Lands of Adventure: A Gold-Box Inspired CRPG

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Don't mean to offend, but the game kinda looks like that Realms of Arkania remake.
Probably because those lazy assholes used similar textures.

I'm not a lazy asshole. I'm a poor asshole. Big difference.

Get this, learn how to use it and never bitch again about being a poor asshole. This is the tool to make your game look nice and let you act like a snob until the end of your days.

Spoiler

 

[ProphetSword]

Might have been nice if you said what "this" is, how it can help me, and how "this" will let me act like a snob until the end of my days.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Might have been nice if you said what "this" is, how it can help me, and how "this" will let me act like a snob until the end of my days.

Werkkzeug a powerful tool for procedural generation of content (textures, models, etc.). I use it to create textures, since my skills at painting by hand suck cock.
Here is a simple texture created in about 20 minutes:

Spoiler

You can do way more detailed than that, though.

More powerful example:

 

[ProphetSword]

I keep finding links talking about this program, but apparently the program isn't available anymore. Every link either takes me to some foreign page selling meats or to Chase Bank. So...yeah...

Happen to have a link that works?

 

[ProphetSword]

In the meantime, I have started upgrading the game to allow for six playable characters. I think my favorite CRPGs from the golden era all allowed for six characters...so why not? Here's a look at the same screen with a full party:

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I keep finding links talking about this program, but apparently the program isn't available anymore. Every link either takes me to some foreign page selling meats or to Chase Bank. So...yeah...

Happen to have a link that works?

http://werkkzeug4ce.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html
Here you go, tutorial included.

 

[ProphetSword]

I keep finding links talking about this program, but apparently the program isn't available anymore. Every link either takes me to some foreign page selling meats or to Chase Bank. So...yeah...

Happen to have a link that works?

http://werkkzeug4ce.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html
Here you go, tutorial included.

Okay, I'll check it out. Thanks for the link.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

I keep finding links talking about this program, but apparently the program isn't available anymore. Every link either takes me to some foreign page selling meats or to Chase Bank. So...yeah...

Happen to have a link that works?

http://werkkzeug4ce.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html
Here you go, tutorial included.

Okay, I'll check it out. Thanks for the link.

Enjoy. I hope you'll make use of it. Feel free to bug me if you need help - despite that wz4 can't run on my current PC (and I have to use the inferior wz3TE, which only lets me make textures and has no way of determining how much memory is wasted, which results in occasional crashes).

 

[Magellan]

Looks good ProphetSword. Looking forward to this!

 

[ProphetSword]

Been working on a few things. A lot of it is behind the scenes (coding) and not things I can show off. Every once in a while, I do things that I can actually show as proof that work is continuing. In this case, I revisited the character screens. Last time I posted a picture of the character screen, it looked like this:

But, that picture is from a long time ago. The characters only had four attributes, and they didn't have many skills. The button graphics were still set to default. There was a lot of empty space in there as well, which I didn't like.

So, I did a little updating to it and came up with this:

I'm probably going to do something with the panel graphic at the bottom to keep it from stretching quite so much, but this presents the idea, at least.

 

[Piety]

Looking good! I'm curious, how are you creating your content (maps, inventory items, monsters, etc)?

 

[ProphetSword]

Looking good! I'm curious, how are you creating your content (maps, inventory items, monsters, etc)?

Can you be more specific about what you're asking?

 

[Piety]

Can you be more specific about what you're asking?

I'm specifically curious about non-graphical game data, like the text that appears during dialogues or the stats of monsters. Are you creating this stuff with a 3rd party tool or did you build your own? Or are you just stuffing it in text files by hand, something like that?

 

[ProphetSword]

I built my own tools.

 

[Piety]

...k

 

[ProphetSword]

Not sure what you would want me to say. Maybe I didn't understand the question.

 

[ProphetSword]

For those that are interested, I posted an old video of the "Gold-Box" version of the game on my blog. Feel free to check it out (the crappy video quality is due to the blog page video codec).

You can find my blog here: http://landsadventure.blogspot.com/

 

[Jaesun]

I liked that <3

 

[ProphetSword]

I am giving serious thought to going back to that version. Not only is it closer in spirit to the game I wanted to make originally, it is also easier to work with overall because I planned it out better. I just need to get rid of the weird corruption on the inventory screen, which can probably be accomplished by scrapping it altogether and redoing it. Maybe a week's work.

 

[Alchemist]

I liked that version too! Well, since TSI doesn't seem to be making a truely GoldBox-inspired game there's a niche waiting to be filled.

 

[slowdive]

I like that version as well. Simpler and hopefully easier means it may actually get done so we can play your story.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah, that video really looked like Gold Box game 2.0. And I really liked that.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Looks pretty nice.
Add some jerky movement, and you're good to go.

 

[ProphetSword]

Looks pretty nice.
Add some jerky movement, and you're good to go.

What do you mean by "jerky movement?"

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Looks pretty nice.
Add some jerky movement, and you're good to go.

What do you mean by "jerky movement?"

The way japs tried to smooth first person movement/rotation in Shin Megami Tensei for SNES.