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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Projects and Ideas => Topic started by: LincolnB on March 22, 2012, 09:59:50 pm
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A friend from school and I are working on a role-playing game. Both of us are pretty heavily interestedin going into the game programming industry as careers, so basically in an effort to get as much of a head start as possible in the indie game industry, we're making games!
Anyways. This is our first project, an unnamed RPG for PC. I'm doing all the programming, in C/C++ and SDL, and my friend's doing level design, art and music. We just barely started doing actual work, and as such don't have a playable demo right now. For the most part, we're planning everything out, in-depth storyline, etc.
The way I'm doing the programming is slightly backwards - I'm getting the menu screen, notepad, inventory, map, and save screen out of the way before I get to work on the meat and potatoes, the tiling engine, etc.
So using Visual C++, the GIMP and my mad skillz (not) I wrote the in-game menu, like when you press escape, the game grays out and this pop-up appears:
http://www.filedropper.com/awesomeingamemenu
Haha this is about all I have to show so far. Well, I take it back - I've actually completed the notes-taking page too, so as soon as I write the Inventory and the View Map deal I can get to work on the actual game.
As I mentioned above, so far we don't actually have a name for the game yet, but we came up with a name for the main character, Zak Leroi. Also, we're trying to come up with a name for our company, so if you have any ideas, let me know :D
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Leeroy Jenkins reference?
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hm, unintentional but possibly subliminal :D Nah, I've never heard of him. It's just a name we came up with, semi-based on one of our friends middle names, LeRoi.
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Well that's an awesome coincidence! ;D
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That menu reminds me of Minecraft for some reason, lol. :P
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Glad to see you into computer programming. I can't wait to see more work done on this and see how the game looks like in battles and the overworld map. :)
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You know, that menu screenshot looks like something that would fit on a smartphone. Any plans? :D
In any case, this sounds like a cool project. Any idea what the game is about yet?
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Yeah, almost the whole thing is planned out but we're not planning on supporting any other platforms besides PC :P haha and yeah, Homer-16 I defintely take lots of inspiration from minecraft.
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By the way the image link above no longer works. You should probably use a different image uploader like Imageshack or Removedfrom(losingthe)game.com for future uploads, to ensure they remain up. :P
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you should get rid of that parenthesis so you don't confuse him. :P
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No, I'm famililar with removedfromgame, it's fine.
Anyways, here's a screenie of the notes page:
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/8-Untitled.png)
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I like the fonts. What would be cool though is if you managed to make the papyrus look older. :D