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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Projects and Ideas => Topic started by: necro on March 11, 2007, 10:32:00 am

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 11, 2007, 10:32:00 am

I wish I had time to be more active posting right now.  Progress on individual projects is slow right now save some interesting experiments and such...one thing I just got working was simple window in a window for all of my game.  Right now they can be moved and so forth and resized though I have limmited implementation for it.  It is still pretty primitive and will never be completely smooth (at least without an unjustifable tax on system resources) butthere you go.  I am also working on drop down menues and buttons and so forth.


And of course, I am spriting like crazy to try and move my things along.

this may mess up the context for the post following, but most of that stuff was outdated.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: bfr on March 11, 2007, 10:42:00 am

Excellent.  

Game play is better than gimmicks.  :)

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Post by: graywolf on March 11, 2007, 05:16:00 pm

Agreed.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 11, 2007, 07:12:00 pm

What do you guys think of the sprite change

from to ,  I realy like the new cb and I think it conveys the concept of it a lot better (not a rolling ball for instance)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Demon on March 11, 2007, 07:38:00 pm

*Demon

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 12, 2007, 02:03:00 am

Will post screens with the new demo, which should be out within a few days max.  It should be a lot better than the last.

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Post by: trevmeister66 on March 12, 2007, 04:46:00 am

hell yeah the new ball is better! :king:

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Post by: Liazon on March 12, 2007, 11:25:00 am

definitely better sprite.  was the first one not transparent?

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: graywolf on March 12, 2007, 11:49:00 am

Apparently not. And the new ball is better! :)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: bfr on March 12, 2007, 11:58:00 am

The new ball is definitely better.  :thumbup:

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 12, 2007, 05:52:00 pm

@liazon: the first one was and had the animation for the middle portion but I was to lazy to actualy save all of its frames as gifs and then

Well, while you wait for the update, how about a song?  New music for the new title which is now animated.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 13, 2007, 01:30:00 pm

Well, thursady wednesday may be my last class till the end of the month, so yay for time, just two more finals.

Also added a new two layer rain effect between classes and it realy looks good IMO.  Just finishing up a few last things and making some better levels that won't make you feel like doing this (yes, I made the smiley to...)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Halifax on March 13, 2007, 02:49:00 pm

Yeah that is definetly a better sprite and I am looking forward to that Rain Drops game. That titlescreen picture has already brought me into it.

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Post by: necro on March 15, 2007, 06:16:00 pm

Not the best screeny (slow and not a perfect loop), but I don't want to show too much more...when the next release comes I think you guys will be suprised.  Its taking just a little longer, but the end result should be worth it.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: graywolf on March 15, 2007, 06:39:00 pm

The rain looks good, although the looping kind of messes it up a little  :/ .

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Post by: necro on March 15, 2007, 06:53:00 pm

Any thoughts on the music?

I didn't want to spend a ton of memory for it, especialy since the smoke is randomised and would almost surely never match.

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Post by: Jon on March 15, 2007, 07:51:00 pm

DUDE! That's insane! If only such was possible on a calc... XD

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Post by: Liazon on March 16, 2007, 08:29:00 am

o.o that is insanely cool!!!! GML must be pretty good for 2D stuff then.

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Post by: bfr on March 16, 2007, 11:08:00 am

Yeah, the rain looks good, but the looping looks a little weird when the rain jerks positions (probably when it repeats the loop).

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: graywolf on March 16, 2007, 11:58:00 am

Yes, it the sudden looping. Other than that, the image is nice! :)

And the music reminds of Gameboy music; it's pretty good, actually.  :thumbup:

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 16, 2007, 04:46:00 pm

Just a note, right now its in GML6.1 which uses Direct X.  As that isn't usable on anythng but windows or windows emu, I hope to migrate to C++ with A open GL based graphics engine so I can port this to other OSes.  After this release, I will probably have to migrate out of GM as I don't have 7 registered, and I am getting a vista machine (on which GM 6 won't work).  So basicaly, after this release, the brunt of my efforts will be in building the whole game over again, and probably building a whole new suit of tools to work with.

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Post by: Liazon on March 17, 2007, 06:45:00 am

No worries.  It sounds like C++ and OpenGL will allow for even more impressiveness when all's said and done. :)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 17, 2007, 08:09:00 pm

Believe me when I say it will likely be very time consuming/difficult as c variants are rather inflexible in the way they do their variables and the fact graphics are far more complex.  That aside, some news on current progress.  Added spark effects to the new pulse energy gun (since people disliked the old pistol, and since it just makes more sense for the ball to use energy weapons) and I added new lasers that cause massive damage and can't be crossed (have to turn them off) as well as a few breakable things.  Level design is slow as the levels are generaly rather complex.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on March 21, 2007, 06:25:00 pm

Just got a new power adapter for my notebook so progress resumes.  Lost a few days and I wish I had more done...plan to cut a few pointless touches to get it done a bit faster.  Sorry for the delay.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: trevmeister66 on March 21, 2007, 07:03:00 pm

not a problem at all. Can't wait for some kick a$$ programs

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on April 02, 2007, 07:45:00 pm

removed by necro
because it is still a little ways off, a bit more screen goodness (I probably will only have this screeny up for a little while)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Liazon on April 03, 2007, 11:26:00 am

Cool tiles :)  Graphics go together very well :)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on April 04, 2007, 08:07:00 am

wait till you see all the things in action...anyways, just a few more levels and a few astetics left to finish.  All levels have been drawn out and planned, and I am trying as hard as I can to get this done.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on April 10, 2007, 04:20:00 pm

well, still plugging away at this.  At college, I made a group of freinds which is great except they are carving more time out of my schedule...that and classes and looking for a job...eghck...I took down that screeny, sorry if you missed it.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on April 28, 2007, 07:54:00 pm

As I am not going to post any more combat ball material until I put the next one out, here is a little look at a test I am making off of the same engine (no alpha effects yet except the lights)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Halifax on April 28, 2007, 08:03:00 pm

Wow this game looks great. It reminds me of Gears of War but in 2D. I would love if you could add some massive scary looking monsters that like have terrifying screams and stuff. If not I guess I will have to start my own Gamemaker game ;) j/k (although I may be serious). Anyways great job on the aesthetics I love the grityness :thumb:

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on April 29, 2007, 02:15:00 pm

test for the blood layer.  I used the mouse to draw that blood onto the buffer, but it can recieve blood splaters from the enemies...I am also adding more tiles and such.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on July 30, 2007, 08:47:00 pm

well, for whatever reason, I actualy lost that whole program somewhere...maybe for good ):  Good news is, I am making slow progress in a number of other areas.  The first post updates about the new code I came up with for this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/bbensonpck/windowsScreenShot.png

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 31, 2007, 12:17:00 am

this sucks it got lost I was really looking forward for thsi project :( I hope it revives anyway though

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: bfr on July 31, 2007, 05:01:00 am

Wow :(  At least you are still progressing on something.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 01, 2007, 08:58:00 am

well, the applications type stuff I am working on I might be able to make into a seperate dll or something and is going to be used in a number of apps I am making, however, I am not going to talk about them untill I actualy get an early version for them.

And besides, that project was basicaly just me applying a new set of sprites of the cb engine and testing a few effects that I already have managed to recreate and incorporate into cb.  So basicaly, what I lost was a set of graphics that imo, aren't as good as what I can do now and a few ideas.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 01, 2007, 11:38:00 am

mhmm i thought you lost the entire cb project? o.o at least thats good you just lost this, esle this would have sucked :/

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 01, 2007, 01:55:00 pm

no, I lost that little effects test and the handfull of enemies and effects I made for it.  CB is backed up up the ying yang, and I am working on meticulous design notes just in case anything ever goes wrong.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 01, 2007, 02:03:00 pm

cool, never forget to do backups ;)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Halifax on August 01, 2007, 04:52:00 pm

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Ahhh this sucks.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 01, 2007, 05:22:00 pm

reread what he said :P

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Halifax on August 02, 2007, 12:15:00 am

Oh sweeeet. Phew! You almost had me there necro. Good to know it is still back on track, and those blood stains look awesome!

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 02, 2007, 01:51:00 pm

so, nobody cares about apllication making toolset?

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 02, 2007, 02:28:00 pm

what app toolset? Do you mean the screenshot posted earlier? You should give more info, unless i mised something x.x

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 02, 2007, 02:43:00 pm

Its a set of menu, move-able size-able window, button, drag and drop, and so on standard routines to allow for easier app development.  Kinda like visual basic inside of game maker games, though these are just scripts.  That said, making things like ide's and level editors and so forth would be far more easy with this.  And of course, I alos am making a few apps using these routines, which are progressing as nicely as can be expected.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 02, 2007, 02:49:00 pm

Oh nice, should help me if i get back into game making/coding :D

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 05, 2007, 07:10:00 pm

just to show some visual bling...that there required full drawing feature functionality though.  I am not sure if I will include complex sets of visuals like this, but I doubt it concidering how complex that is to make.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Speler on August 06, 2007, 12:49:00 am

That looks pretty cool :).

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 06, 2007, 02:36:00 am

Wow I like this look even better than the other one, I would stick with this one! :)

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Post by: bfr on August 06, 2007, 03:43:00 am

I like the red gradient thing for the window.  :)

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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on August 06, 2007, 05:14:00 am

Agreed, that UI looks pretty cool. I wonder if you can create a version that the Windows (or another OS, for that matter) can use to replace the current UI colors with the ones you made.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 06, 2007, 05:31:00 am

right now, no.  But I might try to study up on how those actual window UI work.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 06, 2007, 05:43:00 am

Ok, btw (offtopic) I finally added your two midi files to the music archive, sorry for being so late x.x

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 06, 2007, 09:51:00 am

well, as we are off topic and speaking of music, hear is an early sample of one of the song's i am making now that I have fl studio.
http://rapidshare.com/files/47377471/Project1-early.mp3.html (scroll down to where it says free)

its still very early, but what do you think of the overal direction

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 06, 2007, 10:49:00 am

wow i like the beginning part a lot. I would add more synth in the next part though, but nice in overall

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 14, 2007, 10:40:00 am

just to show a bit more spriting progress...oh, if that seems to dark, I plan to include color correction options in the final prog.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: Speler on August 14, 2007, 12:50:00 pm

It honestly looks like this style of spriting needs to be isometric.  But GREAT work on the lighting.

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Post by: necro on August 14, 2007, 03:33:00 pm

why, the walls could cut away when you are in behind them to show you, then could hid anything you oughtn't be able to see when you are in front of them...

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 14, 2007, 04:28:00 pm

wow i like the bottom part especially, make it feel scary :)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 16, 2007, 01:02:00 am

I hope to get more of the metal/scrap tiles done soon, as well as the various lava forms and so on I need.  Also working on mechanical devices and so forth.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 16, 2007, 02:22:00 am

cool ^^

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Post by: Liazon on August 16, 2007, 04:39:00 am

QuoteBegin-necro+14 Aug, 2007, 16:4-->

QUOTE (necro @ 14 Aug, 2007, 16:40)

just to show a bit more spriting progress...oh, if that seems to dark, I plan to include color correction options in the final prog.

 that's really good and like you already said, I agree w/ the darkness, it could be a bit brighter/more contrast

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 16, 2007, 12:02:00 pm

well, the tiles aren't finished yet and it is generaly easier to make a dark game brighter as needed than the other way around.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 20, 2007, 09:28:00 am

Well, on the cb front, still working towards another demo.  I hope to resume progress on this very soon.  A level editor with a custom level format unlike the game maker default has been quite time consuming to make, but hopefully it will be done enough to continue working on the demo soon.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 20, 2007, 10:10:00 am

YAY! I cant wait for next version!

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Post by: JonimusPrime on August 20, 2007, 01:14:00 pm

looking cool I can't wait

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Post by: necro on August 23, 2007, 06:11:00 am

well, i have finally got file loading and saving done, now I need to finsh making a data parser to seperate the headers and object data, otherwise my files would be much larger huge to have for each object code for creation.  Basically, this is string manipulation on a grand scale.

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 23, 2007, 11:20:00 am

is loading/saving very hard to implement in game maker?

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on August 23, 2007, 07:52:00 pm

Only if you aren't using the built-in which saves most of the basic room elements (objects and their data, global data, tiles, view location, etc.) but not things like surfaces (basically buffer you can draw to and from for things like blood on walls, art programs, etc) and other high end functions.  That said, I have found the built-in save feature to be just fine so far.

However, I am talking about saving and loading custom level files with their own syntax with my own editor and the CB engine.  GM level editor is fine for simple levels but when you are trying to make things as complicated and advanced as I am then it really isn't sufficient.  So, I am making my own level editor from scratch specifically for the CB engine using the menu/window/button library I am working on.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 24, 2007, 01:43:00 am

ah ok, looks cool!

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Post by: Madskillz on August 24, 2007, 03:38:00 pm

Looks pretty cool, I cant wait to see more.

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Post by: bfr on August 24, 2007, 04:03:00 pm

You're making your own level editor And your mini-GUI library?  Cool.  I started to make a (simple) level editor for something before....

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 03, 2007, 06:02:00 pm

How is it progressing, and BBcode was reenabled in signatures btw

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on September 04, 2007, 01:24:00 am

Well, I plan to release a video of game play soon as I kept putting off the demo.  Also, I plan to release a few more early versions of my songs, but I really can't get much further on some of them till I...err, *acquire* some certain music resources.  A new mic would help to, but I am dead broke.

The level editor has had a number of major hurdles crossed, object creation from file now works and the actual variable loading should come next.  While not very efficient, certain parts of the levels will be left to be stored as pure executable code, as there isn't really any other way to do them.  Once levels can be loaded and stored fully, I just need to make the actual level editor place holder objects but I am at a quandary as to how to do that exactly.  I have a few ideas, but I will deal with them as they come and I may just skip over some of the bigger problems with a more ad hoc solution for the combat ball version of the editor.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 04, 2007, 02:32:00 am

Can't you use some of my song? Maybe they would fit with yours?

Glad it's still progressing though ;) If you post a vid on youtube you should link to this topic so people get to see where it come from :)

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on September 04, 2007, 04:11:00 am

I was planning on putting the video on my youtube account.  I need some orchesteral samples, some more pads and percussion, etc.  I am trying to make a few samples myself but I am not exactly good at it.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 04, 2007, 04:15:00 am

yeah same here, I alwasy have to download pre made samples for my songs or use the default ones in music generator :(

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on September 04, 2007, 05:20:00 am

Btw, what do you think of my new sig?

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 04, 2007, 06:17:00 am

I luv the  CB pic :D

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Post by: JonimusPrime on September 04, 2007, 10:24:00 am

nice, cool pics

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Post by: Liazon on September 04, 2007, 12:04:00 pm

Cool sig :)

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Post by: necro on September 07, 2007, 09:09:00 pm

kinda sucky video quality, I know.  I might have anothe one up by tommorow, but I don't know how the quality will be after the youtube chews it up and spits it out.  *Edit*, yeah, I need a new video editer because youtube hates the format/compression I am giving it.

I will work on reformating this and I will put it on rapidshare or savefile or just put it up as a torrent soon I guess.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 08, 2007, 01:03:00 am

wow nice so far! I like the levels layout so far, and you did awesome art here :)

good job on this!

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on September 11, 2007, 05:57:00 pm

Doesn't seem people care much.  Anyways, I am taking a break working on the new engine to get the last demo in the old engine done.  Up to 3 decent rooms, plan to have at least 6.  Also, I have spiffed up a number of sprites and fixed a few bugs.  I might try and get the boss I wanted to make done for the demo, but i might just reuse the giant saucer enemy thing from the older cb, but with some new effects and a few twists.  The boss i want to make is pretty complex, so I might just save him for the new engine.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 11, 2007, 06:28:00 pm

i dont think people doesn't care, ppl prbly didnt posted here because I posted a news about the video, which is where they posted it seems, and I care a lot, I have been waiting the final version for a while now :)


Btw in the video the levels are different, will the other levels from v0.6/7 still be here?

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on September 11, 2007, 08:35:00 pm

Hmm, I guess i could put in a "classic mode" that is a collection of the original levels.  Hell, I could add in fixed version of ball (which I stopped working on) too.  Would take a bit longer though.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 12, 2007, 03:28:00 am

you stopped it?? :( I'm sorry to hear, it looked cool as well :(

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Post by: necro on September 12, 2007, 02:42:00 pm

Shouldn't take very long at all to fix up now that I am so much better with game maker.  i might add a few more mini games.

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Post by: kalan_vod on September 12, 2007, 04:26:00 pm

Sounds very good, I would love to see combat ball finished! ;)

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 12, 2007, 05:52:00 pm

same here' i would hate to see this die, i even was waiting for ball, and am saddened it died. I think it should be added in some kind of minigame in combat ball tho ;)

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Post by: kalan_vod on September 13, 2007, 03:42:00 am

That would be a good minigame, may offer extra lives? As CB is hard for me ;)

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Post by: necro on September 13, 2007, 09:19:00 am

http://www.savefile.com/files/1053206
higher res vid, timing problems are still there

I probably won't post anything more about cb till I have the next demo out

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 13, 2007, 12:09:00 pm

wow look even nicer than i thought, the other vid had a crappy resolution, you have amazing skillz at designing levels ^^

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Post by: kalan_vod on September 13, 2007, 12:22:00 pm

Much better vid, still looks like it will be hard for a newb like me XD

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 13, 2007, 12:31:00 pm

NEWB!!!!


jk :P

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on September 13, 2007, 01:23:00 pm

In game, it looks better.  I think that next version of the engine will be a lot better suited to effects though.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 18, 2007, 08:12:00 pm

any progress so far?

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Post by: necro on October 02, 2007, 06:17:00 pm

Some, but I am sticking to no more updates till I release the next demo.  I want any progress I may have made to be a suprise.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 02, 2007, 06:51:00 pm

I cant wait until it comes out. Don't give up on it necro :)

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Post by: Liazon on October 03, 2007, 10:42:00 am

there was a first demo and I didn't know about it?  ^^

sounds good though, we've gotten plenty of screenies for sure.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2007, 11:49:00 am

It must be a few pages back

Title: Several Anouncements
Post by: necro on November 03, 2007, 04:57:00 pm

Still slowly adding stuff.  I improved a number of effects, hope to get the final batch of levels done soon.  I also have some very neat ideas of what to add to the next version of the engine, but that may be a while off at this rate.  On a plus note, this quarter of classes is starting to wind down.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 03, 2007, 06:01:00 pm

Nice to hear! I can't wait to see them :)

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Post by: necro on December 23, 2007, 10:30:00 pm

Well, i was working on another game and I may get that done soon but since it missed its deadline, I am back to working on combat ball.  I Improved a number of things and have a few bugs to fix/work around yet but I hope to have a demo soon.  Sorry I keep putting off putting this out, but I don't want to release a demo with not enough new stuff in it.  I know I said no new screenies till the demo, but I lied I guess...


Now I have effects for the sun/moon and the bg move with the view so you can't out run the sky anymore.  Also, its still a bit to primitive but you can see sparks coming out of a pipe.

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 24, 2007, 05:22:00 am

bah dont worry about this, it's always great to see updates! I like this screenie. Will it automatically change from day to night and vice versa?

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Post by: Liazon on December 24, 2007, 08:32:00 am

cool!

i'm guessin you can't really take an animated screenie?

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 24, 2007, 08:39:00 am

if he manages to make his game full screen (and when i say full screen, i dont mean resized, i mean screen resolution changed) he could use Fraps to record the video, like i did with RPG Maker

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Post by: necro on December 24, 2007, 04:25:00 pm

QuoteBegin-DJ Omnimaga+24 Dec, 2007, 16:22-->

QUOTE (DJ Omnimaga @ 24 Dec, 2007, 16:22)

bah dont worry about this, it's always great to see updates! I like this screenie. Will it automatically change from day to night and vice versa?

 Wow...that'd be one hell of a feature...but the game is linear so no.  I think that in my other project though thatd be great.