Minotaurs & Unicorns (old-school RPG)

Chris · 2013-10-23T22:43:06

Note: After a break I'm resuming work on my nostalgic RPG, I estimate/hope I can release something playable before the end of this year, here is an old topic http://www.gamedev.net/topic/635266-oldschool-retro-rpg-feedback-and-ideas-needed/ . In this topic I don't have a specific questions, just would like to get your overall feedback on anything you think I should know, your feelings on the game, random ideas, what you think, etc. I will create topics for specific issues a bit later. I have been making an oldschool retro RPG (western, not jRPG) and now I have an alpha available. I would not mind your feedback What the game is about: - retro, oldschool, classic RPG, for those who liked the PC/Amiga games from the late DOS era (90s) - it is NOT a remake, it's a fully original game, just stylized like the old games - first person perspective, 90 degree rotation - simple and pure fun, you go around slaying monsters and having various quests and adventures - non liner, not storyline driven (the main storyline is very simple), the game allows you very high freedom in terms of where to go (few locked locations, most are "if you can survive the monsters there, you can go there immediatelly") - the world is relatively small but rich (no huge empty areas); random, completely unrelated to the main storyline, NPCs inhabit wilderness DOWNLOAD: NA (Windows only for now, Mac later) (early alpha, unplayable, many things do not work yet, but you can get the feel of it from this)

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Started by Acharis October 14, 2013 11:28 AM

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October 23, 2013 10:43 PM

More about the menu.

Assuming there is a mini menu (popup) "resume/load/save/options/back to main menu" and the main menu (full scree with music). What to put on the main menu?

Should there be resume and save? Or these should be available via the mini menu only? If there is an unsaved game should there be a warning when you try to go from the mini menu to the main menu? SHould going to the main menu "close" the game session in progress?

Also, a technical note. I have a very peculiar data storage system, the game is saved as it goes (entering a new location saves the old one in the temporary game folder). The Save function simply saves the current location(exits it) and saves global data (party, equipment, quests) then it copies the temporary game folder to the save folder. So technicly, after quiting and running the game again you would be able to resume it even if you have not saved (althrough you will be moved "one location back"). I'm not sure if I should disable this and force load after running the game again (to avoid confusion) or to keep this "side effect"...

Come on, it can't be a hard question :) Please, help me sort it out.

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