[asgromo]

The Starflight MZX topic continues un-updated by its poster, KenOhki. If only one person here wants feedback, I do. Come on, It's been a week!

[Risu2112]

Lol, I just happend to stop by here and notice that this topic has had 2112 views (not any more)

UPDATE!!!: i did work on teh game.


Yes, I certainly did.

[TTelephone]

Hmm.. another privateer like game? Only one problem, all in text mode only.

[Risu2112]

TTelephone, on Jun 20 2002, 12:20 PM, said:

Hmm.. another privateer like game? Only one problem, all in text mode only.

huh?

[nrofkahr]

what you dont know what privateer is?

[Risu2112]

wasn't it some PC space shooter?

[gofer-chan]

KenOhki2112, on Jun 20 2002, 10:40 PM, said:

wasn't it some PC space shooter?

Aye.

[Risu2112]

SFmzx has a top down view of combat (like all the other screens) so they are quite different. The challenge of the combat is in the energy management, If you turn all your systems on and accelerate too much so that your energy is draining faster than it can recharge your in trouble. Running out of energy causes your systems to be shut down (shields turn off, weapons turn off, and your engines shut down) that leaves you stranded and very vulnerable.

[Risu2112]

Ok, I start my new job on monday, soon as I get that straitend out and make leave of the old job I will get a heck of a lot of work done.
I've been adding neat little things to the battle screen, nothing too big, just all the little things that make it more enjoyable. Soon...

Oh and I hunted a few bugs out of the Comm screen, that's all set to go now (this was the only really big thing left to do)

With in a week or two, I will begin the cranking out of all things SFmzx, as soon as that begins you will all be standing face to face with a SWEET demo of it.

at least I hope

[Beige]

Great work, KehOhki. Keep at it

[Risu2112]

Ok ok, I'm working on the game now, update later.

[asgromo]

Hurray! Hurray! Another update after a disquieting week of silence from KenOhki! Keep working on this one!

[Risu2112]

Oops. I'll try this again tomorrow

[Risu2112]

Ok third list of bugs is out; the count is down to 25 (mind you these are made primarily of debugging things I've left behind) about an hour of work to knock all these out. Then I plan to do something graphically with the system travel board (needs some spice) perhaps I'll work with the planets to make em' look better or something.

As soon as this list is KOed, and I make those minor graphical changes, the demo will go into development.

I don't plan on releasing 2 demos, so a large part of the beta testing will be based on that demo. I'll fix any bugs when the game is small, not when it's finished and 400 boards need to be updated.

Regretfully this will push back the demo release date a little bit, (maybe add another week or two onto it)

[stingrayhtr]

Keep on working, man. It sounds great

[asgromo]

I can not wait. This is going to be amazing. Incredible. Stupendous. It's going to rock the MZX world, man. It'll be put in all the best MZX games lists. You'll be famous! Or something..

[Risu2112]

Starport needs more spice.

Beefing up Starport is taking longer than expected.

[NoahSoft]

It seems to me you have a record for longest worked on game... That didn't die... YAY!

[Risu2112]

Hmm, I'm still debating the platform, Right now this game is MZX3.1, I want to keep it there, but speed control and KOing the enter box is sorta neat...

Hmm..

[asgromo]

2.62B, absolutely. Until something better comes, let's make that the standard.

[Risu2112]

asgromo, on Jul 11 2002, 06:01 PM, said:

2.62B, absolutely. Until something better comes, let's make that the standard.

I'm not going to set it up in Mzx2.62 just "because".
For one thing, new features WILL push back my release date, we might be talking 2-4 months, I'm not really sure. Secondly I'm not too sure I want to go through the hassle of re equipping every one with a new MZX, (and possibly fight all of their computers to get it to run).

I'll give it a little more thought, but as of right now, I'm not sure if the new counters are alone worth the delay in release.

LOL, I spent 2 hours trying to figure out why the DoZ games wouldn?t run on my computer, then I realized they were 2.62 Always forget that..


Besides, it's reverse compatible, so it's not like any players with 2.62 will be inconvenienced.


EDIT: Hey who ever wants the 200th post here, better act fast!

[Kuddy]

Yay, reply number 200. And yeah, stay with s3.1...

[ShloobeR]

KenOhki2112, on Jul 12 2002, 05:38 AM, said:

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Besides, it's reverse compatible, so it's not like any players with 2.62 will be inconvenienced.

Yeh, thats true

[Revvy]

Unless you absolutely have to, keep it in s3.1. That's the best version in my opinion.

[Risu2112]

Ok, yesterday I discovered a problem... I have somehow been spelling Forward as "Foward" This has proven to be quite complicated to fix; I can't simply change the word to Forward because the box the text fits in only has room for 6 characters . Any way after a debate on IRC it was decided to change the word to "Front" (I still think "4ward" would have been better)

So now it reads like this "Front Hull hit for X damage."

Any way, crisis averted, returning to work now..

[asgromo]

Keep it up, man. This sounds great! Can you give us a percentage done or a possible release date or something?

[Risu2112]

Ok I made a new font, it looks great. I've been tinkering with Starport all day, and I've rearanged it a bit, A little more work on it and I'll be set.

[ShloobeR]

O_o

Wow...

[Chrix]

Hey I've got an idea! What if you were able to own multible ships? And mabye store them at diffent starpoints across the galaxy so that when you need a fast transport you'd fly one ship and when you need to blow somebody up you'd pick another. The only way that you could possibly do this is with the FWRITE stuff. I don't know just an idea.