Created a mini-rpg! Or the first level/stage of a full rpg, depending on how one looks at it…
It’s here:
- Play in browser (needs Java applets enabled; no save or restore)
- Download z-code (needs z-code interpreter such as frotz or xzip, note that jzip doesn’t support restore)
I’ve put quite a lot of work into making it easy to use. For example:
- Most things (in theory, everything, but I know there are surely slips…) report what you can do to it, when you “examine” them
- Locations report location-specific things you can do, like “buy” or “save”, when you do “look”
- The cave map… I wanted it to be more than one room, but I didn’t want some endless maze, since any complicated map will be hard to remember, so, well, you can see for yourself how well the method works ok?
The game includes, well I kept it as simple as possible, to make it something I could finish, rather than just some impossible-to-finish thing, but it has:
- two different weapons
- three monsters, plus a boss monster
- a simple quest to complete
- a shop
- health potions
- a simple village
- a simple dungeon
- a simple battle system
It’s heavily based on Final Fantasy III, but that’s not a bad thing I feel since it means it’s something I can finish, and because Final Fantasy III was, and is, fairly successful.
It’s not graphical, you can’t have everything…