Sound interesting, there are lots of different elements you could include with puzzle RPGs, so I'll be quite interested to see what all kind of mechanics you come up with. :)Thanks! I have some really good core puzzle ideas that I came up with a day or so after I posted the topic, so now I'll have a better idea of what to do with the mechanics now.
Looks like this is coming along quite nicely. Nice work! :)Thanks! I took quite a bit of a break, so I haven't made huge leaps in progress, but I do have something to show!
It's always good to see progress. :thumbsup: I like the character animations as he's walking around the map. It's simplistic, but it works. :)Thanks! I have another method to animate characters, and I'll be using it for my next project, but seeing as players will be able to make their own tilemaps and use them in their own map-packs, sprites were the simplest method. The fewer the sprites needed for a walking animation, the better.
It's a shame that AoC is the only one who has replied to this thread so far.Thanks! I appreciate you deciding to comment despite not really being interested. As well, honesty is always appreciated too! That just drives me to make this something that will appeal to you, or at least make something else that will catch more eyes.
I'll admit that this doesn't appeal much to me (at least in its current state), but it's clear that you're putting in a lot of effort to make something good, so I'm still rooting for you. :)
Wowzers, I really wish I had a color calculator.Haha thank you very much! Like Streetwalrus said, though, this is a PC game. However, if you have a PC, you can still play!
Not a bad transition. It seems kinda slow though. I would speed it up by a factor of 2. It might get pretty annoying if there is a lot of walking involved. Of course having the screen center on the character would be best but if your engine isn't set up to handle that it then it could be really hard to implement.Thanks! Right after you posted, I took a second look at faster scroll speeds, and agree that x2 was way better, while still getting the effect of moving screens. I suppose I could have no scrolling and just automatically load all nearby maps, but I'm not sure how long that would take to set up. I'll definitely toy around with it, though.
Music is really good!
So my project has started to take shape, and I've made this website: https://gtlmappacks.firebaseapp.com/index.htmlMy first announcement of the site. It had just launched with bare-bones upload/download support. It had a dummy download and like counter. No way to post map-packs with a certain type, description, or even see the profile picture of the person who uploaded it.
It adds rudimentary map-pack upload and download support. It will support a download counter as well as a like button. Once I actually release Gateway, I imagine this will be used a lot more, but for now we have this
I've added the second-to-last script type editor, the one for the BossActions script! Now you can fully script bosses. Related to that, I changed the format of the BossActions script so now, it uses coordinates instead of X/Y velocities. I also revamped text input (and more noticeably, the Change FPS setting) to add just numerical input!Today, I got back to working on the actual game and added editing to BossActions. BossActions has been functional for months, but I've been putting off creating the editor, since there were so many parts to it. I had to have the player choose what tiles the boss is, how much HP, and then figure out a way to have them define a variable amount of points for the boss to move to. However, I finally put that task to bed. Just one more script to create, and then that should be totally done! Also, I added an input method just for numbers, so you can't try to break the system by inputting text in a number-only input.
Since I'm feeling productive today, I also updated the map-pack webpage. Now, the Download (now View) button for each listing on the Download Map-Packs page redirects to the View page for each map-pack, where you can read about it, vote on it, and download it. I think I will add more such as an actual forum, as wellI just updated the map-pack webpage (https://gtlmappacks.firebaseapp.com/index.html) to add a lot more to the Download and View pages, as well as making some things auto-load. I still haven't decided what I want on the Index of the page. Most likely a search function and featured map-packs. As you see, I am also debating adding a comments field to map-pack uploads, and adding a full forum! I think it's within my scope, although hopefully it won't become super popular, or my Firebase plan won't be able to handle the traffic!
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Ok last update (hopefully not for a while like it seems to be). I finally added the ability to like map-packs! The server keeps track of if you have liked or not, and will add or subtract a like depending on which you have done, when you press like. I'm gonna go ahead and style buttons tomorrow, as well as adding more information on the View page, such as likes and downloads. Perhaps I'll make a Comments field as well