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BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO RPG MAKER VX
How to easily get started with RPG Maker VX
BenKo December 8th, 2008 V 0.5

Beginner’s Guide to RPG Maker VX

INDEX
Introduction ............................................................................................ 4
Why this guide? The methodology

Game development .................................................................................6
Programmers versus designers The team

Legend of Gladius .................................................................................. 10
The story Locations Quests Items and weapons

Creating maps ....................................................................................... 12
The world map The village Interiors

Basic events.......................................................................................... 18
Starting position Transfers Doors Decoration events Treasure chests

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Beginner’s Guide to RPG Maker VX

Basic NPC’s and dialogs ......................................................................... 24
Sign posts Inns Dialog choices Shops Customizing texts Walking NPC’s

Game elements..................................................................................... 36
Items States Skills Weapons and armors Jobs Party members

Enemies and battles .............................................................................. 52
Monsters! Troops Encounters

Story ..................................................................................................... 60
Cut-scenes Forbidden places

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Beginner’sGuide to RPG Maker VX

INTRODUCTION
WHY THIS GUIDE?
Truth is I wrote this guide mainly for myself. I downloaded RPG Maker VX and began to tests things until I got stuck with something and had to browse the Net for the solution to that problem. Most of the times, I found a tutorial which taught what I wanted to do. Other times, however, I had to dig in some forums or read blogs. This system worksbut has some flaws: What if I forget something? Let’s say I stop using RPG Maker VX for a couple of months… Will I be able to remember everything, considering that I’m a newbie? I don’t think so. This leads us to... I don’t want to lose my time! Everything I needed to know was scattered all over the Net. And not every answer was clear… Sometimes I was confused and didn’t understand how somethingwas explained until I learnt other stuff. This is because the “information” is not organized. And this implies that… My way of getting knowledge was wrong. Whenever you want to learn something, you must learn the basics first. So, this guide is for me because I wanted to have all the basic stuff covered in just one place, and organized. This guide is also for my friends whom I try to convince tocreate games with me ;-) And, of course, this guide is for everyone who downloaded RPG Maker VX and doesn’t know where to start.

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Beginner’s Guide to RPG Maker VX In addition, I’d like to recommend you to these forums: http://www.rpgmakervx.net . I learnt a lot of stuff there and the community seems friendly and willing to help. At those forums you will find a tutorial called RPG MakerSchool (created by Andria), which is a RPG that will teach you a lot of useful things. You definitely want to download and play it! If you have any comments or suggestions about this guide, you can send an e-mail to ladybenko@gmail.com.

THE METHODOLOGY
In this guide we’ll be creating together, step by step, one mini-RPG. Attached to this guide you should have also got the RPG Maker VX project soyou can take a look if you ever get lost. In order to get the most of this guide, you should run RPG Maker VX and execute the instructions provided as you are reading the text. You will work much faster if you print a copy of this guide or use two video displays. Each section of the guide explains a single concept and they are convenient titled and indexed, so you can find quickly this information...