Hi all, introducing[CGMZ] Difficulty!

This plugin adds a difficulty select scene where the player can select their preferred difficulty. You can create as many difficulties as you want. Difficulty mostly affects battles, such as modifying enemy stats or gold/exp, but can also be used in eventing with plugin commands.

Modifiers

Below is a full list of things that can be affected by the game difficulty:

• Enemy Stats
• Enemy Gold
• Enemy Exp
• Encounter Rate
• Escape Rate
• Preemptive Rate
• Surprise Rate
• Item Buy Rate
• Item Sell Rate

You do not need to use all of the modifiers. Set them to 100 (no change) and remove them from the difficulty info window's display parameter and they won't affect the game at all.

Difficulty Select Screen

This plugin comes with a difficulty select screen that shows difficulty information, a list of difficulties to select, and the currently selected difficulty. It also provides plugin commands to manually set the difficulty, so you can fully event your difficulty select as well. The possibilities are nearly endless. See below image for one way the difficulty select screen may appear:

Difficulty Tracking

This plugin keeps track of which difficulties the player has selected in their playthrough. This can be used by you to event something special for the player that has played through the entire game on your hardest difficulty. Simply use plugin command to get the easiest selected difficulty into a game variable and then you will know if the player has selected anything other than the hardest difficulty.

You can also check the hardest difficulty the player has selected in their playthrough, should you have need to do so. Note that the default difficulty the game begins on is not counted as a selected difficulty for tracking purposes because the player has no way to avoid being on this difficulty at the start of a new game.

This plugin also automatically sets a variable to the rating of the current difficulty, and can turn switches on/off depending on which difficulty is selected.

Required Set Up

Important: Please note that when installing this plugin for the first time, there is some required setup. You must create at least one difficulty, and then set the default difficulty parameter to a difficulty you have created.

Integrations

[CGMZ] Scene Backgrounds - This integration allows you to easily show a custom background image for the difficulty scene, including weather and animated scrolling parallax images.

[CGMZ] Controls Window - This integration allows a no-code way to show a window that displays scene controls to the player, including automatically swapping between keyboard and gamepad based on the player's last input type.

[CGMZ] Window Settings - This integration allows you to easily customize the difficulty windows' windowskins, tones, styles, and more.

[CGMZ] Window Backgrounds - This integration allows an easy way to add an image as a window background, including scrolling animated parallax images.

Quick Facts

✅ RPG Maker MZ
✅ No obfuscation
✅ All future updates included
✅ No AI used at any point in the creation of this plugin

Support

Casper Gaming provides quick support to any user who needs it. You can leave a comment below with your question or issue, I try to check my itch.io at least once a day. For even quicker support, you can come into the Casper Gaming Discord and ask for help in the #support channel.

Credit & Requirements

Please see terms of use here: Terms of Use

Requires CGMZ Core plugin: CGMZ Core

Happy RPG Making!

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