It's finally out...of the development table! And into the huge ocean of games.
Another completed project under my belt.
Download here:
https://pixel-brownie-software.itch.io/redblue-adventures-crash-n-brawl
If you want to give a opinion on the game you can fill the survey:
https://goo.gl/forms/decdj4rlAnVCzKK13 (I promise it won't take long to fill in)
This blog is no longer in use, I don't stand by the opinions expressed in the majority of these posts anymore. Therefore you should take most of the ideas here with a pinch of salt. I'm keeping it up for archival purposes.
Showing posts with label red-blue-adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red-blue-adventures. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Thursday, 1 March 2018
RedBlue Adventures: Crash n’ Brawl Update!
Hello there!
I have good news:
RedBlue Adventures: Crash n’ Brawl is finally feature
complete!
(on 24th Febuary to be exact)
(on 24th Febuary to be exact)
Feature Complete
This phase of development is quite a hopeful one, as you’ve
created a finished product – now all you need to do is refine and tweak it
until it’s good enough to be released. But the funny thing about releasing
something is that you don’t feel that sense of happiness that you did when you
dreamed of releasing it. It’s more like “Okay. I’ve shipped this product, time
to move on to the next thing.”
Whilst enemies/players are relatively easy to add in,
buttons were not. I didn’t include a function to add them in due to the whole
add listener function which basically adds a function to the button. So I had
to deal with copy-pasting this many times
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| Yuck |
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| Elurgh! |
Positioning them in a row was also a pain, as I’ve also had
to initialize these variables (can be seen on the right) every time I wanted to
do so.
As well as this, there were plenty of times where I had to
botch efforts to fix bugs. Workaround after workaround after workaround.
But at least this taught me to write better code next time I
work on an RPG.
Playtesting
At this point in time I’m getting people at school to test
my games for a bit, and it’s quite valuable as they give me feedback and I can
analyze how they play. It seems that in the beginning that they didn’t know
what to do. I’ve been writing a list of notes to show what improvements the
game needs.
I think it would be quite helpful if I can get some people
online to playtest my game, you can note me on deviantart or email me on ratchetandsinro@gmail.com if you
want to give the game a shot; I’ll send you the build.
You’ll also be prompted to fill in this form (which is
mostly multiple-choice): https://goo.gl/forms/decdj4rlAnVCzKK13
I’ll try to do this for every game that I make, because play
testers are very nessacary to a game’s development. Not only for the game at
hand but I could also learn what the world truly depends on or at least wants
from gaming.
Summing up:
RBA will be coming pretty soon – somewhere in mid-march so
for those who want to playtest it, playtest it ASAP. And be sure to fill that
form too – there’s no point of testing if you can’t give feedback!
Well… you don’t have to but it would be invaluable information to me.
I couldn’t ask for anymore!
Well… you don’t have to but it would be invaluable information to me.
I couldn’t ask for anymore!
That’s all from me!
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
RedBlue: Adventures update
Hello there!
This is the first game development post I'm writing on this blog heh...
Alright... so over the past few months I've been working quite solidly on the RPG (alongside Bounty Hunter 2 which I may update soon because I have a quite a good amount to say about that).
Firstly,
I have a shop system all good and working.
As you can see, you can buy food, characters and moves.
Isn't that cool? It kind of reminds me of the tavern from the IOS game "Slayin'" where you could buy new characters to fiddle around with.
How do you get the money?
By defeating enemies of course!
I'm pretty sure most of you may assume that food can be used in battle as a healing item.
But that's not the case with this game.
Instead food is used as a way of permanently increasing character stats (like TWEWY).
You need to win a certain amount of battles in order to do this (again, like TWEWY).
I feel like this is a good mechanic to have players strengthen their characters and give the game some sort of replay value (because it's an arcade RPG, it's a GIVEN that these should have replay value).
It makes the game more personalized, as you can experiment with seeing which food item does what to the characters and how their stats increase.
There are 3 playable characters that you can buy from the store to assist Redler on his adventure, each with their own strengths and weaknesess.
And of course Moves!
Which nicely gets me to moves.
You can buy moves from the store which add a move to Redler (or any of the characters) which you can mess with or use to your advantage.
Obviously these items get unlocked as the player progresses through the game by getting stronger.
Secondly,
I would like to mention about the more back-end stuff (I honestly love that they even call it that).
This is what I use to play around with character stats before I input them into the game (which inputting the stats pretty tedious if you ask me).
Let me tell you some amazing advice that will make your life easier.
If you want to make an RPG, it would be ideal to have a spreadsheet.
Why?
Because you can see what kind of stats your characters have at a certain level (which is processed by calculations I've come up with).
It helps balance the game without having to constantly play test the game over and over again.
It includes stats not only for players but for enemies as well.
In any future RPGs I desire to make, it will be a golden standard to use spreadsheets.
As you may see here - characters have about 4 stats (actually they have 5 now if you count "Special points" which is basically my game's version of mana, I'm too lazy to put it on there. Feel free to call me out if the game isn't balanced in terms of SP).
This is because I honestly don't like it when RPG's throw a million stats that you have to somehow understand.
I.e. skill, resistance, guts, vitality, mt, whatever
I can see that these may increase other things like skill increasing the amount of critical hits or guts increasing the likelihood of your character auto-reviving or enduring with 1 hp remaining or such like.
But personaly I think that, whilst it adds depth to gameplay - it dosen't make it fun or enjoyable.
This is why I'd prefer just 4-5 stats rather than 9 or heck even 15!
It's also because I want to keep the scope for this project relatively low since it's my 1st RPG that I actually thought about these things.
I also think less is more in these kind of situations.
How about make defence increase the amount of health you recover in battle?
Or having intelligence increase the amount of SP you recover each turn?
Or even having less stats work with each other?
No need for 15 stats!
Looking at you Final Fantasy!
Well... hey! This is all food for thought, though.
Thirdly
I have also implemented some system where it spawns random enemies based on the kinds it stores in a list.
Like the shop, it changes as you progress through the game, spawning a larger variety and stronger enemies.
There is a level cap in the enemy selectors, meaning that when you get to a certain level, it will go to the next enemy selector to spawn the next set of enemies.
These kinds of things are far easier than just hard-coding things into the game.
It takes a workload off me, I'll only have to focus on implementing the enemies into the game (things like sprite animations, moves, stats etc).
I've also done an editor sort of like this in Bounty Hunter 2.
But that will be saved for when I write about that game.
Summing Up
Development is overall going pretty nicely.
I like what this game is becoming,
Even if it's full of flaws - you don't always get things right the first time.
Obviously the second or third effort will be better.
The important thing here is that I've learned quite a lot about what goes into an RPG.
That's what matters the most to me.
Now if you don't mind, I've got to work on the enemies and characters and... lots of things...
Including schoolwork too!
That's all from me!
This is the first game development post I'm writing on this blog heh...
Alright... so over the past few months I've been working quite solidly on the RPG (alongside Bounty Hunter 2 which I may update soon because I have a quite a good amount to say about that).
Firstly,
 |
| Well, it's just a bunch of buttons for now... |
I have a shop system all good and working.
As you can see, you can buy food, characters and moves.
Isn't that cool? It kind of reminds me of the tavern from the IOS game "Slayin'" where you could buy new characters to fiddle around with.
How do you get the money?
By defeating enemies of course!
I'm pretty sure most of you may assume that food can be used in battle as a healing item.
But that's not the case with this game.
Instead food is used as a way of permanently increasing character stats (like TWEWY).
You need to win a certain amount of battles in order to do this (again, like TWEWY).
I feel like this is a good mechanic to have players strengthen their characters and give the game some sort of replay value (because it's an arcade RPG, it's a GIVEN that these should have replay value).
It makes the game more personalized, as you can experiment with seeing which food item does what to the characters and how their stats increase.
There are 3 playable characters that you can buy from the store to assist Redler on his adventure, each with their own strengths and weaknesess.
And of course Moves!
Which nicely gets me to moves.
You can buy moves from the store which add a move to Redler (or any of the characters) which you can mess with or use to your advantage.
Obviously these items get unlocked as the player progresses through the game by getting stronger.
Secondly,
I would like to mention about the more back-end stuff (I honestly love that they even call it that).
Let me tell you some amazing advice that will make your life easier.
If you want to make an RPG, it would be ideal to have a spreadsheet.
Why?
Because you can see what kind of stats your characters have at a certain level (which is processed by calculations I've come up with).
It helps balance the game without having to constantly play test the game over and over again.
It includes stats not only for players but for enemies as well.
In any future RPGs I desire to make, it will be a golden standard to use spreadsheets.
As you may see here - characters have about 4 stats (actually they have 5 now if you count "Special points" which is basically my game's version of mana, I'm too lazy to put it on there. Feel free to call me out if the game isn't balanced in terms of SP).
This is because I honestly don't like it when RPG's throw a million stats that you have to somehow understand.
I.e. skill, resistance, guts, vitality, mt, whatever
I can see that these may increase other things like skill increasing the amount of critical hits or guts increasing the likelihood of your character auto-reviving or enduring with 1 hp remaining or such like.
But personaly I think that, whilst it adds depth to gameplay - it dosen't make it fun or enjoyable.
This is why I'd prefer just 4-5 stats rather than 9 or heck even 15!
It's also because I want to keep the scope for this project relatively low since it's my 1st RPG that I actually thought about these things.
I also think less is more in these kind of situations.
How about make defence increase the amount of health you recover in battle?
Or having intelligence increase the amount of SP you recover each turn?
Or even having less stats work with each other?
No need for 15 stats!
Looking at you Final Fantasy!
Well... hey! This is all food for thought, though.
Thirdly
I have also implemented some system where it spawns random enemies based on the kinds it stores in a list.Like the shop, it changes as you progress through the game, spawning a larger variety and stronger enemies.
There is a level cap in the enemy selectors, meaning that when you get to a certain level, it will go to the next enemy selector to spawn the next set of enemies.
These kinds of things are far easier than just hard-coding things into the game.
It takes a workload off me, I'll only have to focus on implementing the enemies into the game (things like sprite animations, moves, stats etc).
I've also done an editor sort of like this in Bounty Hunter 2.
But that will be saved for when I write about that game.
Summing Up
Development is overall going pretty nicely.
I like what this game is becoming,
Even if it's full of flaws - you don't always get things right the first time.
Obviously the second or third effort will be better.
The important thing here is that I've learned quite a lot about what goes into an RPG.
That's what matters the most to me.
Now if you don't mind, I've got to work on the enemies and characters and... lots of things...
Including schoolwork too!
That's all from me!
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