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Post by Sylar on Sept 24, 2013 13:47:14 GMT -6
tigers and wolves aren't exactly what I'd call fantasy creatures lol Perhaps dragons, basilisks, chimeras, chupacabras, phoenixes, unicorns, etc?
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Post by Fuzzball on Sept 24, 2013 14:06:00 GMT -6
Chimaeras please. :3
Also, what will this site creation be called?
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Post by tsukihime on Sept 24, 2013 14:18:46 GMT -6
I guess what I meant was chimeras. I was thinking about animals like tigers and such with wings etc. ^_^;
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 24, 2013 14:28:44 GMT -6
That's also a question we have to wonder. If we can find enough different and original species, though, I would vote to go only for dragons, I'm not sure that much diversity is good. Totally personal opinion though.
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Post by Sylar on Sept 24, 2013 15:25:59 GMT -6
I think more species would be better actually, it can really show the talents of the artist. As well as that there are so many dragon only sites that ours could get buried pretty quickly in them.
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spyro27
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Post by spyro27 on Sept 26, 2013 10:26:43 GMT -6
Yeah, a wide range of fantasy animals that you can get close to. Problem is with Flight Rising is that the game is half-developed- the game needed the strong bond and adventuring but they haven't finished that part yet so now it's turned into a capitalist industry of dragons.
But I wouldn't want to do so much on What DRA did with their designs. They were really Thaz' interpretation of popular draconic creatures with no change in name. Western, eastern, wyvern.. The rest are different but were all heavily based on creatures. Heavily meaning it looked exactly like what a lizard should but with wings, as for Lizardus.
It would be cool to have our own types of dragons with different lores and their personality development can vary on how you treat it, giving them advantages and disadvantages on tasks throughout the game maybe. Such as FR with Pearlcatchers, they were basically westerns but with horns, whiskers and their iconic story of always having a pearl kept with them as like a memory of their lives. It's pretty sweet if you ask me.
I agree with Piecreature since it would just be better if we made our own. Plus there would be an issue with styles as they wouldn't look the same among Thorn's created creatures.
It would be pretty cool and somewhat easier to create a text based adventure sort of thing, although these kind of things are slightly unappealing if they end up being walls of text after each chosen option.
Then again, I don't even know what you guys have intended for in an adoptable site xD
Also, I would like to say, if we're planning on having so many creatures, are we thinking of complete customization? with colours and accessorizing, etc?
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Post by tsukihime on Sept 26, 2013 12:44:36 GMT -6
I'm sure if we make an adventure-type thing we would use pictures and such.
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Post by Hyruu on Sept 26, 2013 13:18:41 GMT -6
Guess we're going for our own range of fantastic creatures then ! We maybe should start to input some ideas in a dedicated thread, so that everyone can make suggestions. Erm guys though if I maybe can make something out of this pre-made template, that's certainly not going to be as deep as adventures or such... We're going to need a coding team for this ! I was thinking something about colors, I don't even know if that can turn out good, but... I was thinking that the dragons could be customized with a lot of colors a bit like in FR (so different colors for different parts of the body), but that the user could change those colors either by choosing a whole random color or by tinting the dragon (which would make finding the best color either a chance or really expensive so that users spend time enjoying their draggies).
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Post by Lunarblaze12 on Sept 28, 2013 20:18:18 GMT -6
That sounds great, Hyruu! I was thinking of something along the same lines XD
Roggie You have friends who can code? That'd be great!
And other creatures? We should definitely do some wolves, and eagles, and gryphons~
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Post by thetaz on Sept 30, 2013 14:59:51 GMT -6
You probably won't know me (I played DA in its *very* early days, and then just... idk, forgot? About it), but I might be willing to help with PHP/MySQL/JS/CSS/HTML. I've been web developing for at least 4 years now.
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shadowwolf18
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Post by shadowwolf18 on Sept 30, 2013 17:50:04 GMT -6
Spy mentioned about a text based adventure becoming unappealing if just walls of text~ Dragoncave has adventures from time to tie (halloween item hunting if anyone doesnt remember lol ) It was images and text (nothing animated so it was quite easy, just to do with clicking a link and being brought to another page with another image). Personally I find those ones engaging enough because it's a mixture and the best of both thing ID I dont have much I could bring to a game though haha xD I now basic bbc codes like [ /u ] ect. (graah Deviantart has made life confusing for me xD ) I really like this tinting idea Whee Ari art yay ID (shh Im a secret fangirl of her and her wife's pretty arts ) edit: woops, ID I apperantly dont know bbc stuff as well as I thought I did ohgod.
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Post by Hyruu on Oct 1, 2013 15:59:31 GMT -6
BBcode isn't programming sadly I always use it anyway to put my color in the messages. And thetaz, sounds great ! But though, we really need people who are ready to get engaged in this project for a long time. That's not a problem if you don't feel like doing it, even without getting involved a lot you still can help by teaching me some stuff about web programming because if I know programming, I never did it for internet ^^
Now guys, all this is great but so far we haven't achieved a lot. What I suggest, should we make another thread in which only the motivated people will discuss more in details about several points of the game ? We need to precisely define which breeds we're going to have and what kind of game exactly we want to do !
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Post by thetaz on Oct 2, 2013 9:22:25 GMT -6
BBcode isn't programming sadly I always use it anyway to put my color in the messages. And thetaz, sounds great ! But though, we really need people who are ready to get engaged in this project for a long time. That's not a problem if you don't feel like doing it, even without getting involved a lot you still can help by teaching me some stuff about web programming because if I know programming, I never did it for internet ^^
Now guys, all this is great but so far we haven't achieved a lot. What I suggest, should we make another thread in which only the motivated people will discuss more in details about several points of the game ? We need to precisely define which breeds we're going to have and what kind of game exactly we want to do ! I can make a good codebase for programmers to use (actually, I have some useful stuff), and offer input into how the code should be done/what direction it should go in to be efficient and usable, etc. But I understand the need for people who will help for a long time. I'm just putting an option out there.
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Post by Lunarblaze12 on Oct 4, 2013 18:02:39 GMT -6
Oh good, more coders ^.=.^
Maybe we should, Hyruu. I've thought up some species.
Lioden has something similar to DragCave, 'cept it's up as a regular thing~
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Post by Hyruu on Oct 8, 2013 3:50:55 GMT -6
I've been reading some guides on PHP, so far there's absolutely nothing that looks difficult there. I even found out how FR made generate the images ! With just a bit of help in case of problems I think I can already achieve something. I studied databases last year so using MySQL won't be such a big problem either. And I have some friends from whom I can ask help. So yeah I guess we already can start discussing in detail about what we exactly want ! I wonder where to put those topics though. Guess I'll figure it out later
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Post by thetaz on Oct 9, 2013 17:17:57 GMT -6
I've been reading some guides on PHP, so far there's absolutely nothing that looks difficult there. I even found out how FR made generate the images ! With just a bit of help in case of problems I think I can already achieve something. I studied databases last year so using MySQL won't be such a big problem either. And I have some friends from whom I can ask help. So yeah I guess we already can start discussing in detail about what we exactly want ! I wonder where to put those topics though. Guess I'll figure it out later The amount of times I've had these same thoughts and it's turned out to be a bit more difficult than expected... Depending upon how you go about this, I'd suspect the hardest part will be making it so the system can be further extended, optimized, added to, etc. At least, that's usually what takes up most of the time and effort, IMO. Of course, like Hyruu said, this is all dependent upon what we want.
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Post by Hyruu on Oct 11, 2013 6:01:26 GMT -6
I was meaning the language shouldn't be that much of a problem XD Of course I know the project will be a thousand time harder than I think ^^
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Post by Sylar on Oct 11, 2013 14:41:15 GMT -6
thetaz if you will be working with us at least for a time what do you suggest be done and do you feel that you can help us out? Hyruu I'm not sure what you mean exactly? I don't think it would be a good idea for us to make this site a duplicate of a popular site as then no one will want to join since theres already something popular like that up. So far I understand that the site will feature multiple species and have stages of growth, correct? Will there be anything else that can be done? At least for future planning?
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Post by Hyruu on Oct 11, 2013 15:21:44 GMT -6
I didn't say I was thinking about making a duplicate of FR. I just said that understood how to merge images, which will let us work with an other system than predefined colors like in DrA. I guess it'll sound like FR until I completely explain my idea though, and here isn't the place to do so. A friend of mine will lend me an hand for the coding as he's interested in creating some PHP stuff. That will come in handy !
Again all we need is to start defining precisely what we are going to do, and for that there's no other option than discussing it item per item. And for about the third time I will say I'm going to make some topic for that XD
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Post by Sylar on Oct 11, 2013 15:55:29 GMT -6
Ahh Hyruu I think we were going to discuss things with thetaz since he seems to know coding and be willing on helping? You somewhat seem to be assuming that the job is all on you again but nothings been confirmed yet!
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