From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Need help making a zelda clone game
Date: 22 May 1997 04:47:22 GMT
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Clint Silvester (kikisli AT pdqnet DOT net) writes:
> rdt wrote:
>> 
>> I'm working on making a freeware tile based zelda clone with DJGPP and the
>> ALLEGRO library.  Ive got a little bit done but its a huge job and I need help.
>> If anyone is interested in helping, wants to hear more about it, or just wants
>> to hear what Ive done so far please Email me at taylorr2 AT egr DOT msu DOT edu
>>                         -Thanks
>>                            Rob
> 
> 
> Hello, my name is Clint Silvester, and I had the same idea, but for a
> full blown RPG game.  I wanted to get away from the traditional tile
> based maps in RPGs, so I want to do a magic carpet-like map, and maybe
> an implementation of this for the dungeons, and the towns, but thought
> it might be better to go with traditional tile-based overhead for the
> towns and such.  By the way, what do you need for it?  My sister is the
> one that I am going to use for the graphics.  She has not done anything
> like this before, and when she tried to draw some stuff, it looked just
> like anime, so I decided to go with her :)

What the heck is a "magic carpet" map? Perspective view, or side scroll?
(Like Faxanadu?)

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