Gears of Destiny (JRPG in Gears of War)

[sgt_goomba]

Hey guys. I'm starting this thread to post a video showing the Alpha release of the JRPG mod i'm calling "Gears of Destiny". It features a conversation system, a wretch pet, turned based battles, overworld puzzles, inventory and stat management, and a few other things. The J just means that its inspired by Japanese style RPGs from the mid to late 90s, like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 7.
I did this as part of my final project in the Level Design program at the Guildhall at SMU.
Beta is due in 5 weeks or so. I'll post a public release at that time. Until then, let me know what you think. Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/skylerLD#p/f/0/W2gK72jNpUk

[darksin]

Turned based like FF, good idea, love the dialogue options, so an xp upgrade system added too? i think if gears officially turns to RPG, mass effect 2 style is a good way for this game.

[SportingSCP]

ROFLMAO
Ummm, really looks like alot of fun... I hope it has over an hour of gameplay.
Mod looks good, but to me it doesn't look very clean. Maybe making the chat/fight menu look more detailed... it would look alot better ... either then that it looks great.

I love Turn Based Games, i useto play them alot great job, great work. you get 4 stars for this. If you had detailed menu like i said i'd give it 6 stars for this mod because it's new to the gears moddin...

[Serenius]

Cool stuff. I take it all the in-fight stuff happens with Matinee and skeletal mesh actors?

What technique did you use to make the e-hole appear? That was dope.

[NastyNoodle]

looks good, but kinda trippy at the same time lol

[sgt_goomba]

Thanks guys for the feedback guys, it helps me decide where to focus going into beta.

@Serenius:
I used a combination of different techniques to get the in-fight stuff. For example, the little boy main character is a skeletal mesh like you said (well, when he's attacking). The wretch and enemies are AI, and I feed them a go-to command. Also, there's another enemy who I don't show in the video who's a skeletal mesh. I initially wanted everyone to be AI, because it's a tad bit easier to set up. However, I really wanted the main character to dash across the screen kinda like cloud from FF7 when he goes into an attack.
I could have just dialed up the run speed of the AI, but then the animation also speeds up and it ends up looking like a silly scurry, rather than a dash. So the boy is an AI when he's just standing around, but he switches to a skeletal meshMAT when he's on the attack, and I move him via a matinee. I make him do what appears to be kung fu moves by using the mantle animation.

@edit:
Oh, I made the e-hole using the standard e-hole actor prefab in the editor. Nothing complex going on there

[SKORGE]

LMFAO!

That is so awesome. Even though I dislike JRPG games, but damn, nice work!

[shooter19]

Little pet wretch is cute

[darksin]

Lol,how's the battle going on against Brumak or berserker?...

[Kantham]

Dude. That's hilarious and very well put, you'd certainly be better with the UDK (plus it's free) but you sure did a good job there.

I really like your wretch kismet (trow object, then return it) I could make use of something like that.