The Shining Source

Hi everyone,

It's been a long time since my last post. And not without good reason.

Writing AI is/was very time-consuming.
Continued posting about one particular thing seemed pointless (post 1: blah blah writing AI blah blah, post 2: blah more AI , post 3: blah blah some more AI) , well I think you get the picture  )  

But, I'm pretty sure I've covered all bases now
There are 23 (!!)  decisions an enemy can make (so far)
It still needs some tweaking though.

Anyway, very soon I'm starting to work on the editor.
The first four maps are drawn on paper, and I can finally get some work done on the townmaps that Gritzcolin made for me

I'll try to post some screenshots (regarding the second town, the first one goes up in smoke (demonic cackle) )

S'all for now peeps

Good to see you around again Peter!

Also, I'm glad to hear that progress has been steady despite the TSS downage . Keep up the good work

wow you're putting alot of work into this. Any chance of you perhaps releasing a demo or somthing?

Weeeeelll,
I sent the last version to Devlyn some time ago, unfortunately this version has no AI in it.
Devlyn told me that he would release this demo.

Now, I'm very close to completing the entire battle-mode (and that's WITH AI),
and I'm thinking that it would be better that Devlyn doesn't release the demo until I've sent the complete version to Devlyn.

However, this doesn't stop you from nagging Devlyn to release the demo which he has now.    :lol:

This is sounding great - I'm eager to see this game in action!
What's the deal story-wise? It's after SFII, isnt it? How far along are u with that?

I agree with Peter.  Feel free to nag me!  :lol:

Please release the demo Dev, if you don't, I won't have any escape from my 14 starving children and 5 domineering wives!! For the sake of my sanity, please release the demo...and so on.  

Dev release it!

If you don't release it you will then be nagged with days of

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and so forth

Allright, I'll put it up unofficially here, since I don't have the whole infrastructure to release it officially.

You can find it at www.shiningsource.net/Devlyn/dl/darkres.zip

I simply zipped up my installation, to easen your. Just extract the zip to your C: and it will make a directory called games/DARKRES which contains the game .

It may not work everywhere, but hopefully it'll work with some at least

nice work, the battle system is pretty damn nifty, cant wait for it with the AI.

@ acebloke: Thanks for downloading

My editor is almost finished. Also, all the tiles for the tactical base are finished.

Now to insert the AI and complete the first town, and we're awaaaay for
the second demo (probably one week from now)    

can't wait for the demo. Seems like a good project.

BTW, what language are you using?

I downloaded and tried to play but after it crashing my computer three times i gave up. I have it all unzipped in my c drive and such and i cant find what im doing wrong.

@ M07hm4n: I'm using DIV Games Studio now for about 3.5 years
I have programmed more games:

Subhunt,  
Kong Driver College,
FishDish,
Fishdish 2,
Cosmic Carnage,
Dumpy Dog,
Turkey Run
Zero Tolerance.

Go to www.div-arena.com and search for these games.

@ Sir Phill: Unfortunately the game only works if you are using Windows 95/98 or one of the earlier versions of Windows 2000

Also, you may experience trouble with the sound.
Please do as follows:

Run the SETUP.EXE that comes with the program and select NO SOUND
(FYI: the main program searches for a certain soundcard. If it cannot find
one that's is listed. it will crash)

erm... more FYI. when DIV for windows is released, these problems are gone (hopefully)

That's not exactly true Peter. I did manage to get it working under Windows XP here .

I think I simply installed it to C:/games/DARK RESURRECTION and clicked the executable .