[DeveloperX]

http://www.freewebs.com/ccps/ffa/index.html

[The Anarchist]

This is not going to work. Even if you had a well set out list of objectives, and had documented how you were going to go about things, and had done some work already, you'd still have to figure out who was doing what and how they were doing it - it would look odd because someone might spend 20 hours doing the nicest menu you've ever seen, and then someone else might do an ascii scrolling engine.

Its a good idea, and kudos for thinking of it, but ive had it before and could immediately think of a million ideas why it wouldn't work.
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[janus]

Actually, I'm going to go beyond being a downer and be just plain mean.

This is a dumb idea, and you haven't even planned anything other than the technical aspects of it. You can't hope to succeed at it if you haven't even figured out what you're doing!

I don't understand why people think that throwing people at a project will cause it to be completed. You can have 50 people and your game still won't turn out anywhere near as good as a well-planned game made by 3 people, if it turns out at all.

[whitedoor_lazy]

I think that community projects can work.. but if someone has any desire to get a good responses when trying to get people on board, they would need to provide ALL of the following things:

1. a clear description of the different aspects of the game they want help with, there is no point in asking people to join a project without telling them EXACTLY what you expect from them...

2. a brief outline of the project's engine for any programmers who might be interested joining. A detailed plan of the engine is needed... but that kind of thing will only be of interest to someone who has already decided to join and wants to figure out how they could be of help. (see #1)

3. screenshots, source code, and game art (not concept art) of what they have done so far. If someone is wanting to make a community rpg... they can't keep any of these things secret or hidden... there is no point.

a. No one is going to steal your art, because it *will* be crap when compared to what they can steal from a commercial game.

b. No one will steal your ideas becuase chances are they aren't terribly original. And even if they were when it comes to RPGs everyone has their own ideas and opinions and can think of a million ideas they think are going to be a million times better than yours.

c. No one will steal your code especially at the start because there are a pile of rpg makers and open source rpgs that are far more complete and usable.

[DeveloperX]

here are the links:
http://www.freewebs.com/ccps/ffa/
http://www.freewebs.com/ccps/ffa/cedit.html

note: the 3 'theme' links aren't completed.. they will be soon
I'm trying to divide my time between 8 things..not an easy task.

btw, I think that some of you (you know who you are) were very rude.
yes, I was too brief in my last post, but that was because of a mistake,
I had clicked submit by accident.
I couldn't edit my post, and my pc crashed before I could post again. :\

anyway, there is 1 tool 100% completed, see the page above, there are 4
screenshots that you can view (nothing too spectacular, heh)
but nonetheless, it is completed.
I have 3 modules that should be finished by monday.
they are:
SEDIT.EXE, LEDIT.EXE, GEDIT.EXE
see Details section for information on these modules.


I have completed projects before. just this is my first LARGE RPG. :)
I've made countless of those little 1-2 scenario games, from ASCII RPG to graphic RPGs with PCX file support.

My old games were wiped out by a harddrive eating virus (sux)
I had no medium that I could've backup up to. not even floppies at the time.

Now I backup at the end of each day to CDRs. :)
Ok, well, I'll post more updates later as they come.
PS. I tried registering here, but the site crashed 6 times doing so.
so I may try again tomorrow, but it is late now, so LateZ.

-DeveloperX

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[janus]

Question. It's 2003. Why are you developing a gigantic project using development tools created in the early part of the last decade?

[DeveloperX]

Oh yeah, about telling other coders about how it works, ok:
The project is 100% data driven. there is no hard-coded game stuff.

I'm working out bugs in the scripting system currently, but the basics of gameplay is as such:

You run the main Executable, GAME.EXE passing it a certain file,
start.ini which contains instruction that tell the exe which scripts
to load next. Example start.ini:

[DeveloperX]

[BigManJones]

re GEOS: I was visiting my mom and dad on easter and found a box of 5.25 inch diskettes(!!!) with all my old c-64 stuff on them. And in the bunch was the GEOS disks!!!!! How crazy is that? Too bad I don't have a c-64 to try them on and see if they work though :( . I even used to have the 'Simons Basic' cartridge (you are mega-leet if you remember that! I did not find the cart however.)

[entivore]

I like five-and-a-quarters. I still have dozens of good ones. Hell, if I get 3.5's they wear out in months. I have 5,6 year old 5ers that are still good. It's whack.
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[DeveloperX]

[BigManJones]

Yep, I've got the Bruce Lee disk, M.U.L.E., Imperium Galacticum, a copy of Elite, and a few other games. If I have time this weekend I'll goto some swap-meets and computer shops and try to find a c-64 or better yet, a 128!

On topic - interesting screenshots ;)

[DeveloperX]

[anonymous coward]

not to down you but really... does building a fully datadriven game in QB and DOS using realmode sound like a good idea when the world is migrating to 64bit computing?

[DeveloperX]