Trope-tan: The Game! (Development thread)

Hello there. I am Darren Azaki, head of Triumph Studio. I have decided to make a PC game based on Trope-tan! *Squee*

Stuff: Engine: EPEV 4 for GM 7 or GM 8. No voice acting or cutscenes, and no bosses (it's hard to make bosses in GM 7).

So what do my fellow Tropers think?

edited 1st Feb '11 6:56:57 PM by inhumanundead

Well, one engine I can point you towards would be the Unreal Development Kit which is for the Unreal Engine 3.

Tried it. Totally glitched my computer.

Err...Bump?

I am going to make it a platformer game. It will use the EPEV engine for Game Maker 7 (Lite).

You can edit your posts, you know. Use the pencil in the timestamp of your posts.

What kinds of things will be in the game, in terms of gameplay or story or enemy types? I assume it'll feature tropes somehow, so which ones? And furthermore, will it lampshade story elements that are used, or just use them?

I don't have a farking clue...yet.

How about gameplay style? Will it be, say, a mixture of shooting and sword-usage where the sword is mightier than the gun?

I thought it would be a point-and-click adventure starring Trope-tan, Wikipe-tan, ae-tan, and Uncyclope-tan solving mysteries.

I thought it would be a point-and-click adventure starring Trope-tan, Wikipe-tan, ae-tan, and Uncyclope-tan solving mysteries.

I'd go with a text adventure, myself.

I think if Trope-tan is to be the star of a video game, it should be as "game-like" as possible. Regenerating health, boss fights, Gameplay and Story Segregation, and so on.

I think if Trope-tan is to be the star of a video game, it should be as "game-like" as possible. Regenerating health, boss fights, Gameplay And Story Segregation, and so on.

I say for Troperrific Genre-Busting!

But that'd be rather hard to do...

edited 1st Feb '11 9:23:45 PM by VutherA

You could use the Unity 3D engine. Fairly easy-to-learn, the basic version is free, and it was used to make this.

edited 1st Feb '11 9:34:13 PM by Redhead

How about using Kirby's style of the hit drop and health bar from Kirby Super Star combined with mutually exclusive powerups that get dropped after a single hit?

Alternatively, a platform game that has minimal to no combat whatsoever, relying on evading danger?

A platform game where trope tan has been given cement shoes and dropped in the middle of the ocean, meaning you must complete the game on a time limit as she holds her breath and trudges her way back to land? The perpetrators are moral guardians who mistook her for Wikipedia's mascot, or alternatively stop having fun guys sick of people linking to Tv tropes instead of just explaining what they mean on other sites.

Unexpected genre changes?

An underwater escort mission where both Trope-tan and the escort have one hitpoint and a hitbox that takes up a quarter of the screen, no weapons, and if she goes up too far, she gets the bends, and if she goes down too far, she gets crushed, and her only enemies consist of sharks with homing missiles and lasers.

Seriously though, you should be more worried about whether you have the time and willingness to see things through and not give up after a month. And the people willing to do artwork, music and coding.

edited 1st Feb '11 9:41:58 PM by Redhead