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FPSC Classic Product Chat / My tips of making fpsc games for visual people( such as myself [don't laugh])

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The Nerevar
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Posted: 16th Jun 2010 19:29
.1.For me ( this might work for others too) I like to keep the I deas flowing in my head, I never write down my Ideas, or I'll get bored of it.
.2. sometimes you can just add on to a level while your making it.
.3. get some inspiration from other games, like Doom, Doom2, Blood, I use the classics, "see" those things in your game.

that all for now.......

I'd have to say........ The Game Creators can make dreams come true.
SH4773R
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 02:47
I love to write down stuff! Not ideas thats boring! but draw maps ahead of time! It can really help with level structure

Who the hell is General Failure? And why is he trying to read my hard disk?

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
Kravenwolf
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 15:17
Quote: "I never write down my Ideas, or I'll get bored of it."


Writing down your ideas allows you to keep track of all of them for future reference. It also keeps your brain less cluttered when you write your ideas down on paper, so you don't have to hold onto them while you're trying to focus on other things. Whenever I'm working on a game project, I start thinking about all sorts of new ideas for a different game, or a new level, a differnt setting, storyline, etc). If I didn't jot all of them down as they came to me, I'd lose most of them a week or two down the road when I put my concentration into something else.

I have several notebooks and sketchpads full of random character and environment sketches; and notes that talk about new gameplay ideas, various bits and pieces of story, and so on. How all of these old sketches and notes can really come in handy is when you're working on a game, and you get; we'll say 'writer's block'; or, you just want to add something more to what you have. So, rather than stare at the wall for three hours to come up with a new idea, you can flip through all of those notes and drawings you've collected until one of your old ideas sparks a new one for the game you're working on, or you just find a good time to put one of those old ideas to use.


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The Nerevar
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 16:57
well, I sort of can't write my Ideas, so I like to keep simular Ideas in my head.

I'd have to say........ The Game Creators can make dreams come true.
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 17:11
I barely write my ideas down because they change so rapidly. "he is coming..." wasn't written or planned but I knew what I wanted to do, so sometimes it isn't essential but you very well may struggle later.

You should never sit at the computer in front of FPSC with no idea what you're going to do, you do need to plan but it doesn't have to be jotted down.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 17:38
Yeah. I don't write down eather. I just can't do it. I will start making, becouse I usually see the scene in my head. Then I continue from there and my ideas change and the map changes.

The Nerevar
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 17:39
thats exactly my point.

I'd have to say........ The Game Creators can make dreams come true.
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 19:08
I got 5 full sketchblocks with every single idea popping up in my mind fomr the last 1,5 years. Everything from models to games...
Cant sleep otherwise...

The Nerevar
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 19:12
well, Lets just say that everyone has a different idea of what they want to do, so just them find an easier way themselves.

I'd have to say........ The Game Creators can make dreams come true.
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 19:34
In my case i hate writing down ideas...But Rise of War is impossible to continue it without writing down the ideas...Example there is level that you must do many things in...Like first you open door a you meat a guy that is tells you to go to room b and open door c to take a key and bring it back to him then you go back to him he give you a key to open door d....This is the most simple example of my games compexity..And if i would not write down some clues that lead me to the point of my game i would be lost And R.O.W would suck>>!!!

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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 19:40
I have to agree with Cyborg Art. I had an idea last night for a COD-style health script. I ran downstairs, got some paper, and wrote it down. I just operate like that.

The Nerevar
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 19:50 Edited at: 17th Jun 2010 19:52
[quote]I just operate like that.[quote]

Like I siad, everyone's different.

I'd have to say........ The Game Creators can make dreams come true.
Cyborg ART
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 20:07
@Shadowtroid

Did the same yeasterday, but it was a todolist and not a script. But I scared my mother since she believed I was sleeping

@FPSCgamerguy2

I know, but by not writing it down you are doomed to forget it someday.
I gather all my ideas, and even if I wont do anything with it until I am 80 I still have them on paper and can still use them.
You dont need to write a book, just some notices for yourself, like keywords for when searching your brain...

Shadowtroid
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 21:02
Yeah, I usually don't forget something during the day, but before I sleep I need to write it down. Otherwise I forget, then I remember that I knew it but don't remember how to do it, and I get angry at myself.

Usually though, weird enough, I forget if I don't write it down. But if I write it down in a place I know I'll see it then I will remember and not need it. I guess because the act of writing and knowing it's there will jog my memory or something.

Also, I should probably write down some of my "visions." Call me crazy, but I have seen images of things before it happened. But then the images go away fast, I forget...Then later I see the image and freak out.

Probably just my memory messing with me.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 21:57
Quote: "Also, I should probably write down some of my "visions." Call me crazy, but I have seen images of things before it happened. But then the images go away fast, I forget...Then later I see the image and freak out.
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 22:41
Yeah, that happens a lot. Like, more than most people.

I don't think I'm psychic, (especially since time travel isn't even possible) it's just always weird...I never got the visions and my memory just says I did probably. I probably have some kind of drain bamage.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 23:16
Quote: "I don't think I'm psychic, (especially since time travel isn't even possible) it's just always weird...I never got the visions and my memory just says I did probably. I probably have some kind of drain bamage."

Hey, time travel is possible!

I don't write things down either. Most of the time. But sometimes I have to. I don't even have an idea most of the time when I start making something with FPSC. I just listen music, start making something subconsciously, and it turns out crap. Like all the things I do with FPSC. Even though people don't say they're crap. But... Well. People have different tastes.

The Nerevar
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Posted: 18th Jun 2010 14:23
I only forget my ideas when I need to....

I'd have to say........ The Game Creators can make dreams come true.

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