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Hej, that generator is pretty good!
ador862
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In Topic: What RPG stuff do you want my engine to have?
10 December 2011 - 10:44 AM
Ooooh 
Well yea, Earthbound style is a bit unconventional as far as JRPGs go, but I understand what you're getting at. Does this mean the tiles will be at 45 degrees or whatever that strange projection Earthbound uses?
In that case, make sure you have a list of *item types* The idea is that though there may be many items, some of them will do specific things.
eg. status healing (Dead, Poison, Paralysis, Petrification, Sleep), healing direct stats (HP, MANA), character modifiers or buffs (STR, DEF, INT) and so on. That way if I wanted to create a potion that improves strength for 2 turns, I can just match the types based on an established set of indices.
Same goes for spells really, as some spells and attacks will affect stats, direct stats, and player status, and then the players can mix or match them with specific animations, name and desired effect. This might be a bit difficult to maintain, as the partial formula must be provided by the designer.
As a natural extension, enemies should be easy to create after that, as all you need to do is assign existing spells to them, preset behaviours (defensive use of healing spells, offensive, offensive use of status affecting spells, docile till attacked etc) which can cycle through the options of spell types similar to the behaviour the enemy is to portray, and also scripts to generate what set of enemies appear where on the screen.
Well yea, Earthbound style is a bit unconventional as far as JRPGs go, but I understand what you're getting at. Does this mean the tiles will be at 45 degrees or whatever that strange projection Earthbound uses?
In that case, make sure you have a list of *item types* The idea is that though there may be many items, some of them will do specific things.
eg. status healing (Dead, Poison, Paralysis, Petrification, Sleep), healing direct stats (HP, MANA), character modifiers or buffs (STR, DEF, INT) and so on. That way if I wanted to create a potion that improves strength for 2 turns, I can just match the types based on an established set of indices.
Same goes for spells really, as some spells and attacks will affect stats, direct stats, and player status, and then the players can mix or match them with specific animations, name and desired effect. This might be a bit difficult to maintain, as the partial formula must be provided by the designer.
As a natural extension, enemies should be easy to create after that, as all you need to do is assign existing spells to them, preset behaviours (defensive use of healing spells, offensive, offensive use of status affecting spells, docile till attacked etc) which can cycle through the options of spell types similar to the behaviour the enemy is to portray, and also scripts to generate what set of enemies appear where on the screen.
