Hi everyone!
I’m writing this quick post to let people know that I’m not dead. Unfortunately, work on Kaiou has been put on the back burner but that’s because I’ve been working on a new mIRC game/bot. I call it Battle Arena
Those who visit the forums have probably already seen the post for this bot as I’ve been posting there nearly every day with development progress and examples of things. But if you haven’t, no worries. Allow me to quickly explain the concept.
The idea came to me when I had played a bit too much Devil May Cry. I thought “what if there was an mIRC game in which you could kill monsters and bosses and gain orbs and new weapons?” You know, like DMC. But IRC is pretty dead as of late (at least on Esper) so I didn’t want to make a full RPG as I had with #DBZRPG and Kaiou. I basically decided upon making a battle only bot. That is to say, there’s no real RPG elements in here; it’s simply log into the bot, join battles, kill stuff, get rewards, buy new skills/weapons/techniques/items and repeat. Hop out when you’ve had enough for a day.
So that’s what I’ve been building. The bot is completely automated in terms of the battle system. There doesn’t need to be a DM around to do !next and control monsters, like in Kaiou. Here players join the battle when the bot announces an open battle. After a few minutes, it will generate monsters/bosses and have them join the battle and the battle will start. When it’s a monster’s or boss’ turn, they will automatically do their things (better AI system than in Kaiou controls them). When it’s the player’s turn, there’s a few commands you can do (attack with a weapon, attack with a technique, do a skill, use an item). If the player idles for too long the bot will force their turn and skip over them. This is done so that someone can’t disappear for an hour and cause the battle to drag on forever (again, like in Kaiou).
There’s a bunch of weapons that can be bought and each weapon has a few techniques attached to them. Unlike in Kaiou, you can’t make your own techniques but rather have to buy them using red orbs that you earn from battle. You buy weapons using black orbs when you obtain via winning boss fights and being alive at the end of one.
That’s really the gist of what I’ve been working on thus far. I’m getting confident that the first version of this bot is ready for release, so I might release it by the end of July. In the mean time, I usually have it up in #BattleArena on Esper.net. Feel free to come on in, create a character and help me test this thing out.
Until next time!
