Author Topic: Tale of the Lost Map (Read 70683 times)

ztrumpet · « **Reply #135 on:** December 11, 2009, 05:19:26 pm »

Sounds great! I can't wait to try it.

Builderboy · « **Reply #136 on:** December 11, 2009, 08:37:57 pm »

Loliloli! -Wait what?

looking good! Its random-encounter battles right?

Insorak · « **Reply #137 on:** December 11, 2009, 08:45:05 pm »

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Loliloli! -Wait what?

I'm looking forwards to playing this... and finding my link cable...

jsj795 · « **Reply #138 on:** December 11, 2009, 11:39:32 pm »

It is random encounter from the map, but I still haven't figured out if I want real-time or turn-based or mixture of both. Mixture would be more like Joltima style, where depending on your speed, you can have more than 1 hits in row. Real-time would be more like an action-based, where there is no timer and you attack, like DJ's Zelda, except side scrolling and 1 enemy. Turn-based is easy enough, Illusiat 13 style.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #139 on:** December 12, 2009, 01:42:39 am »

Side scrolling battles real time (random battles) might be cool. A lot of people liked this in Tales Of Phantasia:

jsj795 · « **Reply #140 on:** December 12, 2009, 07:25:31 pm »

Wow thank you for your video, I got an inspiration from there. I think I will try to go that way ^^

jsj795 · « **Reply #141 on:** December 15, 2009, 01:20:07 pm »

Okay, I had to rewrite the walking engine, because it got slower every time i put new event. Now, checking event is faster, but then the jumping/stair climbing seems to be very buggy. I gotta work on that before I work on the battle engine
(it's always the battle engine that gets postponed... o.o)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #142 on:** December 15, 2009, 02:10:50 pm »

Question, are your events checked inside the walking loop? Or do you check if there's an event at all and if there is, just completly exit the walking loop to execute it? I found the later speed things up drastically. Basically you need a variable like M, set to 0 when game starts. If this var =0 it executes the walking engine until collision is detected with an event, which changes the var M to 1. M is changed to 2 if the random battle counter that decreases every loop reaches 0. Pressing 2nd during walking loop changes M to 3. In any of these 3 cases, the entire walking loop is exited.

When it exited, if M=1 it triggers the event program and execute an event based on which map you are on (or where you are in that map if there are more than 1 event) and if it's = to 2, then it triggers a random battle. If M=3, the game menu is opened. Once one of these 3 things are done, M is reset back to 0 and in battle case, the counter is reset. This speed things up drastically because if you put everything inside the walking loop, you'll have major slow downs.

jsj795 · « **Reply #143 on:** December 15, 2009, 02:35:02 pm »

yeah i did the latter one too. Basically, since most of the events are triggered by pressing up (like going into the room, talking to NPCs), I set

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walking loop (Repeat Z or exit out of boundary
getkey->_theta_
Walking code
[A](C,D)(_theta_=25 and 8>[A]=(C,D)->X
End
If X=1
-event 1-
If X=2
-event 2-

etc...

In [A] 8 is ladders and 9 is the wall.
0 is empty space and 1-7 is the event in the map.

I think may be i should change the wall to 1 and stair to 2 and make the events any number after 2, but not unless I have a map that has over 7 events

ztrumpet · « **Reply #144 on:** December 15, 2009, 04:12:20 pm »

I think you should change it because then you have (Ans>2) vs (Ans and Ans<8).

jsj795 · « **Reply #145 on:** December 15, 2009, 07:31:50 pm »

actually, i don't need to do Ans and Ans<8
because if Ans is zero, then it is multiplied by zero
( [A](C,D)*(_theta_=25 and 8>[A](C,D->X )
so basically, the X is the value of the [A](C,D
as long as X doesn't exceed 7.

Even if I did Ans>2 i still would have to multiply it with [A](C,D) and _theta_=25
so it evens out

I wanted to change because then the events in each map (one map is 8x16 homescreen) can be more than 7

ztrumpet · « **Reply #146 on:** December 15, 2009, 08:38:02 pm »

Oh, your method is better.

Galandros · « **Reply #147 on:** December 28, 2009, 09:27:36 am »

How is this going?
I hope the lack of news is not caused by lack of interest.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #148 on:** December 28, 2009, 10:34:56 pm »

me too -.-, he hasn't been online for several days at one point this month and recently hasn't posted a lot either

jsj795 · « **Reply #149 on:** December 29, 2009, 11:15:01 am »

sorry guys... I am currently so~~~~ busy doing my college applications. They are killers

I didn't lose any interest tho o.O
It's just that I can't find any time to code. I try to optimize and make the walking engine faster and better before i go to sleep, but it's kind of annoying to code the ladder-climbing part -_-;;;
Thanks for the interest tho~ after Jan. 1, which is the due date for the applications, I will be going online and coding more often. ^^ See you guys then

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