04-06-2003, 12:32 AM
Hail Kharoz,
I had written out the entire screenplay for it, and coded up the first two chapters. I had most of the early graphics done, and had a battle system very close to the Shining Force series (needed only a little tweaking). I then had a series of issues that slowly caused me to lose things, finally ending with a HDD crash that saw the destrution of the last copy of the screenplay I had. At that point I gave up!
A year after I gave up, I tried making an AD&D 2E engine. I coded up basically the whole engine (the PH was all there, and I had tables for the MM ready; the system for putting campaigns together was in skeletal form) when I had another HDD crash on me. That was the last time I tried to make a game. I am thinking about perhaps making a FF-esque game someday, but having lost two games now, I'm not sure I'll bother.
Do note that I was not so stupid as to only keep one copy of any file: I just had terrible, terrible luck that saw all copies be destroyed, and not so far appart in time from each other :( With the ShF2 sequel, I had two separate machines die, and my online backup vanish, all within a week! Now I have nothing to show for my time at High School (the teachers thought I was doing classword :P )...
I had written out the entire screenplay for it, and coded up the first two chapters. I had most of the early graphics done, and had a battle system very close to the Shining Force series (needed only a little tweaking). I then had a series of issues that slowly caused me to lose things, finally ending with a HDD crash that saw the destrution of the last copy of the screenplay I had. At that point I gave up!
A year after I gave up, I tried making an AD&D 2E engine. I coded up basically the whole engine (the PH was all there, and I had tables for the MM ready; the system for putting campaigns together was in skeletal form) when I had another HDD crash on me. That was the last time I tried to make a game. I am thinking about perhaps making a FF-esque game someday, but having lost two games now, I'm not sure I'll bother.
Do note that I was not so stupid as to only keep one copy of any file: I just had terrible, terrible luck that saw all copies be destroyed, and not so far appart in time from each other :( With the ShF2 sequel, I had two separate machines die, and my online backup vanish, all within a week! Now I have nothing to show for my time at High School (the teachers thought I was doing classword :P )...
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.