i've started making a new rpg that i hope be become a mmorpg 8) . it's the classic fantasy world but with a few twists...

1. 'courage' and 'self-esteem' are stats that effect EVERYTHING you do.
2. when you die you become a ghost and you go to the spirit world, where there are cities and quests to be done, etc. and you can return to the real world as a ghost....
3. diseases can stack and effect you in strange, un-expected ways...

and many more ideas. i'd like to know what people think of these ideas and if they have and ideas they can give me. i have'nt made much yet but it's slowey forming. the playable races are: human, kath (cat-people), highelves, darkelves, hob'en (like hobbits) and shaedows (demonic creatures ).

it's also got a day&night cycle and weather system, where places have different discriptions at different times and conditions.

i'd like help most with:
- fantasy style names for places and people
- and any other tips for coding etc.

thank you.

Is this in Quest? If so, you've got yourself one hell of a job. If not, your still gonna be doing a lot of work. I think it's a good idea though.

yeah im making it in QDK. i've put in a cool bit in the start that goes through scenarios to pick the best race and class for you along with your starting stats.... 8) it's single player ATM but who knows.. maybe it'll be the best questnet mmorpg ever (or the only one lol! ).

one prob: im trying to make it say, when you type score:

race: 'yourrace'      class: 'yourclass'
str: '#'      agl: '#'      dex: '#'
int: '#'      cor: '#'      set: '#'
you have '####' gold pieces.
lvl: '#'      exp: '#'
it is currently 'morning'.

i have put ' around the bits that are status variables, i got them fine but i can't make them go into the msg - it does show them under the variable list.

oh, and another: with the scenario intro it won't let me changes the 'race' variable if the player has picked an option and has a certain item!



please help!!! thank you.

Sounds like a cool idea, but really hard, if you have different cycles and weather patterns that change room descriptions. Maybe it would be easier if you, instead of having day/night cycles and letting the players move back to rooms that you would need to change descriptions, would have day/night cycles, but in different parts of the game. Sounds confusing, but here's what I mean: Let's say you have a "Mansion," and the rooms are "Room1," Room2," and "Room3." And let's say you have a timer that after 2 minutes changes "Day" to "Night." Now, you would need to program the rooms so that if the player enters room, if timerx is on, display "daydescription." Otherwise, display "nightdescription." My idea is to have the whole time in the mansion be daytime, so you don't need to change descriptions based on day or night, but after the player completes that part of the mansion, move them to a deifferent part of the game, say, "the Basement," and say that now it is night. What I mean may be a little (or a lot) unclear, but I hope you undertand what I'm saying. Anyway, that's what I would do if I was making a game like that. As for help with fantasy-style names and places, if you'd like I can give you some. I read lots of fantasy books (Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" being my num. 1 fave series of all time) and have a feeling for weird names.

Actually, you just need a timer (for the seconds) and some status variables for hours/minutes/seconds.
Then you just have the room description change according to certain times etc...

yeah thanx. i'd like some names for stuff. but my main problem ATM is getting it to show your stats (see previous post) and that i cant get it to change the players race. once it is fixed i can get on with some serious hard core programming !!!

i'll sent anyone the file if they want to look at it and work out why its not changing the 'race' status variable.

elex.

ps im using QDK.

It would make life a whole lot easier if you would at least open the asl file in notepad, and copy the code into one of your posts. You don't need to look at it. When we're done looking at it, just reopen notepad and copy the new code into it and save it as mygame.asl for example. Looking at ASL code isn't the end of the world.

Send it to me, and I'll send it back/post it online/however you want it.

ive snt it to you via msn. hopefully you'll have got it

You forgot to do anything when you gave the player the weapon choice... All it did was give a message, then move on to the next option.

I've put a string there, and set that to whatever weapon you choose... I've also replaced the if's, so instead of "if got" (if the player has an object) it is if ( # = # ) (if string equals value/other string).

Anyway, I've sent it back. I like some of that... Nice.

thanx!
i like my intro too. its quite clever 8)
thanx for the fix it works fine now

i remember the days when i myself used to be so possitive about making a really good game, yet didn't know a darn thing about ASL

NOTE: QDK USER NO ASL CODE PLZ!!

Even in QDK you sometimes need to use partial bits of ASL

yeah i might try to learn a bit of asl but im quite used to qdk now and i dont like switching. ive searched long and hard to find quest when i was looking for a good program to write adventure/rpg games in.

cue praise for quest: i love quest as its easy to use and i didnt need to learn any code which meant i could start using it straight away, games were easy and quick to make and also fun.

im thinking of changing the 'shaedow' race to something else, but im not to sure what to. im thinking of a halfhuman-halfsnake creature: human to the waist down then a lond snake tail, and maybe four arms or something.

but if so what should i call them?
or do any of you have any ideas about a race?
i'd quite like it to be a magical/stealth evil beast race (half human, half animal demonic creation, etc.)

thanx

How about take a leaf out of Warcraft 3's book and make them the undead!

nah, i dont like the smell of zombies, lol
i quite like my idea with the snake people, im thinking of calling them maybe Anguitenens/Anguifer/Chelydrus/Anguigena, they're all latin word related to snakes, i think they all sound cool, but i can't deside which to use!!!!!

or maybe 'kinoumai' which is greek ( proberly spelt it wrong, if anyone can read greek its : κινούμαι )

thanx

heres a pic of what i imagine them as :



8) its a pritty cool picture

How about "syth" or something like that?

I can't remember where that name comes from now - probably a well known movie/book/whatever.
Oh, Sith - from Star Wars (saw a trailer at the movies today for 3 - very nice).
I stick with syth though - sounds nice and snake-y IMO.

::EDIT::
As a side-note... WOOP, post 2500 = MINE!!!

ok i got a prob and here it is:

normal colour of text is green, when you talk or if its inportant information (eg. name of someone/where) its in blue, others you talking that can understand yellow, and ones you don't (eg. other languages) red. (on a black background)

the code goes like:

"|cycan you understand?|cg" you are suprized to hear that he can speak to you. you reply yes, and he whispers something to your rescuer, who looks shocked.
"|cywhere did you come from?|cg", you tell him of what happened but you can't quite remember all that happened. every second your memeries are fading.
"|cydo you have a name, O great one?|cg"
"|cbgreat one?|cg" you ask.
"|cyyou are A GOD|cg"
"|cbWHAT?|cg"
"|cyyou came from the Upper Realm, and only gods exist there|cg"
"|cber... i don't think so...|cg" you say rubbing your head.

the codes are all done right but and the colours change alright-ish.
when it starts the normal colour is a bright green. but after the code says to goto green again its a dark green! but when your taken to a new room it goes bright green again until the code for the colour chages!

am i doing something wrong? is it a bug? do i use a different code?

please help, my game's coming on nicely, as you can see.

~elexxorine~

whoops ive given quite a lot of game content out
sigh oh well......

is 'O' spelt like that?


to CW:
syth sounds nice but everyone knows about starwars (i even think its spelt that way) and i'd proberly get sued or flamed by nerds
i cant believe you've seen a bit of SW3, do you have a link?

ps: whats post 2500? (i should proberly know this sigh)

self-centred note: i really REALLY really think my pics well cool. anyone else like it? no?

I've seen exactly what CW has. It's the Star Wars Episode 3 Movie Trailer, which you can get by going to http://www.starwars.com I think.

thats quite cool but its out in may!!!!! 5 whole months of waiting!!!!

i sorted out the problem.
it thought that |cb was the bright green as i had set it to the equivalent of black. and the |cl is blue, |cr red, |cy yellow, |cg is dark green not the standerd bright green.

i went through all my codes chaning the colours but i don't think i've got them all....

computer whizz / any one else can you go over my codes and check that everythings in the right colour.

normal text should be bright green -- |cb
when you are taking it should be blue -- |cl
when something is said that you don't understand it should be red -- |cr
when something is said that you do understand it should be yellow --|cy
NOTHING should be dark green!!! -- |cg

thanx for all the help so far.....

I think you can change it to hexadecimal HTML-like code colours now.
So instead of |cbl (or whatever) you can type |x0000FF ... Although I have no idea about this.

This is taken straight from the Quest help file:

Code     Text formatting  
|b     bold on
|xb     bold off
|u     underline
|xu     underline off
|i     italic
|xi     italic off
|cb     black, or current foreground colour
|cr     red
|cl     blue
|cy     yellow
|cg     green
|sxx     change font size to xx - anything from 01 to 99
|s00     revert to default font size
|jl     set text to left-justified
|jc     set text to centered
|jr     set text to right-justified
|n     new line
|xn     (at end of msg text only) no new line
|w     wait for keypress
|c     clear screen

Notice the "or foreground colour". So |cb is foreground colour. I'm guessing if it already is foreground colour it changes to black.

The HTML-style RRGGBB syntax applies only to "foreground" and "background" commands/tags, e.g. foreground <&H0030FF> has 00 red, 30 green and FF blue.

These commands set the default foreground and background colours. When I say that "|cb" means "black, or current foreground colour", that means that "|cb" is usually black, because black is the default foreground colour. If the default foreground colour has been changed, then "|cb" will set the colour to that foreground colour which was specified.

Hope this makes sense - one of my many planned features on the ever-growing "to do" list is to add support for HTML-style tags within parameters for text formatting, so you'd be able to use msg <[colour=0030FF]Blah blah blah[/colour]> or something along those lines.

thanx i think i got them all.......

i still need to choose a name for my race.....

the game's coming on nicely, its really quite cool....

i can't believe the holidays are nearly over.... it only seams like a few days....

oh,well.....

alex, i think that would be a good addition for a future version, most people know a bit of html and are quite good with it. i made a website with notepad, but got bored and used wanadoos online page maker. lol.

i hope everyone's having a good few last days of freedom.....

Hi there. Well, what kind of name are you looking for for the snake things? Are you looking for a name that applies to them, physically, like "The hissers," because they hiss, or something that just sounds mystical,, like "the Dethombres?" In either case, I thought up a few for each. Sorry if they are bad; I'm thinking them up on the spot. Anyway, here they are:

Physical Names:
1. The Dark Slitherers.
2. The race of Horror Hissers
3. Slythering Temptation
4. Tongues of Evil
5. The Snake Lords
6. Beasts of darkness

Mystical-Sounding Names
1. Derathegom
2. Shwendarti
3. Hissfardethon
4. Kindelik
5. Bevernlees
6. Hatephar

Don't laugh at those. They have no meaning whatsoever, but I thought they sounded cool. If you need more, I'm sure I can call up some new ones from my insane imagination. lol. Anyway, tell me if you like any.

Looks like you've got a good imagination ebayfan.

i can't believe the holidays are nearly over.... it only seams like a few days....

I've still got three weeks left in my holidays! It's good to live Down Under in Australia.

You have three weeks off for New Years itself? Or for all combined Holidays? (Christmas/Chanukah, etc...)

Kindelik sounds good but i just can't deside which one my ideas look good but i'm really bad at making decisions.

ebayfan414 wrote:You have three weeks off for New Years itself? Or for all combined Holidays? (Christmas/Chanukah, etc...)

You gotta remember that it's midsummer in Australia. So they'll presumably be having their summer vacation as well. They probably don't get such a long session in June/July/August as British and US schools get.

Frank L.

Enjoy freedom while you can. No freedom for me.

Elexxorine Wrote:

Kindelik sounds good but i just can't deside which one my ideas look good

You mean what to make them look like?
EagleWing Wrote:

You gotta remember that it's midsummer in Australia.

Oh yeah, I forgot all about that "opposite time of year" thing that they have. No wonder.

Why no freedom, CW? Bound up in work in shackles? lol

Yeah - pretty close.
At least I only work for 3 nights a week - so that's all fun and games.

something i forgot to ask. How can this possibly be a MMORPG?

A couple of things. Yes, I don't get such a long term in June/July/August. We get a 10 week term maximum here, even in private schools. Our holidays start around about the 10th of December, and end near the end of January. However, at my school this year, we get three weeks off instead of two weeks like public schools. So basically, for the standard school here, it's four 10 week terms, two week holidays in between, and a six-week summer holiday.

Oh, and Zelimos, you might want to change your signiature. You've been Zelimos for over a month now, you've even changed your avatar, but your sig still says "Ste".