Author Topic: Tale of the Lost Map (Read 79078 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #105 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:53:50 pm »

Actually unfortunately it doesn't really work this way

, there was a whole process involved in causing Netham45 to be a lobster and this process is... well... I have no freaking clue what happened and how it started, really, lol

jsj795 · « **Reply #106 on:** November 30, 2009, 07:08:50 pm »

Back in update, I can't code as much as I used to since the college applications are due in... well in few weeks. But I have been working on the battle engine and such, so expect that within a week. (or at least i hope i can finish within a week

)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #107 on:** November 30, 2009, 11:41:40 pm »

Good luck in your school stuff. I am glad you are working again on this though ^^

jsj795 · « **Reply #108 on:** December 04, 2009, 11:14:31 pm »

Okay. finally the screenshot that i promised.
THIS IS NOT THE FINAL STUFF!!!
The map of real game will be more 3D looking, like Illusiat 13. This was made to test.
The battle system is not set, too.
I'm thinking whether to include timer, for the real-time battle, but that would mean that it won't work on TI 83+.
If I do the turn-based battle, it will be compatible, but it would be very similar to every other BASIC RPGs...
I made the saved game loading faster, if you can compare with the last screenshot i posted.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #109 on:** December 04, 2009, 11:33:16 pm »

Nice, that looks pretty fast. Are you actually using pictures to store maps? If so, you might want to check Illusiat 12 map loading code for the 3d-ish dungeon layouts. A suggestion, though: I wonder if using the character "8" wouldnt be better than Theta? It would look more like the head and body

(note: that will most likely land into featured rpgs section soon)

jsj795 · « **Reply #110 on:** December 04, 2009, 11:36:46 pm »

I am not using pics... The whole walking and stuff is in homescreen, using output for the fast map conversion.
I also use the matrix, hence I can use same tile, but they can have different effect, as you can see in "You are standing" sign. The space is empty, but the event is triggered. and i will consider using 8.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #111 on:** December 04, 2009, 11:39:44 pm »

aaah ok I see ^^

ztrumpet · « **Reply #112 on:** December 05, 2009, 11:13:45 am »

Looks nice. I like the look so far. Would both matricies and strings for each map make it a little big?

jsj795 · « **Reply #113 on:** December 05, 2009, 04:36:59 pm »

yeah, it does... 7 maps are 2924 bytes in program, and they don't even contain any of the special characters, which are 2 bytes instead of one.

ztrumpet · « **Reply #114 on:** December 05, 2009, 06:16:17 pm »

As you can see by this link, not all non-special characters are one byte.
http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/one-byte-tokens

An example would be all lowercase letters or the e constant.

Good luck with TLM. It sure looks awesome!

jsj795 · « **Reply #115 on:** December 05, 2009, 09:45:16 pm »

Thanks. In the program, I only used Y and * for the map, so they are all one byte each^^

ztrumpet · « **Reply #116 on:** December 05, 2009, 10:04:52 pm »

Dont forget " ".

I forgot to mention this earlier:
I would highly stress to not use the timer. Many people still have the 83+(se). You don't want these people to not be able to play TLM, right. Instead I'd do something like this:
:Value->A
:Repeat K="values that are valid key presses" or not(Ans
:getKey->K
:A-1->A
:End
This would let you have a real time like battle, but without using the timer.

Congrats on a featured RPG.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #117 on:** December 05, 2009, 11:52:45 pm »

Yeah true, altough I have a Nspire now, I was kinda frustrated when a game did not work on the 83+ back then (or the SE) just due to one function

.

Plus if you're gonna have some sort of escape sequence like in Metroid games at the end, you should make the timer yourself. It shouldn't be that hard, since I did it in Illusiat 7. Not to spoil too much, but after the final battle you have 15 minutes to escape . The only problem with that is that the timer runs twice faster on the SE, but on the regular 83+ it's sort of accurate.

You can see it in action here at 2:05 into the video:

Reuben Quest 2 also had something like this

Back in the NES and SNES days, many games had timers running twice faster than normal, none were accurate, and people did not mind.

That said, you could always make a TI-84+ only version and a 83+ compatible one

Builderboy · « **Reply #118 on:** December 05, 2009, 11:54:43 pm »

Thats what i did with Portal

The timed boss levels were meant to be stressful (simple tasks become much harder under the pressure of time

) and so I implemented the timer before i realized it wasn't compatable with 83's.

ztrumpet · « **Reply #119 on:** December 06, 2009, 09:31:53 am »

@Builderboy: At my school, no one knows about the version with the timer. I still used an 83+ when I found it, so I downloaded the 83 version and gave it to everyone. I've never even plaied the version with timed levels.

Illusiat 7's timer looks great! It's cool that games can have a timer, but without using a timer.

@DJ: I see what you mean. You finished this amazing final dungeon and get a pic that turns black and two screens of text. That's a short ending.

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