Game Programmer

[IgnisDeveloper]

Hey all, I just came across your community on a post about strategy games (my favorite, especially turn-based). I think Heroes of Might and Magic III is still my favorite game of all time. Final Fantasy Tactics, Fire Emblem, and Star Craft all hold special places in my heart. I am also a big RPG fan, anything where you can just get immersed in a good story. As cliche as it is, I loved Final Fantasy VII, and I still gush over it. My wife never played it, so there are time when I launch into a 15 minute tirade about how awesome it was. She puts up with it.

By training, I am a computational scientist, but three years ago I started learning game programming on the side. In February my wife, some friends, and I officially started up an indie game company called Ignis Studios. We've been working on the concept for our first title (a community driven monster catching strategy RPG) for a couple years, but we just launched on Kickstarter to try to raise funds to hire artists for backgrounds and animations. If you are interested, it is called Deozoa: Legends of Eden, and you can find it on Kickstarter. I am not going to link here because I don't want to spam.

Anyway, I'm excited to be here, it looks like you have some cool strategy and RPG subforums. Pleased to make your acquaintance.

[CraeSC111]

Hey welcome to the forum! Nice to see someone who actually makes games on here. :D I am sure you will be able to find some support from the GFX crew and I hope that you will find some of the resources on here needed to create your game so we can take advantage of your skillset at a later date :D
Anyway. Read the rules, have fun and always floss between meals

[IgnisDeveloper]

It's good to be hear. Now that you bring it up, I actually have a couple of questions. What exactly does the Graphics Team do here? I saw mention of them, but I wasn't exactly sure what they do.

Also, is this literally all the rules consist of:


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[CraeSC111]

The GFX team hasn't really been terribly active recently, but they usually participate in the sig of the week contests and I am sure we have some good artists. I myself am not a good artist. :D
And the rules can be found under the FAQ section

[IgnisDeveloper]

Awesome, thanks. Just read them. And if I wanted to post about the strategy RPG that we are making, that should go under Websites & Advertising rather than under Strategy or Role Playing Games, correct? I don't want to spam anyone.

Thanks!

[CraeSC111]

Well I would say it really depends on the content of your post. If you are trying to get people to test the game, or are looking to employ some help I would say it belongs in the advertising section. If you are writing a summary of the game and its features or if you are looking for ideas for the game (I feel kinda iffy about this, but we aren't the most strict forum and you can blame me if the forum gods try to eat you) then it would probably go in the RPG section.

[IgnisDeveloper]

Haha. It would probably be a little of both. We are kind of going with a community driven development model, which means that we are going to be giving fans input into designing monsters, coming up with stats, backstory, description, etc. So I would be introducing that option and see if anyone wants to be a part of that. But I also would need to describe the current vision for the game. And of course I would need to link to Kickstarter, because the success of that kind of dictates whether this happens in the first place. So the mods might not like that going under the RPG section. Maybe I will find a mod and PM them to see what is best... I guess I am a little reluctant to post in Websites & Advertising because I wanted to reach people who are fans of the genre we are working on, and that kind of seems to hide it away...

[CraeSC111]

Actually I would say that most, if not all, of the established members on the forum are fairly good at finding new threads. There's an app for that (so to speak). Besides I'm sure we could use a new thread with which we may dump our endless ideas into. And I'm sure there are plenty of people who would love to have a hand in game development.

[IgnisDeveloper]

Sweet. I'll write something.

[TheGateKeeper]

Good luck with your project buddy. I once had the idea of starting a gaming project too, but I had to postpone it due to financial problems. I still want to start it up someday.

Just out of curiosity, what do you program in? I know c#, asp.net, HTML, CSS, and SQL.

[IgnisDeveloper]

@TheGateKeeper, thanks for the support. I would consider myself most knowledgeable with C++, but most of Deozoa will be written in Lua with the open source Moai game engine. I am also a big fan of Python. Our Art Director also has a lot of web design experience, so she knows HTML, CSS, etc.

All the best!

[TheGateKeeper]

@TheGateKeeper, thanks for the support. I would consider myself most knowledgeable with C++, but most of Deozoa will be written in Lua with the open source Moai game engine. I am also a big fan of Python. Our Art Director also has a lot of web design experience, so she knows HTML, CSS, etc.

All the best!

Ah, so you are using a pre build engine? I see.

[CraeSC111]

Makes sense. Making your own game engine is very time consuming.

[IgnisDeveloper]

Plus, it is already cross-platform and efficient, so it saves a lot of work.

[egg-whites333]

lua eh ive wanted to earn lua for a while never got around to it. its cool having a game maker on here how much will you sell it for? do you know?

[IgnisDeveloper]

That's a tough question. Being cross-platform, every device has its own expectations as far as price goes. So we are still weighing the options.

[egg-whites333]

hmm well if you ever need a tester to look at bugs you have a free volunteer right here :3

[CraeSC111]

Hey haven't you read their kickstarter page egw? No free-loaders :p

[egg-whites333]

i dont want it free i want to test the buggy version XD he is going to ave to hire game testers at one point why not get a free one XD

edit: i did not read that you must pay to be a beta tester i missed it :s oh well

[IgnisDeveloper]

@egg-whites333, to be honest, we weren't sure how popular the beta tester reward level would be. But we thought we would offer it anyway. Considering only 6 people have chosen that reward level, we might have room for volunteers when all this is over. Thanks for the offer.

[egg-whites333]

Okay well if you have room just let me know i will report every little bug i find. im also find things most people dont find so if you have room i will be a volunteer because i cant afford 150 sadly although i will most likely make a 10 dollar donation or so

[CraeSC111]

I was going to point out that beta testing within itself is kind of a donation. I think you'll definitely need to invite people to test it rather than having them pretty much pay for it.

[TheGateKeeper]

Plus, it is already cross-platform and efficient, so it saves a lot of work.

I see. I guess this is what most big shot companies do too, it's just that their engines are probably custom made.

[CraeSC111]

I'm sure most game companies use a modified version of some sort of game engine. The unreal engine is popular :D

[Jaykub]

Hello, This really looks like a game I could get into. Please let me know if you need someone to beta test. Good luck with the project.

[VisionsDeveloper]

Good luck with your Kickstarter! We tried it once and it was a beast of a fight! Looks like you guys are well on your way though!

[TheGateKeeper]

I'm sure most game companies use a modified version of some sort of game engine. The unreal engine is popular :D

Yea lol I bet that is one of the most used engines ever.