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#71
Off Topic / Re: how well :-D
Last post by erico - 2024-Jul-28[WARNING - A WALL OF TEXT IS APPROACHING FAST]
Hello back chaps, I do check the Forum quite often but had not much time to participate past 2 years, mostly because of a Master' Degree in Design, which I defended last week and also got into a PHD in Design for the next 4 years. I tried the best I could on the Master's research because it would make my life easier during PHD, and also provide time and condition to do my games in peace. Either way, here is an old video about the research. It is VR based and more on that subject later or on another post.
GAMES! We are here for games!
Well, if there is something I'm 100% sure of myself and life, is that making games is my existence reason, I can't be too far away from doing it or sadness and depression kicks in. So of course I did not spent last 2 years without actually making them
Let me point to the more relevant ones.
First there is ALEKTRYON AND THE MURK TROTTERS, a GLBasic game which is a mix between Joust(Arcade) and Pegasus and the Phantom Riders (TRS-80 Color computer). A very retro game for 3 players.
There is a thread on this forum about it and here is the last live WIP I did for it.
The game is pretty much half done, it needs: bosses, enemy AI fine tune, music, into/outro.
I should be back at it this semester, it's a good Steam release candidate.
Then, there is a series of games I did for the TRS-80 Color Computer using its Disk Extended Color Basic.
THE SEDNA STRAIN is a vertical shoot em up inspired by a 1k space invaders game list for zx81.
It has the player travelling through the Solar System destroying plant based aliens, at each check point, a boss forms up, it is generated based on how you play so it is always different.
Here a few WIP videos. This game is like 85% done.
At some point I was struck with an old urge of mine on doing a Lander kind of game. Decided to mix it up with strategy, resource managing, multiplayer, open world and a pinch of text adventure to spice it up. So, BELOW:MESA CRYPT OF AQUILON was born. The game is like 85% done too, fully playable.
Here is a WIP video I posted on Tweeter:
https://x.com/FUED_hq/status/1547661679089004545
And here a very early world test:
It is a complex game, very difficult and weird... I will probably be the only one playing it
Here is an early WIP mission map on the world:
You cannot view this attachment.
One day, the ghost of making a zombie rogue like came hunting me, triggering the development of IT CAME FROM THE WEST. A roguelike zombie survival game. The original intention was to do something for the 10line Contest, but I got carried away. Also, I did it running the COCO emulator at 1000% speed, experimentally
The current version is playable that way but Jim Jerrie dis an MC-10 port that runs normal speed and he also added some features
Here is little live I shot on playing my turbo version
An ace game developer, Nick Marrentes, did a PONG game on our FB group and challenge people to check/improve/experiment. I went a bit wield and decided to follow the principles but do something like Frog Bog (arcade/intellivision/atari2600). So, TOAD BOG was born. It is a type-in booklet coloring game
Other than the paper portability and dev docs, it has info to paint the stuff messing with the code. The project is done, it needs packaging and release
Finally, at my birthday this year, 04/11, I took a few days off and decided to do a fight game using ugBasic, so I made THE SAVAGE SWORD OF COCON, sort of a simple Barbarian clone, more like the kind of fighting you get on Prince of Persia, you know?
Anyways, there is twist game mode, you can set the players stats to configure your warrior. Fight Tournaments can be done with created warriors I will try to run an online tournament this semester.
I sure need to get back to this game within next 2 months and make a final release, add sound, music and some extra stuff, also source free.
I think that is about it, there was also a bit of development on a Shock Trooper kind of game for the Spectrum, I think I told you guys about this one before, anyways, it was done using MPAGD, a nice retro multi platform game engine.
I also did a bunch of tests using ugBasic, a modern basic (very similar to GLBasic), capable of exporting asm to a bunch of 8bits. A very nice project and I recommend checking it out.
I mostly used the COCO features but am interested on ZX spectrum and MSX too.
I think on the game side of things those are pretty much it.
Back on GLBasic, ALEKTRION is the priority, BELOW certanly could be ported or recreated, this would be fun! COCON I have other plans on that front.
There is also another GLB little gem of project on hold, this one here:
There are probably more news I can't remember right now, probably did some special effects and movie stuff for a bunch of people and also took part at RETRO SC events, which preparation for this year's November issue is just about to start, I will talk more about it later, I always showcase GLBasic and my games, mostly the tools I use, let's see if this year I can pull some speech or workshop that can relate to that and game devs.
Overall, I will sure be able to be more active on the game side of things this next years and I can't wait to get back into it. A little vacation at my parents place these couple next weeks should be a perfect recharge.
later!
Hello back chaps, I do check the Forum quite often but had not much time to participate past 2 years, mostly because of a Master' Degree in Design, which I defended last week and also got into a PHD in Design for the next 4 years. I tried the best I could on the Master's research because it would make my life easier during PHD, and also provide time and condition to do my games in peace. Either way, here is an old video about the research. It is VR based and more on that subject later or on another post.
GAMES! We are here for games!
Well, if there is something I'm 100% sure of myself and life, is that making games is my existence reason, I can't be too far away from doing it or sadness and depression kicks in. So of course I did not spent last 2 years without actually making them
Let me point to the more relevant ones.
First there is ALEKTRYON AND THE MURK TROTTERS, a GLBasic game which is a mix between Joust(Arcade) and Pegasus and the Phantom Riders (TRS-80 Color computer). A very retro game for 3 players.
There is a thread on this forum about it and here is the last live WIP I did for it.
The game is pretty much half done, it needs: bosses, enemy AI fine tune, music, into/outro.
I should be back at it this semester, it's a good Steam release candidate.
Then, there is a series of games I did for the TRS-80 Color Computer using its Disk Extended Color Basic.
THE SEDNA STRAIN is a vertical shoot em up inspired by a 1k space invaders game list for zx81.
It has the player travelling through the Solar System destroying plant based aliens, at each check point, a boss forms up, it is generated based on how you play so it is always different.
Here a few WIP videos. This game is like 85% done.
At some point I was struck with an old urge of mine on doing a Lander kind of game. Decided to mix it up with strategy, resource managing, multiplayer, open world and a pinch of text adventure to spice it up. So, BELOW:MESA CRYPT OF AQUILON was born. The game is like 85% done too, fully playable.
Here is a WIP video I posted on Tweeter:
https://x.com/FUED_hq/status/1547661679089004545
And here a very early world test:
The visuals have been improved over these ones, they are very early stuff.
It is a complex game, very difficult and weird... I will probably be the only one playing it
Here is an early WIP mission map on the world:
You cannot view this attachment.
One day, the ghost of making a zombie rogue like came hunting me, triggering the development of IT CAME FROM THE WEST. A roguelike zombie survival game. The original intention was to do something for the 10line Contest, but I got carried away. Also, I did it running the COCO emulator at 1000% speed, experimentally
The current version is playable that way but Jim Jerrie dis an MC-10 port that runs normal speed and he also added some features
Here is little live I shot on playing my turbo version
And here Jim Gerrie doing his magic!
Gotta remake this game at some point, probably for multi 8bit platforms and GLB PC.
An ace game developer, Nick Marrentes, did a PONG game on our FB group and challenge people to check/improve/experiment. I went a bit wield and decided to follow the principles but do something like Frog Bog (arcade/intellivision/atari2600). So, TOAD BOG was born. It is a type-in booklet coloring game
Other than the paper portability and dev docs, it has info to paint the stuff messing with the code. The project is done, it needs packaging and release Finally, at my birthday this year, 04/11, I took a few days off and decided to do a fight game using ugBasic, so I made THE SAVAGE SWORD OF COCON, sort of a simple Barbarian clone, more like the kind of fighting you get on Prince of Persia, you know?
Anyways, there is twist game mode, you can set the players stats to configure your warrior. Fight Tournaments can be done with created warriors
I will try to run an online tournament this semester.I sure need to get back to this game within next 2 months and make a final release, add sound, music and some extra stuff, also source free.
I think that is about it, there was also a bit of development on a Shock Trooper kind of game for the Spectrum, I think I told you guys about this one before, anyways, it was done using MPAGD, a nice retro multi platform game engine.
I also did a bunch of tests using ugBasic, a modern basic (very similar to GLBasic), capable of exporting asm to a bunch of 8bits. A very nice project and I recommend checking it out.
I mostly used the COCO features but am interested on ZX spectrum and MSX too.
I think on the game side of things those are pretty much it.
Back on GLBasic, ALEKTRION is the priority, BELOW certanly could be ported or recreated, this would be fun! COCON I have other plans on that front.
There is also another GLB little gem of project on hold, this one here:
And some other GLB projects is early design stages.
There are probably more news I can't remember right now, probably did some special effects and movie stuff for a bunch of people and also took part at RETRO SC events, which preparation for this year's November issue is just about to start, I will talk more about it later, I always showcase GLBasic and my games, mostly the tools I use, let's see if this year I can pull some speech or workshop that can relate to that and game devs.
Overall, I will sure be able to be more active on the game side of things this next years and I can't wait to get back into it. A little vacation at my parents place these couple next weeks should be a perfect recharge.
later!
#72
Inline / 3rd party / Re: Multithreading with GLBasi...
Last post by Kitty Hello - 2024-Jul-27Yes, that should work. Multithreadingbreaks, when you write to a memory address and another thread tries to read/write to the same memory address at the same time. Parallel reading is no problem. But internal GLBasic functions often use a "cache" for stuff to be quicker. That might get you into trouble. Just try, and if it breaks, add a critical section around that code.
#73
Announcements / Re: Reggie World ( Pandora , P...
Last post by nabz32 - 2024-Jul-26Yes I already have the texture changing in place, but I also want the arms legs etc. Have different models also. In addition I want to save some frames per model, for example I have the walking loop for the legs and be able to play different animations for the arms without having to do all the arm animations for all the leg animations. I want the model files to be small. I already started implementing this and the push / pop matrix commands are perfect for this.
#74
Inline / 3rd party / Re: Multithreading with GLBasi...
Last post by nabz32 - 2024-Jul-26But could I access plain files in the background ( just writing stuff)?
#75
Bug Reports / Re: DDgui_msg freeze html5
Last post by Kitty Hello - 2024-Jul-26Oh. I think DDgui_msg uses an infinite loop to show the GUI. When you use SETLOOPSUB instead, DDgui works. My GACK (Gaming App Construction Kit) uses DDGui and runs perfectly.
#76
Bug Reports / Re: DDgui_msg freeze html5
Last post by Qedo - 2024-Jul-25Is it possible that all the DDGUI examples I find on the forum and tutorials are incompatible with html5?
Does anyone have a good example?
Thank you
Qedo
Does anyone have a good example?
Thank you
Qedo
#77
Inline / 3rd party / Re: Multithreading with GLBasi...
Last post by Kitty Hello - 2024-Jul-25Oh. The GLBasic commands are not considered thread safe. Espeically graphics commands. Where is the bottleneck? Is it really the loading?
LOADSPRITE and X_LOADOBJ calls can't be multithreading. But drawing while loading other stuff might be - as long as you don't reload over existing channels.
LOADSPRITE and X_LOADOBJ calls can't be multithreading. But drawing while loading other stuff might be - as long as you don't reload over existing channels.
#78
Announcements / Re: Reggie World ( Pandora , P...
Last post by Kitty Hello - 2024-Jul-25Can't you just change the texture instead of exporting the body parts separately? Or are there extras like super-muscles or Sonic/Hedgehog like legs?
#79
Off Topic / how well :-D
Last post by spacefractal - 2024-Jul-24Long time ago im checked as glbasic is not so much, even im still love it and recently actuelly did a game (Cave Hereoes). Which kind of projects is people doing?
Here we finished work Head over Heels for the Spectrum Next, which is of course a none glbasic project. Im did all the music for the game as well various chicken rooms as well (not all throught). Fun game to create stuff to even im newer has played the original (im was not a spectrum fan back then). Yes we might have been a bit late for the KS2 release of Spectrim Next, but we did it. Ist ace to see people still like to purchese physical games. hihi
PS. It ok to talk about none glbasic project this time as its a off typic thread.
Here we finished work Head over Heels for the Spectrum Next, which is of course a none glbasic project. Im did all the music for the game as well various chicken rooms as well (not all throught). Fun game to create stuff to even im newer has played the original (im was not a spectrum fan back then). Yes we might have been a bit late for the KS2 release of Spectrim Next, but we did it. Ist ace to see people still like to purchese physical games. hihi
PS. It ok to talk about none glbasic project this time as its a off typic thread.
#80
Bug Reports / Re: Jpg doesn't work
Last post by spacefractal - 2024-Jul-24there is a know bug in years as glbasic does not property read some compression of jpg. Im saw that too in my own game and just changed them to uses png or uses different compression. This is what im remember.