Hi. I'm looking at buying Coldstone but, like many others I'm sure, am trying to find out whether or not it can manage the kind of game I want to make. Does anyone know if Coldstone has the ability to create a turn-based rpg combat system, similar to the old Final Fantasy games or moreover, like the system in Chrono Trigger. Thanks,
--Dave

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Originally posted by stageworks:
Hi. I'm looking at buying Coldstone but, like many others I'm sure, am trying to find out whether or not it can manage the kind of game I want to make. Does anyone know if Coldstone has the ability to create a turn-based rpg combat system, similar to the old Final Fantasy games or moreover, like the system in Chrono Trigger.

Dave,

The short, simple answer is no.

The long, drawn out answer is yes, but it isn't pretty. Click on the (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/ubb/search.cgi?action=intro&default;=48")search(/url) button above and run a search on this board for turn based. You will find several topics discussing this and, in at least one of them, is steps involved and theory on doing it.

Good luck!

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you can make a game where you run around overhead and then run into a enemy on the overhead map and get sucked in to combat. combat goes down turn based by basically pausing the enemy, and letting you move and attack, then it pauses you and the enemy attacks. i believe ou can have party members also by following another tutorial. basically picture pog as turn based, the characters actually run into fight, so if you had 4 party members and eight enemies you would get a crowded battle.

if you download the link from this page (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum48/HTML/001785.html")http://www.AmbrosiaS...TML/001785.html(/url) you can see how a turn based game works out a little. its a very early beta for the game at a 70 meg download.

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Morvera ner Morden

oh and heres the links from elryx for turn based tutorials (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/ellrx/info/index.html")http://www.geocities...info/index.html(/url)

basically download the beta game from kamashin and if you feel that you can go along wwith it etc then yu have a good chance

in kamashins beta you go out of town then on the over head map run towrds that gazebo type thing and youll run into some spiders.

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Morvera ner Morden

I just wanted to thank you for your help. I wasn't about to hold my breath on getting a reply at all, let alone two and on the same day that I posted the question. Thanks again, it's very much appreciated.
--Dave