SolarLune
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« Reply #460 on: January 02, 2013, 11:42:30 PM » |
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@devMidgard - Thanks. So I didn't really do anything between 12/29 and today other than work on the GUI some more, particularly the title screen. I'm also changing the name of the game from "Soldier Of' to "Valchion". The old title didn't really fit the game very well, as you don't play a soldier, and you don't war against the robots, but rather are just trying to get through to the center of town. It's like if Legend of Zelda was named "The Swordsman", or if EarthBound was named "Child Heroes" or something. I don't think it really applies, and kind of casts the game in a bad light (as if I were aiming for realism or something). I think "Valchion" sounds more unique, anyway. P.S. I like the Japanese text on top of the title, but I don't know Japanese well enough to actually have a full translation, though I'd like to learn enough, hah. I probably should take it out. P.P.S. The thing in the title screen above's a computer chip.
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« Reply #461 on: January 03, 2013, 12:56:13 AM » |
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cool mate !
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« Reply #462 on: January 03, 2013, 08:35:44 AM » |
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Nice name
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Ouren
Enjoyed Some Pizza!
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« Reply #463 on: January 11, 2013, 06:28:31 PM » |
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What's this being written in?
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« Reply #464 on: January 11, 2013, 09:04:18 PM » |
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Blender if memory serves.
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« Reply #465 on: January 11, 2013, 09:29:21 PM » |
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Wow, just played the demo. It's pretty much exactly what I'd hoped for. I'm really going to enjoy playing the full version.
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« Reply #466 on: January 12, 2013, 05:44:45 PM » |
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@Manboobs - Thanks a lot. I'm not sure if I'll do anything about the transition, but I appreciate your opinion.
EDIT: On second thought, maybe just the dark blue color that I have in the title screen would be better than pure white. Thanks for your suggestion!
@Ouren - Dusty's correct. I'm making the game entirely in the Blender Game Engine and using Python to script the logic and mechanics.
@failrate - Hah, wow. I'm glad you think so. That demo's really old - hopefully the next one will be a lot better.
Okay, so I've been working on things (including this). There was a major bug that crashed the engine going from the Title Screen to the Game Scene, but I found out it was because of a recent addition to the engine that I got (apparently, I like to make games with unstable bleeding edge builds). Anyway, I figured out what the issue was and sidestepped it, and in the meantime the issue should have been fixed. On to more Valchion!
EDIT: Oh, and it's been over half a year since the last demo. That's really kinda junky, so I'll really try to make another (cross-platform, this time) demo, perhaps even by the end of January (I hope).
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« Reply #467 on: January 13, 2013, 11:40:07 PM » |
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Bright flashing GIF below; I don't know, it might cause a mild seizure for some people, so be aware. I thought that would turn out better than it ended up... So I remade all of the player's sprites today. At least, I'm pretty sure I remade all of them. It wasn't as much work as I thought it would be, but now starts the eternal "spot-the-pixel-out-of-place-in-game-and-go-back-to-tweak" phase. I also added little spent shells that pop out of your gun when you shoot.
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« Reply #468 on: January 14, 2013, 12:28:52 AM » |
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Downloaded the demo earlier today and finally had a chance to give it a spin this evening. I was sorely disappointed when I figured out that there was no place left for me to go, so that's a very good sign! It took me a while to be able to quickly/easily differentiate objects from the environment/backgrounds but that's probably a fair trade off in the style/form/function equation. The unique perspective is even better in motion than from the screenshots.
I really like jumping around :D
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« Reply #469 on: January 14, 2013, 01:11:56 AM » |
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Maybe if you had done a more pokemon-intro-type morph (Like where your gender's sprite is turned white, and then shrunk down to it's in-game size before being recolorized) it might've been better.
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SolarLune
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« Reply #470 on: February 03, 2013, 12:29:52 AM » |
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Hello! I made a video showing pretty much just the minor stuff I've been working on (title screen, options screen, etc). Check it out . I've been working on adding new maps in, and have found the grease pencil to be a cool tool. You can draw layouts with it pretty easily. I'm also trying to just make things rather than think about it too much. I need to step up the speed if I plan to finish anything, so I really need to make progress every day. Trying to plan everything out would take me too long, so I'm just going to try making unique maps that fit with the theme. I'm also adding in another enemy. It's a mole that will dig toward you and only pop up for a second or so every so often.
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« Reply #471 on: February 06, 2013, 01:20:55 AM » |
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Well, I refactored some of my map-checking code a bit to work much more easily for me. Before, I stored a dictionary of map settings, with the map names as the keys. This way, each map could have its own settings. Problem with that is that I had to define each map individually, and if I didn't it would throw errors to the console. Now, I give each map a 'map' property that I can tag for different sections of the world (i.e. "park", "city", "under1", 'under2", etc). The settings for that section is stored in a dictionary that I access by the map. This way, each section can have similar settings that I don't have to set individually, and it should work perfectly for each map. I can also check the maps for unique properties, like "nomusic", to maps behave differently if I wanted. It's pretty comfortable. I've also moved to Komodo Edit. It seemed like a cool editor, and I've used it before a year or two ago. I'm liking the way it's working. Been doing some other general bug-fixes and things, as well. It's coming along. Anyway, here's a pic of a map. P.S. I worked a bit more on the mole enemy. I accidentally made him able to juggle you, which makes him the #1 jerk in the game so far. @caiys - Hah, I need to change the map-drawing to be more efficient somehow.
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« Reply #472 on: February 08, 2013, 11:24:36 PM » |
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Hey. I made the fog thicker and deeper, and coded some to optimize the logic in the game. I had each enemy / active (script-using) game object in the scene (which has several maps on it) checking to see if it's on the same map as the player every few games frames. Now, I basically just execute the script only if the enemies' 'active' property is true. When the game objects are initialized, they add themselves to a list present on the map, and then de-activate themselves. A 'System' object grabs the objects in the list for the current map, and activates them. It's far faster than having the objects do it, since only the objects on the current map are activated, and the objects on the previous map are deactivated. Anyway, things are running a lot smoother now. It should run pretty well (hopefully).
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« Reply #473 on: March 04, 2013, 01:20:35 AM » |
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Grah, something to do with the lighting's slowing down the game in the park on a certain map. Can't quite figure it out. Either I'll get it, or just forget about it - whichever. Anyway, I've been doing some behind the scenes stuff recently. I made a sound class for playing audio as opposed to calling sound playing calls myself, since now I can fade music in and out and limit the number of sounds of a certain type playing at any given time. I've also been bug-fixing and designing maps more. Here's a development log update video showing the progress that I've made.
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« Reply #474 on: March 28, 2013, 01:30:43 AM » |
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Yo! Long time no update. I've been whittling away at this, and now I've finished the second demo! HURRRAAHH! It's for all (-ish?) platforms: Windows (32-bit), Mac (64-bit), and Linux (64-bit). Grab it from my website!
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« Reply #475 on: March 28, 2013, 07:46:52 AM » |
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you auto run on mac version and wont stop, reactions are horridly slow on mac as well... dont know if this is intentional but please fix. thanks.
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« Reply #476 on: March 29, 2013, 09:01:18 AM » |
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^ No, it's not intentional. The Mac runtime's input seems to be sticking, so I would need to access the engine's code to fix it. That's not really going to happen as I'm not developing on a Mac, so I can't personally deal with it. However, if you have a joystick, it works fine with that.
The Windows version has been updated to fix graphical glitches caused by me being too idiotic.
The Linux version has been updated and should be working fine, as well.
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Impossible Realms
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« Reply #477 on: March 29, 2013, 02:59:27 PM » |
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Hello, I tried playing the demo earlier, but for some reason the screen stayed black after starting, while the music began playing. Is there something else I need to have installed or something?
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SolarLune
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« Reply #478 on: March 29, 2013, 03:17:30 PM » |
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I don't think so, no. Try downloading it again - I've been updating things like crazy since yesterday. Should've probably just gotten Windows out alright first. EDIT: I just downloaded it and tried it myself, and it runs fine on Windows 7 64-bit.
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« Reply #479 on: March 29, 2013, 05:20:52 PM » |
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It still wasn't working, though if it helps, I got a whole bunch of warnings about some controller being removed, as well as "Error Totblock: 25"
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