New Charas Chain Game

[Prpl_Mage]

I suggest only altering another's chapter with their consent, maybe someone wanted his chapter to be extra difficult? Would be unfair and frustrating to the creator.

Well I think that sometimes you just gotta balance the exp and gold gained from enemies. And sometimes even the power of weapons and armor or skills. If it simply makes the characters too powerful and leaves little room for improvement.

[daoman89]

As long as you let them know, it should he fine. Im constantly adjusting stuff like that.

[Prpl_Mage]

So I've pretty much done the battlechar poses and everything. I just can't decide on the looks of the hero. Messed around some with the current armour idea and some quick colours with some suggestions.

In other words, I need some ideas.

[Dr. Ace]

Well I think that sometimes you just gotta balance the exp and gold gained from enemies. And sometimes even the power of weapons and armor or skills. If it simply makes the characters too powerful and leaves little room for improvement.

Then take away the overpowered items or skills, don't change what someone has made.

As long as you let them know, it should he fine. Im constantly adjusting stuff like that.

No, you ask for their consent, don't just alter something. And even if you have their consent, discuss what changes you're making.

[DragonBlaze]

So I've pretty much done the battlechar poses and everything. I just can't decide on the looks of the hero. Messed around some with the current armour idea and some quick colours with some suggestions.

In other words, I need some ideas.

4th row, any column. :p
In all seriousness, I really like Row 1 Col 1, Row 2 Col 2, and Row 3 Col 3. If it helps, heres a bit of his story, hopefully without spoiling anything. He is very laid back, likes to have fun, and shamelessly hits on girls and gets into trouble, but he has a good heart. The game starts off with him being a mercenary on an escort mission. Some really crazy **** happens, and he ends up, well still being a soft of mercenary, but more of a freelance defender of a giant city that is barely being held together.

For the exp, skills, and items, we should all just make sure we communicate with each other if we plan on tweaking anything. I'm pretty sure tweaks will be necessary, but lets just talk to each other so we don't change something that was intentionally hard/easy/whatever.

[Prpl_Mage]

I'm thinking 3.3, are there any colours I should edit? Or anything hair realted? I pretty much just copied the hair on the sprite you had earlier on my own as a placeholder of sorts. Shouldn't be too hard to change afterwards,

[DragonBlaze]

I'm thinking 3.3, are there any colours I should edit? Or anything hair realted? I pretty much just copied the hair on the sprite you had earlier on my own as a placeholder of sorts. Shouldn't be too hard to change afterwards,

I think the colors are good. Then again, I don't care much about the finer details, just as long as the character looks good.

[Meiscool]

Is it possible to make the games item based rather than lvl based? If so, that would make it to where experience from monsters and etc really wouldn't matter, but more the available items that can be bought/found.
EDIT - Why I mention that is so that lvls between games won't be an issue and that makers wouldn't have to set experience levels in a meaningful way. Instead, just have boots for speed, armor for def, etc. and scale enemies to the items you think players should have at that point, thus allowing each maker complete control over the stats of the characters.

Great sprites prpl. I like r1c1 and r2c3 the most.

[Prpl_Mage]

And then make levels affect the total hp and mana I suppose?

Also, this is the current charset based on row 3, colum 3.



Small, I know, but you get the gist of it(or just save and open). The appearance is still up for discussion I suppose, but this is what I will base the battlechar on for now, and also to let DB have a charset.

edit. crap, made the background transparent.

[DragonBlaze]

Is it possible to make the games item based rather than lvl based? If so, that would make it to where experience from monsters and etc really wouldn't matter, but more the available items that can be bought/found.
EDIT - Why I mention that is so that lvls between games won't be an issue and that makers wouldn't have to set experience levels in a meaningful way. Instead, just have boots for speed, armor for def, etc. and scale enemies to the items you think players should have at that point, thus allowing each maker complete control over the stats of the characters.

Great sprites prpl. I like r1c1 and r2c3 the most.

The only thing I don't like about that approach is that it makes enemy fights seem much more dull. Why fight a monster for a minute if it won't make your character stronger? I guess you can get gold that way. I still like the feeling that my character is getting stronger instead instead of just richer. Though if everyone wants to go with this approach, we can try it out. We'll need to make a final decision in the next two days because I plan to be done with my chapter Sunday

And then make levels affect the total hp and mana I suppose?

Also, this is the current charset based on row 3, colum 3.



Small, I know, but you get the gist of it(or just save and open). The appearance is still up for discussion I suppose, but this is what I will base the battlechar on for now, and also to let DB have a charset.

edit. crap, made the background transparent.

Looks great! I'll try it out when I get done with work.

[Prpl_Mage]

I'd say, let's go with the normal approach for this one. I suppose that's the normal thing and what people are most used to. The other approach is tempting, maybe for another project?

[daoman89]

Well, if Chapter 1 has his ideas set in stone for the most part, he should summarize here and then Chapter 2 can start to think of how to make his/her chapter.  Of course the next chapterteer would have to keep an eye on the previous chapters work in case they change some things.  Are we having 1 hero?

[DragonBlaze]

Well, if Chapter 1 has his ideas set in stone for the most part, he should summarize here and then Chapter 2 can start to think of how to make his/her chapter.  Of course the next chapterteer would have to keep an eye on the previous chapters work in case they change some things.  Are we having 1 hero?

I do, I guess if the Momeka wants a summary of what happens, I can PM them, but in my opinion, half of the fun of making a chain game is you don't know what you're going to get until you get it :p

We're having multiple heros. I think I'm going to add 3 actually. Other people are free to add heros too if they would like to. Since somehow I made my chapter pretty long in a week, I'll probably introduce 3 just to get things started.

[daoman89]

I am unfamiliar with character swapping, so if someone makes that code then sweet!

[DragonBlaze]

I am unfamiliar with character swapping, so if someone makes that code then sweet!

Oh, by multiple heros I meant multiple characters in your party :p The main hero that you play with will remain the same, unless someone intentionally changes the hero to someone else.