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Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 05, 2005, 06:02:00 am

Shadow Falls is boolsoft's attempt to TI-68k RPGs, featuring beautiful graphics and a interesting story. This alpha version is very uncomplete; you can walk around an speak to people.

http://boolsoft.mobifiles.de/

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on August 18, 2005, 12:07:00 pm

The fights are now included (in a not very advanced way, yet). All I can provide for the moment is this screenshot, which doesn't look that good (on my real V200, it looks better and doesn't flicker...)

// Edit: removed screenshot, see below for more infos

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: arti on August 18, 2005, 02:04:00 pm

It looks very professional, especially the battle screen.

Say, does it use the ExtGraph tilemap engine?

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 19, 2005, 01:39:00 am

wow thats the biggest screenshot I even seen *resizes in the GIMP for news article on front page* O_O

look very nice, while the overworld reminds me of FF1 the battles graphics reminds me of FF6 and the text boxes Chrono Trigger , I hope to see this co0mpleted soon :)

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on August 19, 2005, 05:11:00 am

Yes, most of the graphic aren't made by myself (some were ported from the FF series, some were fetched from RPG community sites (e.g. the fighting background)).

And no, it doesn't use the TileMap engine. Everything was developped by myself :)

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on August 19, 2005, 08:30:00 am

I've just uploaded a new version (with fighting):
http://boolsoft.mobifiles.de

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 19, 2005, 09:52:00 am

oh nice, you all wrote routines by yourself? Are most in C or are some in 68k ASM? I'll try to play the new demo and post the news article about AUra/Shadow Falls/Zelda soon but first I need to resize the above screenshot with the GIMP  to fit it in the frontpage :)

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on August 19, 2005, 11:51:00 am

1. I can send you a real 240x128 screenshot if you want.

2. They are all witten in C. The source will be avialable when the first public version is finished.

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 19, 2005, 12:03:00 pm

hmm nice, maybe you could send me a new screenshot 240x128 because now that I look at it my pentium II will not be able to handle the resizing  :crazy:

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on August 19, 2005, 11:37:00 pm

Allright, this screenshot is 240x128 and has got a better quality than the one above. It is quite large, though.

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on August 26, 2005, 03:21:00 pm

OK, there is no new download available now, but I've just taken a screenshot of the enhanced battle engine. Other things I added:
 - Partially added 2nd city
 - Added another fighting background
 - Save/Load game at inns and at home
 - Enhanced menu

Perahps I will upload a beta (or just another alpha <_< ) when these things are prooved to work and I added some other features I have in mind.

Oh, yeah, here's the screenshot:

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 27, 2005, 04:46:00 am

look very awesome so far, the graphics are so sweet , do you take battle backgrounds from FFVI? I'll try to grab an emu and play it once a new version comes out :)

how many characters per battles will there be?

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on August 27, 2005, 06:44:00 am

I don't where the battle backgrounds are taken from, but I usually get them from RPG community sites like http://www.toolkitzone.com/ . Some of the gfx of those sites are ripped and some are done by poeple themself.

There will be 1-2 monsters and the main character. In the second chatper, you will probably able to fight with 2 characters... :)

Anyway, I'm still thinking about including magic spells and elements so that fights won't get boring...

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 27, 2005, 07:07:00 am

hmm nice site I shall look into it when I have timeQuoteBegin-saubue+27 August 2005, 13:44-->

QUOTE (saubue @ 27 August 2005, 13:44)

Anyway, I'm still thinking about including magic spells and elements so that fights won't get boring...

do

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: Ranman on September 09, 2005, 09:33:00 am

Saubue, you sure have increased your talents since TI Hex. Keep up the good work :thumb:

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on September 09, 2005, 09:52:00 am

lol, I have spent a lot of time into TIGCC, C, C++ and C# indeed...

I also worked on TIHex after it was released and added a link feature that was almost stable  :), but I don't feel like releasing it at the moment anyway...

Shadow Falls is (I think) the 4th or 5th RPG I have started to develop and I never worked that long on a project yet (I also spent much time on PowerComPress, but not THAT0 much), so I hope that the first chapter will make it to a final release.

Are you "only" working on Ultima now?

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 09, 2005, 09:59:00 am

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QUOTE (saubue @ 9 September 2005, 16:52)

Shadow Falls is (I think) the 4th or 5th RPG I have started to develop

 where are the 3-4 other ones?

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on September 09, 2005, 10:18:00 am

The first 2 were BASIC RPG projects named "Knight's Quest" and I planned them to be adaptions from a PSX game named "Guardian's Crusade"...

The other 2 were TIGCC RPG projects that wanted to port the BASIC projects - the second one is also the one I ported the map engine from (Currently, I have to slow it down so that the user can see the map properly...)

Shadow Falls my first RPG project that will have a story written by myself (the first and a part of the second chapter are already written), although the story will be influenced by other RPGs  ...slightly... ;)

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 09, 2005, 10:58:00 am

I cant find them at ticalc.org :(

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: Ranman on September 09, 2005, 11:01:00 am

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QUOTE (saubue @ 9 September 2005, 15:52)

Are you "only" working on Ultima now?

 Yep... Ultima V steals all of my time. I have been working on it for about 1 year now (off and on). I also took a break to work on Astrosmash.

If all goes as planned, Ultima V should be ready by Summer 2006.

Next, I'll probably do Ultima IV Quest of the Avatar using the same engine. Ultima IV is alot less complicated. Ultima V has so much detail, it is really kind of amazing it is 18 years old.

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 09, 2005, 11:03:00 am

yeah I guess so. :) (and I wish astromash was avaliable for the 83+ :( )

Title: Shadow Falls
Post by: saubue on September 09, 2005, 11:10:00 am

Everyone with a V200 smiles...  :)


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QUOTE ("Kevin")

I cant find them at ticalc.org :( Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on September 09, 2005, 11:31:00 am I've uploaded the new alpha today: http://boolsoft.mobifiles.de There is also a new screenshot... Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 09, 2005, 11:50:00 am QuoteBegin-saubue+9 September 2005, 18:1--> QUOTE (saubue @ 9 September 2005, 18:10) Everyone with a V200 smiles...  :) QuoteBegin-"Kevin"+--> QUOTE ("Kevin") I cant find them at ticalc.org :( Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on September 09, 2005, 12:01:00 pm QuoteBegin-Kevin+9 September 2005, 17:5--> QUOTE (Kevin @ 9 September 2005, 17:50) QuoteBegin-saubue+9 September 2005, 18:1--> QUOTE (saubue @ 9 September 2005, 18:10) Everyone with a V200 smiles... Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 09, 2005, 12:44:00 pm lol, well it depends, if one of them has some maps and is good enough I might look into it. btw I loked at the screenshot and dowlnoaded the alpha and it look very awesome, almost like Final Fantasy and chrono trigger :) good job on this project :thumb: Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on September 09, 2005, 12:50:00 pm :) I don't think it is good enough... See ICQ for a link Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 23, 2005, 12:11:00 pm *checks boolsoft* O_O *boolsoft is down atm* I was wondering if there was new progress on the game so far? Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on September 23, 2005, 01:46:00 pm Hm.. I am able to open the page with Fireofox and IE... Shadow Falls is not progressing at the moment, because I have a lot of ideas on PoweComPress... Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 23, 2005, 02:41:00 pm ah I see :) I guess mobifiles was down earlier but now its back :P Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on September 30, 2005, 01:55:00 pm boolsoft.mobifiles.de is now really down because mobifiles had to move due to the high traffic... you can access boolsoft via the original address: http://home.pages.at/saubue Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 30, 2005, 02:37:00 pm yea i recently noticed the mobifiles news on ti-news so i translated in google and it said the archives were down, oh well :( Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on October 01, 2005, 02:11:00 pm Thr archives are restored, bnut the subdomains don't work properly... Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 01, 2005, 02:14:00 pm k   Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on October 03, 2005, 12:54:00 am Everything is working fine now :D Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 03, 2005, 10:00:00 am k nice, it sucks that hoster restrict bandwidth for websites. At least with Invisionfree I am not restricted in bandwidth unless I purchase ad free package Title: Shadow Falls Post by: Ranman on November 03, 2005, 03:06:00 am QuoteBegin-saubue+23 September 2005, 19:46--> QUOTE (saubue @ 23 September 2005, 19:46) Shadow Falls is not progressing at the moment, because I have a lot of ideas on PoweComPress... My email to Ticalc: QuoteBegin --> QUOTE In my opinion, http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/379/37950.html appears to be worthy of featured program status. It is an amazing on calc compression utility complete with a grayscale Windows-like GUI. I believe Saubue has just raised the bar for calc programming. Amazing!!! :ru13z: You just keep getting better and better Saubue. P.S. Don't forget about Shadow Falls ;) Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 03, 2005, 05:07:00 am i hope it will get featured. I dunno what is it tho because I dont have a 68k :( Title: Shadow Falls Post by: Ranman on November 03, 2005, 03:36:00 pm Ah hah... I new it would get featured! Congratulations Saubue! :ru13z: Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 04, 2005, 03:28:00 am awesome, congrats Saubue!  :thumb: Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 04, 2005, 03:39:00 am EDIT: sry wrong topic Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on November 09, 2005, 07:31:00 am That damn internet connection kept me away from Omnimaga a whole week :( But anyway, thank you a lot David!!! :) Your support is really encouraging   :bounce: Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 11, 2005, 12:37:00 pm Any progress so far? Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on December 14, 2005, 06:06:00 am I'm afraid that there is not much progress at the moment, since I got a lot of other projects to work on. But I haven't been lazy, either: I thought much about the magic stuff, and I think I've got some ideas for it. Perhaps I will start working on it soon (I have already made the map for the first dungeon, but it's too large to fit in the RAM, so I'll have to split it - that was the point I stopped working ;) )   Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 14, 2005, 06:12:00 am ooh i see, do you know about compression utilities for maps? Maybe that would help. on that note you just posted the 7000th post on the forum :P Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on December 14, 2005, 06:37:00 am Yihaa! :gift: I could compress it, but nevertheless I need to load it into the RAM to draw it. Its size is 70x70 (which makes 4900 bytes). Additionally, the graphics have to be loaded to: 20 (tiles) x 16 (height) x 2 (unsigned short) x 2 (grayscale!) = 1280 bytes. The calc normally should be able to do that; double-buffering and other variables shouldn't take that much mem. But somehow, the calc crashes when I try to load the map :( BTW, you should all visit ticalc.org and vote for PowerComPress :psychedelic:;) Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 14, 2005, 07:02:00 am *votes* err... well.. it will take me a long time to try every program in the POTY :( there are soo many O_O Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on December 14, 2005, 11:53:00 pm Well, you've got one week to decide... Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 12, 2006, 07:18:00 am hmm question: is it on hold until lemmings 68k is done or is it discontinued? Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on February 13, 2006, 07:01:00 am I'm afraid it's on hold (it's not only Lemmings 68k that takes my time - Advanced Dialogs Pro and some other stuff keeps me busy as well)... :( I really hope to be able to finish Shadow Falls, but I can't tell you for sure now... Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 16, 2006, 02:19:00 am moved to "Project and ideas" since there have been no progress for more than a month Title: Shadow Falls Post by: saubue on March 22, 2006, 03:02:00 am Thanks, Kevin. I've got a lot of other stuff to do in my real life right now, so I'm unable to work on my projects. Additionally, my notebook is broken and I'm waiting for it to be repaired :( Title: Shadow Falls Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 22, 2006, 03:13:00 am ouch that sucks, I hope you can get it repared soon :( *xlibman SMF 2.0.15 | SMF © 2017, Simple Machines Dream Portal 1.1 © 2009–2025 Dream Portal Team