Crater9 by Taintedminds

taintedminds · Post by **taintedminds** » Fri 22 Apr, 2005 8:00 pm

I started making this game for the ti 83+ that i've been working on for a while. I call it Crater9. It's a basic RPG. As of right now i only have the beginning sequence done and there is only 1 weapon. It will most definitly be fun. Quite possibly one of my biggest and most complicated games i've made. There will be a save feature. I've been working on it for a little. Whenever i get a chance i will post some screenshots. The graphics of the characters are kindof crude though. Hopefully I can get a demo out sometime and you can give me some tips and pointers on what i can do to make it better. What do all of you here like to see in a game though?

UPDATES:

Now able to save and load perfectly.
2 monsters have been drawn and ready to be used.
started writing out story line.

-Taintedminds

tokijnct · Post by **tokijnct** » Fri 22 Apr, 2005 8:17 pm

If it's an RPG, a good story to go along with it

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Fri 22 Apr, 2005 8:29 pm

I dont care about graphics quality, as long as there is not just menus and texts. They can be sprites made of letters on the home screen (ASCII). I like long RPGs (around 10 hours of gameplay) with a quite cool RPG-ish story

taintedminds · Post by **taintedminds** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 1:13 am

well i hope to make it long. I've been working on it for about a month now and it's proven itself to be a little difficult to get everything working correctly. its always fun to mess around with new ideas though. im having small problems with the save feature though. itll get worked out in time. it should turn out nice. i want to make it as small as possible though too. theres quite a bit of programming i have to do to work all the bugs out though. just in the beginning of the game i have a few bugs but it will be fixed whenever i get a chance to look back on it. i'm trying to think of a good screen to lead into a fight though. if anyone has suggestions on what i could do it would be of great help.

-Taintedminds

Luthar · Post by **Luthar** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 1:59 am

taintedminds wrote:well i hope to make it long. I've been working on it for about a month now and it's proven itself to be a little difficult to get everything working correctly. its always fun to mess around with new ideas though. im having small problems with the save feature though. itll get worked out in time. it should turn out nice. i want to make it as small as possible though too. theres quite a bit of programming i have to do to work all the bugs out though. just in the beginning of the game i have a few bugs but it will be fixed whenever i get a chance to look back on it. i'm trying to think of a good screen to lead into a fight though. if anyone has suggestions on what i could do it would be of great help.

-Taintedminds

I know how to help you with the saving feature! I figured out the best thing for rpg save's...hehehe

taintedminds · Post by **taintedminds** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 2:58 am

Luthar wrote:
taintedminds wrote:well i hope to make it long. I've been working on it for about a month now and it's proven itself to be a little difficult to get everything working correctly. its always fun to mess around with new ideas though. im having small problems with the save feature though. itll get worked out in time. it should turn out nice. i want to make it as small as possible though too. theres quite a bit of programming i have to do to work all the bugs out though. just in the beginning of the game i have a few bugs but it will be fixed whenever i get a chance to look back on it. i'm trying to think of a good screen to lead into a fight though. if anyone has suggestions on what i could do it would be of great help.

-Taintedminds
I know how to help you with the saving feature! I figured out the best thing for rpg save's...hehehe

well would you care to share?

Spengo · Post by **Spengo** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 3:24 am

Just so long as it runs at a playable speed on regular 83+'s...And try not to take up too much archive space.

taintedminds · Post by **taintedminds** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 3:35 am

ill try to make it as small as possible but i cant guarantee anything

Luthar · Post by **Luthar** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 3:42 am

This is the code source I use for saving and loading RPG's mostly...

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 Menu("SAVE","YES",A1,"NO",B1)
Lbl B1
Goto ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 9:35 am

Is this serious? You can't be:
[quote]Lbl B1
Goto ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â

tokijnct · Post by **tokijnct** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 10:32 am

Why not just save it to another list and do not bother with the converting to matrix part? (Unless you have multiple save files, then just store directly to the matrix). Also, the delvars could be one command it saves a byte or two.

DelvarStr0DelvarListACDelvarListACE

btw, try to limit the amount of "Menu(" commands you have in the program

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 12:51 pm

tokijnct wrote:DelvarStr0DelvarListACDelvarListACE

Hmm, I am always afraid of using that in case TI decided to update their OS so this is not supported anymore

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 1:03 pm

@leofox: If you had looked WELL at the code u would've seen he does Goto Lbl ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 1:19 pm

[quote="the_unknown_one"]@leofox: If you had looked WELL at the code u would've seen he does Goto Lbl ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 4:16 pm

*cough* that code looks EXTREMLY like mine for my first RPG diablo game, except I just used list*cough*

The problem with all those save files is that I can create a hero with 99999 health in less than 2 minutes.

MaxCoderz

Crater9 by Taintedminds

Crater9 by Taintedminds

lol

Re: lol