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[Belimoth]

'=============DESCRIPTION & VIDEOS=============
A side-scrolling battle game with terrible special effects.
Written in BlitzMax.

'==============CHARACTER CLASSES===============
Demon: Main class, throws explosive skulls.
Angel: Heals friendly players, including itself. High stamina.
Troll: Collects corpses and uses them to repair friendly bases.
Human: Corpse fodder, won't be playable in final version.

'=============EXCITING SCREENSHOT==============

'================LATEST BUILD=================
Version 0.9.2 (Windows, source included)

'=============ONGOING TO-DO LIST==============

Basic camera system.
  Basic level structure.
  Player names.
  Death and corpses.
  Basic faction structure.
  Castles.
  Stamina system.
  Character classes.
  Respawning.
  Team-up with artist.
  Better name.

  Delta timing.
  Advanced camera system.
  Deciding on how I want the explosions to damage/propel players.
  Secondary objectives.
  Compile for Mac.
  Secret sauce.

'================ORIGINAL POST================

This is a remake of a quickie I made in BlitzPlus back in the day. I wasn't a good enough programmer then to make the game I actually wanted, so instead I settled for a basic combat demo.

Video of the old version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0hYbg0mkSA
The player character is an imp-thing(fig A.) who jumps around throwing exploding skulls(fig B.) at other imp-things, and occasionally turns into an invincible reaper.

fig A.


fig. B.



The remake is done in BlitzMax, and is currently being expanded according to my original vision. Unfortunately the reaper wasn't part of that vision so that's been cut.

If you'd like to try it, a pretty current build is available for download here: {See above.}
(pardon my programmer graphics)
Also the source code isn't much to look at but it's all here: http://www.blitzmax.com/logs/userlog.php?user=11629&log=1808

Mostly I'm just hoping to get one finished game under my belt so I can move on to better things, and this seemed like the best opportunity. Stay tuned!

[Belimoth]

What I Did Today:
  Incorporated a pared-down version of a Camera system I had left over from another unfinished project.
  Defined the most basic level structure possible.
  Drastically reduced EXE size.
  Lots of other code stuff.

What I'm Doing Next:
  Browsing for tutorials on delta timing (I am pretty sure I get it but I want to make sure I do it right)
  Completing the Camera system.
  Deciding on how I want the explosions to damage/propel players.

Any criticisms or suggestions for the direction this game should take are very welcome! The MOST welcome.

[Belimoth]

What I Did Today:
  Nothing I had on yesterday's todo list
  Made it so that players' names are drawn above them.
  Added death and corpses so now there's actually something to do.
  Reorganized faction code so that is easier to understand and expand.

What I'm doing next:
  Everything on yesterday's list... hopefully
  Creating some sort of secondary objective.
  Adding a stamina system to restrict the jumping.
  Finding my original design document in this big pile of papers
Wish me luck!


ALSO, if there's any BlitzMax users who are running on a Mac and would like to compile it for me there I would be forever in your debt.

[Belimoth]

What I Did Today:
  Slept for a long time
  Added castles that can take damage, but don't do much else (placeholder graphics appropriated from Mario)
  Added the ability to switch teams
I couldn't find my design document, but thinking about it more I'm pretty sure the end result would've been a bad combination of TF2 and Worms... it's okay though because I've had a lot of new ideas while working on this that should make up for it.

What I'm Doing Next:
  Everything on previous todo lists...  
  Trying out some ideas for character classes. Once I've got this figured out I will be trying find an artist to replace my bad graphics.
  Respawning!
  Trying to think of a better/more descriptive name
  Mixing the secret sauce.

[Belimoth]

BIG UPDATE

What I Did Today:
  Made corpses persistent.
Un-intertwined the AI() code from the main code so that it is easier to modify/expand.
  Added a stamina system!
  Enabled Respawning!
  Added character classes! (see above for a description of them)

What's I'm doing next:
  Playing around with AI.
  Another big update but it's a secret


UPDATE: Lowered the opacity on the explosions. Thanks neon_!

[Belimoth]

What I Did Today:
  Bones has decided to make art for this game, but in our brainstorming session the idea diverged so much that I have decided to retire this log, and will be updating here instead.
  Farewell!