Scratch

SD7 wrote:

How exactly is it going to be an MMO? I didn't know you could make multiple people interact with a scratch project from different computers....

That's why I'm magic...

coolhogs wrote:

itsmomito wrote:

bobbybee wrote:

It's not a sorry thing, it's just the attitude.

Okay so how should I create the scrolling for the server? Isn't it the same? I will make a standard scratch project with the scrolling and then that can be used right?

BTW: A friend of mine volunteered to help be an artist. His name is SD7, he will probably post here    Also, I found a awesome ship sprite! This can be a model for the one we will make. http://charas-project.net/resources/Cha … 658422.PNG

Great!! We will probably only need the top sprite, since it's a top-view scroller.

Makes sense...

SD7, I need you to make 5 random-shaped islands, ok? I also need some white clouds, and some dark grey clouds.    Programmers, start working on the single-player mode after SD7 gets done with his clouds and islands.

Last edited by coolhogs (2012-03-26 18:54:52)

(Also, don't worry about the inventory. I'll take care of that!)

What kind of top-view are we talking about? Like, completely top view such as this/this? Or more of an angled thing, like this?
And what sorts of graphics are you looking for? Straight-colour PS cartoonish, simple 3D (although would be rendered to 2D, obviously scratch doesn't accept actual 3D), more realistic 3D?

Last edited by SD7 (2012-03-26 23:23:14)

Ok, I'll give it a shot. Also, with the clouds, if I make them 3D to match, there might be some transparency, but Scratch doesn't do transparency too well- do you know of a way to get partial transparency working?
Example: my explosions in Space Game had a gradient out to transparent, but scratch replaced the semi-transparent areas with gray and it looked awful, so I had to colour behind it with black (matched the background). Doing something similar would be fairly hard with something where the background isn't a single colour

Ghost effect?

Does that get rid of the grey it gives to semi-transparency?

First quick island. Let me know if it's what you're looking for, if you want a more cartoonish look, etc. And I forgot to take out the shadow on the side, so don't use this exact one, I'll re-render it later.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/440/island1.png

higher the ghost the less u can see it

1. Island Scrolling: Doesn't really exist 
2. Island interaction with player: MUST be on the server
3. Player Scrolling: Doesn't matter, but it will be 1000x faster to do on the server.
4. NPC AI: Haven't really done to much. However, if it's done on a server I can use a crazy optimized, efficient algorithm that would be impossible to re-create in Scratch
5. Combat System: It's probably easier in Scratch, but I'm afraid of the system being hacked.
6. Wind Direction: It have to be centralized among players, so the server has to do it.

gamerkeeg wrote:

Why are you guys trying to go with a mmo right from the start? I havent seen any working mmos in scratch yet and every really good mmo must have some single player action. Why dont you guys just try doing a sp version first? I just want to see this project come together as i am doing a similar project right now but more ship oriented.

I spent the past 8 monthes developing MMO's. What do you think?

itsmomito wrote:

gamerkeeg wrote:

Why are you guys trying to go with a mmo right from the start? I havent seen any working mmos in scratch yet and every really good mmo must have some single player action. Why dont you guys just try doing a sp version first? I just want to see this project come together as i am doing a similar project right now but more ship oriented.

That's what we are planning, to make a single player version. I just would like to figure out if what i make in single player can be easily converted by Bobbybee. That's why I am asking questions.

It's essentially the same code, the difference is that one is written in C and the other in Scratch. Plus FireMMO takes a lot more patience to use.