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[Piggy]

Honestly, if the new Final Fantasy game (13?) comes out for PS3 only, I'll probably buy a PS3.

Its coming out for 360 to I believe

[Gaddy]

Honestly, if the new Final Fantasy game (13?) comes out for PS3 only, I'll probably buy a PS3.

Its coming out for 360 to I believe

Indeed. According to a friend of mine, who I turn to about video games quite a bit of the time, FF13 will be released for the PC and Xbox360!


He said it was the big news from SquareEnix at E3.

[Pandilex]

Doesn't colour make all the difference?

[Piggy]

Honestly, if the new Final Fantasy game (13?) comes out for PS3 only, I'll probably buy a PS3.

Its coming out for 360 to I believe

Indeed. According to a friend of mine, who I turn to about video games quite a bit of the time, FF13 will be released for the PC and Xbox360!


He said it was the big news from SquareEnix at E3.

Aye thats where I heard it from to, E3. We're saddos arn't we

[Raylen]

Doesn't colour make all the difference?

I prefer the original

[Exor]

Doesn't colour make all the difference?

I think so. The one without color does seem a bit dull in comparison.

[Pandilex]

Making progress.

I'm not building up the game like Nightmist was built up though, whereby it was made playable and then features were added. Instead I am adding all the tools and features for people to give me all the flexibility I want first, and after all that's done, then I will make the game.

That said you can see from the above screenshot that I am doing some stuff. The thing I am working on now is the NPC dialogue, quest and event trigger system. I have to get it right from the start so a lot of planning and design that is required.

I've already designed the first quest, so now I need to design a system that lets me implement it nicely. I might have to write some kind of scripting language, either way it will take a long time to get right.

[Sausage]

sexy.

Lucky for us we have Nightmist to hold us over until the 2028 release date.

[Gaddy]

If at all possible, make this a 2D game.
A game that has the appearance of the super nintendo Final Fantasy systems would actually attract me to it. I've found a game like that, but I think you could produce something much more in-depth, player friendly, and entertaining.

If you're just making a text-based MUD, it's going to take more than a better system than NM to really draw in long-term players. You'll need to cause real events, and not treat it like something you don't care about.
IE- Don't drop random quest items when you're bored without some type of system to allow them, especially not to simply prove that it'd upset people and that the game is faulty.

[Pandilex]

It won't be a 2d game sorry. It will be a fun text game, like old nightmist on steriods. Writing a 2d game means introducing a thousand more programming problems, and also needing an artist.

[Angelus]

2D games aren't that hard, might even be easier. Especially ones the groundwork is done. And as for sprites

http://charas-projec...a...10&fsearch=

Millions of free sprites, yea so they aren't original...but who cares.

[Pandilex]

Maybe after OS

I had to make a choice about which to develop, and it was a tormenting problem that I wrested with for weeks. In the end, after a bitter struggle, I chose to do a text game, but to write it in such a fashion that I could seperate many of the core sections out, so writing a 2d game would let me use a lot of the existing code.

[Xlithan]

True, my mud is actually using a 2D game source! I just stripped out the DirectX and drawing code, and had to rewrite any feature that used the graphics system.

However, I wouldn't bother with a 2D game. Because then you have to find graphics artists that can pixel, and getting them motivated without paying them is just a hassle. So you might try free graphics or ripped graphics? Great! Now you have a game that looks like 100 others.

Unless you have graphics designers, writers, music composers, world designers, it's not even worth it. There are so many people developing non-profitable, amateur home-made games, with ripped/free graphics and media you wouldn't imagine (Hell, I'm one of them!)

I even run two 2D gaming projects, one closed-source for non-programmers which has a few nice features so far, and a very simple open source VB game project, using DirectX7 engine that isn't all that big on features but can be used as a starting point (http://www.TheFortress.co.nr)

The point is, if you're going to make 2D, I'd like to see a game to the standards of Dark Ages, NexusTK, or Endless Online (Free Dark Ages copy game). What I would also love to see is a 2D rendition of Nightmist (Which will never happen).

With a MUD, the audience is still there (Not so much with modern games), and you all you have to do is be creative with writing, graphics are unnecessary!

[Pandilex]

You got it in one, graphics artists are fickle!

To make it look good imagine how many graphics you need, every monster needs 4 graphics for facing each direction, 4 more for moving, and 4 more for attacking. It is pretty tedious to draw them all out.

[Xlithan]

Yep, or you could be really demanding and have 8-directional movement. Then you may even consider displaying a dead sprite when the character dies, purhaps turn them into a ghost.

As for Opal Spheres, that map looks nice

[Xlithan]

Bump, any news?

[jurian]

Bump, any news?

News

[Pandilex]

Not at the moment, I need to be settled, I am like a panda that only breeds when it's completely stress-free.

I quit my job and I am moving half way back across the world, and I have less than 30 days to completely sort my life out here, clear my apartment etc.

Unfortunately it's just one excuse after the other for why I am not doing OS or anything else for that matter.

Once I get back, who knows? I will be jobless!

[Xlithan]

Ahh well, I know the jobless feeling, I have to go look for a new one today before I murder an entire team of ALDI employees. I wouldn't mind just sitting behind a computer desk all day, I mean... I do anyway?

[Yggdrasill]

*bump from forever ago*

This still in development or was it really a joke?

[Raylen]

probably no, and no, respectively...but i did lol'd

[Yggdrasill]

Well sad on both parts then

[Sausage]

I had this dream last night, I was playing Opal Spheres. It was like Nightmist crossed with a blueberry blunt crossed with sex.

Pandi, YOU CAN DO IT! 2021 is right around the corner, you better get cracking, please.

[Yggdrasill]

Paged User Pandilex: So are you still working on Opal Spheres if you don't mind me asking?

Pandilex (Game Designer) Pages You from Pandemonium clan house - Castle Chambers - Entrance Hall (Clan Town): I am

Paged User Pandilex: Good, glad to hear it.

[Exor]

Paged User Pandilex: So are you still working on Opal Spheres if you don't mind me asking?

Pandilex (Game Designer) Pages You from Pandemonium clan house - Castle Chambers - Entrance Hall (Clan Town): I am

Paged User Pandilex: Good, glad to hear it.

Awesome. Hope it comes out sooner than later even if its a beta of some sorts. I'd enjoy playing it.

After playing WoW for oh so long i'd like to go back to my roots with a new text based game like OS.

[Isolated]

LEGENDARY MARK POSTS AGAIN

[ice_cold]

arrr matey, me thinks me would like to traverse a new world, me thinks me will take me ship here if any scruvy dogs ever find it

[Raylen]

lol

[Masta]

bump for good will, lets have some more screenshots Simon?