Okay, I lied.
Aug. 4th, 2008 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kohaku_windMight as well talk about the game.
I've had the general idea for years, and for a while tried to cobble together a simple 2D version in Java using a few tutorials. But it was very buggy, and then I lost the whole thing, so I scrapped it and started looking for engines.
3D was no good; models are annoying to make and it's even harder to make everything (lighting and suchlike) look good.
The game is a console-type RPG, but RPG Maker provides too much of a framework to a very unimaginative game. I don't just want to be a content whore.
So I use Game Maker instead. It is cheap ($20 for full version), easy to learn (the scripting language is syntactically similar to C), flexible, and most importantly, does not provide anything that you don't want it to. Also its desperately understaffed, terrible website is endearing.
I've had the general idea for years, and for a while tried to cobble together a simple 2D version in Java using a few tutorials. But it was very buggy, and then I lost the whole thing, so I scrapped it and started looking for engines.
3D was no good; models are annoying to make and it's even harder to make everything (lighting and suchlike) look good.
The game is a console-type RPG, but RPG Maker provides too much of a framework to a very unimaginative game. I don't just want to be a content whore.
So I use Game Maker instead. It is cheap ($20 for full version), easy to learn (the scripting language is syntactically similar to C), flexible, and most importantly, does not provide anything that you don't want it to. Also its desperately understaffed, terrible website is endearing.
