I've been thinking about creating an Undertale fan game. The only thing holding me back at the moment is my lack of programming knowledge.
The game would be set in the Abyss, a land further underground than the world featured in Undertale, a place that, in legends, is the final resting place of the souls of monsters.
You would be a naive child, who got to this dark and dreary place when your friend convinced you to jump down into a large pit, promising adventures. But now, you realise your mistake, and you are trying your hardest to get back home.
You think of the sun, and continue forward.
This game would feature approximately 5 different endings, secret Easter eggs everywhere, new and interesting environments, and exquisite characters.
I'm still working on a lot of ideas for it, and this is only what I have so far.
Any ideas? What do you think? Could you help me in this project? Thanks!
Toby won't be composing the OST, there's no point even trying
>>323213775
kill yourself
>>323213775
maybe you should think of a better idea for the game.
setting seems too much of a copy.
i doubt you will be able to beat toby's version so it's better if you at least come up with a new idea on the story
>I've been thinking about creating an Undertale fan game. The only thing holding me back at the moment is my lack of programming knowledge.
This whole line, my sides can't take it
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
consider suicide
>a land further underground than the world featured in Undertale
stop
>I've been thinking about creating an Undertale fan game.
Stopped reading. Kill yourself.
>>323213775
Do it.
Please drive this shit to the ground as much as possible.
>The only thing holding me back at the moment is my lack of programming knowledge.
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>>323213775
Oh I get it OP
You're more of an ideas man.
Lucky for you though people would do all the hard work making someone elses idea
>>323213775
how about just continuing the story of the original
Make your own original work, don't be beholden to someone else's efforts.
>>323213775
god I know this is bait and I don't even dislike undertale but this post made me really mad
>thinking about creating
hahaha so basically you're daydreaming
>>323213775
Sounds like a shitty ripoff of a game that is already, to be honest, kind of an Earthbound ripoff.
I guarantee you whatever you make won't have the charm that Undertale had though.
You are clearly sub-18. Back to Reddit, faggot.
You need to prioritize your life. Spend your energy on something else,or at least on something original.
>>323215157
>Yume Nikki fangames are dead
I hate time.
This thread is gonna be good.
>Fan Game
>Not about the surface and whatever nonsense causes the kids above to be so violent
>Not about the original schism that led to the monsters being sealed
>Not about the Normal Ending where Undyne comes after you with Sans and an army of monsters
>Not a series of fanwank pandering with stuff like genocide Papyrus
>>323213775
>You would be a naive child, who got to this dark and dreary place when your friend convinced you to jump down into a large pit, promising adventures. But now, you realise your mistake, and you are trying your hardest to get back home.
if you're serious, this is a stupid way of telling it. come up with a more creative reason, maybe the child acted like a monster in real life and the world mistook him for a monster as well so when he died so he got sent there? but you don't have to tell it outright, you could just hint towards stuff like that as the story progresses
>>323213775
Suicide is painless, OP. Keep that in mind.
>>323213775
That's cool that you want to ride Toby's coattails - I'll be hanging out not playing your game
>>323215542
bad acting is bad
epic copypasta, friend upvoted!
Better idea, OP. Why not make a story about the 5 children who fell down and their struggle to the surface, where they die one by one, and finally end it in front of Asgore? You can do this in RPG Maker with literally zero programming knowledge, you can include Chara and familiar faces, you can include uniqe enemies that would have been defeated, and you are almost entirely open to artistic freedom.
If you are going to make a UT fangame, might as well just do it a VN, that's exactly the kind of faggot shit the fans want, more dates and probably even implicit or explicit sex.
And making VN's is the lowest of the lowest as far as game making goes, if you can make a power point presentation you can probably make a VN.
Go ahead and try using RPG maker, it's not hard, there's probably a hundred tutorials on youtube for it. But it's so fucking slow, unless you make the most boring and generic shit ever, coding events is a god damn chore, and with no events your game would be total ass.
>>323213775
>>323215509
Additionally your game, even though it's a fangame, shouldn't needlessly have so many similarities to the original Undertale. Even the name, UnderWORLD? The game is already going to feel like Undertale, so why copy things the few times you don't have to? Perhaps something like "Under the Tale" would work better, as the world it's taking place in is below the world of the original Undertale. Underworld just feels like it's referring to the entire world under the humans as a whole, and not encapsulating just the "afterlife world" the game is taking place in.
>>323213775
>The only thing holding me back at the moment is my lack of programming knowledge.
You and every other "idea person" who makes broken, derivative, half-finished godawful fucking messes in RPG Maker.
>>323214306
>he doesn't know that originality is dead
gross
Thank you all for your replies. I have taken some of your advice to heart. I am reworking the story to sound like less of a copy and more original. Again, thanks for your time.
You're supposed to be older than 18 to post here, OP
>>323213775
>A small child navigates a dark world filled with monsters.
fucking WAKE ME UP
>>323213775
ZA BAITO!
BAITO YO TOMARE!
Dubs and I'll buy you faggots either gamemaker or undertale
Hey guys, im about to make a joke about owls. Heres my owl joke
How did the owl go?
>>323216973
And here's the autist that replies to everyone in the thread. Classic.
>>323217223
Why did the scarecrow win an award?
>>323216973
Who is this old man? Wasn't he in india jones and the crystal skull with epic memester Shia LeBouf??
>>323216982
rollan
>>323217396
He was outstanding in his field.
>>323213775
why don't you just use like rpgmaker?
>>323217223
VERY CAREFULLY
Better idea, take your characters and/or concept and make it something of your own rather than a Undertale copy.
There's potential in your idea, it's just that merely making it a Undertale copy/fan game is all that you'll ever get from peoples' opinion, it being revolved around the idea of copying someone else's game concept.
Well, that and you wouldn't be able to copy the game without necessary programming skills because the schmup mechanism seems like something tricky to pull off inside a RPG without knowing the essentials if you want it really to be a Undertale copy instead of just "Game Maker #912 RPG".
Here's a interesting take on making a copy. You know how Undertale came up with the whole schmup mechanism? If you want the game to be similar yet one that stands out, try using the normal RPG base and come up with ANOTHER different mechanism to counter the schmup aspect. Going back and forth to your favorite genres might trigger some neat ideas to blend it into the RPG aspect.
>>323213775
just make your own fucking game you fuck
>>323217541
His son killed him in Star Wars
>>323217223
whats green and pecks at trees?
>>323218010
woah fucked up!! didn't even know it was the same guy
RIP in peace i guess
check this 7
>>323217718YOU GOT ITS SISTER
There was a rooster sitting on a top of a barn. If it laid an egg, which way would it roll?
Autism speaks
>>323213775
>creating a shitty fan game of something that is already basically a fan game.
come up with your own ideas.
>>323213775
>I'm an ideas guy
epic
>>323218175
OFF THE ROOF
>>323218605
>i'm an ideas guy
>anyone have any ideas?
simply eric
>>323218175
up?
AHAHAHAHAHA
>>323218605
A lot of games wouldn't exist if idea men didn't exist. It's not unfathomable to think a creator of a game being really just someone who wanted its concept to be created but never could and through whatever events, got enough people to work for a game based on something that just so happened to cross his mind one day.
>>323216982
rollin
>>323216982
ahdahssAHH NO dubs For lITTLE OL MEkeyboard's fucked
>>323213775
>I want to make a game
>The """"""""""""""""""ONLY""""""""""""""" thing holding me back is that i don't know how to program
>>323219275
They wouldn't exist if THOSE idea men didn't exist. People who think they're full of great ideasmay or may not actually be great ideasand can/will never execute are a diamond dozen.
It's okay to create a game inspired by Undertale but a fan game is a bad idea to be honest famiglia
>>323218173
Who was it that just got killed, and what kind of weapon was that?
>>323218175
>rooster
>laying eggs
>>323216982
I want Game Maker Studio so I can make my 2D Tales clone
>>323215509
>>323216429
Anon, OP is very clearly taking the piss
what are you doing
>>323218175
Roosters dont lay eggs you dummy
>>323217223
>>323217718
I don't get it
>>323213775
Sounds neat anon
>>323213775
Genuine advice: Just start with some gamemaker tutorials on youtube, get a feel for the program. Start with a game as simple as you can possibly make, something so basic and minimalist that you can realistically complete it. Work from there, baby steps.
It might take a few months of making that first step, but the first step tends to be the hardest one.
>>323220804
Good for you, GM:S is free.
why
>>323213775
For you OP,
First, download this : http://www.yoyogames.com/studio .
And try to fuck around by making a simple game.
If you didn't have any idea (or don't want to learn totally alone), try to look shit here : http://help.yoyogames.com/categories/20139196-Learn
I warn you, if you want to make something like undertale, you'll have to fuck around with GML (it's not that hard,but at first just try to get the Drag&Drop logic)
While we're at it, you could try to learn how to do good pixel art (unlike undertale), I recommend you to look at :
http://opengameart.org/content/les-forges-pixel-art-course
(and use graphicsgale for your pixel arts, it's a good freeware)
Finally, I want to say that you should also reconsider why you want to make "UnderWORLD" and why it could an intersting game. (for exemple, if you just want to make an Undertale ripoff it wouldn't be interesting)
>>323222436
Yay
>>323223943
Thank you! It's great to get advice and this really helped me. :3
You know the Undertale fandom is full of angry idiots when the idea isn't even that over the top. This fandom doesn't deserve a sequel
>>323213775
>i don't have the money or the skills to make this game but i'm ready to tell you all about a project that, even if i could start it, would drop after 2 weeks or release for a grand total of 40 bucks
>>323226359
It's not. That's why there will be hundreds of bad fan games, and maybe a couple of good ones.
>>323213775
>I've been thinking about creating an Undertale fan game. The only thing holding me back at the moment is my lack of programming knowledge.
Just stick with gamemaker and learn some basic coding. I mean like BASIC. It's easy. You don't need to code much.
>>323216351
Why would anyone make an UT fangame? Just mod it.