Quote from: Art_of_camelot on November 07, 2010, 05:55:18 pm

Looks nice! I can definitely see the pokemon influence. =)
*edit* I missed the animation for the character taking damage at first glance. I REALLY like it.
*edit2*I can't shake the feeling that the character looks like Harry Potter... Did you "borrow" the sprite from a Harry Potter game?

Actually the sprite came out of when I was raging at my sprite editor and drew random lines. Then he ended up with a cape type of apparel that I thought looked cool.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2010, 05:49:55 pm

Woah, so great looking, especially the animations and layout (I like the HP/MP bars). You really did a great job so far and I am glad you finished the engine. I hope you made a backup because it would really suck if your calc RAM/Arc cleared on you X.x

I can't wait to play it when it comes out

made a backup today on PC

Hopefully I should be able to get out an engine demo in a month or so, then an alpha with a bit of real storyline after that. Glad to see everyone likes it so far

Cool to hear, don't rush yourself, though

Wait, so, will the battle engine support multiple sprites? I don't mean at once, but different enemies. It seems like that would take up a whole lot of space. Or, are you planning on having one per type? That would make the most sense to me.

2 enemies per fight or 2 sprites per enemies?  Right now the enemies are much more than 2 sprites

2 enemies per fight or 2 sprites per enemies?  Right now the enemies are much more than 2 sprites

oh, by 2 sprites I meant 2 24x24 sprites. So I guess total 36 sprites lol

Augh, that's a lot of space

You won't like the numbers for the battle animations then

^There will only be 1 enemy per battle (i would like to add more, but a) screen size limitation and b) space limitation) So each enemy sprite has 2 layers, since its grayscale, and each layer is 24x24. (or 9 8x8's) so in total that is 18 8x8's. Each enemy has its own "getting hit sprite" that is the same size. Hence, each enemy's sprite data totals 36 8x8's, or 288 bytes.

On a completely unrelated note, I've begun working on the NPC engine that I talked about on the other page, and so far I've finished the basic text display and the simple control structures.

Woooo text parser thing is going great. Basically, I'm writing a sort of parser that reads NPC data and interprets it as code (key words: sort of). This will save a lot of space both in the executable and in the NPC data appvar (I hope)

Currently can : read/display text. wait for input before advancing, ask the player yes/no and write to conversation flags (thanks Hot_Dog, Runer112 and nemo!)

This is the data used in the screenie:
"Hi. This is text. Pressa key now " [07] "Do you like cheese?" [01][02] " Awesome" [04][03] " Why not?"[04][07][14 0207][02]"DONT TALK TO ME"[16 0207][04][03]"I TOLD YOU TO STOP BOTHERING ME"[04][00]


The commands I have right now are
[07] pause
[01] yes/no box returns 0 for yes and 1 for no stored to A
[14] check bit specified by the next two bytes: the first byte is the pointer to the byte + L4, the second is the bit#. Returns 0 or 1 stored to A
[16] write to bit, same syntax as [14]
[02] Effectively, it's If A=0
[03] If A=1
[04] End
[00] End conversation

Planned commands will be a newline command, a print player name command, initiate battle, and give item.

With this method, I can/will be able to have about 200 unique NPC conversations, averaging 100 bytes in length (about 4 lines of text)

Wonderful!  Great job on a nice engine.