Yeah that part's broken. Shhh don't tell anyone! Haha, no, but I'll fix that (yes the text is cut off)

Quote from: chickendude on July 12, 2012, 10:28:53 am

I thought it was very well designed and looked very professional. Right from the beginning everything sorta drew me in, the world was really pretty and made me want to explore even more. The only two things are: 1) the text wrapping, and 2) at times, like walking around corners or buildings and whatnot it looks a little clunky. Other than that, i was really really impressed by it and would love to see more! It felt very polished and now i just want to play more! This is something that would definitely stay on my calculator Thank you for writing it!

Thank you! 1) The text wrapping, mhm yeah, I don't have a word wrapping algorithm per se, but whenever the text parser encounters a certain byte in the text data it will reset the cursor to the next row/pause and reset the whole box. So all the text wrapping is manual which is why much of the text isn't wrapped properly after the first few areas of the game (time constraints). When I make another release I'll try to get all of those fixed
2)Looks a little clunky? Could you elaborate on that? (What does it look like)

With the mask around the player it looks like you are standing on top of the building or makes the world feel flatter instead of "3d" (see attachments)

And i just found "that" door, thanks

As for text-wrapping, what you do is add the size in pixels of each letter to the current pencol (or whatever the axe equivalent is, essentially the X position on screen of your text) until you reach a space or some other special character you want to break up words (maybe an EOS token, generally a 0). If you don't know or don't feel like calculating the size of each letter, you can just use the average size for each letter (maybe 4 or 5 pixels) and it should work well enough. For example, this is all just one line in my code:


It makes it much easier because then you don't have to separate each text by screen, you can count how many lines you've drawn and when it goes to draw the third row of text you can automatically pause it and draw the next set of text after pressing 2nd/whatever key. It's really not that complicated, but if you'd like i could write an asm textwrapping routine for you

So how do you display the texts? Something has to keep track of where the next character gets displayed. Anyway, it's not a huge issue, the game itself is incredible those are the only real issues i can find with it, and they don't keep it from being amazing Congrats and good luck in the contest!

I think I found a bug:


It happened at entering the door when you sneak around the crimson lab. A secound door appeared next to the normal one, and when I got at the location shown in the screenshot, it said "II2IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII".

I have never tried to reproduce it, but it didn't happen on other doors.

while you're at it, you should try fixing the collision checks so that you can't walk through things when going diagonally.

RELEASE!

Thanks for everyone who supported me in the contest!

I tried to fix most of the bugs, lemme know what you guys think!


Edit: also added to ticalc

DJ, see me other post for what to do after you get the security logs
I think my other post either never got sent or was deleted??

Anyway, after the security logs talk to Jenkins (one of the guys in Eli labs) to get a key that lets you out of the city

WOOOOO