City of Amnesia

so i've been thinking about making a Big O video game, but I've got a little problem.
I CAN'T MAKE SPIRITES!
So i need help. like a spirte making guide of some sort. also what kind of weapon could Dorothy use, yes it's a fighting game and i'd like some input from people who might play the game.

dorothy needs a big gun that would accentuate her tininess.... sorry, i know nothing about making games, not even playing them...

I hear this a lot from people. Do you have any idea how involved game design is? Not to rain on your parade, but people need to realize how involved it is. The coding, the sprite work, the background work, interaction... I hope you're aware of getting into.
War.

yes i'm fully aware of what is involved. to let all game makers out there know there is a program called RPGXP it allows u to make your video game with easy.
I'm not good at editing make movements and events though.

i would probably enroll in a class of some type, and forget it after i ace the class...

if i did that i would just make the game and get a grade for it.

wouldn't that be better?

Searching Yahoo!/Google with "game development tutorial" seems to yield plenty of results.

I also found these sprite tutorials:
http://www.angelfire.com/geek/dogglife583/Sprite_Making_Help.html  (Basic)
http://www.datarealms.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16327               (A little more advanced...)

I'm sure there's plenty more to be found. GPL tools (freeware) can be found in sourceforge.net. Unforturnately, I haven't done much game programming recently, and my game editor experience is not that great either.

Oh you guys, thinking that something will actually happen...  :P

See, that kind of thinking is keeping great people from making great things, and that is why we are fed utter crap.

What are sprites?...

No, it's that kind of thinking that keeps people from getting their hopes up about things that will never happen.  Rarely do internet-borne ideas come to any sort of fruition.  Thinking realistically only keeps one from being the subject of continual disappointment when things fizzle out.

OK, first, let’s help out Bllue with a definition. Sprites are video game objects - not just the characters in the game but any object in the game with which a character can be interact. By interact, that can include characters moving, pushing buttons, moving levers, occupying/driving vehicles, or blasting objects or other characters into oblivion.  ;D

Bllue/Hobo, I’m in the uncomfortable situation of agreeing with both of you.  8) How about we just agree it’s alright to dream, so long as one tempers their “projects” with reason. It’s not so much that Internet-borne ideas rarely come to fruition, as it is any idea that remains in the “thinking stage” too long:

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration - Thomas Edison

People often forget or are unable to do that 99%...

In my experience with writing a video game for a home computer, I ran into real obstacles:
An incomplete personal knowledge of the specific hardware, lack of usable resources (that computer’s use then wasn't as widespread as PC’s are used now), lack of good design software (also because of it's popularity), the graphics hardware had limitations, the hardware’s processing power had limitations.

In a nutshell, I tried to write a one-screen, side-scroll, in Atari XL BASIC. The results, while functional, weren’t great. For sure, I’ve written PC programs, even those in PC BASIC, that were worlds better.

In writing a game, as with any software, your allies will be your resourcefulness, personal knowledge, resources (Internet and otherwise), and development tools and kits. Your obstacles will be time; “holes” in your personal knowledge; tool and kit availability and limitations; and the difficulty of converting information you’ve just acquired into actual knowledge. (One can possess a book without grasping the meaning of its contents. Majin Vegeta was referring to this obstacle.)

Don't let this scare you, though, shadowdorothy. Gather your knowledge and helper software, and see if you can proceed. If so, cool. If not, put it on hold or stop. No harm, no foul - just like any fun thing should be...

I think I've just fallen in love with you, Negotiator... :-*

I'm working on it as i go. i found some premade spirtes at dorothydorothy.com. i just need some roger angel and beck spirtes. I'm going to make it in the first season time.

Nother question. main story line with side missions or new stories, new characters and plot that eventually intwine with the series in itself?
I'd like to know to give the fans what they want...
but just remember that Rome was not built in a day so it wont be finished for a while. maybe a 5min demo by the first of next month if i can figure out the demo making side program.

Tesla was a great scientist, but I must question what theory he would use for a randomly placed needle in a haystack? Unless you're going the way of a binary search (split haystack in half, pick a half and split that half, pick one half of that half and split it, etc. until the needle is found), his "haystack" must be a metaphor.

Remember, everything looks good on paper...except maybe for bumblebee flight...

Since the needle seems to be the important thing, and  the haystack merely an obstacle, I would say we light the stack aflame, and search the ashes for the needle.

Alternatively, if the hay holds some importance and/or the stack is in a location where lighting it on fire wouldn't be advisable, you use a damn magnet.

Was probably a metaphor, they didn't get along, those two.

tesla? as in the guy who created the tesla drive, or the more scientific tesla?

O M F G.

We're talking about Edison and Tesla. Google "Edison and Tesla" and you will find the proper correlation.


Don't they teach these search skills in school anymore?

Everyone knows Tesla! He created the Tesla Coil, the deadly electric death ray tower that turned the tides of war between the Soviets and the Allies, until the Allies invented the Chronosphere and went back in time to prevent the Soviet-Ally war from happening.
War.

that was kinda the guy i meant. and if u want to know what they teach us, just go as a visitor and u'll see.

That game gave me fond memories. When I re-installed that game, nearly a decade after I first bought it, I realized that those memories were just empty illusions.

Starcraft was waiting for me downstairs.

High five'd x infinity

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War.

My response. (http://www.paradigm-city.net/index.php?topic=202.0)

no one ever anwsered my question!

Sorry, oh wise one... *bows* I would have answered your question, but I had to look up what a "Tesla Drive" was.  :-[

OK, well, they're talking about throwing lightning and electricity, and that can only mean the more scientific Tesla. Although, Edison and Tesla arguing over mecha design would be awesome³, but Leonardo da Vinci would probably draw better blueprints.  :)

CRAP! crapity crap.... my computer is down for the count. the game got deleted as did every thing else on its drives. we finally get it up and running again and tyhe internet doesn't work. im typing this on a computer at school. i need the interwebs to get stuff for the game.........
maybe by march i can finaly release a demo, if the internet ever works on my computer again.

Sounds fishy to me.


I have doubts.

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So this game, since you're using RPG maker, I'm guessing will definitely be a turn-based RPG?

If so, what sprites are you using for the monsters?

i had a basic demo. a short movie of whqat the characters might look like, but my computer died before i could jump it to a small hard drive.

God, at least I'm not the only one.
War.

monsters? u mean villians! well lets see, Beck, Alan, all gaint robots from anime and manga, Alex. i think i might add a car chase scene. the spirites are at dorothydorothy.com save alan and alex which i'll use a spirite maker for.

Please tell me that if this ever actually sees the light of day you'll at least use proper spelling.

Please, I beg of you.

You are far too hopeful, Hobo.
War.

Or it's such an un-word that spellcheck didn't know you were trying to spell anything.

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It sounds like you're going to make players fight against screenshots in turn-based battles.

Right off the bat, I can say that sounds boring.

How about this...
1) Get in touch with Shn275. Remember him? He made those 3d games.
2) Download Blender or whatever freeware he used to make his games.
3) Finally, have him teach you a bit about programming. Find out what he did, then expand upon it.

Your goal: to give his models a more interesting AI. That means make the enemies act more intelligently and do more things. He can copy-paste your programming into the game, and then boom, we'll have an addictive Big O brawler.

i've been thinking of 2d. and i might make it for the nes. ah the good old 8-bit days. and if i can i will get in touch with shn275. i just to find a nes profile game builder that actually works. maybe i will use green birds old sprites.