Major help

[jazor]

Alright, I'm going to let you guys in on what i'm doing for a project to determin my skills as an rpg creatist (Yeah thats right, Creatist)

Anyways.

My Test game will be called (And if its not that bad i'll put it up on the chara forums)

The Crystals of Twi-Kanzim

I'm not trying to make a Good game, I want to make a game that functions properly, looks isn't important at the current moment,

So, as of this second i dont need help but i am asking for the entire forums help as i create this game because, i am writing a check my toosh cant cash and i need loans!!!

Heres the story (what i want to do)

There is an Empire : (your basic evil team / castle / group of villians)
And they control 3 kingdoms ( 3 element Crystals (1 per each))
And the small village that holds a secret within... One of the 5 sacred element crystals (Yeah its cliche' but, i just need a basic plot i'm sorry)

Now... the basis of the beggeinnign is , The empire knows about the crystals after 30 years (where they are located)
And want them beacuse with all 5 crystals they will be able to summon the Deadliest demon of all demons demon demonkind
And, He is about to set out to attack his 3 kingdoms for it, when he realizes there is a village that holds 1 of the crystals, blindly he sends only a few guards to get it beacuse he thinks they're too weak, but wait, who's that, Its Zaraedon!!!!  My main character
He defeates all the guards. And He takes off with the crystal (Zarayden does... ) Then an old man stopps him, and he explains the power of the crystals to the people who dont really know yet. and how if 1 person can harness the power of all 5 crystals and become even stronger then ever, he can destroy all darkness in the world ( another cliche moment )
So, I (i mean zarayden) Sets out on his journey (There i want to make one of those cool title screens like in ff2 or somethign... i dunno) Anwyays, He will attack the 3 main temples (Fire,Earth,Water) (Very cliche ) And everyone he defeates will join up with him to attack the next (making it easier) and after all 3 towers are gone, the final battle will be to attack (with your full 4 man party) the final stage / aka / The empire!!!! Oh no!!! SUSPENSE!  

Anyways... As you walk up the castle (which hopefully i can make a good castle inside and dungeon setup) Random npc guards will come and attack you. obviously you kick some butt and move on, once to the top...

You will SEE the crystal (So close, yet so far...) The general is guarding it, he's kinda big, but all 4 of you can take him. He should be a sinch... But then. in 1 last hurra he sucks all 4 crystals out of all 4 of us, and fuses them to make the DEMON OF ALL DEMONS!!! OH NOES SUSPSENSE!!!

This is the toughest battle int he world, Its resistant to literally all elemental stats (Excluding poision / darkness n stuff)
And its blows are fatal 5000 DAMAGE (well i'll work that out)

If you manage to kill this insanley hard boss (I'm hoping to put a save point before the general)
You will get your 5 crystals and all 4 of you will become the crystals. and fuse with the final crystal, and go into an eternal bliss until i make another game









Anyways... I"m sorry i ruined the game for anyone who will ever play it if I follow through with this

I don't think anyone will read this seeing as it's too long,

Now... Like i stated before, this isn't like a big game, I just want to test my skills, (I'm a noob which is why i'm posting this,)

I'm going to be asking lots of questions regarding my game like,

"How , when i beat the fire temple can i make the Firelady join up with me and destroy the castle and make it so i can only go the GREEN temple and not the BLUE temple beacuse they're in order"


Or

"How do i make nps that start a battle on contact such as Earthbound"



Anyways...

Yeah

thats my game and i'll be workign on it for the rest of my life. and I will be asknig my questions alogn my path so be ready because i will need lots of help.

Thank you.

Good night,
And good luck.



EDIT : I use RPG MAKER 2000 (I dont want to deal with Battle charsets)

[Andon]

Well, I personally don't use 2k, but I use 2k3.

As for making the towers have to go in order, use switches. And for the wandering NPC guards, have them set to 'on hero touch' and random movement. Then have the event set as start battle (with the NPC) then change the chip of the event (Move event  change chip i think) and set the event's place to somewhere in a wall.

As for the crystals, I have no idea on what you want them to do or how to do that. I can't read your mind (Over the interent at least)

[Meiscool-2]

En.... that's not how you do the battle thing.

The battles would be you make an on contact event, and when you touch it, it starts a battle. You'll find it on page two I believe of the event coding. Then, after the battle, have it 'erase event'.

As to the towers, make something cliche like you can't get into the water tower without having the fire lady melt the ice in front of the door, and as for the earth temple, make the water guy fill a canyon that divids you from the door with water, then swim across or have some bridge that floots up with the water. Switchs are needed to do this, or condions as to who has joined your party.

Also, you can have r2k3 without making b-chars. It would be just like Dragon Warriors. So, use r2k3 and just leave the b-chars blank. r2k3 is a lot better.

[jazor]

Originally posted by Meiscool
En.... that's not how you do the battle thing.

The battles would be you make an on contact event, and when you touch it, it starts a battle. You'll find it on page two I believe of the event coding. Then, after the battle, have it 'erase event'.

As to the towers, make something cliche like you can't get into the water tower without having the fire lady melt the ice in front of the door, and as for the earth temple, make the water guy fill a canyon that divids you from the door with water, then swim across or have some bridge that floots up with the water. Switchs are needed to do this, or condions as to who has joined your party.

Also, you can have r2k3 without making b-chars. It would be just like Dragon Warriors. So, use r2k3 and just leave the b-chars blank. r2k3 is a lot better.

Yes yes, that sounds brilliant, you are a smart person, all of you are.
basically i wasn't exactly asking for help this second but, i was letting you know i will be needing much help

but that rocks... you'll have to teach me how to do that... Like,

My kinda line up is

(By the way this isn't ABS)

Cutscenes
cutesceskj
cutsecsese
cues blah blah blah
Path to the fire temple
Do the fire temple
Get the fire crystal (doesnt really afffect you in any way except you have the "Fire crystal" in your inv.)

Go to the next place

ect .
ect.
ect

That sounds cool though

With the idea's for making the fire lady be able to knock down ice cubes or somethign how would you do that?

[jazor]

Well... for the purpose of this game only , i wont switch to rpg2k3 (but i will do that for the NEXT game i make when i get SERIOUS into this buiseness...

But boy am i going to have lots of quetsions.