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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: cycloid on February 20, 2007, 09:33:05 AM

Title: Idea: Bloodwych-esqu game
Post by: cycloid on February 20, 2007, 09:33:05 AM

Bloodwych was one of my favourite Amiga games, especially the way that the two-player and one-player campaigns played out and i was wandering if people would be interested if i started developing some kind of clone. not a clone so much of bloodwych in particular but a generic step-based RPG engine with networking.

thoughts:

- SDL (sprite) based for easy porting

- grid based for the old school DM feel and easier porting to small/slow devices

- networked to allow bloodwych style campaigns

- several environs: dungeon,castle,caves,forests - perhaps even towns (though i'm wary of going full MMORPG)



anyway i dont want to get ahead of myself but before getting down to coding (and aside from learning the innards of SDL via porting doom ports to amiga/aros) it'd be interesting to know if there was a demand for this sort of thing out here in amigaland

Title: Re: Idea: Bloodwych-esqu game
Post by: markbond on February 20, 2007, 10:17:47 AM

well I'm always interested in this type of game, not interested in teh network play though..

Title: Re: Idea: Bloodwych-esqu game
Post by: ChaosLord on February 20, 2007, 02:06:45 PM

Hired Guns Forever!

Title: Re: Idea: Bloodwych-esqu game
Post by: prowler on February 20, 2007, 02:20:50 PM

I have to admit that I am a bit of a RPG fan so I would definately be interested in something of this genre to play on my Ami.

Title: Re: Idea: Bloodwych-esqu game
Post by: cycloid on February 21, 2007, 09:46:29 AM

cool (i think if i get around to it) it'll be good dev/sdl practise before getting into the "proper" programming. I'm just musing over the map format at the moment, wanting to make it flexible but keep at all under a MB. first thing is to knock together a prototype basic maze game, will probably take a short while but there are plenty of coding concepts i've picked up from Doom,Quake and half life over the years that i can put into use.

Title: Re: Idea: Bloodwych-esqu game
Post by: SteveSMS on February 21, 2007, 01:21:07 PM

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cycloid wrote:
plenty of coding concepts i've picked up from Doom,Quake and half life over the years that i can put into use.

So you worked at Valve and iD software?   :lol:

Title: Re: Idea: Bloodwych-esqu game
Post by: SamuraiCrow on February 21, 2007, 07:08:56 PM

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SteveSMS wrote:

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cycloid wrote:
plenty of coding concepts i've picked up from Doom,Quake and half life over the years that i can put into use.

So you worked at Valve and iD software?   :lol:

ID has released some of their programs as open-source in case you haven't heard.