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From: yaroze@theburrow.co.uk (Barry & Robert Swan)
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Subject: An adventure project
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 11:34:34 GMT
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ok, ok yet another 'I want to do such and such a project and am
looking for help...'

In a a previous post I mentioned about me inserting stuff directly
into the OTable, and the reason was that I was looking for a way to do
isometric graphics for some sort of turn based strategy game (a bit
like civilisation but approximately 0.00001% as complicated). So far I
had a landscape that has real time lighting from various sources and
you can slowly destroy the terrain too. The idea was that it was
playable on one machine, or you could save your turn to memory card
and then pass it on to someone else and back and forth etc, up to
about 15 players (which would be stupid!)

Anyway, I was looking through someone elses computer at work and I
came across a movie of some game called dragon quest for the psx, and
it was in a style reminiscent of Zelda on SNES, but had rotating
isometric graphics. I thought, I like that... and might have a go.

Been thinking about the problems and such forth and thought it should
be fairly ok to do. (not as crappy as Adventure Game, btw!) Btw, the
one graphical effect Im determined to do is to have the shadows of
clouds passing over the landscape, and decent fog too.. anyway...

What I might do today is knock up a demo today and show people, but
was thinking how other people might help, and came up with a sort of
list of things to do and roles etc. etc.

*	Not wanting to be limited to a few levels in the style of
Adventure Game, need a file server. One exists and will be looking at
today to see how good it is. Might need tewaks, dont know

*	V important: some sort of scripting for the NPCs - to allow
them to act normally under their own steam, and interact in a passably
intelligent manner with the player.

*	sprite andtexture artists (main characters and things like
trees to be done in 2d, textures for landscape)

*	basic 3d modelling for artists. Will have to design a custom
format tho, so design stuff might be good.

*	People to draw up a 'rough' design, simply so any code now
doesnt limit future development (and thats bleedin' 'ard)

*	Level Designers (dependant on how well the file server works,
really)