One, a lengthy, indepth RPG
the other, a card game resembling Tetra Master (only alot different) with MMO capabilities.
First, I need some good information on programming a quality RPG. I want it to be like… say… War of Genesis III(if you can find screens for it), in the way it looks, with probably with a Final Fantasy X-2 style battle system. I was wondering how possible this is… I know it’ll be hard and I plan on working on it for the next few years, but I need to know if its even possible to create something that complex on Flash MX (I’m hoping Flash’s game making abilities are limitless, but I’d rather not assume).
next, the card game. I want it to be like SquareEnix’s Tetra Master in the way it runs. (of course, my game is completely different) What I mean is, I want it to be so you can challenge the computer, or other players. I want there to be rooms (i.e. a Lobby, Beginner’s Hall, etc.) that the players enter and challenge each other. Is all this possible?
Any tutorials that’ll help me would be greatly appreciated. Advice, recommendations, and the like are all good too. Thanks in advance, I’d love it if could help me with the actual programming too :D. I’d like to start working on these games after I finish my website (which will probably be sometime in late October.)
These are the kinds of sprites I’ll be using in my RPG. These are from war of genesis. The last couple of ones in the second set are the style I’ll use for battle scenes.
Think I’ll be able to create a game with those kind of graphics?
I learn as I go, then check over my work, then go back and rehash, then check, then rehash again. And then it comes out **** good. >< I hate Space Invaders… and I hate pong. The cheapest thing I’ll take the time to make is a sidescrolling action game. And even with that I’d have a lot of extra stuff…
I’m not one for going for small feats and getting overly excited about them… I’ve never done it before, and I don’t plan on doing it now. Lol, oh well though. If people are goign to think of me as a uber n00b and not help me, then I’ll figure it out myself
Yes you will definitely need to figure it out yourself.
Is there something specific you need help with? I’m making an online card game now using ASP.net with rooms; I’ll post my code when it’s done (or a link to it).
There are reasons why joMan stated what he stated Garyuu and I will reiterate them below and give you a faster track as to why it is better to start off small.
1 ) Optimization. Sure you can always go back over your code and add things here and there when the time comes along or you can change things here and there… But the optimization will lack and slowly but surely your area of code will decline into a big mess. When you start off with smaller games and work your way up… You start to develop tricks and these tricks will help you out with your larger game. it’s well worth it.
2 ) The RPG scope… Out of all the genre’s of games… RPG’s rank as one of the most difficult to produce for… And yet alot of people want to start off with. How much information do you know about the game… How do you want to do the cities… And likewise…
these are just two pointers of alot of different options…
If you plan on developing a game for that long though… I wouldgrabbed sprites… suggest using your own graphics instead of and to develop your own line of rpg elements. You’ll get alot more out of it.
If you need help… Just post up here what you need… We can try and help out whenever.
But as far as his question goes for is flash up to it, were all agreed that flash can handle it, of course depending on how u go about it. Are u going to make it tile based which offers more versatility (eg zelda(old versions) and such, i’ve never heard of war of genesis) or what?
