[11/40]The wonderful Hiccups glorious idea dump for NaGaDeMo

[Byron]

Spoiler: Old Goals

My game needs some working on I think.
There is a lot I'm going to add hopefully. So here I will post what I'll be working on:

Spoiler: The List!

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  Map Scrolling
  
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  I've had many ways suggested to me and I am greatful for them, however none of them feel comfortable. And in the end I need to make the system as comfortable for myself as I can. I'll be taking elements of all the ways that have been suggested and hopefully I will make something nice
  Enemy Shooting behaviours
  
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  This is also something I've had suggestions for, and once again they are not comfortable for me. There are five types of enemies I'll be having: Random shooting. Set Turrot. Moving turrot. Random sword. proximity sword. The swords should be easy enough and I should be fine doing the shooting.
  Menu
  
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  This is something I have never tried before, but I want a basic menu system where you can Save, equip items and check a map.
  Items/Items Equipping
  
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  This is another thing I haven't tried before. I want to get items such as the bow and arrow and things like that to work and be equippable
  Dialogue system
  
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  I'm not too sure how I'm going to do this, but I'm going to attempt. I have a vague idea of how I want it to look.
  General Story and Map placement
  
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  I've got most of the story done and I have an idea of how I want it to pan out, I just need more indepth things done to the story and I need a rough idea of where everything is going to be.

Due to my current interest in spriting I'll be working on a few spriting goals:

Spoiler

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  Finish a base template for both male and female sprites
  
  Start and finish the Hero sprite
  
  Start and finish the Heroine sprite
  
  Start and finish general bad guy sprites
  
  Start and finish main bad guy sprite
  
  Work on some scenery for both D:UH and Granded Gears
  
  Start on the "Machine" Sprite
  
  Start on some Dragon sprites.

NEW GOALS:
With the progression of Forist coming along nicely, I wanted to focus upon it since it is a nice fresh idea that is relativity small scale. I wanted to have my first game published this year and considering how I am trying to keep Forist simple, I thought it would be a great one to go with. As my ideas are becoming more and more in depth, I am getting worried I am over complicating things, so I am setting myself a list of nice and easy goals that I can complete without being stressed.

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  I would like to complete the main characters list.
  Make the map of the village and the forest entrance leading up the the Prayer stone.
  Run my first PAYED competition for resources.
  Get some good dialogue
  Finish a weapons and armor list.
  Figure out how to add some nice overhead scenery for things like "Light shining through the leaves."

I guess thats it. I've almost finished with the character list. The mapping is something I will be fine with I think.
With the contest I am not sure what is a reasonable price. I want a sprite sheet full of 9 different flowers (One flower in each different frame) but I'm not sure how much that would cost...
Dialogue might be a problem. I always make it sound too cheesy... I'll need opinions on it when I do it.
But yeh.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

i feel like you have some good goals, you seem to be focusing on improvements rather then new stuff, which i feel is a super important area alot of developers forget :D cant wait to see what you complete

 

[Perihelion]

Good luck with your game! What sort of thing are you making? Your goals are a little unspecific.

 

[Byron]

i feel like you have some good goals, you seem to be focusing on improvements rather then new stuff, which i feel is a super important area alot of developers forget :D cant wait to see what you complete

I see what you mean...
I do need some new content in the game, however as I said, I need to be comfortable with the way it works.
There will be new items and the menu will be new. Infact I might work on them first, but I feel the scrolling is rather important to work on too.

Good luck with your game! What sort of thing are you making? Your goals are a little unspecific.

Ah yes, I should have said!
I'm working on a top down zelda styled dungeon crawler, hopefully with somewhat similar mechanics to the original zelda.
I'm making it on Construct2, an engine I am somewhat farmiliar with however I'm not amazing with it.

 

[Byron]

OKAY
So yesterday night and today I did a bit of work on my game.
Well... Sort of...
I get distracted easily and started working on a different idea. BUT THAT COUNTS!!!
The new idea:

Spoiler: Granded Gears

You wake up in a chamber with weird shining gears and pistons turning and moving. Nobody is about and the air rings with the ominous clanking and shifting of the mechanical structure. As you step out of your chamber you arrive in a grand hall, as big as a town with lots of stares and doors leading off to different rooms. As you explore you find out that many of the doors are locked and it feels as if you are being led somewhere.
After you have followed the path you arrive at a large room, it is all dark but in the distance you can make out a red light. As you walk towards it lights flick on.
You arrive at a machine that comes to life as you approach.
The machine tells you of who you are, why you are where you are and then he tells you your destiny.

"When god gives people a gift, he gives them a mission."

I've also been doing some sprite work, although I'm not good at spriting, I think these are... Okay:

Spoiler: Sprites

Some pistons, there is another frame, but I'm not too sure on the whole thing yet

So I wanted to make a general template for some characters and I started out big with the one on the left and gradually made it smaller. I think I'm going to keep it at the one on the right, the current size is 36x24 (I think.)
I used cfrankb's sprite editor, so thanks for the huuuuge help there man, I'll write what I think about it in you thread.

Edit: Grand. The images don't work. T^T Open them in a new tab I guess...

 

[Byron]

So I've been working most of today on this sprite sheet and I'm not going to lie, I feel as if I haven't made much progress. I've got all of the "down" animations pretty much done, I think I should make the head bob a bit, but else it is fine.
The reason this sprite was possible was because of the tutorial on shading I received from Darwin (I think he's from RRR, He hangs out in the IRC a lot)
Anyway, yeh. This is what the "down" frame looks like:

Might have to open it in a new tab...

 

[Xhukari]

I quite like that down frame!
But I can't help feel that the arm/leg combination is awkward.
Try walking and taking note of how you move, or look at your signature... right arm forward, right leg back, left leg forward, left arm back...

This would produce a more realistic animation for movement.

 

[Byron]

This isn't working...
I'm going to develop D:UH as a story as well as Granded Gears. HOWEVER I am going to start on something new. Something short. Something I can see results with right away.
AN RPG MAKER GAME!
So introducing Forist (Working title)
I pretty much have to story and stuff worked out.
Yeeeehhhh
So new goals will be made.

I feel like I have to do this cause since the other two aren't getting anywhere and it was stressing me out.
Work with what I know for now I guess :P

On the up side, I might be running some contests for Forist. More details later.

 

[Byron]

RIGHT! AWESOME! SEXY!
I HAVE DONE SOME WORK. Okay... So it isn't anything done to the actual game like mapping, but it is the character bios and the Class Guide.
You can read them here: Character Bios and Class Guide

Let me know what you think. You can comment on the doc.
Also does anyone want to do some art or spriting for me? :P