In Honor Of Princess Maker 4...

[papillon]

... which we can't play, some screenshots of the project I'm puttering around with.

As usual, engines are easy, finishing the game is hard, do not expect this ANY time soon (although at least I'm doing most of this art myself so it won't be as much in limbo as SS!)

[Taleweaver]

omfg...

*/me goes to change his pants*

You're really doing a raising sim?!

[bookie]

Woo Princess maker! I got that game by accident once, and it was wondeful. I'd love to see an indy version.

[papillon]

... It's not *that* surprising, considering I did Charm School well over a year ago now. Time for another try. I've gotten better.

More RPG focused than child-raising. You *are* the character, not a parent nurturing the character (The poor girl's an orphan, see!) and you have from your 18th birthday to your 21st birthday to find your destiny without running out of dreams (Your Dream stat is run down by various things, like failure at your job, being beaten in a fight... anything that makes you feel depressed and worthless and want to give up).

I have another concept floating around that is more child-raising-focused but it has never gotten past the basic idea stage. This, on the other hand, has a demo with various bits of the engine in place - Jobs and classes exist, as you see from the screenshot. I've got a random dungeon generator but I haven't started on the wandering around and fighting stuff part yet.

[kara24601]

Yay!
I'm even more excited than that but I don't know what else to say.
*laughs*

[Gloranor]

Heh, a PM-like game is always good to see
Actually, PM2 was my entry drug to all this - first PM2, then TL'95, then Season of Sakura... *goes into nostalgia-daydream-mode*

[Grey]

Looking nice

I wish you luck in creating it, will be nice to see another PM2esque english raising sim!

[PixelWrangler]

... which we can't play, some screenshots of the project I'm puttering around with.

As usual, engines are easy, finishing the game is hard, do not expect this ANY time soon (although at least I'm doing most of this art myself so it won't be as much in limbo as SS!)

Looking very nice, Papillon.

Is the game engine one that you programmed yourself, or is there an ready-to-go engine that makes creating a PM-style game easier?

P.W.

[papillon]

Like most things I do (you have noticed I have a site full of games? ), it's all GM-based. So there's an "engine" in the sense that there's a basis for handling graphics, visual collisions, processing mouse clicks, etc. There's certainly nothing designed for the particular kind of game.

[PixelWrangler]

Like most things I do (you have noticed I have a site full of games? ), it's all GM-based. So there's an "engine" in the sense that there's a basis for handling graphics, visual collisions, processing mouse clicks, etc. There's certainly nothing designed for the particular kind of game.

Ah... actually, I'd somehow neglected to click on the link until you mentioned it... Nice site, and interesting-looking games.

I didn't think there was a specific engine for child-raising sims... but then again, I didn't know there were engines (Japanese and American) for ren'ai games until recently, either.

Does "GM-based" stand for "Game Maker-based"? If so, which one are you using (if you don't mind mentioning). If not, have you been building your own or modifying an existing graphics/multimedia engine?

P.W.

[Guest]

Yeah, GM does stand for Game Maker, but that's not just a generic name - as a matter of fact, that's the name of the game engine he's using. It's created by Mark Overmars : http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/index.html

[Megaman Z]

I assume that's papillon, who forgot to login?

[Guest]

.... considering that the previous post referred to the game author in the third person AND got my gender wrong, no, that was absolutely not me.

- Papillon, posting from work and therefore not logged in.

[PixelWrangler]

Yeah, GM does stand for Game Maker, but that's not just a generic name - as a matter of fact, that's the name of the game engine he's using. It's created by Mark Overmars : http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/gmaker/index.html

Excellent. Thanks for the info and link.

P.W.

[papillon]

As promised, some information on the development of the dungeon portion....



The very very rough 3d-dungeon-view gradient is not a permanent graphic. I have no idea yet if the dark stone background is or isn't - it may end up clashing too much with the dungeon-view.

We have two attack systems - one based on weapons/equipment and one based on a wacky system of magic cards. At the moment the character is using three Sun cards, because Sun is the first card you get (And it's a pretty good card, too) You have to increase your stats in magic class in order to gain more cards. But she only does 2 damage with it because her magic power isn't very strong yet. (It should take MP to cast, but, er, I forgot to code that bit yet.)

The first line was the character's attempt to Tame the monster instead of fighting it - but she doesn't have the skill to do that. Some monsters are completely untamable. Generally, if it's not a natural animal type thing, it's not going to work. Skeletons never want to be friends.