[update] Hero Quest 19th November 2010

[Silverthorn]

Epic. Do I need to say anything else?

[Ragor]

It's like Hero Fighter with scrolling and the zooming

[Apocalipsis]

Freaking awesome. It just keeps getting better and better =o

Now I need to work on Dave... but now that I restarted school I don't have too much free time for sprites and... I'm lazy, as always =.= Argh I hate me.

[Azriel]

Release (Click to View)

Hero Quest - 31st August 2009
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Characters:
- Aeron (YinYin/Havoc Creator), slightly modded by Azriel (flight)
- Joe (Siegvar)

Backgrounds:
- Lion Forest (Marti), edited by Azriel (vertical scroll, castle)


Notes:
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More of a feature preview than a "playable" release, you can write your own code to test stuff, but a rundown of some of the differences between HQ's data files and LF2's data files:

x new tags
Backgrounds:
- [friction] fx: 1.25 fz: 1.25
- [ybound] y1: -600 y2: 0
- [opoints] check bg/sys/lf/bg.dat

Characters:
- [hold_<a,j,d>]
As long as you're holding A, J or D, your character will go to the frame number specified in hold_a: # (for example) after the wait: # is up. i.e. This serves as an alternative next: # frame. hit_a: will have priority over hold_a: (if you press A on a frame with both tags enabled)

- [z coordinate areas]
z1: z2: are used for bdys and itrs. This is an alternative to the zwidth: tag whereby z1 == -z2 if used. If none of these tags are specified, the data will treat it as LF2 does - z1: -12 z2: 12.

- [z axis opoint]
In LF2, objects spawned via opoint are always Parent.z + 1. With the z: tag, you may opoint relative to the Parent's z coordinate. Using z: -1 will cause the spawned object to have the same z-axis coordinate as the Parent.

*Parent here means the object with the opoint:


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The castle object is made from a few different "objects" (single data file, different frames). This is to give the impression of a "room" with different z-levels. If you try and get on top of the castle via the stairs, you'd notice that your character tends to "teleport" to different places. This wouldn't happen if there is only a single identical bdy used for all of the frames, which would be much easier to work with for wall/platform detection. However, bdys keep varying in each frame, so to not have it buggy is near impossible.

Don't kill yourself trying to get onto the castle with Joe, it takes quite a number of tries.

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Azriel~

[Alectric]

wow, good work
it is quite buggy
i would like to say, for player 2 (W,A,S,D), there is no jump button? for player one(arrow keys), it is shift.
and some of the movement of the characters are still a bit random (as in when you knock then out, it looks unnatural)
but i guess there is no point in commenting on that because you probably know all that, and are probably facepalming at me. I know it is still a WIP, but i was just saying is all...
Joe looks pretty cool, his punching animation is pretty awesome.

and i love the castle, it is awesome with Aeron

Epic work

[Azriel]

*emerge*
been a while since I posted, but I've been busy. Next update probably won't be related to gameplay

update:
[youtube]zBdRlYNEHM4[/youtube]

Added "special:" tag to implement special in game effects
special: 1 enables one degree of timestop to all Actors
special: -1 disables timestop

basically timestop works like this:
- activating object increases the "timestop count" of everything else in the game
- activating object runs its frames
- activating object decreases the "timestop count" of everything else in the game.
- things in game only run if their timestop count is 0, so u can have timestops within timestops, but u need to decrease all timestop counts for all objects to 0 (-ve just resets it back to 0) for all objects to run
*submerge*



Azriel~

[Boop]

What about when weapons start falling from the sky? When time stop is activated, they don't exist yet so they won't be time stopped when they fall.

Just something to think about .

[Fiandsnuve]

please where is the download?

[Azriel]

What about when weapons start falling from the sky? When time stop is activated, they don't exist yet so they won't be time stopped when they fall.

Just something to think about .

good call. was making spawned objects "inherit" the timestop/slow-motion (yes i just implemented this) from the opointer to save from having to make the game remember everything.

@fiands
this time round there's no release, coz it's not too major. last release was recent anyway



Azriel~

[Azriel]

double post, this thing should be "worth" bumping the thread for
[youtube]LCjy-hcLDcc[/youtube]
enjoy~

Got some of my friends to play it for the recording. Time slow is cheap in that sense, but this is just a preview.



Azriel~