just look at the character and...

oh wow - i feel shamed that ive been missing out on this thread - both ripX's and marmotte's work are really cool!

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I don't want to just give you my source code otherwise you'll do a copy and paste and never actually learn how they work!

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marmotte wouldnt do that - i mean look at all the code he's giving out, so generous - and really well structured, i guess you're down with OOP eh marmotte?

taking AP java next year at my HS - skipping the prerequisites with a recommendation! wooooo! all with the help of my secret game(its secret) - no one has seen it except for rip who got a little peep. watch out for it before it gets too cool!

rip: a FROG(alien sorry) eating stars in space with purpple stands for the grass covered bridge? what have you been eating? shrooms :D ?

lol, thanks, LSD has soooo many uses, but it doesn't compare to the purple tree i'm drawing! :D

Well, it took long enough, but I think it's pretty much done!

http://www.mastersystem.org/misc/preview03.gif

Comments welcome! :)

RipX

the deadly red x strix again!

damn!!!
i only worked on it around ten minutes, because of my job. so here's a very preliminary example... i have now to finish my work until next friday and i'll have normally a lot more time! i'll polish my gfx soon ^^
(just to let you know, i love that old looking gradiants ^^)

http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_exchange/running.png


RipX, i need your expert advice about something;
i just took the OutsideTheSociety fla file, and i tried to adapt it in 320x224, keeping the tiles at 16x16. it just seemed very slow (slower than the original 160x120 window size i mean). Then i tried to do like i do generaly: all the graphics are attached first (each tile is a 320x224 format, so a full window size), and the scrolling was faster. i think i'll mix art based and tile based method, like i do generally (although my open sources don't reflect totally that method, since graphics are large bitmaps instead of "packs" of bitmaps)...

Yes, the reason it has slowed down is purly because of the number of mc's that are scrolling, I personally am using 32x32 pixel tiles as this is pretty big in terms of tile size but runs much faster! Also the outsideofsociety tutorial use the attch and remove mc methos which is much slower that the gotoAndStop or _visible methods!

RipX

http://www.mastersystem.org/misc/preview04.gif

^ Working on the background myself! :D

P.S. the image I last put on is the actual size of the game!!! 256*192 - I'm still interested in people's ideas too!!! :D

RipX

thats looking great gary! you have a very good style for your game. are u drawing these from something or are you just making up the shapes?

i'm sure gary is inspired by... sonic!

and he has a lot of advance...

Although I've been looking at Sonic screenshots, megaman, mario etc, I have fed from them all. I found the sonic tiles to be far superior to any of the others and am getting alot of inspiration from the methods used in Sonic 2 in particular(which by the way, is my favorite game of all time)! - I have not directly copied anything other than some of the techniques, like the grass, but then I've also incorporated my own style into them!! I don't feel i'm copying the tiles at all cos I'm looking at the levels and just getting inspiration, for example, I've never seen that style of tree in anything, I was simply inspired by the flowers and the want to make everything look magical!! :D

Although yes, Sonic is a big inspiration, and so it should it's gorgeous! ;)

RipX

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Originally posted by fospher.com
thats looking great gary! you have a very good style for your game. are u drawing these from something or are you just making up the shapes?

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As in the last post, i'm drawing each of the tiles, making up the shapes!!

i had several minutes left ^^
i'll add some more details later, particularly the ground with flowers.etc...
now i absolutely need to finish my other work!

http://board.flashkit.com/board/

Wow, marmotte, that looks great, keep it up man! :)

thanks RipX...

it's absolutely not optimised (all gfx are put as is in the timeline, later they will be attached on a load event). but tell me if it's smooth...
(for the moment it's smooth with my old mac G3, so...)

http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_e...e/running.html

My computer probably isn't the best to test it cos It's very very fast and scrolls nearly everything close to full speed, It scrolled very smoothly indeed, but I will say one advantage of using tile based over your art based, the hitRoutines could be faster and the overall file size should be much smaller using tile based! But not taking away from the excellent work you've done here, it seems to be running beautifully!!

RipX

thanks for testing and for your comments.

about the hittest thing, i'm thinking of two ways;

1) only one hitTest with all graphics elements, like i did with my bubble bobble conversion for example, which is still smooth with my old mac (there's no scrolling there though)
2) like a tile based game, using arrays. it's supposed to be fast.

about the file size, i'll try to use some kind of tiles method anyway... but i have to think now... plus add the missing animations (character + background), add details...etc
pretty long work is still awaiting us :-(

RipX, are you testing if 2 sprites (character and enemy) are colliding also with an array?

About the enemy collision, I will give the enemy a boundry and if the player boundry is within the enemy boundy, that will act as the hitTest! Kind of manual hitTest! :)

I know it's laborious work but i'm sure it'll be woth it!!

RipX

man just a little more and i will post my demo - i fixed the bugs - just need to fix up the lives a little!!!! hmgrrr! cant wait to show what i did to you two!

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Kind of manual hitTest! :)

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errr that manual hitTest you speak of sounds a lot like flag-shaped :p