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Wasted the whole day trying to figure out why this thing refused to work. Turns out I misplaced the memory for the boss and it ended up overlapping an area used to store the game status. Damn.
The screenshot makes it look more exciting than it actually is, so far jumping off the mirror is the only thing the doppleganger ever does.
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There used to live people there. (I think)
Leonard Nimoy?
Great stuff Sik, this game is looking extremely cool.
great job Sik! Love the design and controls. i can't wait for the final release!
WIP background
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Disregard that, here it is finished
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And yes there's linescrolling (well, cellscrolling this time =P)
It really looks awesome!
I noticed you didn't post many pictures with ennemies. Have you implemented them ?
I try to not post stuff that was already shown earlier.
I understand :)
Rooftop
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Huuuh anybody wants to make music? At least the melody? Because I definitely can't no matter how many times I attempt or how nice I can make my instruments. Just remember the game is open source and on GitHub so it's in our best interests to keep the music open accordingly.
Yes, if it can wait until summer.
Sik you gonna sell it in phisical copy?
Posssibly? Not like I have a good track record of getting stuff finished...
Thanks for the offer, but I doubt your style may fit this game =/ I'm looking for something more like Castlevania (well, not necessarily sounding like it, just giving the same feel)Quote:
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This is definitley looking awesome!
Not many people doing originals though, other than Oerg and the GrooveMaster/Jredd combo. ChiptunedRaijin and Alianger also do real hardware tracks (as in, actual VGMs, not just tracks that take into account limitations), but they only do covers afaik. (Gallium Grant and Geckoyamori are others who do incredible covers, they don't use a tracker but VST plugins like genny or fm drive can export VGMs rather well these days)Quote:
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Item and Save System pleaseQuote:
Originally Posted by Sik
What type of musical theme are you looking for? Is sampling ok? That last one was more about using like sampled percussion rather than full on hip hop style sampling where you'd need clearance for things. More about memory constraints than legality.Quote:
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Either way, I've played guitar for over 20 years, bass for about 15, and can compose for drums and percussion as well as synths and would like to help out if I can as your game looks like it is gonna kick ass.
Echo supports a single PCM channel at ~10650Hz, yeah (mostly meant for drums, but then you have Oerg cramming in entire drumloops so not like there's any serious limit besides memory usage in ROM). They're stored uncompressed so it's about 10KB per second (1 byte per sample) but most drums are shorter than half a second anyway, and instruments can be shared among music (and even sound effects).
Probably the biggest downside is that the tools still suck due to my laziness =O)
EDIT: by the way to you all, posting a sample track that may be relevant can be a good idea if you have one at hand :v
Game keeps improving visually as you include more assets. It's nice to see an artist developing his project.
Are you going to take any measure to add some variance to bricks pattern? Things like arcs, breakages or climbing plants. Buried treasures or skeletons would be fun too.
I was gonna ask if anyone's done an ADPCM decompressor for it, but I just realized the PCM port is only 8bit. Probably too much noise at that rate.Quote:
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Do not you think the colors of the walls a bit too dark ?
I personnally like contrast between backgrounds and sprites (even when it's the opposite : bright backgrounds and dark sprites)
Also completely forgot to reply to this:
ADPCM has been tried before, it's not as bad as you think =P (sample rate is a bigger factor) Especially true since you can't play quiet sounds anyway because the FM channels would make it unhearable. The real problem is that there are only 336 cycles between each sample, and this needs to include both fetching the sample and feeding it to the YM2612, and then doing some processing of the stream. Unless you want to pull off a SMPS and pause PCM for 1/3 of the frame and get some of the crappiest sample playback in existence =PQuote:
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And as I said, a drum is normally less than half a second anyway.
EDIT: ...and I forgot making it an edit to the previous post. FML.
Looking nice!
How are you approaching the gameplay mechanics in this game? I mean, specifically that gameplay feel and design interface. Did you research some other games, looking for particulars or specifics that give said games their feel?Quote:
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Eh not really, when you've played so many platformers you pretty much get an idea of what to look for already.
Also the Sonic games are full of just about every platformer cliché you could want (even if you exclude the pinball physics), if you want research material =P
Sik is such a prolific guy, it's funny the pessimistic tone he has of his projects, sincerely i like this posture alot. D
I see a lot of potential in this game. I'll ask the old boring question, was there any progress?
Are you Argentine? Pele >>>>>> Maradona
I ran out of ideas for now =/Quote:
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That, and I need to sort out my toolset.
first time checking out this thread, but the game looks dope so far - keep up the good work, Sik!
You can make a great single map with interlinked areas like Simphony of Night, which find very challenging from level design viewpoint. I consider more sensible decision is to divide the game by stages (broom flight stage, cemetery, dungeon, gardens, treasury room).Quote:
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Dragon's Lair, Castlevania IV, Rusty, Magical Pop'n, Cotton Series, Popful Mail and Magical Taruruto can be great sources of inspiration.