i played the heck out of blaster master back in the day. I tried playing it recently on an emulator and got really frustrated by it. probably because of the controller not being a nes controller or the timing was off or something because i remember it being a whole lot more fun.

@weezl: this game is looking really good. makes me want to start a new project (or continue an old project but when does that ever happen?)

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Thanks the low-g part is partially due to non tweaked character behavior. But i will play around with gravity in this project. Like parts of the space station you're in have a powercut and therefor the gravity generators are out of order or other fun stuff.

I tried to put a decent amount of effort in the animations so they look as fluid as possible while also being kinda neat and cute.



Yes i thought about this when working on into beyond. I might pick it up at some point if i make an enormous amount of money and therefore have the time to work on it

Oh well. Only in hindsight i realized that this character looks so familiar





Well, i hope it's not too bothersome



Thanks You sure should! (and yes, starting anew is always more fun! )

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Here's todays update (maybe i should make a new thread in the announcent forum )



You can climb them in either direction or jump off. The animations are quite nice but need some more work.
I'm scared of implementing the doors, because that includes room management and linking them together and it's all so scary (i'm just lazy).

Maybe i'll add moving platforms tonite aswell, should be not too hard to do. especially since they don't require too much artyfartsy animation stuff

I guess i really need to nail down decent map logic tomorrow. My current canvas is only 64x64, so i need to partition several of those together to create a map. and layer them for foreground and background and then have different sets for different rooms. oh this is not gonna be quite so fun

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Image of the day! (Once I get home to tweak the pages.)

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Very nice! I'm liking the background and overall simple aesthetic. IMO the ladders look a bit flimsy though.

The game does not open on my computer.
This message shows up: "object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Is there anything I must install first?

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Holy crap -- I guess I was so enthralled over the other content of this topic that I completely missed the link to download this.

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That's weird, my flat mate has the same problem on his laptop. Do you have by chance a laptop with a weird mobile graphics adapter?
I was assuming it's due to some driver problem so there can no opengl context created or something along those lines.

Apart from that you'd need the .net framework 4.0.

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I'm using a desktop.
WinXP - 32bits.
No graphic card.
2GHz processor, 2GB Ram;
And with .NET Framework 4.0 already installed.

And still not working. Maybe the game is not finding the right directory of the files.

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In highly doubt that you have no graphics adapter in your system. Where is the monitor plugged into?
Can you try finding out which it is?

Else your system specs seem well enough to run it.

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You know what I mean!
Nothing like a GeForce GPU, just a standard Intel integrated GPU.

I don't think it s about graphic card. Usually, when the problem is with the graphic card, the framework is very specific.

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Okay thanks, i was guessing as much.
I will try to add a more detailed error report in the next build, so i can hopefully find out whats wrong with it

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the little dude got stuck on the ladder

he wouldn't move in any direction.

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Yeah for some reason box2d has problems with edge collisions on those spiky < > corners. I will solve it by not having spiky corners in the future

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Looks like i catched a cold or something. Darn. Didn't got as much done as i'd liked.

I reworked the level system. Before it only supported a 64x64 tile array.
The new layout is structured like this



The map holds the total data of the current level.
Rooms is an abstraction for the level layer you're in. Like if you'd enter one of the doors you'd be in another Room[].
Sections are a kind of partitioning. When i set a tile anywhere on the grid it creates a Section of a predefined range (currently 8x8 tiles).
Sections contain Layers which determine the drawing order of the tile like foreground, background, parallax.


^4Sections created in this Room

So now i have the basics to support doors and different layers and huge maps and everything \o/

I wanted to give the lighting system i have in mind a shot aswell today but i didn't get around to it. Tomorrow's another day =]
If that works like i imagine it, it would be.. ... ... ...

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hehe.. enjoy that while it lasts. I've got so much code, I'm to the point where I actually have to use the (very long now)dropdown menu at the top of the IDE to "look up" methods. Occaisionally i actually need to do a search. Not to mention the fact that my IDE is now split into 3 windows to accomodate all 3 executables im developing in parallel.. I need a bigger monitor!

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Or just three more monitors!


Looking really cool, weezl!

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Haha, yes sure, code tends to blow out of proportion fairly quick.
My map class exploded yesterday, i really should use different files for all the nested classes instead

I have a 24" i work on, and a 21" i do casual stuff on like irc, webz, stuffs, and things.
An addition 27" would be nice as main monitor, but generally i'm fine with those two

Today i did some fixing for framebufferobjects. They finally work completely (at least if i'm using just one rendertarget).
And (!!!) i just got the first working prototype for dynamic lights. BEHOLD:



Currently i'ts just hardcoded in the shader. Some kind of raytracing. Rather expensive apparently, one light works fine though. Will see how it performs with more of them

Also gotta find a way to make them pretty Well, the busy work is done i think, on to the fun stuff \o/

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I'm predicting some wrinkles on Clint's face.

You could put some lamps in the roof, and make them able to swing if the character touch them!

Nice work!

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Thanks

Hah yes, but if he'd bruteforce the raycasting like i did his game would run at <1fps i'd assume. Maybe if he'd use webgl :p

Yeah, i was not exactly aiming for lights that swing around, but lamps that flicker, or red alarm lights that turn in circles.
The guy will also come equipped with a flash light. There's lots of potential awesomeness here.
I'm so looking forward to it

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