Castle Paradox

[pharo212]

I have a question about these walkabouts.. do they look like a bird's eye view
perspective or the normal rpg perspective?
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I'm thinking of making the line of shading thicker on the main body..

[TwinHamster]

Well, the traditional RPG-perspective doesn't involve character sprites being rotated by 90 degrees to specify direction, so that thing's using a bird's-eye view perspective.

[pharo212]

good point.. okay, I must redo the left and right walkabouts.. the characters thin, so I can skew it a bit..

[Newbie_Power]

Over the head view works too, as long as the maptiles are designed accordingly. You could probably even pull off over the head view for hero sprites granted you make enough room to animate.
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TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN?

[pharo212]

I could, and I also could use a FFT-style battle system. However, I do have problems with overhead. How does one display columns in overhead view? Circles?

[Newbie_Power]

Use a 2D Zelda perspective, but expand that beyond just walls.


Just have short columns match the angle of these kind of walls, and hopefully that will make sense. I have never actually tried something like this, though.
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TheGiz> Am I the only one who likes to imagine that Elijah Wood's character in Back to the Future 2, the kid at the Wild Gunman machine in the Cafe 80's, is some future descendant of the AVGN?

[Moogle1]

That's not overhead, though. The sprites aren't, at least.
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[pharo212]

Well yeah, but the walls and columns are, which will help.