We’re looking for some developers and artists to join a team to develop an online, multiplayer, Final Fantasy Tactics clone.
Want to develop and showcase your artistic talent or client-side programming skills? We’re looking for you.
Please send an e-mail to toby@reyelts.com
God bless,
-Toby Reyelts
rock!
Scissors! I win! ;D
Seriously, every time Leknor says “Rock!” I think of “Tribute” by Tenacious D. I don’t like much of their music, but that song is marvellous. Whoops, gone off topic…
Okay, is there anyone but me who hasn’t a clue what Final Fantasy Tactics is? ??? ;D
Yeah…
FFT is a tactics game released 2 or 3 weeks ago on GBA in Japon… The game is success there…
The game take place in the Final Fantasy universe, so if you don’t know about previous FF games…
Just look at http://www.fft-a.com/index_top.html for more details…
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Chman
Err, yeah I’d found that page, but my Japanese is a little… errr… rusty… ;D
The official English site does a lot for describing the characters’ history and describing the different things you can do during a battle, but completely avoids telling you anything about what the hell the game actually is! :
After a lot more research, I believe it is a turn-based fantasy-themed multi-character RPG in traditional Japanese cutesy graphics. Is this right?
Ahh, Final Fantasy. The only game of the series I’ve played is Final Fantasy Adventure on the original Game Boy. An amazing game! I loved every minute of it, and would have played it to completion, were it not for two problems. One, I somehow found myself in a network of about four rooms in between two locked doors, without a key. My game was over, and I’d have to start over again - which I promptly did. Unfortunately (two) I lent the game to my sister’s boyfriend, who then became an ex-boyfriend, and I never saw him or it again. :’(
But the game stayed with me, and while I haven’t played the game for about ten years I can still with remember all the music. I was delighted recently to find a .GBS archive of the music, and a WinAmp2 GBS reader!
I’ve been trying to track it down recently, but to no avail. If FFT is anything like FFA, I’ll buy it the day it’s released in the UK.
After a lot more research, I believe it is a turn-based fantasy-themed multi-character RPG in traditional Japanese cutesy graphics. Is this right?
Kind of, but not really. FFT came out for the original PSX several years ago. It’s really not like any of the other final fantasy games. Like I’ve tried to say before, it’s more like an rpg, super-chess. Play consists of battles surrounded by plot line. Battle takes place on an isometric board laid out like a chess board, along with varying heights for each tile, and varying terrain for each tile (for example grass, water, lava, stone, etc…). Play ensues one piece/character at a time. Each character gets a move turn and an attack turn. Each character has their own special sets of stats and capabilities which are related to their class. Much like chess, each different type of attack has a special range and an area of affect. For example, a squire has the capability to throw a stone a total distance of three tiles (or something like that). The stone only hits a single tile. Unlike chess, height is also factored into the equation, and movement capabilities are separated from attack capabilities. As another example, a wizard may be able to only move three tiles, but he can cast spells which reach six tiles away and have an area of effect of eight tiles. Every action you take in battle garners your characters more experience. As they gain more experience, they can learn cool new skills from their class, and gain more levels. As they gain more levels you can change them into more powerful classes - like ninjas, summoners, and calculators. Of course, in Squaresoft fashion, the special characters in the game that are important to the plotline have their own cool unique classes and skills. On top of all that, characters can all be equipped with special items that affect their movement, attack damage, available capabilities, etc…
Anyway, the game is very good. The official home page appears to be at http://www.squaresoft.com/web/games/fft/fft-index3.html but I think you have got to play it to really understand it.
It sounds like FFTA is a fairly straightforward port of FFT to the GBA, just like many of the other games that exist for the GBA.
God bless,
-Toby Reyelts
[quote]It sounds like FFTA is a fairly straightforward port of FFT to the GBA, just like many of the other games that exist for the GBA.
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FFT for GBA isn’t a port.
And for the FFT Clone project, what skills are required to be in the development team??
And for the FFT Clone project, what skills are required to be in the development team??
Tactxs is now the official codename for the project.
We’ve come to the conclusion that the rendering will either be software (Tactxs-style gameplay doesn’t require heavy graphics lifting) or OpenGL-based and abstracted away by a set of interfaces. So, we’re looking for people with general graphics programming knowledge and experience with OpenGL is a plus.
Tactxs is also online-multiplayer, so we need work done on the client-server communication, but we’re less concerned about that.
As far as programming languages are concerned, we’re going to try to keep as much of Tactxs in Java as possible.
What we’re lacking the most is somebody who has good artistic sense and is capable with rendering and modeling tools.
God bless,
-Toby Reyelts
[quote]And for the FFT Clone project, what skills are required to be in the development team??
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Hard to say right now. I guess perseverance would be a big skill right now. If you look around you won’t find many games with the depth of the battle system and coming up with one is going to be a huge undertaking.
Currently there are just three of us. Currently we are leaning towards a small team instead of a wide open anyone can join. We aren’t gonna try to clone FFT. The goal is currently a multiplayer game in the spirit of FFT and/or Tactics Orge.
Also what Toby said.
Umm…
I have not played much with OpenGL, but in the Java side I had done many things,
For the graphics knowledge, I’ve programmed in Java3D since 2001.
In network programming, a bit of sockets in C, other bit in Java, and a system done in RMI for a turn based strategy game (a online clone of Konquest included with KDE for Linux)
I’m not good modeling in 3D, but can draw many types of beings (humans, monsters)
I think that the graphics style needs to be preserved from FFT, i. e. not using 3d models for the players, effects, spells.
I will redo my homepage(last updated in '96 ;D )to put some of my work.
Rafael
HI there, i’ve got some skills in java programming from swing to servlet and little in 3D, would you post somes 2D rough so i can saw what you are looking for ! 8)
rdcarvallo and sol:
I’ve sent you two a PM with more info. Check your messages.
http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGOForums/YaBB.cgi?action=im
i’ve been coding java for one year but got no previous game programming experience …
would u give me some more technical info about the game so i can figure out if i can understand the stuff?
(lying)shuts up and bows
-I.B.
I might be baka and add some AI in that.
Is it on rectangular grid, or free form?
Is environment breakable?
Would you like the AI to be a fucking bastard like in Tactic Ogre?
this topic is nearly 2 years old
This means it must be done already right?
~_^
it means at least the guy have big chances to never see your post :
[quote]it means at least the guy have big chances to never see your post :
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Hi guys,
The Tactxs project has been in hibernation for a while now. I really have faith in the idea itself, but getting people to devote a significant amount of their spare time is really the hard part.
If you really, really, really think you can stick with the project and make serious contributions, then you can send me an e-mail, and I can see if we can get something going again. I’ve got plenty of other things on my plate, so I just can’t afford to waste my time wanking around, if other people can’t commit.
God bless,
-Toby Reyelts