Good, non-commercial, RPGMaker Games - Do they exist?

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Maniacal Foreigner said:
There appear to be three different builds in the downloads folder, which one should I play?
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On that page that I linked to, just click the zip option and allow it to download. It should be titled RM2KLOTR2019.zip. You should be able to run the zipped folder directly in EasyRPG, though you may have to choose a subdirectory after choosing the zipped folder.

EDIT: I see what you were referring to now. It appears that the game was updated again back in 2022:


In that case it looks like "LOTR2022.5.lzh" should be what you download. Looks like he made a decent number of changes to the game. Note that .lzh is just an older less efficient compression format that was popular in Japan in the '90s and what RPG Maker 2000 would use to compress games. WinRar and 7zip can unpack it. I'm fairly certain EasyRPG can handle that format natively though.
 
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I know you asked for non-commercial games but for others in the thread interested in RPG maker games you can play on Joiplay, check out Felvidek
a game set in alternate history Holy Roman Empire with a faux-low polygon ps1 art style (a bit over done, but it .makes this one stand out).
And Look Out Side
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3373660/Look_Outside/ IMHO the greatest Horror RPG ever made. unique body horror art style and gameplay mechanics.
 
Merton J. Dingle said:
On that page that I linked to, just click the zip option and allow it to download. It should be titled RM2KLOTR2019.zip. You should be able to run the zipped folder directly in EasyRPG, though you may have to choose a subdirectory after choosing the zipped folder.

EDIT: I see what you were referring to now. It appears that the game was updated again back in 2022:


In that case it looks like "LOTR2022.5.lzh" should be what you download. Looks like he made a decent number of changes to the game. Note that .lzh is just an older less efficient compression format that was popular in Japan in the '90s and what RPG Maker 2000 would use to compress games. WinRar and 7zip can unpack it. I'm fairly certain EasyRPG can handle that format natively though.
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Zarchiver works to unarchive them. I don't believe they work directly with easyrpg. At least I haven't been able to get them to work directly.
 
Tate McRae said:
There's a game called Neopunk which isn't too bad. The guy who made it made a bunch of other games as well. If you have a Google phone or Android, you can do the survey's through Google's surveys app and earn enough money to buy games from the Google Play store. That's what I do to get games.
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How much are you making per survey
 
Grub said:
Zarchiver works to unarchive them. I don't believe they work directly with easyrpg. At least I haven't been able to get them to work directly.
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You're right, I just tried it. I figured I may have been thinking of something else.
 
Grub said:
.lzh files are an old compression format from the 80's originally called LHarc. It stayed popular in Japan for a while.
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I'm aware, but for some reason I remembered EasyRPG having support for it, but I was obviously mistaken. I really wonder why the creator of the LOTR RPG was using it given that I've seen virtually no RPG Maker games use the built in compression tool (that uses that format) since the early 2000s or so. It's especially weird given that he uploaded the 2019 build as a .zip file.
 
Merton J. Dingle said:
I'm aware, but for some reason I remembered EasyRPG having support for it, but I was obviously mistaken. I really wonder why the creator of the LOTR RPG was using it given that I've seen virtually no RPG Maker games use the built in compression tool (that uses that format) since the early 2000s or so. It's especially weird given that he uploaded the 2019 build as a .zip file.
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I've noticed a bunch of games uploaded in that archive compressed in lzh format. I wonder if it was something to do with rpgmaker.net. Maybe they encouraged the format for uploads or something or maybe rpgmaker itself has built in support for it.
 
Grub said:
I've noticed a bunch of games uploaded in that archive compressed in lzh format. I wonder if it was something to do with rpgmaker.net. Maybe they encouraged the format for uploads or something or maybe rpgmaker itself has built in support for it.
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I know that when you use the option in RPG Maker 2000 to "Make Game Disk" from a project that it will create Setup.exe, a .txt and .dll file, and then a .lzh file with the actual game data. From what I understand, despite the format having originated in the '80s like you mentioned, .lzh remained the dominant compression format in Japan through the '90s and into the early 2000s, which is why RM2K uses that format instead of .zip. The best that I can figure (having just tested the tool out myself) is that someone used the built in tool to avoid having the problem of Windows having a folder within the zip with all the subdirectories inside that unnecessary folder. Additionally, if you just select all the files and subdirectories within a folder in Windows and try to compress those to a zip, the zip will be named the same name as one of those subdirectories, forcing one to manually rename the newly compressed .zip. It is possible that if someone was tasked with compressing a bunch of folders for upload that it was faster for them to use the compression tool within RPG Maker over and over, letting the unnecessary installation files overwrite themselves for each game, and then uploading the .lzh files, thus avoiding the aforementioned .zip problems.


Yes, I am aware that this is an incredibly autistic post.
 
I remember liking something called "A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky" but don't recall much about it.

Also "Hello? Hell.....o?" was... unexpected.

There was a game called Ill Will which I recall being kind of interesting.
 
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