Gladiate RPG.

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Some talented gamer help would be quite useful HERE.

Gladiate RPG.

olin3434 15 Aug 2008 20:38

Hello and welcome to this thread. To be frank, I need help. Not with programming or coding, but with IDEAS. If you people could just help me a bit with some ideas in the listed areas of my new game … that would be great.

(That was a quote from Office Space, for those of you who have been deprived of popular culture altogether.)

Well, here's a description of my game as it is right now:

- GLADIATE RPG -

Gladiate RPG is a Turn Based Role Playing Game in which you step into the shoes of a Gladiator in an arena. You kill randomly generated opponents in a text based environment on your TI-83+ (or 84 etc.). During your 'life' as a Gladiator, you rise among the ranks by leveling up and buying items such as weapons, armor, and spells. Health potions and mana potions are also in the process of being programmed in.

What I need is some help with the spells. I don't play any RPGs; I'm more of an RTS person. So I was wondering if anyone here played 'RuneScape' or 'TitanQuest'… or in that area/genre. So please give me some of the following in your ideas and I'll put you under "Credits" or "Special Thanks". Under rare occasions, I'll program you into the next upgrade as a "Boss" that the player must beat before progressing through the game. Heh heh… Under request of course. Anyways, the first version of this game, the one that is so close to being released, needs some polishing up and also some ideas for SPELLS. The first version of the game will only take place in the HOME screen, so forget any graphics. Also, I wouldn't want to use up the picture slots.

So, any ideas? Please, be honest and give me a good lengthy description, including cost (when a dagger costs $50 and a short-sword costs $200) and mana cost (where you get about 100 mana to start out with and each magic LVL gives you an extra 5 mana points).

Thanx!

The Chuckling Pig E:8D

Re: Gladiate RPG.

jnesselr 15 Aug 2008 22:01

If your worried about using picture slots, What I would do is use a program, like this, to see if the picture variable
exists. Then, for each one that exists, recall it on the graphscreen then store it to whatever picture it originally was and add 10. For example, If it was pic0, (Which is really Pic10) make it pic20. You can do this with certain assembly programs.

Then, use my file, to store the current graphscreen into lines. Look at the readme in the file.

Use this program to block the use of the ON button so that when the screen goes blank, they don't think the power went off.

Now, to make the screen go off, use these hex programs to make the screen go blank. (Read through and see where it says "Turning the Calculator off" and you need the ones to turn the screen on and off)

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builderboy 15 Aug 2008 23:16

Even if you are using the home screen, graphics are not impossible. There are many fabulous games out there that use the home screen. Also, even if you use the Graph screen, you would not need to use picture variable necessarily. If you plan out all the graphics you want, you could reconstruct everything you need.

As for Spell ideas, here are a few I just thought up, although you may need to change them depending on the nature of the game.

Flaming Inferno: Cost $200

Shoots a highly concentrated burst of fire at your opponent. Is relatively easy to miss. 1 hit kill.

Poison Darts (15): Cost $250

Poison darts can be fired individually, in a shotgun like attack (which covers more space, but is less potent)
Can infect your opponent so that he looses health each turn.

Inviability Potion: Cost $150

You turn invisible, and therefore it is much harder for your enemy to hit you.

Teleportation stone: Cost $400

Enables you to teleport to another location, thereby giving you a suprise advantage over your opponent.
Can only be used a certain number of times in a battle.

Flood: Cost $150

Floods the arena with water for a short time, slowing your enemy down.
Beware, this can slow you down too.

Rebound Shield: Cost $500

A special shield that can reflect certain types of attacks.
Only does a certain percent of the damage reflected, and it can miss.

Freeze: Cost $375

temporarily freezes your opponent, letting you continually attack him for several turns.

Last edited on 15 Aug 2008 23:19 by builderboy Show more

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olin3434 16 Aug 2008 17:01

Thank you! I will see about all those…

E:8D

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builderboy 16 Aug 2008 21:15

no problem.

whats E:8D?

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burr 17 Aug 2008 01:45

I was wondering that as well.

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builderboy 17 Aug 2008 02:25

perhaps its a form of smiley?

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burr 17 Aug 2008 02:34

It kind of looks like a chuckling pig :D

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builderboy 17 Aug 2008 03:14

wearing a chef's hat!

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burr 17 Aug 2008 03:41

Yeah, I think that's it.

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olin3434 17 Aug 2008 15:01

E - ears

8 - nose
D - *chuckle*

Geeze, people. I wrote "The Chuckling Pig" at the end of my first post. And for those spells up above, I still would like to see some Mana Costs. And I'd like some more spells in general! I accepted the following spells:

Inferno
Invisibility
Rebound
Freeze

Most of the others had graphics involved or I had those ideas built into the newer Myth weapons. I know, I'm an AoM person, so I added Myth weapons, which randomly generate names such as:

Poisonous Hand Axe of Death

or

Deadly Long-Sword of Aggression

The numbers and specials of the weapons are directly affected by the name, so if you have a "Poisonous Hand Axe of Death" you'll get poison bonuses as well as extra 'shadow damage'. I got that idea from Sonny, and online Flash game. Not entirely, but yeah, you get the idea.

Anyways, please give me a mana cost for all the stuff in your spell. BuilderBoy's spells were generally excellent, just without the mana potion. Also keep in mind that I WON'T have graphics (in v. 1) because it's so close to being done. Also, you can't move. There is no physical placement of the character and you can 'miss' or 'hit' or 'critical hit' depending on the selection of 'quick', 'normal', or 'power' attacks. As you can guess, quick is less fatal, but it always hits. Normal has a 25 percent chance of missing and a 25 percent chance of a C.H.. Power has a 50 percent chance of missing but a 75 percent chance of a C.H.. Keep this in mind please. I can't have spells such as the above "Teleport". I'm thinking of 2-Player, but that'll have to wait until v. 2.

Cheers!

E:8)

The Smiling Pig

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builderboy 17 Aug 2008 15:48

what is mana?

And the randomly generated myth weapons are genius!
I'll think of more, non graphical related spells…

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olin3434 17 Aug 2008 18:43

OK, thanks! A quick clarification:

HP - HitPoints
THP - TotalHitPoints
MP - ManaPoints
TMP - TotalManaPoints
XP - eXperiencePoints
TXP - TotaleXperiencePoints

HP are the amount of "Life" you have left. THP is the total amount of "Life" you can have. MP is the "Magic" you have left. TMP is the total amount of "Magic" you can have. XP is the amount of eXperiencePoints you have left. TXP is the total amount of eXperiencePoints you need to attain the next 'Level'. HP wears down by enemy attacks, and can be raised by drinking potions. THP can be raised by the "VITALITY" attribute. MP wears down by using spells, and can be raised by drinking potions. It replenishes after every battle. TMP can be raised by the "MAGICKA" attribute. XP goes up depending on how powerful your opponent is after each battle that you win. TXP goes up every time you level up and the XP is emptied.

I hope this clears up any questions. If you have questions about the attributes, just ask.

Here they are:
[ATT], [DEF], [ARM+], STR, AGI, VIT, MAG, CHA

They stand for [Attack], [Defense], [Armor], Strength, Agility, Vitality, Magicka, and Charisma. I put brackets around the ones that change either due to other attributes or items.

E:8)

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Weregoose 17 Aug 2008 19:18

Mana is spiritual energy, a trait common to video games dealing with characters that naturally possess magical abilities (with background emphasis placed on the invocation of one's own will, rather than external elements, as the power source).

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olin3434 17 Aug 2008 21:49

Yes. But if that's what it stood for, it would be called SE. Not MP. Just saying… I know what it is.

Now can we get back on topic, please?

E:8)

Last edited on 17 Aug 2008 23:44 by olin3434 Show more

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burr 18 Aug 2008 02:24

Why don't you guys just read the Wikipedia article on mana? That should clear up any confusion.

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Weregoose 18 Aug 2008 03:36

@olin3434: As hard as it is to tell the nesting levels in this forum, mine was in reply to builderboy. I had also suffered a power-outage while writing it, which is why it came later than yours. ;)

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olin3434 18 Aug 2008 14:02

OK, OK… That's really not that important to me. I'm hoping on getting some good spells (and while you're at it, maybe weapons too) soon! So lets start seeing some good stuff here! My goal is to finish Gladiate v. 1 before school starts.

E:8)

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olin3434 28 Aug 2008 23:55

OK, Seriously people. Spells please.

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builderboy 29 Aug 2008 00:23

Be creative, i gave you some spells for examples, and only you know what you really want. So think about it and see if you can't come up with some goods spells on your own. If you really need help and are stuck, thats different.

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olin3434 29 Aug 2008 15:08

Yeah. Sure. I've gotten most of v. 2 planned out. But I really hate making up spells. Please take that off my back, will you? Just some spells that are similar, to, uh… I dunno. Come on!