Falling star Text base

[BlueLight]

Hello everyone. I am right now trying to get a mixture of colors and i'm hoping you can help.

I need a new color for the north,West and possibly the Center for my tabs.
I need them to blend in and to tell you the truth i'm only going to add them if they compare to each other well.

[Thaedael]

Hey BlueLight,
I am by no means the best or greatest pixel artist ever, nor do I pretend to be, however I do have a lot of experience doing it so if it is cool with you I can give you feedback on the stuff you shown thus far, and even suggest techniques for making the map sprites a lot more photogenic. Let me know if it is ok to give constructive feedback, since not a lot of people tend to like it when I am super critical on the forums.

[BlueLight]

Hey BlueLight,
I am by no means the best or greatest pixel artist ever, nor do I pretend to be, however I do have a lot of experience doing it so if it is cool with you I can give you feedback on the stuff you shown thus far, and even suggest techniques for making the map sprites a lot more photogenic. Let me know if it is ok to give constructive feedback, since not a lot of people tend to like it when I am super critical on the forums.

Go ahead. No point in beating around the bush.
I would love if you were blunt with me.

[BlueLight]

Alright so i haven't really been able to do much work in the past 2 days and well i would be sorry is i had any control over it.

Anyways here's what i got to do.
1 Fix my array for info on the north panel.
2 Learn how to make grid with a library design for it.
3 Add and gradient to the GUI.

[BlueLight]

Alright so i'm starting work on my game engine and i'm going to be using JGame for it mean i am required to give them some credit (Damn licensing laws).

What i really need is ideas for the game. It will be easier to implement ideas if i know about them before i start writing the game engine.

[Nookie]

Alright so i'm starting work on my game engine and i'm going to be using JGame for it mean i am required to give them some credit (Damn licensing laws).

What i really need is ideas for the game. It will be easier to implement ideas if i know about them before i start writing the game engine.

Can you briefly explain how the gameplay will be like? Or do you want ideas for that too?

[BlueLight]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j5_ ... t?hl=en_US
That has about all the information i could pull out of my brain.

Does that help?

[Nookie]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j5_96ckBpGQ0F7WnpBO-aMP0BBBNBB1Jalc97PoWU7E/edit?hl=en_US
That has about all the information i could pull out of my brain.

Does that help?

Hmm, so basically you are making an interface that has different tabs and buttons that perform a certain action or event? Does it play kind of like most browser-based games?

[BlueLight]

Have you downloaded the GUI? if not i think if you see that you'll understand.
I uploaded a new version last night I believe.

[Nookie]

Have you downloaded the GUI? if not i think if you see that you'll understand.
I uploaded a new version last night I believe.

Yeah I check it out. It reminds me of one of those adventure games where you point and click. Are you sticking with this GUI layout?

[BlueLight]

bleed nights without sleep over this GUI so ya i'm sticking to it.
I'm still working on it but basically thats the plan.

As for reminding you of adventure games i can believe it since i'm sorta modeling the as a RougeLike.

http://www.exmsft.com/~ricks/ near the button is a link that says castle1. This is a old RougeLike game called "castle of the winds 1-2" This was made back in the day when complete games given away for free and called demos. Anyways this is a 32bit only game and i don't think it will work on anything other than windows OS unless emulation is involved.

Right now I'm about to scrap any notion of being able to skip a few step in creating the game engine.
I'm trying a library for drawing that seems simple enough but for the lack of documentation on the classes.
It's a bit out of date java 1.5 and my program uses 1.6 but we should be okay. 1.4 and 1.5 is ware a huge update in the syntax was done. 1.6 was basically just more items added to the API so i don't think i need to worry about the files fighting.

The last library either had poorly maintained documentation or it still supported 1.3 and it was a little over kill for what i need.

[BlueLight]

I'm working on a public update but it's going slow since i'm really work on other part of the game.

The character creator is getting extra features. I am still working on the engine and i might just have to do this thing by scratch.

[BlueLight]

So i am right now really work on the engine and here is what i got.

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public class Grid {
int Y=0, X=0;
int[][] landMass = {
      {11,12,13,14,15},
      {21,22,23,24,25},
      {31,32,33,34,35},
      {41,42,43,44,45},
      {51,52,53,54,55}
      };

   

   
   void testLoop(){
      System.out.println("Method loop starts");
      while(Y < 5){
      X = 0;
         
         while(X < 5){
            System.out.print(landMass[Y][X]);
            if(X < 4){System.out.print("_");}
            X = X +1;
         }//X loop end
         
         
         System.out.println();
         Y = Y +1;
      }// Y loop end
      
      
   }// end loop method
}

I know really complex and programy right. Well let me show you what it does.
It prints out this in my console that you guys can't see.

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Method loop starts
11_12_13_14_15
21_22_23_24_25
31_32_33_34_35
41_42_43_44_45
51_52_53_54_55

Ya i know not a lot of progress i well. I just don't want to do it. My theory is that if i do everything but the engine that sooner or later it will build it self.

So first off landMass[Y][X] is a array of array. basically a 2d grid which is a grid.

now really the Y and X is there is to say where in the grid you want to look up.

Now i numbered the grid how i did because i wanted to see it. but thats not how the engine will work.
I'm going to take the approach that i believe notch used with minecraft. I will make a grid (he made a 3d grid i believe) and add values to the grids depending whats in it.
Now I think he uses a byte which smaller than a integer. Byte is roughly 256 numbers where a integer is something like 1,000,000+ numbers.

anyways the approach i'm thinking of taking is a value says whats in it. so here's what i got down for that.
Negative values are room elements.
0 is floor
1 is character
2-10 are allies (just reserving)
11-20 are NPC good or bad ( think town guard)
21-40 are NPC monsters

This would work in theory but i don't think i will totally take this approach. I was told not store the players place in the grid so i'l likely use it for room elements and items on the floor.

[BlueLight]

*Any before this point in comments might have been scraped.*
Redoing the first post so i can have a better plan on what i'm doing. God i hate it when i replan everything.

[BlueLight]

Okay i am going to try to get a few releases done today and i'm going to put them on my blog.
If everything goes according to plan i will have basic Attack system programmed and ready for testing. Note i am not totally happy with this method and i will likely change the logic some day.

[Arson]

Imagination based games ftw!