Hi everyone,
I wanted to finally post here about my first game, which I started in March and hope to finish by the end of the year! It's called Tycoon Dizzy and is loosely themed around Monopoly (only in as much as locations; you can't spend coins or anything). The story is that Dizzy has lost all his money and is in debtor's jail. He has to escape and make all his money back (i.e, find 5 bags of coins scattered around the map). It's been a fairly ambitious project, so far at 102 rooms. I need to do 13 more, then I need to complete all the puzzles (I've done maybe a quarter).
Like many people, I started drawing maps and ideas for a Dizzy game in my school books years ago, so it's great to finally be able to create something! I just wish I'd been brave enough to do this sooner. (I would spend hours drawing the sprites in binary on my ZX, and pretending it was a real game. Then I'd put them into Basic top-down games where the player is a 8x8 stickman, but there's only so much you can do with this, and it's very slow. When I discovered DizzyAge it looked very daunting and I was at uni - it wasn't until I found Jamie's Youtube tutorials that I decided to give it a go.) So I hope there are still people who are interested in playing when I'm finished! :teethy:
I wanted to finally post here about my first game, which I started in March and hope to finish by the end of the year! It's called Tycoon Dizzy and is loosely themed around Monopoly (only in as much as locations; you can't spend coins or anything). The story is that Dizzy has lost all his money and is in debtor's jail. He has to escape and make all his money back (i.e, find 5 bags of coins scattered around the map). It's been a fairly ambitious project, so far at 102 rooms. I need to do 13 more, then I need to complete all the puzzles (I've done maybe a quarter).
Like many people, I started drawing maps and ideas for a Dizzy game in my school books years ago, so it's great to finally be able to create something! I just wish I'd been brave enough to do this sooner. (I would spend hours drawing the sprites in binary on my ZX, and pretending it was a real game. Then I'd put them into Basic top-down games where the player is a 8x8 stickman, but there's only so much you can do with this, and it's very slow. When I discovered DizzyAge it looked very daunting and I was at uni - it wasn't until I found Jamie's Youtube tutorials that I decided to give it a go.) So I hope there are still people who are interested in playing when I'm finished! :teethy:
