The iPhone Project

[Silverwind]

I've spent years working on balanced classes and I've still never succeeded, so I'm all in favor of dropping them.

[WarHampster]

Getting rid of classes is fine IMO, but keep magic if possible.

[Gan]

Well, it's not the classes themselves that are taking so much work but the battle systems. Mainly magic, haven't even started the archer's. I'm thinking of taking it out and maybe stick it in another version or future game when convenient...

So I think I'll go ahead with just one way of fighting for now. Keep it simple, maybe in the future we can make a sequel with multiple classes if things go well.


-Gan

[Silverwind]

What's the current formula for calculating the results of battle?

[WarHampster]

Can we at least keep the beam weapon that you showed earlier?

[Gan]

I like the beam weapon but... with scrolling maps and...
Hmmmm.
We could take out the spell system, class system, and stuff within each and it'd take out a ton of complexity... then I'm thinking I could be able to keep the beam weapon. Except it wouldn't be a spell. You'd need to be wearing a certain trinket around your neck that allows you to channel your energy(mana) into a beam of lightning at your foe.

That'd allow us to keep the beam weapon and it wouldn't take too many lines of code or complexity.
What say you guys?


-Gan

[Silverwind]

Sure.

EDIT:

So are spells officially dropped for build 1?

[Gan]

Yeah, but we can keep the lightning. Just because it looks so cool.

Here's a preview of the RPG playing on my iPhone:
http://web.mac.com/avisaria/iPhoneRPG%20PreviewOniPhone.mov


-Gan

[GabrielCA]

Hmm... A first glance, that seems promising.
Who contributed ?

[WarHampster]

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Thats a you-just-totally-renewed-my-excitement-and-I-will-now-drop-SC3D-in-favor-of-making-more-tiles noise!

[Gan]

Exactly what I was hoping for.

Who contributed ?

The Gmg. Literally, nearly everyone though our main guys right now are WarHampster, Silver, and Gnome.


-Gan

[Connors]

Hey I've got to try to help out with this project it looks really cool!
It seems I'm one of the few who hasn't contributed yet.
There's one small problem though and that is apparently it can't run on my eMac...

[Silverwind]

No problem, I haven't figured out how to run it on my iMac yet. What kind of role did you have in mind?

[Connors]

Well I'd like to help with story for sure, and possibly some gameplay concepts. I posted one idea already, in "Final design topic (iPhone RPG)" about having the map be more open so players have to decide if they are ready to enter some areas or not.

I can also help with sprites if you still need spriters.

Sadly, I think my home computer is too old to run iPhone apps.

[Silverwind]

No worries, Gan frequently posts videos and screencasts so everyone can see how the game looks.