Avisaria - Mac

[Xiphos]

Very cool!

[Gan]

Working on the map editor of Avisaria, gotta make it easy to make maps and handle npcs.


-Gan

[Gnome]

Can we use that for simple RPG as well?

[EqwanoX]

Working on the map editor of Avisaria, gotta make it easy to make maps and handle npcs.


-Gan

oooohhhh, THATS cool

[Gan]

Can we use that for simple RPG as well?

Brilliant idea Gnome! With a little modification it'd work wonderfully. Kill two stones with 1 map editor.

oooohhhh, THATS cool

Just wait till you use it, I have some unique features in mind...


-Gan

[EqwanoX]

can you make it export pict files? then everyone would use it

[Tireas Dragon]

you could take a picture by using [Command+Shift+4]

[Gan]

Hmm. I don't think that'd be necessary...
Sc has a raised sprite limit so you could make it draw tiles individually and have a lot of work done for you. Of course like TD mentioned, you could just take a snap shot and crop it down to the size you want.
Though you could manually piece together maps in a program like Tiled which is better suited for making image files of maps.


-Gan

[Xiphos]

I think I missed it, what exactly is Avisaria?

[Gan]

Massivly(maybe) Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game for Mac.

Large scrolling world with plenty of monsters, online people, towns, adventures. You must stay in character(role play) as much as you can.

Once the game's engine is done we can basicly just use the world editor to make everything.
This is a game Satyricon and I have been making for many years... bumping up through languages and game creation tools.
What inspired us was the online role playing game Oberin.


-Gan

[WarHampster]

You must stay in character(role play) as much as you can.

What does that mean?

[Gan]

Our world is going to have it's own set of History. Now when playing it's frowned upon when acting out of character such as having a debate on who's computer is better in-game. They don't have computers in Avisaria so normally when talked about it a good reply would be:
What's this computer you speak of? In all my life cycles I've never heard of such a word...
Of course the text would be more fashioned to the period of Knights, kingdoms, and such... though I'm pretty rusty on that. Silver is probably great at role play.


-Gan

[WarHampster]

Hmm... but how would you enforce that? Other than having admins regularly moderating stuff I don't see how you would censor everything that's out of character.

[Gan]

Oh no, not censor. It's just frowned upon. They can speak out of character if they want but we just urge them to stay in character for the best gaming experience.
Now, if we're running some big Avisaria event and they publicly get out of character, they may just get electrified.


-Gan

[Silverwind]

Fantasy roleplaying is great fun. I'd love to see a game that heavily incorporates it. For anyone who isn't sure what roleplaying is, my Dad's old D&D campaign forum is a good example: http://z11.invisionfree.com/Roguesoft/index.php?s=0e2f1f8662998adc37a631a05915a524&showforum=13

My Dad was only able to host game sessions once a month, so he set up the forum for players to role play their characters in between sessions. It was a great idea, as we were able to swap rumours, ask questions and share bard songs. Everything discussed is based on in-game events.