Thanks again for the great feedback. You can buy the chain whip before but... This is a bit of a spoiler but the game has consequenses for some actions and not always to you. These consequenses and actions affect the ending of the game. Yeah wanted to keep the player balancing between losing time or going in at night when its harder. As in the original game time matters most to the ending after that come the consequenses of your actions, thou they are vaque in purpose hints are given for correct actions. The sound effect for leveling is actually made by Juhani Junkala, most of the sounds are made by him, thou that leveling effect sound might not be the most fitting. Also the improved leveling effect might change as it is a bit similar to when you get a status effect like poison or cursed. Sure it would be fun to watch some one else play the game. I love to watch videos of people playing castlevania games. Just watched HUNGRY GORIYA play castlevania games and have watched AVGN play trough the series several times. It was actually AVGN original first video about simons curse that inspired me to make this remake. As I had always loved Simons Quest thou acknowledging the mistakes in it as well. I wanted to try to make a remake that would make people see the game trough my eyes or how I felt the game was. EDIT: Also checked out Fatalvision and started watching his Simons Quest Redaction video. Good stuff.
Aaa thanks for the info I'll try to fix it. Thou I might need a bit more info on how it happened so I can replicate it. Or it was just one time random even that just crashed. If it keeps repeating please let me know and if you can how it happened. But I will try to test it out my self if I can replicate it. Would not wonder if its a keyboard issue again. I tested keyboard controls poorly. My bad... Thanks for info!
It seems to happen when I use my Y button on my XBox 360 controller (it's not an official controller - VOYEE brand). I'm also running JoyToKey so I can use my left joystick to use as a second D-pad. Here's the message that pops up.
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of Other Event: Animation End
for object block_obj:
unable to convert string "left" to bool
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gml_Object_block_obj_Other_7 (line -1)
FATALVISION has two channels - the one with the blue robot logo and the one that is the black matrix background like an old Master System game. I think he's using the matrix channel at this point. Something he said about how the algorithm seems to have made it harder for his first channel to be found/discovered. He has a series called RandomVania where he's playing all the hacks he finds. I think he'll be another source of great input if he's on board for testing! There are a few other CV gamer creators and hackers that talk to him there as well! There's a great ContraVania styled game that has a long Japanese title that was made by another game maker that's pretty cool. It has a two-player co-op mode that's nice. He recently replayed that one if you want to see it
Ok, thanks! I eventually figured out how to make Simon descend down on the thin platforms (that's what I was having trouble with). I still don't exactly understand if it's like a quick motion of going from the up point on the D-pad to the down point to cause Simon to descend, but eventually he went downward, and I was able to purchase that needed chain whip. Thanks again
AA thats what you meant. It's double tap down. Same as in Terraria. As if its just pressing down you cant crouch with while on the platforms. If its the usual Castlevania go down then its down + attack but that prevents coruching attacks on thin platforms. So I decided to go the Terraria way AKA double tap down quickly (press down twice fast). I might add a tutorial or help for the movemetns ETC at some point in the main menu. There are reason for all the movements. Mainly trough my frustration for castlevania game controls.
Ok, thanks you, sounds good! Here's where I encountered another game crash. Just keeping you up to date o these as they happen.
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of Step Event0
for object frog1_obj:
Variable frog1_obj.myspr_crouch_attackright(101001, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
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This is extremely interesting. As I have no idea why frog is trying to crouch =D =D Or how it even has such code. And I have not even touched frog code in a loooong time. Could be part of general movement functions. I will fix this for next update. Thanks!
EDIT: Its fixed for next version. Frogs now longer try to crouch =D
I had some previous versions of the game on my computer. I have no idea if that would cause the crash. Maybe pressing so many buttons while things were moving on the screen? I'm just beginning too grasp any knowledge of how coding works. I just did a video of myself playing the game yesterday! I'll paste the link on!Me playing Simon's Curse .71 Demo!
I gave .73 some paly today. I really like the changing sunbeams happening during the day! The spikes and marsh still seem a tad bit touchy. If you want me to make a video showing you what I mean, I can. The 8-bit remixes I was talking about for the Super CastleVania IV music are done by an artist named Loeder on YouTube. Here's a link to one of them to have a listen to.
Thanks for the info.
I would love to add more cool effects in the game. I also used my sunbeam effect I made for Simons Curse for the Skullball 2 campaign atlantis level. Currently trying to add shadows (actual shadows moving according to sun), window lighting indoor and out door and reflections. Having some problems with others and others just did not look good enough atleast not yet. Also would love to add heat distortions but I need to look in to that. When the game is nearly finished I will try to add weather and stars coming out at night. Maybe also to improve the lighting engine.
By the way did you like the new windows?
Yeah I need a bit more info. I reduced the size of the hitbox of all the traps to smaller then the actual sprite. Which was a good thing to do as you could get hit standing on a ledge while spikes/poison below and that made no sense. I do know of a little bug thats on my list related to getting momentarily (pressing any movement related button/key releases you) stuck to roof spikes in some rare cases.
The music sounds good. I'm using optomons music at the moment. Check him out at optovania.
This one is my favorite:
Adding some shadow effects sounds cool! And more lighting from the windows and adding stars to the night sky would be nice! The way Optomon did them in his Holy Relics games, but with parallax movement sounds neat. The windows are fine. I wish there was one more option to stretch the screen just some, like to about 7:5, if I'm understanding the ratios correctly. Optomon has done some really great remixes and original tracks using the CastleVania II sound palette. It's amazing really how much he has been able to modify these old games. If Loeder is willing to have some of their remixes also be added to your game, along with what you've been able to use from Optomon's, that would be great in my opinion! Here's a video of me giving the Lost Castle area a try and seeming to still be tripping on those spikes. The video is an unlisted one since it's just for design helping purposes. Thanks again for allowing me to help! This is such a neat project!
You can also increase the resolution it changes the screen size. Making everything bigger. Fullscreen support also returning. Had some problems with it with vertical sync and fullscreen so I removed it for a while and forgot about it. I fixed the marshes for the next update and will do the same for spikes. Thanks for the great info.
EDIT: all spike/trap etc mask size reduced by 2. It's now a bit smaller than the sprite.