Post by: clockworkroutine on June 19, 2007, 07:46:26 AM
Its all about marketing.
"Joy"
Witness an accurate feel of a three dimensional space and explore and play around till your hearts content.
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Cubic Terrain V. 1.02 - Click me But look below for a little set of rules (http://www.savefile.com/projects/808527270)
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Yea, a few glitches and to make sure you don't fall into them - for now - just obey the following rules.
*In the beginning don't move your character around - wait 1 second so that the shadow event for your character finishes loading.
*When you wall jump don't press any random keys - or experience the slip through time and space effect. Usually this occurs when you are jumping in the direction down and press the enter key too many times without pushing the up direction key. Another thing occurs when you jump left or right into a wall and push the enter key too many times - what happens is that the character looks graphic as if he fell down.
There is a glitch - not a big one - but it has to do with the indication arrows sometimes being wrong when they say you cannot move onto a space. Haven't found out why.
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Command Keys:
*All four direction keys = move in indicated direction
*Space = jump
*Space + Direction Key = Jump in Direction of Key
Features:
*Witness an accurate feel of a three dimensional space.
*Wall Jump = Jump into a wall and be able to kickoff and jump into the opposite wall. Push Space + Opposite Direction key at moment of impact
*Shadow under player character and all other objects
*Hit the Teleporting Color Block to increase your jump by 1 point.
*Nice sound effects.
*Indication Arrows that tell whether you can move up and down a tile.
Enjoy - its alot more fun then any discription can put on it.
Tell me what you think.
- Clockwrkroutine
Post by: aboutasoandthis on June 19, 2007, 12:02:15 PM
I looked at your coding a bit and understood it. It gave me some ideas. I noticed that you use Parallel Processes, Autostart Commands, and Loops. I know what I do isn't real programming, but I've always been against the use of this type of coding in an RPG Maker game. I've always programmed my stuff to have abolutely no lag so that it's accessible to everyone. This lagged a bit in the beginning and I had to let it run a couple of minutes.
I don't see how this can be useful now, but I might be eventually surprised. Good job. :)
Here' one little glitch I noticed. The top-left block causes the game to sortof freeze...
Post by: aboutasoandthis on June 19, 2007, 04:42:57 PM
If your wondering what I'm talking about, I actually have 4 ways to display a game as opposed to the usual 3 when I'm running RPG Maker.
-I have the small screen you are talking about
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/aboutasoandthis/01.png
-the mid-sized screen that as all should know lags like hell,
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/aboutasoandthis/02.png
-the full screen,
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/aboutasoandthis/03.png
-and a special small-yet-full screen.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/aboutasoandthis/04.png
The bottom is the form I run my games on, as it takes away even more lag that the mentioned full screen. I think it's kindof cool. Even with that mode though, and without the internet or any other programs running, it still took a minute or two to catch up with itself.
As to how old my computer is, it sucks. My mom somehow literally blew up our old computer after putting it on the same electrical line as the heater. We had to find makeshift parts around the house. As of now, I cannot play a single 3D game on my computer. Even certain GBA and SNES roms lag on our computer. IT'S THAT BAD. XD
I can still play sprite based games though. This is why I try to program my game to not rely on a computer's system.
On an off-topic note, you know what would be a good use for this system? This could be a Halo styled action shooter. Think about it. If you were to put in a jumping system and a working form of shooting, this could be really fun.
Have you ever heard of the Ineluki Key Patch? It lets your RPG Maker games use a few more buttons, as well as the mouse, for your games. If you could take this system, set movement controls to the keyboard, and set the shooting controls to the mouse, it could be something easy and fun to play.
This system might be able to work for a Prince of Persia styled games, but I'd have to think about the controls.
That's all I got. Yeah... I hope this helps.
Post by: aboutasoandthis on June 19, 2007, 07:43:01 PM
I haven't looked too much into it. I think you either use his demo and rework it to fit your needs (deletion, copy/paste, etc.), or copy/paste his RPG_RT file over your own games's. (I'd advise making a copy of your game if you try this.)
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Post by: clockworkroutine on August 21, 2007, 06:05:21 PM
You are really going to enjoy this version - I've come back from my stay at RISD Pre-College. And now I'm lazy again and have been sapping day and night on this project.
I've added an array of new elements and fixed up alot of coding. There are a few bugs but thats only if you miss around.
There is now a shadow that follows underneath your hero - that now gives you an idea of where you are jumping and how high you are in the air.
Now you can jump in any direction.
Not only that but if you jump into a wall you can hit the jump button again and the opposite direction key to jump to the other wall - and continue to do so until you've reached the top. You do so back and forth from the screen but its really hard to tell.
I've used sound effects really nicely in this game.
I've added also an element of arcade style to the game - where you chase after this teleporting color block - that adds 1 point to your jumping ability when you catch it.
Not much else but a special appearance by a sprite that I've worked on that I think looks pretty cool - after finding seeing him - check the data file in the sprite folder.
Okay enjoy.
- Clockwrkroutine
Post by: drenrin2120 on August 21, 2007, 06:56:40 PM
Post by: clockworkroutine on August 21, 2007, 08:43:42 PM
Yea, a few glitches and to make sure you don't fall into them - for now - just obey the following rules.
*In the beginning don't move your character around - wait 1 second so that the shadow event for your character finishes loading.
*When you wall jump don't press any random keys - or yes I've experience the slip through time and space effect.
I have not experienced the freeze in the air glitch, I'll see what I can do with the coding - and might just make a self correcting system if I can't figure anything out.
But really appreciate your input.
Post by: clockworkroutine on August 21, 2007, 08:47:46 PM
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Post by: clockworkroutine on August 21, 2007, 09:35:07 PM
Panarama idea doesn't work - how sad.
Post by: aboutasoandthis on August 22, 2007, 12:25:04 AM
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Originally posted by clockworkroutine
*In the beginning don't move your character around - wait 1 second so that the shadow event for your character finishes loading.
You might want to add an Autostart based loading event to stop people from moving.
Other than that, it's pretty fun.
Post by: clockworkroutine on September 16, 2007, 04:06:00 AM
A* Pathfinding - implemented with my varying terrain - I'm so happy right now.
Thank you anonymous German for laying out the template. I'll get back to all of you with a demo for a TBS. Finally - fug god damn it I wasted a month trying to figure this out - and I did it all wrong before. It only took a day - this time. The best part is that I didn't program anything today except add in 2 lines for the terrain - it was like pulling out that one Jenga block.