I just wanted to say best of luck with the project! Sounds a bit like something I've been mulling over for a long time.

Lua is super easy to integrate, but code quality really starts to suffer once script complexity increases and folks wish for a statically typed language and a decent native debugger. And profiler for those garbage collection spikes! :D

Visual scripting on the other hand helps with the static checking and garbage collection, but large scripts soon become spaghetti. But at least it's all visible spaghetti.

My ideal world would be visual scripting plus native game DLL loading, but clean support for multiple platforms, that's quite a task.

Nice read, thanks for starting a devlog.

Aha, thank you!

If I may ask, what was the original game called?

Cave Story WiiWare site up -> http://www.cavestorywii.com/

Looks like the wallpapers are different for different people. There's a small collection going on on NeoGAF.

I'm not really into stories so I think it'll just be a game about nothing, just to be played for fun.

I did some experimenting this morning to see if I can find a character I like for a platform game I'm working on.



Still not sure... 

It was said at the Nintendo Media Summit today that Nicalis is working on the port.

What’s interesting for indie gamers is that Nifflas works at Nicalis.

Good post YMM, that pretty much sums up my feelings about it.

This looks really cool, Will. Good stuff! 

I've not even managed to get past the Core yet! 

Apologies for the full on blue background.

Loving the style of this, Bezzy. Good luck!

  Looks cool guys, good luck!

If I remember right (it's been a while), the foreground and background were separate independently scrolling layers, each with their own 16 colour palette. It was an AGA only game, so there wasn't a shortage of colours for the background.

To be honest, the background was put together very quickly and I was never really that happy with it.

Edit: I think "dual playfield" was the name of the mode/technique.

There were probably a multitude of better ways to do it, but I was young and not really well versed in the Amiga graphics setup.

Thanks for the compliment on the artwork. I loved your ROM CHECK FAIL!

Sounds very cool. Good luck!

Wow, some incredible work in this thread. It's such a shame to see the projects labelled as canned.

I've not got much to show from recent times, lots of small projects started and shelved before getting to the stage where a screenshot is worthwhile. Most of my work has been in porting games like Quake to various homebrew platforms.

Anyway, on with the rose tinted glasses. This one was a platform game, written in Blitz Basic for the Amiga. The source code (one big sprawling file) and art assets are long gone after a hard drive disaster years ago.


The main character. I'm not sure what he was supposed to be, maybe a spaceman or a little alien or something like that.



The idea was that you would jump on baddies heads (how original!), and they would leave behind these little critters which you would have to collect to fill your quota for that level.

I have some more old project assets around, but I think I have something in my eye... 

Hello,

Another internet random here. I noticed the forum after haowan mentioned the procedural generation competition elsewhere.

Peter