"As for now, the most viewed forum topic is Nyaar RPG progress thread with over 9000 views"

Sorry. I had to say it.

There were some empty spots in the tileset below 127, so I told him that he could use tiles up to 127, but he neglected to count starting at zero, so he thought he could only have 127, when I needed no more than 128. The edit he did just added a tile and updated a couple of the maps to use that extra tile. Previously, it was another tile because he thought there just wasn't enough space to do it.

The tileset, uncompressed, still takes up 8K by itself. Around 6KB compressed.

And as far as "windowing", he just wanted it to make it clear to the player that the textboxes are "windows" instead of just cheap-ass rendering things stuck at the far edges of the maps. I haven't written anything that would demonstrate it, but the system that I've written can be easily changed to accommodate what Zera wants. The text itself remains the same. It's just the "box" that it goes in. What is being talked about is the box. I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear. I was kinda sleepy when I made that last post. I still *am* sleepy >.<

I like Nethams. It's all lobstery goodness. When the lobster bisque is done, maybe we can talk about how I should reverse the order of my response since it doesn't correspond to the questions you've put forth. Or... enjoy the lobstery goodness. It's all up to you. All you gotta do is choose your favorite wine, and we're all set. ^_^

(wow. That's offtopic )

I'd like a sig, but that's if you're willing to go off on ...whatever.

In your mind, think of a red dragon with a peculiar "flavoring" associated with it. Happily ripping apart farm animals and then having those chunks delicately sautéed, then slathered in a sweet and sour sauce. The flavor is savored for as long as it takes for the farmers to notice what has happened to their animals, which takes a while since they're all out to market. When they get back, they have a hard time trying to figure out whether they should attempt to slay said dragon, or accept the offer to partake in the meal prepared by such a beast. A gentle"man" in some respects. Likes RAWR-ing atta random peoples. Magic? Can do every bit of it except getting a computer keyboard to float. I don't know what's up with those things, but they seem resistant to any levitation thingies put on it. Personality always has a seriousness in the undertone, but is sometimes random. My color is red, but I do enjoy a mix of blue as well. Who knows? I prefer darker colors.

What I described isn't what's going in, but it's the general *feel* of what I'd like. That's more important, and I'd love to see what you can come up with based on the feel of a description rather than the physical description of the object itself.

But if you really want something concrete, it should have a bottle of sweet and sour sauce in it. Slightly cherry-flavored.

No new screenshots, but I will explain what I've done in the meantime, and what still needs to be done at the moment.

I've been having problems writing a masked unaligned sprite routine. The mask is being extracted from the dark gray layer. I've written some logic that I hope will work out, but the whole thing needs to be put together in such a way that something can be demonstrated. At least enough to replace the "dedicated black box" with something nicer.

I've added in an scrolling intro thingie for "New Game". That's to kick off the events leading up to you being able to gain control of your character at some point after the opening sequences. A screenshot will be released only when I get up to that down. If you're on IRC, you may get to see preliminary screenies.

Also, the format of the textboxes are also going to be changed. Slightly smaller to take advantage of the windowing effect that the text system uses. Other stuff, I'm still discussing.

Also, I updated some of the maps to make use of an extra tile that remained unused (tile 127). The effect sets some maps apart from the others, so there will be some variety in the game.

Uhm. I feel like I'm forgetting something.

Welcome to the last forum you'll ever visit. You will be Agent N.

Erh... I mean, hi! Welcome (back) ?

Edit notices don't appear until some substantial time after the first post was made, or if someone else has seen that post. I've gotten away with a few of those if I've edited very shortly after creating the post.

Even though I'm not exactly working on the project at the moment, sure. I'm still taking entries.

( Took long enough >.< )

I guess there's no better time than to break it now.

calc84maniac is starting work on an 8 level grayscale version of Chip's Challenge.

Personally, I can't understand how he's doing it, but oh, well. He's doing it.