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Making a Small RPG

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167 points ibobev | 31 comments | 21 Nov 25 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 1.692s | source | bottom
1. silveira ◴[21 Nov 25 15:19 UTC] No.46005358[source]▶
Awesome. I while ago I was playing around some JS graphic/game engine/frameworks and came across Kaboom (now Kaplay) and it stroke me as a really different approach to the whole thing. I am now again playing with it and it's really impressive and fun.

Also, thank you for you tutorials. I have stumbled on some of them too.

2. philipwhiuk ◴[21 Nov 25 15:30 UTC] No.46005438[source]▶
See previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jslegenddev.substack....
3. JodieBenitez ◴[21 Nov 25 15:33 UTC] No.46005461[source]▶
And I thought it was about rockets.
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4. felineflock ◴[21 Nov 25 15:36 UTC] No.46005497[source]▶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqEMSzFDTLg

or

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2015/10/12/raytheon-dis...

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5. goody71 ◴[21 Nov 25 15:36 UTC] No.46005499[source]▶
Thanks for sharing. Hadn't heard of Kaplay. Loved how you broke-down your process.

I also enjoyed your pixel art tips for programmers.

6. tuzemec ◴[21 Nov 25 15:39 UTC] No.46005511[source]▶
Nice!

A couple of years ago, I tried something in that direction[1] using Phaser[2], and it was quite fun. I used Tiled Editor[3] to create the map and some pixel art that I purchased from itch.io.

[1] - https://story.tuzemec.com (not very mobile friendly)

[2] - https://phaser.io

[3] - https://www.mapeditor.org/

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7. JodieBenitez ◴[21 Nov 25 15:44 UTC] No.46005550{3}[source]▶
I have spare black powder. Time for a weekend project.
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8. faebi ◴[21 Nov 25 15:53 UTC] No.46005639[source]▶
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
9. hammock ◴[21 Nov 25 16:09 UTC] No.46005784[source]▶
In my head I had already envisioned a bundle of matchsticks being lit and launched out of a pvc tube !!
10. AmbroseBierce ◴[21 Nov 25 16:11 UTC] No.46005804{4}[source]▶
I bet "spare black powder" is one of those sentences that automatically puts you in some kind of list at some 3 letter gov agency.
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11. Froztnova ◴[21 Nov 25 16:17 UTC] No.46005846[source]▶
Tiled is really great. I'm using it in a project that I occasionally poke at as well, only with Love2D, and as a sidescroller sort of project. I was impressed by how easy it was to set it up to work with my game in spite of how generic it is.

The functionality to export directly to lua source files was a particular treat, though there are probably situations where you'd want to still just use json or one of the other formats supported by Tiled even when working in a lua project.

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12. JodieBenitez ◴[21 Nov 25 16:20 UTC] No.46005871{5}[source]▶
It's fine, my country only has 4 letters gov agencies ^^
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13. krapp ◴[21 Nov 25 16:22 UTC] No.46005902{3}[source]▶
Anyone trying to implement the Tiled API probably needs to reference this: https://eishiya.com/articles/tiled

It's a bit vague in some places (I'm still not exactly sure how parallax is supposed to be implemented) but absolutely worthwhile.

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14. Tade0 ◴[21 Nov 25 16:39 UTC] No.46006056[source]▶
For those of you who, like me, have no graphical chops whatsoever, I can't recommend Liberated Pixel Cup assets enough:

https://lpc.opengameart.org/

There's also a character generator with plenty of options to choose from:

https://liberatedpixelcup.github.io/Universal-LPC-Spriteshee...

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15. Froztnova ◴[21 Nov 25 16:42 UTC] No.46006086{4}[source]▶
I'm not sure if it's the proper method, but I actually did implement parallax in my project, though I just did it by essentially creating a layer which I marked as parallax and then had my game draw it with a parallax offset from the rest of the map depending on the camera position.

https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/latest/manual/layers/#parallax-...

These docs do seem to go more in depth about the canonical values related to parallax that Tiled offers though.

16. stuckinhell ◴[21 Nov 25 16:45 UTC] No.46006107[source]▶
I'd love a 3d version of this
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17. jamie_ca ◴[21 Nov 25 17:34 UTC] No.46006655[source]▶
I can counter-recommend Kenney's game assets, it's got sprites, buildings, terrain, backgrounds, top-down, side-on, isometric... Lots of variety for different genres and settings, too.

https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets

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18. anonymousiam ◴[21 Nov 25 17:38 UTC] No.46006701[source]▶
The author should disambiguate his title. I had to click to see if the post was about making a role playing game, or a rocket propelled grenade.
19. nonethewiser ◴[21 Nov 25 17:55 UTC] No.46006878[source]▶
yo im up here https://i.imgur.com/2wlE1FS.png
20. mhd ◴[21 Nov 25 18:04 UTC] No.46006978[source]▶
Next step, programmming and RPG with RPGs in RPG.
21. prewett ◴[21 Nov 25 18:07 UTC] No.46006992[source]▶
I think "3D" and "1-2 month project" are incompatible. 3D is a big mess to do anything, whereas it's easy to blit some sprites.
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22. mclau153 ◴[21 Nov 25 18:23 UTC] No.46007195[source]▶
Anything along the lines of Dragon Quest would be greatly appreciated, Nintendo recently re-mastered Dragon Quest 1 and 2 as the formula is so impressive it still holds up
23. boznz ◴[21 Nov 25 18:38 UTC] No.46007403[source]▶
I made a small Role playing game for a random game night. No code required, just a printer, a few friends, some beer or wine and the ability to not take things seriously. Highly recommended. [https://rodyne.com/?p=2855]
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24. nonethewiser ◴[21 Nov 25 18:46 UTC] No.46007522[source]▶
the google docs link is broken

i scanned the site and pdf. looks cool

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25. rdm0rris ◴[21 Nov 25 19:29 UTC] No.46007994[source]▶
Anyone else looking for a rocket propelled grenade guide?
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26. AmbroseBierce ◴[21 Nov 25 19:55 UTC] No.46008247{6}[source]▶
"Señora Benitez venga con nosotros... Que? A mi no me importa cuántas letras tiene nuestra agencia? Inhalar tanta pólvora a debido de afectarle el cerebro!"
27. butlike ◴[21 Nov 25 21:00 UTC] No.46008938{3}[source]▶
Yup. Collider/mesh math is where the really esoteric, fun-killing bugs start to be introduced. 3D is cool, but on another level (hehe, literally).
28. boznz ◴[21 Nov 25 22:35 UTC] No.46009840{3}[source]▶
whoops! sometimes I'm my own worst enemy.
29. dudeinjapan ◴[21 Nov 25 23:49 UTC] No.46010504[source]▶
I was expecting an excerpt from the Anarchist Cookbook
30. arjie ◴[22 Nov 25 00:31 UTC] No.46010819{3}[source]▶
Remarkable, they're licensed CC0 https://kenney.nl/support

I always wondered why art is never licensed like software. There is a plethora of free software but I thought very little similarly licensed art. In fact, I think it's just that I wasn't looking. There's lots of it around.

Thank you for sharing.