Game News Colony Ship RPG Update #4: Main Quest Design, Progress Report

[Vault Dweller]

LOL good luck coding RPG in blueprints. I see this is some extreme amateur Unreal fanboism going on here. I wont be arguing with that.

Personally, I don't care about Unreal 4. I'd rather play it safe and stick with Torque despite all its shortcomings, but we *will* need a better engine sooner or later, so might as well do it now. I'll give our programmer 6 months to fuck around with Unreal 4 and try to make our tools and system work. If he can't, we'll re-evaluate because releasing the game in 4 years is more important than using Unreal 4.

What I like about Torque is the scripting system. We wrote TorqueScript scripts (all kinds) in the dialogue editor, saved them as text and let Torque executing them in game. UE4 doesn't have any text scripting (as far as I know), so we'll have to use the blueprints. If you're right* and we can't do anything complex with the blueprints, we'll go back to Torque or consider another engine that comes with a source code.

* It's hard to take your word for it because a few posts above you've admitted that you "don't have much experience with Unreal 4, almost none", so I'm not sure why you're arguing.

Kudos for having the guts to take the time on pre-prod.

Not directly related but what's the dungeon crawler they keep mentioning as a focus for the dev/art team during pre-prod?

A short (about 50 fights), party-based combat game using the AoD systems and assets. We can put it together in under a year, which gives me enough time to work on the colony ship game and have everything ready by the time the dungeon crawler is released. Basically, it's a game for people who liked our combat system, wished they could play it t in a party-based mode, and don't mind paying $8 for it. It won't have much of a story, just fight your way out of a prison mine. It will have new creatures, weapons, and armor.

 

[MrMarbles]

References to "different societies and ways of governing" have been consistent so far. Based on what VD has said previously, there is potential for some cool storylines based on conflict between different political philosophies. Difficult though, so it takes a developer with balls Get it wrong and you end up with more of the "we believe in chaos they believe in order" nonsense.

 

[an Administrator]

Does it have a disguise system?

 

[Vault Dweller]

Not in the fist iteration. I don't think it works as well with a party-based setup.

 

[Excidium II]

Not in the fist iteration. I don't think it works as well with a party-based setup.

That means no party splitting?

 

[Vault Dweller]

Not planned at the moment.

 

[Excidium II]

I guess with the C&C focus it can get way too complicated. But the party system you have planned supports the idea better than most CRPGs.