Jedi Remnants- updated on 6/21/05

Comikal · Post by **Comikal** » Fri 03 Jun, 2005 9:43 pm

With the completion of CCR, and the last 2 weeks of my sophomore year at HS, I plan to start another project. I'm working on a fighting/rpg, much like ToS (Tales of Symphonia) in style of fighting, except for only 2 sprites per screen (yours and your target). It will be based off of my friend's storyline, who does not TI-program at all.

With a new project, I plan to do things differently. First of all, I'm not touching fFRPL (Fast-RPL) editor until I am completely finished with the game concepts, such as:
-Enemies: 75%
-Playable Chars: 100%
-Fighting Stages: 0%
-World Map: 0%
-Towns: 0%
-Armors: 100%
-Restoratives: 0%
-Saber customization: 100%
-HUD: 50%
Work project page: www.comikorp.net/projects/premnants.htm
This site will have the bulk of my work/concept stuff in it. Unfortunately, since it is a public website, it will not have all of my stuff, but I didn't want to go over the post limits for a post here

This is only a little bit of the things I will be doing for this project. I hope to do a RT (real-time) battle engine, but if it does not work out, I will use a TB (turn-based) battle engine. Because I am not a sprite maker, I will require assistance from you guys in order to make this project a success. Soon, the project page will be up at ComiKorp (my website).

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Fri 03 Jun, 2005 9:47 pm

just wondering why don't you put your website in your sig?

Comikal · Post by **Comikal** » Fri 03 Jun, 2005 9:53 pm

thecheat wrote:just wondering why don't you put your website in your sig?

there is a little button under my sig. "WWW". Click that. That's why I dont have it in my sig (anymore, it used to be in there.)

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Fri 03 Jun, 2005 10:10 pm

oh I guess that would be it... (check pm)

FrostFusion · Post by **FrostFusion** » Sat 04 Jun, 2005 3:41 am

Just curious if you got this idea from mine

. I don't really care but just wondering. I like when I inspire people. Makes me feel important. LOL

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Sat 04 Jun, 2005 1:12 pm

wha?....

FrostFusion · Post by **FrostFusion** » Sat 04 Jun, 2005 4:27 pm

My game is based of Crystal Sword and I wanted to know if it inspired him to make this game. It was just a question and it was pretty clear

Comikal · Post by **Comikal** » Sat 04 Jun, 2005 9:53 pm

After reading the first page of yours, Frost, it is very much like yours. Unfortunately, it's not gonna be truly 3D. It'll be more like...lemme think, Soul Caliber in terms that there will be a lightsaber customization, and but its like ToS in terms of techniques (pauses and calculates and then resumes).

Comikal · Post by **Comikal** » Fri 10 Jun, 2005 9:36 pm

sorry for dbl post, but----
Just to let you guys know, I wont be doing any major things with JR until school is done, which is june 17th! So please be patient.

Post by **DarkAuron** » Fri 10 Jun, 2005 11:05 pm

I'd say double posting is fine if theres at least 2-3 days without another person's post. And yeah, I know how school can be in the way of things when it comes to personal projects. Good luck on this, it sounds to be quite an interesting game, just keep up the work and don't lose interest!

thecheat · Post by **thecheat** » Sat 11 Jun, 2005 1:43 pm

woah june 17 that's abit late us peoples here in georga get out late may...

too bad you can't do much because of school. but thisgame does look promising.

Comikal · Post by **Comikal** » Fri 17 Jun, 2005 1:32 am

Just another update:
I havent been able to get on much, and I also havent released much about my project here or on my site. AND unfortunately, I still do not have ths storyline, so I'm moving to plan B. As soon as school gets out (9:28 tomorrow morning EST) I'll start working on code, since i plan to finish enemy concepts and restoratives tonight, putting off anything graphic. An alpha test won't be released for a while, sorry. Also, I don't have much of my summer to work, around the third week in July, I'll be gone until August 12th. (I also have summer assignments. School sucks!) But I'll be working on this little by little.

What I've done so far:
-No code

-Playable character
-Skills
-Variable Assignments (on paper, not in-calc)
-Stats
-Weapons
-Armors
-Anything not graphic (Towns, HUD, Fighting stages, enemy sprites)

See you all tomorrow.

Comikal · Post by **Comikal** » Tue 21 Jun, 2005 11:41 pm

I need some help here people. If anyone has done a little RPL-programming on the side, and knows how to import libs into RPL, please post or pm me. Without this, using sprites will be very difficult (especially for live action fighting/rpg)

Comikal · Post by **Comikal** » Sat 25 Jun, 2005 1:29 pm

Unfortunately, I am not going to do any coding this summer or maybe year because of...
1)Kuda is planning on coming out with RPL 0.6 soon, which will have better sprite features, which may include greyscale.
2)The RPL libs are also coming out soon, which will allow special features for RPL that are actually in ASM (Kinda like ASM libs for basic, but now its for RPL)
3)My friend never gave me the story i was supposed to be working off of, so I need to create one, which shouldn't take TOO long.

Also, theres a bit of a problem with space. Let me explain it to you...
In RPL, you dont actually need Pic0-9 to use sprites, you load them one time and they are set there, since it is written into the code. However, using one 8x8 sprite takes up one label. I have only 63 labels to work with (A-Z,a-z,1-0, and theta) And since I'm using a fighting game, I need large sprites, some are 32x32. Unfortunately, one 32x32 sprite takes up 16 8x8 blocks, or 16 labels. Obviously, this will not work. Also, I have to make alot of cuts to make up for this.

At first, I had the game as a 2 character fighting game, which meant you could switch between your fighters IN-BATTLE. But now, I cannot do this because thats alot of sprites, variables, and labels. (I also only have 53 variables, A-Z,a-z,theta) The list of features exlcuded would go on and on, so I'm gonna stop there.

Don't expect this game to come out this summer or this year, since im going to fine-tune everything, and release stuff in stages.

kuda · Post by **kuda** » Thu 30 Jun, 2005 12:53 pm

Dont worry about sprite, the system is going to change :
sprites will be in an external structured file, so will the 8*8 spritelist for the tilemapping routine, and also matrix and string if you want...
you wont have to use labels anymore