Author Topic: Tale of the Lost Map (Read 78943 times)

ztrumpet · « **Reply #165 on:** January 03, 2010, 09:54:42 pm »

Good luck! I can't wait to see them when you're done.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #166 on:** January 04, 2010, 12:51:03 am »

I like the idea of tactic battles. Just make sure random battles aren't too long, though, so it won't take 4 hours to grind for one level

Also, no jumping is fine for a real time battle engine, because many of them didn't even allow jumping. The only time where you jumped is when performing certain attacks. Example:

(off-topic note: can't wait to play this on my TI-Nspire, if i find an english patch)

jsj795 · « **Reply #167 on:** January 04, 2010, 01:54:27 pm »

well, i'm at school right now so i can't see the video (the computer blocks the flash java upgrade), but yeah the random battles will be short. I'm planning to make like 3 characters (a team/party whatever you want to call it).
You may change the character who will walk (most likely be pi, theta, and omega sign) and the one that's walking at the time of random encounter will fight 1v1 against monster and get exp, so it gives them chance to level up if they are lagging behind in level.
The tactics of course will involve all three characters, and each get experience from attacking/defending, casting magic, etc. and will get a bonus exp. and money when the tactics battle is over. It will be ASCII tiles, but I don't know if I am going to do it on homescreen or graphscreen... depending on memory and speed vs. the menu system and stuff.

ztrumpet · « **Reply #168 on:** January 04, 2010, 01:56:27 pm »

That sounds really cool! I can't wait to see what you come up with.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #169 on:** January 04, 2010, 06:33:51 pm »

pretty cool, can't wait for some progress and eventually screenshots

jsj795 · « **Reply #170 on:** January 04, 2010, 08:17:53 pm »

okay, I went back to the main menu and was able to optimize over 700 bytes!!! but still with same speed and feature. Now working on save/load feature, menu and little bit of random encounter battle engine.
I'll try to upload screenshot by this weekend if I get some progress

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #171 on:** January 04, 2010, 08:43:27 pm »

nice! btw how big is it all so far?

jsj795 · « **Reply #172 on:** January 04, 2010, 08:48:09 pm »

ummm... the main menu + naming the team (not the character now, but it's a team) is around 2K, Walking engine 670 bytes, and the maps broken into 3 programs total takes about 7K, and events (including going through the door, talking to NPCs, etc.) take around 3K.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #173 on:** January 04, 2010, 08:48:49 pm »

nice that's not too large so far. Anyway I hope you finish this ^^

jsj795 · « **Reply #174 on:** January 04, 2010, 08:55:21 pm »

thanks! I think I can optimize a lot more, it's just that I kind of coded in more lengthy but easier language to understand what I'm doing, for example not using seq( or stuff like that.
Once February ends, I will be able to code most of my time since wrestling season will be over by then.

Edit: Looking over the previous posts, I think the game changed soooo much since the beginning...
It was supposed to be horizontal sprite graphing and etc., and many other stuff, but as the year went on, it now came down to ASCII homescreen map with side-scrolling walking, and many other stuff

I wonder how much more the game will change before it's released...

ztrumpet · « **Reply #175 on:** January 04, 2010, 09:35:08 pm »

Good luck finishing this, but it's sure changed a lot.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #176 on:** January 05, 2010, 07:51:03 pm »

Just as a head up: try to not rewrite, rewrite and rewrite too much, else you will most likely go into an endless loop and never finish it. Many ppl did that in the past and they spent so much time optimizing and restarting from scratch (or close) that they eventually lost interest. Optimizing is good sometimes, though, and sometimes, a rewrite may be necessary.

Galandros · « **Reply #177 on:** January 06, 2010, 04:13:37 am »

Maybe planning and thorough thinking beforehand can make one very good rewrite stand for the final release?
Seeing others code can also give you the lights make your code that keep you happy.

DJ Omnimaga is right about rewriting making to lose interest, rewriting things that were done, sometimes is necessary and good but tear down motivation very hard.

jsj795 · « **Reply #178 on:** January 06, 2010, 10:30:18 am »

yeah... that's why I kind of stopped trying to improvise my walking engine, and move on to making the in-game menu. Thanks guys for all the advice

jsj795 · « **Reply #179 on:** January 07, 2010, 02:05:53 pm »

I'm done with the save/load feature, although I will have to improvise it to compress the data when the list gets too big.
And I am actually getting progress on battle engine too!!! In the random battle, there's going to be horiz screen. You and enemy+basic menu choice will be seen on the homescreen (bottom side) and the animation+advanced menu choice will be seen on the graph screen (top side). Once I post the screenshot up, it will be easier to understand

I gotta work on the animations/magic/items!

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