Embers:Phoenix

squidgetx · Advanced Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2010 Posts: 72

Hey guys, just figured I'd post about my latest z80 project: Embers:Phoenix (The sequel to the still-unfinished Ash:Phoenix)

Anyway, going against your typical FF style RPG (Verdant Forest) I'll be putting something more similar to TaN:F or Desolate together. Combat will take place in real-time against enemies with *gasp* (hopefully good) AI. The story will take place in the future, at the twilight of Earth's humanity. Society has begun to crumble...there have been no technological innovations for the past 300 years and the Earth is dying. That is, until the current head of the world government gets wind of a rumor that the formula for immortality has been discovered. He decides to send his top agent (you) to investigate...And the adventure begins.

Some specs I'm thinking about:
-8x8 monochrome, for speed and convenience
-Byte-sized tiles instead of nibbles for less intensive data organization and more variety in tiles. This is possible since each tile is 8 bytes as opposed to 64 in Ash:Phoenix.
-Pokemon style smoothscroll tilemapping
-A small variety of weapons

I'd post a dl link but I can't yet, as I'm entering it in omni's contest
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KermMartian · Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:48:01 pm Post subject:

This is looking great! Can I safely assume that this is written in Axe, rather than in pure z80 ASM? It looks great so far, and I look forward to progress. Glad you have a good backstory, of course, but how goes the process of converting that into a game?
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squidgetx · Advanced Newbie Joined: 09 Dec 2010 Posts: 72

Kerm; yes it's in Axe Razz

How goes the process of converting it into a game? Well, the contest deadline is over so you can use this to find out for yourself Smile

The game follows your story as you are sent by your company, Eli Labs to get in touch with the company that runs your security, The Crimson Laboratories...only to be met with a nasty surprise ^^ There are 4 different standard enemies and 2 bosses...the game is kidna short to meet the contest deadline but I did manage to get in quite a few puzzles, itemhunts, and AI variations.

Try it out, and feedback is welcome of course. And if you like my game and have an acct on Omni, vote for me ^.^ [/blatantplug]
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