I guess you guys will be interested in this. So, I've decided to make an RPG. Unlike some almost as awesome people who use RPG Maker, my colleague and I are going to be badasses and program the whole thing from scratch in C++. It will probably take a good year to finish, but we will do it. Here's the backstory:
I've been taking programming classes for the past 2 years, and about 3 months ago a friend told me he was going to work on an old-school console style RPG engine. I instantly said I was in. I went home, wrote up a basic story and some character outlines, and showed them to him at school. He liked them and we immediately started working on it, and thus *100 Million Angels* was born. (It was named after the song that inspired it.)
I'm not going to give away the story just yet, but it involves epic armies of angels destroying Hell and the events that lead up to and follow it. If you really want to know, i guess you could PM me, but I don't want to spoil it totally.
Game-wise, we don't have too much done so far, but we have a running DirectX engine that loads a screen from a text file, draws it to the screen, and draws the player. You can move around, and the game dynamically loads each area. I'm very proud of myself, because I've been the main debugger even though my friend is a better programmer :)
Anyway, I'm going to be keeping this thread up to date with major developments and stuff. Feel free to post comments or suggestions, or just talk about how awesome I am. Thanks for caring :D
Alright, starting the Prog Log.
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6-23: Here's a picture of what it currently looks like. Basically, we're creating a test area that we probably won't actually use in the game. And yes, you can move from the left screen to the right :D I don't know why, but some colors were randomly replaced with black in the print screen. The game itself looks fine. And yes, the trees look like crap. I'm doing better ones in photoshop once I feel like it.
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6613/wonkygame.th.jpg http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3727/angelsss2.th.png
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6-28: Well, I've been working on text boxes for a few days now. They suck. I'm making progress, but unless you want to see giant lumps of code, I can't really show you anything. I want to update this thread at least once a week though, so I guess I can reveal a bit of the story :D
In a world separated into 3 different planes of existence, Heaven is recruiting an immense army of angels in an effort to defeat Lucifer once and for all. A low-class angel whose defining traits are apathy and laziness decides to join and give a purpose to his meaningless life. He and the squad he is put in (standard party-forming plot device #63, of course) follow the army to hell. Lucifer is vanquished, but the party is injured and left for dead. They set off on their own journey on Earth, trying to find their way home.
Don't worry, it's way more interesting than that. I just don't get to tell you the good parts. The game will certainly be character-focused, with numerous scenes dedicated to developing the relationships between the characters throughout the story (think disc 2 of FFIX). I think I've put together a decent plot (although you guys can't really judge, because i'm certainly not going to spoil the twists), and I'm doing a lot of character design work as well. I guess I'll describe a character for you next time I have nothing to show you during an update :)
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7-3: BOO YA. Text boxes are fully operational. Right now I pretty much just have it draw no matter what, but it would be hilariously easy to set up a simple if statement for it. Combat menus are a whole different story, and I'm going to do those as I do the rest of combat. That will be very ugly and take a while, so I think I'll do NPCs next. Enjoy the new pic :D
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/87/angelsss3.th.png
The blurriness in the text is just a product of the apparently bizarre interaction PrntScrn has with DirectX engines. It's perfectly clear in the game. :Oo:
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8-4: Man oh man, I'm sorry. I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been unspeakably busy. I've been watching a ton of anime, going to a bunch of parties, playing a bunch of games, just about everything that prevents me from working. However: I wrote just about all of the first cinema scene, and I'm starting to work on the characters a lot more. I'll post it if you guys want me to, but it's pretty damn long, and will thus have to be in a separate post. Sorry for failing so hard >.>
