Did a binge watch of some Godzilla films and was curious if the engine could support something with a giant monster (one player) of some sorts destroying a city while a handful of survivors (players) attempt to combat it/survive/complete some objectives.
I'm just curious why that hasn't been made yet. I assume too much for the engine to handle?
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 Jun 27 2017, 6:34 pm
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Kumorii wrote:
Hasn't been done but it's totally in the realm of possibility with BYOND. It'd just take a bunch of clever icon-foo and some fancy pixel art. I guess I'll try tackling it for fun someday. | |
Wouldn't really need to do some clever icon-foo and fancy pixel art. You can easily just make regular sized sprites for the monsters and have the players smaller. Ex; 64x64 for monster, 16x16 for player. And then matrix Scale() everything to appear bigger, or even just zoom-in closer.
Would be interesting to see a like 16-bit version of that. | |
Maximus_Alex2003 wrote:
Wouldn't really need to do some clever icon-foo and fancy pixel art. You can easily just make regular sized sprites for the monsters and have the players smaller. Ex; 64x64 for monster, 16x16 for player. And then matrix Scale() everything to appear bigger, or even just zoom-in closer. I think it would be an interesting concept to try and tackle sometime. Only include one kaiju inspired off the obvious Godzilla or go for a whole handful to choose from? Who knows. | |
just have 2 players be kaijus whos goal is to beat the other one, while the other group of players goal is to survive and take down both of them
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Do you have any mechanics or effects in mind that might be "too much for the engine to handle"? I wouldn't just assume BYOND couldn't handle it. It's pretty capable when you optimize enough or... manage your expectations.
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Kaiochao wrote:
Do you have any mechanics or effects in mind that might be "too much for the engine to handle"? I wouldn't just assume BYOND couldn't handle it. It's pretty capable when you optimize enough or... manage your expectations. Well, I just sort of pictured a player-controlled kaiju completely destroying a map. Full buildings being destroyed by its walking, etc. Thinking back, it doesn't seem too out there for the engine. I feel silly. | |
So, I'm going ahead with this concept. Thanks for all the input guys!
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It's just one of those "outside the box" ideas that 90% of BYONDevs are incapable of forming, much less pulling off.