Some news from 2Kingdoms RPG

Hi !

It's been a long time i haven't posted some news about Two Kingdoms : the project is of course still on !

- All the tiles are completed : which means that there is now 163 all original Gif tiles

- The Knight character has been redesigned : no more Warcraft footman, though, aficionados will still match the inspiration ;)

- The interface design is almost complete, including a minimap and the in-game menu ( not activated though ... )

- The map generator, by Tomsanson should arrive very soon now ...with tonns od coll features

- The Enemy AI and map navigation is taken care by Jeroen - on an original engine by Ed ...

Tonns of things are yet to devlopp ... AI will be a big task, but i'm happy to be finally done with all the pixel art ( and my eyes are happy too !!! ) and i'm a bit excited so i wanted to (may be) share that excitation :

http://grafikdezign.free.fr/game/game.htm

It's a bit heavy ( around 300K ) but i will optimize later ...

Find the Elvish leader, get him what he wants ...
ARROWS to move, SPACE to talk and scroll the dialogue, SHIFT to attack ( no enemies yet, though )

Of course, the game site is up (http://grafikdezign.free.fr, with the begining of the storyline, few goodies, character and maps description etc ...

Tell me if you have any errors or slowdowns ...

Thanks ...

Looking good so far! Just one problem. Ocassionaly I get blocked by some kind of invisible thing, so I have to go left and then up, blah blah blah, to get past, and it's REALLY annoying.

Looks really good. This good be a really cool game.

BUT when I walk the knight jumps to the other tiles instead of really walking. I hope you know what I mean. Cant you make it that when I press for instand left 1 time, the knight walks a couple of pixels left instead of one entire tile.

I keep on following this interesting project. Its getting better and better!

Hey Luxregina,

Looks very cool so far, I would change the dialog though...I find it a bit difficult reading the text like this, maybe you could make it an auto-scrolling textbox or something?

Keep up the good work!!

Hi !!! Thanks for the replies ...

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Ocassionaly I get blocked by some kind of invisible thing

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: that's strange : it shouldn't happen, i looked again in the code and everything seems fine ... maybe these a non-walkable tiles that are not "obviously" designed as non walkable ?

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the knight walks a couple of pixels left instead of one entire tile.

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Well, yes and no : it is possible to achieve, but not planned : the tile collision detection is much simplier if the character moves from one tile to the other, and i want to keep the game as simple as possible ( when i say simple, i don't mean "basic" ...)-slipping the character from one tile to the other would requiere extra test that would be better to avoid ... though, once the game is finished, there will likely be an open source code for people to optimize it if they want ...

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I would change the dialog though

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That's one of my big concern : i don't like it the way it is : i think shorter text you can see all in once would be better : it's true that having to scroll the text isn't practical : at first, my text area was supposed to be much smaller, and the dialogue and quests less important ...
Once again, thanks to Ed, the quest AI system that he devlopped is pretty easy to use and tweak, so the game evolved on a more "RPG" orientation and less "action" as it was first planned ...

Personally, I always loved the equip screen in RPGs. My favourite hours playing the game would be spent tweaking my characters for the battles ahead, swapping armour, finding out which weapons work best.

Now I understand that your RPG doesn't have D&D rule complexity so probably doesn't NEED an equip screen, but I think having one would be really cool. From the coding point of view though, I understand that its probably not realistic, since you already have something working.

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Originally posted by devnull_2k
Personally, I always loved the equip screen in RPGs. My favourite hours playing the game would be spent tweaking my characters for the battles ahead, swapping armour, finding out which weapons work best.

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Yes, me too ... but, as you were saying, keep in mind that this example is supposed to be a really simple RPG ...
The equip screen is replaced by the inventory on the left, and the weapons screen on the right (you will be able to use only one weapon at a time) ...

Since it is the first time i seriously work on that type of project, i don't want to create to much complications ... actually, as i was saying in another thread, it will be more an "evolved" Gauntlet than a real RPG : players stats will be very reduced, quests basic, combat system -arcade style ...

Though it is a great excercise to learn how to handle that type of project, and eventhough this is far to be finished, i am already thinking how i can make it more "seriously" RPG ...and yes, i also want a equip screen ...but one thing at a time : first, finish Two Kingdoms, and then tweak it so it will be closer to a Diablo, or Baldur ...

Wait for the next episode. 3 Kingdoms or whatever!

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Originally posted by Baukereg
Wait for the next episode. 3 Kingdoms or whatever!

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Actually, it will be : "the Dark Fortress" since 2K is the trip from Lothar's castle to Kilkgaard, the next episode will be the trip from Kilkgaard to Stormgaard ... with much more RPG elements ...
If you read the story on the game site, it is obvious that i have material for a lot of new adventures ;) ...

I am currently working on the part so you can travel when a certain objective is set, to another map to certain coordinates. I'll continue this tuesday, tomorrow I have to 1.get another site online; 2.go to college; 3.studentunion evening;

..So I am a bit too busy tomorrow. =P Anyways, it's great to be in this game project.

Jeroen

jeroen84 -> you've got mail ! ;)

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..So I am a bit too busy tomorrow. =P Anyways, it's great to be in this game project.

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And it's great to have people like you dedicated to it ! :)

lux - great game! i can see a lot of work being put in

one thing - dont use shift as an attack key - pressing shift 5 times on a win platform turns on sticky keys. - i always go with z. (ascii code 90)

luxregina -> *starts high computerised voice* You've Got Mail!! *ends voice*
=P

fospher.com, you're right. I got the same problem. It's not realy a problem, it's just a nice example of the little things that will be worked out within the game development.

Jeroen

i seem to be having a problem - it loads, and the screen shows up etc, but it just seems to scroll through all the possible tiles, all of em filling the screen.. dunno if it loaded funny or something but it just doesnt work for me

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Originally posted by Ian424
i seem to be having a problem - it loads, and the screen shows up etc, but it just seems to scroll through all the possible tiles, all of em filling the screen.. dunno if it loaded funny or something but it just doesnt work for me

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How interesting !!!!

Did you retried ? if it did the same thing, please : what navigator are you using ? what version of Flash player ? what type of computer ? what type of connection ?

Please check there and tell me if you have the same problem : http://grafikdezign.free.fr/previewFLSHKT.htm ( it is a much much older version, but all internal .. )

I had the same poblem. The older version you posted works fine for me. I'm using opera 6, with the latest flash plugin (downloaded yeaterday).

-matt

same problem here. the tiles are crazy!

i'm using IE 5.1.5
flash plug-in 6.0r40
macintoch

I've got to say I really admire the talent and effort going into this game. Good luck with it!

Well ...it seems that only mac users have that problem ... i really have NO CLUE of how to correct it ... sorry :(

If anyone has an idea, please tell me ...

For those who can see the game, i've just incresed the map and had few more tiles ( not to much though, since i don't want to spoil the discoveries when you will play the finished game ! ;))

http://grafikdezign.free.fr/game/game.htm

Hi Luxregina, (can i call you lux?)

I just tried the latest version on Opera and the new flash6 player, and now I'm experiencing the same thing as the others. The Tiles scroll through all their frames. Could it be that there's a gotoAndPlay() instead of gotoAndStop()? Though it could very well be a bug in the Flash6 player for Opera...