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Why do you need to export the graphic? I thought you were going to use the paint editor?

Oh BTW, do wizards at the wizards academy have wands (that could be another menu button)?

shadow_7283 wrote:

Why do you need to export the graphic? I thought you were going to use the paint editor?

Oh BTW, do wizards at the wizards academy have wands (that could be another menu button)?

Sure, and i don't want to have to draw a new wizard hat every time I make a button, and I'm going to add it to my wizard RPG folder I made so i can zip it up when the game is finished and if you want the game, test, and used resources, you just download the zip file with everything.

keikij wrote:

shadow_7283 wrote:

Why do you need to export the graphic? I thought you were going to use the paint editor?

Oh BTW, do wizards at the wizards academy have wands (that could be another menu button)?

Sure, and i don't want to have to draw a new wizard hat every time I make a button, and I'm going to add it to my wizard RPG folder I made so i can zip it up when the game is finished and if you want the game, test, and used resources, you just download the zip file with everything.

That's awesome! You sure are doing a lot!

shadow_7283 wrote:

keikij wrote:

shadow_7283 wrote:

Why do you need to export the graphic? I thought you were going to use the paint editor?

Oh BTW, do wizards at the wizards academy have wands (that could be another menu button)?

Sure, and i don't want to have to draw a new wizard hat every time I make a button, and I'm going to add it to my wizard RPG folder I made so i can zip it up when the game is finished and if you want the game, test, and used resources, you just download the zip file with everything.

That's awesome! You sure are doing a lot!

Thanks,I'm going to put all the files and other stuff into a folder than zip it up and upload it to a websuite we make for the game or something so people can see the sprites that we used, tests that we did, concept art and notes all outside of the game. I could make a website for the game if you guys wanted me too, and we could even do live chat on it using google chat directly in the web page. Should I make a site?

Murphy's law.  When I get the chance to use Scratch, it's too late to work on the project    But I will work on it tomorrow!

Sounds great! I like your mini games ideas, we should start developing them soon! SmartIrishKid,    that stinks.

keikij wrote:

Any other ideas? I got the Quick Cast idea from Quickdraw in kirby. Also, maybe boss rush, you choose 2 one-use items to use, then you have to defeat all of the bosses in order with no revives or anything.

I guess so, but I 've seen that in Kirby before and it is HARD. Oh and what would the bosses be, because there is an actual (kind of) storyline to the game, and it wouldn't make sense if you beat a major boss in a mini game.

BTW, the password thing is being kind of delayed, but I'll work on it ASAP.

I've been thinking about it, and it might still be possible to have the game "saved" online. What we would have to do is kind of have a log that a player fills out everyday on the forums, and then we'd update the player's information on the actual project. It would take a lot of work (especially if the game become popular), but if all 3 or 4 of us pitched in, we might be able to manage it. We could always have a set time in the day when we update it (i.e. save information is updated every other day at 4 p.m.).

Tell me what you guys think about the idea. Could we pull it off?

Edit: To make it easier to handle, and so the Scratch project doesn't get overloaded with information, we could have different "Game Arenas". We could have maybe a limit of 20 players per arena, and have maybe 10 arenas total. Each of us could manage a couple arenas each on our login.

Last edited by shadow_7283 (2009-06-16 14:53:28)

As for the save app, it only saves to the computer, so nobody can hack your character.

keikij wrote:

I like your save idea, and we give each character a save code, but how could we make it so only the people who did the save gets the save code?

So the game arenas are like different servers on an MMO? Right?

And about boss rush, you have to beat the last boss (The Headmaster) to unlock it. You can also replay bosses in adventure mode when you return, a portal opens up and you can go into the portal to replay the boss after you beat it. I'll add a Minigames button to the main menu, what should the button be?

I was going to say that the person would just create a password, but I see what you mean. Your asking how we figure out the password on the project without anyone else finding out. Hmmm . . . We don't want to use email addresses; those are too personal. We can't use any forums or projects because anyone can look at those. What I think we're going to have to do is create a password FOR the person.

So here is how we'd do it.
Based on there progress in the game when they're done playing the first time (i.e. gold, items, position) we'd give them a password that has that information hidden in it. When the player submitted there progress to the forums, we'd update the project and there profile, but ALSO add their game generated password and a password of our own creation (based on their information). When the player wanted get there password, they'd type the code they received when playing the game first and get there own real password (created by us). It's complex and not 100% reliable, but the only solution I could think of.

Course, we could always just let other users play on there account, because they wouldn't be able to change any of the player's information, because on the forums we'll check usernames. Then again, that would be kind of annoying for the people who worked hard to create there game.

The game arenas would just be different projects with different data, so yeah, your right. Of course, we could only do the game arenas once EVERYTHING is done, because it would be such a pain to have to update 10 projects.

I don't know, I was thinking minigames would be strictly in-game, but I guess that is an option too.

Here's a diagram if I didn't make myself clear. 

1.
    ____________________________
    | Scratch Project: WARPG    |
    | Your code is:                    |
    | G1249J                             |
    | Based on your progress      |
     -----------------------------------------

2. Forum Guidelines:
Gold: 1245
Location: The academy
Stats: 130HP(300), 100MP(200), 340XP(500)
Appearance: Robes, blond hair, wand

3.  ____________________________
    | Scratch Project: WARPG    |
    | My code was:                   |
    | G1249J                             |
    | Based on my   progress      |
     -----------------------------------------
4. ____________________________
    | Scratch Project: WARPG    |
    | Your password is:              |
    | Shadow                            |
    | [Return to Game]              |
     -----------------------------------------

Come to think of it, about the submit progress thing in the forums, we could always give them a code for that too, that way they don't have to worry about all the specifics. For instance, instead of typing all the information in step number 2, we could just give them the code 1245-TA-130(300)-100MP(200)- 340XP(500), except it have to be disguised better.

So after all my rambling, overall, what do you think about my idea? We could add the really cool (but hardwork) feature online, or stick with the simple, but easy idea for saving.

Let's stick with only saving when downloaded. You export the list as WizardSave.list or what the list file extension is. I don't think the game will even work online though, big games usually don't.