Plugin Update: Social Media Buttons/In-Game Website Plugin (RMMV)

Version 1.6 of the Social Media Buttons/In-Game Website Plugin is available.

What's New?

The Twitter button has more options for when visitors click on it - Screen Name and User ID - which go to the corresponding Twitter account.

I also added a Follow option, enabling players to follow your Twitter account directly from within RMMV.

Other Tweaks

Instead of typing the full URL for Facebook, you now only need the page id/name.

Buttons are now defined in a single array setting, rather than as separate settings for each button.

Development Notes

Although the focus has mainly been on Twitter, I'm still conducting experiments with the APIs of other social media sites, notably Facebook, but also Google+ too.

These are ongoing because of the way their share settings work. They use integrated APIs rather than a few short lines of code. They seem targeted more for website integration.

In order for it to work, JavaScript implementation in RPG Maker MV would rely on their SDKs. While this is probably viable, it's not necessarily as easy as it sounds. Facebook in particular requires embedding their SDK to enable the various share options.

Development on this is on-going, but will continue on and off.

Plugin: Currency Formatter (RMMV)

The Currency Formatter plugin converts large currency numbers to an easier-to-read format.

Thus, 100000 becomes 100,000 or 100k (depending on the option used).

In time, I'll add a few more options to it:

• Currency position (left/right)
• Icon instead of currency text
• Message text options to change settings in-game

Adventures of Tryggr Troll - Offical RMMV Game

It's now official!

Tryggr the Troll WILL have his own interactive-fiction style RPG Maker MV game! And he'll eventually have his own website! He's rather excited, as we are! Can you tell?

We'll begin development on the game as soon as we've finished writing the story. And, yes, this IS Tryggr's actual graphic in the game. More details will follow as and when it develops.



Tryggr is a character I created a while ago using Daz3D just for fun. Since then I've been creating various poses and scenes for him. When RPG Maker MV was officially released, I received my copy (having preordered it) and started playing around with the new RPG Maker. The result was a very short something, purely to test its HTML5 and Android capabilities.

When I showed the wife, she became quite animated and told me that it had the potential to develop into a kind of interactive-fiction, story-driven game. So after some discussion, we decided that we'd both like to work on it together.

For this reason, development on the Adventures of Tryggr Troll will officially begin!