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DeveloperX · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject:

..well my horoscope sure is a nice one today..

DeveloperX · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

Steadily making progress in my entry now. :D

I added another screen shot to my project page.

How is everyone else doing?
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Bjorn · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

BadMrBox · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

Hm, I'm not sure that I have an more indepth description than just "it's ascii based (kanji allowed) with or without a party" :S
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DeveloperX · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject:

If I remember correctly the "Party" requirement was dropped.
If not, then I've screwed myself.

As for a description, its pretty much just a "spirit of ASCII mini rpg competition" whatever an ASCII rpg means to you, thats what you should make. I think that sums up what we all ended with in the discussions. Of course my memory sucks and I could be wrong and or missing things. :D Someone else want to help clarify things?

Oh, and I'm still making steady progress on an entry for once.
This is a record for me. As this is a solo project, I've NEVER made it this far without any help. I'm proud of my achievement, and very excited to get feedback on it when its done. And it WILL get done, I'm not about to get this far and quit if the going gets tough. I've faced hell's baddest beast and simply told it to sit. ;)

Again..how is everyone else doing on their entries? Don't want to say or something? ..
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Terry · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject:

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Terry, that looks great.

Terry · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:30 am Post subject:

Cheers ^_^

I'm worried that it's a bit premature for screenshots though - that map is just a mock up for testing engine stuff. I haven't actually made any content yet :(
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ManaTroph · Monkey-Butler Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 57

well it looks like you guys are getting your entries in order. i wish i could say the same. but i'm in the middle of a major setback, as i've had to scrap my combat system. i've already started over on the combat system so hopefully it won't take too long before i have something working again. i hope i have it finished before the deadline.

good luck with all of your entries
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DeveloperX · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks. I am busting ass on my shop gui code (which is a major pain in the ass..almost 70% of my code is managing the gui now!)
I have my shop code written, but there are problems with the way the gui is drawn that causes visual errors, so I'm rewriting the system as a double buffered system to eliminate the problem. A small set back, but once I've got that done, then I can turn my attention to the ever-so-important battle engine (which will be rather easy to write with the gui code already implemented)

Lastly, I'll need to add the player's inventory screen, save/load games and a title and credits screen, and then I'll be done. :D

Terry, yours is pretty cool looking. I hope you get time to finish.
I like the ZZt-ish zombies. ;) are they real-time hunting you?

Also, are you using a custom graphics-mode ascii-mode-emulation engine, or the windows console or another library?

I'm using the win32 console since I haven't had any experience with any console libs and I also did not want to write a graphics-mode emulated ascii-mode game.
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Terry · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

DeveloperX · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:48 am Post subject:

cool. realtime zombies. sounds like fun.

I just finished my shop interface code.
I am neck deep in the battle interface code now.
I really hope I'll have time to finish it, if not, I'll end up making it a very simple battle system for the contest.

There will be only 5 different enemies 2 of which are bosses; not to give anything away.

I'm experimenting with MCI commands as well to have midi background music & wav sound effects.

If anything, this will be an interesting entry. :D
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Terry · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm out.

I hit upon an idea for another game, and I've been spending most of my free time working on it. So I'm shelving Buster Drake for a while :P

Sorry. Best of luck to the other entrants!
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BadMrBox · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject:

Mattias Gustavsson · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: