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Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« on: March 22, 2012, 09:59:50 pm »
A friend from school and I are working on a role-playing game. Both of us are pretty heavily interestedin going into the game programming industry as careers, so basically in an effort to get as much of a head start as possible in the indie game industry, we're making games!

Anyways. This is our first project, an unnamed RPG for PC. I'm doing all the programming, in C/C++ and SDL, and my friend's doing level design, art and music. We just barely started doing actual work, and as such don't have a playable demo right now. For the most part, we're planning everything out, in-depth storyline, etc.

The way I'm doing the programming is slightly backwards - I'm getting the menu screen, notepad, inventory, map, and save screen out of the way before I get to work on the meat and potatoes, the tiling engine, etc.

So using Visual C++, the GIMP and my mad skillz (not) I wrote the in-game menu, like when you press escape, the game grays out and this pop-up appears:

http://www.filedropper.com/awesomeingamemenu

Haha this is about all I have to show so far. Well, I take it back - I've actually completed the notes-taking page too, so as soon as I write the Inventory and the View Map deal I can get to work on the actual game.

As I mentioned above, so far we don't actually have a name for the game yet, but we came up with a name for the main character, Zak Leroi. Also, we're trying to come up with a name for our company, so if you have any ideas, let me know :D
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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2012, 10:03:22 pm »
Leeroy Jenkins reference?
 
« Last Edit: March 22, 2012, 10:05:00 pm by blweldon2 »
Hmmm.... I wonder how to do this.....

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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2012, 10:06:04 pm »
hm, unintentional but possibly subliminal :D Nah, I've never heard of him. It's just a name we came up with, semi-based on one of our friends middle names, LeRoi.
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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2012, 10:24:46 pm »
Well that's an awesome coincidence!  ;D
Hmmm.... I wonder how to do this.....

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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2012, 10:28:58 pm »
That menu reminds me of Minecraft for some reason, lol. :P

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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2012, 12:23:59 am »
Glad to see you into computer programming. I can't wait to see more work done on this and see how the game looks like in battles and the overworld map. :)

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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2012, 12:46:03 am »
You know, that menu screenshot looks like something that would fit on a smartphone. Any plans? :D

In any case, this sounds like a cool project. Any idea what the game is about yet?
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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2012, 10:24:30 pm »
Yeah, almost the whole thing is planned out but we're not planning on supporting any other platforms  besides PC :P haha and yeah, Homer-16 I defintely take lots of inspiration from minecraft.
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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2012, 02:13:09 pm »
By the way the image link above no longer works. You should probably use a different image uploader like Imageshack or Removedfrom(losingthe)game.com for future uploads, to ensure they remain up. :P

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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2012, 08:11:49 pm »
you should get rid of that parenthesis so you don't confuse him. :P
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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2012, 09:17:06 pm »
No, I'm famililar with removedfromgame, it's fine.

Anyways, here's a screenie of the notes page:
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Re: Zak LeRoi, PC RPG
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2012, 10:36:48 pm »
I like the fonts. What would be cool though is if you managed to make the papyrus look older. :D