Mirage Source

A Little about myself
My Name is John (I've also gone by Tallen, Quake, Forte and Red) I've been around MS for about 2-3 years now. None of you here know me besides Sonire really. I sort of lurk around (fear of not being accepted by everyone ) I try to post every now and then to help the community out and express my opinion and just be part of things.

I've been working on this project (On and Off) for about 3 months now. Been working with VB for about 2 years. Didn't learn anything from the first year since all I did were C/P. I've actually learned alot of the past few months. Been working on my own features which stared from manipulating already existing features, and well now here I am!

Game Aspects:
Plot/Gameplay/Ideas: The plot hasn't been decided yet since there isn't a story written yet. I do plan on making the game play along the lines of a ORPG/Dungeon Crawler. The way I aim for my game play to be is somewhat of a mixture between Golden Sun and some aspects of Zelda: 4S/LTTP. Anyone who has played a Golden Sun (GBA) game will know the style of game i like. I want the game like to be an old style Zelda dungeon crawler. Tackling obstacles, puzzles and enemies to gain access to new areas. (Making very good use of the Key system already implemented) Players will travel through dungeons with other players, or alone to unravel the storyline of the game. I wanna make the main target of the game, cooperation. Cooperating with friends shall be the only way to beat certain levels. Such as a dungeon with a party system. You'll need more than 1 player to beat the amount of enemies within the given time. Or you'll need one player to stand on a switch while an archer shoots at another. Many possibilities.
Graphics: I aim for the graphics to be similar to the cute look of Golden Sun. http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles/a/5/2/6/4/9/a_med_2.jpg Graphics will be a huge impact. Visual Spell Animations as well as sounds will bring the game to life!
Mapping: Mapping will be done by me unless I find people willing to map. Maps are pretty big, and will be seamless scrolling. By the time i'm done working on them.

Information/Team:http://web.miragesource.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4493
Base Source: MS 3.0.3
Programmer: Myself
GFX Artist: Looking to Help!
WebMaster: Looking to Help!
Writer: Looking to Help!
Musician(Does Sounds too): Looking to Help!

Quick Note to the Coders of Mirage Source;
Many features I have added over the course of working on this project were contributed from many of the members of the MS community. I'm afraid it would take long to give credit to them all while listing the features (I will list as many as i remember) but for the others i couldn't, Thank you for your resources, this project would be nothing without all you!


Player Side Features:
- Visual Spells
- 16x32 Sprites, 16x16 Tiles, 64x64 Npcs
- Day/Night System using Alphablending
- Destroyable Tiles (ex. breaking down a stone to clear a path)
- Quest System
- Email required upon account creation (is checked for actual email)
- Simple Customization (Head and Body only)
- Face System (Players are assigned Faces corresponding to what head they choose)(Face system is used for talking to NPC's)
- Face System (NPC's)(NPC's are assigned face's aswell, used for when a player is chatting with an NPC)
- Player to player trading
- Block Pushing system (Credit to Ambientiger)
- Advanced Walking system


Admin Side Feautres:
- Quest Editor
- Advanced Admin Control Panel
- Right Click Warping for easy access to any area if nessecary

This is only a basic list as I am listing the features off of memory without my source open. I promise there is more.

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Hmm, so there is method to your madness. Looking good so far man. If you need any help, I'll lend a hand where I can.

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How much do you pay for the writer and webmaster positions?

you have quite a good list going!

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Thank you both for the feedback. Oh and to Sonire, you've helped a ton already I'll be sure to credit you where ever it's needed ;D
And to Lea, I have not decided on how much for Writer and Webmaster. As I need both these positions to be permanment positions in my project. The writer will produce a nice, simplistic yet interesting storyline for a small orpg aswell as create quests and events bringing the storyline to life In-game. The webmaster position i would trust to create a nice looking website and would always be there to lend a helping-hand around the site and forums. Both positions would gain Administrative access in-game and on forums. If your interested PM me. But keep in mind that this is still early in game creation. I am mainly looking for a GFX artist so i can program in how things work once i have the graphics and gui to use, i hope you understand. But still gimmie a pm and we can talk if you wana help out

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Of course I know you xD

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Edit first post a tidbit

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Pretty basic create character screen here. (I'm no GFX artist) I do plan on adding simple character customization in the middle blank spot (Head, hair and body only) Faces are set depending on which Head you choose.
More updates to come.

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Character Selection screen, probably will be changed over time but this is it as of now.
Displays Stats Face and Sprite of each character. Shown blank if no character is selected

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Basic Melee

Online List

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Wow Forte, the game is looking great so far, keep up the good work! Also lol @ JohnBoobs.

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yeah thanks and yeah, my name is John Uberbacher. So around here it has transformed from Uberbacher to Boobieknocker to eventually J Boobs, John Boobs, or just Boobs XD

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Looking good keep it up

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Some small updates
- Poison system
- Foresting system (requires certain items to forest, can collect berries and samples of plants which you can sell or use to heal etc)
- Mining system (Pretty much like foresting)
- Serverside commands
- Optimized/cleaned most of Modules
- Removed Item Durability completely
- Removed Fix Item from Shops
- Now blits overhead damage
- Now blits poison damage
- Now blits Add/Sub Spells/Potions damage
- Items Spells and Shops are now saved in Binary format

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

- Npcs Now have Levels, they don't really do anything, they blit above their name. It's just for player reference really.
- Npcs now saved in Binary Format
- Added sound effects, Attacking, Miss, Critical Hit, Blocking, Leveling up and using a Potion
- Added sound effects to Spells
- Added sound effects to Poison Damage
- Began work on Fishing (Plans to be a very different system than Mining/Foresting)

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

More Updates
- Began work on simple pets, blit and walk behind player. They now save/load, editable via Editor form. So far only admins can set them to a player.
- Began work on Elemental Spells/Weapons.
- Signs
- Finished Fishing system
- Began Woodcutting (separate than Foresting)

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce

Golden sun <3
The reason I bought my GameBoy Advance waaaaay back.

- Finished work on Elements, you select an element upon character creation (Fire water earth wind light dark) Each has their own strength and weakness. You can use elemental equipment (but only to your element) to have the advantage over certain npcs and other players. Elemental spells work aswell.
- Began work on Buff system
- Finished Buff Clientside, had to redo serverside, currently finishing now.
- Removed Get Item Spell Type
- Removed Boot Map X and Y

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[23:30] mvrckoffspring88: Quake brand Noob Sauce