Housewife Core – RPG Maker MZ

Housewife Core adds a minigame cabinet to your RPG Maker MZ game: one menu, twelve household minigames, and a simple way to add your own. Open it from any event, let the player pick a game, then branch on the result with ordinary switches and variables.

Twelve minigames, ready to play

• Dinner Rush: cook on four burners and serve customers before their patience runs out.
• Laundry Tetris: sort clothes into whites, darks and colors, and fill rows to wash them.
• Vacuum Maze: steer a robot vacuum past furniture, the cat and stray toy bricks before the battery dies.
• Grocery Tetris: pack the cart as full as you can without going over budget.
• Meal Prep Planner: drag recipes onto the week so every family rule and the budget are met.
• Dust Mop ’em Up: tap to the beat and build combo multipliers.
• Baby Diaper Dash: answer each cry with the right diaper size before a meltdown.
• Party Prep: decorate, cook and clean at the same time while guests arrive at random.
• Pothole Patch: pick the right tools from the repair manual before things break.
• Neighbor Gossip: choose your words and protect your reputation. Rumors can come back around.
• Ironing Irons: set the right heat for each fabric and press out every wrinkle without scorching it.
• Budget Balancer: assign every dollar for three months and survive the surprise bills.

Every game has an intro card that explains its controls, a goal score, and a one-to-three star rating. All of them play with keyboard, mouse or touch.

What’s included

• A cabinet menu that shows each game’s best score, star rating and lock state.
• Best scores saved in game variables, and the latest result in a win switch and a lose switch, so your events can react.
• Optional unlock switches, so you can open games as the story moves on.
• Plugin commands: Open Cabinet, Play Minigame, Unlock Minigame and Set Best Score.
• No artwork needed. Everything is drawn in code, so it works in a brand-new project.
• One file with no dependencies. It doesn’t edit any core scripts.
• A registry for your own minigames: write one scene class, add one entry, and it shows up in the cabinet.

Setup

1. Put Housewife Core.js in your project’s js/plugins/ folder. Keep the space in the file name.
2. Turn it on in the Plugin Manager.
3. Add the plugin command Open Cabinet to an event.

By default, best scores use variables 8 to 19, the latest score goes in variable 20, and switches 19 and 20 hold the win and lose result. You can change all of these in the plugin parameters.

Make your own minigame

class Scene_MyGame extends HousewifeCore.Scene_HousewifeMinigame {     timeLimit() { return 30; }     updateGame() { if (this.trig("ok")) this.addScore(10); } } HousewifeCore.Minigames.register({     id: "button_masher", name: "Button Masher",     sceneClass: Scene_MyGame, winScore: 300 });

The base class takes care of the HUD, timer, pause menu, results and the trip back to the cabinet. The full example is in the plugin’s help.

Requirements

RPG Maker MZ. This plugin does not work in RPG Maker MV.

Terms of use

Free to use in commercial and non-commercial RPG Maker MZ games. Credit is appreciated. Please don’t resell or redistribute the plugin file by itself.

Version history

1.0.0: First release.