Hello! I am using GTGE to design a video game which will be somewhat
similar to Zelda II (NES) with top view world map and side scrolling
combat zones.
I have decided I want at least 30-40 NPC's and many characters will be
advanced with many moves.
I need a management tools.
I have vision of designing a character workshop in which I have
character states tied with environmental inputs causing effects (similar
to a CPU diagram . . eg: if State == 1 AND JumpButtonPressed THEN
SetState (2)
I need to be able to map tilsets to create landscapes, and place blocks
and various "doodads" around the screen to create side scrolling
dungeons. Each level will have it's own associated music files and I
will place enemies into the screen based on characters I have imported
elsewhere.
Each sprite will have a collaboration of collision rectangles with
associated numbers for every sprite frame. "attacks" and "blocks" will
either move or add "slave sprites" such as a sword or shield, or update
the sprite frame selection to one in which a weapon is visible, or
launch a projectile.
I want basically some kind of content management for all of this.
One part of me is saying there is probably no tool in the world that
does even 50% of what you want - and another part says, there are
thousands of games out there - there has to be someone else with a
personality like mine. (Except the tilesets, I am nearly 100% certain
such a thing exists - I even think I have used one. . . Now as for
being able to export a tile map in a convenient format - that is
something else entirely.) I'm expecting to write this thing myself -
so don't worry about 'letting me down'. With the exception of the AI I
would like to completely be able to define a character in this studio
and then port it into my game.
Any comments / input / suggestions / mild criticisms are welcome.
I wrote a little 1000 line quick game with a playable character using
"borrowed" graphics and sounds and implemented an AI in less lines than
I ever thought possible which was reasonably difficult to defeat.
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LTP
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