Just An Idea~

So, its summer now, I got plenty of time, and next year I have no computer courses, since I skipped year 11 computer science to take the grade 12 course, so I need programming practise throughout next year and this summer.

My question is, you guys maybe want to make a Sonic-related game? Possibly including our own characters too if wanted...

We could make a sort of Sonic Battle extension, including the original cast of it, plus adding additional Sonic characters or even our own... such as adding Silver, Blaze, Tikal, Chaotix, etc.. or our very own Tyrant, Strife, SS, Razo, etc...

Or even some sort of RPG, I dunno. The point is, is anyone up for this kind of project? If so, post here or let me know on msn; I'd really like to get started on something like this.

Count me in for this idea. 'sides considering the last game i worked on was for my media course doing one just for fun will be quite a good change of pace.

The sonic battle style game holds promise, however the only similar project I'm aware of was the canceled sonic battle 2 project that used to be at the SSMB and a few other sites, if i remember it got to stressful etc.

The RPG concept depends upon independent decisions in regards to game play aspects, for example whether to use turn based combat or an action battle system, how to deal with the overworld with things such as puzzles (chances are i reckon you'd want to go for a sonic chronicles-esque system, which could actually work with some relative ease)

the other option would be straight up side scrolling platformer which the issues are pretty self explanitory due to familiarity with the 2d sonic gameplay.

although there are other options i believe these three would probably be the best bets, but i'd like to hear other ideas. :P this is just of the top of my head so...

Alright. So..

1. How was the Sonic Battle game stressful? Do you know, so we know what to expect or..? Because its rare for me to get stressed over something lol. I personally really wanted to try this one..

2. For the RPG, I was tinking either Sonic Chronicles-esque, or even trying a turn-based strategy RPG sort of like the Fire Emblem games, or, if you've never played that, Advance Wars or Final Fantasy Tactics..

I usually sway to turn-based in general when it comes to RPGs lol.

1. Well i don't remember the exact details, i think it was just a case of too much work but then again if i remember correctly the amount of content they intended to use was pretty extensive. I'm not completely sure, 'cause the thing is the forums that had any info on the project have all had reboots since then, so i can't even seem to find the info for the project any more.

2. Yeah I've played a couple fire emblems... thanks to smash bros melee throwing in Marth and Roy and me not having any idea who they were or what game series they came from , that sort of system could probably work quite well, though possibly allowing your characters to come back after being defeated in combat. I too typically sway to turn based but most of my favorite RPGs whilst remaining turn based aren't your typical RPG battle style, like with Knights of the old republic having a semi turn based semi real time action queuing system or the first two fallout games with the action points system along with having your position on the map effect combat along with the whole choose body parts to target. Then again some other RPGs that completely stray away from turn based i absolutely adore playing *cough* Kingdom Hearts and marvel ultimate alliance/x-men legends *cough* it just a case of execution really.

Hm... I see. Well, we could try rpg (SSRPG, after all..) and see how that goes. We just need to decide how its going to work, the storyline, etc.. it seems a bit simpler to execute than the sonic battle idea and could be well worth the effort (Really hoping for fire emblem-esque, that genre is my favorite lol). But, we'd have to discuss it further.

Though, if you were on msn more tyrant, it'd be easier to discuss lol.

also another idea might be to post, miseure tyrant :P

and maybe come on msn more

Yyeah sorry 'bout that. Kinda lost my place. Hopefully I should be posting regularly again starting the day after tomorrow (got some sort of college taster day for trying out lessons tomorrow).

XD

On Sunday?

I'm going on a week holiday when you get back then :rolleyes:

actually, since i posted that last night it was today, Friday, when i went to the college thing, and tomorrow, Saturday, that i start posting again properly.

at least now I've decided 100% on my college subjects, despite having to go into school in what i classify as my summer holidays.

lol... funny cause I usually have more posting time during school year, summer I have little to no time.

Ah well, guys, lets not take this off topic, lol, I still want to see if we can go about making a game.. though you 2 are welcome to join in on the effort.

EDIT: LOL, so much for tyrant posting more regularly

O.K. well then we should make a few key decisions for example

When this game is in the SSRPG time line.

the only real thing this should affect is it people like The council of four or Deus Machina stuff like that.

Other things we should probably look at include what sort of locations we want to have in the game as this can greatly contribute to story.

i personally would prefer if this were set in the time of the Classic SSRPG characters as it has been a while since I've wrote anything for any of those characters and would quite like to.

Locals, well I'll come up with concepts for that later... though the thought of a swamp level at some point seems appealing to me.

I'd say classic; I want to use the originals I had to, Strife, Fiora, Mia, Flash..

I'd say the following would probably be in our best interest as locations:

Forests
Some sort of water place.. Swamp or beach seems fine.
Volcano? Caves?

I guess in a sense we should also have a vague idea of these.. though it can contribute to the story greatly, the opposite also holds true, you know.

How many characters would we include in this? I guess it depends on what kind of rpg we do. If we do one similar to something like sonic chronicles I guess we'd only need like around 10, but if we do one similar to something like Fire emblem, we'd need many... (Though frankly those would be easy to fill in... for me at least lol)

ok, char quantity is quite a difficult question to answer.
looking at the fire emblem wiki page (only played one or two so getting a bit of extra info) the later games in the series usually have between thirty and seventy characters (seventy seems a bit extensive :P) where as games such as KOTOR, Fallout 2 & 3, Sonic chronicles typically have somewhere around the ten mark...

i'm thinking maybe around... i dunno, thirty to forty i mean, we have alot of characters who could be playable, ?

i mean if we were to have for example

Twlight
Dawn
Moonbeam
Eclipse
ShadowShifter
Pyromerl
Strife
Fiora
Flash
Mia
Zephyra
Tyrant
Trailblazer
Streak
Anarchy
Tymerl
Sira
Destiny
Sync
Krystal
Razo
Raibrygus
Infernia
Soulmerl
Stripe
Lavarus
Roy (no not the fire emblem character SSRPG's Roy.)

that's 27 characters right there of the top of my head, granted certain people might not want certain characters to be playable, perhaps taking other roles e.g enemies.

Looks ok, and lol 70 may be extensive, but is it REALLY to someone who has around 100 characters(Me)? lol but then they'd all be mine.. and I don't want to use that many anyways.

I'd ask for permission to use characters that are not ours, as while they are ssrpg, they are not ours per se.

Maybe we could try to split it up evenly? See how many people don't mind putting their characters in and split it up from there.. maybe if we had 4 people then they could have 10 playable each, making 40. If anyone doesn't have enough, then we can further divide extra slots among other people to put in a couple of extra for their own characters.. but its just a suggestion.

And yeah, from that list I'd say of mine I'd probably not make Pyromerl playable, probably an enemy or npc lol.

i too would ask for permission first i was merely listing characters that i could think of off the top of my head to show the potential of the roster.

I'd like to have a general story in place (theme of the story, a couple of key points etc) before i decide exactly on who i'd want playable, but really i should be fine with any of my characters being playable, also your idea for splitting the roster sounds like the best bet.

Yeah, imo story should really be decided soon; it affects so many things that we really should lay down a base storyline. It can be altered later if need be anyways.

Theres a quick change id like to suggest for my guys...

Instead of using Infernia and Raybrygus, use Takata and Raybrig, simpler and i prefer those 2 names

2nd, and this is purely on whether your imaginations can handle this, was include the "other" form (if thats what you call it) or Razo, the demon Veloci. Y´know, that humanoid looking Giratina where Razos spines curve round to form the golden armour, golden gilgamesh and big black wings etc.

No promises, we still don't have a storyline yet. We'll see what we can do lol.

Lol thats fine, the name change is just the only thing i really want doing, Veloci would just be a bonus :P

I would like to help :D. If you want could sum1 tell me bout it :]?