I probably won't be able to get on IRC for a couple weeks, but i definitely am interested in talking about the project (now or in a couple weeks over IRC if that works better for you). I'm interested in seeing how everything's organized, and really it shouldn't take more than a few days to get used to the code. I think it'd be nice to get object interaction and at least a very simple battle system set up, as that immediately makes the game much more playable (and can probably bring more people in to discuss it). Was information on how the battles were supposed to work (and damage/level-up formulas) provided as well?

(Also, i'd prefer if you didn't use the pronoun "he" to talk about me)

(Also, i'd prefer if you didn't use the pronoun "he" to talk about me)

What would you prefer?

Quote from: chickendude on January 29, 2012, 06:08:16 pm

(Also, i'd prefer if you didn't use the pronoun "he" to talk about me)

What would you prefer?

Generally  "they" as a singular pronoun or a non-gender pronoun, typically "ze".

@Iambian: Yeah, it seems like the best way to understand it all (especially how things are stored in memory, which seems to be one of the more complicated issues) would be looking at the source along with your explanations. Also, thanks for that file, is it the same as the information available on the google code site? Anyway, i'll look through it, thanks. Take your time, there's no rush. And i don't want to take the control of the program (especially the creative control) away from you, i just want to help you finish it the way you envision it, so we'll se what we can do

@DJ:

Chickendude releases stunning graphical RPG for the TI-83 Plus

A few days ago, they finished their RPG project, after years of work and hiatuses, and uploaded it on Ticalc.org, who approved it just now. Featuring great artwork by Chickendude, the RPG features hours of gameplay, great story and more! Here is a screenshot of the game:

<insert pic here>

You can download the RPG here(link).

I hope you'll be able to post that one day!

There is a google code for this 0.o

hey iambian maybe we should make one for cadan...

Good idea, providing you continue keeping us updated here afterward too

wouldent dream of not updating here would just be easier to merge our chagnes as atm we are doing this really wonky deal with a ftp server lol

I would like you to start working on the battle engine, despite the fact that there's nothing in the current code that even remotely alludes to it working. Most specifically, I would like you to work on the part that performs the battle calculations.

Since not everything is put together, just assume that you will have available calls to routines in the form of "call GetStat<insert_stat_type>" in which you replace the stat type with something such as "STR", "WIS", "Evade", "NumberOfPhysicalAttacks", "DEF", "HitRate", etc. I'll be adjusting the names of the routines that fetches the values to whatever you choose to name that call.

Please ignore the file "battengm.txt" since that is an incomplete document. In batteng.txt, please revise line 23 to read:
09.      If have BLIND FIGHTING, %HITRATE = %HITRATE - ( %HITRATE / 4 )
For messing around with the battle system, please refer to this copy of Escheron, complete with source, to see something that might remotely look... decent. It's actually a much more complete version of E:SoR but it was getting to be an absolute pain to work on. To build that software, you'll need to put the extracted contents of that archive in a folder called "LL2" (the project was originally "Lost Legends II" before Zera changed its name) and then put that folder inside the project folder of Dwedit's AppDev kit, then you'll want to replace "asmapp5.bat" with the one I've attached to the bottom of this post. Only then do you go into the LL2 folder and double-click the mLLII.bat file to rebuild the app.

Understand that the source that I linked to you here is completely and radically different from the revision that you are working on (maybe except some of the LCD driver routines. I worked too hard on them to ditch). The difference includes some of the data itself and its structures. In this source file, the entire engine is split between pages 1 and 5 (starting from 1 this time around) with data sitting on page 4.

This version was overall much more complete, and with a few more steps, would've been releasable as the finished product. The problem was with the compilation environment and how everything was arranged together. See, TASM has limits and I was trying to pull together hacks that would overcome *some* of those limits (but not all of them), and I ran into a problem with respect to how the code was arranged. I would not have been able to cram events in there. I had a couple of images that were missing from the source that wouldn't have made it in. Overall, the thing was a complete mess and I felt like I needed to stop that shit and restart the whole thing.

If you think you might be able to cram what needs to be done into the old source and have a pretty complete game, feel free (but I think you'd be wasting your time). So that's why I have a pretty much clean slate that allows me to put together things in a much more sane manner, and allow things to be ... "page-aware". SPASM allows me to do this. Also, SPASM just simply builds faster.

tl;dr: Try to write battle engine calculations. You can test it using the old source if need be, or to use as a reference for the new version should you want to code the whole thing.

Whoops. Sorry 'bout that. Completely forgot about it after making that post. It ought to be attached to this one.

EDIT: That and you'll want to remove the final three lines of mLLII.bat , since they refer to a setup that is specific to my machine.

I made the new source you gave me into a WabbitCode project file but ended up having a couple errors trying to compile, and i just wanted to make sure that i've got it right. Basically, in the statcalc file in p0 there were two undefined addresses (lines 107/120), AddAtoHL and statgetbuf+5. I changed them to AddAtoHL0 and statgetbuf1+5.

You're right, and I'm also kinda embarrassed that I uploaded something without checking to see if it would build at all. Aside from that, I also made another really small revision. You can see that here: http://pastebin.com/FKzmixrX (p0/statcalc.z80)