FFE's very own game?!

As some might have noticed from my mod application, I was a developer for Playerworld client games before...

http://community.webshots.com/album/86912671BDAIEB

The above link is screenshots (old ones at that) from the kind of game it would be.

My question is.. Should FFE have its own game?

This game would take alot of work and might take a month or two just to be open for testing. I could do alot of it, and teach others how to map and stuff as well, but the thing is... I can not do it alone. Meaning, I would need help from the union to do so. Some of you are probably thinking "I don't even know what that is!" well, I can teach anyone willing to help. I am an experience developer in the Playerworld client games and can teach just about anyone how to map as well. I also know some people that might be willing to help as well.

What do you think? FFE Union game? Yay or nay?

If your interested in helping PM me. I can make it happen if I have enough people with gooey minds I can mold to learn how to be mappers.

I'm willing to do this. I have the graphics, I can get the client, and I can find a server host for the game. All I need is support.

I'll try to help even if I'm busy. Tell me what I can offer to do.Fantasy_Gamer

At this point I just need more people to help. When I get enough people then I can start moving on it. So far, people seem to support it but only a couple actually volunteered to help. If you want the game to actually be good I'm going to need quite a few more people.

So far xAGx, Fantasy_Gamer and lilkamikaze are the only ones to volunteer.

Two of which stated they are busy. :(

I would love to help, but I don't have any experience in doing any thing like this, but I am taking programing classes, but we are mostly doing basic stuff. jdr_172000

You wouldn't need to program. I already stated I wold teach anyone willing to attempt to learn.

Volunteers:

         xAGx

        Fantasy_Gamer

       lilkamikaze

      Jumbo120788

       jdr_172000

I would like to have more then 5 people, especially when two said they are busy. I'll give it more time, but I must confess this isn't looking promising. :(

In the games that I worked previously, there was an active staff of at least 6 working on the game and these were people who already knew what to do and how to go about doing it and large scale productions still took a month or so. I would estimate it would take about a month for me to teach everyone enough to where they can produce areas on their own... Unless you learn like me, where someone gave me the access and told me to learn it by myself and it took me a couple hours. I have tought people before and it took about a month for the slowest of the group and about a week and a half for the fastest.

I think it's a great idea but i'm not sure its possible not to take a pesimists view... either way i'm certanly willing to devote time to this idea. Who knows if we get more volunteers it might be fun.

Count me in :)

My idea got taken and overshadowed, oh well it died outPenguinPaladin

What idea was that?

Current volunteer list:

        xAGx

        Fantasy_Gamer

       lilkamikaze

      Jumbo120788

       jdr_172000

      RedNEXUS

     DarkKnight957

To all the volunteers: Do you guys have MSN messenger or AIM messenger? It would be easier to discuss the game via one of those. 

To anyone who would be interested in playing and those who are going to help:

The gameplay would be choosing one character from a list of species/class/gender. You would fight NPCs (monsters etc) and after each kill you would gain experience and you would (possibly) be granted whatever the set drop item was. After whatever amount of experience is required you would level up. Each level you would gain points to be divided out among your stats (STR, DEF, AGI, Magic, SPD). Throughout the game you can purchase equipment (which has durablity that depletes upon any hit taken or use and when it hits zero it breaks) and all that. You obtain scrolls to learn spells.

Now in our game we change any number of variables. I will be gaining help from the owner of a game I worked on previously (of which I was co-owner) for the formulas for levels and experience and all that so that would be taken care of.

What we would need to decide is the areas to create and the characters that will be chosen. The plots and the themes and all that stuff. I am thinking that after I teach everyone I will then assign each person an area to build. The areas that will be built I guess we can have a poll on here. So we need to start brainstorming what exactly we want.

So my underlying point is this... Those of you who volunteered should start brainstorming what you want. Your going to be making it so I think you should get first say into what you want to do.

If anyone doesn't understand anything I said, or has questions as to what is possible with the game client, what it can do or any general question about the game, feel free to ask. You can post here, PM me or you can contact me on AIM at biazingstar, or on MSN at X_BlazingStar_X@hotmail.com (do not e-mail me here though, if you want to e-mail that e-mail to biazingstar@aol.com).

Thank you to all who have volunteered. A few more people and we might be able to get the gears churning for the game.

Things to think about:

         A Name.

         Classes/Species

         Areas

         Plot/Storyline

That is a good idea.  Can we have orgainal characters make cameos also? (Our own characters)  What I mean if they are in a fanfiction or a Roleplay can they make a appearance?

i think it would be kinda cool if some of the users made guest appearances in the game as maybe enemies or bosses Jumbo120788

GREAT idea! :lol:

i think it would be kinda cool if some of the users made guest appearances in the game as maybe enemies or bosses Jumbo120788

"Bosses" are generated with NPC Developing. Anyone can play it as any character you want, and you can have more then one character (cannot play more then one at a time however, it is banned with the system). If you mean like making a boss in someone's likeness then yes. I don't know if I am understanding your meaning however.

A "Boss" can be made to be anything we want it to be, but the program controls it, not a person, but it can be manipulated by a players actions.

That is a good idea.  Can we have orgainal characters make cameos also? (Our own characters)  What I mean if they are in a fanfiction or a Roleplay can they make a appearance?

jdr_172000

Plot wise, nothing is decided as of yet.

Any person who wishes to play can have whatever character they want.

I'll help out with the battle system, I was making my own text-based game for the board and I think we can move the stuff over, also this site will help PenguinPaladin

I don't know how you would be able to help with the battle system... That is already predetermined with the client.

What sort of stuff do you think can be moved over?

[QUOTE="Jumbo120788"]i think it would be kinda cool if some of the users made guest appearances in the game as maybe enemies or bosses Fantasy_Gamer

GREAT idea! :lol:

[QUOTE="Jumbo120788"]i think it would be kinda cool if some of the users made guest appearances in the game as maybe enemies or bosses BlazingStar

"Bosses" are generated with NPC Developing. Anyone can play it as any character you want, and you can have more then one character (cannot play more then one at a time however, it is banned with the system). If you mean like making a boss in someone's likeness then yes. I don't know if I am understanding your meaning however.

A "Boss" can be made to be anything we want it to be, but the program controls it, not a person, but it can be manipulated by a players actions.

We're only talking about, probably, naming an NPC or a boss with the username of some of us here. It'll akso be great if we can special designs for each of them to distinguish them from ordinary NPC/Boss.

Is it possible to put custom pictures into the client and turn them into NPC's or is it one of those programs where you have to use the materials provided? RedNEXUS

Sort of... You use what is provided, but it is what you provide.

That chocobo that runs back and forth in my signature is a NPC/Player sprite. It is possible to customize anything and everything in the game. If anyone knows how to create sprites or tiles, be my guest. I already have a vast collection of sprites, tiles, items and everything else from when I was working on the games.

We could take a cloud sprite and name it Fantasy Gamer. I wouldn't recommend it by any means however. I don't think any NPC should be named after people in the Union. People in the union will be playing it and there would be multiples of the person and I just haven't seen it ever work out well. In other games people have done that and it just tends to get way out of hand.

However, naming NPCs after Final Fantasy characters that do not share their name with anyone in the union would be something to do.

Sprite = Character

Tile = background/foreground/furniture etc.

I'm still holding out for more volunteers!

Current volunteer list:

        xAGx,  Fantasy_Gamer, lilkamikaze, Jumbo120788,  jdr_172000,  RedNEXUS, DarkKnight957

And PenguinPaladin, your list isn't very broad, I thank you for your offer but in the client I will be using, there is much, much more that can be done. I didn't read through the whole topic however. If you have a messenger, I would like to talk with you about what your including with your RPG so this game doesn't completely wipe it out. I, by no means, wish to take any attention from your game. If you have a plot structure with your game, let me know and I will make sure this is completely different.

So again, I ask for input on:

         A Name

         Classes/Species

         Areas to be included

         Plot/Storyline

Ive made flash games before, complicated, but why not...

The game isn't flash. When working on it and playing it you would have to download the client to play it.

This isn't RPG Maker. That is a different client. I was planning on using Valkoria because I know the maker of it. It is similar to Playerworlds and Mirage and that sort of thing, and probably similar to RPG Maker (sometimes PW uses RPG Maker tiles etc.) but I haven't played or work on RPG Maker.

JDR, thank you for your ideas. First post in the direction of brainstorming places.

In these games you can literally have thousands of maps. That is, thousands of screens. We can make different areas, and make them have ports so you can travel abroad to another, completely different area. We have have mountains to climb (I've done this) or snowy valleys (done that to) or anything you can possibly think of... Well, if there is a tile set to support it.

If anyone has any sort of idea or suggestion of what to include in the game, just post. I will be able to tell you if it is do-able. Most things are. If I don't know how to do it, chances are I know someone from my developing experience who can either tell me how or do it for us.

Still looking for more volunteers. PM me if you want to help, or if you have any questions you might not want to post.

What kind of places do you guys want?  If we pick any of the places before 6.  We might have to create new sprites for them.  I am thinking of some places like...

Coneria, Northwest Castle, Phantom Forest, Zozo.

We have to be careful about copyright issues.Fantasy_Gamer

Yeah, lol. We could make them to likeness but just don't include specific landmarks and make sure we have an artistic spin on it all.

And sprite wise, I have a lot, we wont need more resources with sprites, tiles, or items unless you guys want serious, obsure specifics. Most games use FF related things to begin with in their sets.

I've made a sticky thread for brainstorming about this game.Fantasy_Gamer

Thank you.

Hopefully  I can get to talking to the programer to find out when he will be releasing valkoria. We probably wont be ready untill he does anyway.

*feels like she is harping on the topic* Still need more volunteers. :!:

What happend to the sticky thread?jdr_172000

It was un-stickied.

We have to be careful about copyright issues.Fantasy_Gamer

Square won't care as long as we don't make money from it.

[QUOTE="Fantasy_Gamer"]We have to be careful about copyright issues.PenguinPaladin

Square won't care as long as we don't make money from it.

I'm personally not willing to take any risks such as that.