Thanks for the feedback. I agree! I think with more time, I would have definitely added lots more. I feel like many of the quests were very “phoned in”, just to fill in, in a mad-rush, at the end.
The i386 version ran better than GBA version on my emulator (dosbox vs Retroarch with mGBA.) The graphics are great, and I like the vibe, but I was not sure what to do.
Love the look and screams. I would have rated higher for “Fun” & “Game Design”, if there was a goal (other then avoid being touched by monsters.) This did not follow the jam-theme of “friends”, but still a really great POC. I would totally play the finished version of this game, like way too much.
Sorry, I missed this.
No. I ended up getting busy with other projects, and it seemed like the author did not want their assets available in a free public project, which is totally understandable, but we are an open-source project, so we will look for other assets, I think.
Awesome game! I wish it did fullscreen or otherwise locked keys, though, since up/down makes window scroll, but the actual game is sick! Opening the iframe by itself helps: https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/6978240/index.html
I work on that, and we were talking about making an RPG demo game for it. I think your assets would be great for that, and we can link to you, and I’ll just use the free ones (because the engine is open-source, and people will download it, for free.)
As for Tiled: I’ll make stuff anyway for my own use, so it’s no extra trouble. I imagined you could have a ready-made pack for Tiled people, like you do for RPGMaker. If you don’t want that, it’s ok.
I think I can improve the terrain brush a bit from that video, but that is the basic idea.
As for the game, I work on node-raylib and we need a little simple demo-rpg anyway, so I’d be happy to set one up. I will update here, when I get it all put together.
I’d be willing to make a pack that is tailored to tiled. I am thinking terrain brushes (so it will automatically pick the right tile for drawing terrain) and pre-made sprite animations (so you can just drop them into the level editor.) The great thing about Tiled is that it works for many different engines/languages, so it’s a nice general open-source thing to layout levels in.
I’d also be willing to make a little demo-game for one of the engines I work on (node-raylib or raylib, in C.)
Just wanted to mention I made lua-openmpt (https://github.com/konsumer/lua-openmpt/) which parses many formats of mod-files, if you have libopenmpt and luajit installed on your system. If you are already good with lua, you could use it to make a little script to extract instrument / song data. I have tested it in luajit & love2d, and it works pretty well.
I’m not quite sure how to approach a converter program. I have seen the technique of using specific samples, like from a template in openmpt, then converting that, but I wonder if we could go even further and convert samples into little wave-instruments, to get a base in there. For short things like drums & chiptune looping waves, this might work ok (but would probably need some serious post-conversion tuning.) I think a few other things might translate too, like jump or tremelo effect. If I could manage this method, I think it could also be used in the “load this template, edit it, and convert it” style, but also maybe handle some existing mods (even if they need a bit of tuning, after conversion) sort of like how I edit images in Gimp, then import them, and tune them in TIC-80 sprite-editor.
It seems like many of the links above are dead. Does anyone have some source I could look at of the existing work on this, so I have a good starting point? I’m on Linux, so an EXE isn’t really helpful anyway, but source would be great so I can see how it was done.
