[DeveloperX]

I'm actually tracking my progress and stuff on my repository's wiki.

Here is a current screen-shot of my engine running:



Features:

• Smooth-scrolling tile engine
  
• Animated sprites
  
• Hardware independent game timing (yeah finally my game will run right! lol)
  
• Very-low resolution (200x150) scaled 400% so it can be seen to be playable on high-res screens.
  
• Built with my ged101minimal version of my C++ Allegro framework that I worked on for several months last year.
  

My battle engine is in the early stages of development (this is my project for next week)



Features:

• Real-time battles (you can get wiped out while thinking of what to do!)
  
• Animated battle sequences (not too fancy, but hey)
  

I made the decision early on to avoid trying to add audio into this project, mainly because I would not have the time to create anything for it.

All sprite art (except for 3 monsters ..like the one above) is drawn by my good friend Keranu, and all tiles and battle backgrounds, and everything else is drawn by me.

I'm doing most of the programming, with RedSlash having implemented the basic map engine.

There have been issues with running on Windows, hopefully I will be able to squash those bugs before the jam is over, but it runs smoothly on debian-linux based OS like Ubuntu (what I'm using to develop on) and RedSlash said he will maintain an OS-X port for the Mac.
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[Terry]

Looks like you've put quite a bit of work into this! Looking forward to playing the final version!
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[DeveloperX]

[DeveloperX]

..7 -> 12 has caused me to start running out of steam.... :\

not sure if I'll be able to finish up the engine in time

I'm going to take a day to rest tomorrow and hopefully I'll have enough steam to continue....
*wishes that blizzard would go bankrupt and that all copies of WoW deleted themselves.....its because of that motherfucking game that my BEST programming partner isn't working with me anymore.....* >_<
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[mixzed]

It's better to rest, tired programming always causes more problems then it fixes. With the schedule you've been pulling I'd get away from the computer for the whole day (or more). If you have good weather go outside, see a movie or 2 or take a long drive.
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[Terry]

Try not to burn yourself out too much - this is supposed to be for fun, after all!

[save the really intense work for the jam weekend, heh]
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[DeveloperX]

[DeveloperX]

...and I'm still not finished enough with the engine to start implementing the battle system >_< Dammit!
I really thought that I was going to be able to pull this off, but it looks like its not going to happen in time.
Too many new things have started happening in my life, interrupting me from working on this project, and I went from 14 hours to 3 hours of coding on it...I'm going to try really hard to get as much done as I can before the jam starts; but its highly likely that battles simply will not make it into the jam-entry.

I am looking at a larger goal now, at completing the game engine, as it will be very useful to use for a few of my past game projects (Second Pillar and Dream Destroyer ring a bell to anyone?)

Right now I am in the process of building-in development tools into the engine itself.
I am using Tile Studio to create the game map layouts; but placing map warps, defining collision tiles and event and NPCs with Tile Studio has proven to be too time consuming, and so I started adding integrated real-time editors to the engine.
I've got collision map editor implemented, I've now got my map warp editor mostly working, and I'm working on designing the way that events work in the system.

This started out as building a simple game engine...and has grown exponentially. The source base is over 10K lines of code across nearly 70 source files!

Well..enough of this progress update ..back to work
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[DeveloperX]

..I am so not ready for this.... :S

there is soo damn much left to do before I can start making a game...and that doesn't leave enough time between now and tomorrow to finish this engine :\

I might have only a walk-around demo in time :(

I've only 1/8 the tiles that I intended to have drawn already.
Game events are nonexistent as of right now, and the dialogue system is not implemented, since it depends on the events working...arg...

SO......MUCH.......FUCKING........CODE........GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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[Verious]

It looks like you have a lot of the main components in place, I'm sure you can have the rest working by the end of the jam.

[increpare]

you're a lot more prepared that I am, heh.

I hope you get something good done within the time limit :)

[DeveloperX]

dialogue system works now...well at least the loading & rendering of dialogues work....I still need to invent my event system so that I can script up the game events and have NPCs be able to talk...

as of right now, my engine has my animated player walking around a test map, with an animated "pattern-scripted" NPC walking around the map following his "AI" script....and I can hit Space to test the dialogue system lol.

It will be a far far cry from being a _game_, as there is no time to implement the rest of the system such as the game entities (giving the player stats and populating the maps with monsters to "kill") but it will at least be nice to look ..

and also the game menus are not in place, and they just will not be.
I've got 2 more hours then its time to rest for like 6 hours.....
and then its chaos for 48 hours XD

..ok 2 hours...I should be able to pull some kind of event system together....*hopes*
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[Cray]

That looks pretty cool so far DeveloperX. Good luck with your project! :)
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[DeveloperX]

Here is a screen shot of the current state of my engine:



Not much to look at right now...but that is the first of 3 final (as in they are mapped out and are not changing) demo maps that my entry will have.

I am debugging a weird bug in a data file tool right now..after I get that solved, I'll be working on placing the map warp triggers....
then once I can wander the 3 maps, I'll go enable the scripted NPCs....and once that done..if there is time, I will go see if I can get anything else working XD
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[DeveloperX]

an update...



yay for working dialogues and dumb NPCs that randomly pick from a pool of available dialogue!
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