Put simply, this is a very simple greyscale game.  Pretty quick, and minimal RPGishness.

This is not a recent screen, but ya, just a general battle screen.



The contrast settings were bad when I took the screenshot with calccapture

edit: why do I continue to work on this project? because I'm still a noob at programming

glad to see you are still working on it, I hope you finish it

the only reason why this game is tenatively coded r/p/s (rock-paper-scissors) is because it's a part of a port to a strategy game that uses r/p/s.  Right now some bugs with greyscale data storage, which is why I still haven't finished the battle engine.  But since I've found out about C structures, I think I might be able to simplify my tile storage problem.

Nevertheless, there is a lot more I have to learn about C to write elegant, organized, and efficient code.

The sprites were made by MegaSasquatch, who is amazing at pixel art.  I'll upload them later.  along with more details.

160w x 100h in pixels.

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QUOTE (Liazon @ Apr 26 2006, 09:52 PM)

160w x 100h in pixels.

Well, not much of an update, but although I was reluctant at first, I had to cut down all the sprites to 48x48, partially dwarfing some of the figures.

Now I just have to start building the battle engine, which I'll start from scratch.  This old code is really messed up in terms of organization imho.

Eh, I probably won't release any sprites yet only because I haven't finalized them.  So far, I don't think they look good, but at least I've defined a standard size for all the sprites.

Megasasquatch: I'm still expecting some sprites, but don't trouble yourself to start until I've finished a beta for the battle engine.  

And, oh ya, I'm reluctant to use tilemap engine, only because I don't want to waste space.  And I haven't used it before.  Downside is some flickering in but, I'll have to see.  I think I can figure out a way to optimize my screen refresh method.  Still, I expect the game will be bigger than it should be, but hey, it's my first project.  I don't know how long before more progress, because I'm going to be busy this summer, but I'll try  my best to finish as much as possible.

Well, MegaSasquatch made the sprites with all sorts of dimensions, which was part of the reason why I couldn't get the engine to originally work.  I didn't know any of the preprocessor capabilities of TIGCC, so I couldn't take advantage of that, or structures to organize my data.  Fortunately, all of them were smaller than 48 pixels in width, which worked pretty well.  I wanted them all to have the same height to make my life easier, though it probably wasn't necessary.  What I ended up doing was cutting out rows of pixels and hoping that it wouldn't look like a bad cut and paste job