Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

The quest gen isn't for an RPG though.

If you're looking for a stress-free outlet, perhaps a Codex interview would be of interest? Maybe I've already asked. I don't remember. That's how stress-free it is.

 

I usually tint it a little blue'ish or just darker in general. green also works pretty well for floors. anything that makes it look a little more worn/older or colder usually works.
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for detail, the bricks in the wall closest to the floor, as well as the bricks around the door, could be tinted as well (perhaps with something greenish if you're going for an old ruins kind of look).

 

I like it.
I don't know what you think of the cracked tiles, but I think it could add variety with at least some having more subtle cracks.


There's so much you can add to a dungeon in terms of detail, by deciding what the dungeons is:
1) above ground or under ground? windows could add light sources if it's daylight. moonlight if you're feeling castlevania'ish. even if not using light sources in the game design, just adding windows to walls is very nice way to add variety.
2) environmental effects. it could be dusty and sandy like a dessert tomb, or almost swamp-like with moss, vines and puddles of water. there could also be traces of snow and ice, or signs of being set in a volcanic region.
3) thematic details: blood, bones, mists etc. perhaps banners on the walls if there's a cult living there. statues, idols, etc.
4) age. if it's really old and crumbling, then the walls should be falling as well. broken-down doors. even stronger environmental effects if there are any. if it's set underground you could have tree-roots and stuff sticking through walls or the ground.

 

moss grows from cracks (mainly - if there are any). this makes it extremely hard to tile properly. the cracks in the tiles get "inverted" with moss, kind of.
it's usually not pure green, often has some other shade in there as well. blueish for that sunken temple sort of look, I guess. outdoors it often has a yellowish tint.

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this doesn't look perfect either but perhaps it can give you an idea:

I gave it a blueish tint and it made a lot of difference. it's also important to give it a grassy texture if needed, otherwise it will look like liquid (or slime).

 

I've had a lot of trouble adding keyboard-supported movement while also enabling mouse/pathfinding movement (based on tiles/4 directions like Ultima or something).
But today I successfully added configurable keyboard movement (WASD or left/up/down/right) that doesn't fuck up the mouse movement. So now you can both click and push buttons to move around. Happy times.

 

not directly game development related (I may or may not put this in abandonware), but I'm making pixel arts. I'm also making the most difficult thing to draw ever as well - big breasted women
basing it on 4 colors, which I think is pretty cool.
made in built-in paint program of multimedia fusion 2, which is essentially MS paint except you can put shit into animation frames.
posting this quite uncomplete version first so you can see progress later on! this can be version... 0......2. yes, 0.2.

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The quest generation was a learning project to create a huge amount of randomized shit... and trying to make something out it. It also involved drawing and was a bit of a UI excercise.
I probably won't be doing anything with it. It was supposed to be some sort of management game/RPG. You're put in a randomized town and then you assign randomized quests to randomized hired adventurers based on certain factors. When questing, the idea was that there could be randomized events like combat (a quest with High Risk would mean a high chance of combat) and stuff with outcomes based on the character's attributes. When not put on a quest, it would be more like the Sims or something.

I got randomized quests, randomized town names, randomized characters, and the player can enter the 'adventurers guild' and assign the quests. This is pretty much how far I got.

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I did this randomization project over a couple of days and it served as a mental distraction from what I've been doing with pathfinding and this pixelart. Perhaps I will post more about that during the holidays Professional abandonware makers keeps thing hush-hush just before they can it.

It was supposed to be a sort of "wood carving" at first. Then it looked too human so I kept the colors and just continued.
I'll focus on pose and scene before colors. I think it's very easy to add colors later on. The hard bit, I think, is textures and proportions.

 

We should have an art thread.
update, started coloring

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they're shooting handguns, duuh