Ask questions about DROD RPG

Announcement: Be excellent to each other.

Caravel Forum : Caravel Boards : General : Ask questions about DROD RPG (You know you want to) This topic has been locked

Page 9 of 16

New Topic New Poll

Poster

Message

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Mouse wrote:
As for questions about the RPG:
-The picture of the character looks male, when will DRoD feature a female lead or let the player choose male / female?

That's a good question, actually. A partial answer is "when we find someone to draw new portraits" (or when Erik has the time to do so), as at the moment there is only one female portrait and it's not really protagonist-like.

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

08-09-2008 at 12:52 AM

kyevan
Level: Disabled
Rank Points: 54
Registered: 08-29-2007
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

A couple of them are androgynous enough you could probably get away with calling them either - Citizen 3 and Citizen 4, especially.

08-09-2008 at 03:11 AM

hyphz
Level: Delver
Rank Points: 34
Registered: 01-02-2006
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Wow., I picked the right moment to come back to these fora.

I could ask questions, but I'll just say that this sounds awesome.

08-09-2008 at 03:36 AM

rman
Level: Smiter

Rank Points: 371
Registered: 09-24-2007
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Are there briars?

____________________________

Click here to view the secret text

Best quote ever (TSS ending spoiler):

Click here to view the secret text

08-09-2008 at 01:49 PM

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (+1)

rman wrote:
Are there briars?

Yes, but the way they work has been tweaked to fit in better with persistent room states.

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

08-09-2008 at 02:18 PM

vittro
Level: Smiter
Avatar

Rank Points: 482
Registered: 04-17-2005
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

eytanz wrote:

rman wrote:
Are there briars?

Yes, but the way they work has been tweaked to fit in better with persistent room states.

Can you tell more about briars, if it's not a too generic question?

How do mimics work with persistent rooms? They stay there?

____________________________
http://vittorioromeo.info

08-09-2008 at 04:19 PM

zex20913
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar

Rank Points: 1723
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Are mimics also able to move to different rooms? And do they move while Tendry is in another room? (That would be one heck of a mimic-trapdoor puzzle...)

____________________________

Click here to view the secret text

08-09-2008 at 05:26 PM

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Avatar

Rank Points: 5106
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Mimics do hang around where they were in rooms you exit. They'll be there when you return.

zex20913 wrote:
Are mimics also able to move to different rooms? And do they move while Tendry is in another room? (That would be one heck of a mimic-trapdoor puzzle...)

Nah. Active elements are limited to the current room.

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

08-09-2008 at 05:35 PM

Briareos
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar

Rank Points: 3516
Registered: 08-07-2005
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

mrimer wrote:
Nah. Active elements are limited to the current room.

Does that include briar? I.e. it won't grow into the next room to kill you when you least suspect it?

np: Autechre - Fol4 (Quaristice (Versions))

____________________________
"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole
R.I.P. Robert Feldhoff (1962-2009)

08-09-2008 at 05:38 PM

13th Slayer
Level: Disabled
Avatar

Rank Points: 27
Registered: 09-28-2007
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Briareos wrote:

mrimer wrote:
Nah. Active elements are limited to the current room.
Does that include briar? I.e. it won't grow into the next room to kill you when you least suspect it?

No! Our famous and legendary Mr. Rimmer already said that it wont!

08-09-2008 at 07:12 PM

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Avatar

Rank Points: 5106
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (+1)

I'm citing the Mime Defense as precedent.

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

08-09-2008 at 08:15 PM

Chaco
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3640
Registered: 10-06-2005
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

mrimer wrote:
I'm citing the Mime Defense as precedent.

Alright! That means mimes are canonically existent in the Eighth

(That was a good story)

____________________________
Quick links to my stuff (in case you forgot where it was):

Click here to view the secret text

[Last edited by Chaco at 08-09-2008 09:42 PM]

08-09-2008 at 09:42 PM

Snacko
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 448
Registered: 06-08-2006
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Are there going to be any new potions?

____________________________
Director of the Department of Orderly Disruptions

08-11-2008 at 10:17 PM

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Snacko wrote:
Are there going to be any new potions?

Yes.

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

08-11-2008 at 11:25 PM

Someone Else
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar

Rank Points: 2334
Registered: 06-14-2005
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

That will be able to be used in TCB? (So, other than stat increasing potions?)

08-12-2008 at 01:57 AM

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Someone Else wrote:
That will be able to be used in TCB? (So, other than stat increasing potions?)

No.

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

08-12-2008 at 07:50 AM

Bingbing
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 22
Registered: 04-28-2007
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

That more recent screenshot had a pocket roach in the third slot. What does that do?

Also, will we be able to make our own weapons and armor? In the editor?

If the raygun is in the game, it better be in the end of the post-mastery level.

EDIT: Wait, there's no raygun in it. Or crossbow. Or any other ranged weapon. The point stands for the eventual user-made hold though.

____________________________
I don't know what to put here.

[Last edited by Bingbing at 08-15-2008 03:12 AM]

08-15-2008 at 03:10 AM

kyevan
Level: Disabled
Rank Points: 54
Registered: 08-29-2007
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Are there any neat new features that will get backported to TCB (or DROD 4.0, or whatever.)

08-15-2008 at 03:21 AM

mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Avatar

Rank Points: 5106
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

kyevan wrote:
Are there any neat new features that will get backported to TCB (or DROD 4.0, or whatever.)

Yes. I've discussed some of those above.

____________________________
Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

08-15-2008 at 03:36 AM

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Also, will we be able to make our own weapons and armor? In the editor?

Yes.

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

08-15-2008 at 09:06 AM

Snacko
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 448
Registered: 06-08-2006
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

98.65!

What caused this small fraction of a spike?

____________________________
Director of the Department of Orderly Disruptions

08-20-2008 at 09:49 PM

Syntax
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1218
Registered: 05-12-2005
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

A potentially great amount of work, no doubt

08-21-2008 at 12:12 AM

13th Slayer
Level: Disabled
Avatar

Rank Points: 27
Registered: 09-28-2007
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Just shut eyes until bar reaches 99%, dont care about what is after the dot(whatever is it called). It still does not have mucha meaning.

08-25-2008 at 06:46 AM

Lamkin
Level: Smitemaster
Avatar

Rank Points: 606
Registered: 08-17-2008
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

I had performed a search for this question and found nothing, so please forgive me if this issue has been addressed:
Will a Mac version be released at the same time? :~(

08-27-2008 at 05:57 PM

13th Slayer
Level: Disabled
Avatar

Rank Points: 27
Registered: 09-28-2007
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Lamkin wrote:
I had performed a search for this question and found nothing, so please forgive me if this issue has been addressed:
Will a Mac version be released at the same time?

Im not sure, but i guess "no". They make a win version, then port it to Linux and Mac...

08-27-2008 at 08:22 PM

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

I don't know much about the programming side, but I think that since the low-level stuff is shared with DROD, then the work put into making the Mac version of TCB would be usable here as well. So while I'm not sure that the Mac version will be released on the same day as the PC version (it is, after all, only Mike in charge of the whole release process, and there's a limit to how much he can do at once), it will almost certainly be a very short wait.

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

08-27-2008 at 08:28 PM

Fafnir
Level: Smiter
Avatar

Rank Points: 315
Registered: 11-05-2004
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Out of interest, do you know how well the Windows version works with WINE under Linux?

____________________________
Stupidity kills.
Absolute stupidity
Kills absolutely.

08-27-2008 at 10:17 PM

Syntax
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1218
Registered: 05-12-2005
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Fafnir wrote:
Out of interest, do you know how well the Windows version works with WINE under Linux?

DROD itself works fine under WINE so hopefully should be fine as it's the same engine...

08-27-2008 at 11:23 PM

Hikari
Level: Smiter
Avatar

Rank Points: 438
Registered: 01-28-2006
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

eytanz wrote:
I don't know much about the programming side, but I think that since the low-level stuff is shared with DROD, then the work put into making the Mac version of TCB would be usable here as well. So while I'm not sure that the Mac version will be released on the same day as the PC version (it is, after all, only Mike in charge of the whole release process, and there's a limit to how much he can do at once), it will almost certainly be a very short wait.

I might point out that the Mac version of TCB came out simultaneously with the Windows version. I can't remember if Linux did as well, but at least on the last release, Caravel was good about keeping us Mac folks happy.

____________________________
Caravel Official Holds Progress:

Click here to view the secret text

08-28-2008 at 09:23 AM

eytanz
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2708
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

Re: Ask questions about DROD RPG (0)

Yeah, but Erik was sharing the workload in the TCB release, so things may have been different. There's still a good chance of a simultaneous release this time, but I'm not entirely sure it will be possible.

(Disclaimer: I'm not involved with this side of development and have no more actual info here than anyone else on the forums. This post represents my speculation and should not be taken as an official position)

____________________________
I got my avatar back! Yay!

08-28-2008 at 10:33 AM

Page 9 of 16

New Topic New Poll

Caravel Forum : Caravel Boards : General : Ask questions about DROD RPG (You know you want to) This topic has been locked

Forum Rules:
Can I post a new topic? No
Can I reply? No
Can I read? Yes
HTML Enabled? No
UBBC Enabled? Yes
Words Filter Enable? No

Sign in or Register	Lost your password?
Username:	Password:
	Remember me