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[zamp]

I'll be updating progress on tumblr from now on. I'll check back here every now and then but won't be updating this thread until I have a playable demo up.
For future updates please visit http://koode.tumblr.com/

[Paul Jeffries]

This looks pretty cool.  Even in the videos the restricted viewpoint makes things quite tense.

[zamp]

This looks pretty cool.  Even in the videos the restricted viewpoint makes things quite tense.

Thanks!

Here's a little peek into the first map (Hint: notice the bump mapping on the table's items)

[zamp]

No demo yet..

But instead engine updates. Yay!

• Improved lighting. (Old)
• Soft shadows
• Growing red goo (more)
• Normal mapping (test)
• Lua scripting
• Task based AI

Lua scripting is for map scripts. Now you can write the scripts in lua to make anything accessible from lua do anything the engine supports, and more!

Task based AI is a new method for AI. Now you can just push tasks to the AI and it will then process them in order. AKA Queue stack.

Next step is content. We're waiting for the writers to finish up writing the story. Once that's done we'll start working on the mapping/content creation and we'll most likely have the game out someday next year.

[Belimoth]

Cool stuff! I enjoy the detail you've put into your Devlog and your videos.

[FK in the Coffee]

Loving the goo.  This is looking a hell of a lot better than a lot of the other top-down survival games I've seen.

[eigenbom]

Lookin good! Didn't know lua was available in flash, but I guess it wouldn't be that tricky to write an interpreter..

[zamp]

Thanks for the comments!

Not much to report. Some random bugfixes and optimization here and there.
Lights rendering went from 15ms to 2ms on larger maps (100x100 tiles or more).

More eyecandy though!
New spotlights (fully editable via map editor, choose angle of the spotlight, rotation, size etc.)
After stepping into the water puddles you leave footprints, same with blood

[zamp]

Nice work so far man. I liked the post on optimization, and I think you've got a good balance of eye candy in the dev log too.

Thanks, I've optimized the engine even further. Maybe I'll make a post about it later.

Now though you might want to

[zamp]

Edit: Changed video to a one with better audio

[zamp]

Tiny update.
Flippable pages in a book.
Late night... MORNING programming.

Time for me to drop out and hallucinate wildly.

[pbackx]

Looking great!
This reminds me a little of http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/dreamweb. I loved the atmosphere.

[XRA]

just watched the preview video in first post... looks awesome!

[zamp]

Thanks!
Dreamweb is one of the games I've drawn inspiration from. Another game worth mentioning is Flashback.

[grayfox88]

This looks really good, I love the atmosphere you've created with the lighting.

[zamp]

Day 606 - Holy smokes.

After reading the archer devlog and noticing that he's counting days of development I thought I'll do the same.
So found the oldest sources of the game I could and then calculated the duration to the creation date of those files.
I didn't think it would be that far

Back then the project had 37 source files and 3409 lines of code (comments included)
Now the project has 133 files and a whopping 20052 lines of code (comments included)

Edit:
Here's a little something for all ya peeps. The run animation of the player, player's head and hands are separate sprites.

[zamp]

Day 607.


Still undecided with the name. Veering towards Epicenter. We'll see.

[SiENcE]

I really like top-down games. Esp. Dreamweb!

Is your system scriptable todo mods or additional quests? Do you use a special engine or is it selfcoded?

[zamp]

Is your system scriptable todo mods or additional quests? Do you use a special engine or is it selfcoded?

The engine is 95% all me baby!
I've used some libraries like TweenLite, DConsole2, Standing Wave 3, Lua-Alchemy and MinimalComps.
I'm gradually moving away from MinimalComps once I've done all of the menus themselves. So that's something that I'm using just for prototyping. Although if you're looking for a better prototype UI than MinimalComps get yourself LiquifyComps. It's much, much better.

The engine itself is based mainly on XML files that contain everything that the engine uses. Be it sprites, sounds, music, animationm, NPCs, etc. Only the special NPCs (mainly bosses) are hardcoded into the game.
Atm there isn't that much modding capabilities when it comes to NPCs/AI but everything else is pretty much accessible from Lua. If you look at the 6.1 devlog with the broken door, it's done all in Lua.
I'll probably do Lua based AI at some point so when the game is released people can start to mod it as they see fit.

[SiENcE]

Thanks for your explanations. I really like lua. We used it much on Iris2 and i often use Love2D for prototyping. Thats why i asked. I thought you used love.