Escheron: A Tale of Political Intrigue

Eons ago, before the time of man, a powerful entity known as Yaldabaoth brought forth into existence a pantheon of gods. Each of these gods was conscripted into his service, and each was given the responsibility of governing the various elements of the mortal sphere. Using their powers of creation, the pantheon gave birth the world of Escheron, and the mortal men who would walk its surface.

Mankind flourished on Escheron, and built many lustrous kingdoms. With the passing of time, mankind began to approach a level of unparalleled technological progress. The pantheon's governance was no longer necessary to protect and sustain the mortal sphere, and so Yaldabaoth recalled their powers. Many gods did not wish to surrender their powers so willingly, leading to a great conflict among the realm of the gods. All but few gods were destroyed, and the essence of their powers was left lingering above the heavens.

Many of man's kingdoms fought to claim this power for themselves. Some succeeded, and Escheron saw an age of conquest that set a precedent for centuries of suffering and conflict. The Arcanians -- the self-appointed guardians of these powers -- finally came into their possession, and sealed themselves away in the ruins of the realm of the gods for all eternity. The conflict had finally come to a rest. Time passed, and such accounts were held only to be legends of a past mythology...

Centuries later, the kingdom of Asnoth -- and the neighboring kingdom of Ragnoth to the South -- have come into a proclamation of war. Lord Leonis of Asnoth has become paranoid of the secrets held by the descendents of the Arcanian people of Ragnoth. Fearing they might one day break the seal on the realm of the gods and unleash the gods' power once more, he has petitioned a figure known only as the Shadow Lord to seek-out the secrets of the Arcanians and eradicate their kind.

Enter Maya Anson: a young girl, and the last descendant of the Arcanians. 10 years ago, her home village was taken under the military occupation of Asnoth's Royal Guard, and her family slaughtered by the forces of the Shadow Lord. She has hence been orphaned into civil resistance, and is now leading a campaign to liberate her village from the occupation, once and for all.

Will mankind's lust for power doom history to repeat itself? Just what are the secrets of the Arcanians? What destiny awaits Maya -- the final heir to their knowledge? Who is the Shadow Lord, and what role does he play in the affairs of Asnoth? The answers await you in... Shadow over Ragnoth

So, Zera is working on the expansion for Lost Legends II, which is pretty much its own game that follows a shred of the storyline (more like extras). It's still quite a bit away since I still have loads more work to do with the LL2 engine. Compounded with the fact that the battle engine for LL2.5 will be much different, I'd say it'll be a long road ahead.

Still, that doesn't stop him from going ahead and planning for the future. These mockups are the result of that:








So... discuss.

The bad news is that my laptop suffered a nice drop that broke a few more things cosmetically.

The good news is that I'm currently using said laptop to make this post, so I know it ain't all that broke. Hopefully, the harddrive continues to run even though the machine fell in a position where the hard disk platter was perpendicular to the ground. This shouldn't *break* the disk, since it successfully woke up from sleep (actually, the fall made it "wake up"). I promptly backed up the Lost Legends II project just in case the disk suffered latent damage.

But, now I worry. Do hard disk failures happen immediately AFTER such abuse or do those things tend to crop up later?

So, I need to know how good you feel about the game. Unfortunately, I ran into a series of problems revolving around the tilemapper, and I believe it can be solved if I restrict this game to the 15MHz calculators (83+SE, 84+, 84+SE, nSpire). My question is how well you respond to this move.

Remember. If you support option #4, I encourage you to post details on-topic to get a real feel of what you think. I know DJ Omnimaga has already posted his response, but, come on. No one can resist the urge of verifying Netham45's lobsteriness!

First time I've ever encountered the error:
The (pool|game)
is closed, due
to AIDS. Press
any key to GTFO.
Forgot I was testing XCOPY with a large file, so I didn't have enough RAM. Ought to make something a little better than that, but it sure gave me a good laugh to see it occur naturally.

btw, I was testing the "Game Results" menu. Better fix the low RAM condition ...

On another note, I was annoyed to find that Ctrl+W in Crimson Editor did the same thing as Ctrl+F4 (close the current tabbed file). So damned close to the Ctrl+S hotkey >.<

Had this one sitting around for quite a while: http://www.mediafire.com/?n5lmkgrm2in

Just fired up a webserver to get it to run. Nevermind the joke at the top of the page when you view the image (mediafire doesn't recognize .png?)

So, the real question would be... where would be the best place(s) to go to help me relearn php?

Despite the fact that Newegg.com said that it was still in the process of charging me for the item, it was UPS that woke me up this morning. That extra $25 really did me good, but what pissed me off was the fact that the problem wasn't the battery at all.

The problem was the charger reporting incorrectly. The laptop read that it was receiving a charge, but apparently, it wasn't strong enough to charge the battery. Orienting it like TV rabbit ears did the trick.

On the bright side, now I have two batteries I can use. The project can now continue.

On another note, my ZPMs are not fully charged yet. Waiting for them to do so.

This post is just to announce that I'm working on a danmaku SHMUP. The sort of gameplay that the game will have will be modeled after Touhou Project 7 : Perfect Cherry Blossom.

I do expect to put up a screen shot as soon as I can get something that demonstrates the engine instead of the already-working grayscale. Before I can demonstrate, though... I've got to finish that part of the engine.

So, no screen shot. Yet.

But while I'm posting, I want to ask for a name for the application and a name for the project. At first, I've tried BH83, and then ClcSHMUP, but none of those really satisfy me. Maybe it's just me...