{"id":225,"date":"2015-03-08T12:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2024-02-13T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T08:40:40","slug":"dark-disciples-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/?page_id=225","title":{"rendered":"Dark Disciples II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Disciples II (or &#8220;DD2&#8221; for short) has a somewhat different focus than most of the other programs on this list. Contrary to the <em>RPGMaker<\/em>, for instance, it doesn&#8217;t give you a lot of freedom in altering the game system, i.e. creating new spells, character classes and so on; even the ability to create new items is limited. However, it vastly surpasses any other toolkit I know when it comes to the meat of the game, namely the level creation (or &#8220;mapping&#8221;). Where even the newest <em>RPGMaker<\/em> incarnation, <em>MV<\/em>, offers only most basic chest and door events and forces you create everything else within the game&#8217;s scripting language, DD2 gives you the choice of about <em>eighty<\/em>\u00a0standard events, from secret doors and portals activated by certain items to the ability of manipulating multiple doors, traps and energy fields with a single lever thanks to the easy-to-use flag system.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, it would currently be my recommendation if you just had the &#8220;creative urge&#8221; to create a CRPG, but no really specific requirements in terms of the game system. It would have been impossible for me to create the complex locations in &#8220;Temple of Eternity&#8221; in even twice the time in RPGMaker. So, even if you never heard of it before, I suggest you give it a try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dd2-screen9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dd2-screen9.jpg\" alt=\"dd2-screen9\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dd2-screen9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dd2-screen9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(In-game view.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dd2-editor11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-277\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dd2-editor11.png\" alt=\"dd2-editor1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dd2-editor11.png 640w, https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dd2-editor11-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Editor &#8211; just some of the many pre-made events.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Disciples II (or &#8220;DD2&#8221; for short) has a somewhat different focus than most of the other programs on this list. Contrary to the RPGMaker, for instance, it doesn&#8217;t give you a lot of freedom in altering the game system, i.e. creating new spells, character classes and so on; even the ability to create new<a href=\"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/?page_id=225\">&nbsp;&nbsp;[ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancient-architects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}