Quote from: mapar007 on May 07, 2013, 10:02:40 am

Quote from: Art_of_camelot on May 07, 2013, 07:57:08 am

Looks nice. I'm not a fan of having to go into a menu every time I want to use a spell though. It seems it would slow the pace of the game as well. I'd suggest being able to "equip" a spell so you can just push a button and attack with that spell. If you want to make it even more user friendly you could use something like +/- to cycle through your spells and change which one is equipped. + would move to the next spell you have and select it, and minus would move to the previous spell and select it. You could even use your text box on the bottom to display which spell you are on (for a few seconds) as you are cycling through them.

That's a nice idea, and not hard to implement. Noted.

EDIT: Wish granted.

Awesome! Gonna try the demo out.

Thanks Make sure to tell me what you think. I elaborated a little on the newly added controls in my post above.

Looks nice. I'm not a fan of having to go into a menu every time I want to use a spell though. It seems it would slow the pace of the game as well. I'd suggest being able to "equip" a spell so you can just push a button and attack with that spell. If you want to make it even more user friendly you could use something like +/- to cycle through your spells and change which one is equipped. + would move to the next spell you have and select it, and minus would move to the previous spell and select it. You could even use your text box on the bottom to display which spell you are on (for a few seconds) as you are cycling through them.

That's a nice idea, and not hard to implement. Noted.

EDIT: Wish granted.

Not much to say that hasn't already been said. It's looking nice. What size are the elemental Icons?

8x8

Not an official update, just a quick heads-up on the state of the project.

 I've started working on what's probably going to be one of the more challenging parts of the code: the magic system.

I'll be implementing several types of spells with potentially arbitrary effects, including bolt, ray, ball (not sure how I'm gonna do this), and if I find a way to integrate this into my current system, status spells will follow too. Map altering magic will be added too (like Angband's stone-to-mud). If I can get status spells to work, status affecting potions should be a breeze too since I can just recycle the same code. I'm also going to try and animate the magic, but that's a little further down the priority list. Having monsters cast magic would require significant modification of the AI, so that's going to be a problem for later too. I will try to write the magic code in such a way that spells can be used against the player too, if I'd want to do that.

Spells would be learned from scrolls/books, which can be found in the dungeon or in Araki's magic store.


That being said, items, magic and monsters are things I need some community input for. I've already decided I'm gonna name all spells in Japanese (a tad cheesy, I know), and my gf agreed to help me think up some awesome ones. This leaves items and monsters. If you have cool ideas, feel free to post them here! Graphical contributions for tiles/spell animations are always welcome too, but remember to make them symmetric. Don't bother drawing sprites for monsters and/or items because those are going to be marked by letters, as in the original rogue.

However, if I decided to use a pic I would just waste close to 22 KB of archive just for 1 title screen

Clearly someone needs to implement a library that has routines for compressing and decompressing pictures. Unfortunately I don't have much experience with compression algorithms (not that much of a problem, implementations of the most common ones already exist) and what's more, I don't have access to a 84+CSE to test on...

Quote from: mapar007 on May 02, 2013, 09:27:30 am

On an off-topic note: No offence, but would you mind paying a little more attention to grammar and spelling?

You spelled offense wrong

British spelling

http://grammarist.com/spelling/offence-offense/

Quote from: flyingfisch on May 02, 2013, 04:00:30 pm

Quote from: Dapianokid on May 02, 2013, 02:58:46 pm

Do not doubt my adept ability to hack. Doubt my ability to do what's right. Teach me to be better, not more devious. Give me God, not more foolishness. It's not a matter of how I get around it, it's whether or not I decide to. Anybody who WANTS to get around the love and care that parents put in place, is an idiot. I wouldn't want to know them. I think a parent who cares that much is already an above-average parent. The restrictions they put in place do not reflect the craziness or strictness of my parents, it reflects the person they restrict. So, the fact that they became this strict should reflect just how naughty I was being, not how mean they are. It's LOVE they are treating me with.

I had an experience pretty similar to yours, I think, and I agree with everything you said in that post. There is no age at which point a person magically becomes "mature". It is only through lessons and experience. The more you listen to your parent's wisdom the less you have to learn through hard experience.

It is really refreshing to read stefan bauwens' and Dapianokid's posts, I think it proves that faith and morals still exist. I don't feel that I am as isolated in my beliefs as I once thought.

To the rest of omnimaga, I am not angry, but I do have a request. Stop the swearing on OmnomIRC, and don't talk about sketchy things in posts. Even if most of omnimaga is "mature" enough to handle it, we shouldn't have it going on here. And I am not saying this because I don't want it blocked in schools or what not, I am saying it because I want to be able to browse omnimaga comfortably, without having to be afraid that I may see the F word in OmnomIRC, or immoral things mentioned in posts.

That may sound critical, but its just the way I see things right now. Let's straighten our act out. Are you with me?

I don't think this is much of a problem in general here, compared to before. Generally, only two or three people say the F word on a regular basis and they hardly ever post at all. The S word might come out a few more times but even then it's not that frequent, plus I even noticed some people censors themselves out of habit. Although I agree that swearing too much would be problematic for some people to browse the site, being afraid to post at all due to fear of being reprimanded every few time for saying a bad word by accident (that might offend 1 or 2 people on the site) is even worse. We have to give people some freedom so they're comfortable to post at all, else they'll just leave.

Also no one on this forum is gonna receive a special treatment based on his religion (or lack thereof). This is the Internet and using this forum is a privilege. It might suck for people who are religious, but if we start doing special favors to specific members just for that it is gonna get out of control.

Of course if swearing became abusive like on the other board and it got out of control, then word filters might be in order. I would recommend that if you find out a member swears too much that you report him to admins, though.

Thank you for this statement. Puritanical word filtering is about the last thing this site needs. We can still be a warm and welcoming community without enforcing overly strict language policies. Let's face it: there will always be things that offend you or your values. Arguably, learning to deal with that fact is far better than avoiding reality by having a "no swearing rule" in place. Just my two cents.

EDIT: I guess the point of my post is "'It might offend people' is not a good reason to institute a policy".