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[sunstroke]

I was bored and came across a post asking how to make a Castelian type game.

So I made this small engine (gm7 pro required)

It is only the 3d tower aspect, and the walking part. However, I'm not going to continue on with it so I am offering it to the world. Please tell me if you used it, or learned from it.

Edited by sunstroke, 30 July 2008 - 10:20 PM.

[Mice]

that's pretty cool, and for the doors that go through the tower, you could easily just move the player over half the room width & wrap

[sparkythecat101]

i agrees, thats really cool i would give 9/10 if gmc had a marking system!

[buzzbomb]

I have to say...That really is somthing.
Althoguh, i also have to ask, how would one go about making enemys for this?
If it's not to much trouble, would you mind making an example?

[sunstroke]

The nice thing about the way it is programmed, is that the actual level is flat (you can see the actual level if you double click room0) and so an enemy can be programmed the same way as a normal enemy. However, you have to use the same code that is in the draw event for the walls for your enemy object.

[buzzbomb]

Sun stroke, you truly are a god.
This is an AMAZING engine you have here, and I give it a 10/10.

[Blue Penguin]

Nice work Sunstroke!
9.8/10

[dcluett]

I'm going to try to do things with this. I love the concept, I'll tell you when I did something with this

[edmunn]

Very good engine actually, i really enjoyed it!
Wouldn't this work better using sin and cos for the position of the blocks?

Edited by edmunn, 05 June 2008 - 09:30 PM.

[sunstroke]

Very good engine actually, i really enjoyed it!
Wouldn't this work better using sin and cos for the position of the blocks?

lengthdir_x and lengthdir_y are just shortcuts for using trigonometry.

[name]

This is awsome.
Mind if I actualy use it?

[sunstroke]

This is awsome.
Mind if I actualy use it?

Yes, you can use it. Just tell me when you finish the game (I like to see what I've helped out on)

[LuizZak]

wow wesome
1000/10

really cool

[dcluett]

I've started a project with this, similar to Castelian. Hope it turns out as cool as it

[connor4312]

Very intesting. Haven't seen anything like this before, even though it is not 3d, it looks it. I can't say what it could be useful for thogh

[buzzbomb]

Hm... What varible would I edit to make the tower taller/shorter?

[sunstroke]

Hm... What varible would I edit to make the tower taller/shorter?

Sorry for the two day delay.

Go into the obj_towerdraw creation event, it looks like this:

x = room_width/2
surfId = surface_create(32,480)
radius = room_width/(2*pi) - 16

now you see where it is creating a surface? Instead of 480, write whatever height you want.

[SkylarX]

Heh, reminds me of Butter Building.

[TonyBase]

It's so simple and effective. What a great optical illusion.

[crazyguy473]

very nice and very easy to edit
it took me 5 minutes to add elevators and enemys