Castle Paradox

The deadline is really close, and I've finally got a preview release of Eternity Fragment up for review before I submit the final version.

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=71409#714 ...

Apple relaxes rules on interpreted code...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/apple-throws-developers-a-bone-relaxes-restrictions-on-third-party-tools/38985?tag=nl.e539

It's still a bit restrictive, ...

C# isn't really all that different from C++, and there are Linux compilers for it. There's also SDL libraries for C#. If we're going to seriously think about a project like this, moving the project to ...

Developer keeps 70%, Microsoft keeps 30%. It used to be that if your game went on the featured games list, the ratio was reversed and they kept 70%, but I think they did away with that.

Ideally, th ...

The lowest price point on XNA is $1, or 80 MS points. To price a game at this level, it must be under 50Mb. I believe that the highest level is $10, or 800, but I could be mistaken. The maximum size f ...

I would gladly donate at least $100 to the XNA port bounty.

Right now, the best that XNA has is the [url=http://creators.xna.com/en-US/starterkit/roleplayinggame]Roleplaying Game Starter Kit. It's ...

Alright, I'm definitely proceeding forward on Eternity Fragment. Maybe I'll finish before November 30, maybe I won't. I'm going to be working with a friend, and we'll probably have a cool team name by ...

Is it possible, through scripting or otherwise to use map sprites larger than 20x20?

I'm going to do something, seems like a great opportunity to finally learn OHR. Currently brainstorming on the overworld...

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You bring up portable devices... What are the chances of seeing a full-on Android port? iOS has that Square Enix exclusive, so I'm extremely interested in seeing some RPG love on Android.

Awesome! This is exactly what I needed. I've always wanted to do something in OHR but I've never been able to do large-scale design in that little window, so this helps tremendously.

One thing tha ...

I can put a binary map file in the *.T## file, but I can't get the dimensions to go right. It keeps thinking my map is 257x257, but it's definitely getting the right tile data. Any ideas?

I'm seeing that we can extract the files in a *.rpg, and as long as the maps are self-contained files, I'm sure it's possible.

If there's a reference for the map file format, it's just a matter of ...

I'm not talking about tiles, I'm talking about map data.

Is it possible or documented how to use an external editor? I prefer working in TileStudio, or even Mappy, and can export binary or user-defined XML from those.