BleachPortal Mini RPG Suggestions

[Nination]

It's been awhile since my last post, so I think its past time I lighten up your lives already made wonderful by this wondrous sites and Unholy's attempts to please the demonic like media leechers in he anime community. (I think that is a run on sentence, but o'well).

So I got an idea ( ) [Note the idea smilie]. What if you could do stuff as a character from Bleach and decide that characters fate. So then I started thinking again, I am learning PHP, so I decided it would be a good idea ( ) to make a little script that does just that.

So then my Nin Creativity (trademark) took over, and the just kept coming in. However, it's no fun for just one admin to make a feature with unlimited possiblities him self, I will share the love. So, the interactive users of BleachPortal (comment posters) can comment on what should be done and how wack my ideas turned out to be. No fear, there will be a place in the forums to I will make and link to after I finish this post.

Now, I don't know if "mini-rpg" is the correct word, maybe "Adventure" you can also help me decide on a name. So, before the urge to blog kicks in, links!

So please, without further delay, post your opinions.

[les9876]

So please, without further delay, post your opinions.
There should be more choices for each event.

[Shiryo]

*Agrees* And maybe you 'could' implement a HP/MP system in. Maybe some special items too. Eg: Rukia's Glove, Soul Candy etc.

~ Shiryo

[DragonBlade]

Pictures!!! Need pictures to make it exciting!

[ningo]

I agree with 'Blade - we need some pics to go with; a relevant screen cap would do. Natural progression from there is something like this...http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/8436/indyjava/...but that is lightyears more work than a php script with screen caps...but not out of the question methinks; wonder if community would chip in to help with something based on that engine? That would be ace...

[Ichigo K]

Think you may turn the game to a more dynamic sistem like this:

-More Graphics, If you are rukia, a rukia gif, and so ichigo.

-You could choose more situations.

-Backgrounds according to the stage or chronology of the story.

-Longer.

-And as they said, hp/mp, but THAT will be a little bit more complicated :D.

Im sure that everything i said, youve thinked about it alredy.

[Sunfire249]

I agree with Ichigo K, but I'm pretty sure that making backgrounds and everything would be very time consuming... So, some advice is that maybe you should start by having it all written out and done. Then get to having more choices, then the items, then the pictures, then the bakground and whatever else there is.

Try to go slowly though, because sometimes making things like these take time, and if you go too fast it COULD turn into crap, though not likely.

[ningo]

Mmm...the decisions that have to be made are...
*Is this going to be an mini-adventure or an mini-rpg?
At the moment the current game is at such an early stage that the direction it is going to take is unclear.
*What sort of scope is being envisaged?
If an rpg, with exp,vit etc then this will quickly spiral in complexity as a php script; in any sort of adventure of even small size it would be worth then creating a framework in which to create the game; this would make extending/altering/debugging adventure easier; at which point one has a look round to see if there isn't an off the shelf freebie solution already created by someone else for the purpose.
If an adventure game, then there are plenty of free frameworks that already exist; the one in the link above maybe above what was originally envisioned; and a lot of work for one person; but the scripting for the demo game is reasonable simple and the end result is very impressive.
If the game is going to remain a php script, then there is little point in going overboard on the artwork; a relevant screencap to what is going on will be more than serviceable i.e. if ichigo is fighting a hollow, get a screencap with ichigo and a hollow ; just crack out a copy of virtual dub, copy relevant frames then do a batch process to size in photoshop. If it remains as a php script then the images are just to brighten up the page a little and a substantially longer story will have to be thought up...i 'spose that's whee we come in; if this is the route taken, the story can be added to on an as and when basis.
The more complicated options will really require the story to be more or less worked out before any of the other work gets under way.

[Sunfire249]

Hmm... that sounds really complicated and time consuming. If you get into more detail though, that could require more money, and more money might mean higher set bar for donations. You might not meet next month's quota if you do that. But, it WOULD be really kool to have that on the site. Alot of people would probably visit it just for that... and the downloading :P

[Ichigo K]

:whatevah: leechers-attraction....

[Sunfire249]

oh yes... ^_^

[Nination]

- I'm most likely going to keep it PHP.

- What did you mean by track HP, put like HP: 50 with a bar? I thought that would be kind of corny since right now everything in set in stone and doesn’t change. Special items also make me feel the same way. This would maybe be nice when allot more options are added. (Depending on if I keep going in the same direction with it).

- Screen caps are possible and I'll consider it. Would you rather they be from the anime, manga, or both.

- Backgrounds would just serve as a bandwidth killer and I don't really think it would look nice.

[DragonBlade]

Screen caps should only be based on anime unless its not spoilish unless the mini rpg itself is spolish.

[Sunfire249]

I don't think it would matter that much if it was either in anime or in manga... But the colour would make it prettier ^_^

[Nination]

Yeah , color nice. Guess it has to be both because some parts that will be added soon and others already there haven't happend in the anime. ><

[Sunfire249]

Mmhmm. I would suggest putting up some warning that there are spoilers or something if you DO have scenes from the raw maga though.

[kinonai]

I think it is a good idea. Also, you could have people color pictures from the manga...and even draw them for that matter. I know that there are people on this forum that can color them so that they look better than in the anime and people who can draw nealy the same way as Kubo. Maybe you should look into that?

[Sarteck]

Hey! ^_^ I was actually doing something similar, myself, to tell the truth (although it wasn't based on Bleach, but instead a fantasy setting of my own creation).

My idea was to have a setting with a number of islands, and each player in the game can build of their kingdoms on the islands they possess, as well as ally with (or make war with) neighboring kingdoms, and gain (or lose) islands.

The idea got really really complicated, and I had a folder full of formulas that I was using for the creation of troops, the actual battles taking place, how the terrain of an island and the race of an army would affect defense against what type of weapons, and so on and so forth... It actually got pretty huge. XD

I, er, kind of lost my muse about halfway through programming the backbone of it, though. XD

Anyways, if you want help or advice, drop me a PM. Heh. I will suggest that you make your life a lot easier and use JavaScript in combination with your PHP, though--it's good to glue things together, to have most things run on the client computers rather than taking up your server processing, and can make the layout much prettier. :3