EPIC QUEST: Jank-O-Vision Presents

Jank-O-Vision presents!

EPIC QUEST

Play it online now!

Epic Quest was the first game I started trying to make on my own in Game Salad, in 2011.

Everyone clearly says, "Don't make an RPG!", so I thought, this'll be a good idea, and went straight to it!  Surprisingly, I ran into all sorts of problems and gave up!  But I learned a bunch of stuff doing it.  

Prototype Notes

• Janky as fook!
• Saves your progress!
• Stand on an Inn to trade gold for health over time (time speeds up while resting).
• Fighting is "not very good".  Just keep clicking the enemy you want to attack (you can actually just hold the button down to keep attacking).
• You can flee, too!

My Goals with the Game

• Build an RPG like Phantasie!

Features

• A small island, and a single dungeon.  EPIIIIIC!
• Day / night cycle!  IMMERRRSSSIIIIIIVE!
• Wonderfully laid out janky resource wasting tile set!

Lessons Learned...

• Make systems that do the work for me!  Don't do all the heavy lifting myself!  
• Make a map system that uses tiles, and reads the values from a table!
• Have a UI controller, which spawns in the HUD elements and places them in code, instead of rebuilding the HUD by hand in every scene of the game!

I took these lessons and later started building a tile-based RPG world, reading it's data from a separate table, and using a small set of tiles to show the current surrounding area. 

Hopefully that game will be released into to the world for realz some time!