Vapourware Codexian Game Development Thread

[muds_animal_friend]

Sure, I will answer what I can, but I'd prefer you ask in a thread so that other people can benefit too.

Ah, can I can't into socialism so fuck it.

 

[J1M]

Sure, I will answer what I can, but I'd prefer you ask in a thread so that other people can benefit too.

Ah, can I can't into socialism so fuck it.

"Other people can benefit" is code for "I don't have to answer the same question again".

 

[muds_animal_friend]

Commie. I'm not going to share all the dark secrets I've learned about Unity and shaders. Many dark paths of calculus have I had to walk.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Zed loving the Wasteland / Roadwar 2000 and probably a crapload of other games but those are the ones that come to mind feel.

 

[CreamyBlood]

I started a dev diary for the turn-based RPG I am building as a hobby: http://artificerentertainment.blogspot.ca/

My goal is to update it once a month. Feedback welcome.

I'm finding Unity an utter PoS in terms of UI dev in my own (re)project so PM advise may be inbound.

Don't use the built in OnGUI except for the simplest things, like, testing.

I fought with NGUI for a few months but it always felt like an uphill battle. I hated it.

Then out of nowhere, Daikon Forge showed up. It's quick, easy, intuitive. I love it. Still needs work to use it of course, but brilliant. Good luck.

http://www.daikonforge.com/dfgui

 

[Freelance Henchman]

Been tinkering with a selfmade sprite/tweening engine with tile support in Python. So far I can animate "entities" with different sprite representations and move them around the screen, rotate and such:

 

[Freelance Henchman]

Added a couple little features.

 

[Rhuantavan]

A little something from me. The village/city/location exploration UI mockup from an RPG Interactive fiction hybrid I am making.

 

[Destroid]

Interface/screen graphics look great.

 

[JarlFrank]

Yeah, one of the more appealing text adventure backgrounds/interfaces I've seen.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

You can never go wrong with parchment+wood combo.

 

[shihonage]

(moves cat away from monitor)

 

[Rhuantavan]

Thanks for your opinions on the mockup. Will be polishing things up, but I am pretty close to where I want it to be. I am already implementing the interface in code.

I will need an artist for the missing character portraits and for the sketched backgrounds though... sadly I don't have the required artistic skills.

 

[J1M]

http://artificerentertainment.blogspot.ca/2014/05/guildcraft-dev-diary-part-iii.html

New dev diary post about how I am using enums in my project. Also includes a link to some C# code that I have made open source.

 

[groke]

modding barbarian dance parties into Dark Omen:

 

[Durwyn]

modding barbarian dance parties into Dark Omen:

 

[Freelance Henchman]

Implemented some simple physics in my game engine project:

 

[Copper]

Thanks for your opinions on the mockup. Will be polishing things up, but I am pretty close to where I want it to be. I am already implementing the interface in code.

I will need an artist for the missing character portraits and for the sketched backgrounds though... sadly I don't have the required artistic skills.

A nice pen and ink heavy style might be really good here, more consistent and stylish with the other elements, something like this:

or possibly this:

 

[Rhuantavan]

Thanks for your opinions on the mockup. Will be polishing things up, but I am pretty close to where I want it to be. I am already implementing the interface in code.

I will need an artist for the missing character portraits and for the sketched backgrounds though... sadly I don't have the required artistic skills.

A nice pen and ink heavy style might be really good here, more consistent and stylish with the other elements, something like this:

The ink-heavy style might be problematic to mask when putting text over it; it would make the text hard to read. Also cost-wise the pencil drawings would be the cheapest and quickest to make, especially considering that I would need a boat-load of them. If money woudln't be a problem, I would go for realistic darklands-style waterpainted bgnds. In the worst case scenario, I would drop the backgrounds altogether.

As for the portraits I am also opting for realistic-looking artwork, either watercolors, oil painted or *gasp* photos of actual real people.

 

[Copper]

Well hell, with digital tools it's not going to take much longer to do a watercolour style digital painting than it is to do a pencil type drawing - for towns like Darklands, most of the time is going to be spent on getting the concept art referenced, setting up perspective, etc. If you want I can try doing up a quick mock up using a scene from my own project.

For the inks, I was thinking more along the lines of the Project Eternity text-adventure segments, illustrated below if you haven't been following it. As you can see, there's a clear division between the text and the art, and this art is also reasonably easy to create digitally - you can see that a lot of lines are done with multi-tip brushes, not individually 'cut', and it's quite loose.

 

[Rhuantavan]

Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't really considered having some strong art aside to the text, but it is a possibility.

The job of the drawing in the background is merely to help you navigate the location, so you know where you are from a quick glance at it instead of reading the text. I never considered it anything more than a vague or "dreamy" representation of the location you're in.

Btw, what are you working on, Copper?

 

[Copper]

Vapourware.

An espionage & investigative adventure/RPG hybrid. No combat or character advancement, unless you count building and maintaining aliases and gathering resources, but lots of opportunities to mess with the world and make roleplaying choices. I'm messing around with using Inkle for writing/mapping choices while I keep my options open in terms of engine - I don't need much, but I don't want to blunder into memory issues or something as a coding noob.

 

[Zed]

early draft title screen. like master game designer Todd Howard, I always start with the title screen.

 

[BigWeather]

I'd play the shit out of that. Man, I love that tileset. Wish it was public domain, I'd yoink it for all my projects.

 

[Durwyn]