MKXP: Open-Source, Linux Engine To RPG Maker XP

[ssokolow]

Still better than the GNU RPG Engine
rpgboss is written in Scala using libgdx framework that is written in C/C++; only the API is in Java and, because of that, it is one of the fastest gaming multimedia library at the moment. Moreover you can easily get various target platforms such as Android, iOs, Windows, Linux, OSX and web application.

Better, but I still prefer to leave my options open in ways AGPL complicates and I'm still not a big fan of the Java experience on a system where the firmware, nVidia binary drivers, Flash, Dropbox, and oDesk Team are the only non-libre, non-game components.

Last I checked, the libre-licensed JVM was a bit of a hog... especially when there were no other Java applications to share the memory footprint of the libraries.

[davcri]

AGPL3, written in Java, and no apparent effort to act as a porting aid for an existing RPG Maker version? No wonder it never came to my attention before.

Still better than the GNU RPG Engine
rpgboss is written in Scala using libgdx framework that is written in C/C++; only the API is in Java and, because of that, it is one of the fastest gaming multimedia library at the moment. Moreover you can easily get various target platforms such as Android, iOs, Windows, Linux, OSX and web application.

[ssokolow]

There's also http://rpgboss.com/ that is a promising (open source) RPG maker clone.

PS: this is my first post on Phoronix, I'm sorry if I'm jumping the presentations but it is late and I wanted to post this No, I have nothing to do with rpgboss or his creator

AGPL3, written in Java, and no apparent effort to act as a porting aid for an existing RPG Maker version? No wonder it never came to my attention before.

[davcri]

There's also http://rpgboss.com/ that is a promising (open source) RPG maker clone.

PS: this is my first post on Phoronix, I'm sorry if I'm jumping the presentations but it is late and I wanted to post this No, I have nothing to do with rpgboss or his creator

[Ancurio]

What about a 100% compatible binding? I would prefer a more compatibility goal, so we can play all RPG Maker XP games under Linux natively

Sure. If someone is willing to put in the work to wade through the dead swamp that is MRI 1.8 and make it all compile, I'd sure accept patches.
In the end you will never get 100% because some games will use the Win32API directly (such as ToTheMoon), and you will have to port these parts over.

[monraaf]

Lolwut.

Heh, great, good that I was trying to look smart ;-)

I never used an RPG Maker newer than 2000, so it is enough to support this "Ruby Game Scripting System" thingy to get games running under Linux? No support for proprietary map/database files needed?
Or is everything used by RPGMXP internally written in RGSS? oO

Regards

[Chaz]

How can you even ask about that when the owner of github repo is Ancurio. Of course he programmed it and not only that but he is also the one that did Linux port of To The Moon.

https://twitter.com/outoforder_cc/status/420635206484103168

The package that you are looking for is named libsdl-ttf2.0-dev and it's non development equivalent is libsdl-ttf2.0-0.

Dude, be nice! If you are wondering something, asking someone is a good way to find out. Even if it might be possible to go research things without ever talking to another human being that doesn't mean you have to do so.

[timofonic]

MRI

Website: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Matz's Ruby Interpreter, also called CRuby, is the most widely deployed version of ruby. If you're interested in running games created with RPG Maker XP, this is the one you should go for. MRI 1.8 is what was used in RPG Maker XP, however, this binding is written against 2.0 (the latest version). For games utilizing only the default scripts provided by Enterbrain, this binding works quite well so far. Note that there are language and syntax differences between 1.8 and 2.0, so some user created scripts may not work correctly.

For a list of differences, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...8-and-ruby-1-9

What about a 100% compatible binding? I would prefer a more compatibility goal, so we can play all RPG Maker XP games under Linux natively

[Bestia]

Do you know of a certain feature github has? It's called fork. He might just have had a personal fork to work on something in particular, and not be his project from the beginning.

I overlooked the forking part of git but then again forked repos are clearly labeled. Looking at your Metapad repo there is this info:

Oppen / metapad
forked from alexd/metapad

[mrugiero]

How can you even ask about that when the owner of github repo is Ancurio. Of course he programmed it and not only that but he is also the one that did Linux port of To The Moon.

https://twitter.com/outoforder_cc/status/420635206484103168

The package that you are looking for is named libsdl-ttf2.0-dev and it's non development equivalent is libsdl-ttf2.0-0.

Do you know of a certain feature github has? It's called fork. He might just have had a personal fork to work on something in particular, and not be his project from the beginning.

For example, you can look up "Oppen" in github, which is my user name. There are three or four repos there, of which I only started one from scratch.