Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

[Citizen]

What does a giant rat look like when it's prone?
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Now you know.

Ripped of rat graphics

 

[TheDeveloperDude]

Is this good idea?
In inventory on an item you can press the right mouse button for information about that item.
You have to hold the button while you are reading the description.
Like in Might and Magic 6.

Hmmmm
in Wizardry 8 you press the right mouse button but only one click and then the information is in a separate dialog window.

The holding of the button is very cumbersome.

 

[The Avatar]

That is why mouseover tooltips were invented.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

This is for tabletop RPGs but I thought some of you nerds might enjoy it anyways. It's a review of common design patterns found in successful RPGs.
http://legendaryquest.com/books/RPG_Design_Patterns_9_13_09.pdf

 

[Grauken]

It's 3d that kinda looks like 2d, mostly due to sticking to old-school rendering techniques(low resolution, no normal maps, no AA) and a 1px outline around stuff.

Looks pretty good

 

[Tavernking]

Moved my game thread to General RPG Discussion. See you boys in the big leagues

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Creating new enemy models bit by bit, trying to keep them simple but with some semblance of personality, which is an interesting challenge for a game that consists of glorified programmer art.

 

[Citizen]

zwanzig_zwoelf Is it a spider themed robot or a hologram/stylized image of an actual spider? In case of the former p. good, if not I'd roll with slightly higher polycount to make it look more organic. Here's my quick take

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

zwanzig_zwoelf Is it a spider themed robot or a hologram/stylized image of an actual spider? In case of the former p. good, if not I'd roll with slightly higher polycount to make it look more organic. Here's my quick take

In my case it's a robot as seen by the scanner of the player's mech. In your case it does look a bit more organic and expressive, nice work.

 

[Zanzoken]

What would you think of a game with the following aesthetic?

I know this particular image is qualitatively hideous, since I just cobbled it together in 10 mins using stock images. But I really like this style of minimalist painting, and wonder if it would work for an RPG.

 

[AdolfSatan]

There are two games that successfully used that style iirc, just go easy on the white backgrounds.

 

[Zanzoken]

There are two games that successfully used that style iirc, just go easy on the white backgrounds.

Do you happen to know their names off the top of your head?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Okami is probably one of them.
Remember a Tale of Ronin that was shooting for a similar look, but dunno if that'un is being worked on now.

 

[Zanzoken]

Okami is probably one of them.
Remember a Tale of Ronin that was shooting for a similar look, but dunno if that'un is being worked on now.

I didn't know about a Tale of Ronin. I hope it releases because it looks pretty sick!

 

[Citizen]

What would you think of a game with the following aesthetic?

I know this particular image is qualitatively hideous, since I just cobbled it together in 10 mins using stock images. But I really like this style of minimalist painting, and wonder if it would work for an RPG.

Okami uses similar style in 3d by using a paper screen overlay, handpainted textures and thick outlines

 

[Nathaniel3W]

There are two games that successfully used that style iirc, just go easy on the white backgrounds.

Do you happen to know their names off the top of your head?

There was also the Wind and the Wilting Blossom that had a similar style.

 

[TheLongchamp]

I've been working on a 1st person dungeon crawler, inspired by the gameplay of Wizardry 7 & 8, and the aesthetic of the book The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Looking to release it in the second half of 2021, and will post about playtesting when its ready.
http://tartarusunearthed.com/ will be updated with more information, but here's an inventory and battle screen in the mean time!
http://tartarusunearthed.com/images/Character_Screen_Mockup.png
http://tartarusunearthed.com/images/battle_Mockup.png

 

[J_C]

I've been working on a 1st person dungeon crawler, inspired by the gameplay of Wizardry 7 & 8, and the aesthetic of the book The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Looking to release it in the second half of 2021, and will post about playtesting when its ready.
http://tartarusunearthed.com/ will be updated with more information, but here's an inventory and battle screen in the mean time!
http://tartarusunearthed.com/images/Character_Screen_Mockup.png
http://tartarusunearthed.com/images/battle_Mockup.png

Looks pretty coo...

For Android and iOS

 

[TheLongchamp]

I've been working on a 1st person dungeon crawler, inspired by the gameplay of Wizardry 7 & 8, and the aesthetic of the book The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Looking to release it in the second half of 2021, and will post about playtesting when its ready.
http://tartarusunearthed.com/ will be updated with more information, but here's an inventory and battle screen in the mean time!
http://tartarusunearthed.com/images/Character_Screen_Mockup.png
http://tartarusunearthed.com/images/battle_Mockup.png

Looks pretty coo...

For Android and iOS

thanks!
the goal is to eventually release it on Steam, too. I always wanted a cool 1st person dungeon crawler that I could play on my phone, hence the decision to make a mobile version. I figured if I wanted it, I had to build it!

 

[Bad Sector]

For Android and iOS

If there is one classic genre that plays great on touch devices like Android and iOS phones that is turn based dungeon crawlers.

(another might be point-and-click adventure games but tablets are better than phones there)

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

What would you think of a game with the following aesthetic?

There's also Shigatari, a game made with scanned art from 19th century Japan. (or thereabouts)
That said, I've learned to appreciate some of the more minimalist graphical options. If done well, it looks amazing, and from a design standpoint, it cuts back on some of the graphical work, no real need to deal with all those pesky colors.

 

[Bad Sector]

Lately i find retro stuff more interesting (though sadly they're getting overused fast) but today i had some will and energy to work a bit on Little Immersive Engine and wrote a small reusable viewport for asset editor previews - like the material editor above showing a cube with the edited material - that also provides some camera management (orbiting, walking) and simple scene config. Also fixed a couple of shadow and light bugs (not shown above because if they were visible i wouldn't have them fixed :-P).

 

[Bad Sector]

Here is a video of the editor in action, also added a feature to render one of the opened worlds inside another asset editor's preview viewport which can be used, e.g., to see how a material (or mesh or whatever else that can use a preview viewport) would look in the world directly from the asset editor itself while editing it:

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

teaching myself how to code with online tutorials

this isnt too hard

im not a stoopid.

 

[TheDiceMustRoll]

i dont know what kind of game I want to make, probably a roguelike, those are fun