Paper MARBLE, Updated! - Guarding and Attack Items

The not-so-clever acronym stands for:
Paper
MArio
Rpg
BattLe
Engine

I haven't seen many RPG battle engines for Game Maker, so I decided to make my own!



Features included so far:
- Mario's Jump and Hammer attacks (with an Action Command for the former).
- Action Command text ("Nice!", "Good!", etc.).
- Guarding and Superguarding.
- Enemies in pairs taking turns to attack.
- Miniboss and boss examples.
- Attack Items:
- Fire Flower Shooter
- POW Block

UPDATED Download - 8/27/09

C+C is greatly appreciated.

This post has been edited by Yoshbert on Aug 27 2009, 05:22 PM

Neat.

What's it for?

I should have said that before; it's for Game Maker 7.

Nice job, one little thing I think that should be fixed though; I reckon the damage picture should appear after you hit the goomba with the hammer, not before. Other than that, good job.

Wow this is great!
I can't wait to see a improved version.
Will you add the overworld too?

To be honest, your acronym is way better than anything I seem to be able to come up with.

And this looks quite nice. I'll try it out once I get in Windows since I don't want to fiddling with WINE.

I love this example, Do you care about adding a HUD?

If you want to add it here's some sprites I made for a remake of DME2



This post has been edited by Sergeant DeeY on Aug 17 2009, 09:06 AM

make it a game instead of an engine honestly

this kind of engine only has and only should have one use

But it would be cool to have a decent battle engine

Wonderful, but.....

please release GMK!

NO. The LAST thing MFGG needs is more engines. Try looking on the Main Site or Searching the Forums, I'm sure you can find one that was already released.

Anyways, this is a very good engine! I do hope you use it in a game and don't release the source.

This post has been edited by OniLink10 on Aug 17 2009, 04:28 PM

Theres hardly as many good engines as this. i only counted 2 battle engines!

Only 2? That's 1 too many. Try using one of those if you really need an engine, but be sure to edit it or you will be flamed.

Do this or else you will be slammed with a bunch of these posts.


@Yoshbert, this is really great! If you do decide to release it, just make sure to force the users to change some of the values so its not the same game with differents sprites.

@ Mirror: I'll look into that. Thanks for alerting that to me.

@ Batandy: Thanks! I was thinking of making an overworld engine to go with this, but for now I'll focus more on battle stuff.

@ DeeY: Those look really nice! I can use the HP one, but do you mind if you could make one for FP (Flower Points), too?

@ everyone else: Thanks for all the comments! I am actually thinking of making this into a game, but not until I add more features. And don't worry OniLink and MechaBowser, no open source for any of you! =P

Right now, I'm adding the use of healing items (Mushrooms, etc.) and attack items (Fire Flower shooters, POW Blocks, and the like). Stay tuned.

Good, my main complaint is the timing is a bit strict, I only got one nice. Also the win pose is a bit glitchy.

This post has been edited by MONEYMAN on Aug 20 2009, 03:55 PM

How so?

I just finished the FP sprites



This post has been edited by Sergeant DeeY on Aug 20 2009, 04:16 PM

I dont think the win sprites should look like this.

This topic has been bumped. Literally.



Added the Fire Flower Shooter and POW Block as items. Also started work on the HUD (thanks to Sergeant DeeY for the sprites!). Expect a new executable soon.

Oh, I forgot to mention, you can switch rooms with Z and X to battle other enemy types.

This post has been edited by Yoshbert on Aug 27 2009, 12:46 PM