Home Button News Button About & FAQ Button Members Button In.Dev Button Play Button Forum Button Resources Button Links Button Contact Button
Main Logo
Blog
 

ChevyRay's blog ChevyRay's blog
ChevyRay's blog   RSS Feed
ChevyRay
May '07
2
Rivalry & Battle Engine! ChevyRay // 06:52 // 13 replies
I'm back!


ISOMETRIC ROLE-PLAYING


Battle System
After slaving away for countless hours at piles of scripts, resources, variables, and statements, I have pulled together one heck of a wicked battle system. Of course, the only working option available at this point is Attack, but more will come, and quickly! The system is pretty basic. Party members and enemies all have a speed attribute, which decides the turn order. When it is a players turn, you can assign them one of six actions: Attack, Magic, Item, Defend, Wait, or Flee. Attacking is free, and you can only attack back-row enemies if they do not have an enemy in the row ahead of them. Upon attacking, your character's weapon will flash, and if the button is pressed just at that time, a Power Hit is performed. Power hits involve a little extra animation, some flying stars, and (of course) deal extra damage to your opponent. You will also be able to do a Timed Guard when enemies are attacking, reducing the damage you take.

Initiate Battle!
Battles don't just start in this, I really wanted to take a pro-approach to this. Actually, thanks to GM6's deactivation functions, the battles take place completely in the room in which they were initiated. When you DO get into battle, the room shrinks and spins away, while the battle room bounces into view and the players and enemies appear. It's pretty cool, even as far as commercial RPGs go, in my opinion.

Enemy Spriting
I went mad with the pixels, and I mean mad. I pixeled all the bosses in the game, which at this point I will tell you is more than 10. To complement that, and make it SOME sort of a role-playing game, I decided to also pixel a load of monsters to encounter; I stopped at 18 because I realized that I was asleep.

Anyhow, here's a couple examples of what you'll encounter.


And a couple more tidbits of stuff I've completed, as well as hints as to what you can expect from this game...



Getting closer to that demo at an exponential rate, keep in touch.

Comments Comments
Gravatar
May '07
2
Re: Rivalry & Battle Engine! Ds // 11:55
wow man, thats looking great.



The battle mode sounds great, so I cant wait to try that out. This is just really awsome.

Gravatar
May '07
2
Re: Rivalry & Battle Engine! Elmernite // 13:19
What Ds said. Looks awesome, sounds awesome, can't wait!

-Elmernite

CosMind
May '07
2
Re: Rivalry & Battle Engine! CosMind // 16:23
funky cold madina.
exciting progress, indeed.

Initiate Battle!
Battles don't just start in this, I really wanted to take a pro-approach to this. Actually, thanks to GM6's deactivation functions, the battles take place completely in the room in which they were initiated. When you DO get into battle, the room shrinks and spins away, while the battle room bounces into view and the players and enemies appear. It's pretty cool, even as far as commercial RPGs go, in my opinion.

can't wait to see this in action - especially since i'm confused a bit after reading it  :P
you say that battles take place in the same room as adventures, but then you retread and say that they adventure room spins out and the battle scene bounces in.  so i'm not too sure i can envision how this "same roomness" plays out.

but hell dang fire, i can't wait to actually see it so i can understand it completely  ;D

Srehpog
May '07
2
Re: Rivalry & Battle Engine! Srehpog // 16:30
Hmm - 'press Z when your weapon flashes'... I hope those controls are re-mappable. :P

ChevyRay
May '07
2
Re: Rivalry & Battle Engine! ChevyRay // 22:05
Hmm - 'press Z when your weapon flashes'... I hope those controls are re-mappable. :P
They will be, I just have to think of a way to re-word it. I don't like figuring out controls and re-mapping keys... but unfortunately its just so darn important.

an't wait to see this in action - especially since i'm confused a bit after reading it  Tongue
you say that battles take place in the same room as adventures, but then you retread and say that they adventure room spins out and the battle scene bounces in.  so i'm not too sure i can envision how this "same roomness" plays out.
Well... how do I explain this? Haha, it WAS confusing. Well, Game Maker doesn't actually leave the room; but what happens is that a screenshot is taken, which is then drawn as a background with a black canvas behind it, and I shrink and spin the drawn background of the room away... But really, everything in the room you were just in is either deactivated or just behind this 'canvas' that the battle is drawn on.

Maybe I should just finish this demo and show you folks :P

Pages: 3

[1] 2  3  »


Have your say Have your say
Name


Email Address


Subject


Security code
Captcha


Message


 

Eo Logo   Link to Us | Feeds
2004 - 2010 © Eo
Website by House of Ninzha & Simon Donkers