Earthbound Zero Style Battle System??

TabletopTimeTurner · Post by **TabletopTimeTurner** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:38 am

I've been working on a few games for some time now and I wanted to make a Earthbound-Esque Battle System but I'm still learning how to program and was wondering if any more experienced users could help me out?

kylekrack · Post by **kylekrack** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:13 am

Other people have done things like this. Froginator was working on one a short while ago.

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6710

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?p=120432

Soule X · Post by **Soule X** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:11 am

My best advice is to play around with plotscripting. Start small. Play with the features. Try some of the tutorials. When you get an idea of how things work you have nearly limitless options. But don't think big at first. Learn everything piece by piece.
You can totally do this yourself if you put in the effort to learn everything.

Foxley · Post by **Foxley** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:55 pm

The Earthbound battle system is essentially the exact same thing as the Dragon Quest battle system. Just weirdly modern themed instead of medieval fantasy themed.

Since there's a turn-based option in General Game Data > Battle System Options, that will let you get way closer to a turn-based RPG style battle.

Under Battle Formations > Hero Formations you will be able to move the hero hitboxes and cursors to wherever you need, and if you want a first-person perspective like in Earthbound/DQ you should make the hero graphics blank.

For making captions and descriptions about hero and enemy battle actions, using Attack chains makes that fairly easy and straightforward, although it's messy and hard to organize if you end up doing a lot of them.

Post by **TMC** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 4:08 pm

(Note that Hero Formations are a new feature in the next version, Callipygous, which isn't released yet. You would have to download a nightly build, or just wait a few days.)