Mal's Text Adventure

Posted by Malaika on Aug. 18, 2006, 3:17 a.m.

Okies then. One of my classes at uni involves making a text adventure game with ADRIFT. Part of that assignment is a blog, so I'll be posting info about that over the next few weeks. It may be a whole blog, or it may just be an update. Feel free to ignore it, because it has nothing to do with Gamemaker, but it should be really interesting.

I started using ADRIFT years ago, before I found GM. I haven't used it in several years, but it should be pretty easy to pick up again.

I've been considering stories I might make, but haven't really decided on any yet. Comments and suggestions would be nice.

I thought perhaps a story based on Danse Machina would be cool, but definitely very challenging. I don't really want to have a story with lots of combat (if any).

A sci-fi/horror would be awesome. Something along the lines of Alien, where you are trapped on a starship with a monster lurking around. That would be really cool.

I'll keep thinking over the weekend.

In other news, I've nearly finished my 3D robot model for next Friday. All I need to do is the head, then unwrap the UV and texture it.

Good news about my tablet. The guy I bought it from (my old employer) went to Sydney to tear someones head off about it (note: I ordered this thing 2 months ago, and they haven't sent it yet). He told me he'd send the tablet, or someone's head. Which I thought was very nice of him. Anyway, he told them to get fked and picked one up and mailed it himself. Now that is customer service!

So I'll have the tablet on Monday or Tuesday at the latest. Which is great, cos I need it to do the texture for my bot. The bot is the main character in the machinima movie I'm making, but I still need to make th other characters (I only have two weeks to do the characters, set, ALL of the texturing, music, sound effects and dialogue - which I'll probably get someone else to do).

Hoorah for blogs, anyway. Cya!

Comments

sinkhead 18 years, 4 months ago

I had a tablet, but it broke [:(]. A nice story would be something similar to Crimson Room or something like that. Well, that's my opinion anyway.

melee-master 18 years, 4 months ago

Heh, sounds interesting. So, what's ADRIFT like?

Malaika 18 years, 4 months ago

Its an excellent text-adventure creator. Has all the bells and whistles, including bitmap support for pictures if you want them. Check it out, although you may want version 4, cos 5 is shareware only.

Firebird 18 years, 4 months ago

Melee would probably torrent the shareware version anyway.

Tasm 18 years, 4 months ago

^Very true.

And the text thing sounds cool.

Joewoof 18 years, 4 months ago

Evil dudes. There goes 30% of my future salary.

Anyway, text adventure project sounds cool. I'm also into Alien. I'll be waiting to see what kind of twist you can throw into that starship.

Az 18 years, 4 months ago

Check out the forum games. there is a story going on there!