Tutorial: Selective Fishing
Difficulty: Beginner
RPG Maker: 2000/2003
Author: kdb424

Selective fishing, is when the person can choose what they want to fish. I always make 4 choices for games, but you can do as many as you want! I will explain more than four at the end.

  1. You need to make 4 kinds of fish.
  2. You need a bait, fishing pole, net, and/or fly fishing pole.
  3. You need to make an event, not a common event!
  4. Make the graphic invisible, and not able to walk through. Make sure that the event is push key, not on hero touch.
  5. In the event, make the first thing a message saying "Would you like to fish?" or something like that. If you want to put a price on it like a club or contest, do so. If this is fishing like in a pond in a forest, make the message say "What would you like to fish for" or something close with the same meaning.
  6. Then create a choice. Put the four fish as the choices. I will use salmon as an example.
  7. Set a variable to check how many baits you have if you want to use them, if you don't have baits then you can just stop your character from fishing.
  8. Create a fork condition with an else case, must have net, fishing pole or fly fishing pole (what ever you chose). make a fork condition that you need bait (if you want bait, maybe not for nets)
  9. Make a message saying what you need to fish for that under those fork conditions. Under the else case, make the person drop the bait (if you had any) and add the fish.
  10. Do the remember music command. Than play what music you want for fishing.
  11. Make a wait for how ever long it takes to catch the fish.
  12. Then play memorized music.
  13. Set a variable to a random number (ranging from 1 to 3 for example), you can then make a fork that only lets you catch the fish if the variable is equal to 2
  14. Finally make a message saying you caught the fish.
It should look sort of like this. Keep going if you understand. To make 5 or more fish, in the first choice, make the last fish (Fish4) "more" than make a choice under "more" for the rest of the fish. If you have more than 7 fish, make the last fish under "more", "more" so you have another set of 4 choices. If you don't understand, I types something wrong, It's most likely not you. So sorry, but if you don't understand, you need another tutorial. Good luck with this one!


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