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Thought about making my own game

Specifically, I thought about making a horror game using RPG Maker (VX Ace specifically), because I have experience working in that and because I can't code for shit. :P

To go more in-depth on what exactly I thought about doing, my concept was like, you're this cat boy who gets kidnapped and taken to a secluded lab where they do illegal experiments on those who they've captured, and before they start operating on you, another experiment they were doing goes horribly wrong, killing a bunch of the researchers there and causing the whole place to be locked down and abandoned. After a few days the power goes out, leaving just you (and potentially any other survivors trapped in there) to fend for yourself and find a way to escape. Thing is, the lab is now infested and overrun with creatures who have been mutated and are extremely likely to kill you, so it's not as easy as just 'find a stairway and escape' because that would be boring. So you'll either have to avoid them entirely, or get lucky and find SOMETHING you can use to defend yourself with (like a knife), because you're completely defenseless otherwise.

The gameplay portion would mainly be wandering through the corridors, mainly avoiding enemies and hunting for things you can use to help yourself, like some added protective gear, an aforementioned weapon, or rations you can use to restore any health you might've lost. Enemy encounters won't be random, you'll be able to see them ahead of time, hence why I mentioned 'avoiding' enemies, although the encounters will be made to be tough without any weapons, as you're basically naked outside of anything you find in there. There ARE some boss-ish encounters, mainly just unavoidable fights with particular infected/mutated creatures you run into.

Lastly one of the biggest things I wanna do is draw like... a lot of stuff, since RPG Maker allows you to put images in, so I can use em to draw cutscenes, like upon starting, entering a new area, interacting with stuff, encountering bosses or creatures, etc. etc. It'd take a lot of effort to draw that much but idk, I think I can do it. :P

Kinda a long-winded thing to write about but yeah, I've had the idea to make a game in RPG Maker for a while, I only recently just got a good idea though so figured I'd write about it so I don't forget it (and in case anyone else thinks it sounds interesting :3). Horror stuff is something I've been obsessed over the past few years, and I notice there's a lack of horror games in terms of like, furry stuff considering most games I see revolving around it are basically all dating sims or visual novels, and that's a bit boring. :P


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elpapu

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You should definitively try to do it! Im not good at coding but im learning and i bet having such a game done would feel amazing!


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Benji

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So it's survival horror-lite featuring cat boy. I wonder if it would be fun to follow a structure similar to Luigi's Mansion where you unfold the place finding your way out? How many keys and doors? What is the world and people like when it features a playable cat boy? I guessing there is quite a bit of designing left to do before collapsing and implementing.


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