Large scale RPG in Construct 2

[rosareven]

Imagine a RPG made with RPG Maker [select your version here], with a world full of details, an indepth story, dialogues and interactions with NPC, and may be 48 hours worth of main story play time. Many people have made that with RPG Makers on HBGames so those kind of games are what I'm referring to.

Now imagine that very same game being ported to Construct 2, which will be played over the Internet on a web browser.

How would you go about making it happen in Construct 2? All of a sudden a game that's been traditionally played from an executable package in your computer, is now played through the internet cables. Do you ask the players to download the whole HTML package to play locally? Develop server scripts to interact with the HTML5 game so that you only load resources when it's needed and allow saving over the internet? Wait for the whole game to load in the browser?

 

[joannesalfa]

If you want a Large Scale RPG from sratch with avaliable HTML5 technology, you might check the open source version of Browser Quest:

https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest

There a playable game

http://browserquest.mozilla.org/

 

[Venetia]

Thaaaat one isn't much of a large scale RPG. I beat it inside an hour :P

But it certainly has the beginnings of a large scale RPG! And that's something! :D

 

[rosareven]

lol I haven't actually played it, but I'm sure being a RPG is already a good start. RPG takes a lot of work, after all.

 

[joannesalfa]

Thaaaat one isn't much of a large scale RPG. I beat it inside an hour :P

But it certainly has the beginnings of a large scale RPG! And that's something! :D

It says " a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment" according to http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/

 

[rosareven]

Venetia meant how quickly she has beat the game. We were expecting something like 24+ hours gameplay or something.

 

[joannesalfa]

Oh, maybe we grab this source and add extra levels like ice land, swamp land, undergound dungeon, castle, etc. so it makes 24+ hours of gameplay, lol

 

[rosareven]

Exactly Joannesalfa. Right now Construct 2 loads the entire game before it becomes interactive. If an hour worth of gameplay takes 5 seconds to load, 24 hours worth of gameplay would likely take up to a minute or two to load, which is typically quite a long loading time for a browser content, a platform where users expect to see things instantly.

Although people have been making 24+ hour games in .exe packages that take longer than that download anyway, but I reckon with HTML5 being a revolutionary platform, it can do better XD

 

[joannesalfa]

I hope there will be flawess performance in 2014, also there will have shader special effects.

 

[Jumping Jack Flash]

now that its been out a while. Do you think I would have much look with this. Uing it for an RPG game?

 

[Ellie]

Have you used it at all? It'd work, sure, but until you try it you won't know what you need help with.