[project1dev] Re: RPG plan of attack
- From: Kent Petersen <kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:30:39 -0700
It would be nice to be able to have a gui for creating levels. Currently, I
edit the lua file and run the game over and over. This approach can be
tedious, especially for fine tuning or slightly adjusting where the land
pieces go. I have not downloaded the model program yet. I am hoping seeing
the models before I try to place them will help.
I was also telling Alan earlier that my computer is pretty crappy. My comp
is a 1.2 ghz with 1.5 gigs of ram and a geforce4 equivalent video card. I am
hoping that any graphical interface made for map building will use the
minimal amount of resources.
I don't mind what we have at the moment. We can fairly easily switch between
the game itself and the lua files for editing. You can adjust starting
points for testing and we can also free fly in the game itself.
It would be nice to be able to quickly refresh the game to add in recent
changes. For example, if I had the game currently open and at the same time
I am editing the lua file and I added in a new model, let's say a new piece
of ground to stand on. I would like to be able to refresh the map I am
currently playing without quitting out of the game. Possibly press a refresh
button that would re-initilize the map without having to restart the game.
It would be extra awesome if I had a way to restart just the map and keep
the current player/camera location the same and a way to completely restart
the map including the player/camera location
What kind of an interface where you thinking Chris?
What kind of stuff should this first dungeon be able to do? I was thinking
that it should have a minimum of a boss, a reward, regular enemies, and some
kind of skilled task (like a jumping portion and/or a puzzle to solve). I
liked Chris's idea of having the entrance different from the exist.
Should we post this stuff on the message board too?
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Chris Riccobono <crysalim@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hey Alan,
>
> Thanks for letting me know. I need to see what kind of format the
> levels will be in - do you have a template I can play with for that?
>
> You can tell me the specifics over aim (or even just another mail to
> the list, but I will need to ask questions of course!)
>
> I'm totally down for making an area with Kent, but if you want me to
> make my own little area, I can do that too. I used to build a lot of
> areas on one of the muds I played, and I've been thinking about
> converting one of them in particular to this game, if it fits the
> environment. It was a simple area that had two ascending staircases
> parallel to each other, with a logic puzzle and a boss at the top. I
> made two because walking out of an area the same way you came in is
> quite boring, so you could walk down the other way and get more loot
> in the process after beating the big mob.
>
> I know I need to more or less "prove" myself to you guys first, and I
> don't want to get in anyone's way in terms of the creation process. I
> really loved Kent's megaman levels, so I know he'll be great at this.
> I've also seen Eric's website and some of his art works, so I am sure
> his graphics for this game will excel as well. I don't need to
> mention your skill though Alan :P
>
> Are the files at the state where we can view levels in the engine as
> we create them? I know asking for the files is a bit useless because
> you're going to be updating them constantly, but having a release to
> use for looking at our area would help.
>
> How would you like to approach this, Kent? Also, could you let me
> know what screen name you use currently, Eric?
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hey Chris,
> >
> > So what eric and I were thinking is that after you and kent get familiar
> w/
> > how the game works, you guys could build an area together.
> >
> > Basically the area is just a cabin by a cave, the cave is mazelike and
> has a
> > boss at the end.
> >
> > You guys figure out the layout of the cave, whats in there, etc and you
> just
> > tell eric what you need in the way of 3d art (like if you wanted some
> > torches to put on the walls, or some bones for the floor etc you tell him
> > and he'll make them up).
> >
> > And, i'm going to be coding in features (like im working on shadows still
> > right now) but if you guys hit something you are unable to do, i'll code
> up
> > what you need to make it work.
> >
> > kent has started playin around w/ the game a little, but theres a lil bit
> of
> > a learning curve so im not sure when you guys will want to start the
> area.
> >
> > Whenever you have some time to start checkin it out let me know and i'll
> > walk you through getting the game downloaded and how to build stuff etc
> (:
> >
> > (PS this is posted to our mailing list, you can send emails to this email
> > address whenever you want to send something out globally)
> >
>
>
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