Re: [pygame] Rpg Game ?

[Noah Kantrowitz <kantrn@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Jason Massey wrote:

> One person doing an RPG is definitely doable.  The original Ultima  
> on the Apple II was done by one person, and he didn't have anything  
> like SDL and pygame, not to mention the python programming language  
> itself.
>
> Here's a good link, an RPG built from scratch in a week, by one  
> person, using pygame:
>
> http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2259.asp

As I said, RPGs not programming-heavy. Coding an RPG system is  
certainly doable by one person in a week, as your page shows. The  
problem lies in the "everything else". Once you have the engine done,  
you need a story, monsters, items, tile-sets, levels, weapons, etc  
etc. That is the part that takes a long time to get right. If you  
just want to make a funny little thing for the experience of making a  
small RPG engine, go for it, but understand that problems at hand.  
There is still a lot that can be learned from making small games, but  
you aren't going to make FF83.

--Noah