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Okay, time for one of my all time favorite games: Legend of Mana.

This game was pretty unique when it first came out. If I could describe it in as few words as possible, I'd call it a side-quest feast with a strong, yet simple, crafting system. This is also one of the few games that, in my opinion, handles level scaling in the best possible way, by having enemies levels dependent on the distance of a region from your home and the "new-nes" of the region.

The whole point of the game is doing side-quests, which restore the world, or something, untill the Mana Tree appears. There isn't really a main story as much as there is small stories and story arcs. You do not need to complete every single quest in the game, and I certainly won't in this LP, but I'll try to cover as much of them as possible.

Due to the open ended nature of the game, I think the best way to handle this is provide a list of choices and have the readers choose what quest to do next. I don't think dialog options have that much power to influence quests, so I will handle those. Also, since the level scaling can be abused to give an easy game, I'll also handle the placement of the regions to give me a hard game. Oddly, that ought to lock us out of an inconsequntial quest, and we may end up with a desert, jungle, glacier and a seashore next to each other.

So, you can get sprites and animate them but cannot put a platformer together? Or you can write code, but cannot get any art done? Or maybe you simply have an idea you want fleshed out?

Well, the point of the JBP is to get everyone together and pull out something comprehensible: be it a game, a story or even a comic stip. The point is to get some teamwork to do something you wouldn't be able to do so otherwise.

If anyone wants to, I can get together a google docs group thing so that the coders have access to the piece of code or script they want to look over or modify. (I think you can put pictures in word documents in order to get artwork along)

After reading pretty much everything by Terry Pratchet, the Night Angle Trilogy and Stranger in a Strange Land, I'm looking to find a new book to read. I'm planning on reading Dune and maybe Starship Troopers, but I have no idea if I will be able to find them, and would like a fallback plan. So, what books do you recommend? I'd read anything except Romance, not that romantic subplots are out of the question.

I have a one year old copy of gamemaker on my laptop, and it took me this long to decide to make a completely original game using it.

So here I run into my first problem:
I am really bad at spriting and I'd hate to recycle someone elses sprites without their permission (not to mention that so far that I know, this will be a somewhat new-ish concept, so any sprites I get will probably be out of place). They don't need to be animated at all, since it will be a 4x top down game.

So if you can help me out, that would be great.

This is what I will need to get a playable version out as soon as possible:


In case anyone wants to know what the plans are:



I have no idea how long I'll be able to get this done, or even how to get this done, but the plan is to get a playable version within the end of this month and the end of the next. I hope you guys will enjoy it.

This is yet another story driven RTD: We will be using the classical rules, that everyone should be familiar with at this (if not, feel free to PM me).

The story:

You have lived your life peacefully in the village of Almuntahira, also called Almun for convenience, for most of your lives. It wasn't a large village, and as a result everyone know each other. Most of you have been apprenticed by the craftsmen, are squires to the old knight or have been up to trouble and have learned a skill or two along the way. However, peaceful times do not last...

It was a terrible winter, productivity was bad last year and food was short. A roving band of greenhorn bandits think this is the perfect target for their first raid, with Almun weaker than it has been for a while. The moment the raiders arrived, you took refuge along with the villagers in the abandoned fort.

It becomes apparent that the knight and his militia have been defeated, and supplies are running out. By the third day, you and five others decide to brave the outside...

Map:


The Grey building is the fort, blue buildings are residential buildings and the yellow building is the inn.

Preparation:
You may pick two skills to be a novice in and a weapon to use (made of rusty iron).

Special rules: (TBD)

I'll go to sleep now...
feel free to jump in in the meantime. I still need to devise an xp system but for the moment, being a novice means you get a crit failsafe (ie 1s to 2s).

Players:
Nirur Torir
Flintus10
Dwarmin
tehstefan
serephe
thunderclan
Dragooble

Waiting list:
Vlynndar
Jackrabbit

I have this idea for a Roguelike in my head, but one problem for me is learning to code.

I want to find something that is easy to learn, wont provide headaches and, most importantly, can be learned at home through some sort of tutorial.

It also helps if the code is flexable enough, but I'm sure all languages can make the same program.

Finally graduated this year from highschool, which makes me wonder; how many of us are graduating this year. Yes, college and uni count, it is the thought of surviving the ordeal of education that counts  .