I Desire A Tactical Simulation Rpg!

[el_pango]

Exactly what the title of this thread says, a game where units move in turns, combat each other and level up, with billboarded sprites for the actors, fully 3D backgrounds and a freely revolvable camera (something like Phantom Brave or Shining Force III).

I can contribute the following:

• Low-polygon-count trees/plants/structures/vehicles
• Textures
• A map editor
• Hero sprites
• Original music
• An allegro-based rendering engine capable of displaying it all at around 24-30 fps
• Any other required coding nonsense (stupid palette tricks, abusing allegro's lighting model to get distance fog, getting fblend to compile, modding/abusing allegro's 3D functions to make them add sprites to the zbuffer, etc)

What I cannot contribute and am asking for help on:

• Manga-style character art
• Monster ideas
• Monster sprites
• A coherent story (preferably something a bit silly and heartwarming, with a touch of romance, japanese rpg cliches cheerfully welcomed)
• Dialogue
• Help on lex and yacc
• Help implementing scripts so that world events can be edited without changing the code
• Recommendations on what library to use for sound playback (allegro's sound seems to bog the machine down a bit)

Anyone out there with a great story, great monster designs, and/or knowledge of how to implement some kind of scripting interested in teaming up? I always hear a lot of people complain that there isn't enough 3D content and there aren't any RPGs on this thing (indeed, I've complained about that last one) - shall we solve both problems?

 

[washo]

I dont have anythng to contribute, but I would love to play a game like that

see you :lol:

 

[PokeParadox]

Exactly what the title of this thread says, a game where units move in turns, combat each other and level up, with billboarded sprites for the actors, fully 3D backgrounds and a freely revolvable camera (something like Phantom Brave or Shining Force III).

I can contribute the following:

• Low-polygon-count trees/plants/structures/vehicles
• Textures
• A map editor
• Hero sprites
• Original music
• An allegro-based rendering engine capable of displaying it all at around 24-30 fps
• Any other required coding nonsense (stupid palette tricks, getting fblend to compile, modding allegro's 3D functions to add sprites to the zbuffer, etc)

What I cannot contribute and am asking for help on:

• Monster ideas
• Monster sprites
• A coherent story (preferably something a bit silly and heartwarming, with a touch of romance, japanese rpg cliches cheerfully welcomed)
• Dialogue
• Help on lex and yacc
• Help implementing scripts so that world events can be edited without changing the code
• Recommendations on what library to use for sound playback (allegro's sound seems to bog the machine down a bit)

Anyone out there with a great story, great monster designs, and/or knowledge of how to implement some kind of scripting interested in teaming up? I always hear a lot of people complain that there isn't enough 3D content and there aren't any RPGs on this thing (indeed, I've complained about that last one) - shall we solve both problems?

Please consider uploading your content to Project Infinity. The site's purpose is to encourage homebrew development.

 

[el_pango]

Please consider uploading your content to Project Infinity. The site's purpose is to encourage homebrew development.

You know, I remember wondering if there was a repository of stuff for homebrew use, I will definitely contribute there. Thanks for that.

 

[plounted]

[/list]What I cannot contribute and am asking for help on:

• Manga-style character art
• Monster ideas
• Monster sprites
• A coherent story (preferably something a bit silly and heartwarming, with a touch of romance, japanese rpg cliches cheerfully welcomed)
• Dialogue

• 
  
  i can do that.
  not much else, other than the stuff you can do.
  i still cant program yet.
  
  but i can draw.
  and write.
  
  if you need anything just ask.

 

[Draken]

I'd love a game like this!

But, the only thing I could help with would be the writing and voiceacting, if you ever felt the need for a 16 year old voice in such a game. <.<

 

[sephiroth111]

I could high level debug (as opposed to blackbox debug) problems, playtest, and edit the script.
edit: if the scripting language used was simple enough, i could also create some basic events.

 

[hitbyambulance]

i'm interested in contributing ideas, perhaps even story. pm me

 

[el_pango]

Thanks to everyone who replied! Expect PMs shortly.

If we're serious about doing this, we should do the following:

1. create a forum, mailing list or other method of staying in touch and on the same page
2. choose a story (can be rough and not 100% ironed out at this point)
3. draw up a wishlist of features
4. choose a ringleader that's good at defusing disagreements and keeping everyone motivated (not me - better at talking to machines than I am to people, sadly ).

I had hoped to post a demo or something this week, but I've completely wrecked get_camera_matrix() while trying to alter it and now my program doesn't work :angry: . I'll fix sometime this week, and then we can talk about what can be done with it.

As I say, I don't (yet) know anything about integrating a script interpreter into a game engine (never needed this capability), so if anyone out there watching this thread has done this before and could provide guidance or point me to a tutorial, that'd be appreciated, too.