It's no secret I'm interested in how games model conversation. It's an interesting challenge on several fronts; you need to consider how content creators author conversations, how the user experience plays out and how engaging it is as a gameplay mechanic. To this end it's instructive ...
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Action RPGs give the player realtime control over game characters, usually this is most noticeable in regards to movement and combat. The term action rpg gets used more often when speaking about console games. On the PC, action RPGs overlap with the older category of hack and slash games.
The ...
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This is the seventh article in a series that takes the RPG from the "How to Make an RPG" project and adds a little more polish to one element.
In the previous polish phase we added a spell-browser to the in-game menu. In this article we'll make that menu ...
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This is the sixth article in a series that takes the final mini-RPG from the "How to Make an RPG" project and adds a little more polish to one element.
In the previous polish phase we updated the game text to use crisp bitmap fonts. This time we'll take ...
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This is the fifth article in a series that takes the RPG from the "How to Make an RPG" project and adds a little more polish to one element.
In the previous polish phase we added a new font for stat numbers. This time we'll replace all the true-type ...
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This is the fourth article in a series that takes the RPG from the "How to Make an RPG" project and adds a little more polish to one element.
In the previous polish phase we updated the damage and heal numbers in combat. They're now chunkier and easy to ...
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