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The thing to remember about your typical "grinding" scenario in RPG's is that it's really a way for the player to:

* ...control the difficulty of the game. By fighting weaker monsters un ...

Yeah, I've gotta go with LeoDraco on this one. Object-oriented design is particularly well-suited to modeling characters and objects and their interactions, especially when you have a lot of them.
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For Sacraments, I used something pretty similar to what LeoDraco is talking about - a separate class for each game state that knows how to render itself and respond to user input, which then swaps its ...

Heh. Sort of. It turns out that I'm using the high-level engine I was working on for Sacraments 3D for a project at work called Science PiratesSacraments 3D game. Science Pirates is really starting ...

You don't have to do all three. All those are potential options. Tiled is very programmer friendly IMHO.

Just FYI, drawing the map works under Safari now.

Didn't seem to work under Safari. I hit the "draw" button, and it did draw a map, but assuming it's supposed to look like a checkerboard, it didn't draw it correctly. Looked like a white b ...

i didn't think you meant to say anything about RPGDX members, so don't worry about that.

Basically what I'm asking for is links that back up the things you said like "thousands of developers&q ...

Many people will use it, because a lot of people don't like depending on proprietary technology to get their point across. There are enough people that will use it that it has been agreed to by severa ...

The main reason I personally don't care for 'maker games is that they typically aren't cross-platform, not because I have a particular disdain for them. RPG's can shine from story elements, so the so ...

Just FYI, Raph Koster, author of "A Theory of Fun," just finished blogging a series of articles that describe the process they used to create the resources system used in Ultima Online. Som ...

Richard Adams' Watership Down would make a kick-ass MMO. Crazy bunny-on-bunny combat, psychic visions of blood running over fields, hopping scared through dark forests filled with foxes and owls, and ...

As RuneLancer mentioned, computer AI almost always boils down to assigning possible moves a fitness function, and then choosing the move that has the highest value of that fitness function (or randomi ...

If there's a point to be had, condense it into a few lines so everybody can stomach it.
I think this thread is quickly becoming pointless. It's obvious that nodtveidt has a chip on his shoulder rega ...

Whoa, nelly. How, exactly, does the GPL "rape" developers? If some developer doesn't like the terms of the GPL, they are in no way obliged to use GPL software. They can burn their own man ...