I've decided to take a little break from working on Perenthia and focus some time on building some smaller, shorter life span games. I have two reasons for doing this; the first being that by building some smaller games I can get the games completed faster which is very encouraging and allows me to have new projects to work on. Perenthia is very time consuming because I keep making it complex, I feel it needs this complexity though to be a fun and engaging game. The second reason is that I want to get my feet wet in Silverlight and building some smaller games would give me just that. I will continue working on Perenthia but want to get a few more of my ideas built and playable before finishing it out.
That being said the first Silverlight game I will be creating will be a Pirate game where you sail around, avoiding the navy, attacking ships and finding buried treasure. Doing something like this will enable me to get core mechanics worked out in Silverlight along with animation, collision detection, etc.
As it stands right now I have the basic player movement and ship movement down. The graphics are pretty bad as it was just something for prototyping. The game will be a top down view and hopefully provide some fun gameplay in short intervals. I want to be able to persist the player information so you can pick back up where you left off and ultimately complete the game.
The goal of the game will be to attain the buried fortune of a long dead pirate named Rough Hand James. He created a map to his treasure and scattered the pieces all across the globe. It will be your adventure to find those map pieces and locate the treasure. You will start out on your ship with the first clue to the treasure and along the way you may encounter the Royal Navy, sea monsters and other pirates. You will engage in sea and land battles, loot merchant vessels and follow clues through towns, uncharted waters and wilderness all to find the greatest fortune every massed by one pirate.
I am going to work a little on the graphics and get some animations working and then I will post either a screenshot or working prototype of the game in the next few days.
12/11/2007