Hey guys (and sorry for the somewhat massive logo at the bottom, couldn’t figure out how to shrink it without having to edit it in PS).
Me and a few of my school mates have decided to try and make a game. It’s a game where you run a little potion shop in the medieval era.
In this shop you can order ingredients (which arrive every night, so you have to think ahead). With the ingredients you order, you can do all sorts. First, you’ll have to go and pick them up. The way this works is by when you get close enough, on the screen it’ll tell you to click and hold to pick it up. If I click and hold with my right mouse button it’ll go to my right hand, and vice versa, this way you can carry two items at once. Then you bring these items over the crafting table and then add them to your potion and click craft. Now depending on what ingredients you’ve got on there the stats for the potion will change. For example, if I add apples and carrots the healing factor of the potion will be high and the deadly factor will be pretty low. But if I add Acidum Salis, which is very poisonous, the healing factor will be pretty much nil and the deadly factor will be very high.
Basically:
Alkahest is a unique game in which you take the role of an aspiring alchemist working on the Magnum Opus – the discovery of the Philosophers Stone, and the acquisition of eternal life. As you sell your own mixtures, potions and elixirs, you learn more of alchemy and unlock more intricate and useful ( or useless) instruments. As your knowledge expands, so does your shop, attracting more and more important visitors and expanding your influence over the village in which you’ve set up shop – and the world as a whole.
-Create custom named Potions, and create your own Recipes
-Explore a system of moral choices and “factions”
-Fund and help equip expeditions to The New World, increasing your range of ingredients
-Help people in need of your aid, ranging from a rat infestation to eternal life
-Build up a name for yourself amongst the villagers and the Town Criers, be it good or bad
-Upgrade your shop with new rooms and stunning new equipment (or something to that effect).
At the moment it’s pretty early on in development, so there’s still quite a few features lacking (eg. Research).
If you want to check the game out a bit more, go to www.goodenoughgames.biz or www.indiedb.com/games/alkahest
But, if you want to see why Alpha can be so much fun, and AI development can be such a pain in the ass, here you go:
I will keep updating this thread as development continues, but as for now if you just tell me what you think of the idea mainly, because most of the graphics are very place-holder at the moment.
And also it’ll be nice to talk to other people that understand JS, because considering I’m the only coder on the team I get lonely sometimes 
- Tom
