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Posted by Niborius on Sat Jan 14th at 10:19am 2012

I'll do my best to explain;

I am going to make an RPG game for some people I know IRL, but I have to do everything manually, except for some things. For example, a battle with a monster is going to be done with a dice.

If you can't really follow me it isn't a problem, but anyway this is what I want to do:

Explain Attempt #1:I am going to make a lot of screenshots of a game (Gothic 2 in my case), and then I want to make it so that if you click a certain path, the picture will change into the corresponding picture to where the path leads to. (as if the player walked to that point. Like in the Myst games.)

Ok most horrible explanation ever...

Explain Attempt #2:Take Google Streetview as an example. You click a place where you want to go, and the program loads the picture of that place and you're there. Only in my case I'm not going to use panorama pictures, and I don't need any special effects like in Google Streetview either.


If I am still being a bit vague, just say so, I'll do my best to explain it again.

Ok that's the first part, I'd also like to have a soundtrack play when the program is open, depening on where the player is located.

Finally but optional, I am going to make some hunting area's, but I wonder if it's going to be possible that the program gives you a random chance of what type of monster appeared.

That's it. Should I make this in Adobe Flash? Or Powerpoint maybe if that is possible? Or anything else?

Heh I believe this was my worst post so far on the pit smiley


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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Jan 14th at 8:33pm 2012

Like the game Myst?


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Posted by Niborius on Sat Jan 14th at 8:54pm 2012

Ya, I stated that in the post as well smiley smiley


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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat Jan 14th at 9:29pm 2012

Haha sorry dude, I didn't read that last sentence. smiley

Might look into creating your own program with the XNA framework. Doing 2D stuff is pretty easy:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/aa937791

And C# is relatively easy language to learn. But thats all I got.


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Posted by Niborius on Sat Jan 14th at 10:02pm 2012

Heh no problem.

Yea that is an option, but not everything has to go automatically. It's like half-board game, and the other half using tools on the computer.

I've already made a Random Item Generator in the past using C++ language (or some other language) that I used everytime a monster was killed by the player. Worked pretty well.

Edit:

Here for example, I would make it that if you click the left side of the picture, the screen will change into the picture that is taken as if the player is looking left, clicking in the middle will go to a new picture as well (one that is a bit further in this case) and clicking the right side of the picture is the same as clicking on the left side, only vice versa.

^ In first person though. Imagine it like 3 invisible huge buttons.


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Posted by Riven on Mon Jan 16th at 10:07am 2012

hmm. So the pictures could all be taken as screenshots, and tied together through a nice little interface that made them interactive.

I've never used it before, but from my understanding, would the Microsoft program: Visual Studio, allow you to do something with that? -I don't know much about, except that people can make Windows applications and simple games in it. Maybe like this one?

Otherwise, I would work it out like a web page, and use carefully positioned div tags and hidden pop-up layers (tool hints and stuff) for hot spots and things.

Then, if you get it uploaded somewhere, you'd have the added bonus of allowing friends to play from anywhere! This is assuming, you become somewhat familiar with CSS, or know HTML really well. And use something like Adobe Dreamweaver to help you visualize it.
Heck, if you got a database working with it, and using PHP with SQL, you could have a really neat, powerful little game there.

All the best. smiley


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Posted by omegaslayer on Mon Jan 16th at 10:17am 2012

Quoting Riven
I've never used it before, but from my understanding, would the Microsoft program: Visual Studio, allow you to do something with that? -I don't know much about, except that people can make Windows applications and simple games in it. Maybe like this one?

Visual studio is whats called an IDE (Integrated Developer Environment), for coding in programming languages. You can download/configure/setup the program to do web pages. At that point through your going out of the scope of what the program was designed for.


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Posted by Niborius on Mon Jan 16th at 10:52am 2012

Quoting Riven
hmm. So the pictures could all be taken as screenshots, and tied together through a nice little interface that made them interactive.

I've never used it before, but from my understanding, would the Microsoft program: Visual Studio, allow you to do something with that? -I don't know much about, except that people can make Windows applications and simple games in it. Maybe like this one?

Otherwise, I would work it out like a web page, and use carefully positioned div tags and hidden pop-up layers (tool hints and stuff) for hot spots and things.

Then, if you get it uploaded somewhere, you'd have the added bonus of allowing friends to play from anywhere! This is assuming, you become somewhat familiar with CSS, or know HTML really well. And use something like Adobe Dreamweaver to help you visualize it.
Heck, if you got a database working with it, and using PHP with SQL, you could have a really neat, powerful little game there.

All the best. smiley


That sounds cool actually, but I'd still have to make an inventory, stats system, level up system etc etc, and I don't mind making and updating those things manually when someone is playing. It's not a professional game or anything, I was just getting more and more ideas for a game to make and I thought I should make it alive.

Remember my game from earlier made by excel? It's a bit alike, only without the myst-like pictures.

Also, I figured Riven would show up here when I said the name "Myst" smiley

Thanks for the offer though, I'll think of something.


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