Coding Well Forum

Planar! Sweet!

no it is the "setting formally known as planar"
it's sort of like prince that way...

and AWESOME ish...
(will it have MECH SUPPORT)
if not... MAKE IT SUPPORT MECHS

There's a huge differance since the last time you guys played Planar: It all takes place on the same plane now.
Caprolis is no longer floating in a void, its a port city near the sea. What this loses in cool set pieces is gained by the fact Airships are vitally important in transportation.
Oh yeah, there are some smallish mechs in the setting still. I'm trying really hard not to reach Rifttsian levels of absurdity.
And a good dicription for the whole thing would be Fullmetal Alchemist meets WarCraft several hundred years after Lord of the Rings.

Heck, lets do a quick rundown of some of the races:

Orc: Discriminated against for thousands of years by the Humans, the Orcish race has recntly carved out a place for themselves on the world stage. The major populations of Orcs place a high value on honor and tradition. Of course, what honor and tradition means varies amongst the various Orcish populations, and some resent what they view as giving into the will of the humans.
In addition, a growing number of Orcs are joining the growing revival of the Chaos philosophy, much like their ancestors who served the Dark Lord Thern.
Orcs dwell mainly in the continent of Orphedia, a land made of swamps, thick jngles and vast barren plains. There's also a major population in the Caprolian reigion of Markahn that consists of the descendants of ancient rading parties.

Daek'Fir (Dark Elf): Dark Elves are a strange breed. Their history is vaugue and shrouded in more myth and legend than any of the other races. The tales of the High Elves claim that in the distant past a group of Elves practiced magic so evil the gods stained their skin as dark as night. All dark skinned elves were banished from the High Elven lands, never to be seen again.
The Daek'Fir say they were cast out for not supporting a Tyranical Archon of Law's rule.
Whatever the truth is, Dark Elves and High Elves bear a grudge dating back as far as either of their recorded history.
Whare High Elves exel at magic, Dark Elves have mastered a different craft: Technomancy. From their island homeland they craft wonderous devices such as mechanical Golems, automatic weaponry and machines that can detect the Arcane.
The islands of Hem'Daek is their home, covored in small houses, workshops and strange equipment used for unknown perposes. They can also be found across the known world, reaserching new discovories and selling their inventions to the highest bidder.

'GASP' ...that took a long freaking time to write. More later.

Today I've been messing with RPG maker XP. This little program keeps surprising me with the amount of stuff it can do. Really, I've never encountred another game making program that works this well (except maybe RPG maker 2003).
In my experimentation today I've maneged to figure out how to make sliding boxes! So naturally I'm going to include a sliding box puzzle in my game somewhere.
My main issue right now is figuring out how make an event that triggers when you push a block onto it, otherwise my puzzles will be based soley on opening a path so you can advance.
Here's some screen caps:

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rath

is spelled Wrath.
and cool i always love rpg maker xp... the things you can do are endless...
and is that WTF?

Robopanda333 wrote:...

rath

is spelled Wrath.
and cool i always love rpg maker xp... the things you can do are endless...
and is that WTF?

Ahahahaa, I was thinking the same thing about Wrath...

Robopanda333 wrote:...

rath

is spelled Wrath.
and cool i always love rpg maker xp... the things you can do are endless...
and is that WTF?

No that's QuestMaster: the Master Quest. I'm still trying to find a good japanese city tileset for WTF. Heck, I could use a better suberbs tileset too.

The typo has been noted, and will be corrected after the Colbert Report.

Do they have custom tile sets available for download online? I'm gonna have to get RPG maker....

Heck yeah! Tilesets, screens and even sprites can be stored as images!
For example:http://www.phanxgames.com/resources/displayimage.php?album=33&pos=18 can be used simply by droping it in the tileset folder!
Same with characters: http://www.phanxgames.com/resources/displayimage.php?album=31&pos=9 the program figures out the animation just from the picture!

Nice!