[Graham]

Otto Germain, on 03 May 2015 - 02:18 PM, said:

Sorry for the radio silence, lately...

This RPG is still a thing I'm working on:

Damn, I love your art style.

[Otto Germain]

Experimenting with the map editor thing I coded for this project. I'll still be placing some details "manually", but, this will make building the terrain infinitely easier.

I was originally going to randomize the maps to give it more of a roguelike quality, but, I think I'm going to reserve that for the dungeons. There will be other elements that are randomized game to game, as well.

[T-Bone]

Poking around with something very old.

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[Otto Germain]

And further experimentation with Mode 1 for this RPG project:
Storage Bay Alpha has been converted into a human settlement, known as Alphaville.





And a quick mockup for Depot Dungeons v2:

This post has been edited by Otto Germain: 01 June 2015 - 11:16 PM

[Dr Lancer-X]

aaa (dfao)


(It runs perfectly fine, no frame dropping - however, spawning all the walls takes ue4 way too long)

[Dr Lancer-X]

was playing around with Sculptris and Blender- I figured I might be able to use a workflow like this to create monsters or something - it would sort of be along the lines of the monsters I've drawn in my MZX games (like Taoyarin) - just indistinct creatures that would hopefully acquire some character and be potentially unsettling or horrifying. So I started with a sphere in Sculptris, dragged some stuff around and got a vague shape up, then loaded it into Blender and created an armature (just threw in a mess of bones where I thought they could go), meshed it with the model and added inverse kinematics. I figured I might be able to create some kind of shambling horror that would serve as an enemy.

Unfortunately I succeeded.




In all seriousness, I think this approach could definitely work if I actually take the time to learn how to use these tools properly (particularly bone weighting and IK, since I basically just kept the default settings even though quite a bit of control is possible. I also think some of the faces are getting turned inside out somewhere in the Sculptris->Blender->UE4 workflow, and that's probably not helping much)

[Graham]

It's definitely unsettling. An amorphous blob you would want to steer clear of. Has a horror vibe to it

[CJA]

hmm

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[Dr Lancer-X]

CJA, on 04 July 2015 - 12:17 PM, said:

hmm

is this bombin' dude 2?!?!?!?!!!?!!

i poured way too much time into that first game.

[CJA]

yes. it is sad that i can't char edit anymore, so i am adding more cool stuff and trying to balance the game from bottom to top instead...

here's plasma pike v2 with a perk that lets you shishkebab multiple enemies for massive damage

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[T-Bone]

Poking at something old i haven't touched in a couple years.

I've spent years working on the battle system for this game and it never did feel the way I had originally intended to. If you have ever played Heroes of Might and Magic. It was basically exactly like that. Where it was turned based and you move your sprites closer to the enemy in a battle field. However the way it plays out in MegaZeux felt more like chess. While that may not be a bad thing, it just didn't have that organic feel that I was trying to achieve. So I may actually make the battle system similar to old style RPG's. Where each creature doesn't move but they can attack, defend and use skills.

This post has been edited by T-Bone: 13 August 2015 - 06:28 AM

[Otto Germain]

Why I've been such a hermit lately:

https://youtu.be/AvRkE43wu9I

Some screenshots from the early demo:





EDIT: reuploaded video with much better framerate... Thanks to Graham Peet for capturing this gameplay!

This post has been edited by Otto Germain: 10 September 2015 - 07:40 PM

[Dr Lancer-X]

That is looking really awesome. Nice work.

[KKairos]

Yes, yes it is.

[Graham]

Otto Germain, on 25 August 2015 - 02:54 PM, said:

EDIT: reuploaded video with much better framerate... Thanks to Graham Peet for capturing this gameplay!

I was happy to help and very excited to see where this game is going.

[Otto Germain]

Playable demo coming Oct 1st if all goes well!

And it has been going well. Oh yes.

[Dr Lancer-X]

Looks very nice. I'm looking forward to this.

I really need to get back to work on my game-- just been ridiculously busy lately.

[Otto Germain]

Lancer-X, on 17 September 2015 - 12:33 AM, said:

Looks very nice. I'm looking forward to this.

I really need to get back to work on my game-- just been ridiculously busy lately.

I know what you mean, my MZX projects have been completely sidelined by Puzzle Depot. I'd like to get back to them, but it's just gonna have to wait for now.

Well make sure you post something here when you get back to it :]

[Kuddy]

For anyone who doesn't follow Ottbot on Twitter, he released a preliminary demo for PuzzleDepot yesterday. You can grab it here:

https://twitter.com/...857476363522048

[Graham]

Kuddy, on 08 October 2015 - 12:15 PM, said:

For anyone who doesn't follow Ottbot on Twitter, he released a preliminary demo for PuzzleDepot yesterday. You can grab it here:

https://twitter.com/...857476363522048

That's awesome! I just retweeted it.

[Otto Germain]

Thanks, guys! I totally forgot to post that here and was just about to!

[ThDPro]

I am doing it again.

[Otto Germain]

Official Puzzle Depot trailer!

https://youtu.be/N3-mEWt_V7E



KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES Oct 22nd! Get hyped!

[Exophase]

Looks great Otto. I'll pledge if there's a Linux version. This all reminds me that I still need to play Depot Dungeons.

[Wervyn]

I'm looking forward to supporting this Otto. Just got around to playing the demo last night and it looks great. Some notes:

• Trend Micro seems to think your demo executable is ransomware. You're lucky I trust you so much.
  
• Demo seems to have a pretty serious memory leak somewhere, after a few restarts and completions I get an Out of Memory popup and a hard crash.
  
• Not sure how I feel about this crumbling floor mechanic versus Depot Dungeons, since it violates the discrete nature of the move. On the other hand, I like being able to corner a roach onto a pit trap and have that work, and being able to push a box over one before getting blocked off. Could this be sensibly modified to have the floor collapse two turns after something moves onto it?
  
• While I'm thinking about that, will there be a command to stand still for a move? Nothing in the demo requires this but it's a valid puzzle mechanic.

Also I only just managed to hit 1050 moves on my efficiency run (literally that was exactly my final move count). It's likely I missed some opportunities to shave moves but I took advantage of a lot of optimization, like kicking boxes the last block when I was heading the other way, ending at one HP by saccing damage to obstacles that I would otherwise skirt, etc. I'm wondering if I missed an important shortcut somewhere. I took the one through the poison pool that skips two rooms, and saved a lot of moves not going over the top in the room where you get the crowbar, but I was still surprised at how exact I ended up being.

"10/10 would play again."

[Dr Lancer-X]

Image on the left was produced by a standard feedforward neural network. Image on the right was produced through a cascade-trained neural network. (there's some errors in the one on the left- sadly I forgot to output the net so I can't reproduce it). Both used the same training set.

Not really a practical application here, these are just fun to play with. Pretty much the plasma effect of the modern day.

[Galladin]

Found some old MZX stuff...

[hayashi]

Galladin, on 15 February 2016 - 01:41 PM, said:

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Found some old MZX stuff...

Christ on a stick I forgot MZX could look that good. What vintage?

[T-Bone]

Galladin, you've mastered the art of pixels.

[Galladin]

hayashi, on 23 February 2016 - 02:38 AM, said:

Christ on a stick I forgot MZX could look that good. What vintage?

2011 I believe. Gosh, time does fly. Recently I've been contemplating the idea of playing around with MZX and finishing some of these, but as always I doubt it will ever actually go anywhere.