The last days were busy, time for making games was rare. Not much progress.
I looked at some sprites and noticed the colors of some sprites are not arranged according to the other sprites.
So either palette swapping is difficult or I redo the sprites. I did neither, I'll just use less variants of NPCs.
I also drew some more sprites. Here's one with hats:
Hats are difficult to draw
How do you go about battle balancing?
I came up with an idea about how make battle balancing easier for the game.
I'm using the FF version of magic in the "Magic&Monsters game".
The player can choose diffrent attacks, but they do the same damage.
Exmple: Attack A hits 1 time and does damage of 20. Attack B hits 2 times and does damage of 10.
Anyone more experienced: Is that a good idea?
Or are there pitfalls I did not consider? (I did not consider any... )
Also I need to check if negative costs for attacks are working...
The negative costs for attacks will be used, so the game can give tokens to the player. These Tokens can be use for special attacks.
(If i remeber corecctly the ideas was the giz?
) I found information on script arguments (see this: http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce ... ent_for%3F).
And today in the helpfile of the OHR-Editor I read, that I need to set "allow gameplay and script" OFF in order to use it.
Maybe I can use it for multiple choice questions.
I've begun plotscripting for the alien game.
As I want to make quizes to test the players knowledge, I want to use menus for multiple choice questions and answer options.
(And because it is a very important feature, I'll try to figure it out before doing easier plotscripting things like cutscenes.)
By the way why is there a max number of letters that go into s menu? >_<
Sometime my question takes 2 lines because of this!
The first "quest" is to do your homnework... that sounds very bad for promotion, I think.
I used some easy plotscripting and menus that set tags.
@KF Harlock:
By reading about how you make games, I realized my approach is usually to work map by map. Graphics come first, then ome map where I add things, usually it is just testing and playing aound without a real plan.
If I got an idea, I plan some more, adding graphics as I need them. At some point, after setting up the plot is done, I decide how many maps I'll use, and I start add missing npcs, graphics and texts, plotscripts.
Music and sounds I tend to do last, because it is less annoying when play testing one's game. Also it makes your game easily (a bit) disorganized, especially for textboxes, since some are added during the progress you can't bundle them up.
Maybe a tagging feature for textboxes could be usefull for this kind of workflow?
I've only ever finished one game, so I can't say if it's a good way or not.
Your idea about the moral choices is interesing. And the graphics are really, really good!
I stared at the stone-face for a while, trying to figure out how you maked it looke like stone and not like a face.
Trading a game file sounds like a very good idea to keep being motivated.
Thanks for your good advice to ask for help either in chat or in the forum.
I'm sure I'll come back to that as the games progress.
