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Indian Homie G
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so im thinkin of a storyline where you play the role of a 19-year old indian who lives in a village. Ive drawn out some maps on paper of like the village, but i cant think of a storyline, or a main objective of the game...can anyone help me out?? THanks
By the way, its asian indian, not like american indian
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Pincho Paxton
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Well I think you should include the magic flying carpet, and the Indian rope trick. At this point, an escape sounds on the ajenda. So you are escaping from someone. Into the mountains. Maybe you have stolen something magical. The usual.

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teehee, wounder how long this guy will make a RPG b4 he gives up

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Quote: "i cant think of a storyline, or a main objective of the game...can anyone help me out?? THanks"











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Indian Homie G
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...okay thanks, i just needed somethin 2 start me off, ill expand on the escape idea
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This Indian boy finds a ruby-like gem one morning. After harvesting the corn for the festival, he goes to sleep. But the next day, as his family heads for the festival, a giant beast destroys the greater part of town, and leaves the boy to escape on a hang glider (jumps off of a cliff and glides) to another town, where he is equipped with Power Gems (paying ells, or currency, for the first, the Strength Gem), to fight the beasts and other monsters back where they came from. But it seems that you shouldn't have found the gems after all...
I'll add more and better details later, but do you like the idea?

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Ok, well you could go for the....

''My father was killed by an ancient curse and I'm next unless I find the twat who cursed us.''

or

''Girlfriend kidnapped by evil marijuana farmer, rescue her and destroy him.''.

or

''Villagers acting weird in nearby town, some strange black magic and it's spreading, find out what's is going on and prevent it.''

or

''Children disapearing from the village without a trace, could be sacrificed to appese a god or something, but either way find out why (maybe their enslaved in a dodgy blokes toothpaste mine like in Indiana Jones).''

or

''Elephant graves being robbed for ivory and you have to find out who's at it.''


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SubNova
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Sidekik, people thought that technology would never surpass radio. And look what happened! A DarkBASIC RPG is going to happen someday, inevitably!

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A Darkbasic RPG will be released at the convention - I know because my 8 year old son and 12 year old brother are designing it. It is a zelda/pokemon style thing though - I'm guessing HomieG is more into a Shenmue style game - in which case he could do worse than contact Yusaku if he's still around.


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Quote: "in which case he could do worse than contact Yusaku if he's still around."


I don't get it.

Damn, I wish my brother were more interested in stuff like this. He just like basketball and stuff. Then VanB boasts that he's got pre-teens interested in game design.

Regarding games that have to do with someone's native homeland, anyone here played Anito?

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Hehe, Yusaku is an oldbie who wrote Shenmue Zero in DBC last year - He loves RPG's and might be able to help with a good plot for a similar game.


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Pincho Paxton
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There is a DB RPG. The Magic Land!

Anyhow, a lot of us could make an RPG if we wanted. I could! But I have only played The Magic Land, so I don't have much experience with them.

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Definitely a hell yeah, Yusaku is still around. He posted on the snippets board recently. Cool to know that he's still using Classic.

Equilibrium was also one of the first RPG demos for DB, IIRC.

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People think game design is easy but it's actually pretty tough.
You have to create a concept that appeals to as much people as it can (you can't please everyone ofcourse) so RPG's are hard to tackle without making your design sound lame.

Any game with talking animals is fine by me.

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Actually, there should be lots of DB RPG's out there, ages ago there was an RPG creator thing made with DBC - can't remember it's name though - but it looked pretty comprehensive, even comes with sprite editors etc.


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Indian Homie G
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Wow guys, thanks for the responses . Iron Condor that idea sounds really good. My only problem is that, would these ideas be too hard to program, for an "intermediate" programmer? Thanks... I was considering just making a simple RPG with no real sotryline, you just walk around a town doing stuff
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Sooooo why did you ask for a storyline then?????

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You want a tech demo for now. I understand. But the gems should be fairly easy. If you can make a player collect things, and maybe have an ell bank, it would be good.

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Quote: "Indian boy finds a ruby-like gem one morning. After harvesting the corn "
Corn, in India?

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I'm not a geological expert. Just put in whatever India's main crop is.

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Quote: "India's main crop is."
Food that hurts. Just had indian food, ow!

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Curry on the cob, and poppadom leaves.

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I'm still confused by the term asian-indian

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Why Indian? Is it that important to stick to an Indian phenotype for the character? Why not have a choice between Indian or an other ethnicity?

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Quote: "asian-indian"
You know the REAL indians. From India. It's the same as east-indian.

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Indian Homie G
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Posted: 24th Jun 2004 05:38 Edited at: 24th Jun 2004 07:42
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Quote: "Food that hurts. Just had indian food, ow!"


Dude, you havent seen jack Indian food. Restaurants are pussy, they dont put any spice in. My moms cooking, now that HURTS.

About the game anyway, I like the iron Condor's idea. But i dont know if it would be too hard to program, what do you guys think? Im not a total noob at darkbasic, tho i have taken a break for a while, but id call myself intermediate.

Also, the reason I chose india is cuz obviosuly i am from india and i now a lot more stuff about india and i have access to a sh!tload of indian music so we dont need composers. Also i know how the streets and stuff look so the game would be more accurate.
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Indian Homie G
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Okay, I thought of another idea. Again, its a bit complicated, so I don't know if it would be too hard to code. So here goes (its not exactly in "storyline" format, just ideas)

So basically you're this 19-year old guy named (name goes here ), who just committed a serious crime, (crime goes here ). Now you are on the run. After taking a train to a city about 500 miles away, and disguising yourself, you select a small village as your hideout place.

I have a few more details, but i guess right after this is where the game starts, basically your're in the village. You have to somehow evade the cops and bribe people to mislead the cops...i havent thought about the rest... Sound too hard?
Thanks
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You should make a Bollywood game. Maybe take a top Bollywood film, and use that to inspire your story. I'll bet that there is a huge market for Bollywood games.

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Indian Homie G
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bollywood GAMES? do you even know what bollywood is? its the indian movie industry, genius. How do you make a about movies? am i missing something...?

Still need some feedback on whether programmin my idea is too hard.
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Indian Homie G
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*bump* i need to know whether 2 start or not
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*bump*
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Ok, you really want an answer to that :

Quote: "i need to know whether 2 start or not "


Start it ! Every project that you do, helps you to get better, even if you don't finish them.

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Quote: "ages ago there was an RPG creator thing made with DBC"


That was by ironhoof - im 99% sure thats his name.


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