As some of you may know, I'm going to begin developing a completely new and better item shop and also a character maker where you can create a character which represents you on vizzed board and the character would be wearing your items (both will be used for the battle arena that I'll be working on next month).

Since I'll begin working on it next week, this is the best time to get idea's as to what style the Characters should have. So give any idea's you may have for the look but just keep in mind that I'll be making them myself so 3D is out of the question.

The style I've always liked is the RPG Maker 95 style:

Of course if I went with that style, the character sprites would be bigger and I'd enhance the quality of them.

Um,..
Im sorta new so I dont know if this is a good idea
but maybe the Vizzed character could have pets from uhh, pokemon... digimon... stuff from awesome t.v shows/pokemon.
Oh, that and classes with different skills and weapons..
..Hope I put you on the right track!!
(and I hope I wasnt off topic)

(That poster gave me an idea for a very very high costing but awesome feature, MMO, too bad it is high costing.)

Yeah, looks okay, as long as I can dye my hair, and blue !

And I hope you got costumes, like ones that look like Mario characters, Sonic characters ,Zelda characters, you know.

I think something like "trusted members gets some extra stuff" world make people want to be trusted more, and (maybe) post better, but then there are people who world beg for points, so I don't think about that idea.

I think custom hair colour or clothing colour world also be cool to give yourself a unique feel.

(I feel like I am asking this to be the Sims 3 "create a sim feature", I mean custom hair and colours.)

I also think stuff like, female users, can only pick female outfits and hair, like maplestory, you can only be male and have male outfits if you are a male user.

OH YEAH, maplestory is also a good user avatar look as well, but not as retro as the ones above, and besides, we don't want to get sued.

I think this is a cool feature, hurry work on it and soon import it !

oooh i like. Ever since I heard you were doing this I thought of it being kinda like gaia online. Where you can choose and buy your items and customize your character how you want. I am hoping that the items wont be all male stuff. although females like myself are only about a quarter of the users. But I do agree video game character costumes would be so cool!

I really like the RPG maker 95 style as well, I think you should go with that.

I'm not sure if this is a good place to suggest things, but it's a new forum made by you, David,
so you'll be checking it. If out sprites look like this, would it be possible to have
turn based battles in the battle arena real time, with the sprite doing full actions
and animations for attacks and everything? I'm not sure if that was your intention already,
but I think that'd be really awesome.

Also, something I thought of last night that would be cool would be to have random encounters
with monsters or something on the site. For example, as you click to go to the general chat, you get
attacked by a monster and you can fight it for Viz or exp or something.

Also, it would be nice if you could fight against the other people on the same page as you
easily, for example to send them a fight challenge there could be a little drop down menu
if you click on their name and if they accept your challenge you can fight right their on
that same page.

I don't know if you've thought of these already, but I just think they're fun ideas so I thought I'd share them.

BTowns: The nice thing about the RPG Maker 95 style is that I have a lot of experience with creating graphics for RM95 games. For now the battle arena will just be turn based. To be honest, I don't yet have the flash skills to make a real time battle arena though I plan to develop such skills eventually (also note that the server software required for something like that would cost $1000+). As for the random battles, that's something I've honestly though about in the past when brain storming for a battle arena, it would of course be something optional.

dramabethie: Yeah there would definitely be girl items.

Didowe: This ultimately will pave the way for an MMORPG someday since these character sprites would be used for it.

Roxas941: I don't want to spoil anything but I do have a pretty big feature coming within 2 months dealing with 'Side-Kicks' where you'll basically have a pet that you raise.

As for using stuff from other video games, I want to keep all the stuff as original as possible, it's more satisfaction when I develop things myself and also do my own graphics, plus it helps make vizzed even more original and different from anyone else.

you need to allow for more customness to let the player place there items in a certain spot or just have position change buttons for each item.

pennylessz: The entire item is going to be re-created from scratch. The guy who originally created the item shop did so in a single day, what I plan to do with it will take probably 5 days (and that's not including the amount of time I'll put into making more items)

So it's safe to assume that the new item shop will be at least 5 times better with way more features, more items, etc.

Will there be other customizable things on your character sprite, like changing hair color and such?

I like the idea... but I doubt I'll be able to make a completely green character I'll have to work around that somehow. =/

I like the idea though. I've heard bits and pieces of all the ideas involved in this. Very interested in what comes of it....

I kind of hope I'm a boss in the Vizzed MMORPG though.... I mean come on, the Geeogree bad guy... he controls the power of the VCS. I'd be epic!

Shane: Yes, the idea is to be able to create a character which looks like you by picking from a large variety of hair styles and colors, eye, skin tones, noses, mouths, etc.

Geeogree: If you mean by skin color, no. If you mean by clothe color, than yes.

It looks great. I'm looking forward to it. I also wouldn't mind being a boss of some sort in a future MMO.



Chuck Norris pwns us all.

I think those RPG Maker 95 characters will do fine (with a bit of enhancement).
I just want them to be big enough to be able to tell the difference in weapons.
And I also thought that maybe you could make a little text trigger for signatures so you could have them in your layout like how you can have your post count and level and such.

Joebab: Your character would represent you almost everywhere on the board. It would appear in your posts where your post stats are, would display in your chat window in the chat bar, etc.

Well I'm glad everyone likes the RPG Maker 95 style. The RPG Maker 95 sprites are 32 pixels tall but I'd probably end up making them either 64 or 96 (most likely 96 because I can always make them display at a smaller size when necessary).

Ohh another idea I had with the characters is that it'd replace the smiley system. For example, when you use a smiley like this it would be represented by your characters face instead. I've got lots of idea's and like I said, these characters which will represent you will pave the way for may features since those features would require a sprite of some sort that you'd control.

Wow this is looking great. Yes RPG maker sprites will be fine.

Also the random battle idea is fantastic. It could be displayed at top of the screen somewhere "enemy approaching" and you could chose to fight or not. So if you eventually do that, I think it'd be great.

Geeogree: You are the epitome of RPG boss fight. But if you get to be the boss, I'm the legendary knight who against all odds, slays the green dragon... slime.

Well we could do something like how Pokemon has the Elite 5, we could have something where we take the strongest vizzed members and anyone who wants to challenge them, fights them in order or something. If you beat any of them, you get their place in the 'Elite' (and that person gets bumped down to the place below them and whoever is at bottom gets bumped off).

Originally posted by Davideo7

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Shane: Yes, the idea is to be able to create a character which looks like you by picking from a large variety of hair styles and colors, eye, skin tones, noses, mouths, etc.

Geeogree: If you mean by skin color, no. If you mean by clothe color, than yes.

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why not just make a greenish skin tone



LK: I would be an awesome boss! And it would take a lot of luck/help/divine intervention for you to beat me

Geeogree: Only if your skin in real life is green

Originally posted by Davideo7

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Well we could do something like how Pokemon has the Elite 5, we could have something where we take the strongest vizzed members and anyone who wants to challenge them, fights them in order or something. If you beat any of them, you get their place in the 'Elite' (and that person gets bumped down to the place below them and whoever is at bottom gets bumped off).

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I like that idea a lot, I also love the idea about replacing the smiley faces. If there is a team battle system, such as multiple people forming a party to take down a tough boss or, every active member on vizzed banding together to destroy the Dark Lord Geeogree, there should be a team battle arena. So, battling in teams or battling separately, and your team could gain or lose places in the elite ranking, and you can gain or lose in the individual ranking too.

Also, if there is team battles, maybe there could be some way to be able to choose one of your teammates actions, just in case they go on hiatus and don't log in for a while. Otherwise, the team that gets to the very top could just get stuck in one battle and be at the top forever, with no one able to finish a battle with them.

Yes there will be team battling

I'm not sure I like the idea of being able to use your teammates attacks though, that wouldn't be very realistic, I'm actually trying to go for realism with the battle arena. Now if you mean borrow their items, that's a possibility.