Re: [stella] RPG

[Paul Slocum <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What's the combat system going to be like, and how are you going to keep 
> it interesting through the whole game?  (or is that a surprise?)

It's going to be a pretty standard RPG fighting system, turn based, 
standard moves, magic.  But since it will be impossible for the player to 
have a party (more than one character) I'm going to give the player up to 3 
moves per turn (number of moves depends on speed attribute).  I'm going to 
do my best to set up the fighting so there's some real strategy and not 
just hitting "attack" over and over again.  I may include undocumented 
combo moves, and to keep things moving along, I'm going to let the player 
select his next moves while the monsters are executing their turn.

To make the game interesting, we'll have a story and dialog, at least one 
minigame, and plenty of areas to explore.  With my map compression system, 
it should be possible to pack a pretty huge world into about 8k.

-paul