RPG Tutorial - Part 1

Nooooow, i know i said i was going to post a platformer tutorial, but i will make it in flash, as a sequel to platformer universe. so, instead, i thought about writing a RPG tutorial !! yaaayyy... haha

*Do you know what RPG stands for ? No ? it means Role-Playing-Game .

ok, so in this first part we will just think about our game ok !?
When i was a kid i used to play Dungeons&Dragons on my friends basement, we would stay up all night slaying trolls and saving princesses. Why am i saying this ? Because your RPG must have a theme. D&D had sort of a medieval theme, but there are lots of other options. It can be something from the future, based on movies, games, anything you want.

Now, also, when i was a kid, the RPG games started to show up, for ATARI, MEGADRIVE, SNES, and even for the PC. You know what they all had in common ? A main character.
So, that means it is time to come up with a main character. But there is 1 condition: it has to match your theme. If you chose an old west theme, dont come up with an elf archer.
Now, once you created a character (AKA char), you are going to create classes for it. use your imagination here. ARcher, wizard, thief, assassin, knight, priest, cowboy, cop, robot, psychokinetic, whatever you want, as long as it matches your theme, ok ?!

So now you have in mind a char, a theme, and some classes for your char, so now its time to come up with a story. Take your time here, 1 week if needed. As a good developer, you probably already have pages of sketches of your char don't you ? (i know you dont haha, but you should start =]) so, for the story, i want you to write it, write about the char's origins, his wishes, where does his story begin? where does it ends...

And as the story is created, a lot of other characters are revealed, we will call those NPC's (Non Playable Characters). Sketch them too !!

If you did everything listed above, you are ready for lesson 2 !!