YUGIJAK'S PROFILE

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I'm glad you're able to see where I'm going with this, Marrend.

I actually intended for some cards to make use of copies in the deck, like cards that have the 'rapid fire' trait, which allows multiple instances of a card to be played at the same time to multiply the damage.

Hmm...what about using counters?

Since the abilities are drawn at random, I could make the deck a simple animation set to show what's going on and instead have it so that the cards are in a pool, and each card has a counter limit. When drawn, the counter controls how many and how likely each card is able to be drawn. This could solve the problem.

I mean, a deck is random anyway, so why not play to that? Use the deck for animations and make the programming more pool-and-counter based.

I'm wondering if Baten Kaitos is similar to that...I'm trying it right now and I'm kind of afraid...

I don't know what engine I would use. I'm brand new at this stuff.

All I have is the idea of the game and details on classes, some enemy types, a few abilities, and that's it.

I'm a complete newb at game making. So do you know anyone who could help me?

I also have other games I'd like to make. Like Mana: Liquid Power.

Thanks.

The proof of concept is for the battle engine itself.

See, it works like this:

Each character receives a separate deck that is their abilities in combat. When fighting, each character draws to their hand and can select attacks from their hand to use in battle.

The options in combat are as follows:
Engage: Use a card to attack an opponent
Rethink: Spend turn to get a better hand
Defend: Sacrifice a card for defense power
Items: Use an item (separate from item based cards)
Retreat: Attempts to escape from battle

During the game, the stats you have determine which cards you can place in your deck, as well as deck size, hand size, turn speed, and your ultimate move charge speed. Each card possesses specific stat requirements, and unless they are matched or exceeded, your character cannot use the ability.

In addition, the statistics are thus:
Strength: Determines phys. attack and max health
Endurance: Determines phys. defense and deck size
Intelligence: Determines spell power/defense and max hand size
Speed: Determines turn order, item moves, and Ultima(te) gather speed)

Different characters also have different styles, and are also more effective against certain types of enemies (I'll go over that another time). for example:

Buster: Uses heavy blades. Built for heavy phys. warfare. Also uses moves built for breaking defense, countering enemy defense, and so on

Sneak: Uses projectile weapons/special combat items. Built for stacked damage and special effects. Uses moves for physical status effects like bind, smokescreen, and blind

Black Witch: Uses wands. Built for dealing magical damage/negative effects. Uses black magic (which comes in four flavors: ice, fire, thunder, and dark)

White Witch: Uses staves. Built for curing effects and healing. Uses healing moves, curing moves, and so on.


Of course there's the main class of the game, but I have to go right now. I'll go more into detail another time.

I want to ask something:

I created a new combat system for a game I want to make (no experience making games but plenty thinking them up, working on it) and I was wondering if there are some potential faults that I can't see in it.

Okay, here goes:

The combat system revolves around the idea of each character having an 'ability deck'. Basically you can customize what abilities that character can draw from to use in battle, but the selection is random.

Furthermore, the deck limit determines character stamina, so if it runs out you loose a turn to regain your strength. And what abilities you can use are limited by character stats. You can only use abilities that your stats equal or surpass the requirements or.

Now on the plus side stats can affect your hand and deck as well as damage or resistance. Intelligence will increase your hand size, so you get more cards to choose from, whereas endurance increases deck size, and so on.

I was wondering if there's anything I'm potentially forgetting (there will be super abilities for turning the tables mid-game)

Hi.

As you can probably guess I'm working on an RPG project. And as you can also probably guess the project's title is Legend of Otaku.

Here's the problem:

I have never made a game before. I have no idea how to program the battle system I've come up with for the game (I won't launch into a detailed explanation but I will mention it involves cards) or ANYTHING for the game to be exact. I've never made artwork. I've never even done anything more than write for it.

And I've written quite a few things down for it.

Point being I need some help with this game. If anyone is willing to help me in ANY way, making artwork, teaching me how to program, submit ideas for abilities, bosses, and so on, I would sincerely appreciate it.

As for the concept, it goes like this:

A party from a foreign land calls upon the old gods to aid them, and the old gods respond by bringing in a freaking nerd and blessing him with the most important relic ever known: the Anima Codex, only with its power broken before it can really cut loose. This leads the Otaku and his party into a quest to restore the strength of the Codex and empower themselves through the first seven of the Eight Great Tributaries so that they can purify the eighth and save the world.

A bit cliché, I know, but this is also a basic description, and it avoids as much as possible going too far into depth about the plot or anything.

If you are looking for what information I have I have it on a text file I can mail to you.

Thanks for any help you can give,
Yugijak