Post by: DragonBlaze on April 29, 2005, 03:49:14 AM
So I ask of you, please help me on my game, A Dragon's World (previously known as Dragon World). I would greatly appreciate help from anyone for anything. Mapping, scripting, graphics, music, ect, anything would be a big help. I don't think I can remake the 30% of my game that I lost and finish it up without help :(
In case you don't know anything about my game, or you would like to see some info on it, some stuff is posted below. If you want the complete info, or if you want to download my old demo, you can check out the "A Dragon's World" site at: http//www.dbsvault.websiteallies.com
I also have a new intro that will take place of the old intro there, so you can check that out as well.
Background info: "Dragon Sword Master" is a title given to the four commanders of the dragon army, the highest rank and social status short of the head dragon himself. A Dragon Sword Masters sword is forged from their very soul, and thus their swords are known as Soul Blades. The blade's color reflects their soul element, so if ice was a the dragon's soul element, their blade would be blue, even though their skin color may be green. Since they are fighting with their very souls, the Dragon Sword Masters can wield their blades with a power like no other.
Story: Seven years ago, Zersevick led the Dragon Sword Masters to a small human settlement located in the forest. When they attacked, it triggered a war that would span world wide between humans and dragons.
When the last of the humans from the settlement were cornered, a lone dragon stood up against the others, the Dragon Sword Master of the Flame. However his strength wasn't enough to defeat Zersevick and the other two sword masters. When he lost, his wings were cut off as punishment, and his Soul Blade was lost.
Afterwards, he took up the name DragonBlaze, putting his old life behind him. Without a soul, he was nothing. For seven years he sat back while the war raged, however when he is assigned to carry out a role in the invasion of a major human strong hold, ambitions and ideals from the past will surface. Soon figures from his past will unviel DragonBlaze's hidden past, revieling his true destiny.
Join DragonBlaze on his quest to save humanity, and regain his soul...
Character Info: If I post the character info and pic, I extend the amount of pictures allowed in a post. So to check out the characters, you can visit my site.
Screens:
- new title screen
- town name has changed to Zaddamal
- again, town name has changed
- cbs will use pics instead of tiles in the future (like it did before my compy crashed)
- large, semi-transparent sprites are used for skills in a battle
Once again, I am in desperate need of help. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated :)
Post by: ZeroKirbyX on April 29, 2005, 04:23:44 AM
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Post by: Solid on April 29, 2005, 07:23:05 AM
I think the title will make the peopel think its some gay kid game, but from the looks of it, WOW! and that doesent stand for world of warcraft. lol
Post by: CoolZidane on April 29, 2005, 10:45:48 AM
Post by: Weerd Thing on April 29, 2005, 01:30:42 PM
-MIDIs
-Monster rips
-Pictures
That's about it... I think. If you need help, just shout!
W££rd
Post by: DragonBlaze on April 29, 2005, 10:51:16 PM
The main thing I need right now is maps. I'll supply the tileset(s) needed for the area, and I'll give a little description on how the map should look. Then you can make it and send it to me, I'll then add effects, events, and modify it slightly to fit with the rest of the game. If you are interested, let me know, here is a list of the maps I need done.
Forest town (abandoned)
Forest trail ending with some graves and ruins
Inside a volcano: dungeon
Inside a volcano: town
Mountain trail
Ruins after the trail leading to the sumit, and then the sumit.
Spiritual, heaven like, place
I'll be remaking the town. I need it to have a very specific layout for scenes later on in the game. It'll take me a long time to make because I need a lot of new graphics including catapolts and towers.
As for midis, I don't need much, but it would be really helpfull if I had a few character themes, a sad theme, a dark theme, and a game over theme.
Story wise: I have the whole story thought out, but I would like to get a second opinion on scenes later in the game. They will be major spoilers, so I need a few people for this so I don't have to give the whole game out to one person, rather just give a chunck to one person, another chunk for a differant person, ect.
I'll talk to you guys (Ace and Nandez) on msn when I can get it set up on my computer that I'll be making the game on. Even though I got my computer working after the crash, the system is still far to unstable to make a game on it.
Once again, thanks everyone, all help is greatly appreaciated.
Post by: Snort_X on April 30, 2005, 12:47:13 PM
Post by: Moosetroop11 on April 30, 2005, 01:05:19 PM
Post by: Linkforce on April 30, 2005, 05:33:21 PM
Post by: CoolZidane on April 30, 2005, 06:42:01 PM
Post by: Dragonium on April 30, 2005, 06:53:06 PM
And that monster in the battle screen there - did you draw it yourself? If so, :o.
And just to finish off, :o.
Post by: Weerd Thing on April 30, 2005, 07:08:01 PM
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Originally posted by DragonBlaze
Thanks everyone,
The main thing I need right now is maps. I'll supply the tileset(s) needed for the area, and I'll give a little description on how the map should look. Then you can make it and send it to me, I'll then add effects, events, and modify it slightly to fit with the rest of the game. If you are interested, let me know, here is a list of the maps I need done.
Forest town (abandoned)
Forest trail ending with some graves and ruins
Inside a volcano: dungeon
Inside a volcano: town
Mountain trail
Ruins after the trail leading to the sumit, and then the sumit.
Spiritual, heaven like, place
I'll be remaking the town. I need it to have a very specific layout for scenes later on in the game. It'll take me a long time to make because I need a lot of new graphics including catapolts and towers.
As for midis, I don't need much, but it would be really helpfull if I had a few character themes, a sad theme, a dark theme, and a game over theme.
Story wise: I have the whole story thought out, but I would like to get a second opinion on scenes later in the game. They will be major spoilers, so I need a few people for this so I don't have to give the whole game out to one person, rather just give a chunck to one person, another chunk for a differant person, ect.
I'll talk to you guys (Ace and Nandez) on msn when I can get it set up on my computer that I'll be making the game on. Even though I got my computer working after the crash, the system is still far to unstable to make a game on it.
Once again, thanks everyone, all help is greatly appreaciated.
KK. Thing is, how ARE you supposed to use a premade map?
W££rd
Post by: DragonBlaze on May 01, 2005, 12:38:51 AM
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KK. Thing is, how ARE you supposed to use a premade map?
KK, well first of all, when a person is interested in making a map, they can let me know which map they are interested in making. I will then supply the tileset (chipset) that the map will use, and I'll also supply a small description of what the map should look like.
Then the person will use rm2k3 to make the map. When they are done, they will send me the map file (Map0001.lmu for example) over msn, e-mail, or some something.
Then I can copy that map into my game folder, and I should be able to edit it and add events and such in the rm2k3 editor. :D
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And that monster in the battle screen there - did you draw it yourself? If so,
No, sorry, I didn't make that one, I'm not that good yet. :p
At the moment, I'm not using any custom made monsters in the game, I may though soon. I have some examples of the monster sets I made under the graphics part on my site.
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i dunno how but i WILL help you
Well if nothing else, you can be one of the people who help me with my story by reading about a scene later in the game and telling me what you think of it ;)
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Its not much, but if you need any names for anything, you know where to find me.
Thanks, but names are one of the few things I don't need any help in right now :)
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Here is the sad song you requested, Dragon.
Thanks :D
Post by: Weerd Thing on May 01, 2005, 12:47:41 AM
W££rd
Post by: DragonBlaze on May 01, 2005, 01:34:37 AM
Give me a bit to make the chipset (I have to combine two for it), and then I'll send it over. It may be a day or so, depends if my computer cooperates _sweat_
Anyway, thanks a lot :D
Post by: Snort_X on May 01, 2005, 04:09:59 PM
Post by: DragonBlaze on May 02, 2005, 02:01:23 AM
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KK, thanks, DB. Give me the tileset for the forest village, and I'll make it.
Allright, I attached it.
Description of the map: The map needs two entrences/exits, one to get in the town, and another that leads deeper into the forest. Its a small town, so maybe around 5 houses will do. This is the town that was attacked in the incident seven years ago, thus its abandoned, and the houses are in poor condition (I think i have tiles for this).
Its suppose to be small, gloomy, and dark. The rest is up to you. All you have to do is the mapping, I'll add the events, effects, music, and everything else the maps needs. It would also be helpful if you could make the inside of a house or two, the other ones can be blocked off if you don't want to make them.
I'll attach the inside tileset on my next post.
(note: this is not the right color depth, I lost my program to change that. If you don't have a program to change the color depth of the image to the right one, let me know and I can try to fix somethign up)
Post by: Linkforce on May 02, 2005, 02:03:09 AM
Post by: DragonBlaze on May 02, 2005, 02:21:42 AM
Alright, heres the inside tileset for the village, good luck Weerd!
Post by: Weerd Thing on May 02, 2005, 02:39:01 AM
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Post by: Syntax on May 02, 2005, 03:42:04 AM
Post by: Syntax on May 03, 2005, 03:25:53 AM
Post by: DragonBlaze on May 03, 2005, 08:44:56 PM
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This is officially the best game ive ever played. Should belong in snes.
Well I don't know if its that good, but I'm hoping to get it up there before the games done ;)
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wow.. this died? XD
Well I already posted this game up before, so a lot of people already played it and gave me feedback already. Plus I can't really give any updates since I can't access this site from my schools computers or my other old compy for some odd reason.
But I have a few people helping me now, so I'm really happy. A few more people would be nice too, but I think I'll be able to get this game done by my deadline now :D
Post by: karl3 on May 03, 2005, 08:47:38 PM
Post by: Syntax on May 03, 2005, 10:43:13 PM
Post by: Weerd Thing on May 04, 2005, 12:00:08 AM
W££rd
Post by: drenrin2120 on May 04, 2005, 01:44:04 AM
If you need help with ANYTHING that falls under my category, I'm only a PM away. ::)
PS: You should think about saving your game on a backup floppy disk. Maybe, save it on there every now and then. So if you lose your computer again, it's all on the disk.
Post by: Syntax on May 04, 2005, 02:07:43 AM
Post by: ZONIC. on May 10, 2005, 03:11:01 PM
Post by: Syntax on May 10, 2005, 03:26:49 PM
Its worth it. Glad to have you on the team DragonBlaze...
Post by: DragonBlaze on May 10, 2005, 08:54:30 PM
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i relly wanna test this game. i love dragons ^^
Lol, well you can go to my site and download my demos and tell me what you think of them. I don't have any test versions or testers, because with my dial up connection, it just takes to long to upload a 25mb file multiple times, especially when my server disconnects me half the time :p
Lol, thanks Syntax!
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Post by: Syntax on May 16, 2005, 07:04:17 AM
Post by: DragonBlaze on May 17, 2005, 12:31:43 AM
Right now when I'm remaking the cbs, I'm testing it out on a crappy 1.2 ghz computer with about 100 RAM, so I'll be able to find the lags and kill em :D
I may make an option to play with the DBS for people with very slow computers, but then a lot of features would be missing. It would be a way to play the game though...
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Is there a way I can fix it? 'Cause I've done a teensy bit of looking around at the coding and the battle system is pure genius.
Hmm, you would have to change most of the parallel process event into normal events, then call them when needed in the system. Even then though, it may still lag. I made this battle system very sloppy, so most of the systems need to be completely remade to run more efficiantly. This would be increadibly hard to do even for the best of scriptors because the scripts have to fit in with all the other events or it won't work, and since my battle system is all messed up, it would be very hard to determain what will happen if you just slightly change one script.