Thanks for the tip, Kelvin.

My first thoughts:

* We can lift our game on representing different skin tones. At the moment the vast majority of our trainer sprites are light skinned, and there's no reason that needs to be the case. Maybe we could pick out a set of skin and hair palettes that look good, that we could apply to any trainer sprite.
* Getting to play as a Pokemon is very cool, allowing you to talk with other Tuxemon.

What sorts of things did you think we could learn from it?

Something pretty cool in the second video, about 3 minutes in:

It turns into a side-scrolling platformer for a bit.

I don't think it would fit into our plot, but it's very cool, and I assume it mostly just uses the existing code.

Thanks for posting this Kelvin!

I totally agree about character customization. I've wanted to include a layering system for characters, similar to how it's done with the Universal LPC Spritesheet Generator, so you could choose between different hair styles, outfits, etc. To incorporate this, we'd need more sprite assets in more of a template form as opposed to fully completed character sprites. Once we have this though, we'd be able to generate many NPCs and other characters from an array of hairstyles, outfits, etc.

The 2d platformer part is also very cool. Just as xirsoi mentioned, we should also be able to do this with collision tiles and different map tilesets with the current codebase.

Hi ShadowApex, I have the beginning of this for the 16x20 overland sprites, but I'm not sure that it's feasible for the 64x64 pixel art. Were you thinking of having it for both types of sprite?

Yeah, in order for that system to work, we'd also need templates for 64x64 battle sprites. Just as shown in the video, we could have a few different poses that the player could choose from, and we could have variations of hair, outfit, skin tone, etc. For trainer sprites, we could still use custom-made 64x64 sprites for individual NPCs, but also have the option to generate sprites from a template.

I was inspired by the Pachisi game in Pokemon Prism to design a similar thing for Tuxemon:

Basically you would start from the first tile after the red carpet, which is blank. It would cost $200 (or whatever) per go. These would count as credits, so $200 would display in the top right of the screen.

A die is rolled on the screen, and you move forward as many spaces as it indicates. Then whatever that tile indicates happens. Then another die is rolled, and you move forward that many spaces. The game continues until you land on a skull (you slide all the way to the end, losing your credits but keeping any items you got) or you get to the end.

Skull: Game ends (lose your credits)
Up Arrow: Fight a monster (you can catch it)
Side Arrow: Get an item
II: Double your credits
III: Triple your credits
./..: Halve your credits
./...: Divide by a third your credits

What do you think?

Last edited by Sanglorian (11 Apr 2017 14:05)

+1 for your map!

If there's a minigame in which a random number generator decides upon your winning chance, I tend to have bad luck and loose quite often.
If you loose a few times in a row, the game could open a new possibility to win without having the mercy of the random generator

Like.. The third time you loose you see a hole in the wall to slip through and skip a part. Or the owner of the game gives you the price if you defeat him/her in battle or if you do him/her a favor.