Castle Paradox

ShakeyAir · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 93

Thank you again for the words of encouragement! I will let it be know right now that I'm a slow worker but I am for the time being dedicated very much to this project!

Yes, Bloodlust was the game I meant. Implementing something like that would be the simplest way to make sure everything can be seen fine.

About the text box choice menus:

And yea, you can make choices with menus, although I wanted something to happen that I wouldn't know how to do with menus:

EDIT: Haha! Ignore the extra skeletons. They are NPCs that will be invisible...

It's all ordinary text-boxes that call a little script that sends arguments to a big script and its kind of a mess because, well, I'm a messy coder, I guess.

it's a good deal of extra work, but it does get you the ability for a 2-lined choice. (I don't remember right now if 3-lined one would work or not.. I don't think so...) also, the little

at the beginning of a selected choice is filled in.

And it gets you that neat little sound effect of the text box coming in. (if you have a textbox coming in sound)

And if you care about all that, you'll have the drive to figure out an implementation thats hopefully less crazy than mine and I won't have to show it and be embarrassed haha. Menus get you about the same effect for a lot less work.

Broadsword · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:33 am Post subject:

its all a bit depresing. and something about the pics makes me want to puke.
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The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Leonhart · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 383 Location: Philippines

Okay. I've been away from CP for quite some time now, but I have to log in and tell you this: Those look awesome. Hope we won't wait til April 1st to find out whether the game is real or not. Oookay...

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ShakeyAir · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 93

So work has slowed a lot, I'm back in school now, back with the girlfriend, back pulling all-nighters on drawings. Freaking already. Haha. My time is practically non-existant, but the game will continue steadily as I get opportunities to work, and though my first plan was to release the full game only, I think after the first dungeon-ish area I'll release a demo, since it ends without giving up much of the plot. Or really, anything but the setting for the most part.

I've ditched the multiple choice textboxes, partly because is ludicrously hard to do for every person you talk to, and part because I want the feel to be more of an SNES RPG.

That being said, I have a new custom textbox engine, I wish I could show you in motion, but when the demo comes out you guys'll get to see it.

Here's a still:

What you don't see is that the black borders slide in, the text types itself, the arrow bounces, you can still use tags to link boxes, you can still have text appear instead of other text by tags, and it's all called with only one script and (what I think) is extremely creative use of the 'string from textbox' command.

And portraits will come back as soon as I see a portrait graphic command for plotsprites.

Sorry, but it was a lot of work and I'm pretty proud. I love shiny text.

Moogle1 · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject:

That looks completely awesome.

I'm happy to see the Dracula's Curse font go to good use. I made it for CURSE OF VAMPIRE but didn't actually use it in that game, so it's good to see that the effort didn't go to waste.

Any idea when you'll have a preview/demo/hands-on version available?
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

The houses and fence are much more readable now while still being incredibly dark, which is really good since that's the style you're going for. Love the font.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Also, I'm assuming this game will be played full screen, where it'll be easier to see details. Making edges of things higher contrast in order to help the player discern what's passable and impassable is a step in the right direction without killing the overall style.

But yes, a brightness adjuster would be good for those playing in windowed mode.
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msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

The text box scripting system sounds pretty cool. It's always nice when you can find a way to 'customize' custom through plotscripting - that is to say, change the player's interface to something you like better, while still being able to use custom in the way it was intended to some extent.
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Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

Looks nice, looking forward to this. These are some of the best graphics I've seen in the Ohrrpgce in a while (although I don't play as many as I used to).
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NeoTA · **Idiomatic Nomenclature** Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 165

I'm kind of surprised you got such a great result with my palette, since it has less really dark colors than the old palette. It seems it's more suited to this than I even knew!

You have a really neat style. There might come a time when it would help to poke around some pixels of the NPC/player sprites; that time is not now (you've got really strong stylistic cohesion here, which is one of the best advantages you could achieve, graphically; ideally any tweaking should be done as one of the final things, so you are really definite about what the style is by then.)

You might find lowering the contrast on the shiny text makes it more readable -- I think this is one reason why Castlevania has shiny-but-less-contrasty text.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

EDIT: Nevermind this post.
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