I'm not sure what I should work on!

[anonjondoe]

Kool, I'll keep you updated one what I get up to.

Jack

[anarky]

Make some beter rpg graphics and take it online? Perhaps you could get a few people playing against each other in a tournament? Maybe you could make new maps? Or expand existing ones?

>anarky

[anonjondoe]

In approximately fifty years time the population has swelled so uncontrollably that conventional cities as we know them can no longer hold the world's people, this calls for enormous, towering structures, similar in appearance to skyscrapers but several hundred times the size to house everyone.

The story is about a PI called Pat Alistair who lives in one of these towering cities. It starts out with him investigating a highly organised gang of kidnappers with a bounty over their heads. This will act as a training level type thing. After the player has completed the training level he will be visited by a woman saying that he wants him to follow her husband who it turns out is a king pin in the drug business, after a while Alistair gets caught up in the business himself as a necessity to keep his cover from being blown and his life being ended.

Anyhow, that isn’t everything, there’s loads more back stories, romances and kool little things that I’m going to do.

Tell me what you think, if anyone wants more info just say but I’m not giving away any more of the story because while what I’ve written may seem fairly basic and not too great but I hope that all the extra material that I have and am working on at the moment should make it good fun to play. I’m working on loads of stuff like back stories, sub plots and themes and stuff about life in the city towers.

Jack

[Liquid Snake]

Hey, that sounds pretty damn good. Better than anything I could come up with.

[anonjondoe]

Thanks a lot. Do you want to collaborate?

Jack

[Liquid Snake]

I'm pretty busy around the house and work and usually only do these things as a hobby, but I'll help when I can.

[anonjondoe]

Just thought I'd let you know that I've changed from FB to Blitz Basic so that I can use .bmp files for graphics.

Jack

[Jofers]

You can use .bmp files in FB:

Code:

DIM image(64004) AS UBYTE
SCREEN 13
BLOAD "image.bmp", @image(0)
PUT (0,0), image

You can also use any other file format, because FreeBASIC supports external libraries, such as libPNG. But BLOAD can be used directly for .bmp files by just BLOADing a BMP, you don't change a thing.

[anarky]

Heh - here I am struggling with SDL...

>anarky

[Liquid Snake]

How's it coming?