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Thread: Buy a RPG / Platform engine?

  1. Oct 12th, 2002, 10:10 AM #1
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    Buy a RPG / Platform engine?

    Hello,
    would anyone be interested in buying an RPG / Platform Game Engine with functions like this:

    - Usual tiles, tiles with slopes
    - Multilayered
    - Own script langugage, bot AI script language
    - Game in DirectX (draws to backbuffer), API (draws to a Device Context)

    If you would like to buy a game engine with such functions and good quality, what could you pay for it?
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  2. Oct 13th, 2002, 05:41 AM #2
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  3. Oct 13th, 2002, 07:52 AM #3
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    Engines like this exist in way better quality and some of them are even free..
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  4. Oct 13th, 2002, 09:44 AM #4
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    Make one yourself, much more fun.
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  6. Oct 13th, 2002, 12:27 PM #5
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    Game companies often buy or license pre-made engines, but not private persons. And those engines are surely not written in VB.
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  7. Oct 13th, 2002, 01:16 PM #6
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  8. Oct 13th, 2002, 01:52 PM #7
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    Yeah, if i made it in C++ then?

    Would you download a RPG / Platform engine?
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  9. Oct 13th, 2002, 02:38 PM #8
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    Nope, i would still make one myself
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  11. Oct 13th, 2002, 02:49 PM #9
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    A free one, yes. But I wouldn't pay for it.
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  12. Oct 13th, 2002, 07:53 PM #10
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    RPG Maker 2000 is a widely used platform for making 2D RPGs.
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  13. Oct 13th, 2002, 08:06 PM #11
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    If I was making a professional, top-down RPG and I wanted to save time, I would definitely buy an engine on three conditions:

    1) It is isometric view
    2) I can modify it as I like
    3) It costs less than $1500 and has no royalties
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  14. Oct 14th, 2002, 08:56 AM #12
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    A top-down iso engine where you can just walk around is coded in 2 hours or less

    You should also request a flexible scripting system, intelligent AI, probably level-based or level-world-based (as you like) map handling, player stats and inventory and another scripting thingy for spells and attacks. Also graphics should be fast and support transparency aso. aso.

    IMHO you have to do really good work before anyone'll pay for it.
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  15. Oct 14th, 2002, 09:24 AM #13
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    Originally posted by Fox
    A top-down iso engine where you can just walk around is coded in 2 hours or less

    You should also request a flexible scripting system, intelligent AI, probably level-based or level-world-based (as you like) map handling, player stats and inventory and another scripting thingy for spells and attacks. Also graphics should be fast and support transparency aso. aso.

    IMHO you have to do really good work before anyone'll pay for it.


    Without these things it is hardly a game engine, no?
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  16. Oct 14th, 2002, 09:59 AM #14
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    Yeah, just a graphics engine... anybody can make a graphics engine Well a fast one, maybe not, but A graphics engine..
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  17. Oct 14th, 2002, 11:24 AM #15
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    Where can i download RPG Maker 2000???
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  18. Oct 14th, 2002, 12:10 PM #16
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    I think this might be it - http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start...r2k.de/&e=1416
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  19. Oct 14th, 2002, 12:29 PM #17
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    It's illegal, BTW
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  20. Oct 15th, 2002, 10:57 PM #18
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    What's illegal?
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