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js530
js530
The name of the RPG is The Crystal Road Project. So far we've come up with the idea of a character walking around battling creatures with magical weapons and skills. The character will pick up items as he kills creatures. He will gain experience and develope learned skills from completing task (that NPCs ask them to do ie. kill all of the monsters in the NPCs cornfield or something like that). The player will learn new skills from defeating bosses. He will also get new items from that. His goal is to reach The Crystal Road in the sky that is good (we haven't thought of why yet). We need anyone skilled in VB, 3-D art, 2-D art, music, sound effects, or anything else a game would need. We will be using a DirectX 3-D graphics engine. If you are intrested please email crystalroadproject@yahoo.com or go to crystalroadproject.tk The team will work with no pay. [edited by - js530 on October 23, 2002 10:49:24 PM]
Chosker
Chosker
I believe you''ll have to try to make a better design of the game.
Right now it seems too simple, and alot like all the other games.
Basically your game is "some character walks around, kills creatures with magic and weapons and skills and picks items from the creatures, he gains experience and develops skills from completing the tasks the NPC''s give them, and learns new skills from killing bosses, from which also gets new items. then he must find some special place/item (the crystal road)"
sounds like you''re describing diablo or any game of the type. Not sure if you got a design doc but you should, and you should describe the experience system, weapons, magic, skills systems, and all that.

- ZeroX
Blood Spawn
Blood Spawn
The developer''s page doesn''t even take you anywhere.

P.S. your password was extremely easy to figure out. LoL
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js530
js530
Free isn''t always secure. We''ve also considered having the character do evil quest like murder, theift , and sabotouge. But were not done with the storyboard so it can change.
js530
js530
quote:
Original post by zEROx
I believe you''ll have to try to make a better design of the game.
Right now it seems too simple, and alot like all the other games.
Basically your game is "some character walks around, kills creatures with magic and weapons and skills and picks items from the creatures, he gains experience and develops skills from completing the tasks the NPC''s give them, and learns new skills from killing bosses, from which also gets new items. then he must find some special place/item (the crystal road)"
sounds like you''re describing diablo or any game of the type. Not sure if you got a design doc but you should, and you should describe the experience system, weapons, magic, skills systems, and all that.

- ZeroX



do you have any better ideas?
Andru
Andru
I''ve got an idea for a game. You start out when some monsters (or maybe terrorists - we haven''t decided yet) attack, and then you have to find a gun and shoot them all, and there''ll be about 15 levels, then you''ll have to kill a boss to win the game. It''ll be first person and all in 3d. We''ll need programmers, 3d modellers, texture artists, sound engineers, story writers, and $50,000. But we can''t pay anyone.

My point? It''s very easy to put together a vague game description that sounds like any other game ever been made. Your description sounds like every cliched RPG out there.

People would take you more seriously if you wrote the story, sketched out the basic gameplay etc, and put it into a basic design doc. There are too many "teh next FFVII" wannabe''s to take a proposition worded in this way, and with this amount of detail, seriously. Also, what role do you intend to play in all this? In most indie teams the team leader plays an active role in some area of the development.

Btw, a 3d engine in VB would run somewhat slow I believe. Though I''m not sure of that, perhaps its just a myth.

(to be honest, your post is so cliched I''m having a hard time deciding whether this is a prank post or not, so if it is...disregard the above)

js530
js530
Well I would want to add much more character-world reaction. Like monsters could steal items that they wanted and the character could get arrested or something like that if they did a evil quest. There would also be different currences and values for items. Players could submit quest designed with a utility. My role in the project is programmer.
thelurch
thelurch
Perhaps you should try putting your post in the Game design or game writing sections and ask for ideas. Then when you have a more solid idea then you can start asking for programmers and stuff.
It''s said that most indie developers never complete thier first project, without a more defined plan of execution you will probably end up as a statistic as well
And you''re right Andru, VB is definitely not the way to go if you want efficient code.
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Chosker
Chosker
quote:
Original post by js530
do you have any better ideas?


Yes I do, and they are in my RPG project
took me some time to figure out everything (and still needs some stuff)
just a tip: try thinking about a game you want your to be like, then think about every aspect of it, if you like it or not, and how you can make it better
some of this aspects are the fighting system, character selection & development, skills & spells, weapons & armor, enemies, etc

- ZeroX
Pipo DeClown
Pipo DeClown
quote:
Original post by Blood Spawn
The developer''s page doesn''t even take you anywhere.

P.S. your password was extremely easy to figure out. LoL


LOL you suck, just go to the souce, and search for the page it links to when the password is correct!

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