Old school RPG style map in HTML5 canvas using websockets.

Post by labria » Sun, Oct 10, 2010, 10:37 AM UTC

sarenji wrote: post #24

labria wrote: post #22

Did you draw the sprites yourself? Or is there a open collection somewhere?

The main character sprite was ripped directly from Chrono Trigger[1], a SNES game. A lot of gamers I know consider it to be one of the best RPGs ever made. The tiles are very familiar but I can't for the life of me remember which commercial game they are from. They're used a lot in indie games. A lot of sprites from the SNES era are. :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Trigger

Post by glhaynes » Wed, Oct 13, 2010, 4:55 AM UTC

messel wrote: post #42

glhaynes wrote: post #19

Very cool, "Webmaster". Thanks.

Interesting options for this form of overhead graphics. I was catching up on an old post and I came across your HN comment: "Choice isn't (necessarily) beauty. It's one more engineering tradeoff among others, with its own upsides and its own downsides. Giving up choice in favor of the benefits gained from doing so can be pragmatic, rational, and lead to more beautiful results. I guess I'm just saying: don't fetishize…