InDev : NeonPlat's Cosmic Adventure

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> InDev : NeonPlat's Cosmic Adventure
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Thu, 03 Sep 2015, 11:25
Jayenkai	A few tweaks later, and ... Green is floor, Red is brick and the many shades of blue are the multiple (32) AI Player's paths I'll now set about scoring the paths based on the amount of movement, and scattering objects along the paths. Woot!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 03 Sep 2015, 13:23
cyangames	That's super cool to see how it's all coming together! Nice idea using A.I. to check if the levels are possible. -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Thu, 03 Sep 2015, 15:28
Jayenkai	In the following video, you can more or less see the speed of the level generator. Basically, the time between the main menu, and once that flickery level display shows up, (eg about 2 frames) is the time it takes to generate the level and run 32 AI players through the level. The display is there for my test purposes only and will be removed in the final game. Once I hit the play button, the level begins without needing to build anything else. > Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube The "Best" path is chosen based on a bunch of scoring methods, and this is then used to plant the trail of coloured collectables, as well as frequent checkpoint flags. Tomorrow I'll take some time to use the alternative paths to add spikes and other deadly objects along the way. Woot!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 03 Sep 2015, 16:45
cyangames	Wow! That's some awesome AI!
Sat, 05 Sep 2015, 06:18
Jayenkai	Paths are in, Spikes are in, Death's in, Lives are in, EndofGame is in... As I play, today, and Platdude gets killed and goes flailing out of the screen, spinning, I realise there's something very much missing. Sound... I suppose I need to add some of that, next.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 05 Sep 2015, 09:13
cyangames	Get that Al fella on the go
Sat, 05 Sep 2015, 14:35
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube Sounds added. Tomorrow I attempt the music.... I think... Maybe... -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 05 Sep 2015, 18:29
Jayenkai	Just spent a good couple of hours with the JMTrackr stuff, and have managed to integrate the old music player back into action, with string based data. Fairly complicated, I'll admit, but it does indeed at least work. ... But it sounds like shit!! I now need to piss about for the next few days trying to find a bunch of stuff, combinations of choons and instruments, that work well together. Bah!!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 06 Sep 2015, 16:19
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube Did quite a lot of rejigging, today, in order to get the engine to load different "choons", and that sort of thing. I also spent most of the day converting AL's recent Liquid AL Bum Choons over to the JMTrackr format. I've managed 8 of them, but the slower tracks didn't seem to work at all. Currently still using the original instruments, so at the minute the resulting music isn't.. .. uurm... ... .. but it's a start. Tomorrow I'll fuck about trying to decide what sort of instruments work best with the engine. Chiptune-esque, synthy, or more realistic. shrugs -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 07 Sep 2015, 06:26
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube Music getting better. Still not perfect, but .. Better!!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 07 Sep 2015, 10:10
rockford	Really liking dem choons Jay
Mon, 07 Sep 2015, 15:53
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube Added weapons to the Duck-Turret. \o/yeay\o/ -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 08 Sep 2015, 11:21
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube Generator : Added a few new rules to the builder's logic.. Things like "Don't stick a Duck Turret right beside a Checkpoint", and that sort of thing. Niceness : Made the coins do a nice floaty thing, and gave the checkpoint a "Checkpoint" thing, too. Music : Haven't tweaked that, today, but other random elements have conspired to ensure that today's music sounds .. bad! I think I'm going to have to define a few "Don't use these instruments together" rules. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 08 Sep 2015, 17:12
Jayenkai	Damn... Just got the player stuck in a small hole, surrounded by solid blocks.. Possible solutions. A) Rewrite a fuckton of the level generator to avoid that in future. B) Mario-esque breakable when hit from below.. ... Hmm.. I might go for B, see where that takes me. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 09 Sep 2015, 05:30
Jayenkai	Feel free to give it a try, if you're on OUYA. Https://SoCoder.net/o1.html (most recent test) Findings.. 1. I need to swap throw and jump buttons, and preferably add an option for that. 2. Solid blue objects tend to disappear completely from view. D'oh! (TVs are dark!!) 3. I could do with pre-hidden-drawing all the sprites, to stop it from doing that annoying "oh.. You wanted me to DRAW that?!" bollocks that Android frustratingly does. I'll probably add a titlescreen to each level, and shove the pre-draw things on there. Notes.. 1. Very little of the artwork has been drawn, so all the levels look damn near identical, graphics wise, other than colourschemes and the sandy floor. 2. Only "default" enemies are in. And only "Difficulty 0" is playable. 3. Bats, when "Sphered" and collected, will burst into blocks of ice!! 4. Music's still a bit shit. 5. There is no ending. When you reach the end of the level, it's just a great big chasm!! 6. If there's a large pile of blocks, you can usually jump "into" the top corner brick.. I haven't got around to fixing that, yet!! Lemmie know, if you try it, how well you get on. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 10 Sep 2015, 13:09
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube Today's Improvements Continued music engine tweaks. I need to try to get the timing a little more accurate, now, I think... New level loader. Swooshy and swoopy, the first two frames the level is built, then over the course of the next 30 or so frames, all the level's sprites are loaded, and then drawn offscreen, so that bloody Android devices load them into gfx memory properly. .. Then it's just a delay for the sake of a delay. I'm going to see about generating level names, next, and add that to the screen, too. phew -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 10 Sep 2015, 17:14
cyangames	That is coming on in leaps and bounds!
Fri, 11 Sep 2015, 05:47
Jayenkai	A small selection of possible level titles.. Path and Bat Sandy Spikes Bat and Flag Flower's Fulfilled Block Empty Spikes Inside Platdude Roller's Jumper Platform From Platform Closed Platdude's Gem Closed Dangerous Line The Purple Cage The Sturdy Cage Monster and Platizen Red Walker Neon Line Sphere and Sphere Monster's Jagged Brick Spike and Gem Bat's Blue Brick Line's Last Landscape Monster and Line Within Gem Roller's Purple Brick Jumper's Lost Adventure Closed Path The Bat and the Bird Closed Adventure Inside Adventure Upon Sphere Monster's Adventure Dangerous Star The Last Floor The Sphere and the Platizen Sturdy Flower The Final Floor Platdude and Roller Roller's Twisted Landscape Fulfilled Adventure Monster's Sandy Landscape Flag's Grassy Landscape Bat's Brave Landscape Ball's Scared Landscape Within Sphere Star's Ancient Cage Open Spike Bat's Adventure Ball's Star Crystal's Platdude Coin's Platizen Roller's Jumper The Jagged Brick The Green Brick Scared Star Last Platdude Found Jumper Original Sphere First Gem Coin's Discovered Platform Walker's Red Platform Path's Adventure Crystal and Flower Open Empty Line Sandy Rollers Ball's Green Cage Inside Bright Platdude Platizen Closed From Spike Cage Within Ball's Gem Crystal's Coin Upon Empty Platdude The Bright Landscape The Sandy Landscape The Icy Landscape Green Star Blue Platdude Roller and Crystal Adventure Within Monster and Spike Coin's Corrupt Block Bat and Line Bird's Empty Block Red Crystals Gem's Fluffy Brick Walker's Yellow Brick Line's Jagged Brick Open Sphere Monster's Line Closed Spike Bat's Adventure Blank Jumper Upon First Monster The Discovered Platform The Neon Platform The Orange Cage Sandy Path Icy Star Spike and Path Roller and Monster Path and Star Monster and Platdude Coin's First Brick Walker's Final Brick Jumper's Empty Landscape Blank Crystals Flag's Neon Brick Walker's Bright Adventure Line's Sandy Adventure From Sphere Monster's Jumper Inside Spike Bat's Flower Ball's Crystal The Sturdy Floor The Corrupt Floor Red Spike The Fulfilled Floor Orange Path Fluffy Star Coin and Sphere Roller and Flower Bird and Gem Monster and Spike Coin's Ancient Landscape Platdude's First Platform Bird's Sturdy Landscape Landscape Open Upon Monster From Block Red Birds Closed Sphere Inside Crystal Yellow Bats Upon Scared Roller Open Happy Path The Original Brick The Coin and the Platdude Blank Spike Bat and Spike Fulfilled Path Adventure's Sandy Platform The Bat and the Gem Jumper's Adventure Bird and Star Flower's Happy Platform Star's Pink Floor Platdude's Ancient Floor Jumper's Sturdy Floor Sphere's Corrupt Floor Outside Dangerous Roller Line Inside Sphere's Brick From Platform Adventure's Bat Flag's Ball Platizen's Sphere Within Platform Closed Blue Monster The Coin and the Spike Platizen Closed Jumper Inside Path's Cage Monster's Cage Coin and Sphere Sandy Rollers Icy Birds Flower's Friendly Block Floor Within Platdude's Last Brick Jumper's Original Brick Floor Closed Within Brick Upon Block From Block Outside Twisted Sphere Adventure's Roller The Flag and the Bird The Brave Platform The Ball and the Monster The Flower and the Star Purple Spike Platform From Coin and Crystal Ball's Bat Star's Twisted Adventure Walker From Purple Crystals Pink Roller Ball and Adventure Ball and Coin The Adventure and the Bat Blank Flags Platizen From Jumper Inside Roller and Line The Flower and the Gem Adventure's Crystal Star's Sturdy Platform Platdude's Corrupt Platform Line's Lost Landscape Flower's Line Star's Red Landscape Landscape Inside Open Blank Monster Walker's Found Block Ball and Flower Landscape From Outside Bright Crystal --v -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Fri, 11 Sep 2015, 13:24
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube A quick test of a few things. 1) The new Level Title Generator and 2) The new End of Level Goal thing and 3) That the game can cycle through 3 "acts" per "zone" All seems good! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 12 Sep 2015, 14:20
Jayenkai	Level Select Concept.. Let's see how well this goes when it comes to displaying it all onscreen!! :\ Worlds are displayed on the menu. Pick a world, and it splits into 5 zones, each with 3 levels. Complete any 5 levels in a world to unlock nearby worlds. Complete all 15 levels to "complete" the world. World XXXX suggests there's going to be worlds 1 through to 9999. Each one with 15 levels.. So, um.. 149,985 levels..? ... Sure, it's no infinite calendar of levels, but it's as close as we're going to get, I think.. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 13 Sep 2015, 12:55
Jayenkai	Damn, doing menus takes too frickin' long! I've STILL not started on the secondary "Select Zone from World" bit of the menu, but at least the "Select a World from the fucktons of worlds" menu is coming together nicely. I've reused the "Generate Planet" tool that I created for Platdude in Space, so the world style should look somewhat familiar. Over those are a new 15-segment ring, with each of the 15 segments being a level within the world. Complete a level, and a segment lights up. The slightly brighter, greener, fuller ring is there to suggest a fully complete world. (Note : Those are entirely fictional values, at the minute!!) Next up, locking and unlocking nearby worlds. phew So much to do!!!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 13 Sep 2015, 16:45
cyangames	Still looks purty though
Mon, 14 Sep 2015, 14:35
Jayenkai	> Reveal 🔎 View on YouTube Still using fake "Levels complete" numbers, since I need to get the menu working in order to get into the levels, in order to test the numbers properly on the menu that doesn't work yet!! Complicated stuff! Anyway, as stated earlier, each world has 5 zones, and each zone has 3 levels. Right now you can select a world, and it'll open up. This is where the 5 zones will appear, but.. .. they don't yet! That's a task for tomorrow. Then I'll strip out the fake scores and test whether my scoring stuff actually works properly. phew Once all of that's in place, it'll be time to start forming level styles, and making things a bit more playable again. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 15 Sep 2015, 04:50
Jayenkai	Bloody laptop battery! Well, I got the zone selection screen working, and tested with super-short levels to see if it all held up, and indeed the new menu seems capable and working properly. I was halfway through recording a video when the bloody battery died. Grrr... -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 15 Sep 2015, 07:11
Jayenkai	Recharged! View on YouTube Select a world, select a zone, play 3 levels or die trying! .... * 5 zones per world * 9999 worlds! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 15 Sep 2015, 12:47
Jayenkai	As seen on iPad! The Buttons on the bottom right seem to work fairly well, but the analogue slidey thing on the left (invisible!) isn't quite right. I've got it set to "Slide to move" but it's not quite fast enough. Instead I'll have to set a dedicated mid-point. .. But.. Yeay! Working!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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