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All of all! / Re: Pulse check

« Last post by Prpl_Mage on October 18, 2023, 06:15:56 PM »

I'm glad that so many people are finding their way back here honestly. And even if things didn't exactly turn out as we expected back in 2005 ish when we joined - life turned out quite okay for most of you I hope.

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All of all! / Re: Pulse check

« Last post by Grandy on October 18, 2023, 01:05:23 PM »

Hey there, adult life is terrible and I got ~*~clinical depression~*~ :D

I usually go by the username tiger_robocop now, or taiguerrobocopi when that one is taken by other funny haha so random oldschool brazilian gamers with  no creativity like me.
Havent updated ^that thing in a few years either.

Tried my hand at a  professional game and pixel art career ( If anyone is interested, https://www.deviantart.com/taiguerrobocopi, though none of my actual professional works are in there because client secrecy... also most my clients wanted NSFW stuff) but then quickly realised making my hobby be my job was making me miserable (also when I learned I had depression). Also, couldn't finish any project due to feature creep so ya. Spent four months working manual labor in a big chain store but that place was two steps away from actual slave labour plus my boss was lowkey making me break multiple health and safety laws so I nope'd out of there quite fast. Half a year ago I landed a job as a public servant paper pusher and though it is far from the adventure and excitement the child me who first joined this forum wanted their job to be on the future I'm pleasantly confortable. Like, it's boring, but it is nice-boring. Like watching an unfunny Simpsons episode.

I had a mustache/goatee/sunglasses/beret phase. It lasted a year.

Recently became interested in rpg maker again and it reminded me of this place. Glad to see this place is still around in zombie form though I'm honestly starting to get concerned for Alex's wallet.

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All of all! / Re: Pulse check

« Last post by Almeidaboo on October 17, 2023, 07:25:31 AM »

I'm reaching 4.0 next year. Gave up being a lawyer, moved to Ireland and became a software developer. No kids though, that might be coming next year, maybe! I was on my early 20s when I started coming here, that's mad.
As for TTRPGs, been playing them since them. Behind me there are around 200 rule/settings books

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Chain Games / Re: Chain game ideas and discussion 2022-20??

« Last post by Prpl_Mage on October 16, 2023, 05:26:59 PM »

That's looking rad. It got me kinda excited to try that style of chipsets.

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Chain Games / Re: Chain game ideas and discussion 2022-20??

« Last post by Momeka on October 15, 2023, 05:51:39 PM »

Mostly just posting to say I'm still alive and working on it. Pretty much only have time to work on weekends but I'm intent to finish this.

Here is a random temple


I finished like 95% of the custom systems needed. Need to draw a bunch of monsters and npc then make the actual gameplay portions of the chapter.

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Chain Games / Re: Chain game ideas and discussion 2022-20??

« Last post by Prpl_Mage on September 23, 2023, 11:46:34 AM »

That's a lot of progress already mate.

For the character development part we'll just have to do something like in MMO's where the game centers around the character's role more than their personality I suppose. Or like Mass effect and Dragon Age where we leave decisions in the hands of the player even though it's the characters that act in the cutscene.

And for the quests, having a list of active quests is a lot better than not having any list. The NPC that gave the quest can supply you with the rest of the details and progress such as numbers of skeletons defeated if you return to them to check. I can only see this is a positive thing even if it feels like a simplistic system to you.

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Chain Games / Re: Chain game ideas and discussion 2022-20??

« Last post by Momeka on September 23, 2023, 10:35:04 AM »

I was about to say that completing tasks could unlock additonal classes, but I have no idea how to do that aside from doing it like the old NES password loads.

We could do "new game +" after beating the game. But we would manually need to reset all the variables and stuff in the game. Might be more work than it's worth for a chain game.

If we want character personality we'll have to do it through NPCs, that's fine : )

Yeah, npc and maybe quest lines. I ended up making another system for a quest journal. So I figured we could mainly tell some stories through quest and side quests and such. And if we wanted we could have class specific quests as well. Like if the player plays the Rogue there will be a series of side quests around other rogue npc characters bringing more "lore" about their class.
It would also add some replayability to the game for exploring what the other classes have. If we wanted we could even randomize what standard side quests are available, like in Diablo 1.


(It's not finished yet, going to have quest descriptions at the bottom panel as well)

For the journal system itself I think it will be fairly easy to work with. It's just a variable and an event call to add/finish quests in it. The downside of it is that it's pretty simplistic, it will not really be able to track progress an such. So if a quest was kill 5 skeleton, that is all that it would be able to say. No "1/5 skeleton killed" etc.



We will need to track quest IDs though. So each quest will need a unique number tied to them and that's what we send to the Journal system. I think I'll set up a excel sheet or something so we can easily track it.

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All of all! / Re: Pulse check

« Last post by Prpl_Mage on September 22, 2023, 05:00:40 PM »

What kind of teacher are you? All of my friends started wanting to do table top around Covid starting, so I got dragged into a few games. Mostly D&D, but some Coriolis, and some Wise Guys as well. Kids are fun, my daughter is almost 2 now, and we've thrown around the idea of having another.

I teach English to Swedish students at approximately high school level, they are surprisingly good at it - but the rest of Europe is finally catching up.

And when I was a kid, I was escaping a lot of things. You all helped me through some tough years. I'm not sure how to ever thank you for that, even if I acted like... well, a dumb kid through it all. I truly hope everyone is doing their best and keeps doing what they love and what makes them happy and thrive.

Based on the talks I've had with some of our old members we seem to have this in common a lot of us. Creativity is a great escape, and a great something that helps us connect with others as well.

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Chain Games / Re: Chain game ideas and discussion 2022-20??

« Last post by Moosetroop11 on September 21, 2023, 08:34:17 AM »

I like it, it gives the game a particular feel (though it does limit the options of the people doing the following parts). If we want character personality we'll have to do it through NPCs, that's fine : )

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Chain Games / Re: Chain game ideas and discussion 2022-20??

« Last post by Prpl_Mage on September 19, 2023, 08:39:02 PM »

That looks great.

I was about to say that completing tasks could unlock additonal classes, but I have no idea how to do that aside from doing it like the old NES password loads.