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Progress progress everywhere

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:18:04 +0000

Well suddenly I have been doing lots of progress, and the game is feeling quite complete now, featurewise. I have added several sound effects, some new monsters, And I’m in middle of finalizing the User Interface. There will be weapon stats and armor stats shown in the UI, so one doesen’t need to guess too much [...]

Swing the sword, climb the mountain

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:32:46 +0000

While playtesting the game lately, I had noticed that the combat was bit boring, so I decided to try different approach. Instead of relying to automatic melee based on weapon speed, I set up an action based melee system. So now you need to “swing” the weapon yourself, by pressing the quickbar slot ( I [...]

Map teleporting and gifts from strangers

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:40:01 +0000

I have made nice progress again. I implemented an item transfer to the quest system, and I also have a world map teleport functionality up. Now in the quest system, you can evoke three kind of dialogues: notification dialogue, where the NPC just says something to you dialogue that leads to accepting/denying getting an item from NPC dialogue that [...]

Concept art, as in “real games”

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:33 +0000

I have been suprisingly productive lately. First I created those funny monsters (check previous post), then I whipped up a Bog Imp, flying insect-like thing in mere seconds (well, it did actually take bit longer, to tell the truth) and now I have created a beautiful ghost mage lady. And this is just the graphics [...]

Ooze Monsters

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:14:30 +0000

I did some fast tests for a green slime / oozemonster and it appeared good, so I did some other “crazy” monster designs also. Funny looking stuff. I’ll make them move relatively slowly and deal A lot of damage… so they are easy avoid – unless you get caught on [...]

Map of the World

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:36:38 +0000

I made a world map test. Not sure how to incorporate this to the game, but now that I have a map, Im sure I’ll figure out how to use it =) I find that having maps like this trigger imagination and you sort of “find” the story with no heavy effort. [edit] Well hmm, yes, maybe [...]

No more heroes (with missing weapons)

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:23:57 +0000

Yes! I got the saving and retrieving inventory items to work finally! Hooray! There are some tidying up still to be done, but in practice I now can trust the system to work well.As a “side project” I have been working on a character image stuff (see w.i.p. image above), which I will corporate to the [...]

Character portrait & blending grass and rock

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:05:38 +0000

I couldn’t get sleep another night, and did’t have access to coding stuff, so I decided to do something different. Firstly, I tried making alpha blending to ground textures. I wasn’t sure if it is doable in flash, but it appeared to quite possible, if not straightforward. One needs to create a MovieClip with layer filter [...]

I found a Castle!

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:08:08 +0000

I was randomly going through my old backup files and found nice set of simple castle wall graphics. They were made for a tile based engine, as a proof of concept. I’ll do some recoloring, and they are ready to be merged to the game!

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admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:47:38 +0000

What’s the use of having different weapons, if you cant find out the differences? Giving player needed information is vital for good game playing experience. I have polished the user interface and added description to items. The description is currently presented in inventory mode only, but that is sufficient, I think. I also made a new [...]