Enough smacktalk ....

Enough smacktalk ....

nonnus29

Member #2,606

August 2002

You know, Macintosh has a thriving shareware videogame market, but most of those shareware games are VERY high quality and professional. If you wanna really make some money, port it too Mac!
Hows that Mac port of allegro coming along anyway I wonder....

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David Grace

Member #42

April 2000

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And like I think I said way above, I have several games planned featuring other characters (Transformers, for example) which I will of course not charge for.

Hmmm, might want to be careful about that. I'm not sure how vicious Hasbro is, but large corporations have been known to latch onto freebie game developers due to IP issues. (*cough* Tetris cough)

BTW, I tried your demo on my main system. I don't remember the fps, but it was very high. Looks really smooth, I like how your tiling engine deals very well with sloped surfaces. You should have some nifty "push blocks/mining carts/boulders" parts in the game, a la the old Sonic days.

I like your Lua approach, too, it's very similiar to my SeeR approach. BTW, any reason why you chose Lua? I'm using SeeR because I can save myself a lot of work by keeping defintions the same between my scripts and game engine code. (Just import "global_funcs.h" and "global_vars.h" into both!)

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Thomas Fjellstrom

Member #476

June 2000

hey, criss, pull an ID software, release the engine but no art, or logic (ie: scripts).

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23yrold3yrold

Member #1,134

March 2001

Wow; my humble little thread has lasted better than a week ....

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Hmmm, might want to be careful about that. I'm not sure how vicious Hasbro is, but large corporations have been known to latch onto freebie game developers due to IP issues. (*cough* Tetris *cough*)

Yeah, I know. I still want to make them though, if only for myself

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You should have some nifty "push blocks/mining carts/boulders" parts in the game, a la the old Sonic days.

There are already 2 blocks like that in there, no?

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BTW, any reason why you chose Lua?

Flipped a coin. It's worked for me so far (and the Lua mailing list is interesting reading; they just released Lua 5.0).

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hey, criss, pull an ID software, release the engine but no art, or logic (ie: scripts).

This isn't addressed to me (who's criss? ) but I've thought of that too. The engine still needs lots of work before I think about stuff like that ....

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Thomas Fjellstrom

Member #476

June 2000

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This isn't addressed to me

I'm dumb!.. I misss my keyboard... Im stuck using one of thos MS ergonomic split thingamabobies. my fingers arn't used to it, and no I never really did latch on to that whole home row thing. (I basically type at 30ish wpm with 4 fingers )

23yrold3yrold

Member #1,134

March 2001

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I like your Lua approach, too, it's very similiar to my SeeR approach.

Here's my current goblin code:

1-- initialization
2Set(4, 0.5)  -- topspeed to 0.5
3Set(5, 0.01) -- acceleration to 0.01
4Set(6, 3.0)  -- health to 3
5 
6state  = "RUNNING"
7health = 0
8life   = 0
9dead   = 0
10 
11statefunctions = {
12          RUNNING = function()
13                       Running()
14 
15                       if(HitWall()) then
16                          TurnAround("WALKINGLEFT", "WALKINGRIGHT")
17                       elseif(HitEdge()) then
18                          TurnAround("WALKINGLEFT", "WALKINGRIGHT")
19                       end
20 
21                       if(Footing() == nil) then
22                          state = "FALLING"
23                       end
24 
25                       -- check if player is in range (compensate for direction)
26                       -- use life variable to space out attacks over time
27                       -- state = "ATTACKING"
28                    end,
29 
30          FALLING = function()
31                       Falling()
32 
33                       if(Footing()) then
34                          state = "RUNNING"
35                       end
36                    end,
37 
38          HIT     = function()
39                       Running(0, 0, 1.02)
40 
41                       if(IsStopped()) then
42                          if health < 1 then 
43                             Set(7, 18) -- set state to DEAD (18)
44                          else
45                             InterruptAnimation("WALKINGLEFT", "WALKINGRIGHT")
46                             state = "RUNNING"
47                          end
48                       end
49                    end
50                 }
51 
52-- main function; runs the show ...
53function update()
54   statefunctions[state]()
55end
56 
57 
58-- now, a way to deal with different hits, like trips ....
59-- how about passing the animations to hitby from the C code?
60function hitby(h)
61   health = h
62   if health < 1 then
63      FacePlayer("DIELEFT", "DIERIGHT") 
64   else
65      FacePlayer("HITLEFT", "HITRIGHT")
66   end
67 
68   state = "HIT"
69end

All that's left is attacking, really. I'm also making optimized scripts for enemies to run in a range instead of checking for edges (which gets expensive) and not checking for slopes (these scriopts will be for enemies on flat ground only). I need the speed. Know what's cool? I tried hardcoding the scripts so it was all straight C++ to see the speed boost ... and there wasn't one. Lua's pretty zippy 8-)

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