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2D RPG Development

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 3:33 am
by Nasus
I'm very new to the forums, which must seem pretty obvious since this is my first post, but please know that I have been
viewing threads/topics on this forums without a registered account.

CONCEPT
I'm currently developing a vast 2D RPG named after the world it takes place in, Cratex. The objective of the game is to simply
own all of the territories in Cratex. And to accomplish this, you need to be both powerful and wealthy, and the process
of earning these two properties for your character make up majority of the game play.
I'm not going to get into too much detail about the game's concept (I feel as if I already have XD), mostly because I feel that I'm not far enough in the development
process.

PICTURES/VIDEOS

Please read this before viewing the media: All of the sprites/tiles, other than the UI, are not drawn by me and were either
found in the deep depths of Google Images, or were ripped off of some 2D games. I'm currently drawing my own sprites for the game, of course,
but for testing purposes I'm using the sprites shown in these pictures and videos.

Picture of dialogue box (Very old. And no, there isn't any fishing in the game AT THE MOMENT.)

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Picture of the current pause menu screen. The buttons are mouse oriented.

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Picture of the new, simple UI (Drawn by me, for once XD). Still a work in progress.

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Picture of the newly implemented magic system.
The spell in this picture is "Leech" or "Life Leech". Basically, while holding the attack button and in range and direction
of an enemy, you will leech your opponents health. What this means is that he will lose health, while you gain a small percentage of what he's losing while the spell is active.
This spell consumes a lot of your character's magic, and is not very effective at low levels. (As seen on the update video XD)

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Video update for 11/10/11 to 11/20/11 (Please watch in 720p fullscreen, at the moment of the video where I demonstrate the Leech spell, the effects are very hard to see
unless you are viewing the video at 720p fullscreen.)


Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:42 am
by k1net1k
hey dude that looks really good( i realise you didnt do the artwork, but i mean that will come in time anyway)
Great to see new projects continue to find their way to ES forums.
why you stay stealthy so long...

Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 3:57 pm
by Nasus
k1net1k wrote:hey dude that looks really good( i realise you didnt do the artwork, but i mean that will come in time anyway)
Great to see new projects continue to find their way to ES forums.
why you stay stealthy so long...
Thanks for the reply!
And yeah, I'm creating my own artwork as we speak. (please know that I'm not the best artist :lol:)
An idea that I got from someone on Youtube for the player's sprites is instead of using sprite sheets, I can create a separate sprite for the head, torso, arms, and legs. This way the player is able to equip an item in the game, such as an iron helmet, by simply replacing the head sprite with the iron helmet sprite, or drawing the iron helmet sprite over the head sprite. For animation I can simply rotate the sprite for the arms and legs.
I've already done this in previous projects, so the only part of this update that may take some time is simply drawing the sprites.

Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:29 pm
by Light-Dark
This is pretty badass!, Great job, i must inquire are you using any type of scripting/dynamic language if so what may it be? :D, great work i'd like to see more!

Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:24 pm
by Nasus
Light-Dark wrote:This is pretty badass!, Great job, i must inquire are you using any type of scripting/dynamic language if so what may it be? :D, great work i'd like to see more!
Thanks! And nope, just C++ and the Allegro 4 library.

Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:14 pm
by Trask
Looking good, dude. Welcome to the Chaos Rift! We have some really, really talented people here, so feel free to ask questions or even contribute by helping others when you can. :cheers:

Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:57 pm
by Nasus
Just wanted to give a quick update after a while and let the few people who may have seen or followed this thread for a bit that this project was not abandoned, and has been slowly making progress. A video of the many updates is soon to come :'P

Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:18 pm
by Nokurn
Nasus wrote:Just wanted to give a quick update after a while and let the few people who may have seen or followed this thread for a bit that this project was not abandoned, and has been slowly making progress. A video of the many updates is soon to come :'P
Looking forward to it! This looks really good.

Re: 2D RPG Development

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:15 pm
by Light-Dark
Nokurn wrote:
Nasus wrote:Just wanted to give a quick update after a while and let the few people who may have seen or followed this thread for a bit that this project was not abandoned, and has been slowly making progress. A video of the many updates is soon to come :'P
Looking forward to it! This looks really good.
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