RE: A85: RPG survey

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RE: A85: RPG survey

Grayscale is very unnecessary. In an RPG, the game play is most important, 
and if it's graphical, I really don't care about the color depth. Not that 
I mind the depth, but it would use even more memory in a game that would 
probably fill most of the memory anyway.

Side-scrolling levels belong in an action game, not an RPG. They wouldn't 
fit on the calc with the RPG, unless they were really small.
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-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org  On Behalf Of Will Stokes
Sent:	Monday, September 15, 1997 4:52 PM
To:	assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
Subject:	Re: A85: RPG survey



I must admit I wouldn't mind helping you out (programming wise and graphix
that is). I don't have a ton of time on my hands but just finnishing
version U2.1 of Usgard so it works for Usgard 1.1 I have more time then
before. Basically if you want a popular RPG you need a few things (IMHO):
greyscale graphix, 3-4 colors is just fine for this, smoothing scrolling,
small sprites (8*8 will be perfect if you ask me), MANY different items,
MANY enemies, HUGE world (not separate worlds, but like this REALLY big
map, saving feature (make it a gmae that develops a plot over time and
takes about 2 weeks to finnish, levels like side-scroling adventure games
(ever play Gargoyles Quest for Gameboy? You'll understand), maybe sound?
(that would be quite cool), decent size (about 16K wouldn't still be ok if
you the world is huge, graphix blow you away and gameplay rocks. This
would be VERY possible and I think maybe a group should be organized to
make such a game. I suggest 3-4 people, MAX, I would prefer 3 people
exactly all connected to e-mail. What do you and other people out there
think? This seems rather interesting IMHO =)

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Terry Peng wrote:

> OK, here's the deal:
> I am thinking about making an RPG, and I want to get some input on this
> idea. First of all, it will NOT be graphical. Large-scale Graphics are
> too slow, and besides they get complicated with enemies and such. It
> will be an all-text RPG, with the user inputting by sentence commands,
> e.g. WALK EAST or CLIMB TREE. Has anyone played that old game Dungeon?
> It will be kinda like that. So here is the survey:
>
> 1) Would people be interested in such a game? I expect the (single)
> level to be a 64x64 grid. At each grid square the engine would give the
> player info about what is at the square. The user can do things within
> the square or move to a new square by saying WALK EAST or WEST or NORTH
> or SOUTH. Of course, you will have to remember where you are because it
> is all text.
>
> 2) Would such a game be feasible? I think I can do the programming on
> the translation from sentences to commands, but there are a lot of
> things I'm not taking into account.
> The memory would probably ALL be taken up. That's right, ALL 28k. (well,
> I'll leave 200 bytes for the TI-OS :) Since some of the squares (not
> all) will have 3 or 4 sentence long prompts (That will be at least 60
> bytes!), this isn't even counting the engine, or the actual map
> (pointers to the strings, or maybe pointers to a lookup table). Of
> course, some sentences will repeat so this will cut down. If I have to
> cut corners I can always make the level smaller, which may make for a
> more interesting but shorter game.
>
> 3) Has anyone programmed such a game for the PC? If so email me, your
> help would be useful.
>
> 4) Would anyone make a storyline for me? (don't make one yet! just tell
> me if you would make one if I decide to make the game) This would be a
> VERY VERY VERY COMPLEX storyline, EVERYTHING MUST INTERACT. This will
> take a LOT of time to make, do not say yes unless you are sure.
>
> Please answer the questions, you do not have to mail them to the list,
> you can just mail the answers to me. (Unless you want to mail it to the
> list)
>
> --
> Terry Peng <tpeng@geocities.com>
>


				Biya! =)

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