Ideas for my RPG

[fool]

I was wonderin if anyone could give me some ideas on how to improve my RPG im working on. Please try the game I have zipped along with the other progs. Run "AOC2" and have the other progs in RAM. Thanks.

Download here.

[Super Speler]

Rather then double posting use Edit next time.

[fool]

feedback would be helpful and appreciated

[todlangweilig]

I liked it, it was pretty fun to play, but there are definately some things to address,

The biggest thing is that there is a serious memory leak. I tried to run your program and got through the menu, but got a memory error when it tried to store stuff to [A] in ZLOAD. I went to the memory screen and there was 2k left in RAM. I keep getting memory errors there as well. There was 0 bytes free in the archive, i only had the Apps that it came with there. So i wound up reseting the archive, archived your program and reset the RAM. That seemed to take care of the memory leak. I then ran you program and it worked, but when i go back to the memory screen I still get a Error memory. I believe this to be a problem with one of your ASM progs.

It would be nice if there were less battle in the beginning. It gets kind of annoying because you can't get out of the first map without fighting twice.

In battle, you might want to make it so that one doesn't have to keep pressing enter.
ie so it not like this:
Choose Attack
3. Sword
you do 3 damage
[enter]
*blank* does 3 damage
[enter]
Choose Attack
..

maybe more like this:
Choose Attack
3. Sword
you do 3 damage
*.5 -1 sec delay*
*blank* does 5 damage
Choose Attack
3. Sword
...

Could you make the names of the enemies a little more discriptive than b, `, ?, etc
It would be nice to see something like, "You were attacked by a Rapid Wolf!". I dont care if you use the characters to represent the enemies, that would be fine.

It would be nice if you did something with that 'M' in the 3rd map if you goto the left in the first map. It gives a Error Undefined when you walk on it. I had a pretty good character going until that happened.

I do like the fact that one keeps their stats when they die I don't know if thats what you intend or not though.

You might also want to look into generating the maps instead of storing them. If you are going to have a lot of them stored, they are going to start hogging a lot of ram.

You should be able to optimize a good deal of things in your BASIC progs. Talk to Weregoose, he is great at optimizing. http://weregoose.unitedti.org/#Optimize

You done a lot of work, but you have a lot to go as well. So keep up the good work.

p.s. it might be nice if you would post your source to your ASM programs so we can see what you are doing/ help you with debugging.

[fool]

Oh wow, thanks alot for the feedback! About the enemies, Im not too concerned about changing them. I will add delay loops. Oh, the "M" is where i wanted to put a shop to upgrade stats and potions that heal you a certain amount. My biggest problem is the memory leaks. I've included the source codes for the asm progs. Thanks again for helping me out.

[todlangweilig]

There is still a problem with the ZARK program. Its somehow causing L1 and L2 to be screwed up. On my calculator it says that L1 has a dimention of 16719. :biggrin:. L2 seems to hold patterns of 0, 8e-128, and 4.4e-128.

[fool]

Try my updated version because I havent gotten any memory errors.

[todlangweilig]

I downloaded the new version from the other thread. I don't mean a memory error from the basic program. I mean a memory error in the memory screen steming from L1. I've tried your program on two different 83+'s, so i don't think that it is something specific to my calc. To see what I mean, try running your program until you get to the first menu and 'kwit'. Then type [2nd] [1] and you'll see what i mean.

[fool]

omg, ur rite. Any idea what's wrong with my asm prgm zark?

[todlangweilig]

Why don't you go through and comment ZARK, both the code and what exactly its suppost to do? This will be quite useful in figuring out what's wrong with it.

[fool]

I've looked, theres nothing wrong. I posted the source in Z80 forum

[todlangweilig]

The comments aren't necessarily for you. They are for everyone else trying to read/understand your code. A four letter name isn't all that descriptive. People aren't going to want to spend time trying to figure out what it does. You need to explain how this thing works.

Comments are also good for helping you remember what you were trying to do 6 months from now.

[fool]

All it does is archive (if *is b4 the prog name), unarchive ( if a space is b4 the prog name), lock (if L is b4 the prog name), or unlock (if U is b4 the prog name) any program in str0. e.g. to archive itself:
:"*ZARK"->Str0
:Asm(prgmZARK

Simple as that, but i dont know why it has memory errors.

[Toksyuryel]

"You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now." -Linus Torvalds

;D

[todlangweilig]

Nope, I've never exemplified that one before.

[fool]

umm howbout we stik to topic?

[phi_plus_u_squared]

Its a good game so far. Keep it up. I recommend that you put more things in like items and puzzles because battle after battle can get boring. Overall, good job.

[fool]

What kind of puzzles should I add?

[Fallen Ghost]

Like a riddle so that you can battle the next boss, (something) so that you find out what sword or spell is more powerful against the next ennemy...

Anything that will fit in the memory taking of your program!

[fool]

is it possible to make a maze with invisible walls so that if you "fall" you'll go back to the beginning of the maze?