Combat in action RPGs seems simple; avoid enemys attacks while dishing out your own but even a simple system is made up of many design decisions! In this article I'll cover the most important decisions you need to make when designing combat. I don't see many people talking ...
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This is the third 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 numbers in the game to use bitmap fonts, so they're much sharper ...
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It's hard to find high quality free art for your games. The How to Make an RPG book comes with a nice selection of art but it's definitely lacking in the undead monster category.
Therefore I've had some new art commissioned. It's full set of skeleton ...
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The How to Make an RPG book teaches you how to make three different small RPGs. The first RPG, called "Dungeon", tasks the player with escaping a dungeon after being captured. Once you've made this game you'll probably want to put your own stamp on it.
Recently, a ...
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This is the second article in a series that takes the final RPG code from the "How to Make an RPG" project and adds a little more polish to one element.
The Cave Quest demo in the book uses a lot of true type text. True type text works well ...
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You've got three main options when it comes to procuring game art:
In this article we look at the third option; paying for art. This means spending some money but you'll receive commercial ...
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