Moonchalk's Archive Diary #1: Distortion - The First RPG Maker Animated Film (Part 1: First Experience with RPG Maker)

Let me get this straight about the RPG Maker and media things.

I took few years of development experiences with RPG Maker. I have been experimenting several elements in the game engine, known as RPG Maker MV since late 2018 like "cutscenes" and "battle sequences", which I am still interested at RPG work. But no, I only choose more story-driven adventure than RPG, so I made like demo versions or prototypes of several titles like Jared's Salvation and Shakusski. It did not well-received or little-to-no success enough to the RPG Maker community.

After that, I saw "Creative Cutscene Content" Game Jam on Itch.io, a place for RPG Makers where it allows to make cutscenes at least five minutes to watch. So, I only watched Yanzilla on YouTube, which is kinda funny that Yanzilla is eating the game developers and admirers XD. This is like an inspiration of such scenes, but not yet enough to do it more, instead I'm working and experimenting prototypes at the same time.

TL;DR, after the drama, publishing small prototypes, and cancellation projects of mine. I shifted from game making to filmmaking with RPG Maker because it's such a waste for developing smaller, bad games with bad scripts, which none of them liked that except Moonchalk and Tetralogy of Night Conversations, which is my last two game projects. So, I am really expressed with desire of minimalism and animation in films after I remember something about my short film known as Teenagers in Chester Street. This is my first experience of filmmaking on RPG Maker.

In January 2023, I am searching "films" or machinima" made in RPG Maker, but only I found was short films (e.g. Space Punk and Hikikomori Simulator) and web series (e.g. Slimey and Atis's Gaze). None of them made such 40+ min feature-length films made in RPG Maker means I am the only one who is really, really expressing much desire on making of my own first feature-length film. First things first, "no dialogue" on films is the most important goal for my film debut. With just less than 60 minutes for sure, I like that.

NOTE: This post is came from my own archive on WordPress before I deleted it and then moved into the text file on Google Drive.