RPG Maker Announced For Nintendo DS

[Neo-Dragon]

Oh, I'm not insulting anyone who plays games on the go. I bring my PSP into college lol.

But my point was really on game development on the move.

Take yourself, and other game development enthusiasts out of this next question- but who will honestly want to use this "game"(if you can call it that) on the move?
It's going to be a veeeeeery low % of users that will want to bring this with them on the bus.
The only time I can see users bringing this game with them would be on an over-seas plane flight.

See, it makes sense to post software that would use a cursor input to a touch screen device. But if their target audience is for gamers "on the move" someone should get fired for giving this project the go ahead [/kidding].
In saying that, the survey mentioned above says players with a NDS mainly play it at home, and home would be the best place to use software to make a game, so I guess their fine :P.

 

[Vampire://Krimm]

While I give props to Enterbrain for the idea, as it's pretty clever, I can't imagine exactly how useful it'll be. I mean... Making maps would be sort of neat with the DS's Touch Screen, but EVENTING? I know a lot of us aren't just making NPC events, and if it were me I know eventing 8 or so pages on the DS might be a bit uncomfortable~ XD

And there's the matter of RGSS capabilities o.o" Unless the game could be edited on the PC AND the DS, then it would dramatically reduce the craftsmanship of the games produced :x

 

[Neo-Dragon]

Hey- what's wrong with eventing??? (Cause I use it all the time in Rm2k3 lol :P)

 

[Wichu]

As I said earlier, don't expect there to be a scripting system; you'll be back to doing everything with events like in RM2k and RM2k3 :)

 

[Darkhaven3]

While I give props to Enterbrain for the idea, as it's pretty clever, I can't imagine exactly how useful it'll be. I mean... Making maps would be sort of neat with the DS's Touch Screen, but EVENTING? I know a lot of us aren't just making NPC events, and if it were me I know eventing 8 or so pages on the DS might be a bit uncomfortable~ XD

And there's the matter of RGSS capabilities o.o" Unless the game could be edited on the PC AND the DS, then it would dramatically reduce the craftsmanship of the games produced :x

And this is why programming your own DS RPG engine in C or another language (just saying C since it's my favorite) is even still a better alternative than VGMDS, which is infinitely superior to a locked-down RPG Maker DS.

 

[TimeDialga33]

Will You be able to make an actual 4th gen pokemon game using rpg maker ds?

 

[Wichu]

No. It's very likely that RMDS won't have support for custom scripts and graphics, making a Pokémon game impossible.

 

[Ravecat]

I honestly think it would just be fun to mess around with it wherever you are.

Sure, I'm not going to be making and finishing serious games with it, but I actually have fun designing games, I don't care if I can only use the RTP or if I can't distribute it.

 

[Wind Gale]

Ravecat does have a great point. They may even add a scripting feature. I have a cord that will connect my DS to a usb slot. Maybe we will be able to add custom resources.

 

[pkmn.master]

Finally. Though I'm not buying it, it would be nice to use some of the scripts if they are compatable with RPG Maker XP's version of RGSS.