The Shining Source

Been a while. And yes, I have been working…just not as hard as I should =P

• Added more compression, managing to keep the entire game pretty small so far. Which is also nice.
• Started adding some of the more fundamental battle system components. Like enemies.
• Drew some more enemies (1 VERY cool enemy), and had lots of lovely weapon submissions (Thanks to Valderin, Sir Phill and Chris D for those).
• Added more to the title screen, and is now more functional.
• Layed the foundations for more online options – good ones too.
• Stripped the source code of all the junk that’s accumulated in the last few versions (demo 3 was about version 12 – now on version 16)
• Fixed a few bugs, and tweaked here and there.
• Realised that for the amount of time I’ve had, I’ve done very little..

Not a lot…

• Wrote some compression routines – shrinks maps up to 2% of their original size. Which is nice.
• Tested a few more online options.

That’s right, I even work on New Year’s Eve…

• Put in the new title screen, complete with menus.
• Improved load/saving.
• Added a character chooser.
• Played with some online stuff. It worked ;).
• Generally messed around with the code…

• Added the item shop event, and functionality.
• Added some extra graphical touches
• Fixed a huge bug in the level editor, which screwed up the whole events system.
• Improved little bits here and there.

• Added ‘equip Accessory’.
• Changed the snow effect, now looks better.
• Started work on the demo tileset.
• Made the engine more compatible with faster computers.
• Added ‘Use Weapon’ and ‘Use Accesory’.
• Added the title screen.