User blog:Wiggler222/Adventures in creating adventures...

For the past month now, I've been working on and off on my own text adventure game for Petit Computer on my Nintendo 3DS. I've been pushing myself to try new things in BASIC that I'd never even considered doing before and it's a rewarding experience whenever I add something new to the project and it works.

I've got a bit of a ways to go yet, as the game is still in beta, but looking good so far. There's an intro, a full menu, lore, instructions and a game start page with its own original graphic. After that, there's 3 branching stories that follow either a wizard, a warrior or a wanderer. You decide who your character is and follow the story from there.

It's basically a choose-your-own-adventure type game, but I'm hoping to spice things up a bit and throw in the ocassional puzzle to solve in order to progress through the story and keep things a bit more interesting than just reading plain ol' text. That and I'm giving the game a sort of retro look to it by using only the keyboard characters to create the graphics. No sprites in this game.

I've also added music and sfx using the built in sounds that came with Petit Computer. However, I'm looking into using a program that converts MIDI to MML and see about implementing my own original soundtrack.

There's lots of things I'd like to do with my new game, but of course it all depends on whether or not I run into any roadblocks along the way. I have rather ambitious goals, so we'll see how realistic some of those ideas pan out in the end. In any case, I'm having fun just learning a ton about Smileboom's version of BASIC and of course, playing other people's games. Zyrx is my current favorite.