Care for an 80% solution?

[masonwheeler]

My nxPascal does not have a focus.

And is anyone using it?

That's not intended as snark or as an insult, just an honest question. Do you have a user base? Because that's the other thing my project can bring to the table: a strong community of RPG Maker developers who would like nothing more than to ditch an old, outdated system that has not been updated in over 10 years in favor of something that's backwards-compatible but more powerful, flexible and customizable.

If we build an engine from the ground up, even when it's ready we will then need to build a community from the ground up or all that work ends up being meaningless.

[User137]

And is anyone using it?

That's not intended as snark or as an insult, just an honest question. Do you have a user base? Because that's the other thing my project can bring to the table: a strong community of RPG Maker developers who would like nothing more than to ditch an old, outdated system that has not been updated in over 10 years in favor of something that's backwards-compatible but more powerful, flexible and customizable.

If we build an engine from the ground up, even when it's ready we will then need to build a community from the ground up or all that work ends up being meaningless.

It gets couple hundred downloads every now and then, but that's about it. I blame the smallness of pascal gaming community I know some things of RPG maker myself, and been scripting something for it on someone elses project.

RPG Maker is software very clearly, not an engine. If we build community engine, it could be used to make a new RPG maker-kind of software package, but in my opinion it shouldn't be part of the main engine. I don't personally have much interest for Zelda type 2D-games, but i know many do. I wouldn't want to restrict the engine to anything at least. I think RTS genre made 3D and things like that can have potential still, but there are many more types. Most exciting ones are propably the ones nobody has thought before.