Category Archives: Design

Cast a Deadly Spell

Posted on December 20, 2013 by adamantyr

Long long hiatus indeed… Life’s been keeping me busy lately, namely a wonderful awesome girl. 🙂 I’m turning my attention back to the CRPG… When I last left off, I was doing a lot of prep work for spell casting … Continue reading →

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Elevated Expectations

Posted on April 4, 2013 by adamantyr

And back to CRPG stuff… I was at a remote forested area which had a beautiful viewpoint from a forested hill of a waterfall across from it. I realized such an awesome view would be impossible to do in my … Continue reading →

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Animated Changes

Posted on March 26, 2013 by adamantyr

I’m still working on content changes right now… graphics, sound effects, actual FX for all the spells… a lot of work to do before I go back to coding up things. One aside was to update my animation code. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Tactical Position

Posted on March 17, 2013 by adamantyr

It was a bit more work than expected, but battlemaps are now loading dynamically AND units are being placed dynamically as well. The main problem I encountered was that my trigonometric functions were, well, not working right. I dug around … Continue reading →

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Battlemap Rebuild

Posted on March 10, 2013 by adamantyr

As I continue working on the combat engine, finishing up other portions of “temporary” code has come up. One particular one is the use of battlemaps. Most of the 2D CRPG tactical combat games feature some kind of varied terrain … Continue reading →

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Checkmate

Posted on March 6, 2013 by adamantyr

Let’s take a moment to look at the monster A.I… Monster A.I. can be as simple as just calculating the deltas of the positions and making them into coordinate change values. My favorite version of this came from an old … Continue reading →

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Things I Have Learned from Writing a Vintage CRPG

Posted on February 18, 2013 by adamantyr

As I am now going into year 8 of creating my vintage CRPG, It’s time to take a look back at things and share what I’ve learned from the experience of having a hobby programming project. Or, you know, I’m … Continue reading →

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Debug Blues

Posted on February 15, 2013 by adamantyr

Debugging the combat engine continues… it is really good to do so, though, since now it’s actually working and the bugs aren’t completely derailing it. Well, most of the time. A simple register shift being one off caused all the … Continue reading →

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Bug Extermination

Posted on February 11, 2013 by adamantyr

Okay, I spent several hours on code fixing, building, re-building, file editing, spreadsheet updates… all aimed at getting the game back on a (sort of) running basis. I also thought some new screenshots would be nice to splash around the … Continue reading →

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A Static Situation

Posted on February 7, 2013 by adamantyr

So, I’ve done a further bit of change to how weapons and armor work… now all base types (sword, dagger, leather armor, etc.) have fixed amounts for ALL statistics, read from CPU memory. (I could push it out to disk … Continue reading →

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