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[peppermint]

Hi,

I just discovered TIGSource and so this is my first post.
My name is Dolgion, I'm from Mongolia and a programmer.
I've always been aspiring to make games and so this is what I'm spending my time working on.

So anyways, I've been working on and off on this JRPG Engine based on ChevyRay's Flashpunk library. It's been going pretty good so far and I hope this can help out some people
who are interested in this kind stuff.

Basically, the engine is open source under the MIT license and can be expanded/forked for anything you want. Just abide by the license. There's a GitHub repo available for the source code.

As a special addition, I've been documenting my development progress in form of a tutorial series where I explain in detail how I implemented all the various features into the engine.
I try to keep it as close to the code as possible so that somebody who would like to further develop the engine has a good understanding on how the code works. Simple commenting was just not enough, I figured.

Also, I try to explain the broader logic on how these features are implemented. It is one thing to learn the theoretical way A* Pathfinding works, it's still another to actually see how it can be implemented into existing game code, which is what I did, for example.

The tutorial series is up on my blog "The Doglion" where I just ramble on about various subjects, but mainly about game design theory. Hope you'll find it useful and interesting.

These are the single lessons that are ready as of now:

1. Moving an Avatar
2. Loading and Reading OGMO Maps - Creating Tilemaps
3. Camera Movement
4. Connecting multiple maps to create a larger game world
5. A* Pathfinding for NPCs
6. Multiple-Choice Dialog
7. Character Stats and Status Screen
8. Game Items and Treasure Chests
9. Inventory Screen - Part 1
10. Inventory Screen - Part 2
11. Turn-Based Combat - Part 1
12. Turn-Based Combat - Part 2
13. Turn-Based Combat - Part 3

[gimymblert]

Hi Dolgion "Pepper mint" Welcome!
That's pretty interesting, thx for the tutorial.

[davidp]

hey, this looks useful, thanks for the effort!

[peppermint]

New tutorial is out:

FlashPunk Tutorial 07: Character Stats and Screen

[peppermint]

New tutorial is out:

FlashPunk Tutorial 09: The Inventory Screen - Part 1

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This is pretty rad stuff!  It'd be even more awesome if the code wasn't screenshots of code but rather syntax highlighted text in the blog post.  Maybe something like this: http://www.flashtexteditor.com/ftf/ or this: http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/manual/brushes/actionscript3.html can help with that!

[peppermint]

Glad you like it! Yes, since tutorial 07 I've been using a plugin which lets me post code so visitors can copy and paste it. I will go back and replace the screen shots with these code tags soon in the earlier tutorials.

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Oh okay, I guess I didn't notice!  Although I'm not going to be making a JRPG, looking at how you're setting up a lot of things is really helpful, like the organization of XML data and your class structure.   

[peppermint]

Cool, glad if it helps, though I'm going to improve the XMLs and the package structure actually in one of the next commits.

[Ixis]

Oh man, this is awesome!

[peppermint]

New Tutorial is out:

Inventory Screen - Part 2

[Kramlack]

Holy hell, how did I miss this? I've even been to your blog before in the past. Definitely going to look through this.

[Destral]

This looks like a really cool series you're running, Peppermint. Keep it up!

[Nessiah]

Oh man thank you so much for this 

[iceflame]

This is really cool, thanks for all the tutorials :D

[pixhead]

tres bién

[shwippie]

Thank you. These tutorials are treasures *o*

[Dustin Smith]

if i ever have an itch to create my own Space Funeral i will most surely use this. taikuu.

[peppermint]

Uploaded a new episode to the series!

Turn-Based Combat - Part 1

[peppermint]

aaaand here's part 2 of the turn-based combat tutorial:

Tutorial 12: Turn-based Combat Part 2