[Old-Sckool]

Kuroneko's BMPtoMZM rocks for quick title screens

Basicly it's an RPG with (hopefully) randomly generated maps, except the RPG battle screen and the overall map screen will be on the same screen at all times (somehow. It sounds pretty messed up even to me.) If someone could help me a little with randomly generated maps and how to program robots that can navigate it, I'd appreciate it. If the randomly generated map thing doesn't work, I'll drop it.

The magic system is inspired somewhat by Final Fantasy 12.
In Final Fantasy 12, figuring which spells (such as Sleep, Slow, Blind) work on certain enemies was all guess and check. In this game, all monsters will be susceptible to afflictions to some degree (Maybe not the End boss, but then again maybe so.). I'd also plan on working something out so that the player can Tame most wild monsters in the game

Sword and Shield combat will still be another option, but I haven't figured out exactly what I want to do with it.

I suck at drawing sometimes. Go play Marty the Mage from Winter DoZ '06 if you don't believe me. If anyone would like to contribute art to the project it would speed up the process greatly. I'd have to make some more mock screens first to figure out my char set limitations.

7-7-7 is almost over

This post has been edited by Old-Sckool: 08 July 2007 - 03:57 AM

[Lachesis]

Old-Sckool, on Jul 7 2007, 08:56 PM, said:

Kuroneko's BMPtoMZM rocks for quick title screens

The screenshot looks nice, I'd glad my little converter got put to use

[Val]

The person's missing his right arm.

[KKairos]

The look of the title screen is decent, but I sort of agree about the right arm. I guess it could be holding the scepter or whatnot but in reality it more just disappears.

Hope to see more of this one!

[CHEZZY]

Will this play anything like the Game of Life?

[Old-Sckool]

KKairos, on Jul 8 2007, 04:53 PM, said:

The look of the title screen is decent, but I sort of agree about the right arm. I guess it could be holding the scepter or whatnot but in reality it more just disappears.

Hope to see more of this one!

The missing arm looks better than drawing one when its char size in my opinion. If I decide to keep this Title Screen, I'll give him his arm

[CJA]

how about a brown hat!!

[Old-Sckool]

A mock Screenshot I whiped up rather quick.
Some notes:
--- Look at the horrible What-is-its? I've hand drawn.
--- All uppercase text
--- The mazes will look a lot better than this
--- No Run option on the menu
--- I forgot to make room for that flashing text thing (it's 3am here)
--- I'll stick something that shows what floor level you happen to be on
Again if anyone would like to contribute enemy art PM me. Single enemies must not use more than 12-14 chars, 1 icon char and must fit in a space of 7x7 (though 7x5 would work better, I'll get 7x7 to work somehow...). Boss Enemies can be allowed a space up to 8x8 and 60 chars, 4 icon chars (2x2) but not all will be allowed these maximums.

I plan to work more on engines now, and less on art.

This post has been edited by Old-Sckool: 10 July 2007 - 07:11 AM

[Val]

One would think a right arm would be kind of vital, you know. Especially if he's going to be fighting.

[Lachesis]

Guy, on Jul 10 2007, 12:28 AM, said:

One would think a right arm would be kind of vital, you know. Especially if he's going to be fighting.

maybe he's like lucy and he's holding the staff with a vector

[Old-Sckool]

I've been working on the randomly generated maps, but in my off time I've been thinking about a plot and have decided not to work on one seriously this early on.
As for the "underworld" you will journey through a series of maps, fighting creatures and whatnot. What you might encounter, I don't know for sure. Possibly underground towns (non-randomly generated), or Underground rivers, unusual vegitation, trees that grow back quickly, dungeons.

I also haven't told you about the elemental system, but I'll save that until more work has been put into other engines

[KKairos]

Good stuff. Dream, but don't dream too big. There's a reason I'm sitting on a pile of unfinished/barely-started epic RPGs.

[Koji]

Yeah, insert Chronostodian reference.

[Lachesis]

insert reference to every full length game i've tried to make

[Old-Sckool]

Yes Virginia, I'm still working on this one. The Random Maze Generator and Renderer are complete for the most part, and work on the interface has begun. I plan to make this game heavily dependent on the mouse, So I've got a mouse Icon drawn, and have a mouse friendly menu system in the works. I've also started working on attack animations. When I get a better feel for what I want done, I'll organize everything a little better.

Hmm... where could this fire attack be coming from?

[T-Bone]

Old-Sckool, on Jul 10 2007, 02:11 AM, said:

Again if anyone would like to contribute enemy art PM me. Single enemies must not use more than 12-14 chars, 1 icon char and must fit in a space of 7x7 (though 7x5 would work better, I'll get 7x7 to work somehow...). Boss Enemies can be allowed a space up to 8x8 and 60 chars, 4 icon chars (2x2) but not all will be allowed these maximums.

Hmm I may come up with a few enemies you could play around with. I'll try to make them graphically similar to the ones you already have.

[djtiesto]

ATM? Ass-to-mouth?

[T-Bone]

I meant as in not entity ditched characters or solid characters. Its good to maintain the same style in a game.

[FSleeper]

is this going to be a rogue-like or something different?

This post has been edited by FSleeper: 18 October 2007 - 10:57 PM