10 Essential Tips for Mobile RPG Maker Projects
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
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0:00 Introduction
2:07 1. OpenGL is Different On Mobile
3:05 2. Custom Touch Controls are Essential
3:55 3. Tints Don't Work Properly On Mobile
5:05 4. Smaller Games are Easier to Deploy
6:06 5. Case Sensitive Assets in Code
7:29 6. Height / Width Limit of 2000 Pixels
9:05 7. Take Care with Plugins
10:23 8. No DevTools in Mobile Testing
11:59 9. Google Play Store and App Store are Hard
12:25 10. Difficult Android and iOS APIs
13:30 Aloha!
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great video this is helpful Thanks
Thank you 3P0.
Love the energy in this one ! keep em coming
Thanks Rujum... it's a lot of work but I'm not planning on slowing down anytime soon.
Your thumbnail brought me here
Thanks Bryan. I'm just trying to look more like an actual respectable company and less like a 40 year old single guy in his basement.
Insightful stuff! Great stuff to know before even starting a project!
Glad it was helpful! We will be seeing apprentice of archeia (or whatever it's called) on mobile soon.
Thanks!!
no problemo.
Excellent video!
Thanks Hawk. Took a long time :D ... I need to check out your stream more. You usually stream same time as me.
Happy to subscribe. I'm a small youtuber as well.
I was small yesterday, but I broke the 300 mark today. Not sure I will have time for the little people anymore.... just joking, by the way. I subbed you... I'm always looking for RPG Maker stuff on TH-cam. I made this channel because I felt there isn't enough.
By "tint animation" do you mean hue shift? I'm mostly just using Visustella plugins, but I like using a lot of parallax fogs and weather effects that have a slow hue change going on constantly... So far I've done all my work on a maxed-out Mac Mini and it's probably giving me a terribly distorted idea of what I can get away with and still have it work on other people's systems, but if I release for mobile it sounds like it's going to be a special kind of nightmare.
The tint screen and the hue shift both lag mobile devices heavily. I think you shift hue in an action sequence by using RPG Makers 'pictureTint' function. I think of them interchangeably, but it makes sense that this is not how everyone thinks of it. I'll be more careful if I make content on the topic in the future.
Your fog effects sound like they will break a mobile export... I would try it, though. Tints/hue shifts sometimes work okay in specific circumstances... like when they are one frame. It's good to know that tints can be problematic, so you can at least identify the issue if you are testing on mobile.
Many people say that parallax doesn't work on mobile; this isn't true. In some ways, a parallax map can be more optimized than tile maps, mainly because many tiles are often not used and loaded all the same. Many things that lag a desktop game are not especially problematic in a mobile export.
Good video, some points a bit shaky but decent.
Which?
@@mauigamestudio watch the vod, but mainly #8
Man I was really hoping this was old info but it's from 6 days ago lol
Who would you want old info? Is it because what I said was revealing potential issues with your project?
@@mauigamestudio yeah especially the tints. There's an area with an alarm going off, and if course lots of battle fx. I can reiterate, that's what gamedev is all about! I know Javascript ok so I'm not scared.
@@skippyzk if you jum on my discord. I'll show you some relatively easy fixes. I would release my plugin publically but I don't really want to want to support it... removing flashes only takes about ten or so lines of code.
I never got around to debugging on iOS but through Android Studio there should be a way to debug the webview at least a little bit but I am no expert on Android. Also I know for MZ web deployment is the only way to deploy but on MV there is a Android Deployment option will your next video cover that?
Great comments/questions. I deploy my MV game from the MZ editor, so I just use the web. I recommend using the web if you are deploying from MV as well. The mobile-specific deployment options do not work with many open source APK/AAB project builders. If someone is serious about their MV project I would recommend having both MV and MZ. I would deploy from MZ because it's more likely to work with many of the newer open-source solutions.
As far as using the webview.... that could be viable... I feel the webview won't represent the experience of the installed AAV/APK file. Indeed an exciting idea. Did you find that it was helpful in RPG Maker iOS debugging?
For iOS the game must be wrapped in a webview but the debugging part is still limited but I believe crashes would still be reported through the debug console but something that would need more investigation
@@heroslegendstudios1658 We should do a collab to show people how to do that.... or you could even do it without me :D
Hi there you prob won't see this but is there any way to test your game when deployed? Maybe I missed it but I'm just struggling
I'm using Rpg maker MV btw
Dragon Bones yes
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@@mauigamestudio You asked if we wanted a DB video. Yes.