yeah, I know that I will probably have a few guns pointed at my head after I say this but here goes...
I want to try out other game engines. I tried RPG maker 2003 but I didn't like it because it didn't let me import my own graphics ( at least I didn't find a way to do that). I know a couple of other adventure game engines like SGI and AGAST. I tried games factory but I hate it for the same reason I hate RPG maker. In particular I'm looking for a decent first-person RPG engine.
Please don't kill me!
Too late. You've got seven hits in place. It was nice knowing you. :'(
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Hmm...
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I ran out of ammo! ;)
Anyway. I don't mind you using other engines, so long as you don't leave forever. But I don't understand '1st person RPG'. If you're talking about a 3d kinda game, I suggest:
Fly3D
But you can only get V1 (makes .exes) free :(. Also, you can adapt a 3D engine thats for QBasic, but even I can't understand it.
Sorry for not being any help.
But I like other RPG makers like:
OHRRPGCE (nice pallette options (you can make the same picture different colours), 320x200, fast, good multitasking, 256/16 colours, dos based)
RPGToolkit (Excellent quality drawings and import options, 640x480/800x600/1064x574, slow, bad multitasking, windows based)
Sphere (Like RPGToolkit, but with better multitasking and alpha transparency.)
;) Hope that helps!
Sphere is my favorite 2d RPG engine, it requires a lot of scripting though..
for a 3D game it's harder, 3d Gamestudio from conitec seems ok I guess.. haven't tried it myself, but from someone who is trying to make a 3d rpg I can say it's a lot of work ._.
But, you should make 3rd person adventure games instead >:(
I used crystal-space before. you'll find it in the sourceforge.com (or net or somethin')
/me waits for C. to hear
Well, it isnt a vidio game maker but it is fun. Visual Pinball lets you make pinball machines with a bit of vb code. Really fun. Other then that I dont know much...
What's a 3D engine one could make an adventure game in?
There isn't an engine specifically designed for 3d adventure games as far as I know :( I'm sure you could adapt one of the general purpose 3d engines to make an adventure games but you'd need to have a fair amount of programming skill I think :(
Damn programming... I've been meaning to become good at that for years. :-X
I'm waiting for the option to make your own GTA games!!
Matt
Acctually, I have a island editor for gta3 for pc... Havnt used it thought... If I find it would you want it?
monster,
Blender may be something you may be interested in. I haven' tried it yet but it seems reasonable. It's basically a 3D drawing program. But supossedly it has realtime renderin and scripting ability so that you can make your own 3D games. I was looking at it to possibly make backgrounds for AGS. It's interesting since you can also use it to make a 3D game. It's open source and it seems like it's actively being developed. There is a support forum so it seems like there are quite a few users.
Why not ive it a try and let the rest of us know what ytou think of it.
http://www.blender3d.com/ (http://www.blender3d.com/)
I checked out Blender's site, make sure you go for version 2.25 as the game engine is not developed for the latest version yet.
are there any decent platform game engines out there? thats something id like to have a fiddle with one day (after mastering ags of course)
yay, thank you all, you people are great ;D . Where could I get sphere? It sounds good. I already downloaded blender, it looks confusing to me now but that's because I didn't read the help file yet.
http://aegisknight.org/sphere for sphere..
it's a 2d rpg engine, hardware accelerated and quite nice to use.. but it's really designed for people who like scripting or are willing to learn it, it doesn't even come with a built in inventory system or NPC movement, you have to custom script it yourself in javascript. Although there are examples for things like that ._.
willhowlett: Try Game Maker (http://download.com.com/3000-2121-10183044.html?tag=lst-0-1) It uses tiles, and you can make very good platform and arcade games with it.
Quote from: evil on Mon 19/05/2003 03:03:04
Acctually, I have a island editor for gta3 for pc... Havnt used it thought... If I find it would you want it?
I'm guessing I'm going to have to get a GTA3-specced PC first! Got to love PS2s, none of this "My graphics Card doesn't like DirectX texture Compression, I need another 600Mb of hard drive space!!"
Thank's evil, I might take you up on that offer at some point.
Matt
cheers Jimi, ill have a look at that - will
I agree with Jimi. Game Maker is quite good for non-adventure games.
Quote from: mattgoble on Mon 19/05/2003 21:25:12
I'm guessing I'm going to have to get a GTA3-specced PC first! Got to love PS2s, none of this "My graphics Card doesn't like DirectX texture Compression, I need another 600Mb of hard drive space!!"
Yes, my pc cant handle gta3 very well, I can't read text. But it is fun though. I opened the editor today and it looks hard... I'll try to post a screenshot this week...
Hmm, sphere seems like a 3rd person RPG engine, and I need a 1st person one. I want to make something like the old classic "Betrayal at Krondor"
I haven't taken more than a brief glance at RPG creator 2k3, but I know you can customize sprites in RPG 2000. You just edit the pre-bundled bitmaps in the same grid arrangement.