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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2009, 11:04:18 am »
WOW!!! Amazing this is going to be so cool when it is finished
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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2010, 02:30:50 am »
I thought I would share a few more general details and features. I can't get into specific details about the plot, because this is a continuation of events after Escheron. I would be spoiling too much! Still -- I don't want to leave everyone hanging. In the meantime...

 - A dark and dismal world set against the political machinations of demonic rulers. Face death and destruction at every turn as you attempt to fight your way through hoards of demons and undead, and dethrone the Four Crown Princes of Hell. Only then will the plot of the Rephaim be revealed, and the forces that have scourged mortal existence for centuries.

 - An expansive, open-ended world. Many maps sport resolutions as high as 128x128 tiles. The world is 1:1 to scale, with no icons representing towns and dungeons; instead, the player seamlessly moves from one area to the next. Vessels can move in and over entire kingdoms and dungeons. In some instances, it is necessary to use a vessel to travel to sections of dungeons that can't be reached on-foot. A single dungeon from the world of Rephaim is practically larger than every map from Escheron put together.

 - Approximately 40 hours of gameplay. Moving to and from areas will demand extended exploration.

 - The ability to call upon guardians to change the tide of battle. Guardians also function as a proxy between the mortal world, and the world of magic. A character who equips a guardian will gain access to an array of magical spells.

 - A revamped approach to combat: Fully-animated spells and effects, and the addition of background graphics to note scenery.

 - A traditional experience-level system that defines linear character growth, providing a strict, strategic role to each player character. Characters also learn a selection of personal skills and merits.

 - An extensive selection of equipment, and the addition of equipment "sets" that provide synergistic bonuses when certain items are simultaneously equipped.


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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2010, 10:10:04 am »
*BUMP!!!!!!!!!* (jsj795's jaw-dropping sound...)

That's a best graphic I have ever seen in Z80!!!!
WOW!!! I love the screenshots!


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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2010, 01:39:22 pm »
Darn these pics are incredible! This one would sure be only for the TI-84 Plus/SE and 83+SE models, given that LL2 might reach 100 KB. I don't mind large files, though, as long as TI-Connect won't give me connection timeout halfway through transfers :P

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2010, 02:04:27 pm »
Wow!  Those graphics are incredible!  The story is great too, but those graphics are so incredible!

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2010, 02:22:51 pm »
Incredible graphics guys!

With the guardians, can anyone use them or only certain characters (like summoners)?
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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2010, 02:29:38 pm »
Wow! Amazing graphics!  Not just the greyscale but also the type of art makes it look very good on a small screen!  This just keeps getting better and better!

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2010, 04:49:19 pm »
With the guardians, can anyone use them or only certain characters (like summoners)?

Anyone. Each character can equip any one guardian at a time. When doing so, they gain special abilities associated with that guardian. The actual guardian is only summoned automatically, when certain conditions are filled, and only once per battle. (such as the party reaching critical HP)

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2010, 06:09:48 pm »
Mein Gott D:
incredible

Don't make the game too nice tho...
Or TI will make the price for it's calculators even higher! (AND be even MORE gready on memory chips!)

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2010, 11:28:32 pm »
Lol I doubt the former, altough we never know about the latter. Games or not, though, I am certain if TI decided to find a way to cut down production cost by a penny, they would get rid of some of the 16 KB additional RAM on 84+ calcs or rewrite the OS so on newer calcs the additional memory is not needed at all for USB stuff. Who knows? Maybe they would even drop the user RAM to like 16 or 20 instead of 24. With TI, these days, we never know what they will do.

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #25 on: January 19, 2010, 02:36:39 pm »
Looking Great!

(btw, TI seems to have admitted that they cut down the size of physical RAM to 48 Kb)

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2010, 02:39:16 pm »
Yeah I saw that UTI post, altough given that the user has 1 post and was newly registered, I was not sure if it was a legit quote or a troll.

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2010, 06:19:11 pm »
Lol I doubt the former, altough we never know about the latter. Games or not, though, I am certain if TI decided to find a way to cut down production cost by a penny, they would get rid of some of the 16 KB additional RAM on 84+ calcs or rewrite the OS so on newer calcs the additional memory is not needed at all for USB stuff. Who knows? Maybe they would even drop the user RAM to like 16 or 20 instead of 24. With TI, these days, we never know what they will do.

Something like that is not likely. The new OS would still have to run on every graphing calculator that came before it and reducing the amount of RAM that you do happen to see would not only be difficult to do on their side, it would also go against the advertising that they do for their calcs. Next time you look at the package for one of these things, it should say something like "Has 23KB of user memory". It's a selling point because their OS actually uses it and it's been available for ages. It's what people expect. What wasn't expected was the lack of "extra" RAM because it was never advertised, therefore, they've got no reason to be held to it.

In addition, it wouldn't make much sense to cut memory down further in multiples that aren't 16KB, since the calculator has to map in pages in multiples of 16KB. It would be cheaper to have that memory in there than to add extra logic to appropriately map missing bytes from a page.

EDIT: While I'm on the topic of memory, I do plan on having that project remain compatible with the "crippled" newer calcs that seem to only have 48KB of RAM. The game would impose some steep memory requirements but after rearranging memory as needed, I can net myself a full 32KB of "saferam" in one flat memory model. ($8000 to $FFFF. w00t.)
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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2010, 09:35:29 pm »
Yay!  Although I have one with calc extra and one with limited, I'm glad you're letting those who have only limited play it.

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Re: LL2.5 Concepts
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2010, 11:35:35 pm »
You still need at least an 83+SE to play it. The BE just won't cut it.

If I get enough interest going, I might have this game programmed in time for the 2010 POTY voting :)

This time, it'll go a fair bit faster since I'll be reusing quite a few engines from when E:SoR gets done.
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