This RPG has been serious business, so I am happy to say that I am starting to wrap things up this week. I just have to problem-solve a few more things, as illustrated above, but for the most part everything is getting done.
Making this game has been quite a journey for me. It started as a raw concept involving trading, moving things around, etc. all sketched out on about 4 whiteboards, and has wound up as a game somehow. Each day I took the liberty to try to program a very specific thing… whether it was the exchange of money from the player to the selling engine, or the exchanging of diamonds for a new vessel. It takes a lot to do very simple transactions in this game.
Last week was all about the traveling, and the traveling went quite well. You can choose between seven different vessels to use, and depending on your vessel you get to employ other members of your party. The system has to be careful about who gets employed and the power they contribute to the party, so it was a challenge to make the game limit the power you can achieve while not completely nerfing the game so that you get killed easily. Balance is a tricky thing.
Overall, I think it is going to be a phenomenal game, I just hope I can live up to the expectations of the Flash community. RPG’s have long and far been a specialized trade, and my contributions have always been arcade in style moreso than anything adventure/RPG related.
So this is it! Time to wrap things up!
Tags: RPG
I want to travel to Luka town!!
(Although I hear it’s full of cheaters and over sized Eagles)
Yea… apparently all towns are not so well off *cough cough* ;-P
The game looks absolutely fantastic! The art looks great, I know you don’t normally go in that direction
Is that a Photoshop grass stamp I detect?
Whiteboards? Whiteboards!? In my day I concepted in MS paint. And by my day I mean last Wednesday.
Haha, the Photoshop grass stamp… I used it for school recently :3
This is looking awesome man, I can’t wait to play it
keep going John, your game looks awesome. i’m eager to see it finished!!
Can’t wait for it to come out.So im wondering when will it come out ?????????
This game looks like something I’d play tell me when it comes out
man i dindt no making a game on here was so hard…lol…well good luck john
dude so cool didn’t know it could be so hard!good luck John
RPGS: SERIOUS BUSINESS.
I’m wondering what happened to this game. Still a good idea. There’s probably only one other completed flash game like it, that I remember.