The Shining Source

Updates:

• March 26th -- Timelapse Stuff
• April 14th-- Walkabout Stuff
• July 29th, 2010 -- Menu Stuf
• August 6th, 2014 - Team screen
• August 28th, 2012-- Dev Console / Engine Info
• September 10th, 2014-- Scripted textbox
• February 23rd, 2016-- First battle screenshot
• November 24th, 2017 -- Character magic screen
• January 28th, 2019 -- Battle range indicator
• June 9th, 2020 -- Attack range indicator

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I figured I'd post these in the forum instead of my worklog, as they're really not that interesting. Anyway, they're two screens from the front end of the game. The idea is that you'll be able to drop new stories into the game directory and they'll appear here, ready to play. It works, sort of

To be honest, I'm not that happy with how it looks at the moment. To keep with the retro theme, (almost) everything is scaled, but I'm not sure that it really fits. It could be just me being a perfectionist, or if could be genuinely ugly. I'm not sure if mixing resolutions is such a good idea, but it would allow more on screen.

Anyway, criticisms are welcome

How about critical acclaim? 

MORE MORE MORE MORE

Ok then Here's a very (very) rough shot of the overworld map I've been working on. I'm quite pleased with how it's shaping up, although drawing all of the transitions is a bit of a pain.

Ooo I love the transition tiles you have there.  Juicy stuff

The mixed resolution thing looks completely fine to me, I don't think it's an issue at all .

As for transition tiles, they tend to be a big time-sink, so don't waste too much time on them. Even the developers of Shining Force 1 and 2 never got them consistently everywhere .

Besides, the benefit of transition tiles to the overall game experience is very limited. It may be better to focus on other parts while you are dedicating precious time to your precious baby .

Yeah, I'll probably stick with rough transitions for now and then clean them up in the future if I get time, otherwise I'll be drawing tiles forever

And yes, this little baby is getting lots of love right now. No doubt in a week I'll forget all about it for another 6 months

For some reason I can't see these shots on either Chrome or I.E. :\

Hmm, works on both from here. I've updated the forum so guests can see attachments, so that might help. You can see some of them in the latest worklog entry too

Holy crap! You still remember.... 
I'm looking forward to your next demo endeavour. Do you have any ideas for a plot?

Yep, I've got plenty of ideas It won't be much bigger than the last one, but there's a few features I definitely want working this time (like no deadly crashes ). I'm pretty organised this time around, although we'll have to see if that actually makes a difference.

Good to see! XD Keep it going!

Wow, didn't realize this project was still alive.  Looks great, keep up the good work! 

Shining Online will NEVER DIE.

I tried recording my progress for 30 minutes to see how it turned out. This is only a rough (and not very interesting) video. It does show the engine going from black to a scrollable map though Let me know thoughts on framerate / image quality etc. I may do a longer one as part of the summer/winter challenge

(A little timelapse experiment.)

Now I've got a little guy running around a map, along with collisions and transparent tiles