Tale of the Lost Map

[jsj795]

I'm coming back Jan. 18th I really do wanna finish the battle engine already I mean it's mostly done but the monster's AI coding is really tricky

[jsj795]

While writing my storyline for the game, I thought it would be cool to borrow some of the Christianity's terminology and use them in the game. Well, what I'm doing is just putting some words such as Eden, or making certain group of people religious believers that the main character comes across, and integrating those into a game. But the game world itself will be largely different from actual Christian view of the world, as this world actually does not contain any specific Creator of the world, and has multiple dimensions and such (I don't want to say too much as that would be spoiling the storyline)

But yeah the thing I wanna ask is if anyone here would rather have me remove the whole aspect of religion in the game or just change that christian religion theme into some other religions that only appear in other fantasy settings or other long-extinct religions such as Greek/Roman mythology.

[Art_of_camelot]

I think it's fine. After all, fantasy is usually influenced by reality isn't it?

[jsj795]

yeah I would think majority of people would be okay with it, but there might be some people who are sensitive with it

[Hayleia]

Personally, I am ok with it.
But for other people, maybe you should put a warning at the beginning of the program, saying that there will be Christianity terms/themes and that you are not <I forgot how to say "when we advertise a religion">.

[jsj795]

oh yeah like, this game is not affiliated with any religions? that's a good idea. I should put that in place like "credit/about" or when new game starts

[iNk&Venom]

Good idea.

[jsj795]

Here is a little bit of an eye-candy, how the maps will look like.

Hopefully people see what I'm trying to draw This is inside of a house fyi

The yellow highlight is where the doors are located

[jsj795]

Just a little update, I have wrote down the overall quest story line, and I gotta say, it actually came out to be really good!!

I don't want to spoil the game, so I'll only put down a little teaser in the spoiler box

Spoiler for basic storyline:

Kiril is a 12 year old boy, the only son of Proucron family. One night, his mansion is attacked and his parents are killed, while he successfully hides in the nearby forest. When he comes back home, family steward is on the verge of dying. Before the steward breathes his last breath, he gives Kiril a map and tell him to run away and keep the map safe.

Kiril runs away to -whichever place the player decides to go to-, trying to find out who is behind the attack and what the map contains. After many years of various trainings and hardships (player can decide what kind of trainings to get, and do different side quests which will ultimately point toward the main quest), Kiril finds out that the map leads to the ruins of Aitria, a mysterious land known to contain many dangers but also heaps of treasures. And that the attackers were after those treasures.

However, as Kiril finds out more and more about the ruins of Aitria, he discovers that the ruins contain far deeper secrets that might change the whole world...

Spoiler for deeper secrets:

do you really want to know what the deeper secret is?

Spoiler for yes!:

play the game when it's released

but here's a little bit of hint. It has to do with separate dimensions and the actual reset of all lifeforms including humans(yes, it does happen, and you are unable to stop it from happening)

[Art_of_camelot]

Sounds really interesting, I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the great work! =)

[jsj795]

I got back to New York! I got my calc back! I can resume working on it!! yayyyy!!! /me starts programming

[jsj795]

I've just finished implementing a new movement, where event checking also works when moving horizontally instead of having up as the only method of triggering event, which allows a lot more variety in map design.

expect more progress soon as I have a lot of time nowadays

[jsj795]

phew! I think I got the basics down on getting the monster AI work. Although a lot simplified than what I had originally planned, I think it will be decent enough. Now I just gotta code the pseudocode on calc, and hope it's good. If it does work, screen shot will be coming up soon

[DJ Omnimaga]

I like the map so far. Can't wait to see it on calc

[jsj795]

Does anyone know of any example of battle system, where it is turn based, but it involves linear movement?

Sort of like Tales of Phantasia Linear Motion Battle System, but completely turn-based (meaning on your turn you get to move back and forth and can even fly, and attack and use spells/items, and after you make your turn, enemy takes turn to move around and attack), unlike Tales of Phantasia where both you and enemy can move in real time.

I've been looking up on google for possible examples of this battle system and failed. Is it that no one thought of using it this style or is it just not effective in general?