-Glasshopper- [Game collab outside of scratch]

TheNanoZstudios

The first post

So I would like to make a actual game outside of scratch with a program called game maker, if you don't know what it is, it is a game engine thats been used for games like Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, Nidhogg 2, Spelunky, etc..

I can do all the coding, but I need someone to help me with ideas, art, probably sound, etc..

And code, if you'd really like!

Here what we have so far!!

Studio link!: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/5637963/projects/
Target platform: Windows
Genre: Adventure/Platformer
The game will be released in game jolt!

Story(so far):

Your character comes from the wood kingdom and is on their way to retrieve a hourglass that was stolen from the king, but this is no ordinary hourglass, it's an hourglass that allows you to travel between the worlds, and there's only 10 of them in the whole universe, two for each kingdom, 1 for the king and 1 for the queen. They exist in different dimensions and you have been given the remaining one and are using it to travel to each world and find the thief.
There are 5 main kingdoms you travel through to reach the magical hourglass!
1.The wood kingdom is a forest land with treehouses and bridges throughout
2.The stone kingdom is a city built into a volcano- is it active? you'll have to find out
3.The metal kingdom is a steampunk world built around a clock tower
4.The sand kingdom is an ever-shifting desert world
5.The clay kingdom is an underwater world built into a ravine

There will also be "The secret kingdom" for the final battle against the thief…

As the thief travels through these worlds with you behind them, they steal hourglasses from every kingdom they visit, and use them to move to the next kingdom and to spawn their minions to slow you down!

Objective:
Follow the thief and get the stolen hourglasses back.
every time you beat the thief, expect in the secret kingdom, you get 1 hour glass, but the thief gets away with one, at the end having 5 hourglasses that after beating the final battle, you will return to their respective kingdoms as the credits roll…
Every level is time based, indicated by an hourglass

Work:
Designing the characters, tiles, collectables, levels, menus, etc. around wood kingdom! (everything basically)

We need a name for the thief and the rulers of different kingdoms
Generally any ideas…

Progress:

░╠ Final release
░╠ Refining the game
░╠ Final boss, finally our game is almost complete!
░╠ Clay kingdom done!
░╠ Sand kingdom done!
░╠ Metal kingdom done!
░╠ Stone kingdom done!
░╠ Wood kingdom done! Our first public beta testing begins!
░╠ First few complete levels of the game
█╠ Basics; physics, first enemy, Dialogue system, basic story, menu system (Done!!)

Everything here is subject to change!

Last update: 15.2.2019 15:46UTC (dd/mm/yyyy, hour:min)

Other notes:
After we get the first kingdom done(Wood Kingdom), we could release a demo for play testing! Feedback from that can help us make the game better, and make sure, that we don't repeat some mistakes in the other kingdoms and parts of the development.

Credits:
Producer and Creator: NanoZ
Lead Programmer: NanoZ
Lead Artist(Traditional): TheRealNetherBefore
Lead Artist(Pixel art): -Tetro-
Music producer: NickVBen
Other artists:
Story/Ideas: TheRealNetherBefore, –_Nova_–, Blazepie3, Generally all of the members of the collab!

OST(Original soundtrack)

Firs of fury
(aka wood kingdom)
Q-Theory
K7TSR

Stone Kingdom
(Looking for a name)

Metallic madness
(Metal kingdom)
Bossmusic-3

Sand kingdom
(Looking for a name)
Rain

Clay kingdom
(Looking for a name)

Secret kingdom
(Looking for a name)

Other/Not decided
Cutscene-1
Solid ground

Appearances

Last edited by TheNanoZstudios (Feb. 15, 2019 15:46:40)

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TheRealNetherBefore

I could come up with ideas and maybe provide art depending on what kind of art is needed.

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TheNanoZstudios

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
I could come up with ideas and maybe provide art depending on what kind of art is needed.

Oh yeah I asked you earlier, but the idea kinda died out, Im gonna try to make a new one! xD

Sure! lets start with ideas for the game, I a looking for inspiration, if you have any ideas, feel free to present them

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TheRealNetherBefore

TheNanoZstudios wrote:
TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
I could come up with ideas and maybe provide art depending on what kind of art is needed.
Oh yeah I asked you earlier, but the idea kinda died out, Im gonna try to make a new one! xD

Sure! lets start with ideas for the game, I a looking for inspiration, if you have any ideas, feel free to present them

Perhaps we should start by figuring out a genre, or at least a rough idea for what you want to make.

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TheNanoZstudios

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
TheNanoZstudios wrote:
TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
I could come up with ideas and maybe provide art depending on what kind of art is needed.
Oh yeah I asked you earlier, but the idea kinda died out, Im gonna try to make a new one! xD

Sure! lets start with ideas for the game, I a looking for inspiration, if you have any ideas, feel free to present them
Perhaps we should start by figuring out a genre, or at least a rough idea for what you want to make.

Its now about what I want to make, its about what we want to make!

Hmmm… Lets see, if we get any story writers, we could make some kind of adventure/story-driven game, or we could do something more “arcade” where story does not matter too much. Though I haven't figured out how to do good textboxes yet, but thats just a challenge that I am willing to overcome

Last edited by TheNanoZstudios (Oct. 7, 2018 14:29:05)

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--_Nova_--

TheNanoZstudios wrote:
TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
TheNanoZstudios wrote:
TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
I could come up with ideas and maybe provide art depending on what kind of art is needed.
Oh yeah I asked you earlier, but the idea kinda died out, Im gonna try to make a new one! xD

Sure! lets start with ideas for the game, I a looking for inspiration, if you have any ideas, feel free to present them
Perhaps we should start by figuring out a genre, or at least a rough idea for what you want to make.
Its now about what I want to make, its about what we want to make!

Hmmm… Lets see, if we get any story writers, we could make some kind of adventure/story-driven game, or we could do something more “arcade” where story does not matter too much. Though I haven't figured out how to do good textboxes yet, but thats just a challenge that I am willing to overcome

I could attempt to help with the story, though Nether can probably do that pretty well too

TheNanoZstudios

--_Nova_-- wrote:
TheNanoZstudios wrote:
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I could attempt to help with the story, though Nether can probably do that pretty well too

Hey! You can both write, or just one, its up to you 2 to decide

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Blazepie3

I could help with art or writing. As for a genre, maybe an adventure-esqe platformer?

TheNanoZstudios

Blazepie3 wrote:
I could help with art or writing. As for a genre, maybe an adventure-esqe platformer?

Sounds good, I am gonna star working on a basic platformer, but maybe, if I or someone else is able, we could try making a isometric platformer, its gonna be hard to do something like that, but it would be interesting!

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TheNanoZstudios

Ok everyone, now we need to make a story for our adventure/platformer game and after that we need some art, like backgrounds, tiles and characters

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TheNanoZstudios

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TheRealNetherBefore

TheNanoZstudios wrote:
Ok everyone, now we need to make a story for our adventure/platformer game and after that we need some art, like backgrounds, tiles and characters

Lets start with the setting- what ‘world’ should the story take place in? I'm thinking something sci-fi or fantasy.

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TheNanoZstudios

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
TheNanoZstudios wrote:
Ok everyone, now we need to make a story for our adventure/platformer game and after that we need some art, like backgrounds, tiles and characters
Lets start with the setting- what ‘world’ should the story take place in? I'm thinking something sci-fi or fantasy.

How about something fantasy like? We could have many different types of areas of the world, like a magical forest, steam punk town, Lava land, etc…
I know it might be a bit cliche, but it sounds pretty cool to me!

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TheNanoZstudios

Alright, after a lot of debugging and watching youtube videos, I finally made a fully functional platformer code for the game!

If you guys want to play test, I think I could upload it, somehow..

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--_Nova_--

TheNanoZstudios wrote:
Alright, after a lot of debugging and watching youtube videos, I finally made a fully functional platformer code for the game!

If you guys want to play test, I think I could upload it, somehow..

What language/engine?

TheNanoZstudios

--_Nova_-- wrote:
TheNanoZstudios wrote:
Alright, after a lot of debugging and watching youtube videos, I finally made a fully functional platformer code for the game!

If you guys want to play test, I think I could upload it, somehow..
What language/engine?

Game Maker v1.4 is the engine, language is GML(Game Maker Language)

GM makes its easy to export a game as an installer, but the problem is, that its a download, and you know how strict the rules are about downloading stuff from the internet

Last edited by TheNanoZstudios (Oct. 10, 2018 15:16:31)

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TheRealNetherBefore

TheNanoZstudios wrote:
TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
TheNanoZstudios wrote:
Ok everyone, now we need to make a story for our adventure/platformer game and after that we need some art, like backgrounds, tiles and characters
Lets start with the setting- what ‘world’ should the story take place in? I'm thinking something sci-fi or fantasy.
How about something fantasy like? We could have many different types of areas of the world, like a magical forest, steam punk town, Lava land, etc…
I know it might be a bit cliche, but it sounds pretty cool to me!

Sounds like it could be good, though I'd probably want to flesh out the world a bit, make it interesting. Would you mind if i did that?

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TheNanoZstudios

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:
Sounds like it could be good, though I'd probably want to flesh out the world a bit, make it interesting. Would you mind if i did that?

Of course! Feel free to experiment with the idea, if we can make up a solid idea on what were gonna make, we could start working on the sprites and other art, and maybe I could start programming basic objectives..

or we could make a game with multiple objectives, and where you need to talk to people to get quests, or something like that..
I dunno, feel free to do what you think is good

Also, anyone else whos reading this, feel free to pitch ideas/story also

Last edited by TheNanoZstudios (Oct. 10, 2018 17:50:46)

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TheNanoZstudios

Little update, I made some basic mario like enemies, which basically change direction when they hit a wall and can be killed by jumping on them, I am working on a basic health system right now. Heres a very short demo video: https://youtu.be/u-5gocngQ8s

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ForceElement

TheNanoZstudios wrote:
The first post
So I would like to make a actual game outside of scratch with a program called game maker, if you don't know what it is, it is a game engine thats been used for games like Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, Nidhogg 2, Spelunky, etc..

I can do all the coding, but I need someone to help me with ideas, art, probably sound, etc..

And code, if you'd really like!

Here what we know so far!!

Genre: Adventure/Platformer
Sprites: N/A
Story: N/A
Objective: N/A

Work:
Platformer code {ALMOST COMPLETED!} (Needs play testing)
Story
Objectives
Ideas

no

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