RPG Maps and Navigation, How To Make Your RPG Book Update
I think my end of March target for the first draft of my "Make Your RPG" book was optimistic to say the least! I'm hoping instead to, at least, have finished the first section "Exploration". I'm...
View ArticleHow To Make An RPG : Suckling Pig Update
2013 has been an interesting year so far, in January at Bigyama we were finishing our first Vita game, Quell memento, (out in April - check it out!) and by February we didn't have any more immediate...
View ArticleMake Your RPG: Animated Movement
Today I finally got on and completed animated movement. There's a gif here but for some reason it seems to be really slow. The video file I took is fine, so it's some gif black magic I'm unaware of,...
View ArticleHow To Make An RPG : Magarita Update
I thought I'd give a very brief update of the progress on the book today - blocking tiles went in, now the maps walls actually stop the character! Also I started on the section that will extend the map...
View ArticleThe halting problem
I've been having a lot of laptop issues and it's finally died for good. A lesson learnt about making sure I have access to the right equipment when travelling! Unfortunately this means no updates to...
View ArticleHow To Make An RPG: Decoration and Layers
I'm back in the UK and my jetlag is slowly fading so I'm able to press on with my new "How To Make An RPG" book. Decorations! A jRPG is made up of lots of different systems and the first systems...
View ArticleHow To Make An RPG: Goodbye Maps, Hello NPCs
A new NPC, all graphics at this point are still placeholder I'm still plugging away on the first draft of my next book "How To Make An RPG", it's progressing pretty well. I'm still on the first...
View ArticleMaking a JRPG: NPC Swarms
Watch them walk! My animated gifs are getting slightly better but they're still not great! This is another update of the "How To Make An RPG" book. I'm coming to the end of tile maps and finishing off...
View ArticleRPG Textboxes
The "How To Make Your RPG" book is progressing quite nicely and I've just started the chapter on GUI. jRPG menus are about 80% textbox so that's the first element covered in this chapter. The below...
View Article5 Tips for Marketing your Game and Talking to the Game Press
I'm writing a new programming book about creating SNES-style JRPG games and I'd like to self-publish; so recently I've become very interested in marketing, especially marketing related to the games...
View ArticleTextboxes With Gradients
A textbox with a gradient. Scaled 2x Hello, another update on how my progress is going with writing "How To Make Your RPG". Recently I've not pushed on with the book because I've been writing an...
View ArticleRPG Textboxes for dialog
Last update of the week for progress on my "How To Write an RPG" book. I usually write the book and code simultaneously following a plan but for the GUI I've been running ahead on the code a bit. I...
View ArticleMore RPG GUI
Continuing on with the code for my next book "How To Make An RPG", I am still messing with the GUI I'm afraid :D GUI can be hard and complicated but I don't want to get crazy deep into it in the book;...
View ArticleRPG Textboxes (again)
I'm continuing on with my next book "How to Make a JRPG" it's going well, as I mentioned in the last blog post I'd run ahead with the GUI code a little and the last two days I've been catching up with...
View ArticleHosting Issues [Resolved]
I'm afraid my hosting provider, Linode, is having issues at the moment and so www.howtomakeanrpg.com is down! Hopefully everything will be sorted soon and I'll get it back online. I'll let you know...
View ArticleRPG Textboxes with "chunking" and options menus
Work continues on the "How to Make an RPG" book. I've added textbox code that will take an arbitrarily sized piece of text and break it down into multiple textbox sized pieces. I'm calling this...
View ArticleRPG Stack of States
I'm continuing writing my "How To Make An RPG" book. Recently I went back through the GUI textbox code and text and changed it because I decided I could make it simpler and more straightforward. It...
View ArticleHow To Build An RPG: A narrative diversion
I'm writing my next book "How to Make an RPG" and I'm slowly coming to the end of the first part. Recently I've been adding in a little of the game framework using a 'state stack'. The architecture is...
View ArticleIn Game Menus for RPGs
I'm going to be running ahead with the code again, a little this week, getting some of the menu stuff written out. Then I'll go back through it making it as simple as possible. The book won't create a...
View ArticleHow to make an RPG: Making Menu Layout code suck a little less
As I'm writing more and more of the ingame menu code for my book "How To Make An RPG" I'm reminded of the Carl Sagan quote. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the...
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