Age of Darkness Revenge

[tifreak8x]

This is the fourth installment of the Age of Darkness series. This game will have 8x8 map tiles, 16x16 enemy sprites (so far, 32 of them). So far, the released version only has a few maps, and the tiles are stored in binary, which the rendering for that is slow, and will be soon ported to hex. The mapping system will also be changed from its current form of matrices, and changed over to strings.

You can find the current version of it here: http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/ainfo/6.htm

Some screenshots:



That is a pic of the title screen, it always displays a random enemy, to make it a lil more interesting...



This is what the maps look like now, because of the length of time it takes to load. Now that I have the hex sprite prog, it should load considerably faster.



This is what I am shooting for. I had it like that last september, but that was lost to a RAM clear...

And for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.tifreakware.calcgames.org/downl...wspriteaodr.zip

That is the enemy sprites. I haven't had a chance to fix them all yet, but it should still give you an idea on what is going on. please run pgm VIEWER.

And if you are wondering, I am going to be doing the project in as much BASIC as possible, so far the only ASM prog that I am going to use is RESOURCE. Hopefully I will have a new demo in a few weeks...

[programmer_to_be]

Alright. I'm downloading it right now. It looks pretty nice. Hope it has good gameplay! Those are some nice sprites!

[tifreak8x]

Well, I have 18 of an unknown number of sprites programmed on there, and here is a screenshot of it:

I also figured out how I did the life bar before, so that will also be put back on.

I hope to have the following things completed for the next demo:

At least 40 sections of maps complete, maps are 11x7 sprites
At least 1 town to walk into, and roam about in it
Completely new stats screen

Any suggestions? Please remember, that when I started this project, I wanted it in as pure BASIC as possible, and that still holds true. So, no "Change it over to xlib" comments plz. That will be for the next AOD game...

[tifreak8x]

Hmm, I have noticed a lack of interest in this project... I hope it is not because people think this game is slow, or think that I am a n00b...

I also have the game set up now that it will allow for over 160 tiles, though right now there is only, 21 tiles in use, so this allows for a lot more to be added.

Also, this game will be intended for the 83+SE, or any of that line that run at the full 15mhz. The TI-83+ will play it, but the map loading is terribly slow. the 83+SE allows for fast map rendering, since it is all in BASIC.

The walking engine has also been completely rebuilt for the String detection system. The execution of the walking is almost instant, between the erasing where the character was, recalling the pic var so the tile will be redrawn quickly, moving the character, and redrawing the character into his new spot.

The last thing for the walking engine will be to add the "event detection" routine, so that it can check to see if you are trying to enter a room, a cave, etc.

Next on the list though, is to add the new in-game menu, and the 10 remaining map segments, before I release a new demo.

[axcho]

[tifreak8x]

Yay, a response!!! :lol:

Well, Age of Darkness was first done as a text and menu game, which of course was not that great... Then I created one that was for the most part, semi graphical. I created another right after that, using the same engine, though adding some graphics to the map. That is when I decided I wanted a fully graphical map, and to see if it can be completed in nothing but BASIC.

I started out with binary sprites, using a routine to convert the 1's and 0's into the sprites, but that was slow, and slower still, when using matrices for the hit detection/map displaying. Thanks to Weregoose, cause he is a BASIC god, () I have a fast hex sprite routine to use, so that caused the amount of needed RAM to drop drastically, while allowing for faster sprites to be displayed. I have also converted the maps to string hit detection, making that smaller, and much faster.

The maps should have a lot of different types of terrain, I am hoping to make a fully explorable city, once I get that far. Right at this point, I have around 160 character designations for tiles to use, and a lot more if I have the need of them. The houses will be places of rest, or information. Who knows what will be put in them. ;)

The maps are drawn, and stored into a temp pic variable, and once the character moves, the pic is quickly recalled, so you can barely tell that anything was disturbed by walking on it. And then once you go to the next map segment, it redraws the map, and restores to the temp pic.

[quote name='"old readme"']You are a retired Elite Knight in the service of the King. You marry and have a child. While you are walking out in the woods, you are attacked and left unconscience. When you wake, you smell smoke, so you run to your home, where you find it burning. You hear screams coming from inside the burning house until the house collapses on to itself. Now you must find the evil people that did this to you and destroy them. But this time it is not for honour or glory, this time it is for revenge.[/quote]

That is the old story line, I am thinking of staying with it. I haven't really gotten past that, as I wanted to make the engines and routines all work...

and prgmRESOURCE is an asm program that copies a program in FLASH into a temp program, and allows you to run it. A better explanation of this program can be found at http://www.tifreakware.calcgames.org/tutor...sc/resource.htm


Edit:

New walking demo: http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/tifreak8x/aod/aodr4.zip

This is intended for the SE calcs, since the map loading in BASIC takes a few seconds. The walking, however, is extremely fast. Please let me know what you think.

[tifreak8x]

Update:

I have gotten the look of the in-game menu:

I have to rewrite the lists, so I can add the rest of the stuff for the menu program, but so far, the cursor moves up and down... :)

For those of you looking for animated screenshots, I have just got things figured out enough to make it work. :lol:

[programmer_to_be]

Nice. How long have you been working on this game? The new version, not the one that you had before it all crashed? I think my RPG will take until next year...or around October. Can't wait to play the whole game. What's gonna go in that white box?

[tifreak8x]

I have been working on it for less than a month now... rewriting things, making attempts to make things go faster, etc. There are now 20 map segments, though I think there might be a bug with one of them, I just have to go through them all again, as I tested it with pti last night.

Now to get them lists re-wrote...

[programmer_to_be]

Alright! Awesome. It's looking good. We'll try to help you as much as we can!

[kalan_vod]

Looks great as always Tifreak, and I am happy you didn't use another picture for the in game menu

[elfprince13]

/me <3's that uB3r c00l screeny.

[tifreak8x]

Thank ye. :lol:

I am working on the saving and loading feature right now, then I will see about the rest of the options.

What I plan on doing is having it create a random 4-digit number that would be unique to help with identifying save slots, etc. :)

I will hopefully have a new screenie in a few days.

[tifreak8x]

Well, sorry for the double post, but I got a new screenshot, as I am working on the save/load system. :)



Do you like the text window, or should I go with something else??


Edit:



This is the walking engine, though everything is alot faster on the SE...

[programmer_to_be]

I'm liking it. How big are your sprites? I tried counting but it went fast...

[tifreak8x]

Map tiles are 8x8, enemy sprites are 16x16.

Sorry for the crummy screenshot for the walking engine, I will see about getting a better one this afternoon.

[programmer_to_be]

What are map tiles? Like trees and such? And your walking sprite is 8x8?

[Weregoose]

[programmer_to_be]

[Liazon]