um...so as not to invoke a level 99 rulez monkey of +2 magic missle, if there are sketches of female nude but they lack any...erm...parts of distraught to people prude (top and bottom)...would it be against the rules?

@ killer: I wish I could draw consistant decent 3/4 veiws well...if you want to get better, you have to either draw a lot to build up your right-brain and fine hand motor cordination or just have massive inate skill (sadly, necro lacks the latter.)  I would bet you if you spent 30 minutes a day drawling, in a month you would see improvements.

one of my random anime pics, penciled, inked and gimped, damned pic doesen't resize well otherwise I would use it as an avatar

ok, I have finaly got the inventory system mostly working meaning this update is getting close.  I still need to get parts of it done yet, but...eh, tis difficult to try and work with code like this to the level of controll I want.  The next release will also have a new secondary weapon, the grenade, besides the rocket launcher nobody seems good enough to get to as well as new primary weapons.  Ph, now I have all kinds of sprite like effects and such that give the game a nice graphical boost...and I will have some of the basic textures in the next update.  I may decide to forgo the blue-prints and combination system as it seems like it might add unnescicary hassle and complexity...at the very least it will be removed from the next version.

I will be updating the information in an hour or so by editing the post on the front page.  The engine's point is to be able to make games like metroid or any number of other games and alow as much variation to the code with as little possible actual need for routine modification by the user of said routine.

we should have a 73 burning...gather and retire the demonic calcs of crapiness and replace them with real calculators

Not for combat ball as it is a story/mission based game, but necro's puzzle, yes!  I can think of external level loading easy, I am still trying to think of a good way to write levels besides by hand to a file though...

I didn't bother releasing an update because I want a level editor (even if the engine is a bit incomplete) for people to play with.

each routine is different so as to prevent people from re-using code.  I can't specifiy which I would choose or any of the details before the game begins as that would encourage people trying to pre-code and stuff.  If the first is sucsesful, I will write up the rest all at once...and I would try to make them inter-changeable so a game could be made for instance with a combination of routine 1, 2, and 3 with a certain amount of input and graphics and maps, while substituting one of those routines with another would result in a diffrent game entirely.

Of course, I will have a lot less time starting next week as i will begin working towards my CS accociates degree and my parents say I have to get a job soon.