Disciples of Renown™ - Sanctify Hollowed Ground

IPart I: Concept & Design

1Role-Playing Games (RPG) Workshop

1. 1.1About this Workshop
2. 1.2Target Market Considerations
3. 1.3Historical background
4. > Role-Playing Genre — Background
5. > Adventure Games
6. > Adventure Game Sub-genres
7. > RPGs Adventure Roots
8. “The Unlikely Birthplace of JRPGs”

2Introduction to “Game Design”

1. Approaching Game Development
2. Focusing Your Game
3. 2.1Game Design System™ & Components
4. 2.2Game Mechanics (GM) — Logic & Rules
5. 2.3Game Display Framework Mechanisms
6. 2.4Game Genre Components & Data
7. 2.5“Replayability” — retaining “repeat customers”!
8. > Deeper Dive: Solving Poor Replayability
9. Expanding The “Replay Value” Of Games

3Designing “RPG Adventures”

1. What is the shortest-lived MMO? APB!
2. What went wrong? … here’s the “inside” story.
3. 3.1What makes a “Good” RPG?
4. > RPG “Design Elements” — the Foundation
5. > RPG Design Considerations Checklist
6. > RPGs vs. MMoRPGs
7. 3.2RPG Adventure Games
8. > RPG Adventure — The Storyline(s)
9. > Story Plot Generation
10. > Story Generation Tools
11. 3.3RPG Adventure — Environments Overview
12. 3.4“RPGs” into “Action-Adventures” — the “Ping-Pong”
13. 3.5What’s Your Competition Doing?
14. > Who’s Your Targeted Market — Who’s Playing What?
15. ’What is your favorite game genre?” — Separating Developers from Gamers!
16. > Game Competitor Examples

4Game “Mazes”

1. 4.1Technical References
2. 4.2Pure Linear Labyrinths
3. > Rules for Creating a Perfect Maze
4. > Deeper Dive: Eller’s Algorithm
5. > Depth-First Search (DFS)
6. 4.3Imperfect Labyrinths
7. 4.4Open-path Worlds
8. IIPart II: Production & Encoding

5Lesson 2.2: Launching a C2 Game Project

1. 5.1About Your Project:
2. 5.2Project Settings:
3. 5.3Configuration Settings
4. 5.4Adding Game Phase Layouts
5. Layers inside a Layout
6. 5.5Game Project Organization
7. 5.6Comparing your code

6Lesson 2.3: Launching a C3 Game Project

1. 6.1About Your Project
2. 6.2Project Settings: Color Theme, Start-up & Display
3. 6.3C3 Advanced, Compatibility Settings, & Editor!
4. 6.4Adding Game Phase Layouts
5. Layers inside a Layout
6. 6.5Game Project Organization
7. 6.6Comparing your code
8. IIIPart III: Developer’s Guide
9. FYI — Tile movement

7Main Layout & Event Sheet

1. 7.1Setting up the Gameboard …
2. 7.2“Grid-based” Avatar’s Movement
3. 7.3Event Sheet — “es_main”
4. 7.4Ghost’s Movement
5. 7.5Standby for “AI Mind Control”
6. 7.6“PACMAN” Collisions
7. 7.7“Next Life” Revival
8. 7.8AI management for Ghosts
9. 7.9New Feature — Astral Weapons
10. 7.10Winning Conditions

8Game Configurations Layout

1. 8.1Event Sheet — es_gameConfig
2. 8.2Event Sheet — es_OptionalRules

9“Map Editors”

1. 9.1Using “TMX Tilemaps” in Construct
2. > “How TMX tiles relate to a Maze Grid”
3. Construct Manual — Export TMX
4. Editing a “Tile Set” (from Construct Manual)
5. 9.2Maze Generator Layout
6. > Torch Lighting?
7. 9.3Event Sheet — es_DynamicMaze
8. > Events 2 to 8 — Control Panel
9. > Events 9 to 20 — Generate Dynamic Cemetery Maze
10. > Events 21 to 24 — Randomized Graves
11. > Saving JSON and TMX maps
12. IVStarting Your Own Game Studio!

10Lesson 11: One “GM” to Rule them all …

1. VWhat’s next?
2. “How to publish a game on the web??”

11Game Distribution & Marketing

1. 11.1Introduction: 8-Step Deployment Method.
2. FGL.com
3. 11.2Port to a Console
4. 11.3Selling Directly — The Advantages
5. Shareably (SBLY) looking to rent your games
6. 11.4Book Review Protocol
7. 11.5Tell the world about your game!

12Conclusion

13Bonus Development Content

1. 13.1Certification Examination
2. Appendix

“RPG Workshop” Lessons (Excerpts)

1. Lesson 2 (Excerpt): Scaling Game Assets & Layouts
2. > C3 Environment Maps — without plugins
3. > Strategic Quest Maps
4. > Regional Quest Maps
5. > Tactical Maps
6. > Town and Settlement Maps
7. > The Campaign — “…There and Back Again!”
8. > As above, so below … Multi-level Gaming!
9. Lesson 5 (Excerpt): Conflict & Combat Resolution.
10. > Game Phase Preparations
11. > Game Data Preparations
12. > Pre-Combat Management
13. > How Command Buttons Work …
14. > Game Play Transitions
15. > RPG Combat Module(s)
16. > Comparing your code
17. > Combat Management
18. > How to Install Additional Combat Engines
19. > Single Player with Multiple-Avatars (SPMA)
20. > Derelict Hulks™ — Artwork, Inspiration, & Rules

More Resources …

1. “You don’t know JS Yet” by Kyle Simpson
2. Construct Demo Tutorials

Appendix: Game Developer Tool Kits

1. Artwork Resources
2. Selling your Game Artwork & Assets
3. JavaScript Garden

Additional Appendices