Homebrew Umm a few questions.

[panoschuvardas]

I have been fascinated with the world of programming and its possibilities and i have been wanting to make a simple turn based rpg game. Would it be possible to make one for the 3ds and if so how? Im new to the scene with nearly no experience on the subject, but im willing to learn.

Could someone link me the basics i need to know and also have the will to assist me in any matters/problems i run into?


Also would anyone be interested into a game about a little knight fighting dragons?
Might post a few drawings of mine about the levels general desing and characters.

 

[Games&Stuff]

I'm interested in almost every homebrew game.

 

[Slashcash]

I have been fascinated with the world of programming and its possibilities and i have been wanting to make a simple turn based rpg game. Would it be possible to make one for the 3ds and if so how? Im new to the scene with nearly no experience on the subject, but im willing to learn.

Could someone link me the basics i need to know and also have the will to assist me in any matters/problems i run into?


Also would anyone be interested into a game about a little knight fighting dragons?
Might post a few drawings of mine about the levels general desing and characters.

I love every homebrew game produced and we need surely more of that. Don't want to ruin anything but if you are TOTALLY unexperienced with programming i would not start with doing it on the 3ds. There are no high level tools to develop games like on pc and of course the documentation is not as extensive as the one on pc. If you are really motivated you could try with LovePotion or LUA, i would not suggest to jump directly into pure C as even a simple game requires at least a whole year of study of the matter.

 

[Rinnegatamante]

I love every homebrew game produced and we need surely more of that. Don't want to ruin anything but if you are TOTALLY unexperienced with programming i would not start with doing it on the 3ds. There are no high level tools to develop games like on pc and of course the documentation is not as extensive as the one on pc. If you are really motivated you could try with LovePotion or LUA, i would not suggest to jump directly into pure C as even a simple game requires at least a whole year of study of the matter.

You can build your game in RPG Maker 2k/2k3 and probably in next weeks/months it will be available on 3DS since i'm working on EasyRPG porting for 3DS. ( https://twitter.com/Rinnegatamante/status/711710258402611200 )

 

[Sliter]

homebrew games are awesome, go for it! xD

 

[panoschuvardas]

You can build your game in RPG Maker 2k/2k3 and probably in next weeks/months it will be available on 3DS since i'm working on EasyRPG porting for 3DS. ( https://twitter.com/Rinnegatamante/status/711710258402611200 )

That would nice!

 

[Slashcash]

You can build your game in RPG Maker 2k/2k3 and probably in next weeks/months it will be available on 3DS since i'm working on EasyRPG porting for 3DS. ( https://twitter.com/Rinnegatamante/status/711710258402611200 )

Well i didn't know that you were doing the engine port. It is actually perfect for the turn-based rpg he has in mind.

 

[MasterFeizz]

You can learn C/C++ or use lua. Lua is the easiest method for developing homebrew at the moment but is also more limited. C is harder but not as hard as people make it out to be. If you are willing to learn and wants to invest in the future take the C route, if you are not sure if you want to be a developer or like the "design" part better then you should take the lua route. If you need further help there is a stickied homebrew development help post that you could use.

 

[panoschuvardas]

Downloading it and gonna dive into it. I can work only on my free time but since it will take a while for the porting to be done as itself i got time for me to work

 

[Rinnegatamante]

Well i didn't know that you were doing the engine port. It is actually perfect for the turn-based rpg he has in mind.

I've just started working on it yesterday. There is also a GitHub repository if someone wants to help (since there are probably a lot of bugs and glitches): https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/easyrpg-player-3ds

 

[Slashcash]

You can learn C/C++ or use lua. Lua is the easiest method for developing homebrew at the moment but is also more limited. C is harder but not as hard as people make it out to be. If you are willing to learn and wants to invest in the future take the C route, if you are not sure if you want to be a developer or like the "design" part better then you should take the lua route. If you need further help there is a stickied homebrew development help post that you could use.

Can i disagree? Mastering C or C++ to a level sufficient enough to program a 3ds turn based rpg is an hard task. Of course not rocket science and totally doable but probably not even remotely easy, expecially if done in your free weekends.

 

[Games&Stuff]

Can i disagree? Mastering C or C++ to a level sufficient enough to program a 3ds turn based rpg is an hard task. Of course not rocket science and totally doable but probably not even remotely easy, expecially if done in your free weekends.

So the OP should go for Lua then?

 

[Slashcash]

So the OP should go for Lua then?

I would say yes, if he just wants to develop a game and have it ready before than a year (imho this is the minimum time of study required to master C/C++ at a level sufficient enough to program a 3ds turn based rpg)

 

[panoschuvardas]

Hmm okays. I have been messing around with rpg maker 2003 and its fun. Shall i take the lua route or stick with rpg maker?

 

[Mastak]

RPG Maker 2003 has no script support. It is limited to what the editor offers to you. If this is not enough for you you must alter the C++ code. Just play around with the editor and you will see if it is enough for you.

Lua gives you more freedom, but you have to start from scretch. That easyrpg project started 5 years ago. But it had to reverse engeneer all the game data from rpg maker. When you start with your own stuff you don't waste time with these problems (and you will be faster then 5 years )

 

[Lan Hikari]

You can build your game in RPG Maker 2k/2k3 and probably in next weeks/months it will be available on 3DS since i'm working on EasyRPG porting for 3DS. ( https://twitter.com/Rinnegatamante/status/711710258402611200 )

sweet! Now I just need to finish mine. By finish I mean start all over because my hard drive died and it deleted all my steam games and data. protip: steam cloud doesn't save anything