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Re: ZXodus][Engine - boriel - 10-09-2013

LCD Wrote:So it cannot be modified for another machine just by patching the code of the engine a little with few POKEs?
Off topic: Happy Birthday, LCD! Wink

Re: ZXodus][Engine - LCD - 10-11-2013

boriel Wrote:
LCD Wrote:So it cannot be modified for another machine just by patching the code of the engine a little with few POKEs?
Off topic: Happy Birthday, LCD! Wink
Thank you very much Smile

Re: ZXodus][Engine - ardentcrest - 10-11-2013

How will this differ from the 2011 ZXodus Engine And could the magic be replaced with something more Si-fi for a space type game

Re: ZXodus][Engine - boriel - 10-15-2013

ardentcrest Wrote:How will this differ from the 2011 ZXodus Engine And could the magic be replaced with something more Si-fi for a space type game
My English might be far from perfect, but this question seemed like a spam-bot automated post to me. :?:
To the users: flag / ban has been enabled now in the forum. The server keeps being severely attacked almost daily.

Re: ZXodus][Engine - LCD - 10-15-2013

ardentcrest Wrote:How will this differ from the 2011 ZXodus Engine And could the magic be replaced with something more Si-fi for a space type game
The older version was compatible with 48K and was only for enhance colour resolution to 8x1. No Dungeon tiles and no NPC controls. All features stated in first post are completly new. As for magic: We must wait for the first release. Maybe the magic can be changed into hacking/Telepatic abilitys, but nothing stops you from writting own SciFi "magic" routines.
I myself hope that Zxodus ][ will be modular. I have a nice game idea to use Zxodus ][.

Re: ZXodus][Engine - boriel - 10-15-2013

So the question was made by a human. Ok. :mrgreen:

Re: ZXodus][Engine - LCD - 10-15-2013

boriel Wrote:So the question was made by a human. Ok. :mrgreen:
I think so. But who knows, maybe I'm a bot myself and don't know about it, thinking, I live as a human Big Grin.
The ban flag sounds like a good idea, but wait for the adverts of chinese addidass shoes before you use it.

Re: ZXodus][Engine - boriel - 10-15-2013

LCD Wrote:
boriel Wrote:So the question was made by a human. Ok. :mrgreen:
I think so. But who knows, maybe I'm a bot myself and don't know about it, thinking, I live as a human Big Grin.
The ban flag sounds like a good idea, but wait for the adverts of chinese addidass shoes before you use it.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Surely you already know, but just in case: You can flag only a message (not ban). This will only mark (to me and others) a potential spam msg. This way, if someone detects / suspects a spam message this will make it easier for me (or any other volunteer) to detect the message and delete it (fortunately, the other countermeasures are working very well, so the amount of spam is very small).

Re: ZXodus][Engine - LCD - 10-16-2013

boriel Wrote:
LCD Wrote:
boriel Wrote:So the question was made by a human. Ok. :mrgreen:
I think so. But who knows, maybe I'm a bot myself and don't know about it, thinking, I live as a human Big Grin.
The ban flag sounds like a good idea, but wait for the adverts of chinese addidass shoes before you use it.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Surely you already know, but just in case: You can flag only a message (not ban). This will only mark (to me and others) a potential spam msg. This way, if someone detects / suspects a spam message this will make it easier for me (or any other volunteer) to detect the message and delete it (fortunately, the other countermeasures are working very well, so the amount of spam is very small).
Yes, I saw the little /!\ Flag for marking messages and will use this if nessesary.
Wait... Was not Roger Jowett already here? Big Grin

Re: ZXodus][Engine - LCD - 10-16-2013

Hi Boriel, I just got a Visitor Message on WOS from ardentcrest

Quote:Hi sent a post about your boride on boriel.
I'm am not a bot
Okay, so you can assume, he is not a bot...

Re: ZXodus][Engine - cheveron - 10-24-2013

ardentcrest Wrote:How will this differ from the 2011 ZXodus Engine And could the magic be replaced with something more Si-fi for a space type game
Sorry for taking a while to reply, I keep forgetting to check the forum. The original ZXodus Engine was a simple 8x1 color tile engine. The ZXodus][Engine is a full RPG engine. With very little programming effort you will be able to create quite complex games that look visually stunning (for a Spectrum). You'll still need to do a ton of storyboarding to come up with something people want to play. The whole engine is very modular and the magic system could easily be replaced with psionics for a sci-fi setting, or left out entirely. The standard 2D and 3D tile sets are for typical fantasy mediaeval settings so you'd need to create a new tileset if you wanted to say replace the 3D dungeon with a space ship. The engine could certainly handle it though. Creating a game with the ZXodus][Engine will require the following steps:
  • (Optional) Create a 2D tileset in ZX-Paintbrush
  • (Optional)Create a 3D tileset in ZX-Paintbrush
  • Create the music in Vortex Tracker II and convert to P3X format (ZXodus native sound format)
  • (Optional)Create the sound FX in Shiru's BeepFX engine
  • Create the 128x128 world map in the Tiled editor
  • Create the sixteen 32*32 town maps in the Tiled editor
  • (Optional) Create the 9*9 encounter maps in the Tiled editor
  • Create the NPC conversation trees in a text editor.
  • Create the game logic in Boriel's BASIC

Here are the links:
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You'll be able to reuse the default tile sets and sound fx in your own games if you want to. The ZXodus][Engine takes care of all the annoying stuff like dealing with 128K paging and actually loading the data in the first place leaving you to concentrate on storytelling. Given the limits of the engine that should be enough for you to begin storyboarding if you're sure the engine meets your requirements. However, expect it to be quite a while before it is finished as I have a lot of work to do.

Re: ZXodus][Engine - cheveron - 11-06-2013

Just a quick update to say that I've now completed the majority of work on SE Basic 4.1. There are some bugs that need fixing but my coding attention will soon move on to finishing ZXodus2.

Re: ZXodus][Engine - cheveron - 11-13-2013

Coming soon … RedBox.

Re: ZXodus][Engine - ardentcrest - 11-13-2013

Do you have a site cheveron

Re: ZXodus][Engine - cheveron - 11-14-2013

ardentcrest Wrote:Do you have a site cheveron

Just facebook.com/chevs.stuff (where you can see a picture of an early version of RedBox).