Future Plans

Some where in the future
Here is a little update on my future plans for those who may be intrested in
joining AFK Time.
Traeh Nekorb is the main focuz, im already working on many other projects
but i just continue on them when i get abit bored from working
on the same project.

Castle vs Castle
At the moment im working on Castle vs Castle(havnt got a name for it yet).
But thats basicly an overview of 2castles going head to head
with one hero running in the field killing units wile the 2 castles spawn
units, not by them selfs of course but player controlls both Hero and
castle spawns, perhaps like some other castle vs castle games you have played.
Its pretty easy to make in my oppinion but its all the extras that is hard to make
and that will make the game different and fun.

Traeh Nekorb
Co-op
This is the main project, the plans for this is not to make it an MMO
but to make it an co-op game, i love co-op games and i bet many people do
like instead of 12983742398473789players on a server you instead have
1-3 friends you have invited to play with you, you can go solo to of course
but i my self find having a friend or two with me in say a dungeon is like WAY
more fun.

Graphics
As ive mentioned before the graphics that ive got running at the moment
is not permanent, its just temporarily.
Im looking for spriters right now and i want them to join in on the ideas
on what kind of theme we are aiming for and what will make the work
alittle easier for them to create.
I my self love making sprites although i suck at it.

Story
Ive acctualy got in mind to write a whole book, i just need some support.
I have to admit that i havent read a single book in my life and
so writing a book gets kinda complicated for me, i was at the library
yesterday and looked through some books, just to look how a book starts
and so...
anyways im looking for loads of member for AFK time like Spriters,
Soundguys(dono what to call them), writers and loads more.

Follower, AFKtime, Demo and New Graphics!

Follower
Im sooooo glad to see my first follower, its so appriciated.
The first ever follower is Harris Game Studio, i also appriciate all
comments and votes but i really want to like "advertise" for my
followers because its a huge thing for me.

I went posting on the game maker forums, i update my self there everyday
to see what people are up to and also both advertise and ask questions if
i need any help.
anyways i saw some guys had commented on my post there and i love those
comments so many kind words that really really really gets me going and
gives me a massive kick!
thanks so much to them.
and yet again thanks Harris Game Studio for being my first follower.


AFKtime
Its the corporation(ofc im not talking massive building with loads of workers
here, im just intrested in having a team to help creating my games and
hopefully go on and creating other and new games onwards.)
that i made today to get a team up and going since i need spriters, sound guys,
co-op producers and so on, want to read more about this then go to:
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=498827
thats the post i made for recruiting members for my team.
go check that out.


Demo
I know some people just HATE to read and read and read all of these things
and could rather just have a demo to play instead of reading pages and pages
of stuff that some random dude keeps writing about this game.
Thats why i try adding loads of pictures to make it more intresting.
Anyways heres the demo:  http://www.mediafire.com/?0igv8c2djff62rj
ENJOY!
leave a comment on what you think about it ^^


New Graphics
I can see that graphics are important to people and i my self find
graphics one of the most important parts of a game, now that i have my basic
graphics then i can of course focus on the coding, and i do, i really do focus
on coding but i love making games its just parts of it that can get
abit boring at times, and when coding gets boring thats when i
start making new graphics for the game like a minor break from all the coding.
so when i add graphics then its not because im focuzing more on
graphics than coding, its because im tired of coding for a little wile.

Thanks for reading or for testing the demo, comment below or on any

of the other posts and go check out AFKtime.blogspot.com and leave comments
and be a follower there, or contact me on gmc.yoyogames.com as
jokerbond there or add me on MSN: gullmund@hotmail.com if needed.
and thanks for all pool votes and comment, Cya laters, Joern Eagil.

Menu Pool

Hi!

its been a long time since last, i've been kinda busy lattely, although there are many updates to the game
should probably make a demo soon.

although i need some help with the menus first, these menus are not that good looking
but i need a menu, meaning none of these menus will be permanent.

so if you got any good ideas for a menu or you want to make a menu your self, even just
the backgrounds or what ever then comment it.

heres a form you could use:

Background: (Post and Image of the Background you want.)
Button/Buttons:(Post a picture of the button you want to be used or buttons
they can be different from each other but its needed to be atleast 3(Load, Credits and Begin/Start/Story))
Info:(Comment in here your idea on hows its gonna be, because you may not
be familliar with game maker and you may want me to make the menu for you
so if you just comment your idea on how the background and buttons are gonna be placed
and how they will change when pressed or when the mouse is hovering over it
then tell me and il fix it ^^)

IF you are familliar with game maker then you could of course post an gmc file
with you menu idea, i love everyidea and i appriciate any comment and post alot!

Heres my 3 Suggestions:
Menu1: http://www.mediafire.com/?dj6yq56b7m9xye2
Menu2: http://www.mediafire.com/?1g48gk8f1j4dflf
Menu3: http://www.mediafire.com/?e5zay9y2x7o5q51

Vote pool on your right side^^ --->

Xp and levels removed, new goblin sprite, brick wall, cave wall and grass

XP and Level removed
I removed the level and XP, i dono if its permanent or not but
i had so much trouble with it that i just didnt want to struggle with it anymore.
The main problem was the xp bar that kept bugging so i just gave up on that
i may take up the project on adding it again but at the moment il just save
my self the trouble.
I added a mana bar though and a mana system.


Walls, Items and grass
Added a brick wall to the town and i changed the wood lookings floors into
desks for the shops in the town, also added a shopkeeper for the 2shops that exists
at the moment, although the shopkeepers dont sell you anything and aint able to
be spoken to but they look great in a way lol.
also some random items has been added they as the shopkeeper
aint useable yet but they look great and is laying on the desks.
The grass has been changed but that is temporarilly, didnt bother to take
a picture either cuz it doesnt look great at all.
Down here is a picture of the Items added(3gems and a Hammer).
also shows the mana and health bar to, but they are custom so im gonna
recustomize them so they acctualy look better than just two square blocks.

Stay tuned for more : )

Experience, Experience Bar and Enemy Health Bars and a cave(lol)

Experience
Adding experience was just like adding hp, the only difference is that you increase the variable
instead of removing it when killing an enemy(not that you lose hp by killing
an enemy).


Enemy Health Bars
This was acctualy way easier than i thought, its just a simple simple simple draw event.
and that is basicly it.
The enemy bars moves perfect compared to my experience bar, health bar and level show thingy.
But i know how to fix those problems it just takes loads of time...

Cave
Just made a cave level ready for when i add a cave entrance lol.
Just felt like sharing that with ya, haha!

Whirlwind, Healthbar and Floors

Healthbar
a healthbar has been added, may be hard to see at the image but its the red
bar in the top right of the picture(below).
the health is set to go down by 1(of 100) each time you collide with a slime.
although whirlwind prevents you from loosing hp wile the whirlwind is in progress.

Floors

Im pretty happy with how the floors turned out of course this is temporary

but as temporary sprites im pretty happy with them.
Floors are those grey/black/orange stuff that the char is standing on at the picture.
although the black floor is a wall so collideing with it prevents you from walking over it.

Whirldwind
Whirlwind has been added, replaced the bad looking sword attack by pressing 1 with
whirlwind... one less thing to think about.

The first step to become a creator

What is this?

You're probably wondering what this is...?
Im a "game developer" meaning that i do this as a
hobby because i think making games
is one of the funniest things to do.
I just wanna say on forehand that i dont want all to high
expectations because i am only 18 and i havnt got any education
or taken any courses in making games.
All i do within game making is self taught through the internett.


Game Info

So i wanted to make this game categorized
withing the RPG category.
Of course i like everyother game creator want to make
something unique.
Although this may seem like a rip off of
Legend of Zelda or Alundra then i kinda would agree
to that because the idea is to have the game
alot like Alundra(An increadible RPG game i have
for PS1) in many ways, although with my own
unique twists, sprites, moves etc...




A start

Ok so basicly this is all i have at the moment, although
i JUST started.
I do believe in my self and that i can make it so confidence
at a 100 is good right?

This looks bad!

This looks very bad at the moment but the graphics and

all will improve as i go along

all the graphics are temporary just so i have something to work with.
and that counts for absoluttely everything.
even the attack looks bad, im gonna change the attack to an
attack sprite instead of a sword that
suddenly appears and dissapears because it looks horrible.

Anyways thanks for reading this is the first post as you can see.
Please comment and let me know what you think.

Joern Eagil