Castle Paradox

TwinHamster

Okay, after a few months of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction, I have finally created a copy of Detelamane that I am happy with.

However, there are a few music and sound effect issues for me to tweak, and I don't feel like waiting to fix those up to release this, so...Here you go. Silenced-Detelamane.
(Although, there are sounds and music in the game, so you could probably play it with sounds in any other game.exe of your own).

It's been a while since I've played the entire game beginning to end, but I'd estimate that you would spend maybe half an hour to an hour playing/watching.

Well, uh, here you go.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

Music and sound seemed fine to me using the latest wip build.

The skills menu looks really nice. So how did you figure out how many times a skill has been used in battle? That seems like an interesting trick.

The golem clobbered me. The shield just regenerated too fast for me.

Playing this also made me crave HP meters for the enemies, so i could see how much progress i was making. Does anybody remember the meters in Breath of Fire that just appear when you hit?

Oh, well, maybe in Voxhumana ;)

TwinHamster · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject:

Oh, the "tweak" part means that I'm working on the acquiring of more song/sound-fxs right now.

-Actually, there is one problem that always seems to pop up.
I'm not sure what causes it, but occasionally when transitioning from one midi song to the next, a single instrument from the previous track will just continue into the next song, making for a very unpleasant sound.

The skill counter is actually a pretty cheap trick.
Each "special" skill sets off a tag when it is used and a script checks for them after the battle. Then it does a bit of math and determines how the percentage of your progress.
I actually need to clean this a bit, because you get rewarded at random chunks right now (Like 12% and then 28%, I believe).

Moogle1 · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

Calehay · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject:

Is this a bug?

The golem likes to summon 2 shields, which made killing him pretty much impossible.
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Battleblaze · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

Count this for contest u want?
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TwinHamster · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:43 am Post subject:

The post-battle script only checks to see if a tag is on, so it's how many battles a hero uses a skill.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:53 am Post subject:

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These bugs are probably backend-dependent, so be sure to test with both the -fb-native and -fb-sdl nightly builds.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Alright! Been more interested in Deltamane than other OHR games.

Oh, and did you know that Lotus and Wild Rush seem to ignore the defense boosts the Golem gets? =P

And I love your angled tiles. They look so cool and you did a pretty good job pixeling them too.
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