So, as many of you know I am a roleplayer, I very much enjoy roleplaying. And because of roleplaying I have an idea for a new game.

So, a friend of mine once created a huge world for the group of ours to roleplay in, it was pretty amazing how detailed it was. However lately that world has been...pretty unactive, as nobody had played with the world in a long time. I wanted to rekindle what was lost.
At first I wanted to write a book, a story in the world. However as I thought about it more ideas kept coming to me, Movies, TV shows and video games would also work very well for the world.
I finally thought it a great idea for the world to be in an actual video game, I thought about a 3D adventure game but I am not very experienced and a game like that would be butchered, so I decided that the game would be great on a 2D top down perspective, with turn based fighting.

This wouldn't be an easy task to do, and of course I would ask permission from my friend to be able to use the world, however the more I thought about it the more I liked it. I don't want to give too many details but if I decide to try it out and make a game, would you guys want to be updated on it, help out, give ideas, and most of all be interested in it?

Eh maybe, I'd like to know more about the world though.

Eh maybe, I'd like to know more about the world though.

I don't know if I will be commiting to this yet, so don't want to get anybody's hopes up.

Quote from: Pip on October 22, 2015, 02:25:39 PM

Quote from: Endork on October 22, 2015, 02:23:06 PM

Eh maybe, I'd like to know more about the world though.

I don't know if I will be commiting to this yet, so don't want to get anybody's hopes up.

I'd still like to know more about this fantasy world.

Fine, look on your PM. Don't give away the link i'm sending you please.

Okay so I went ahead and downloaded Game Maker Studio, gonna go ahead and learn how to use the program via tutorials and such.

Eww, GameMaker.  At least learn Unity.

Eww, GameMaker.  At least learn Unity.

I'll do whatever the fuck I want
And Game Maker is easier for a newcomer like me. I have limited funds, limited time and limited knowledge.

When I heard open world and turn base, my mind went to things like Fallout and Pillars of Eternity with the Isometric gameplay. PoE also has the fantasy setting. But if Undertale is the route you wanna go, by all means.

I don't know exactly what kind of turn based action i'll be doing, but I wanna try for a Lethal/Non Lethal style that would affect the game...
But if that's too difficult i'm just gonna scrap it and do simple.

EDIT: Oh and I never said "Open World" but I may try for a semi-open.

Quote from: Pip on October 22, 2015, 06:44:12 PM

I'll do whatever the fuck I want
And Game Maker is easier for a newcomer like me. I have limited funds, limited time and limited knowledge.

Unity is free, has tons of documentation and tutorials, more freedom, and has the potential to not look like a cookie-cutter game made by a 12 year old.

I'll do whatever the fuck I want

Quote from: Pip on October 22, 2015, 06:44:12 PM

I don't know exactly what kind of turn based action i'll be doing, but I wanna try for a Lethal/Non Lethal style that would affect the game...
But if that's too difficult i'm just gonna scrap it and do simple.

EDIT: Oh and I never said "Open World" but I may try for a semi-open.

Understandable. Still, I wouldn't want to let Undertale influence you too much in terms of combat if you have a story to tell. That is, if you're going for a more serious tone.

Undertale is more of the reason why i'm using Game Maker.
I definitely want to do a serious style for the world, as a silly Earthbound style wouldn't work. Combat is another thing that will need to be addressed. My ideas are
1: PoE style
2: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon style
3: Undertale style

Before you came up with the idea of making this a (video)game; were you roleplaying in that world similar to DnD or something like that?

I can do art and stuff in my spare time