Todo the Tea-Mouse
Jul. 22nd, 2013 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnIn the interest of keeping this going, here's a screenshot of a test room I've been building - click to expand it!
I had a fever dream about this a couple of days ago and had to write everything down before I forgot it all - the monk-mouse's name is now Todo the Tea-Mouse, and the adventure is based around completing his list of things he has to get done today. He comes from a village of mice who are experts on the growing and preparation of exotic tea, but he dreams bigger and has moved out of the village to take advantage of the lower property prices - though his family is doubtful of his chances, he has the aim of one day opening a 100% organic vegetarian cafe.
I've noted down a fair amount of subsystem stuff like how I'm going to handle storing room layouts and saving the game state - the platforming is a modified Crystal Towers 2 engine ("modified" in the sense of cutting out the utterly rancid parts) and the interaction and scripting is actually the engine from Hatogate. I've got a couple of objects and events set up now, but I keep on getting inspired to go off and do utterly pointless things like drawing the other character at the top left (who some people may recognize) instead of actually writing the vital stuff to support the continued expansion of the game.
I'll be writing a proper editor some time this week, though. It's odd making a to-do list for a game about a to-do list.
I had a fever dream about this a couple of days ago and had to write everything down before I forgot it all - the monk-mouse's name is now Todo the Tea-Mouse, and the adventure is based around completing his list of things he has to get done today. He comes from a village of mice who are experts on the growing and preparation of exotic tea, but he dreams bigger and has moved out of the village to take advantage of the lower property prices - though his family is doubtful of his chances, he has the aim of one day opening a 100% organic vegetarian cafe.
I've noted down a fair amount of subsystem stuff like how I'm going to handle storing room layouts and saving the game state - the platforming is a modified Crystal Towers 2 engine ("modified" in the sense of cutting out the utterly rancid parts) and the interaction and scripting is actually the engine from Hatogate. I've got a couple of objects and events set up now, but I keep on getting inspired to go off and do utterly pointless things like drawing the other character at the top left (who some people may recognize) instead of actually writing the vital stuff to support the continued expansion of the game.
I'll be writing a proper editor some time this week, though. It's odd making a to-do list for a game about a to-do list.
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Date: 2013-07-23 02:00 am (UTC)Also, if this ends up being half the game CT2 was, I might actually stand a chance of completing it.)no subject
Date: 2013-07-23 11:50 am (UTC)I went over the top with CT2 (realizing that eight missions per level was insane but feeling I was stuck with it) - hopefully this one will end up more... completable. It'll definitely be more manageable to write, if I'm basing it on an external editor.
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Date: 2013-07-23 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-28 12:51 pm (UTC)