[CGMZ] Skip Title for RPG Maker MZ

Hi all, introducing [CGMZ] Skip Title!

This plugin allows you to skip the title scene entirely. This will either put the player into a new game where you can event your title screen with images and make it truly custom, or you can optionally put the player into their latest save file (if any exists) where they can then load other save files if desired.

Event Your Title

By skipping the title scene and loading into a new game, you will be able to have complete control over your title screen through the use of event commands and plugins that affect the map.

Jump Into The Action

You can also start the player right into the intro cutscene, and then load them into their save files if you want to not have a title screen at all for your game. Below is a gif of how this make look:

Compatibility

This plugin skips the title screen, so will not be compatible with plugins that change the title screen as you will skip past those changes. However, anything that works pre-title such as [CGMZ] Splash Screen or [CGMZ] Press Start will continue to work as expected since those are custom scenes before the title scene. While untested, this should also be true for third party plugins such as if you are using a preloader that loads things before the title scene, etc.

Editor Skip Title

You may be wondering why you need a plugin to skip the title screen when the editor already has that feature built in. The editor option is meant for speeding up your playtests, and therefore only works in a playtest and once you deploy your game the title will be shown. This plugin works in deployed games.

Roadmap

This plugin is pretty simple, but I do have some ideas for ways it could be improved:

1) Allow you to go back to the actual title scene later, such as through the To Title screen
2) An automatic fade in screen effect after loading a new game/save game, currently this needs to be evented
3) Option to ignore autosaves when getting the most recent save file

I am not sure which of the above people will want or find useful, so please let me know in the comments below which features you think will be most useful. Of course, if you have any more ideas to improve this plugin beyond what is listed above I would love to hear your suggestions. You can suggest things in the comments below or in the Casper Gaming Discord. I add all suggestions to my to-do list.

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Quick Facts

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

Credit & Requirements

Please see terms of use here: Terms of Use

Requires CGMZ Core plugin: CGMZ Core

Happy RPG Making!