Fullbordad

Hello!

I'm currently working on a sandbox rpg game, well, semi-sandbox. And as I do intend to have quests in it I'm not sure on how to add them on a more special way. I have a questlog, where the description is written "Kill 5 rats and return to blablabla" etc. But as i don't really like questlogs i was thinking of completely skipping it.

This would make you have to think alittle more, and it'd feel more free too.

An instance of this could be a conversation with a NPC:

"Hello, would you care for a job?"
*Yes*<- Next string of text *No* <- Leave conversation
"Wonderfull! I could use some wolf pelts, our stock of them are completely empty.. About five pelts would be enough."
*Sure* *No, I can't do that*

Basicly it'd be a conversation. You wouldn't get anything written anywhere, but you'd know that this NPC wants pelts. So going out to hunt some wolves, then loot five pelts and return to the NPC would give you a reward.

Now this could get very messy if you have about 25 "quests" that you have to remember. And thats why i was thinking that you'd have a book, which basicly is a questlog. But you'll write your own notes in it. This would work by letting a player write 5-8 short messages to himself, that will be saved in the book. (I don't think it'll be to hard to create?)

Another option is that you also have to buy the book, and when you've cluttered it full of notes you can't clear it. Meaning that you have to buy a new one.

Would this just be annoying? I think it'd be cool, but I'll keep the queslog i have, just in case^^

RPG Lore

Hello!
This is a general discustion thread about RPG lore, and how it can change a game and enhance it. How important do you think that RPG lore is? Are you one of those who wholehearthly reads and shows intrest in the lore or do you ignore it so you can just play the game?

Now i would like to know this since I'm creating a semi-sandbox RPG and I will have lore in it. It would just be fun to know how many who would actually read it^^

The lore will be found in books and other various resources that you stuble uppon in the game. And MOST of it will be optionall to read.

----->LINK TO THE GAME<-----

Here are some of the books I'll use:
Credit to: Me and Zevti

General World Lore

Created by: Fullbordad
The creation of the new world (3 Book series)

Book 1: The escape of Norath
By: Adrian the 15:th, King of Ashrael

Introduction:
Not very much is known about the old world... The great wars, that ended the prosperous era of the Holy Empire has long been forgotten by the people
who inhabit these lands. Adrian the 1:st, the prince who survived and led our people across the great seas has been long dead. We, hes ancestors
has created a new empire stronger then ever. Akar bless us all, and spare us the pain and suffering our ancestors had to endure.

The escape of Norath:
It was a dire day when the opening of the portals came. Vile creatures and demons from the deep world of the netherlands spawned and laid waste to
everything in their path. It is said, that the day the portals opened was the day that the gods abandoned the entire planet. It was the punishment
for everyones sins.

Some however may call this a blessing, because on the brink of destruction all the races of the world united to fend of this new threat. Humans,
Dwarves and Elves, the three dominating races met and promised to help eachother out to pacify the world of these evil spawns. These were good words,
but nothing else. At the great fight on snowpeak pass, the plains outside the dwarf capitol only a handfull humans arrived to help, and even less
elves. The dwarves were doomed, and the trust betwen humans and elves became very thin.

With demons outside their borders and several grave losses, the humans soon decided that leaving their homelands in search for new ones past the
great ocean was their only hope of survival. Their king, Jakob pledged to the elves to come with them, but hes request was utterly turned down. As the
proud people of the forests the elves refused to leave the lands, given to them by their gods. And with the assasination of the elven crown prince
(The Prince Alvulace Tragedy), which was directly blamed on the humans, it was only a matter of time before a new war started.

As both demons and elves was threathening, king Jakob decided to leave the country. He sent hes two sons, Adrian and Victor to gather as many people
as possible. Naturally the noble families was taken first, and with not even a small chance of being able to take all the poor, a big riot started.
Backed up by the elves the poor soon became overwhelming, the Royal guard was outnumbered by thousands. And soon king Jakob and hes followers didn't
have much time left to escape...


Book 2: The Great Sea
By: Adrian the 15:th, King of Ashrael

With the whole city in civil war, king Jakob and the two crown princes led the noble people towards the north harbor. But chased by the overwhelming
force of rebels they soon realized that they had no chance of escaping in time. That is when Jakob and 100 of the finest soldiers of the royal guard
barricaded a bottle neck passage, and held off the rebel army. Adrian and Victor used the time their father had given them to load the boats and set
sail. As they were out on the sea, they could see their home in flames. Adrian slowly raised hes hand in a salute, to honor hes father and the brave
soldiers that was left behind. Soon everyone on the boat followed hes example. This was to be called the Silent night.

Months passed since Adrian and Victor left their homeland. They had already lost two of the eight ships in storms, and they had used most of the food
suplies. In addition, a strange plague had started on Victors boat, and everyone who caught it died. The situation was dire, and Victor had to come up
with a solution. After the death of one of hes closest men he locked himself into hes room for days, only coming out to eat and give the daily orders.
And one day, after staring at the wall for hours, Victor called the ships doctor and told him to lead all the sick up on deck. The doctor got confused,
telling that it would only worsen the condition they were in, but Victor wouldn't listen. When all the sick was on deck, Victor ordered the guards
to kill and throw anyone with the disease off-deck.

Adrian woke up to the sound of screaming and clashing metal, he ran up on deck and saw the people on hes brothers boat get massacred. No one know what
conversation the brothers had later, but they splitted up, leaving in different directions. Three ships went after Adrian, and one after Victor.
This was the last time the two brothers ever saw eachother, and no one really knows what happened to Victor and the other boat.

Book 3: The rise of an empire
By: Adrian the 15:th, King of Ashrael

Three months passed, and two more boats were lost to the storms of the sea. The remaining people started to doubt if they ever would survive, and some
even suggested that they should've followed prince Victor instead. In adition, the disease was back on one of the boats, it was only a matter of time
before mutiny.

It was a calm night when the royal guard captain shouted to Adrian that he had to come up on deck, Adrian rushed up, ready to fend off any rebels
but the sight he saw completely surprised him. It was land, undiscovered land! Everyone started to laugh and cry, they had made it!

Adrian sent scouts trough the unexplored lands, and after a few days they returned with the good news of a great location for an encampment. Some
days later the remnants of the once great human civilization started to build a small village next to a big river. Adrian ordered the people to
create a memorial ground for the ones who was lost. He also made the day they landed on the beach a holy day. And every year they had the "Worlds
blessing", celebrating the new-born and mourning the lost.

At the age of 34, Adrian got two sons with a woman he'd picked for a suitable wife. They were twins, and direct ancestors to the throne. However,
he didn't get the time to grow old with them because Adrian got killed by the disease at the young age of 36. A great statue was raised to hes
memory, and the whole land was in sorrow.

When the twins, Adrian the 2:nd and Michael the Wise was 25 years old the queen, their mother, died from age. Adrian the 2:nd became king, and Michael
created a diplomatic group where normal people could leave suggestions about how to change the kingdom. This was to be called the Victorian System,
and after a few years the group started to train diplomats.

This was the rise of a new empire, our empire.

Akar bless us all
Adrian the 15:th, King of Ashrael
_______________________________________

Created by: Zevti
The Prince Alvulace Tragedy (1 Book series)
By: Unknown

Since when the world was young the Elfan people cited that they, through a contract with their gods, claimed dominion over the forests and that humans
were to be treated as visitors in their home. It was for this reason the elves did not always recognize the humans’ territory, nor the authority of the
human nobility. Coexistence was a matter of tolerance. Sadly with demons at the gates and conspiracy at every door, ties that had lasted for centuries
were quickly and most slovenly eroding. Conflict gripped the boarders of the human territories—conflict painted with fire.

King Jakob, Sovereign Lord of the Humans, knew that if the tide of violence did not shift the two races would most undoubtedly find themselves at war.
He waved the flag of peace in the hopes that his subjects would do the same. But alas… they did not. There then became a great schism between the Elfan
peoples between those who abhorred what they saw and championed non-violence and those viewed the human race as no better than the very demons that
plagued them all. Extermination became their rallying cry.

Beaten down by the Elfan resolve, the only levy holding back the floods of bloodshed was the Elfan royal family. Marstan, their king on his very
deathbed, though with his own prejudices against humans pleaded with his people to cease the pointless killing as too did his son Prince Alvulace, who
would soon ascend the throne. Alvulace and Jakob were of like mind and compassion. It was well known that if anyone could restore order to the forest,
it would be them working together.

It was the morn following the festival of the summer solstice that shrieks of horror rang out from the Elfan Royal palace. Prince Alvulace, heir to the
throne, was found dead, his veins frozen with most foul poison. By the time news of the assassination reached Jakob’s ears, the elves were already
making inroads into the kingdom, raining a swath of destruction over all that they came across. With their ineffectually king now without an heir the
Elfen crown had shattered along with any hopes for diplomacy. Indeed there was war, most terrible war, and it was to be known as The Summer of Brimstone.

No longer safe within their walls the nobility sought flight be it by land or by sea. Always compassionate, Jacob sent his very sons, Adrian & Victor,
to gather up the masses so that they might be delivered to sanctuary. At the Human capital, Jakob’s subjects found their backs pressed to the sea.
The common people the poor and the destitute, found that they could not gain admittance to the ships and were forced to watch the nobility, pompous
and fat, sail instead. Outrage gripped the crowed and they rose up in a great berserk uproar. The riotous crowds pushed and maimed for passage, only
to burn down many of the very vessels they hoped to board. The sad events of that day shook what remained of the kingdom to its core. The people, now
distraught and abandoned by their rulers, soon turned upon themselves with rival factions rising from the dust. Anarchy amongst war it was -a most
pitiful end.


Religion

Created by: Fullbordad
The god of war ascends <-- Not completed yet
By: Raman the Light
Deep in the netherlands, a dark abyss full of demons and vile creatures an egg was hatched. Naturally the mother had already left the newborn ten thousand years ago, when she laid the egg. Crawling from the nest a small demon found hes way down the large hill which was hes home. He stoped for a moment and glanced over the vast desert-like area and then started to carve a symbol with hes sharp claws on the ground. This was a demonic ritual circle, used when summoning minions or teleporting to distant areas.

However just as the demon was starting the ritual a diabolic dragon attacked. The fight lasted for 100 years, untill the demon fell to the ground and impulsely used the ritual circle as a decompressing seal, combining hes and the dragons body. A body combine spell is very painfull, and most living things wouldn't survive it. But somehow the demon managed, the birth of a god full with rage had been completed.

Full of anger and hate, the demons soul constantly struggled with the dragons soul. And everywhere he went, the surrounding areas went insane. After a while the Netherlands itself banished the demon, sending it out from the lands he called home. Stuck betwen the human world and the demon world he constantly creates hate in both worlds. If he ever would get trough to any of the worlds, it would probebly mean the end of all that is living.

Hello

It's been a long time ago I've used GM now, but i found a folder of my old games and got intrested again. I'm currently working alittle on my RPG; Fairy Tales. It's just a game where i can really test my capabilities in GML. Link to the game here: http://gmc.yoyogames...p;hl=fullbordad

So basicly what i need help with is to improve my questlog. Currently I'm using a very ineffective code, using draw_text like this:

Example:

if global.quest1=1
  {
  draw_text(2,2,Hi)
  draw_text(2,4,You've got a quest)
  draw_text(2,6,You need to kill ~~)
  }

This works, but I guess there has to be a much better way to do it?


Thanks, credit will of course be given.
//Fullbordad

Hello, i need some enemies for my platform game im making!

It's not a very big project since I'm making it becouse i wanted a break from my RPG.

Heres an image of the main Character, Benny Beefcake:


And heres the mall for him:


Size: 32x32
Style: Keep it the same as the main Character
Extra: I dont mind if you make your own mall since mine is just for showing what i want. I would actually prefer you to use something other then my Mall to make the enemies look unique. But thats up to you:)


Credit will ofcourse be given and if you create some really good enemies or alot of them I'll upload your game on my soon to come website!

Fairy Tales v1.0 ALPHA (Remake)
By: Fullbordad

"Every story has a hero, where is our?"
-Memorials of Adrian the 15:th

Download:


Information:
This is a remake of a old Medieval Fantasy RPG I started. I've been working on it for some weeks and got the engine completed. I was hoping that
some of you would try it and see if you could find bugs/glitches so that the engine is 100% done before i start creating the world.

I will try to make this game semi-sandbox, and you as a player will be able to interact and even change the world you play in.

What i want you to test out in this version is:
-The battle system basics
-Spells
-Overpowered/Underpowered attacks
-Quest
-Inventory
-Grammar faults

Screenshots:


Title: Fairy Tales
GM Version: GM7 PRO
File Size: 1.49 Mb
Screen Resolution: 640 x 480
Changes Screen Resolution: No

Extra:
Want to help out with this game? Go and make some buildings! Credit will be given: Link to Graphics post
Read our lore and comment it: Link to Lore post

To all you that try the game: Thank you! I hope you'll leave alot of constructive comments.