Thread:DukeLeto7/@comment-27713488-20191209001324/@comment-31763506-20191209044212

I'd claim that I don't really have the time to put in more effort, but that'd be a dirty lie. A more true statement would be it's much lower on the totem of the list of important things I'm procrastinating then some things, and I can't justify restarting work before I get more done higher up the priority list. This doesn't motivate me to get things done, of course, it's just an explanation of my fucked-up psychology and the Cthuluesque life of my work ethic.

The files were linked in the original thread, but they're not much use even if TinyUpload ain't deleted them for the reasons I outline below.

The main reason things ground to a halt with the project was non-portability, precisely that there wasn't really a way to make it so other people could use it.

There are two components to the thing right now. The first is an RPG Maker Script that dumps (most of) the game project's internal database to a set of text delimited files. That's mostly done and what ended up posted to the RPG Maker forums, although it would need porting to formats other than VX Ace. Then there's a Microsoft Access database that imports those files into the prepared DB structure and generates the report.

Access isn't ideal for the job because it's a proprietary Windows only application. So no Mac users or folks who haven't bought (or don't want to buy) some version of MS Office. That means it can't easily be generalized to other RPG Maker projects.

So what I think I need before I can restart is either a free, multiplatform cookie cutter RDBMS other than Access, and I have no idea whatsoever where to start looking for one, or I need to learn a free data management/reporting solution that isn't SQL based. LibreOffice looks like a good possibility,