Twin Angels - Small Arcade-like Game.

Krut · Post by **Krut** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:43 pm

Well , all the art is done for this game, and i have a pretty competent design document, I?ve had this completed for quite a few months, and i think its quite enough, there?s probably small details to add or something, but the game itself is ready.

Im hoping for the game to be available both for the PC and Dreamcast, and from what i know with DSL it shouldnt be hard to have both versions available.

Im posting this here since its not really a port idea, but a "from-scratch-proyect", so if anyone is interested reply here with any cuestion you may have, and we?ll take it from there.

I leave you to the links;

http://krut.rhinoz.net/krut/Pixel/Twin_Angels/

Thanks for your time.

By the way , Ian if you happen to read this , lets start the work again men

im ready.

Post by **Quzar** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:03 am

Nice. (I assume you mean SDL though) You might have better luck getting a PC programmer to make this then have a Programmer here (I'd volunteer if I can do it...) to port it. If the Dreamcast is kept in mind while it is made (you know, memory limits, input handling, etc.) then the port would be more of an update.

Krut · Post by **Krut** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:39 am

YES! SDL, what the hell was i thinking.

Well, yes you got a point, just thought some coder here might be interested, besides its not "that" big of a proyect.

Ill wait a while and see if i get some possitive response, if not , i might take you up on that Quzar.

Post by **Quzar** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:45 am

Yea, I was just saying that because I dont know of any programmer that frequents here that is very knowledgable in SDL. Sure, manipulating it in ways to make ports easier plenty know, but writing something ground up... well...

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:10 am

Yea, I was just saying that because I dont know of any programmer that frequents here that is very knowledgable in SDL

That's not exactly true. I've been using SDL for a few projects, mostly writing a PC version with SDL and OpenGL, and a Dreamcast version with native code. Using SDL to write things from scratch is pretty easy anyway. Or, at least, easier than using DirectX (shudder) or, in some ways, easier than writing it for a Dreamcast in the first place.

I might be interested in having a go at it.

Post by **Quzar** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:22 am

Well, go for it then =). Its just that the code that i have seen in SDL games seems to differ greatly from that in SDL applications, as it is usually more... technical? Anyways yea.

Oh, by the way, you are wrong. It IS exactly true, because I didn't know of it =P

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:03 am

Got any graphics which aren't in animated GIF format? I don't have anything capable of extracting the frames from them?

Edit: Never mind. The Gimp can do it.

Storminator16 · Post by **Storminator16** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:58 am

quzar wrote:Yea, I was just saying that because I dont know of any programmer that frequents here that is very knowledgable in SDL. Sure, manipulating it in ways to make ports easier plenty know, but writing something ground up... well...

You are an ass. I finally got that off my chest. I read many of your posts, but all I gather is that you are a know-it-all. You are an ingrate.

To stay away from hijacking the thread: Krut, I was just reading the design document and I was trying to figure out one thing. Is this game suppose to be fast paced, or is it suppose to be a sickening fast paced? Sounds like this game would be cool if it was insanely frenetic

Is this the goal?

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:15 am

My interpretation is that the goal is to keep going as long as possible. The clock decreases every time you lose a soul, and increases every time you save one. I think the game would get really boring if kept going the same speed all the way through. If you're winning, by definition your time is going to be increasing, so we need to make it harder to compensate.

I think I'm going to have a go at this.

Oh yeah... Do these images all have the same colour palette? If so, I can just use 8-bit images all the way through, and let the video hardware deal with all that garbage.

Krut · Post by **Krut** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:45 pm

Yes, exactly, think of it like the level selection on Tetris, and about the pallette, yeah, 256 colours should be more than enough.

Post by **Quzar** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:33 pm

Storminator16 wrote:
quzar wrote:Yea, I was just saying that because I dont know of any programmer that frequents here that is very knowledgable in SDL. Sure, manipulating it in ways to make ports easier plenty know, but writing something ground up... well...
You are an ass. I finally got that off my chest. I read many of your posts, but all I gather is that you are a know-it-all. You are an ingrate.

Its funny I have always thought the same of you.

Seriously, i have worked with SDL in ports and i know that its different from what is required in creating something new. I also didnt know of anyone who had worked with it extensively enough to create something from the ground up with it (now me thinks of GPF, which i hadnt recalled before), but anyways, good luck BA, by the design docs this looks like a really fun game.

qatmix · Post by **qatmix** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:55 pm

Krut, thats a nice game. I have a version of it on my phone called Divine intervention. Its a really good little game and I would love to play a DC version of it.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:02 pm

looks fun! grafx look nice as well.

not exactly theologically sound, but looks like fun

Krut · Post by **Krut** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:01 pm

qatmix wrote:Krut, thats a nice game. I have a version of it on my phone called Divine intervention. Its a really good little game and I would love to play a DC version of it.

Is that true ? i would love to get the publisher?s name since i presented it a few months back to a couple of cell developing companies...of course the idea might have been just created before me ?

qatmix · Post by **qatmix** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:28 am

I will have a look, the game is old though as it was on a games cd that came with my last phone (about 2 years ago).

Krut · Post by **Krut** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:30 am

Ah, nothing to do then, would still love to check it out, i googled it and got no information.

qatmix · Post by **qatmix** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:52 am

The CD is at my parents, I'll dig it up if you are interested?

Krut · Post by **Krut** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:57 pm

Definitely, id apreciate that.... im very curious.

bramenjam · Post by **bramenjam** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:33 am

@Krut: I've sent you a PM