Kirby's Rainbow Resort

Hey guys, I have had an idea in the works for a Kirby RPG for a little while now, and am really interested in getting a team together who are really interested. Note that this will probably be a somewhat big project, and will require a few people, including me. I can currently do the music and am learning programming, but am really in the need for artists/animators, and a few more programmers would definetely help. If you want details, PM me and I'll send you all the ideas i have so far.

Hope that this interests you guys!

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I'm interested, but I need to know what program your using.

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I'm possibly interested, but I'd have to know the concept first. I'm a decent artist and a student in a game development program, plus I'm a skilled musician and writer.

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I'm Also interested, and just like Jaguar said I need to know the concept, and I'm great at music

If this is a 2d game, I wouldn't mind helping with spriting.
If its a 3d game, then nevermind.

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To answer all of your questions (Sorry for not getting back to you all earlier):

1: This is a 2D game, so we will be using sprites.

2: The concept of the game has become this: Kirby has lost his Inhale ability due to plot reasons, (Possibly involving a resurrected NOVA), and now armed with a Ability Palette to continue using different abilities, must fight in a more traditional manner to find out what the heck happened. The movement on the main screen will be in a 2D Platformer style, like traditional Kirby, and the player will have the ability to use different abilities on the main screen. In homage to Kirby 64, abilities will be composed of cominations of six different Ability Medals, these being Ice, Fire, Plasma, Wind, Earth, and Star . The battles will take place in a turn based system with more than one character on either side of the field, with each character having statistics assigned for the course of the battle. In terms of the world, I want to keep this game mostly to Popstar, but if the plot demands, then this is subject to change. That's it in a nutshell.

3: In terms of the program I am using, I am probably going to use an original program based in Java. I have very explicit reasons for doing this and I will elaborate. Firstly, Java is the language I am most familiar with and, as far as I can tell, one can still make very respectable games with it. As for using pre-made programs, I am more concerned with their limitations. RPG Maker, for example, is a fantastic engine if you want to do things in a very much high-damage output, top-down style. However I feel that this program really wouldn't work in terms of a normal Kirby game as, as far as I know, you can't make a platformer in it, and it is very much a "templated" style. As for Game Maker, I have used it before, but I haven't really found it to be suitable for RPG's in general, as well as creating large hassles in terms of music looping, sound and large files that really bog down computers, especially when areas interconnect. Finally, Flash is a great program for animations and graphics, and is fairly easy to understand, but slows to crawling levels unless one removes graphical and sound quality. As for higher languages, I don't feel as though these are really necessary and are overly complex for what this game requires. Again, Java is what I am most familiar with so it would be a huge asset for me to code in said language. However, If you disagree, I would like to hear from you as I am open to ideas. I have been bouncing this back and forth for a while now, so any improvements would be lovely.

Hope that wasn't too long but I want to get as much information out now as possible. Thanks for reading and hope this helps!

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Interesting... Is Kirby going to be the only playable character, or will there be a helper system at all, like RtDL or KSS?

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Depends. On the over-world, the only character that the player would control would be Kirby. However, in battle there would be more party members. Again, this could change, but it would simplify the game down quite a bit during the platforming sections.

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Okay, that's all I needed to know.


Notify me as soon as you have the concept fleshed out. Sounds like fun.

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Do you have any concept material yet? I'd love to see what you have. :)

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