Articles, Games and so on from How to Make an RPG

Action RPGs give the player realtime control over game characters.

This is the seventh article in a series that takes the RPG from the “How to Make an RPG” project and adds a little more polish to one element.

This is the sixth article in a series that takes the final mini-RPG from the “How to Make an RPG” project and adds a little more polish to one element.

This is the fifth article in a series that takes the RPG from the “How to Make an RPG” project and adds a little more polish to one element.

This is the fourth article in a series that takes the RPG from the “How to Make an RPG” project and adds a little more polish to one element.

Combat in an action RPG aka ARPG seems simple; avoid enemy attacks while dishing out your own but even a simple system is made up of many design decisions!

This is the third article in a series that takes the RPG from the “How to Make an RPG” project and adds a little more polish to one element.

It’s hard to find high quality free art for your games.

The How to Make an RPG book teaches you how to make three different small RPGs.

This is the second article in a series that takes the final RPG code from the “How to Make an RPG” project and adds a little more polish to one element.

You’ve got three main options when it comes to procuring game art: Continue reading “Where to Get Art for Your Game”

The book “How to Make an RPG” shows you step-by-step how to make three fully featured RPGs.

The How to Make an RPG project is now at a state where it’s ready for public release.

In the previous article we used the How to Make an RPG game code to build a simple conversation engine like Never Winter Nights.

In a previous article we looked at the Never Winter Nights conversation system and broke it down a little.

A major component of RPG games is talking to people, uncovering motives, accepting quests, learning secrets and talking your way out of tricky situations.

Hello!

The How to Make an RPG book uses Lua.

Do you find it hard to know where to start when developing a character?

Hello, as you probably know if you’re visiting this site, I’m writing a book about how to make an RPG.

The internet tends to forget, so I saved a copy of this post-mortem incase the original link ever dies.

Do you use random numbers in your game?

Hello, as you probably know if you’re visiting this site, I’m writing a book about how to make an RPG.

Deus Ex is one of the best western RPGs.

Everyone loves finding interesting quests; they drive change in the world and progress the game.

How are games put together at a high level?

The How to Make an RPG book is currently available in early-access mode.

RPGs provide different players with different experiences according to their playstyle.

Game design is enjoyable.

Breaking games into genres is a fool’s errand; the delineations are unclear and they’re constantly shifting.

It’s very easy to describe source control to a game developer.

Dialog boxes are one of the staple elements of RPGs.

Develop and ship.

Computer science has some really rich concepts and metaphors.

Pixar got something right.

Own your creations.

Video games change as technology improves and designers have new ideas but do you know the one thing that remains constant?

B.F.

Video games are a young medium.

Games are complex pieces of software.

Do you ever beat yourself up because you think you’re not working hard enough?

The internet is full of great resources for game developers.

Guild of Dungeoneering is a game, with board game and RPG roots, that came out recently.

This is the second part of the first 30 stories I wrote to complete the Thirty Stories a Month Challenge.

You become better at what you continually do.

A hub world is a special level that you continually return to and has exits that lead to new game levels.

Get an intuitive understand of sine waves and you’ll be able to add animations to your game that feel very natural and smooth.

In Egyptian mythology there’s a story of how the goddess Isis gained power by tricking Ra into revealing his true name.

Boss battles should never be boring, they should be a singularity pulling all the plot points of a game together, something the makes player question if they’re really witnessing what’s happening.

Let’s learn some Lua.