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[iarwain]

Mushroom Stew - v1.0


In-game:







Editor

You can change the controls in MushroomStew.ini.
You can have a list of the controls + basic game hints by pausing the game with escape.
There are .bat/.sh files to run in editor mode and the edited map is specified in ScrollEd.ini. I'll add a readme with all the info soon.

Archive contains win32, linux & Mac OS X binaries + source code & data.

Mushroom Stew v1.0

And here are the credits:

-= Gfx =-

• MashPotato: Mushrooms + tilesets + projectiles
• dbb: Buildings + trees/bushes + wizard
• György Straub: Trees + clouds + snow flakes
• Kazerad: DragonPrincess & blood splatters
• FrankieSmileShow: Explosions
• can-o-spam: Explosions + shuriken
• Fifth: Fire/lightning balls
• mr.mnml: Backgrounds
• NotWorthy: Background
• Melly: World background + tombstone
• pgil: Font

-= Zic / Sfx =-

• easyname: Themes
• Synnah: Theme
• Sos: Boss theme
• Atuun: Gun & start sfx
• John Nesky: All the other sfx

-= Code / Design =-

• Iarwain

-= Story / infant distraction =-

• Peppernut

-= Additional challenge maps =-

• Blarg
• Luco

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[Original post below]

Here are the facts:

• Every compo needs a project X (and no, it's not because I have no imagination. Not at all! ^^)
• I have no idea what I'm going to make yet and I suck at design, sooo... If there's a designer looking for a programmer, well, drop me a line!
• The game will be 2D (but with a lot of nice FXs and scrolling stuff! )
• The game will run on windows, linux and Mac OS X
• The game will be open source
• The game should be level-based and an easy-to-use editor will be provided
• I'd like to have a multiplayer component (not sure if it'll be coop or versus yet) but it won't be online: local mp only

I've been wanting to enter previous compo but always lacked time. Now that I'm on parental leaves for a while it's the perfect occasion.

Also it'd be criminal, for a programmer that isn't even capable of drawing stick figures, not to try to play with all the great assets that have been made.

It's also a good occasion for me to use the latest version of a level-based game engine/editor I'm about to release pretty soon (open source).

[J. R. Hill]

What programming language are you thinking of using?

If I can get by just designing that'd be sweet.

[iarwain]

C++ is the language.

A level editor (Aquaria-style) is available and everything is tweakable with .INI config files. I'll take care of all the programming.

Today I began doing a top-down action/shooter game (so far I've got the main character animated movement + shooting along with static enemies with homing missiles) but most of the assets are better for side views so I'll probably abandon this proto there. It's also harder to do differential scrolling with a top down view.

Any idea?

[J. R. Hill]

Hmm, well I guess I'm better at designing side-scrollers since those are the only kind of games I've made.  (Besides interactive fiction, lol)

So I guess if you go with a side-view I'd like to do the level designs.

Do you have ideas for plot or anything yet?

[iarwain]

Sidescroller sounds good to me.
As for the plot, I haven't a single clue.
We can have tanks, a fighting "dragon-girl", wizards spawning mushroom soldiers and a lot more of awesome stuff but I haven't any idea how to bind this all.

As for the main character, any preference? There are a couple of very well animated sprites in the assets.

[J. R. Hill]

I don't know, I pretty much like all the graphics made for the compo.

I guess I primarily want to use stuff that other people aren't using yet.

[Kazerad]

I guess I primarily want to use stuff that other people aren't using yet.

As far as I've seen, nobody has touched a western theme yet, despite Yokomeshi's excellent cowgirl sprites and my own mouse-aim cowboy sprites. Plus you can slap a cowboy hat and revolver onto anything to instantly westernize it.

[iarwain]

That's true. Actually I was planning on mixing themes.

I'll prepare a couple of different playable characters first, and then select tile sets.
So far I've planned on using the tile sets made by jrhill and arachne.

I'm currently in the process of setuping your own DragonPrincess as a playable character, Kazerad, it's a fine work you've done there, congrats! The overlay for the on-the-fly coloured version is a nice addition too.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to add an alpha layer with GIMP to your sprite sheet. Such a simple task ends up taking me so much time, but I'll eventually figure it out!

As I still don't know exactly what the game would be, I'll try to have some of the characters usable both for player and NPCs.

EDIT: Victory! I'm now a lvl 0 artist: I can create an alpha layer from a selection in GIMP. -_-

[yokomeshi]

you can slap a cowboy hat and revolver onto anything to instantly westernize it

[Kazerad]

I'm currently in the process of setuping your own DragonPrincess as a playable character, Kazerad, it's a fine work you've done there, congrats! The overlay for the on-the-fly coloured version is a nice addition too.

Awesome, and thanks . Glad to see her being used!

you can slap a cowboy hat and revolver onto anything to instantly westernize it

Hahaha, this is awesome. I consider my theory proved.

[György Straub]

you can slap a cowboy hat and revolver onto anything to instantly westernize it

that's growing into a signature that might be hard to escape, man.=)
(I loved your shotgun girl sprite, and if I wasn't aiming for something simpler in terms of gameplay, I would have went with that.)



In the meantime, have some more Project X.

[J. R. Hill]

EDIT: Victory! I'm now a lvl 0 artist: I can create an alpha layer from a selection in GIMP. -_-

You can also go to Layers > Transparency > Color to Alpha

[iarwain]

EDIT: Victory! I'm now a lvl 0 artist: I can create an alpha layer from a selection in GIMP. -_-

You can also go to Layers > Transparency > Color to Alpha

I tried that at first but I ended up with full transparency on the blue background and some kind of half-transparency on the sprites themselves.

Learning how to use GIMP-like softwares sounds to me far more difficult than learning any new programming language. ^^

[J. R. Hill]

Oh yeah, it'll do that...  Your way is the most consistent.

[Blaizer]

EDIT: Victory! I'm now a lvl 0 artist: I can create an alpha layer from a selection in GIMP. -_-

You can also go to Layers > Transparency > Color to Alpha

I tried that at first but I ended up with full transparency on the blue background and some kind of half-transparency on the sprites themselves.

Color to alpha will do that. Color to alpha makes a specified color completely transparent and every other color relatively transparent so that if you put the color that you specified behind it (the background) you'll have the same image. It's quite useful.