community-driven RPG

[Geekboy1011]

chattahippie im just throwing out points and ideas atm were still in "planning" mode we may not have magical animatoins at all who knows

and that sounds like a sweet setup shmibs!

[chattahippie]

chattahippie im just throwing out points and ideas atm were still in "planning" mode we may not have magical animatoins at all who knows

and that sounds like a sweet setup shmibs!

hehe, just realized how terribly I worded that.  By animations I meant cutscenes, such as a cabin boy/girl peering out of a broken ship into a unknown island kinda thing

Sorry for the confusion
I tend to do that a lot

[shmibs]

cutscenes might be a bit much. i think stills would be nice, though.

ok, do people like that as a general setting? should we move on to specific characters?

[Geekboy1011]

i like that alot so im game for moving on. and it its a map based rpg we could to preanimated cutscenes easily enough but not movie types

[chattahippie]

i like that alot so im game for moving on. and it its a map based rpg we could to preanimated cutscenes easily enough but not movie types

Yeah, I mean they aren't necessary, but a map based cutscene would be cool, as it could use the user-defined character.  For the characters, maybe presets are a wizard boy, a robot girl, and a magical robot (steampunk, of course)

[FinaleTI]

Character creation! Yippee! That's one of my strong suits.

[shmibs]

i was thinking maybe the main character cabin boy/girl, who starts with nothing, but can collect steampunk weaponry scrounged from the camp or magical items from the tribe's village, a companion from the camp (maybe a kid from a rich family who has been stuck inside and never been allowed to do anything adventurous in his/her life?), the kid's parents, the ship's captain, the baron/leader of the tribe, his second in command, and maybe a few others thrown in for humour (the ship's cook, a stowaway character like Ben Gunn from treasure island who is just a little bit insane).

[Geekboy1011]

sounds good to me! i like the cook and the insane guy idea

[Juju]

Yeah that sounds good.

[chattahippie]

Nice story.  If there are any sprites, just tell me, and I'll try to get the sprites and  hex values uploaded as soon as I can

[shmibs]

if you want to, go ahead and make whatever sprites you think would fit in.
any other character ideas from people?

[Geekboy1011]

im willing to collaborate on this battle engine when the time comes. if we do it in asm that is

[FinaleTI]

I'm liking those characters.

[chattahippie]

Ok, I'll see if I can upload some basic sprites Friday

[FinaleTI]

So, what would be the antagonistic force in this RPG?

Would it be some crazy guy how tried to wreck the boat for some bizarre reason, or someone from the voodoo tribe who was branded a heretic and exiled for trying to summon some ancient evil force, or something else?