I think he said earlier that the NPCs weren't going to move, as that would make the chunk system unnecessarily complicated.

Also squidgetx, would you mind telling me how you get your text displaying routines to work so well? You don't have to if you want to keep that private.

It's been a while since the last update, so I figured I should make a post.

I'm working on the battle engine atm, and at the same time am working on transferring my system over to linux, so overall there's not much to show off in terms of progress. Internally though, there are lots of nice things going on.

-Item and equip system almost fully working
-Stats and Battle engine 70% complete
  -Character basic attack animations
  -Battle flow infrastructure (death, victory, etc.)
  -Enemy stat calculation and sprite retrieval
  -HP/MP display and graphical frontend implemented
  -Working damage formula

To do (battle engine)
  -Apply item effects to stats
  -Special skill effect application and animation
  -Enemy hit animation
  -XP system , level up, and stat XP
  -Enemy AI

I've almost finished setting up my calculator dev environment up on Mint, so hopefully I'll be finished up with those things soon. In the transition process my Windows partition got nuked, but luckily I had these files in the cloud. (Unfortunately I lost some old beta projects...including temple run, the isometric platformer, and tiny wings)

Looks great! ...But why is the screen background pink?

Update!

I worked a bit more on the battle engine and am proud to say it's fully integrated into the game engine, and much cleaner than the old version of A:P. The battle subroutine can be called from almost anywhere and will have a very small effect on RAM-no need to reload anything after exiting a battle! Enemy AI hasn't started up yet, but I did do some spriting, more move animations, and other random stuff, and also directly imported the transition code from the old version of A:P. Have a screenshot.



build & source. zStart "Execute >C000" required.

Totally awesome. I'll check it out once the folks occupiyng the computer where I have an Ubuntu partition (with TiLP) leave it.
Or maybe I'll download WabbitEmu now.

Sounds good! I never really liked it when you couldn't escape battles. Although, it might be interesting to make it 100% unless the enemy uses a trap spell or something.

hey everybody, it's quiz time.


Q: Why is this in 3lvl gray and not 4?

Q: Why was the old version in 3lvl gray?

Q: But guess what?

Q: What does this mean?

In other news, I added a custom text routine for displaying numbers, and added the run mechanic sort of. And, looks like I've got some spriting work to do

Weekend update! Got a lot of cool stuff done (well actually only one cool thing but ANYWAY) party members/switching is now implemented, something I never tried to do in the old version. Along with your main character, you can have up to 3 other people accompanying you, with a total of 7 different playable characters. You can switch who's dominant any time which shows in the overworld sprite and in battle



Enemy AI is half done, just have to add in the enemy's possible skills and randomly choose one to execute, which will be easy because of the general way I handle attacks.