Hey all,
I'm ray, a university student and together with a friend (Stinkyfax) we are planning to make game.
Now, currently were seeking to build a team. We don't currently have many ideas about story, atmosphere or exact game play, this is because it is something we want to discuss at length with the whole team including the artists, music writer's, and designer's.
We are two programmers making a game, we have no artistic skills, I have been looking around and found out that RPGmaker communities are the only place where one can find sprite artists easily. And this is what we seek along other things.
Now, I have a very minimalistic alpha in the works with barely any game play but some engine basics written.
We are trying to appeal the interest of artists working with RPGmaker to join us.
The advantages of making a game from scratch in java are numerous as compared to using RPGmaker, first of all we have a lot more freedom.
For example :
I'm currently writing the NPC spawn point mechanism, which we allow me to dynamically create a spawn point which is either stationary or moving, can output NPC's at a fixed or dynamic rate, can output numerous or single type NPC's. It keep's track of the NPC's and will only spawn a certain number. It also confines the npc's to an "area" based either on the map or the spawn point position.
As far as i am aware rpgmaker won't allow you to do anything complex or interesting like this.
These kind of things will allow for a lot more interesting mechanism and design freedom.
I am going to give this a shot. and see if anyone has any interest.
Currently i have an alpha with a basic engine allowing for movement, collision detection, zoning, and NPC's. I hope to edit it to allow full collision detection of multiple NPC/players (multiple players since its meant to be online) and allow for some very basic game play by the end of the day. Along with finishing the spawn point mechanism.
If you have any questions post them and ill reply.
If interested talk to me on msn (kamasha@softhome.net) or email me (raynos2@hotmail.com)
Thanks, Ray.
I'm ray, a university student and together with a friend (Stinkyfax) we are planning to make game.
Now, currently were seeking to build a team. We don't currently have many ideas about story, atmosphere or exact game play, this is because it is something we want to discuss at length with the whole team including the artists, music writer's, and designer's.
We are two programmers making a game, we have no artistic skills, I have been looking around and found out that RPGmaker communities are the only place where one can find sprite artists easily. And this is what we seek along other things.
Now, I have a very minimalistic alpha in the works with barely any game play but some engine basics written.
We are trying to appeal the interest of artists working with RPGmaker to join us.
The advantages of making a game from scratch in java are numerous as compared to using RPGmaker, first of all we have a lot more freedom.
For example :
I'm currently writing the NPC spawn point mechanism, which we allow me to dynamically create a spawn point which is either stationary or moving, can output NPC's at a fixed or dynamic rate, can output numerous or single type NPC's. It keep's track of the NPC's and will only spawn a certain number. It also confines the npc's to an "area" based either on the map or the spawn point position.
As far as i am aware rpgmaker won't allow you to do anything complex or interesting like this.
These kind of things will allow for a lot more interesting mechanism and design freedom.
I am going to give this a shot. and see if anyone has any interest.
Currently i have an alpha with a basic engine allowing for movement, collision detection, zoning, and NPC's. I hope to edit it to allow full collision detection of multiple NPC/players (multiple players since its meant to be online) and allow for some very basic game play by the end of the day. Along with finishing the spawn point mechanism.
If you have any questions post them and ill reply.
If interested talk to me on msn (kamasha@softhome.net) or email me (raynos2@hotmail.com)
Thanks, Ray.