A repository for RPG Maker MZ plugins by GaryCXJk
These plugins are added tho this repository to keep the plugins up-to-date faster. These plugins will be available before they appear on the main site, area91.garycxjk.com, though most of the time they are either untested or not properly documented.
Sometimes I'm working on a plugin, and never actually end up finishing it. Or sometimes I don't feel like making a page for it for a long time because converting the instructions to HTML takes too long and I'm too lazy to write a converter myself.
Also, while the plugins are MIT licensed, I still want to keep it in record that I actually made this, so that nobody can actually claim to own these plugins other than me, since git actually helps in keeping a timestamp. This is more for your protection rather than mine, as I also don't want people to be scammed by plugin resellers.
The reason is very simple. Taxes. I hate doing them, and anything that can give me income will make it so that I have to file it on my tax report. It's too much of a hassle.
Plus, making plugins paid comes with the price that you have a responsibility to keep them maintained. People expect quality from a paid product. Because my plugins are free, I can waive this responsibility, since you're free to make your own adjustments.
Finally, I'm on the side of those who want to make software open source. People learn from the codes of others, which is also why I'm putting the effort of adding comments. They're mostly for my own sake, but also so that others can work off them, instead of just copying and pasting them in their own work.
Look, coding isn't simple, it's something you need to learn. The best way to learn it is by doing it yourself, by learning from the ground up. Always start at the basics, which means follow tutorials or courses from the beginning. There are no shortcuts. If you don't know the difference between an integer and a string, you have no business doing the more complicated stuff.
But once you're there, once you know all the important data types, loop blocks, conditional statements, operators, objects, prototypes, and even ES6 stuff like classes, promises and asynchronous functions, being able to read somebody else's code can help. Truth is, no programmer is perfect, and no code is the best. Heck, I do programming for a living and I still don't do things perfectly.
In the end, my code is just a stepping stone. Most of the stuff I make is stuff that's only useful for programmers, plugin developers. Not a lot that I make is really ready to use for the regular RPG Maker users. If a beginning JavaScript programmer learns even a tiny bit from my code, then that's a mission accomplished.