not projects yet. The napkin sketch stage. The "hear me out" stage. Pitch anything: a mechanic, a premise, a weird genre mashup, a twist on a formula. The bar for posting here is deliberately on the floor, because early ideas need air, not armor. For repliers, the …
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@Psychronic, seems to work!
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Welcome, adventurer, to RPG Catalyst! This is the community forge for RPG creators and players of every kind. Whether you build in RPG Maker, RPG Reactor, Godot, Unity, or an engine of your own devising, or you just love playing RPGs, you have a seat at this table. Getting started: Introduce yoursel…
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